Sanford Orkin gift creates
new chair in parasite-disease center
 Atlanta businessman Sanford H. Orkin is contributing $750,000 to help establish a new UGA faculty position for an expert on some of the world’s most deadly parasitic diseases.
The gift will be applied toward a new Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar position in UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Scientists in the center study parasites and vectors that cause diseases such as malaria and African sleeping sickness, which annually kill millions of people and animals throughout the world.
Working for peanuts
“Peanut-yield monitoring is basically a revolution in recordkeeping,” says George Vellidis.
 “As the scale of agricultural machinery grew in the 20th century, our farmers lost the ability to address the specific needs of areas within fields,” he explains. “This system gives it back.”
Vellidis, an associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, says the system combines high-tech engineering with basic ingenuity.
Enhancing the UGA experience
BFSO works to improve social, cultural and
political environment for members of university’s black community
Jerome Morris, an assistant professor in the College of Education, is in his second year as president of the Black Faculty and Staff Organization at UGA. Columns spoke with him recently about BFSO’s goals and activities this year.
Search committee formed
to pick next public service vice president
A search committee has been formed to recommend a successor to S. Eugene Younts, who is stepping down as vice president for public service and outreach.
Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, has appointed Richard Mullendore, vice president for student affairs, as chair of the 10-member committee. Mullendore says the committee will convene soon, and he hopes to submit a list of finalists to President Michael F. Adams shortly after the first of next year.
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Newspaper editor to deliver annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor for the Atlanta Constitution, will deliver the 15th annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture Nov. 11.
The lectureship honors Dr. Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African-American students to enroll at UGA and the first to receive baccalaureate degrees. Tucker will speak at 11 a.m. in the Tate Theater of the Tate Student Center.
Physicist Freeman Dyson discusses his visions
of the future at Charter Lecture
 Dyson, hailed by many as one of the most imaginative thinkers of modern times, will bring his visions of the future to the University of Georgia Nov. 9 when he delivers the fall Charter Lecture at 4 p.m. in the Chapel. Titled “Gravity Is Cool: Or, Why Our Universe is Hospitable to Life,” the lecture is open free to the public.
All that is jazz
The Performing Arts Center will present a  unique evening of film and live jazz Nov. 12 in Hodgson Hall. The presentation begins at 8 p.m. with a screening of the one-hour documentary A Great Day in Harlem, which tells the story of the taking of Art Kane’s historic 1958 Esquire magazine photograph of 57 of the greatest musicians in jazz. The film was nominated for an Academy Award.
The second half of the program will feature a live performance by the legendary saxophonist Johnny Griffin and his ensemble, playing music in tribute to the jazz greats featured in the film.
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