| Noted
novelist Richard Powers will deliver spring semester Charter
Lecture on March 29
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Richard Powers |
Richard Powers, whose powerful novels have
led critics to proclaim him one of the most important writers
now working in the United States, will deliver the spring
Charter Lecture March 29, beginning at 3 p.m. in
Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
The event is open free to the public.
Powers is frequently called one of the best novelists of his
generation. The New York Times called the most recent of his
eight novels “astonishing, prodigious, illuminating
and exhilarating.” |
National champs
Members and coaches of UGA’s women’s swimming and
diving team smile for the camera after winning the 2005 national
championship—the fourth in seven years—earlier this
month at Purdue. |
U.S. ambassador, Ukrainian
officials discuss ‘orange’ revolution
The history-making 2004 elections in Ukraine will be the focus
of a special symposium at UGA on March 31. The panel of
guest speakers, all of whom were involved in the “Orange
Revolution,” will share their experiences and also discuss
their perspectives on the election’s meaning to Ukraine’s
future. |
| Constitutional law
scholar will give annual Sibley Lecture
Internationally renowned constitutional law scholar Sanford
V. Levinson, a chaired professor at the University of Texas
School of Law, will deliver the 99th Sibley Lecture March 28
at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Levinson’s lecture,
“Constitutional Norms in a State of Permanent Emergency,”
is open free to the public. |
‘Outstanding’
efforts recognized
Mary Evans and Lindsey Bowden are the winners of the Terry College’s
Outstanding Staff Awards for the first quarter of 2005. |
Finding refuge: Alumnus
pens book about ‘lost’ boys of Sudan
UGA alumnus Mark Bixler returns to Athens this week to discuss
his new book, The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story
of the Refugee Experience. The book grew out of Bixler’s
articles about Sudanese refugees for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
and has just been published by the University of Georgia Press.
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Mind games: Classics faculty discuss
new pedagogical approach needs
Classics faculty members Nancy Felson and Keith Dix are involved
in a new pedagogical technique called “Reacting to the
Past” and recently hosted a conference at UGA to demonstrate
how “Reacting” works. They talked with Columns
about the goals and successes of the approach. |
