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Employer of the Year
The Athens-Clarke County Commission on People with Disabilities named UGA’s Bolton Dining Hall as Employer of the Year at its annual awards luncheon Oct. 30. The food services department and Bolton supervisor Karen Fooks were congratulated for mainstreaming people with disabilities into the work force and treating them with respect and dignity.
New alumni center
The site for UGA’s new alumni and development center will be marked with a ceremony Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. in the pavilion at Lake Herrick. Carl Swearingen, president of the UGA National Alumni Association, and Jim Nalley, chairman of the UGA Foundation, will join UGA President Michael Adams in unveiling the sign marking the new home of the alumni association, the foundation and UGA’s Division of External Affairs.
Air Force ROTC honors
Air Force ROTC Detachment 160 at the University of Georgia has received the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award.
The award was established by the Secretary of the Air Force in 1969 to recognize performance significantly above that of other units of similar composition and mission responsibility. It is awarded to school, academy and college, and U.S.A.F. ROTC detachments.
Detachment 160 personnel distinguished themselves from July 1997 through June 1998. The detachment has earned the award several times in the past.
“I am very proud of the staff and cadets who have worked very hard to earn this award,” says Col. Douglas Hardin, commander of Detachment 160. “We look forward to continued outstanding service to our nation’s defense and to the University of Georgia.”
Weapons controls grant
Despite the end of the Cold War, weapons of mass destruction have proliferated. Knowing what countries are doing with such weapons has become a crucial step in preventing their use.
UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security has assumed a major role in assessing practices related to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, using methods developed here. The Carnegie Corporation has recognized that role by awarding a grant of $200,000 to the program through the UGA Research Foundation.
“We are delighted with the support from the Carnegie Foundation, and we feel it will allow us to continue this important work more effectively,” says Gary Bertsch, the center’s director and a professor of political science. “Effective non-proliferation practices can reduce this threat significantly.”
The center uses methods developed at UGA to allow governments to see the shortcomings in their non-proliferation export-control systems and in their systems of protection, control and accounting of nuclear weapons and weapons-related materials. The methodology also benefits the United States and other governments by providing them with information to more effectively target ways to assist non-proliferation.
In 1998 so far, the team from CITS has applied its methods in studying the United States, Russia, the 14 new states of the former Soviet Union, China, Taiwan, India, Japan and Cuba. In 1999, the UGA team proposes to expand its evaluations to additional Asian, African, European, Middle Eastern and South American states, including Pakistan, South Korea, Hong Kong, South Africa, France, the United Kingdom, Israel and Argentina.
Earlier this year the center published Arms on the Market, the first book examining how to reduce the risk of proliferation in the states of the former Soviet Union. Written by graduate students who have done extensive work on location in the states, the book was hailed nationally and internationally.
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