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Columns::November 10, 2003
Digest
Vet college hosts animal hospital exhibit
UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine will host an exhibit by the American Animal Hospital Association that offers a behind-the-scenes look at a modern companion animal hospital. The exhibit will focus on sharing the latest ideas, technologies, products and practices that improve health care for pets.
A custom-built tractor-trailer that expands to create a 50-foot-by-23-foot veterinary hospital will be located behind the college Nov. 11 and 12. A 20-minute multimedia presentation will describe clinical and technological advances in veterinary care for companion animals.
Although the exhibit is of primary interest to veterinarians, presentations to the public will touch on responsible pet ownership and ways in which veterinary care can help pets enjoy longer, healthier, more active lives. The college’s student chapter of AAHA is organizing arrangements for the exhibit’s visit. Paid visitor parking is available at the Carlton Street Parking Deck.
Education prof awarded Fulbright grant
Tom J. Clees, an associate professor in special education, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Ireland.
For the next 10 months, Clees will be working at Mary Immaculate College in affiliation with the University of Limerick. He will be conducting descriptive and comparative research regarding variables affecting the successful post-school transition of individuals with special needs, including demographic factors and service delivery models in Ireland. In addition, he will provide a seminar series to disseminate U.S. best-practices in transition-planning and services, as well as the results of his research.
“The work is of importance for the demographics alone, and finding solutions to them,” says Clees. “I want to look at urban and rural programs abroad to see if they have a unique approach to post-school preparation and service. For instance, are families more significant in the support of the children post-school?”
Alumna wins screenwriting fellowship
Andrea Herman just graduated from college this spring and is now well on her way to the big screen thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The 2003 graduate of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication submitted her screenplay, Augmentation, to the Academy this past spring and now is making history as the youngest person to ever receive a prestigious Nicholl Fellowship.
“Andrea Herman is one of the best screenwriters it has been my privilege to teach,” says Grady College professor Nate Kohn. “The Nicholl Fellowship is the most prestigious and serious of all screenwriting contests, and Andrea is absolutely deserving of this career-launching award.”
Herman’s screenplay is one of five winners out of more than 6,000 entries for a 2003 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting by the Academy, which bestows the Oscars each year. Each writer will receive the first installment of the fellowship’s $30,000 prize money at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov. 20. Fellowships are awarded with the understanding that recipients will complete a feature-length screenplay during the fellowship year. The Academy acquires no rights to the works of Nicholl Fellows and does not involve itself commercially in any way with their completed scripts.
Herman credits her education at the Grady College for this success.
“Nate Kohn’s course taught me to write a screenplay, and he opened some doors that would have taken me years to get through,” Herman says. “This competition has validated my desire to write for a living. This is what I want to do with my life, and I've been given some vindication. And vindication on this level is so wonderful that it’s almost hard to process.” |
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