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FEBRUARY 14, 2005

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Update: Private Giving

Administrative changes

News

Endowment honors late entomology professor, his wife

Herbert Ross

The entomology department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has received a gift of more than half a million dollars that eventually will establish an endowment honoring the late UGA entomologist Herbert H. Ross and his wife, Jean.

The $505,000 donation from Ross’s son and daughter-in-law, Charles A. and June R.P. Ross, is the largest gift the entomology department has ever received. It will be used to establish the Herbert H. and Jean A. Ross Memorial Endowment to further the study of insect systematics.

Endnote, popular bibliographic software, is acquired for university community’s use
Thanks to proceeds from the student technology fee, the libraries and the Graduate School are providing free access to popular bibliographic software, Endnote, which provides correctly styled in-text citations and bibliographies for scholarly writing.

Crowning achievement
Deondra Rose, a senior who works part-time in the main library, won the 2005 Miss UGA pageant.

Live and learn
UGA’s Ecolodge San Luis and Research Station regularly hosts academic programs, from primary and secondary schools through graduate-level courses and research.

University Council approves creation of drug discovery center
A new Center for Drug Discovery at the university will promote research aimed at finding chemical and biological agents to combat infectious diseases and cancer.

Mary Frasier, gifted education scholar and Torrance Center founder, dies Feb. 3
Mary M. Frasier, an internationally recognized scholar and researcher in gifted education and founder of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development in the College of Education, died on Feb. 3.

Former Dean Rusk Prof of International Relations dies
Martin J. Hillenbrand, who joined UGA’s political science department following a lengthy career as a U.S. diplomat and was the Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations for 15 years, died Feb. 2. He was 89.

Lessons to be learned: Historian studies education system of freed slaves after Civil War
Ron Butchart, a professor of social science education, has received a $318,775 grant from the Spencer Foundation to study the formal education of freed slaves in the American South between 1861 and 1875.

Creative juice
Social work professor studies innovation in non-profit organizations.

UGA in Costa Rica
Students at Ecolodge San Luis, UGA’s residential educational and research facility in Costa Rica, study flora and fauna—and swim in a waterfall.


	Around Academe • Accredited colleges listed on Web • Zambia offers free anti-AIDS drugs

	Worth repeating • UGA education professor Derrick Alridge

	Research News Lessons to be learned: Historian studies education system of freed slaves after Civil War

	Digest • Homeland Security adviser speaks here • Career Center hosts nonprofit expo • Law students provide free tax filing help

	UGA Guide • University Theatre presents The Importance of Being Earnest

	Faculty Profile Malcolm Butler, science education

	Creative juice Social work professor studies innovation in non-profit organizations

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