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| CCRC holds dedication ceremony
Feb. 11 The university’s new Complex Carbohydrate Research Center will open officially with a dedication ceremony on Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. The center is located at 315 Riverbend Road. Scheduled speakers include UGA President Michael F. Adams; Tom Cousins, chairman of the board of Cousins Properties; Peter Albersheim and Alan Darvill, co-directors of the CCRC; James Atwood, CCRC graduate student; and Jo Ann Chitty, president of the UGA Real Estate Foundation. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be followed by tours of the facility and a reception. Beginning at 3 p.m. in the CCRC auditorium, a colloquium will be delivered by center researchers. The colloquium speakers include J. Michael Pierce, Kelley W. Moremen, Lance Wells, Michael Tiemeyer and Russell Carlson. A reception immediately follows the colloquium. The new three-story, 135,000-square-foot building provides 50 percent more space than the former building and was designed especially to house state-of-the-art equipment and to promote collaborative research among faculty. ‘Visual humorist’ will give Davis Lecture Arnold Roth, widely regarded as one of the most innovative illustrators working today, will present the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. in the Georgia Museum of Art’s M. Smith Griffith Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Considered one of the best “visual humorists” of this century, Roth’s work has embellished America’s top magazines, including Time, Esquire, Playboy, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker. The Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Series brings nationally known illustrators to UGA’s art school. The Davis Artist reflects the spirit of innovation and professionalism shown in Davis’s own work and career. Davis has been one of America’s best-known illustrators for nearly half a century. Although he may be most associated with his work with the UGA Athletic Association, he was one of the original staff artists for Mad magazine 40 years ago and is the only member of the original staff who still contributes to the magazine. Davis attended UGA in the early 1950s. Prior to the lecture, Roth and Davis will participate in an event called “Spring Training” on Feb. 12, at 5:30 p.m. in the art school’s Courtyard Gallery on Jackson Street. “It will be an evening of art, wine, food and conversation with a couple of America’s greatest illustrators and storytellers,” says Alex Murawski, a graphic design professor at the school. This event is also free and open to the public. Poll: Georgians favor electronic voting Georgians overwhelmingly prefer electronic voting to other methods of voting, according to the most recent Peach State Poll. Seventy percent of the voting age public say they are more comfortable casting their respective ballots electronically on the touchscreen machines than by punch cards (preferred by 8 percent) or by marking paper ballots (12 percent). Eighty-four percent of Georgians say that the touchscreen voting machines are an improvement over using punch cards, and 82 percent say they are an improvement over paper ballots on which voters mark with a pen. In addition, poll respondents express a high level of support for a uniform voting system. Ninety-five percent of the public also believe that having a uniform system is either very important (77 percent) or somewhat important (18 percent). Only 17 percent of Georgians believe that individual counties should be allowed to decide the method by which their constituents cast votes. |