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Ground broken for expansion of Georgia Museum of Art
The Georgia Museum of Art held a groundbreaking ceremony March 3 to celebrate the construction of a new wing.
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Chief justice to give this year’s Holmes-Hunter Lecture
Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court Leah Ward Sears will deliver UGA’s 24th annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture. Open free to the public, the lecture will be held at 3 p.m. April 9 in the Chapel. |
Search committee appointed to find successor to retiring provost
UGA President Michael F. Adams has appointed a search committee to help choose a successor to Arnett C. Mace Jr., who will retire as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost on Jan. 1, 2010. |
Global diseases lecture to focus on quest for AIDS vaccines
In late 2007, the National Institutes of Health and Merck announced that instead of protecting healthy people against HIV infection, the leading experimental AIDS vaccine may have made some participants in the STEP study more susceptible to the virus. In the next UGA Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard lecture, Barney Graham, a leading vaccine researcher, will talk about where the AIDS vaccine quest goes from here. |
Health inequalities expert will deliver 2009 Ramsey Lecture
Social epidemiologist
Dr. Ichiro Kawachi will deliver the 2009 Bernard B. Ramsey Lecture at 6 p.m. March 23 in the Ramsey Concert Hall of the Performing Arts Center. His presentation, entitled “America Unequal: The Problem of Health Disparities and What Must be Done to Fix It,” is free and open to the public. |
Interdisciplinary artist visiting campus for week-long residency
Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, will host Zachary Lieberman during an exhibition and week-long residency
March 16–20. The exhibition and residency are supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. |
Library scores a rare donation
Lloyd Winstead, associate director of UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts—and a former member of UGA’s Redcoat Marching Band—has donated the only known copy of the university’s first school song, “The Red and Black March,” to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. |
Creativity researcher will deliver this year’s Paul Torrance Lecture
Arthur J. Cropley, an internationally known researcher and writer on creativity, will deliver the 2009
E. Paul Torrance Lecture. Open free to the public, the lecture will held
March 16 at 5 p.m. in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center. |
Red Clay conference to focus on ‘green’ commerce
The 21st annual Red Clay Conference on March 20 will explore the question, “Does Going Green Equal Making Green?” Open free to the public, the conference will open at 8:30 a.m. at Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus. |
California State professor named new Torrance Professor of Creative Studies and Gifted Education
Nationally recognized creativity researcher Mark A. Runco will be welcomed as the new E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creative Studies and Gifted Education at a reception hosted by the College of Education on
March 16 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. The reception, scheduled for 7 p.m., will follow the annual E. Paul Torrance Lecture from 5-6:30 p.m. in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center (see story) |
Goin' back: New Web site chronicles stories from UGA’s past
Time travel now comes at a discount.
Goin’ Back: Remembering UGA, a new Web site (www.uga.edu/livinghistory), is an archive of video interviews with prominent alumni as well as former faculty and staff members. |
‘Dream’ Award winner spearheads effort to turn diversity talk into action
For her efforts to transform the conversation about diversity within the College of Education, Jenny Penney Oliver won a 2009 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award earlier this semester. |
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