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OCTOBER 18, 2004

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Update: Private Giving

Administrative changes

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Regents OK budget-cut plan minus mid-year tuition increase
Using a variety of one-time funding options, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents adopted, at their regular meeting Oct. 12–13, a plan which meets an additional $64.8 million state budget reduction for fiscal year 2005 without resorting to a mid-year tuition increase.

Steven Knapp joins UGA as new GRA Eminent Scholar
Steven J. Knapp has joined UGA’s Center for Applied Genetic Technologies as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in crop genomics.

‘Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians’ launches new environmental lecture series
Turtles and tree frogs, salamanders and snakes, geckos and ’gators will play a role in a lively talk to be given by Whit Gibbons, award-winning author of the popular book Their Blood Runs Cold: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians.

Education college structure to be considered by University Council
A plan that reorganizes the administrative structure of the College of Education will be on the University Council’s agenda when the council meets Oct. 21 at 3:30 p.m. in room 101 of the Student Learning Center.

UGA helps Iraq, Afghanistan prepare to rebuild their veterinary services
Keith W. Prasse, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, attended the first International Veterinary Conference in Kuwait City and participated in strategic discussions to aid Iraq and Afghanistan in rebuilding veterinary education and services in the two war-torn nations.

Atomic power at your fingertips: Quantum computers envisioned in new research
An article in the August 2004 issue of Physical Review Letters makes an intriguing proposal for performing quantum computation with a solid state circuit by using nanomechanical resonators to couple quantum devices made from superconductors.

UGA Press, radio station join forces to raise funds during ‘Book, CD Supersale’
The University of Georgia Press and the Friends of WUGA will sell deeply discounted books and CDs during their jointly sponsored “Book and CD Supersale” Oct. 21 and 22.

Embedded in the desert
Walter Torbert was one of four journalism students who trained this summer with the U.S. Army, embedded with armored units training at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.

‘Leave your mark on UGA’
The Path of Lifelong Learning is a commemorative brick promenade to honor outstanding faculty, staff, patrons and friends of the University of Georgia and the Georgia Center. The path represents an opportunity to show support for the pursuit of lifelong learning.

Warm welcome
The university’s Black Faculty and Staff Organization welcomed new minority faculty and staff to campus at a reception earlier this month.


	Around Academe • Defense-related funds restricted • Bill cuts ‘intellectual’ deductions

	Worth repeating • David Akin, University of Michigan

	Research News Atomic power at your fingertips: Quantum computers envisioned in new research

	Digest •OSHA grant helps train Hispanic workers • Poet will give reading here Oct. 20 • Poll: Pre-K less effective than HOPE

	UGA Guide • Philadelphia Dance Company performs on campus Oct. 20

	Campus Closeup • Gwynne Darden, University Architects for Facilities Planning

	Embedded in the desert Walter Torbert was one of four journalism students who trained this summer with the U.S. Army, embedded with armored units training at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.

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