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Columns::December 1, 2003

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University hosts first ‘urban congress’ for medium metro cities

For the first time, representatives from Georgia’s medium-sized

Jim Youngquist

metropolitan statistical areas will have the opportunity to come together for discussion at a conference designed especially for them. The first Urban Congress and Summit will be held Dec. 4-5 at the Foundry Park Inn and Conference Center in Athens. The meeting is part of the Urban Georgia Initiative, a new project of UGA’s Vinson Institute of Government.
The Urban Congress and Summit will bring together public elected and appointed officials, private-sector leaders and community activists from the metropolitan regions of Albany, Athens, Augusta-Aiken, Chattanooga, Columbus-Phenix City, Macon and Savannah. They will discuss such issues of common interest as economic linkages, education, transportation, the environment and multistate metropolitan regions, according to Jim Youngquist, project director and faculty member with the Vinson Institute’s Community and Regional Development Division.

Writing assessment a requirement of freshman applicants for 2006

Students applying for admission as freshmen for the summer and fall of 2006 will be required to submit a scored writing assessment as part of their standardized test scores. President Michael F. Adams approved the recommendation of the Faculty Admissions Committee to institute the requirement.

Professional standards: Social work faculty discuss prospects for improving child welfare system

Social work faculty members Alberta Ellett and June Hopps organized a national conference at UGA this fall entitled “Developing Strategies to Professionalize Child Welfare in America.” Columns talked to them about the conference goals.

Macon, former U. of Northern Colorado administrator, is named registrar at UGA

Rebecca L. Macon, former executive director of enrollment services at the University of Northern Colorado, has been named registrar at the University of Georgia.
Macon’s appointment is effective Dec. 8, pending approval by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. She will succeed Gary D. Moore, who is retiring from UGA Dec. 1 with 26 years of service. He has been UGA’s registrar for the past five years.

Nancy Manley’s research team discovered the “genetic switch” when trying to produce a mouse with a fluorescent protein under control of the so-called “nude” gene, which causes mice to grow without any hair when it is mutated.

The naked truth: ‘Genetic switch’ controls differentiation in immune system cells

The thymus, a once overlooked glandular structure just behind the top of the sternum, has gained increasing attention from scientists in the past two decades because it is where disease-fighting T-cells mature.
Especially in AIDS patients, T-cell count is a relative indicator of the body’s ability to fight disease. Until recently, however, researchers have understood little about how T-cells are generated.
Now, thanks to what geneticist Nancy Manley calls a “lucky lab accident,” a new “genetic switch” involved in T-cell maturation has been discovered.

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