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Dedicated to the arts: UGA facility in Cortona named for its founder
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CUTTING THE RIBBON: Well-wishers watch Cortona Mayor Andrea Vignini (with sash) and John Kehoe (to Vignini’s right) cut the ribbon to officially mark the renaming of UGA’s new facility in Cortona in Kehoe’s honor. A UGA faculty member for more than 30 years, Kehoe also served as director of the Cortona study-abroad program for 20 years. |
During the summer of 1970, John D. Kehoe, a sculptor and UGA art professor, took a small group of students to Cortona, Italy, for art classes. Thirty-five years and nearly 5,000 students later, a new facility in Cortona was named in honor of Kehoe during a ceremony on July 9.
The naming of the John D. Kehoe Cortona Center honors Kehoe’s many contributions to UGA and its Lamar Dodd School of Art, where he served for more than 30 years as a faculty member and 20 years as director of the Cortona study-abroad program. In addition, Kehoe and his wife, Marilyn, have established endowments and scholarships to support the program. They are contributors to the John D. Kehoe Cortona Scholarship, the Friends of Cortona Discretionary Fund and the Cortona Fund for Facilities. Kehoe also serves as a member of the art school’s board of visitors.
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Facelift: Old College being renovated for its 200th birthday
After surviving 199 years of almost continuous use, occasional neglect, near destruction and massive interior reconfiguring, the university’s first permanent building, Old College, is getting a major facelift in preparation for its bicentennial birthday.
The work, begun in June and continuing until August 2006, will convert the landmark structure’s 20,998 square feet into office and administrative space for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, returning it—symbolically, at least—to its original occupants. A reopening ceremony planned for fall semester 2006 will mark the building’s 200th anniversary. |
UGA activates local branch of national computer network
nounced the activation of a local branch of the Southern Light Rail, a high-speed fiber-optic link that connects the university to other research universities in Georgia and across the United States.
SLR provides high-speed communications directly with Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, which houses the Atlanta node of the National LambdaRail, a nationwide fiber-optic network dedicated to research. |
Joint biomedical research program awards grants at UGA, Georgia Tech
The University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have awarded four inter-institutional research teams a total of $200,000 to conduct biomedical research and expand collaborative research between the two universities.
The Georgia Tech–UGA Biomedical Research Program, administered by the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech and the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute at UGA, will provide each research team with $50,000 annually for a period of up to two years. |
Business, civic leader is first woman to lead alumni organization
Savannah business and civic leader Swann Seiler is the new president of the University of Georgia Alumni Association. Seiler, manager of corporate communications for Savannah Electric and a 1978 UGA graduate, is the first female president of the university’s 171-year-old alumni organization.
Other new association officers are vice president Thomas H. (Trey) Paris III of Gainesville; treasurer Tim Keadle of Lilburn; secretary Betty Hudson of McLean, Va.; and immediate past president Dink NeSmith of Athens. |
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