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Miller gives Brooks Lecture
Former Gov. Zell Miller is the featured speaker at the 1999 D.W. Brooks Lecture Oct. 4 in Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The 11 a.m. lecture is named for D.W. Brooks, founder and chairman emeritus of Gold Kist Inc., who died this summer.
Miller’s presentation, “Georgia: Gains and Gaps,” will precede the announcement of the D.W. Brooks Faculty Awards for Excellence. The annual awards are presented to College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences faculty who excel in teaching, research and extension.
Campaign for Charities
The kick-off breakfast for this year’s Campaign for Charities is Oct. 12 at 8 a.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Rebecca Paul, president of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, will speak.
Campus coordinators will have an opportunity to meet representatives of local United Way agencies and to pick up the pledge cards and campaign materials for their area.
The year’s fund-raising effort will be led by George Benson, dean of the Terry College of Business.
Web-based learning
Thomas C. Reeves, a professor of instructional technology, is hosting a Public Broadcast System teleconference Oct. 7 on “Exemplary Models for Web-Based Learning.” The teleconference will be broadcast live from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. via satellite and broadcast over the Web from Jacksonville, Fla.
Reeves teaches program evaluation, multimedia design, and research courses in the College of Education. He has developed and evaluated numerous interactive multimedia programs for both education and training.
More information about the teleconference can be found on the Web at http://www.pbs.org/adultlearning/als/exemplary.
Conservation teleconference
Portions of an international conference of conservation leaders will be broadcast locally at the Georgia Center on Oct. 5-7.
Building on Leopold’s Legacy: Conservation for a New Century” is presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. It recognizes the 50th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and “Sketches Here and There.” The essays on natural history and conservation philosophy outlined Leopold’s land ethic, which has become a foundation of conservation practice and policy today.
Conference topics range from watershed protection to urban sprawl to public lands management and will explore challenges that conservationists now face in areas such as environmental justice and education.
On Oct. 5 in Mahler Auditorium, “Aldo Leopold and the Foundations of Conservation: Opening Plenary Session,” will be broadcast from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and “Conserving Watersheds and Water Quality” will be broadcast from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Oct. 6 in Masters Hall, “New Directions in Environmental Education” will be broadcast from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and “Wilderness: Changing Definitions, Perspectives and Priorities” will be broadcast from 3 to 5:30 p.m. On Oct. 7 in conference room JS, “The Land Ethic: Reaching New Constituencies” will be broadcast from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and “Reviewing the Commitment: The Future of Conservation” will be broadcast from 3 to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Kay Vaughn (542-9022) or visit http://www.wisc.edu/wisacad/landethic/.
The local satellite broadcast of the conference is co-sponsored by the Southern Regional Extension Forestry Office, UGA’s Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources and the USDA Forest Service-Southern Research Station. |
