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OCTOBER 11, 2004

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Update: Private Giving

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Painting the town red and black: Students, alumni don school colors, fire up their Bulldog spirit for university's annual slate of Homecoming events

The Homecoming Parade, with former athletic director Vince Dooley as grand marshal, will begin Oct. 15 at 6:30 p.m. on Dougherty Street.

“Painting the Town Red . . . and Black” is the theme of this year’s Homecoming, organized by the Homecoming Committee, a student group in the University Union.

Festivities began at midnight Oct. 10 with traditional street painting on Sanford Drive and continue all week.

The weekend will bring thousands of alumni back to campus for events sponsored by schools and colleges and the Georgia-Vanderbilt football game at which the Homecoming king and queen will be crowned.

Committee will follow up on student survey
The University of Georgia participated in the National Survey of Student Engagement for the first time in the spring of 2003. The NSSE is headquartered at Indiana University and was launched with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

NIH grant funds study of ways to promote cancer screening
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Jeffrey K. Springston, associate professor in the department of advertising and public relations, a $3 million grant to compare techniques for promoting breast cancer screening. Springston will study the relative effectiveness of CD-ROMs compared to person-to-person telephone consultations.

University receives $5.6 million NIH grant for vaccine research
Rick Tarleton, Distinguished Research Professor of Cellular Biology, received a five-year, $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health last month to further research aimed at developing and testing therapeutic vaccines to prevent and treat a protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi), which causes Chagas disease.

Enrollment period for health, dental insurance programs begins
The annual enrollment period for university employees and retirees to enroll in health, dental and other insurance programs, or to make changes in their insurance coverage, will be Oct. 12-Nov. 12.

National Science Foundation funds ‘extreme science’ project
A team of scientists at UGA’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory has received a National Science Foundation grant of $429,880 for a project that will study microorganisms that thrive in the extreme environment of hot springs in Nevada.

Timber: The Master Timber Harvester education program supports loggers on the front line
Donna Gallaher stacks the last two boxes onto the hand truck, stretches the bungee cords tight, and wheels the tottering stack to the parking lot. Today she’s heading north to Jasper for her 76th three-day Master Timber Harvester workshop.

UGA welcomes new faculty
This list of all known, new full-time faculty members whose start dates occur between July 1, 2004, and Dec. 31, 2004.

It takes class
Employment director discusses revamping of classification system.

‘Blue’ humor hits Ramsey
A segment of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour was taped Oct. 4 at the Ramsey Student Center.

In touch with our past
New displays on campus remember Bernard Ramsey and Linus Pauling.


	Around Academe • Wells College will admit men • Judge rules that Texas Tech’s free-speech zones are unconstitutional

	Worth repeating • Mark Antliff, Duke University

	Research News Timber: The Master Timber Harvester education program supports loggers on the front line

	Digest •Café’s re-opening is rescheduled • Cinema scholar lectures here Oct. 14 • M.B.A. students reach case finals

	UGA Guide • University Theatre season opens with Harold Pinter’sThe Homecoming

	Campus News • UGA welcomes new faculty

	Q&A It takes class:Employment director discusses revamping of classification system

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