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Columns::November 10, 2003

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A ‘Little’ anniversary: Main library building turns 50

The UGA Libraries are celebrating this fall with the opening of the Electronic Teaching Library in the new Student Learning Center and the observance of the 50th anniversary of the original main library building.
The Little Memorial Library was officially dedicated Nov. 19, 1953, with distinguished visitors, speeches, a symposium, a dedicatory poem and a special commemorative booklet.

Ensemble Kabul performs a musical tribute to Afghan composers

Ensemble Kabul will perform a program entitled “Radio Kabul: A Tribute to Afghan Composers” in Ramsey Hall of the Performing Arts Center Nov. 16 at 3 p.m.
Since its beginning in 1995, the award-winning Ensemble Kabul has been devoted to the performance of traditional music from Afghanistan and has striven to maintain the richness of Afghan culture. The musicians’ repertoire includes a large selection of the multi-ethnic Afghani music that is at the crossroads of Indian, Persian and Arabic traditions. The ensemble’s repertoire includes airy melodies of Tajik minstrels, ecstatic festival songs, and classical ragas with a subtle Indian flavor, together with brilliant instrumental pieces incorporating flute, rubâb, tabla, zerbaghali drum and eastern harmonium.

$1.8 million award will help monitor ultraviolet radiation

The National Ultraviolet Monitoring Center in UGA’s department of physics and astronomy has been awarded a contract of $1.8 million for three years from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award will allow the NUVMC to continue to monitor, throughout the United States, ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth’s surface and ozone levels in the atmosphere.
“Ozone depletion in the stratosphere has resulted in enhanced levels of ultraviolet radiation at the Earth’s surface,” says John E. Rives, emeritus professor and director of the NUVMC. “This has important potentially harmful consequences for both human health and the health of our environment.”.

Charter lecturer will discuss studying ‘unpredictable past’

Hanna H. Gray, considered one of the most significant

Hanna Gray

figures in American higher education, will deliver the fall semester Charter Lecture at 4 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Chapel. The topic of her talk is “History: Studying the Unpredictable Past.”
Gray has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a university administrator and historian. She served as president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993 and is now president emeritus and also an emeritus professor in the history department. Prior to that, she was provost of Yale University and also served as acting president of Yale.

ICAPP report: UGA graduates pump $211 million into state’s economy

Wages earned by UGA graduates pumped $211 million into Georgia’s economy in 1998, the second-highest impact on the state’s economy among graduates of the state’s 34 public colleges and universities, according to a new report on higher education in Georgia.

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