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THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY is a service unit of the College of Education established to provide the following kinds of services primarily, but not exclusively, for College of Education faculty and students: data processing, research design consultation, and statistical consultation. Contractual arrangements are also made with public and private agencies for the above services and for test scoring and reporting, survey development and analysis, and writing assessment.

THE FANNING LEADERSHIP CENTER serves as a central source of University-based information and knowledge about leadership. The center's work represents a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to leadership development and involves faculty expertise from five other service units: the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Cooperative Extension Service, Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Institute of Community and Area Development, and Business Outreach Services. Development of effective community leaders for the betterment of Georgia communities is the primary focus of the center's work, and a statewide database on community leadership programs is maintained by the center.

THE FINANCIAL 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 control 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 many foreign lands. 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 through residential conferences and short courses; on-campus and off-campus programs for credit, non-credit, and certification; credit and non-credit audioconferences and teleconferences; independent study; mass media; and National Public Radio (WUGA-FM, 91.7 and 97.9). The Georgia Center's electronic classroom provides distance education opportunities and is equipped to deliver two-way audio and video via digital compression. It is connected to the statewide distance learning system, Georgia State Academic and Medical System (GSAMS), which has over 200 receive sites around Georgia and provides access to Georgia Public Television and the Georgia Center satellite uplink. Other services include cooperative programming with other institutions of higher education; television and film production; print design and production; media library operations; and consultation and supportive services. The center's food and lodging facilities may be reserved by all who visit the University for administrative and academic purposes.

THE 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 Georgia General Assembly as the official State Museum of Art in 1982, the museum's permanent collection now numbers over 7,000 works. Its primary collections are American paintings, prints, and drawings produced since 1830, and a broad survey of European prints. 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 quarterly 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 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.

THE HUMANITIES CENTER promotes thoughtful inquiry into the philosophical, social, ethical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and ideological implications of our knowledge of the world through research grants, lectures, symposia, radio programs, and publications. Under its Humanities-Science Interface Initiative, the center facilitates intellectual exchange and scholarly collaboration among humanists, social scientists, and scientists in the exploration of social and scientific values. In its Program for Global Understanding, the center addresses cultural and political issues related to the emergence of a global society.

THE INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES provides distinguished research and teaching in African-American culture and civilization. In addition it has a strongly supportive role in the scholarly mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students and in providing academic services for the Georgia community at large. Through cooperation of departments in coordinating courses in the area, a Certificate in African-American Studies is offered. In addition to the certificate, the program sponsors events that support a quality education. A major in African-American Studies is available through Interdisciplinary Studies.

THE INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH is an interdisciplinary umbrella organization for the social and behavioral sciences on campus. Its constituent centers and research groups include the Center for Family Research, the Center for Research on Deviance and Behavioral Health, the Cognitive Studies Group, and the Survey Research Center. The institute facilitates quality, interdisciplinary research in the behavioral sciences by providing an atmosphere in which scholars from different disciplines from the University's various schools and colleges meet frequently to share information about ongoing research. The institute also administers a Faculty Research Mentoring Program for faculty in the social and behavioral sciences.

THE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH carries out a broad range of research on naturally occurring substances of plant origin, with particular attention to plant species of Georgia and the Southeast. Projects involve research on alkaloids, terpenes, antitumor agents, phytoalexins; the development of new synthetic methods; and the application of modern spectroscopic methods to structure elucidation problems. Research involves the isolation and elucidation of chemical structures of new compounds possibly useful as drugs for the treatment of human disease. The institute serves as a training center for visiting faculty and for postdoctorate and graduate students who are working in natural products research.

THE INSTITUTE OF COMMUNITY AND AREA DEVELOPMENT uses University and contractual resources to provide research, consultation, and other services related to the management of growth and development of communities in Georgia with the objective of improving the quality of life of Georgia citizens. Faculty and staff from fifteen academic disciplines skilled in group process and strategic planning contribute to this mission through technical assistance, workshops, seminars, and specially designed research studies. ICAD publishes its findings and recommendations in monographs, reports, manuals, books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials for community developers and public policy officials at local, regional, and state levels. Among topics included in ICAD's research and consultation are community investment strategies, natural resource management, creative problem solving, recreation technical assistance, growth management, urban and regional planning, and human resource development.

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTINUING JUDICIAL EDUCATION OF GEORGIA, housed at the University of Georgia School of Law, plans and conducts more than 160 seminar days each year for the basic professional development and continuing education of judges and other personnel of the Georgia court system. It maintains an audio-visual library, together with special monographs on judicial practice. It supports participation by selected personnel of the judicial branch in programs conducted by national training agencies. This past year its programs reached more than 3,200 judges and court support personnel.

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION IN GEORGIA was organized in 1965 and is a consortium of the accredited law schools in Georgia and the State Bar of Georgia. Housed in the historic Joseph Henry Lumpkin House and A. G. Cleveland Building, the ICLE offers programs for the general practitioner and the specialist. The majority of the more than 170 live programs are presented in various locations around the state. Many are videotaped and replayed at sites around the state, as well as offered to local bar associations and firms for use in continuing legal education. ICLE co-sponsors with national CLE providers more than 14 live satellite programs a year. In addition to the live programs, the ICLE Print Shop prepared over 120 publications during the last year and distributed more than 39,000 new and reprinted copies of institute publications.

THE INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY, administratively reporting to the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and to the Office of the Vice President for Research, supports and encourages multidisciplinary research and service activities in ecology involving faculty and graduate students from a variety of departments, schools, and research sites. Besides laboratory facilities on campus in the Ecology Building, the institute has excellent research facilities at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. Other field sites include the U.S. Forest Service Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Ogeechee River, Cumberland Island National Seashore, and Sapelo Island, and international sites in Ecuador, Guatemala, the Philippines, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Burkina Faso. The institute supports research in marine and freshwater ecology, thermal ecology, radiation ecology, population and community ecology, ecosystem and landscape ecology, mineral cycling, tropical and temperate forests, old-field dynamics, agroecosystems, conservation ecology, and wetlands. Its service program aids schools, industry, and government in making environmental assessments and teaches short courses in ecology. The institute teaches a full array of ecology courses and offers the Ph.D. in Ecology and the Master of Science in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development.

THE INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION provides numerous services and resources, including a doctoral program in higher education, for the professional development of college administrators and faculty members. The staff works with two- and four-year colleges on curriculum development, program evaluation, institutional research, leadership and management support skills, and overall administrative effectiveness. Under cooperative arrangements with other agencies and institutions, the institute contributes to the development and improvement of higher education throughout the state and the nation. Each year the Faculty Development in Georgia (FDIG) program provides opportunities for ten faculty members in Georgia colleges to continue their graduate education at the University of Georgia. The institute cooperates with the University System of Georgia in its Regents Administrative Development Program and with other educational agencies and organizations in research, assessment, and evaluation projects and in the development of public policy for education beyond high school.