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	NOVEMBER 8, 2004
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	Scientist gets $2.6 million to research marine bacteria

	Meigs teaching award is elevated to professorship

	Two UGA faculty elected Fellows of AAAS, national science association

	MacArthur Fellow Judy Pfaff visits School of Art

	UGA plans International Education Week events

	Teaching Academy anniversary commemorated

	Pack MULEs: UGA scientists discover that some transposable elements in rice often carry fragments of other genes when they reproduce themselves

	NSF grant funds study of evolutionary game theory

	Faculty of Engineering hosts first conference

	Blowing hot and cold: Shop makes scientific glassware for UGA’s research community

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Inaugural Peabody seminar convenes
The Peabody Center for Media and Society at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will convene the inaugural Peabody Seminar Nov. 10-13. The seminar, funded by the Ford Foundation, will bring together media professionals from around the world for a discussion entitled “Global Implications of Media Industry Consolidation.”

On Nov. 11, a public session of the seminar will be held at 3:30 p.m. in room 268 of the Student Learning Center. Scheduled to speak are Jonathan Adelstein, Federal Communications commissioner; Arne Wessberg, president of the European Broadcasting Union; and Pat Mitchell, president of the U.S. Public Broadcasting System and alumna of UGA. A welcome reception follows in the Peabody offices.

Horace Newcomb, Peabody Awards director, refers to the Peabody Center for Media and Society as “the research and ‘think tank’ arm of the George Foster Peabody Awards” and considers the Peabody Seminars a way to bring together the opinions of “media industry professionals, policy officials, advocacy groups and members of the Peabody Board. The issue of industry consolidation is crucial throughout the world. Our discussion will lead to new perspectives on this vital issue.”

Georgia Review co-hosts poetry reading
Poet Barry Spacks will read from his work at 4 p.m. on Nov. 8 in room 265 of Park. Spacks’s reading, sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Circuit and the Georgia Review, is open free to the public.

Spacks is the author of several collections of poetry, including Spacks Street: New and Selected Poems and two new collections this year, Regarding Women and The Hope of the Air. His poems have been published in numerous journals, and he is the author of several short stories and two novels. He taught for a number of years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently teaches at the University of California–Santa Barbara.

The Georgia Poetry Circuit is a consortium of colleges and universities that brings in nationally known writers to tour the state every year. The circuit is funded by its member schools and by the Georgia Arts Council. UGA sponsorship is coordinated by the Georgia Review with assistance from the UGA libraries.

UGA, Israel partner on terror research
A new partnership between UGA and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study the effects of terrorism on children kicked off Nov. 1 at an international symposium on terrorism in Israel.
“With 55 years of experience in combating terrorism and dealing with its aftereffects, Israel has a lot to teach the United States,” says Mark Lusk, project co-director and UGA’s associate provost for international affairs.

The first of a set of annual meetings of terrorism experts took place Nov. 1 in Jerusalem. Topics addressed included the effects of exposure to terrorism on children and the rights of victims of terror. Prominent experts on the effects of terrorism summarized Israel’s experience. UGA was represented by social work professors Lusk, Nancy Williams and Brian Bride. On April 13, the second conference will be held on the UGA campus as the social work faculties of both universities meet to present their joint research.

“Although the United States has gone far since 9/11 in protecting its borders, securing its airports and protecting its landmarks, little has been done to address the long-term needs of victims of terror—many of whom suffer from the delayed effects of trauma,” says Lusk. “We can benefit from Israel’s experience as we prepare to respond to any future terrorist events on our soil.”

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