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| Columns::September 29, 2003 Priority seating: University sets spring 2004 policies for transfer admissions Arts and sciences dean will step down at end of current academic year Blue Key Honor Society recognizes contributions of four ‘distinguished’ citizens Plan protects trees in construction zones Hispanic Heritage Month observance gets under way Front Line Leaders The perfect solution: Computer-based teaching revolutionizes freshman chemistry labs Campus Closeup Molecular genetics facility is renamed Integrated Biotechnology Labs Garden bargain: State Botanical Garden gets ready for its annual fall plant sale Catching up Campus News Newsmakers Cool and crazy and unused The Kansas City Star quoted Scott Shamp, head of UGA’s New Media Institute, in a story about the low U.S. interest in text messaging on a cell phone, compared to Europe and Asia. “The major carriers have done an abysmal job at telling us what the compelling applications are for this service,” said Shamp. “Teens will put up with it because technology is cool and crazy. But they’ve got to show the American public why they should do it.” Those surprising centenarians The London Times quoted Leonard Poon, director of UGA’s Gerontology Center, in a story on the mysteries of who lives a long life. “Although we have found some potential markers of longevity, it is encouraging to note that we can find different paths to live a long and successful life,” he said. “Centenarians continue to surprise us, so much so that now surprises are the rule.” Costly portables The Christian Science Monitor quoted UGA education professor Ken Tanner on the burgeoning use of portable trailers as school classrooms. “Add just about any cost that you may dream up to the traditional schoolhouse maintenance and operation over a 40-year period, and the financial facts against the mobile unit are clear,” he said. “The dollar cost is prohibitive. Even if the dollar costs were the same, we must consider the students’ affective, behavioral and cognitive learning in a trailer.” Change on the range The Arizona Daily Sun quoted professor of agricultural and applied economics Terence J. Centner on the controversy regarding open-range laws, a remnant of the Old West. “People don’t like change, and they don’t like to change laws,” he said. “It would be very difficult to change these laws. That’s what they’ve grown up with.” Treatment of schizophrenics ScienceDaily reported on a study by UGA and the Medical College of Georgia regarding the impact of the long-term use of schizophrenia drugs. “Cognitive dysfunction has become a hot issue in schizophrenia research,” said Alvin V. Terry Jr., pharmacist and pharmacologist at both UGA and MCG. The story also appeared in the Washington Times, the Vancouver Sun and elsewhere. Coffee lovers gloat UPI, the Washington Times, the New York Post, the Vancouver Sun and the Boston Herald reported on research by faculty in UGA’s exercise science department that demonstrated that caffeine cuts muscle pain during vigorous workouts. “This could be one way to feel a little less muscle pain when you work out,” said Patrick O’Connor. Good Housekeeping magazine also reported on the research. Endowing Islamic studies Alan Godlas, UGA religion professor and specialist in Islam, was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News in a report of a $9 million donation to Stanford University to endow a program and professorship in Islamic studies. “After 9/11, American Muslims realized that unless they endow Islamic studies programs, Islamic education is going to be in the hands of people abroad who have little understanding of the importance of developing a progressive Islam,” he said. |
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