UGA Today

President Michael F. Adams is quoted in The Tennessean on the value of the HOPE Scholarship being merit-based rather than having a needs test. Tennessee passed a state lottery for education earlier this month.

UGA's Lehr Brisbin, senior research scientist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, is interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered."

UGA history professor Robert Pratt is quoted in a national Associated Press story, carried in the Washington Times and elsewhere, on home schooling among black families. He says black parents should work to improve public schools: "I don't see pulling your child out of the school system as much of a solution."

UGA Regents Professor Jeremy Kilpatrick in mathematics education was quoted in a story about numbers and the mind on "The Infinite Mind," a weekly National Public Radio program. Kilpatrick, who led a panel that wrote a 2001 National Research Council report called "Adding It Up," said that too few students are leaving schools with adequate mathematical skills "for the nation to be satisfied with the condition of school mathematics today."

UGA hydrologist Todd Rasmussen is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution feature on poultry industry effluent threatening the North Georgia water supply. UGA research professor Judy Meyer disscusses in the same feature potential solutions to the poultry waste problem, which could be economically viable.

The Athens Banner-Herald quotes UGA professor of foods and nutrition Richard Lewis on the nutritional value of soy in reducing bone loss.

UGA pecan specialist Darrell Sparks is quoted in an AP article on recent wet weather taking a toll on this year's pecan crop.

The AJC quotes UGA livestock economist Curt Lacy on difficulties faced by alpaca breeders in developing a market.

A columnist for India's Rediff newspaper writes about his U.S. travels during which he led discussions on world terrorism. B. Raman participated in a program at UGA sponsored by the school's Center for International Trade and Security.

Athens could become a focal point for cancer research and outreach under a proposal by UGA biochemistry professor Michael Pierce. (ABH)

Dr. Elmer Gray is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about West Nile virus. Gray is a medical and veterinary entomologist at UGA.

UGA plant pathologist Jean Williams-Woodward is quoted in a front-page AJC story on a fungus that is damaging daylilies.

T h ere has never been a public referendum on any Georgia state flag, UGA's Ed Jackson of the Vinson Institute of Government tells the AJC. 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.