Four UGA students--Laura Feldman, Jessica Metcalf, William Schomaker and Dhea Tolla--were nominated for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and all four were among the 316 scholars selected nationwide for the 1998­99 academic year. The one- and two-year merit scholarships, worth up to $7,500 per year, are awarded to sophomores and juniors studying mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. UGA was the only campus in the country with four Goldwater Scholars, according to Karl Espelie, entomology, who served as the faculty coordinator for the Goldwater nominations.

Reagan press secretary to deliver Yarbrough Lecture: Larry M. Speakes, senior vice president for corporate relations of the U.S. Postal Service and former presidential press secretary for Ronald Reagan, will deliver the inaugural C. Richard Yarbrough Lecture at the university on April 28.

His speech, "Public Relations: Morality and Reality," will take place in Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center at 4:30 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Yarbrough Lecture is part of "Public Relations Day '98: Piecing Together Public Relations." Sponsored by the College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Public Relations Student Society of America, PR Day serves to honor new inductees into the Georgia PRSA Hall of Fame and to allow public-relations professionals to interact with UGA students.

For more information about PR Day, call 542-4989.

Psychologist speaks about well-being: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of human development in the University of Chicago's department of psychology, will deliver the 1998 Clifford Lewis lecture April 30 at 3:15 p.m. in auditorium H-237 at the College of Veterinary Medicine. An internationally recognized expert on health, happiness and well-being, he will speak on "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience." The lecture is sponsored by the School of Health and Human Performance in honor of Clifford Gray Lewis, an alumna and distinguished faculty member in the College of Education from 1946 to 1984. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Grant will preserve TV programs, improve access: The Media Archives and Peabody Collection at the Libraries has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve and improve access to its television collection that focuses on African-American history and culture. The archive will be the first in the United States to make accessible a major collection of black-interest television that can be grouped and searched through electronic records.

The $96,590 grant from the NEH Division of Preservation and Access will be matched by $142,174 from the UGA Libraries to fund the one-year project, which will begin next month.

Physical access to the collection presently is limited. Many of the titles in the archives are the only known surviving copies of the programs and are in fragile condition. As part of the project, copies will be restored and transferred to VHS format for public use.

The Peabody Award archive contains 891 varied television programs relevant to African-American history and culture dating from 1949 to 1996, including a 1949 local special on Baltimore's slums; national and local news programs from the civil rights era; a Cleveland station's 1954 animated children's program about a slave's fight for freedom; a 1954 This is Your Life episode honoring Dr. Laurence C. Jones, an African-American educator (broadcast by NBC seven months after Brown v. Board of Education); a 1968 program from a Chicago public television station featuring interviews with James Baldwin, then-Rep. Harold Washington, and a performance by singer Johnny Hartman; and recent Peabody Award­winning documentaries on Malcolm X and Hank Aaron.

As electronic cataloging records are created in the course of the project, they will be made available on the Internet and can be searched at most college, university and public libraries in the country.