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UGA made the right choice on notification policy for student alcohol violations, according to editorials in the Athens Banner-Herald and the Macon Telegraph. Such violations are left to the discretion of student affairs officials rather than making it mandatory.
School of Law professor Roy Carlson says Columbus City officials may be overreacting by enacting a last-minute plan to screen people entering the protest site this weekend at the former School of the Americas. (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
Diversity at the graduate school level is the topic of a lecture given at UGA by Spelman College president Beverly Tatum. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Georgia Athletic Association announces a compensation plan for students in UGA dormitories who've been inconvenienced by construction at Sanford Stadium. Work will be suspended during final exams, and residents of Reed and Payne Halls will receive financial compensation this semester and a rent reduction next semester if they choose to remain in the dorms.
Outgoing Governor Roy E. Barnes announces another round of budget cuts, and school systems, which had previously been spared, may have to share the burden. Barnes' budget team says the cuts are the result of the latest economic reports showing decreasing revenues; teachers' groups say the cuts are retaliation for the election in which Sonny Perdue defeated Barnes.
UGA first-year student Mark Babcock, a life-long stutterer, has overcome that disability with the aid of a unique device, now being used by fewer than 150 people worldwide. Babcock, who is from Marietta, told his story on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday. The device was developed by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution examines the financial plight of Morris Brown College and other historically black colleges and universities across the country.
Grady College public relations professor Ruth Ann Lariscy is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story on a candidate complaining of negative mailers sent by an opponent.
Terry College accounting professor Dennis Beresford has been appointed to the Kimberly-Clark company's board of directors.
UGA religion professor Alan Godlas appears on Voice of America's "Main Street" program discussing burgeoning enrollment in Arabic language courses. (click link to Nov. 12)
Grady College professor Conrad Fink is quoted in the Austin-American Statesman on a Seattle newspaper deal that's in question. The story also appears in the Miami Herald and the Tacoma News Tribune.
A study conducted by UGA's Carl Vinson Institute of Government regarding the needs of Georgia's Latino population is featured in the Athens Banner-Herald.
Gov.-Elect Perdue is backing off the flag issue, reports a national Associated Press story carried in the Salt Lake Tribune and elsewhere; the story quotes UGA political scientist Charles Bullock. Bullock is also quoted in Tom Baxter's Atlanta Journal-Constitution column that the "speaker's chair is not what it used to be."
UGA history professor James C. Cobb writes of the Republican landslide in an AJC op-ed.
UGA professor of wildlife ecology and management Karl V. Miller is the subject of a Field & Stream magazine feature on whitetail deer. He is cited as "one of the most knowledgeable biologists in the country" on the subject.
UGA's Han Park, one of the world's leading experts on Korea and the Far East, has been cited by several major media outlets on developments between the U.S. and North Korea since that country's admission that is has a budding nuclear weapons program, including the New York Times and CNN. He's currently the subject of an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Q&A on the comparisons of U.S. policy toward North Korea and Iraq.
UGA's new CENTAUR Lab is featured on the front page of the Banner-Herald. The lab is a partnership with Spirent Communications.
The Miami Herald quotes UGA turf researcher Ronnie Duncan on eco-friendly grasses used on golf courses.
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25 Years: Women's Studies Program celebrates its anniversary
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The Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education has issued an extensive summary of biotechnical and biomedical initiatives at Atlanta-area institutions of higher education. UGA has many programs which are prominently featured. The full report is available at the ARCHE web site.
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University of Georgia's Physical Master Plan -- Guiding principles for campus growth.
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UGA's Public Safety Division, Environmental Safety Division and the Office of Biosafety have created a web site containing pertinent safety information.
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UGA professor Judith Ortiz Cofer to deliver keynote address at National Council of Teachers of English meeting
On a recent East Coast reading tour, novelist, poet and essayist Judith Ortiz Cofer discovered, in one poignant moment, what writers and writing can mean.
 Cofer, the Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, was visiting a middle school in her hometown of Paterson, N.J. The teacher in one class said they had a surprise for Cofer, and when she counted to three, all the students held up a copy of Cofer’s book An Island Like You, which was required reading in all seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms in the Paterson School District. The moment was deeply moving for Cofer, who was on tour helping colleges and public schools celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
"The thought that these children were reading my stories in the same place I grew up was thrilling," she said. "It was really a crucial moment to me, because they had something I never had when I was growing up there — a literary model, someone like themselves in the books they read. The city is not the most beautiful one, but those students were so full of life. When they grow up, maybe they will tell their stories, too."
Cofer will talk about the importance of education and how reading shapes students when she delivers a keynote address to the National Council of Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta on Thursday, Nov. 21. Her speech will be at the opening banquet of NCTE’s 92nd Annual Convention, which will be held at the Atlanta Hilton and Atlanta Mariott Marquis hotels.
 Creative Writing Program
UGA researcher patents new "lab fish" for assessing harmful chemicals, mutagens in the environment
A University of Georgia researcher has patented a new genetically engineered fish that will allow scientists to examine genetic damage caused by exposure to chemicals and other mutagens in the environment. This is the second such patent for Richard Winn, an aquatic toxicologist in UGA’s Warnell School of Forest Resources. Last year Winn was granted a patent on another fish, a guppie-sized transgenic Japanese medaka, also used for screening the effects of chemical contaminants on the body.
 "We sought to improve the lab methods now being used to assess genetic damage," said Winn. "To that end, we generated genetically modified fish that carry genes that can detect this damage very efficiently."
After exposing the fish to a chemical, researchers look for changes in the target gene’s DNA. The research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, shows remarkably similar responses in fish compared to studies in mice and rats.
Warnell School of Forest Resources
UGA College of Education, Gwinnett Schools collaborate on program to develop school administrators
With projections of more than 125 assistant principal positions to fill over the next few years, you can’t blame Gwinnett County Public School leaders for worrying where they will find enough qualified candidates.
However, they are not worrying quite as much since entering a new collaborative partnership with the University of Georgia College of Education to develop school-based leaders through a leadership program for certification.
A team of instructors from both institutes have planned a program of study for three semesters that will culminate in an L-5 add-on certificate in educational leadership. The program is being directed by Bill Swan, professor of educational leadership at UGA, and Gale Hey, director of staff development for Gwinnett Schools.
College of Education
Legge named associate dean of the School of Public and International Affairs
Jerome S. Legge Jr. a member of the University of Georgia political science faculty since 1980 and a professor in the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has been named associate dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, according to an announcement by Dean Thomas P. Lauth. The appointment is effective immediately, subject to approval by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
"I expect that Dr. Legge’s experience in directing a graduate program, his teaching and research interests that span the fields of the school’s three departments of political science, public administration and policy, and international affairs, and his broad support among faculty colleagues will contribute to his being a very effective member of our management team," Lauth said.
School of Public and International Affairs
UGA education researchers bring virtual solar system program to Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens through November 21
Space. 2002. Or is it?
Some lucky Athens youngsters will find themselves zooming through outer space, but they’ll never actually leave the ground. The solar system has been squeezed into a new computer program for a group of students attending a special after-school program through Nov. 21 on the University of Georgia campus.
Twenty youngsters attending a program sponsored by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens will get a rare opportunity to experience first-hand the creation of a virtual solar system through a computer program run by UGA education researchers.
The Virtual Solar System (VSS) software will allow the fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade students to create and explore their own solar system as they learn about planetary motion and light, said Kenneth Hay, director of the project and a research scientist in the Learning and Performance Support Lab (LPSL) at UGA’s College of Education.
The VSS allows learners to collect information, create dynamic 3-D models of the solar system on the computer, and then explore other areas, such as the phases of the moon, eclipses and seasons. This inquiry-based approach helps learners develop a deeper understanding of astronomy — one that goes far beyond a traditional descriptive or observational level.
Learning and Performance Support Lab
College of Education
UGA professor's journalism textbook translated by Chinese national news agency
A book by Conrad Fink, professor of journalism at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been published in Chinese. Writing Opinion for Impact is a celebration of investigative journalism, inquiring into government and other institutions of society.
China’s national news agency, Xinhua Publishing House, translated the work. "Translation by this official government arm signals a real loosening of government control over the media in China," said Fink.
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
UGA Criminal Justice Studies Program celebrates 25th anniversary with series of events
During the agonizing events surrounding the recent sniper murders, law enforcement officials from all over the country converged on a growing horror. From local sheriffs to forensic experts and state police, men and women worked tirelessly to arrest suspects in the case.
When arrests were announced, a rising chorus of praise honored those involved who were often before the cameras and those whose work took place behind the scenes. The success is part of a new era of professional training, one exemplified by the Criminal Justice Studies Program on the University of Georgia campus, which is now celebrating its 25th anniversary.
"This program was a gateway for me to a career in the study of criminal justice," said Jennifer Graff, now a senior security specialist contracted to the U.S. Department of State. "With the utilization of the education, tools and encouragement offered to me through the staff of the CJSP, I was able to find my place within my field and was fueled with the motivation to get there. Without the direction of staff and peers within the program, it is possible that my career and my future may have taken a different path."
Criminal Justice Studies Program
MRI now available at UGA's College of Veterinary Medicine
Magnetic resonance imaging, the gold standard for medical imaging of human patients, is now available to animals at the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
Imaging is done presently in the hospital with radiography, ultrasonography, nuclear scintigraphy and a state-of-the-art CT scanner, "but MRI takes imaging of dogs and cats one step further," says Dr. Douglas Allen, hospital director.
"We can do a better job of evaluating neurological problems using MRI as opposed to other imaging modalities," Allen added. "It will dramatically improve our ability to diagnose and treat brain lesions and spine lesions, as well as some orthopedic injuries."
MRI usually shows more detail than other methods of imaging. "With MRI we will be able to see subtle distinctions and be able to identify tumors that may not show up on CT images," said neurologist Dr. Marc Kent.
College of Veterinary Medicine
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OTHER UNIVERSITY NEWS
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UGA food scientists to introduce bean-based hush puppies to consumers
UGA student questions why snakes cross roadways
UGA Senior V.P. Hank Huckaby named to governor-elect's transition team; interim leadership appointed for UGA Finance and Administration
CENTAUR Lab opens at UGA October 30
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Friday, November 15
 Men's Basketball
Texas, 9 p.m., New York, N.Y.
Women's Soccer
NCAA, 1st round, TBA, TBA
Swimming & Diving
Clemson, 5 p.m., Athens, Ga.
Women's Volleyball
Kentucky, 7 p.m., Athens, Ga.
Saturday, November 16
Football
Auburn, 3:30 p.m., Auburn, Ala.
Cross Country
NCAA South Regional Championships, TBA, Knoxville, Tenn.
Swimming & Diving
Emory, 11 a.m., Athens, Ga.
Sunday, November 17
Women's Soccer
NCAA, 2nd round, TBA, TBA
Women's Volleyball
South Carolina, 1:30 p.m., Athens, Ga.
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ON CAMPUS
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Friday, November 15, 2002
America Recycles Day: Landfill on the Lawn. Sponsored by Students for Environmental Awareness. Students for Environmental Awareness will be sorting through a huge pile of trash from North Campus, separating everything recycleable from the stuff that's not. Come see how much stuff you thow away can actually be recycled! 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Tate Center lawn. Contact: www.uga.edu/sea; jholla@arches.uga.edu.
Friday Speaker Series-Panel Discussion: 25 Years of Women's Studies at UGA. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program. Reception immediately following panel. 12:20 PM - 1:10 PM. Room 137, Tate Student Center. Contact: 542-2846.
Environmental Ethics Colloquium. Sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts. Speaker: David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College. 2:00 PM. Reception Hall, Tate Student Center. Contact: 542-3966 or ctrha@uga.edu.
Georgia Museum of Natural History: Friday Tours. Explore the bird, fish, insect, mammal, and zooarchaeology collections and get a glimpse of all the exciting work that goes on at the Museum. Open to the public; more suitable for groups with children over 5 years old. Tour group size is limited; for groups of 8 or more, please call to make arrangements. Tours last approximately 1 hour and are free. 4:00 PM. Natural History Building. Contact: 542-1663 or musinfo@uga.edu.
Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving vs. Clemson. 5:00 PM. Ramsey Student Center, Gabrielsen Natatorium.
Graduate Recital: Kate Jenkins. Sponsored by the School of Music. 6:30 PM. Edge Recital Hall. Contact: 542-3737.
Volleyball vs. Kentucky. 7:00 PM. Ramsey Center.
UGA Observatory: Public Viewing. Sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. If the night is clear, those attending will be able to look through the telescope at the stars. If it's cloudy, there will be a brief talk on an area of astronomy that is of current interest. Persons with special needs should call 542-2485 in advance. 7:00 PM. Physics Building. Contact: 542-STAR.
Men's Basketball: Georgia vs. Texas in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Following completion of the Villanova vs. Marquette game. ESPN2-TV. Approximately 9:00 PM. Madison Square Garden, New York City.
Symposium: Early Italian Art: 1250-1450. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and the Association of Graduate Art Students. This international conference is in conjunction with the current exhibitions Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Colelctions, Drawing in Renaissance and BaroqueSiena: 16th- and 17th-Century Drawings from Sienese Collections, and Italian Drawings from the Collection of Giuliano Ceseri. Includes lectures by national and international scholars from Harvard University, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Washington and Lee University, the National Gallery of Art, and the University of Oslo. Through Saturday, November 16, 2002. Georgia Museum of Art. Contact: 542-4662.
Soccer: NCAA First and Second Round Regionals. Campus sites to be announced. Through Sunday, November 17, 2002.
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CONSTRUCTION ADVISORIES
UPDATED 11/3/02
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Baldwin Street Pedestrian Improvements. Work continues on sidewalks, staircases and landscaping with scheduled completion approximately Nov. 30. Pedestrians are urged to exercise caution near the construction zone. Through Saturday, November 30, 2002.
Brooks Pedestrian Mall Phase II. Phase II of the conversion of D. W. Brooks Dr. to a pedestrian mall continues. The road is now permanently closed south of its intersection with W. Green St. Through Tuesday, December 31, 2002.
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