Academic affairs VP speaks on UGA's future
William F. Prokasy, vice president for academic affairs, will give a Center for Humanities and Arts Lecture on May 14 at 4 p.m. in room 137 of the Tate Student Center. He will speak about "Issues for the Near Future at UGA."
Prokasy, who will retire June 30, came to UGA in 1988 after serving eight years as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois. He had previously been professor of psychology and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah.
As vice president for academic affairs at UGA, Prokasy has been active in national organizations. He has served on the board of directors at the Center for Research Libraries and the executive committee of the Council for Academic Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. He chaired NASULGC's Committee on Accreditation and Review and the executive board of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.
Terry College dedicates Coca-Cola Refreshment Center: Coca-Cola CEO M. Douglas Ivester will cut the ribbon opening the Coca-Cola Refreshment Center at a dedication outside Sanford Hall on May 15 at 10 a.m. The event is open to the public.
Ivester, who was named chairman and chief executive officer of the Coca-Cola Co. this past October, is a 1969 cum laude graduate of the business college. A Gainesville native, he is an emeritus trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation. The Coca-Cola Foundation pledged $500,000 to the Terry College of Business for the refreshment center, which will be used as a student lounge in Sanford Hall.
Ecological engineer gives 14th Odum Lecture: William Mitsch, a specialist in ecological engineering, will deliver the 14th annual Odum Lecture May 7 at 12:10 p.m. in the auditorium of the Institute of Ecology.
Mitsch will show how societies can create self-sustaining wetlands for flood control and water purification in a lecture titled "Design with the Energy Flow: The Ecological Approach to Engineering."
At 3 p.m. the same day, there will be a forum on the linking of ecology and engineering. Invited panelists include Jean-Lou Chameau, dean of the college of engineering and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at Georgia Tech; Steve McCutcheon, a research hydrologist and environmental engineer with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Dale Threadgill, head of UGA's department of biological and agricultural engineering.
The forum will also be held in the ecology auditorium. Both events are open free to the public.
The Odum Lecture Series was established in 1985 to honor Eugene P. Odum, director emeritus of the Institute of Ecology and a major figure in the establishment of ecology as a scientific discipline.
Law, vet school Commencements set: The College of Veterinary Medicine will hold Commencement ceremonies for 74 graduates on May 9 at 10:30 a.m. in the Performing Arts Center. Speakers will be Dean Keith Prasse and class president Kevin E. Elliott. Musical entertainment will be provided by the UGA Brass Quintet.
U.S. Senator Max Cleland will deliver the address at the School of Law's Commencement exercises May 16. Ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. in the Presidents Club Garden on North Campus. In case of rain, the ceremony will move to Stegeman Coliseum.
Cleland, a decorated Vietnam veteran who has served as Georgia State Senator, head of the U.S. Veterans Administration and Georgia Secretary of State, was elected in 1996. He follows in the footsteps of Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Russell as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is also a member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Small Business Committee.
UGA will confer J.D. degrees on 206 students who have successfully completed three years of legal study. Thirty-one LL.M. students, who have finished a one-year course of graduate legal studies, will also receive their degrees. Selected faculty and student awards will also be presented.
National Issues Forum will consider death: A National Issues Forum called "At Death's Door: What Are Our Choices?" will take place May 5, 79:30 p.m., in room Q of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
UGA Honors Program students from a variety of disciplines are organizing this and other quarterly National Issues Forums as part of a service-learning grant sponsored by the vice president for public service and outreach.
The forum, which is open free to the public, is intended to help people take a fresh look at difficult issues. Three options will be presented: "Let patients die with dignity," "Improve care for the dying," and "Above all, sustain life."