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november 9, 2009

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Traffic Injury Prevention Institute receives state grant
The University of Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute has been awarded an $836,470 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to continue its education and training programs in passenger safety education, young and senior driver education and community programming.

GRA Scholar wins stimulus funding for stem cell research that may lead to new therapies
Stephen Dalton, UGA professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Molecular Biology, has received a $600,000 federal stimulus grant to accelerate research into a type of stem cell that can turn into virtually any cell type.

Small and Minority Business Expo benefits vendors, UGA buyers
For Bill Kemper, the Small and Minority Business Expo is one of those little things that make his job easier.

Historic honor: Jackson Street Cemetery added to National Register of Historic Places
UGA’s Jackson Street Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places Oct. 2.

Colleges, universities share diversity, inclusion strategies
Last month, UGA hosted the first-ever University System of Georgia Diversity Summit, a conference that brought representatives from all 35 USG institutions and other Georgia organizations together to share ideas about inclusion and help construct system-wide policies.

Experts to discuss childhood obesity
Georgia ranks as the third worst state in the nation for overweight or obese children. To begin to deal with this issue, representatives from universities, government agencies and healthcare, public health, philanthropic and community organizations in the state will convene in Atlanta this month to share findings and identify ways they can act together to tackle the problem.

Law school presents one-man show about attorney Clarence Darrow
The School of Law will host live theatrical performances by award-winning actor Gary Anderson titled “Clarence Darrow’s Search for Justice” on Nov. 18 in the Chapel. As part of a national tour, there will be showings at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free, but pre-online registration is required by Nov. 15 at www.law.uga.edu/clarence-darrow-performance.

Breaking news: WNEG-TV celebrates milestone newscast
A milestone was reached Oct. 27 when WNEG-TV broadcast its first full newscast from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Family’s ‘can-do’ attitude helps food bank
Every Friday about 220 Athens-area school children go home with 8-pound bags of food, something they may not get otherwise.

Living the American dream: 300 attend Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration
When Sylvia Mendez and her siblings were prohibited from attending an all-white school near her Orange County, Calif., home in 1946, her parents fought back, filing suit in a groundbreaking education desegregation case.

Prof gives students proverbs for living
Get as much as you can out of your education and to hell with five-year plans.

That’s the advice that John Knox, assistant professor of geography, would give students if he were giving the final talk of his life. That was his duty as the speaker at the Russell Last Lecture.


	Around Academe • U.S. to give Pakistan $45 million for higher education initiatives • Report concludes university-industry partnerships vital to economy
	Digest • Former VP to sign copies of new book • Purdue prof to give Fanning Lecture • ‘Georgia Review,’ Georgia Poetry Circuit to present reading by Dorianne Laux • Alumnus to give King/Mandela Lecture
	UGA Guide • Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano to perform in Hodgson Concert Hall
	Faculty Profile Usha Rodrigues, School of Law

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