On-line teaching seminar
This summer, the Georgia On-line Teaching Initiative (GOTI) will offer a seminar, funded by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and in cooperation with Office of Instructional Support and Development. GOTI will provide six tenure-track faculty members with the training, equipment and technical support to build a fully functional on-line course.

The purpose of the seminar will be two-fold: to introduce faculty to the theoretical and pedagogical implications of on-line teaching and to provide faculty with the practical, hands-on technical training. Participation in the seminar will be by invitation, selected from submitted proposals. Each participant will receive a $2,000 summer stipend and a Pentium workstation.

A demonstration of current GOTI-supported courses will be held March 10 from 1:15 to 2:05 p.m. in Room 275 of the journalism building. The call for proposals may be found at http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~mballif/SScfp.html.

Proposals will be accepted until April 3. For more information, contact David Gants, dgants@english.uga.edu or Michelle Ballif, mballif@arches.uga.edu by e-mail or visit the GOTI Web site (http://parallel. park.uga.edu/distance/goti.html).

Self-defense class
The Rape Crisis Center will sponsor a self-defense class for women March 9 and 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the training room of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, 3035 Lexington Road. Classes include psychological, verbal and physical self-defense techniques. For registration and additional information, call 353-1912.

European culture lecture
Nancy de Grummond, professor and chair of the classics department at Florida State University, will give a lecture March 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. Entitled "The Etruscans and European Culture: Survivals and Revivals," the lecture is open free to the public. Sponsored by the Student Fee Allocation Committee and the Association of Graduate Art Students, the lecture will be followed by a reception.

IBR seminars
The Institute for Behavioral Research will present two cognitive seminars. On March 9 Timothy Salthouse will discuss "Micro and Macro Approaches to Understanding Cognitive Aging."

On March 16 Bruce Britton will discuss "Learning Connectionist Networks from Instruction and Experience and Thinking about Them: Quantitative Characterizations of Thinking Processes." Both seminars are at 3:30 p.m. in Room 106 Barrow Hall.

IBR also will present the seminar "Missing Data in SEM" by Pat Horan March 12 at noon in Room 106 Barrow Hall. For more information or to receive a copy of the reading material, call 542-1806.

Feminist scholar
Feminist scholar Anghy Valdivia, of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana's Institute for Communications Research, will speak March 16 at 4 p.m. in Room 205 of the journalism building. Open free to the public, the lecture is entitled "Latinas/os in Cultural Studies: From Rosie Perez to Salsa."

The lecture is sponsored by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication; the Journalism and Mass Communication Graduate Caucus; the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication, Training and Research; the Center for Humanities and the Arts; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; and the Women's Studies Program.

Travel award
The UGA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with the support of the Office of the Vice President for Research, is sponsoring a competition for graduate student field research travel awards. Application deadline is March 18.

The research awards are granted to highly qualified students in any academic field of study interested in conducting research in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Awards cover round-trip travel, in- country logistics and minimum living expenses in any Latin American or Caribbean country.

Approximately 10 awards for master's and doctoral students will be available for field research to be carried out this summer. The average award ranges from $1,000 to $1,500. Applications, judged on the basis of merit by the Latin Americanist faculty affiliated with the center, will be reviewed at the end of winter quarter. Decisions will be announced spring quarter for students' summer travel.

To be eligible for the award, students must hold a research or teaching assistantship in a UGA academic department. Successful applicants must produce a three-page written report in the academic semester immediately following their return from the field and provide an oral presentation of their experiences in a daylong seminar, sponsored by CLACS, for all award recipients.

Applications include a cover application form, a three-page description of the project and a letter of recommendation from the student's graduate coordinator or major professor.

For more information or application materials, contact Fausto Sarmiento, CLACS program coordinator, by phone at 542-9079, or by e-mail at clacs@ sherlock.ac.uga.edu. Information also is available on the web at http://www.uga.edu/clacs/Student.html.

AIDS fund raiser
The Classic City Brew-Fest, which benefits the AIDS Coalition of Northeast Georgia, will be held March 14 from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Classic Center on Thomas Street. Admission is $18 in advance and $20 at the door.

Tickets are available at Normal Brew Shop, 1383 Prince Ave., and Big Shot Records, 164 E. Clayton Street. Tickets also may be charged by phone at 769-2811. More information is available at the Classic City Brew-Fest Web site (http://www.negia.net/~brew).

ACNG is the only HIV/AIDS service organization in the 10 counties of northeast Georgia. Call 542-2437 for further information.

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