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JANUARY 31, 2005

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Update: Private Giving

Administrative changes

News

Reclassification of job titles will begin next month

Duane Ritter

Jody Jacobs’s job in the Environmental Safety Division is managing a four-person staff charged with ensuring that university researchers use radioactive materials safely and in compliance with federal regulations.

But you’d never know that from his job title, which is “program specialist.”

Beginning in February, Jacobs will have a new title that accurately describes his job: “radiation safety manager.”

Displaying our history
A permanent exhibition honoring Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been installed in the Myers Hall lobby.

Annual SGA banquet recognizes outstanding faculty
Fourteen UGA teachers were publicly recognized for their outstanding work in the classroom at the annual Student Government Association Professor and Administrator Recognition Banquet held earlier this month.

Committee named for veterinary medicine dean search
A 19-member committee has been named to conduct a national search for the next dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Energy source: Microbiologists from UGA, Ohio State discover
that molecular hydrogen fuels growth of Salmonella
New research, headed by microbiologists from UGA, shows for the first time that Salmonella—a widespread and often deadly bacterial pathogen—uses molecular hydrogen to grow and become virulent.

Educational exchange
University of Belgrade faculty visit Grady College as part of project on how journalism is taught.

Honors and awards
Eula M. Cross received the 2004 Employee Distinguished Service Award from the School of Law Staff Council; the Office of Instructional Support and Development has announced Lilly Teaching Fellows and Senior Teaching Fellows for 2004-2005.

100% cotton
The UGA MicroGin, a small-scale reproduction of a commercial gin, at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, opened last semester so scientists can gin small samples of cotton for research purposes.


	Around Academe • College graduation rates available • Biosphere for sale

	Worth repeating • Joseph W. Glauber, U.S. Department of Agriculture

	Research News Energy source: Microbiologists from UGA, Ohio State discover that molecular hydrogen fuels growth of Salmonella

	Digest • Women’s studies scholar visits UGA • Documentary wins Eastman Kodak award • Ph.D. student wins Osborn Scholarship

	UGA Guide • DaXun Zhang presents double bass recital Feb. 5 in Ramsey Hall

	Faculty Profile P. Toby Graham, Digital Library of Georgia

	Educational exchange University of Belgrade faculty visit Grady College as part of project on how journalism is taught

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