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JUNE 27, 2005

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Three-year EPA grant funds study of hormone blockers

Jeff Fisher

UGA researchers in the colleges of Public Health and Veterinary Medicine have received a $750,000 three-year federal grant to study how low doses of endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect laboratory animals.

UGA, Georgetown University and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst will receive a total of $2.25 million from the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Research to learn more about these environmental contaminants that mimic, alter or block the function of hormones.

Higher intentions: $4.9 million NSF grant will encourage minority participation in science
With a $4.9 million grant from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, a program of the National Science Foundation, the University of Georgia will lead an alliance of six state colleges and universities in Georgia that aims to boost the number of underrepresented minorities who receive bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.

High school students attend summer institute
Fifty-eight high school students from Athens and Atlanta public schools attended a summer institute on campus sponsored by UGA’s Office of Institutional Diversity.

Agee, former Grady College dean, dies
Warren K. Agee, 88, dean emeritus of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and a pioneer in the field of mass communication education, died in Athens on June 14.

Staff Council, BFSO elect officers for 2005-2006 academic year
Staff Council and the Black Faculty and Staff Organization have elected officers for the 2005-06 academic year.

Don Quixote weds at UGA
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Don Quixote, undergraduate and graduate students in Dana Bultman’s Spanish class wrote a Renaissance comic masque presenting “The Wedding of Don Quixote and Dulcinea” and performed it on North Campus.

Need to know
Faculty and staff met this past month to discuss the university’s needs with local legislators, including state Sen. Brian Kemp and representatives Keith Heard, Jane Kidd and Bob Smith.

Fair exchange
Junior high and high school students from across the state took part in the 57th annual Georgia Science and Engineering Fair at UGA earlier this spring.


	Digest • Psych program ranks 22nd in productivity • MSD will mark 18th anniversary • IR staff make conference presentation • Advising program wins national award
	UGA Guide • Diane Arbus’s Family Albums is on display at Georgia Museum of Art

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