UGA heads to Abilene
Internet2 connects 150 universities, government and industry to high-speed computer network
As amazing as its impact has been, the Internet cannot meet all the needs of higher education. Realizing that, approximately 150 universities have joined together with government and industry partners to accelerate Internet2, the next stage of Internet development in academia.
National campaign raises awareness about binge drinking
 President Michael F. Adams is among 113 college and university presidents who have joined a national campaign to promote awareness of the dangers of binge drinking by college students.
The university leaders are listed in full-page ads appearing this month in major newspapers across the country. The ad campaign is sponsored by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Institutions. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Barnes & Noble also support the project.
Role Playing
 Their dance begins at birth: Two partners, mother and child, learning to move together. Some are natural dancers, according to Hui-Chin Hsu, an assistant professor of child and family development in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Others struggle, metaphorically stepping on each other’s toes and turning in the wrong direction.
“It’s very important to find the origins of mother-infant relationships,” Hsu says. “In the past, there’s been a tendency to think the relationship was either defined by the baby’s temperament or by the mother’s sensitivity and responsivity to the baby. My view is it’s an interaction of the two that is quite intricate and complex.”
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Biomedical initiative included in budget request to legislature
A request for $4 million for a biomedical- sciences collaboration between the University of Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia is included in the board of regents’ fiscal year 2001 budget request. The regents voted on the items in their budget package--which totals $1.638 billion--at their September meeting.
Pillars of the community
 Sherwood Thompson came to UGA this past February to direct the Office of Minority Services and Programs. He had directed the Office of Minority Affairs and Multicultural Resource Center at the University of Kansas since 1991. Columns discussed with him the support his office provides for minority students at UGA.
Former senior consultant becomes environmental safety division director
 Kenneth A. Scott, a senior consultant with the Atlanta environmental firm of Brown and Caldwell, has been chosen as director of the Environmental Safety Division at the university, effective Sept. 1.
Taking up residence
 The School of Music will present two free concerts and one free lecture in honor of the composer Takehito Shimazu during his residency at the music school. Shimazu is one of three scholars invited by UGA’s Center for Humanities and Arts for the fall Distinguished Lecturer Series. His residency is being cosponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts, the School of Music, Student Composers for the Research of Electro-Acoustic Music and the College of Arts and Science.
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