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April 24, 2006

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Finalists named for family and consumer sciences deanship
Four finalists have been identified in the search for the next dean of UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

The new dean will succeed Sharon Y. Nickols, who will step down July 1 after nearly 15 years as dean of the college. Nickols will remain on the faculty to teach and conduct research.

UGA celebrates excellence at annual Honors Day program
Amid increased focus on the quality of its academic programs, the university will pay tribute to its best students, teachers, advisers and mentors at the annual Honors Day program April 26.

The program will be held in Hugh Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center beginning at 2 p.m. Undergraduate classes scheduled for sixth, seventh and eighth periods (1:25-4:25 p.m.) will be dismissed so students and faculty can attend.

Biologist named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Susan R. Wessler, Regents Professor of Plant Biology at UGA, has been named one of 20 scientists at research universities across the nation as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Each of the researchers will receive $1 million over the next four years to bring the creativity they have shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom.

Alumni Association will honor four at annual awards luncheon on April 28
The Alumni Association will honor Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham and television and movie actor and director Monte Markham at its annual awards luncheon April 28.

Georgia’s bid for new federal facility earns a senatorial visit
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss came to Athens recently to tour the proposed sites, one of which is off College Station Road near the Russell Research Center.

Conference brings back alumni from early days of desegregation
More than one panelist commemorating the 45th anniversary of UGA’s desegregation almost didn’t make it to the 2006 Alumni Networking and Professional Development Conference, sponsored by the Alumni Association’s Multicultural Programs.

Leaving an impression
Second phase of Brooks Mall where leaves, such as the Big Leaf Magnolia, have been pressed into the concrete of the sidewalk as part of the UGA Arboretum Project.

Promotions and Tenure
Regents approve promotion for 169 UGA faculty and tenure for 73 UGA faculty at their April meeting.

International insight: Course incorporates realities of global life into curriculum
Disease, toxic environments, rudimentary labor practices, human rights abuses and cultural intolerance are fixtures in the world graduates enter year after year. By weaving the realities of global life into the curricula, UGA engineering professor William Kisaalita is making it possible for students to experience world issues firsthand and participate in finding solutions.

Living and learning: Residential and academic partnerships honored
Ashley Lester is 26 and has her master’s degree in counseling education from Auburn University, but there’s something about her easy-going manner that makes it easy to imagine her living among fresh-faced undergraduate students in a college dorm.

Latino students aim to buck higher education trend
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.”

The words of farm labor activist Cesar Chavez rang true this month as UGA’s Students for Latino Empowerment made a case for higher education to about 40 students at ¡Si Se Puede!

College of Veterinary Medicine open house
Visitors attend the College of Veterinary Medicine's open house.


	Around Academe • New York University officials debate returning multi million-dollar donation • College grads with debt decrease chance to enter public-service careers
	Research News Roots to shoots: UGA scientists discover way to transport environmental arsenic to plant leaves in new clean-up strategy
	Digest • New fixed tuition policy implemented • NRC program director to speak April 27 • Employees honored for charitable gifts
	UGA Guide • Candlelight ceremony will honor 18 deceased faculty, staff and students

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