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Columns::October 6, 2003

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Firefighters contain fire in pharmacy building

Firefighters work to contain an Oct. 1 fire in the pharmacy building, which damaged a third-floor laboratory. There were no injuries. Fire officials say the blaze started accidentally as the result of a chemical spill. (Photo by Dot Paul)

UGA will help lead $35 million project to improve education

The colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences will lead the

Mike Padilla

northeast Georgia portion of a monumental statewide effort aimed at improving student achievement in mathematics and science in Georgia’s P-12 schools.
The innovative effort, called Partnership for Reform in Science and Mathematics, or PRISM, was collaboratively developed by the board of regents, the Georgia Department of Education, and the colleges, universities and public school systems in four regions of the state. The massive reform initiative is being funded by a $34.6 million National Science Foundation grant over five years. The northeast Georgia region’s share of the award will be $5,267,105.

Reversing trends: Institute of Government fellow heads up study of ‘persistent poverty’

Joseph Whorton, a senior fellow at UGA’s Carl Vinson

Joseph Whorton

Institute of Government, has been named to head the Study on Persistent Poverty in the South, an initiative begun by the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach in May 2001. Whorton, who also leads the governor’s Rural Development Council, is a recognized leader in identifying and addressing the unique challenges that face rural communities and recently received the 2003 Georgia Key Citizen Award, the highest honor given by the Georgia Municipal Association.
As the initiative has evolved over the past two years, it has become one of the top priorities of public service and outreach.

Licensing, royalty income increases by more than 9 percent in FY2003

Income from licensing and royalty fees based on UGA discoveries and inventions grew 9.1 percent during fiscal year 2003, according to Rob Fincher, director of technology commercialization for the UGA Research Foundation Inc. Royalties and fees generated $4,183,289 in fiscal year ’03 compared with $3,833,568 in fiscal year ’02. Licensing revenues for the past five years have grown 53.2 percent.
The research foundation collects licensing fees and royalties from companies and organizations that have licensed UGA-developed inventions, discoveries and technologies.

Alumnus visits campus to discuss new book about Leo Frank lynching

Steve Oney’s new book, And the Dead Shall Rise, deals

Steve Oney

with the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank. Oney will discuss the book at a public lecture in the Chapel Oct. 10 at noon.
Frank, a Northern Jew, was the manager of the Atlanta pencil factory where 13-year-old Phagan worked and where she was brutally murdered. Frank was arrested and charged with the crime. His religion and ethnicity were an unarticulated but central theme of his dramatic, two-year trial, which garnered worldwide attention. He was convicted and sentenced to death, but the governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Antisemitism reached a fever pitch, and Frank was dragged from his prison cell by a lynch mob and hanged near Phagan’s hometown.

UGA students Roth Friar (left), Sarah Marchand (top center, with hat) and Abby Stone (right) and EARTH University students assess the damage done by black sigatoka, a fungal disease, in a Costa Rica banana plantation.

Live and learn: Students immerse themselves in ‘extraordinary educational culture’ during study-abroad class to Costa Rica

For two and a half weeks UGA students slogged through Costa Rica’s luxuriant rain forests, probed its misty cloud forests and verdant dry forests, hiked its imposing volcanoes, combed its beaches and examined its ample agriculture.

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