Onward and upward
Enrollment, freshman SAT scores continue to rise
Total enrollment and the freshman SAT average at UGA hit all-time highs this fall as the university continued to take advantage of Georgia’s population boom and the popular HOPE scholarship to enroll many of the state’s best students.
Final enrollment figures released by Registrar Gary Moore show a total of 30,912 students registered for fall semester classes, a 3 percent increase over last fall’s enrollment of 30,009. Undergraduate enrollment
totals 22,835--a 2.7 percent increase over last year--while graduate enrollment rose by 4 percent to 5,540.
Getting the Y2K bugs out
As director of the university’s Millennium Readiness Office, Associate Vice President for Research Kirk Bertram has been focusing for two years on the “Y2K” problem--the possible inability of computer systems to interpret the correct century in a date that indicates the year with only two digits. He spoke with Columns about UGA’s readiness for the coming century change.
Which brings us to worms...
Study indicates possible ancient origin f
or infectious vertebrate retroviruses
such as HIV
Viruses are tiny Trojan horses, reproducing in animals and plants with sometimes deadly consequences. Since viruses can’t reproduce by themselves, they exploit living host cells and use them to produce viral nucleic acid and proteins, then reassemble these into new virus particles.
Particularly dangerous are retroviruses, which use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to copy themselves into host genomes and replicate. Only recently did scientists discover that a complex retrovirus they named human immunodeficiency virus--HIV--caused AIDS. A new study by geneticists at the University of Georgia, however, argues that retroviruses may have been lurking in animal genomes for millennia.
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ABC News correspondent discusses ‘Life on the Front Lines’ during McGill Lecture
 Deborah Roberts, correspondent for ABC News, will deliver the 22nd Ralph McGill Lecture sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The lecture, which will take place Nov. 3 at 10:30 a.m. in Georgia Hall in the Tate Student Center, is free and open to the public.
In her speech, titled “Life on the Front Lines: A Southern Gal Covers the World,” Roberts plans to share her experiences in television news, from college to the network. She will touch on a racial perspective, although she says that race does not define her career.
UGA Partners, new giving program, seeks to enroll
400 charter members by Dec. 1
 One month remains for interested contributors to become charter members of the University of Georgia Partners Program. The new giving program has a first-year goal of 400 participants by Dec. 1.
Amadeus Trio performs in Franklin College Chamber Music Series
The Amadeus Trio--pianist Marian Hahn, violinist Timothy Baker and cellist Jeffrey Solow--will give a concert as part of the Franklin College Chamber Music Series on Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. They will play trios by Loeillet, Shostakovich (Op. 67) and Dvorák (Op. 65).
Journalism summer study-abroad program moves to Avignon, France
 The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will offer students more choices this summer when its 15th annual summer study-abroad program moves to Avignon, France, to join UGA’s already established program there.
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