Banking executive will deliver ILA lecture
John A. Allison, chairman and CEO of BB&T Corp., will present
an executive lecture titled, “Leadership and Values,”
at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in room 101 of the Student Learning Center.
Allison’s lecture, one in a series sponsored by UGA’s
Terry College of Business and its Institute for Leadership Advancement,
is open free to the public.
BB&T Corp., headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., is one
of the fastest growing banking companies in the Southeast, with
more than $97 billion in assets. Its bank subsidiaries operate
more than 1,400 branch offices in the Carolinas, Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana,
Florida and Washington, D.C.
The ILA’s Executive Leadership Speaker Series brings established,
well-known leaders from a variety of organizations to campus.
In these student-oriented forums, guest speakers discuss their
leadership styles and experience.
Three faculty receive Fulbright awards
Three UGA professors, R.G. Brown, Christopher Peterson and Fausto
Sarmiento, recently received awards from the Fulbright Scholars
Program.
Brown, associate professor of sculpture in the Lamar Dodd School
of Art and the director of the Studies Abroad Program in Cortona,
Italy, traveled to Ghana where he participated in the African
Regional Research Program to construct a Ghanaian style dugout
boat with the help of the fishing village at Keta.
Peterson, associate professor of forest ecology in plant biology,
traveled to Helsinki, Finland, last month to conduct research
on wind damage to forests and how they recover from such damage.
Sarmiento, director of the UGA’s Office of International
Education and assistant professor of environmental design, was
awarded a Fulbright Scholar award to participate in the International
Education Administrators program in Japan. Along with four other
administrators from international education programs at Michigan
State, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Indiana, Tulane and Illinois
(Chicago), Sarmiento visited several campuses throughout Japan
to expand international understanding and to share expertise
with higher education institutions.
Georgia Review publishes special
collection of poetry, essays on poetry
The Georgia Review has published a special gathering
of poetry and essays on poetry for its summer 2004 issue, titled
“Poetry and Poiesis.”
In a uniquely broad range of writing bracketed between Jim Ferris’s
“The Enjambed Body: A Step Toward a Crippled Poetics”
(wherein the author explores the effects of a physical anomaly
on his artistic intuitions) and Garrett Hongo’s “The
Mirror Diary” (a richly nuanced and ultimately radical
exploration of manifestations of cultural identity in the foundation
of the creative act), the summer issue writers explore the creative
tension between the cultural fact of poetry as a normative force
and the anarchic, personal, physical struggle of creation.
“The poems [in this issue] make most other lit mags seem
like ‘lite’ verse,” according to Stanley Plumly,
whose essay “The Intimate Sublime” appears in the
publication.
The issue also highlights the work of a number of poets, including
Aliki Barnstone, J.T. Barbarese, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Al Braselton,
Fleda Brown, Frederick Busch, Stacie Cassarino, David Clewell,
Jim Daniels, Rita Dove, Norman Dubie, Sascha Feinstein, Sonia
Gernes, Albert Goldbarth, Vicki Hearne, Bob Hicok, Philip Levine,
Campbell McGrath, Irene McKinney, Lawrence Raab, Tracy Ryan,
Grace Schulman, Gerald Stern and Susan Wood. Also appearing
in the summer issue is Sydney Lea’s 30-page poem, “A
Man Walked Out.”
The summer 2004 issue of the Georgia Review is on sale now.
For more information, visit www.uga.edu/garev. |
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