Environmental ethics seminar
The Environmental Ethics Certificate Program will conclude a year-long focus on corporate environmental responsibility with a lecture April 17 by author Erik Reece.

Open to the public, the seminar will be held at the Institute of Ecology Auditorium, with a social and book signing from 5–5:30 p.m. and the seminar from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

In his best-selling book Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Reece chronicled the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain, aptly named “Lost Mountain.”

For more information, contact Dorinda Dallmeyer at (706) 542-0935 or dorindad@uga.edu

Groundbreaking ceremony
Student leaders and UGA officials will break ground for the Tate Student Center expansion and renovation project during a ceremony April 19 at 2 p.m. A reception in the Tate Student Center Reception Hall will follow the groundbreaking ceremony. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

Fulbright Roundtable
All UGA faculty and staff interested in applying for a Fulbright award should attend the Fulbright Roundtable on April 18 from 2–4 p.m. in the room 137 of the Tate Student Center. Previous Fulbright grantees will be on hand to discuss their experiences in applying for and using their Fulbright awards. They also will answer questions and give one-on-one advice and encouragement. Also, the campus Fulbright representative will present information about the application procedures, resources and upcoming deadlines. E-mail Tammy Lyskowinski (tammyL@uga.edu) by April 16 to RSVP.

Innovations seminar
Bosoon Park of the USDA will give the next seminar in the Innovations at the Interface series. His lecture, “Nanoscale Sensing in Food Safety and Biosecurity,” takes place April 18 at 4 p.m. in room 101 of the Student Learning Center.

The seminar and reception are open to the UGA community. More information is available online (www.engineering.uga.edu/events).

Faculty Learning Communities registration
The Center for Teaching and Learning is sponsoring seven faculty learning communities for the 2007–2008 academic year. An FLC consists of six to 12 faculty from different disciplines who agree to meet about every three weeks to consider a topic of mutual interest and to learn from each other.

At the end of the academic year, the FLC will have the opportunity to offer the larger UGA community conclusions regarding its topic at a general forum.

Topics for the coming academic year are: “Academic Upcycling: Improving Student Scholarship through Assignment Design,” “Collaborative Learning: Class Environments that Value Cooperation over Competition,” “Digital Storytelling,” “Feminist and Anti-Racist Teaching as Praxis,” “Integrating Qualitative Data Analysis Tools into Qualitative Research and Teaching,” “Service-Learning: Supporting Student Engagement and Faculty Research” and “Visual Thinking: New Strategies for Using Visual Material in the Digital Era.”

FLC registration closes April 20. More information for each community is available online (www.ctl.uga.edu/flc).

Earth Day events
Earth Day at UGA, sponsored by the Energy Conservation Executive Committee, Physical Plant and UGA Unplugged, will run from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. April 23 at the Tate Student Center Plaza. The celebration is part of the university’s initiative to encourage energy conservation and environmental awareness on campus. There will be several demonstrations and displays about conservation initiatives including environmentally friendly alternative fuels, storm water management, recycling and composting. Local auto dealers will display hybrid cars. Live music also will be provided. More information is available online (www.uga.edu/energy).

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