THE CENTER FOR SIMULATIONAL PHYSICS functions as a center for research and training in simulational physics, with emphasis on the use of supercomputers and parallel processing on coupled workstations. Topical areas range from fundamental statistical mechanics and strongly correlated electron systems to materials science and stellar atmospheres. New algorithm development is encouraged. Because of this work, close interaction with Enterprise Information Technology Services is maintained, and collaborative research programs with major institutions in the United States and Europe are developed. The center hosts an annual international workshop. The center's staff consists of research and adjunct professors, visiting research scientists, and postdoctoral associates. 

THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT provides technical and problem-solving assistance in the development of new patterns and approaches to the delivery of social services. Center faculty and staff engage in applied research, training, technical assistance, and consultation on a variety of current and emerging issues in the broad field of human services. They design specific projects in cooperation with leaders in policy, management, and practice roles in the wide variety of social service organizations throughout the state. The center provides a structure for the development of partnerships with divisions of government as well as private organizations, supporting their efforts to improve decisionmaking, program implementation, technology transfer, service monitoring and evaluation, innovation and change. Collaborative learning across projects and shared resources for proposal development, data collection and analysis, and dissemination enable the center to add value beyond the efforts of individual faculty members.

THE CENTER FOR SOYBEAN IMPROVEMENT (CSI) promotes interdisciplinary and interuniversity collaboration among scientists and support staff interested in soybean research and education. The CSI facilitates research that will result in the development of superior yielding, drought tolerant, and multiple pest resistant soybean cultivars and improved management systems. Research is also addressing the development of cultivars with unique combinations of value-added traits and new technologies to improve the efficiency of cultivar development. The CSI hosts an annual workshop to encourage the development of interdisciplinary and interuniversity programs and enhance skills of center members. A newsletter informs center members, support groups, and clientele of center activities and accomplishments. 

THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL ISSUES (GLOBIS) coordinates and promotes international and interdisciplinary research, instruction and public service in global studies. The center organizes international seminars and facilitates collaborative research on emerging issues associated with globalization in such areas as peace and security, sustainable development, sociopolitical ecology, demographic trends and distributive justice, and human rights. The center administers the certificate program in global studies and the study abroad programs in Verona (Italy) and Kyoto (Japan). The center programs are located at the University and abroad at regional offices in Italy and Japan.

THE CENTER FOR TROPICAL AND EMERGING GLOBAL DISEASES (CTEGD) is a cross-college, interdisciplinary center and collaborative effort between Arts and Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine. It was established to support and promote the development of research, service and educational programs related to tropical and emerging diseases. It seeks to focus research and educational attention on formerly tropical diseases that have emerged from isolated areas and are now having a significant impact on a worldwide basis. The research focus of the center includes the immunology, cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology of protozoan and metazoan parasites, and the biology of vectors of infectious agents. 

THE COCA-COLA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS supports global programs within the Terry College of Business. The center manages exchange programs with international academic institutions and hosts international visitors. Some of the Coca-Cola Center’s major responsibilities include: managing Terry College student internships within the global economy, developing new global partners for the college, and providing grants to faculty who participate in the College's international programs. 

THE COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH CENTER (CCRC) includes a U.S. Department of Energy-funded Center for Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates and a National Institutes of Health Resource Center for Biomedical Complex Carbohydrates, both in their third five years of operation. The CCRC studies the structures and functions of the complex carbohydrates of plants, microbes, and animals. CCRC scientists investigate the chemistry and the physiological, developmental, and molecular biology of complex carbohydrates having biological importance, using advanced analytical techniques, including mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, computer modeling, tissue culture, immunocytochemistry, recombinant genetics, and chemical and enzymatic synthesis. The involvement of complex carbohydrates in most cell activities makes understanding their structures and functions essential to many fields of basic research and biotechnology as well as human health issues and the biomedical sciences. Organized to optimize cooperation and collaboration among disciplines both within the CCRC and with scientists elsewhere, the CCRC’s 81,000-square-foot building is specifically designed for the interdisciplinary and equipment-intensive nature of carbohydrate science and to support a broad range of expertise. CCRC faculty hold joint appointments in the departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Botany, and Plant Pathology. The CCRC provides analytical services to scientists, offers hands-on laboratory training courses each summer for scientists from academia and industry, and develops computer software to assist the study of complex carbohydrates. The CCRC operates a Georgia Research Alliance Regional NMR Center providing the analytical capabilities of a high-field 800-MHz NMR spectrometer to scientists at Georgia’s research universities. CCRC personnel are currently collaborating on more than 150 research projects with scientists in Georgia, 29 states in the U.S., and in 17 countries. The CCRC is supported by federal, state, and industrial funds and has annual research funds of about $4.5 million. 

THE COMPUTATIONAL CENTER FOR MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DESIGN (CCMSD), with the advent of powerful computers and sophisticated graphics workstations, can more effectively pursue many of the most fundamental problems at the interface of chemistry, biology, and physics. The CCMSD, under the leadership of Professors Norman L. Allinger, Director, and J. Phillip Bowen, Co-Director, was formally dedicated in December 1992 by Governor Zell Miller. Center research focuses on understanding molecular structures and interactions and on developing new computational procedures, primarily in the area of molecular mechanics and molecular modeling methods. The center is equipped with well over a million dollars worth of state-of-the-art graphics workstations, computer hardware, and computational chemistry software donated by the private sector. 

THE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE is an educational service arm for the University, providing information and training to Georgia citizens. Staff members, representing the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, collaborate with other college faculty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and county government to present educational programs in agriculture, the environment, family and consumer sciences, and 4-H and youth development. Research-based educational programs are developed at the local level by county extension agents in response to needs articulated by local citizens. The Rural Development Center located at Tifton, a facility of the Cooperative Extension Service, offers programs that address agricultural and forest production efficiency, advanced marketing techniques and use of farm and forest commodities, and family and youth issues. 

THE COUNSELING AND TESTING CENTER provides individual and group counseling for personal and career concerns, a variety of developmental groups, outreach and consultation services, and an extensive testing program. Services are primarily for students, but outreach and consultation services are available for faculty and staff. Services can be tailored to meet the needs of particular groups including those comprised of underrepresented populations. Our Career Information Center contains current information on numerous occupational alternatives as well as a computerized career decision-making system, SIGI-PLUS. An ECHD 2050 course on Choosing a Major or Career Goal is also offered through the Center. The center serves as a training site for graduate students in Counseling Psychology and supports a predoctoral internship that is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association. The center is fully accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services. 

THE JAMES M. COX, JR., CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MASS COMMUNICATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH, a unit of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, conducts training workshops for journalists from outside the United States and research to create new knowledge relevant to the practice of journalism internationally. The center, through exchanges and lectures, also seeks to internationalize the experience of journalism students at the University of Georgia. 

THE JAMES M. COX, JR., INSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER MANAGEMENT STUDIES was created with funding from the James M. Cox, Jr. Foundation of Atlanta to assist undergraduate and graduate students studying the management skills and journalistic techniques necessary for efficient, profitable, and socially responsible operation of newspapers in today's complex society. The institute funds research projects dealing with managerial and operational problems confronting newspaper strategists and collaborates with other nationally recognized training institutes to conduct professional seminars for journalists. 

THE CURRICULUM MATERIALS CENTER (CMC), administered by the University Libraries and housed in the College of Education, provides a balanced and up-to-date collection of print and nonprint educational materials produced for use with children from preschool through grade twelve. Adult education materials are also included. The collection supports the instructional program of the College of Education, methods and practicum courses in the education curriculum, and children's and young adult literature courses. CMC services include reference, circulation, and bibliographic instruction. 

THE DOWDEN CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA STUDIES, founded in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a donation from alumus Thomas C. Dowden, is dedicated to teaching and research projects related to the adoption and diffusion of new media technologies, including the World Wide Web. The center’s mission is to foster research related to the uses and impacts of new media on individuals, organizations and society. The Dowden Center’s web site is a developing resource tool for new media students, scholars and practitioners. http://www.dowden.grady.uga.edu or http://dowdencenter.org

ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (EITS) is a campus service unit under the executive authority of the Chief Information Officer. EITS is responsible for operation and support of the major shared institutional computing and data communications facilities at the University of Georgia. In addition to general purpose enterprise servers supporting institutional administrative and academic applications, EITS operates a variety of specialized computing resources supporting research and student services. These include both distributed memory and shared memory high-performance parallel processing facilities for numerically intensive research computing; a visualization laboratory; an artificial intelligence research and instructional laboratory, specialized computational biology application and database servers; a molecular graphics teaching laboratory; a number of open access microcomputer cluster facilities; and campus e-mail, world wide web, news name and curricular content delivery server. In addition, EITS distributes hundreds of microcomputer software products at reduced prices to University departments via site license arrangements with software developers.

EITS provides technical consulting, publications, and training to the campus at large on a variety of topics including selection and procurement of hardware and software; site planning for departmental computing facilities; installation of workstation hardware and software; local area and campus networking design and connection; personal workstation and central server systems application software usage; electronic mail messaging and Internet exploration. Discipline-specific consulting support is provided in computational physics, biology, chemistry, statistics, and visualization. EITS also operates a central Help Desk (542-3106) for staff, students, and faculty. They can therefore contact one office to receive information or assistance with questions about information technology resources at UGA.

Access to campus, national, and international computer networks is provided through the data networking services supported by EITS. Campus connectivity is provided through the TCP/IP protocol, which is supported on server resources operated by the EITS and a pervasive trunk and building cable system. EITS sponsors University of Georgia membership in the Internet2 project as well as high-speed network connectivity to the Abilene network. Commodity Interned connectivity is provided through PeachNet, the higher education network serving the University System of Georgia.

THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFICE (EOO) has oversight responsibility for University compliance with federal and state laws addressing access to employment and enrollment as well as program, service, and activity opportunities at the University. As such, the EOO is the University’s official contact for compliance matters for such agencies as the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity, U.S. Department of Education-Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and U.S. Department of Labor-Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. The EOO represents the institutional position before those agencies. The EOO also administers the UGA Affirmative Action Plan with the assistance of coordinators in major units of the University. 

THE J. W. FANNING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP, founded in 1982, is a public service and outreach unit named for Vice President and Professor Emeritus J. W. Fanning, considered by many to be the "father of leadership" in Georgia. The Fanning Institute serves people who desire to develop leadership within themselves and others in communities and organizations across Georgia and beyond.

Two foundations of Fanning Institute curricula and programs are J. W. Fanning’s ten Pillars of Leadership and the belief that the effective leader seeks mastery of self (self-knowledge), mastery of relationships (working with others), and mastery of action (setting and achieving relevant goals). Each offering considers the head (knowledge), heart (integrity) and feet (action) of leadership in the setting(s) in which participants function. Audiences range from local community or neighborhood/grassroots leadership program participants to teachers and other professionals to organizations interested in long-term advanced leadership development for their members or employees.

Institute goals are realized through multidisciplinary program development, delivery and evaluation; curricula and publications; database resources; conferences and technical assistance; applied research and trend identification. Faculty expertise includes the fields of community, youth and organizational leadership with an emphasis in experiential education and assessment. The Fanning Institute serves as the state’s university-based clearinghouse for information on leadership development. 

THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS departments provide computer-based information system services to designated administrative units of the University of Georgia. Service involves maintenance of existing computer applications systems; modification and expansion of those systems to meet changing user requirements; assistance and training of user departments; development of state-of-the-art user-oriented applications systems; data base planning; coordination and consultation; and provision of data entry and production scheduling services. 

THE UGA FITNESS CENTER operates as a laboratory experience for undergraduate and graduate students interested in adult fitness and cardiac rehabilitation. Service programs offered to faculty, staff, students, and community members are designed to enhance health and fitness. The programs include Adult Fitness for the apparently healthy adult with few risk factors; Senior Adult Fitness for seniors over the age of 55; and Cardiac Rehabilitation for those who have heart disease, have had surgery or a prior heart attack, or are at extremely high risk for heart disease. The Fitness Center offers complete health and fitness screening, including a physician-supervised treadmill stress test, computerized health risk analysis, skinfold determination of percent body fat, resting 12-lead ECG, and pulmonary function, flexibility, and muscular strength determinations. 

THE GEORGIA CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION plans and implements educational programs in response to the diverse needs of adults throughout Georgia, the nation, and other countries. Needs are expressed individually or through a range of governmental agencies, business and professional organizations, and civic, cultural, and educational groups. The center delivers a complex, comprehensive educational program for credit, noncredit, and certification through residential conferences and short courses; on-campus and off-campus programs; teleconferences; independent study; mass media; and National Public Radio (WUGA-FM, 91.7 and 97.9). Distance education opportunities are provided by Independent Study, Media Development, and by the Web Instructional Development Departments developing and offering audio, video and CD-ROM courses. The center’s electronic classroom is equipped to deliver two-way audio and video via digital compression to any site in the world with comparable equipment. It is connected to the statewide distance learning system, the Georgia State Academic and Medical System (GSAMS), which has over 350 receive sites throughout Georgia. Other services include cooperative programming with other institutions of higher education; videotape production; print design and production; and consultation and supportive services. The center's food and lodging facilities may be reserved by all who visit the University. 

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART, founded by Alfred H. Holbrook in 1948, shares the mission of the University and exists to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret significant works of art. Designated by the state legislature as the official State Museum of Art in 1982, the museum’s permanent collection now numbers over 9,000 works of art. Its primary collections are American paintings produced since 1830 and a broad survey of American and European prints produced since the 16^th century. Additional significant collections include European Old Master paintings and Japanese prints. Works in the collection and curatorial files are available for study by students and scholars. An active publications program includes a bimonthly museum newsletter and catalogues for selected exhibitions organized by the museum. Lectures, gallery talks, films, family days, and other events complement major traveling exhibitions and exhibitions from its own collections. The museum shop offers a variety of arts-related items. The Friends of the Museum, the museum’s membership organization, hosts fundraising events and sponsors museum programming. 

THE GEORGIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, designated as the State of Georgia Museum of Natural History, contains the most extensive collection of Georgia natural history artifacts and specimens and is one of the largest university natural history museums in the Southeast. It ranks within the top 50 in the nation in terms of the size of its collections and the scope of its research and technical service programs. The museum has many significant collection areas: Archaeology Collection (3.5 million artifacts and specimens), Botany Herbarium (228,000 plant specimens), Entomology Collections (700,000 pinned, 100,000 slide-mounted, and 30,000 alcohol-preserved insects), Geological Collections (20,000 economic geology ore specimens, 10,000 mineral specimens, and over 10,000 invertebrate and vertebrate fossils), Julian H. Miller Mycological Herbarium (30,000 fungi), Plant Microfossil Laboratory (6,000 reference slides of fossil pollen samples), Zooarchaeology Collection (4,200 comparative reference skeletons), and Zoological Collection (34,390 invertebrates, 325,000 fish, 45,000 amphibians and reptiles, 6,000 birds, and 30,000 mammals).

The museum's collections are crucial to quality education in over 72 graduate and undergraduate courses in the natural sciences at the University. Each year the museum provides loans of educational materials and access to its collections to other institutions of higher education, research units, regional primary and secondary schools, and various state agencies. While the museum is primarily a regional research facility relating to Georgia and the Southeast, the scope of its operations are national and international. As a repository of the definitive collections of Georgia's historical, cultural, and natural heritage, the museum's collections provide essential research resources and data bases for researchers nationwide. Each year the collections process hundreds of loans of artifacts, specimens, and records to other museums and scientists throughout the nation. Tours are available by calling 706-542-1663. 

THE GEORGIA REVIEW, winner of the National Magazine Award in Fiction, is an internationally known journal of arts and letters published by the University since 1947. Its quarterly issues feature a blend of the best in contemporary thought and writing--essays, poetry, fiction, and book reviews--together with inviting art works. Accessible to the informed, nonspecialist reader, The Review appeals across disciplinary lines by drawing from a wide range of interests, including literature, history, philosophy, science, architecture, film, and the musical and visual arts. As an additional service to the Athens campus, The Review organizes and sponsors periodic readings by some of America's most prominent poets and fiction writers.