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| Reasons for HOPE: New study finds far-reaching enrollment effects of state of Georgia's lottery-funded scholarship
A new study by economists at the Terry College of Business reveals that the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship has increased enrollment at the state’s colleges and universities, but its greatest effect has been on the decision of where—rather than whether—to attend college.
The study, published in the October issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, also found that the scholarship reduced the number of Georgia students attending out-of-state institutions, made Georgia institutions more competitive by increasing SAT scores of incoming freshmen, and increased the number of students attending historically black colleges and universities. |
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Fontaine alcohol education center will be dedicated Oct. 6
A dedication ceremony will be held Oct. 6 for an alcohol education center at UGA that was created by a gift from a couple whose teenage son died in an alcohol-related car collision.
The dedication of the John Fontaine Jr. Center for Alcohol Awareness and Education will be at 4 p.m. in the University Health Center. The ceremony will include the unveiling of a plaque at the entrance of the health center’s health promotion department, where the Fontaine Center is located. |
Interim senior VP for external affairs is named
UGA President Michael F. Adams announced that Tom S. Landrum, the President’s Office chief of staff, will serve as interim senior vice president for external affairs effective Jan. 1. Landrum will fill the post vacated by Steve W. Wrigley, who earlier was named director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government and who will return to his former role as vice president for government relations when his term as senior vice president concludes this December. |
Grant from IBM will be used to launch study of innovation
IBM and the University of Georgia have launched a research initiative to find out how great inventions, business models, technology and profit influence innovation. |
Professorship created for late civil rights attorney
Louise T. Hollowell, widow of Donald L. Hollowell, is recognized by Vernon Jordan, Cheryl Dozier and UGA President Michael F. Adams during a fundraising reception last month for the Donald L. Hollowell Professorship of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies in UGA’s School of Social Work. |
UGA expert: Consumers should avoid bagged greens, vegetables
In the wake of one death and many cases of food-borne illness related to contaminated spinach, UGA microbiologist Michael Doyle recommends avoiding commercially bagged greens and vegetables.
An internationally known expert on food-borne pathogens like E. coli 0157:H7, Doyle spent most of the past two weeks after the outbreak fielding reporter calls from across the nation. |
Task force will gather input, issue recommendation about fall break
A University Council committee has created a task force to study whether fall break should continue to be the Thursday and Friday before the Georgia-Florida football game.
The task force, formed in
September by the council’s Educational Affairs Committee, hopes to make a recommendation by the end of this semester. |
Committees formed to ID candidates
for two deanships
Search committees have been formed to identify candidates for two dean positions at UGA.
Provost Arnett C. Mace Jr. has appointed committees to conduct nationwide searches for permanent deans of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. |
Professor will edit new journal of research in public child welfare
Alberta Ellett, an assistant professor in UGA’s School of Social Work, is the co-editor of the new Journal of Public Child Welfare, a quarterly professional journal that publishes theory-based and applied research in child welfare. |
Down the drain: Raingardens channel polluted water drainage from roofs and parking lots
The casual observer would never guess what was really happening in the garden outside of the physical plant’s grounds department.
A narrow trail of smooth stones winds its way through the lush plot of native plants. There’s a small clue—a modest pipe that juts about a foot above ground—but it’s overshadowed by all of the switch grass, iris, service berry trees, phlox, upland sea oats, black-eyed Susans and ferns. |
Hanging in there
Visitors to the intramural fields were recently treated to
a hang gliding demonstration
that was part of a recreational and leisure studies course
for incoming juniors
in the program. |
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