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There has never been a public referendum on any Georgia state flag, UGA's Ed Jackson of the Vinson Institute of Government tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Georgia state flag changes have been made by the General Assembly, he says.
UGA student Rachel Smith writes an AJC op-ed regarding the unrealistic self-image expectations young girls face in trying to emulate pop stars such as Britney Spears.
Early application deadline creates unprecedented flood of applications in UGA's admissions office, as reported in the Athens Banner-Herald and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jeff Brudney of UGA's School of Public and International Affairs is quoted in an AJC story on President Bush's call for volunteerism.
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."
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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 / LOCAL EMERGENCY READINESS
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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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Kaplan guide rates UGA's career services and academic facilities among best in nation
 The 2003 edition of Kaplan's The Unofficial, (Un)biased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges rated the career services and academic facilities at the University of Georgia among the best in the nation.
"The Kaplan list reaffirms that UGA not only provides a word-class education in top-notch facilities, but is successful in helping students reach their career goals," said Scott Williams, executive director of the university's Career Center. "It further demonstrates how successful UGA Career Center staff have been in assisting students with all aspects of their career development."
 Career Center
UGA biomedical doctoral students selected as ARCS Scholars
The Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute at the University of Georgia has selected eight doctoral students to receive $5,000 scholarships from the Atlanta chapter of the ARCS Foundation, Inc. The students will be recognized for their biomedical and health science studies at an awards banquet in Atlanta on Nov. 21.
ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) was founded by a group of women in Los Angeles in 1958 and is dedicated to helping meet the country’s needs for scientists and engineers by providing scholarships to academically outstanding university students. Since its inception, ARCS has awarded more than $40 million to more than 9,000 university students in the natural sciences, medicine and engineering.
"We are honored that the Atlanta ARCS chapter has chosen to provide support to outstanding graduate students in the biomedical sciences at UGA," said Harry Dailey, BHSI director and ARCS Scholars selection committee chair.
Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute
UGA Center for International Trade and Security receives more than $3 million for weapons of mass destruction research
The Center for International Trade and Security (CITS) at the University of Georgia recently received more than $3 million in new grants and contracts for research on issues surrounding weapons of mass destruction.
CITS has landed a new grant from the Carnegie Corporation and contracts from the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Energy for research on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
School of Public and International Affairs
J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership appoints associate director
The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership at the University of Georgia has appointed Robert (Rob) L. Williams associate director. The appointment was effective August 12.
Since 2000, Williams has been affiliated with UGA’s Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach and the Fanning Institute as a Senior Fanning Fellow. He has also served the university as coordinator of special projects for the Cooperative Extension Service and as associate director for communications at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership
Brooks named continuing education director at UGA's College of Pharmacy
Paul Brooks has been named director of postgraduate continuing education and outreach at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. Brooks joined the faculty in 1995 to direct the development and implementation of the college’s Nontraditional Doctor of Pharmacy program and other distance learning programs.
Prior to coming to the University of Georgia, Brooks was accreditation associate for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), helping promulgate new standards for pharmacy residency training programs and develop a learning system for pharmacy residencies. He has also held faculty appointments with the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy and Duke University Family Medicine.
College of Pharmacy
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
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OTHER UNIVERSITY NEWS
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UGA College of Education, Gwinnett Schools collaborate on program to develop school administrators
UGA education researchers bring virtual solar system program to Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens through November 21
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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NEWS FROM UGA'S SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
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News at Franklin College
Grady News Online
College of Education News Online
School of Law News Online
Terry College of Business News Online
CAES News Center
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ONLINE NEWS PUBLICATIONS
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The Franklin Chronicle Online
Veterinary Medicine News (.pdf format only)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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UGA's Inclement Weather Policy
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Rachel Smith, a Grady College student and intern at Georgia Magazine, will appear on the television show "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday night, Nov. 21.
Smith penned an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Britney Spears and her affect on young girls. In her opinion piece, Smith took issue with remarks made by show host Bill O'Reilly (who in the past has suggested Spears' influence is insignificant) -- and that caught the eye of the show's producers.
"The O'Reilly Factor" airs at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the Fox News Network (Charter Communications channel 57; University Cablevision channel 19).
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ON CAMPUS
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Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Wellness Clinic. Sponsored by the College of Pharmacy. General health screening, including: blood pressure measurement, body fat analysis, weight and body mass index, fasting lipid panel for cholesterol, spirometry for assessing lung function, ultrasound screening for osteoporosis, blood sugar measurement and selected immunizations and flu shots. Appointment required. Fees based on services. 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM. Wellness Clinic, College of Pharmacy. Contact: 542-7230 or wellness@mail.rx.uga.edu.
Blood Drive. Sponsored by the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the American Red Cross. 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Contact: 546-0681, ext.225.
3rd Annual Around the World in Tatey Days. Sponsored by International Student Life. This cultural festival is a showcase of different cultures from around the globe. Free and open to the public. 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Tate Plaza. Contact: 542-5867.
Genetics Seminar: Pathogens, Mutations, Sexual Selection and MHC Diversity. Sponsored by the Genetics Department. 'Epilogue: Ecological Functional Genomics.' Speaker: Dr. Wayne Potts, Department of Biology, University of Utah. 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM. Room C127, Life Sciences Building. Contact: 542-1441 or dells@uga.edu.
Lunch and Learn Series: Home for the Holidays?. Sponsored by Counseling and Psychological Services. Returning home for the holidays can be stressful. This session will discuss ways to cope to get through the very stressful holiday time without losing the joy of the season. Noon - 1:00 PM. Room 145, Tate Student Center. Contact: 542-2273.
Louise McBee Lecture. Sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education. Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Thomas, President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. 1:30 PM. University Chapel, North Campus. Contact: 542-0570 or sheffiel@uga.edu .
GSA Resume / CV Workshop. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association. GSA and the UGA Career Center are presenting a Graduate Student CV / Resume writing workshop. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM. Room 139, Tate Student Center. Contact: gsa@uga.edu.
Guest Artist Recital: Arizona State University Wind Trio. Sponsored by the School of Music. 8:00 PM. Ramsey Concert Hall. Contact: 542-3737.
Graduate & Professional School Forum for Students of Color. Sponsored by Graduate and Professional Scholars (GAPS). Are You A Student of Color Considering Graduate or Professional School? Well come out to 'BRIDGING THE GAPS' A Graduate & Professional School Forum for Students of Color. Come Find Out More About: Graduate School,Law School,Veterinary Medicine, Business School, Personal Essays, Recruitment, Applications, and HOW TO GET IN! Have Your Applications Critiqued! Meet Graduate & Professional Students In Your Field! BRIDGE THE GAP! ALL STUDENTS ARE WELCOME 8:00 PM. Georgia Hall A, Tate Student Center. Contact: calayar@aol.com.
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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 Phases I and II. Conversion of D. W. Brooks Drive to a pedestrian mall from Carlton Street north to West Green Street. Through Monday, March 31, 2003.
Brooks Pedestrian Mall Phase III. The next phase of the conversion of D. W. Brooks Dr. to a pedestrian mall is scheduled to begin this summer at a precise date to be announced. Phase III will cover the section from West Green St. north to Soule St. Through Wednesday, March 31, 2004.
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UGA's 2002 Holiday Schedule
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