Columns::January 26, 2004

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Emerita scholar will give this year’s Founders’ Day talk

Genelle Morain

Genelle G. Morain, emerita professor in the College of Education, will deliver the lecture, which is sponsored by the Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars.

Jan. 27 is the date on which UGA was established in 1785, when the Georgia General Assembly adopted a charter creating the university as America’s first chartered state university.

Joe Whorton

Joe Whorton, of the Vinson Institute of Government and the School of Public and International Affairs, is director of UGA’s Poverty Initiative and chair of the 2004 Public Service and Outreach annual conference on Jan. 29.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Building Economic Prosperity: Partnering to Break the Cycle of Poverty.” Whorton discussed the issues with Columns.

Joan Roughgarden

Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary ecologist from Stanford University, will deliver the annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture at UGA on Feb. 2. Roughgarden will also be the opening speaker for the Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium on Feb. 1.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Roughgarden is the author of Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and People.

Peforming Arts Center presents full-length concert version of La Traviata

The Performing Arts Center presents the Moscow State

Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a full-length concert version of La Traviata on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. The performance will feature principal soloists of the Bolshoi Opera and will be conducted by Sergey Kondrashev.