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	SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
	In this issue
	News
	A work in progress: Ground to be broken for new visual arts building

	Rebecca White named permanent dean of law school

	Willie Cole, visiting professor and artist, will lecture about his work

	Impact: Studying a kaolin mine, UGA scientists identify layer of material ejected from Chesapeake Bay meteor strike

	The student outlook: SGA president welcomes new UGA students

	It’s all academic

	Presidential politics

	Getting into the action

	Around Academe
	Worth Repeating
	Go Figure
	Digest
	UGA Guide
	Kudos
	Newsmakers
	Campus Closeup
	Faculty Profile
	Administrative Changes
	Retirees
	Update: Private Giving
	Forum
	Questions&Answers
	Weekly Reader
	Cybersights
	Bulletin Board

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DIGEST

‘Big Dawgs’ will offer career advice
It’s not often that college students can sit across the table and discuss their career plans with corporate CEOs, television celebrities, government officials and foundation directors. But at “Advice from the Big Dawgs” on Sept. 28, UGA students will have an opportunity to do just that.

This year’s program features Laurel Alberty of Smith Barney; Alton Brown, host of the Food Network’s “Good Eats”; Leslie Younts Brown of Cingular Wireless; Carlton Curtis of Coca-Cola North America; Athens-Clarke County Mayor Heidi Davison; UGA Athletic Association director Damon Evans; state Sen. Brian Kemp; Pamela Landwirth of Give Kids the World; and state Rep. Louise McBee, among others.

Presented by the Senior Signature Program and the Career Center, the event is designed for graduating UGA seniors and other career-minded students. “Advice from the Big Dawgs,” now in its 10th year, will start at 6 p.m. at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.

Unlike a job fair or traditional lecture presentation, this event is an opportunity for students to interact with and receive advice from UGA alumni in both roundtable and larger panel discussions.

UGA’s Career Fair follows “Advice from the Big Dawgs” on Sept. 29 from noon to
5 p.m. at the Classic Center. At the fair, students can meet and interview with representatives from a variety of different companies all under one roof.

There is no cost to attend “Advice from the Big Dawgs” or the career fair; students are encouraged to wear professional attire. For more information, call the Senior Signature office at 542-8249.

Three inducted into Circle of Honor
Vince Dooley, Sheila Taormina and Herb St. John have been inducted into UGA’s Circle of Honor—the university’s highest tribute to former athletes and coaches.

The all-sports recognition program is designed to recognize and pay tribute to extraordinary student-athletes and coaches who, by their performance and conduct, have brought honor to the university and themselves, and who by their actions have contributed to the tradition of the Georgia Bulldogs.

The criteria also stipulate that each recipient has earned his or her academic degree.
Dooley served as football coach from 1964 to 1988, winning 201 games and the 1980 national championship, and he was UGA’s athletic director from 1979 to 2004. Taormina was an All--America swimmer from 1988 to 1991 and is a three-time Olympian in swimming and the triathlon. St. John was an All-America and All-SEC lineman for the football from 1944 to 1947 before embarking on a long career in public education.

Darvill named Senior Faculty Fellow
Alan Darvill has been named a Senior Faculty Fellow for the Foundation Fellows Program, UGA’s premier undergraduate scholarship program.

Darvill will serve a four-year term as mentor and role model to the students in the fellowship. He joins 11 other distinguished faculty members who represent an array of academic disciplines, from the humanities to the sciences.

A Regents Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Plant Pathology, Darvill is co-director of UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. He serves on the editorial board of Glycobiology and was the recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Award from the UGA chapter of Golden Key National Honor Society in 1995.

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