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Ted Turner |
Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia will present the 2006 Delta Prize for Global Understanding to R. E. (Ted) Turner, founder of Cable News Network in Atlanta on March 28. Turner will be recognized for his creation of CNN and his philanthropic efforts to bring peace and environmental health to our global society.
Established with an $890,000 endowment grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation, the Delta Prize is administered by UGA. The prize consists of a sculpture and a $10,000 cash award.
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Roe v. Wade attorney will deliver this year’s House Lecture
Sarah Weddington, the winning attorney in the historic U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, will deliver the School of Law’s 24th Edith House Lecture, entitled “Some Leaders Are Born Women.” The lecture will be held March 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel. It is open and free to the public. |
Time Inc. editor, FACS dean will speak at Commencement
John Huey, a UGA graduate who has editorial control over one of America’s largest publishing empires as editor-in-chief of Time Inc., will be the speaker for UGA’s undergraduate spring Commencement May 13.
Huey, who received a degree in English literature in 1970, will speak at a 9:30 a.m. ceremony at Sanford Stadium. In case of bad weather, the ceremony will be moved to Stegeman Coliseum and split into two sessions,
9:30 and ll:30 a.m. |
Ground broken for new sports space
The Athletic Association broke ground last month on a
120,000- square-foot addition to Stegeman Coliseum. Scheduled to be completed in June 2007, the annex will house separate areas for both the women’s and men’s basketball teams and the gymnastics team. |
Crossing over: CDD brings scientists together to help state of Georgia
Seinfeld had Larry David. Apple Computer Inc. had Steve Jobs. UGA’s new Center for Drug Discovery has Vasu Nair.
Many successful ideas have fulcrum men to leverage them into the big leagues. And Nair, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and head of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences department at UGA’s College of Pharmacy, is coming out swinging for the new cross-disciplinary center. |
Mathematician will deliver 12th annual Cantrell Lectures
Fields Medal winner Stephen Smale, professor at Toyota Technological Institute and the University of Chicago, will deliver the annual Cantrell Lectures March 22-24.
Smale will deliver three lectures on human and machine learning. The first lecture, designed for the general public, is called “Learning and Intelligence,” and will be presented in room 101 of the Student Learning Center at 3:30 p.m. on March 22. It is open free to the public. |
UGA Press names 15 members
to its new Advisory Council
The University of Georgia Press has named 15 members to its new Advisory Council, which meets twice a year in Athens. |
Press on:Broadcast journalist talks about breaking barriers to equality
It was a lecture 45 years in the making.
When ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts stepped up to the Chapel’s podium to deliver the 21st annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture, she emphasized that the struggle for equality for women and minorities is an ongoing battle, not a resolute victory. |
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Around
Academe
• NCAA will more closely scrutinize transcripts from high school athletes
• More students ignore race question |
Worth
repeating
• Adam Rogers, Wired magazine |
Research
News
Bombs away: Center for Applied Isotope Studies develops system to remotely recover unexploded, underwater devices |
Digest
• Spring enrollment up over last year
• All UGA sports OK'd by NCAA
• Coast Guard ships students to UGA
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UGA
Guide
• University Theatre presents snapshots of teen lives in Polaroid Stories |
Campus
Closeup
Jan Crosby, Carl Vinson Institute of Government |
Building on a legacy
Social work professor discusses his vision as inaugural holder of Berger Professorship
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