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David Jones, planning and annual giving director, talks to fundraising volunteers during a recent training session held in conjunction with the faculty-staff phase of the university’s Archway to Excellence capital campaign. The campus kickoff is one of 18 events showcasing the campaign themes held across the country.

And we’re off…Faculty-staff phase of capital campaign set to kick off March 21 in Tate Student Center
All UGA faculty, staff and retirees are invited to celebrate the campus kickoff of the Archway to Excellence Campaign March 21 from 3-5 p.m. at Georgia Hall in the Tate Student Center. The event includes a reception and brief program that will end with drawings for door prizes.

Four finalists recommended for head diversity post
A UGA search committee has recommended four finalists for the position of associate provost for institutional diversity.

Plant biology professor named inaugural GRA Distinguished Investigator
R. Kelly Dawe, a professor of plant biology and genetics at UGA, has been named the first Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator.

Forum will focus on intelligence oversight in modern world
Is secrecy the enemy of democracy? Are there circumstances when the Central Intelligence Agency or the U.S. president should have the authority to bypass legal procedures such as wiretapping citizens without a warrant?

Committee formed to find permanent public health dean
A search committee has been formed to recommend a candidate to be permanent dean of the university’s College of Public Health.

The college was created in 2004 and began operation in January, 2005, as UGA’s 15th school or college. Phillip L. Williams has served as interim dean since the college started.

Celebrity of the critic: Frederic Jameson makes an impression
It was clear from the packed house at the Chapel, excessive promotion and raucous applause that Duke University’s Frederic Jameson was not just another lecturer.

The cultural critic, author and professor appeared as an intellectual rock star to a chorus of followers. Or at least he did at first.

Signs of their times
Croatians discuss educational reform strategies during weeklong visit
to campus

Men’s tennis team brings home national indoor championship
UGA’s undefeated men’s tennis team (8-0) won the ITA Team Indoor National Championship late last month in Seattle with a 4-0 victory over the fourth-ranked team from Pepperdine (12-1).


	Around Academe • Two schools share $4 million estate • MIT will help build $100 laptops
	Worth repeating • Bradley Willcox, University of Hawaii
	Instructional News Getting it 'write': Language and literacy education professor leads retreat for doctoral students working on their dissertations
	Digest • Forest resources gets new name • National creativity experts will speak at Torrance Lecture on March 8 • Guests announced for film festival
	UGA Guide • Landscape architect prof's design journey goes on display in Caldwell Hall
	Faculty Profile Vicky Wilkins, School of Public and International Affairs

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