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THE ACADEMIC COMPUTING CENTER 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 analyses, research design consultation, and statistical consultation. Assistance is also available for
faculty and students using SPSS and SAS in their own analyses. Contractual arrangements also are made
with public and private agencies for these services.
ACADEMIC SPECIAL PROGRAMS devises and implements innovative techniques to identify, contact,
recruit, and prepare students to succeed and flourish in an increasingly complex and highly technical world.
We strive to provide strong preparation and advisement for college study and lifelong learning. Our mission
is to recruit students who are better prepared to succeed in college. Included in these efforts are programs
and activities which might positively enhance the respect for and acceptance of the University of Georgia by
outstanding students. The office's main programs are the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair the Georgia
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, Advanced Placement Institutes and the District I History Day
Program. The office contributes time and effort in support of the Governor's Honors Program for gifted high
school students, the University's Undergraduate Admissions Office, the International Science and Engineering
Fair, National Junior Science Humanities Symposium and a workshop program for the state's science and
math teachers.
THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS seek and verify new knowledge through research in the
many fields related to agriculture. There are three main stations at Athens, Griffin, and Tifton and seven
research education centers at Attapulgus, Blairsville, Calhoun, Eatonton, Midville, Plains and Savannah.
Research projects are conducted in agricultural and applied economics, biological and agricultural
engineering, crop and soil sciences, animal and dairy science, entomology, environmental sciences, food
science and technology, forest resources, family and consumer sciences, horticulture, plant pathology, and
poultry science.
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER offers a graduate program in artificial intelligence. The center
supports and encourages interdisciplinary research and service activities involving its graduate students and
faculty from several departments and schools. Through its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, its Industrial
Partnership Program, and its research report series, the center promotes the integration of artificial
intelligence technology by industry and government agencies in the state and the nation.
AUXILIARY SERVICES, including the University Bookstore, Campus Transit System, Food Services,
University Golf Course, University Printing, University Vending, and University Parking Services, are
supported by income generated from the sale of merchandise and services to students, faculty, and staff.
Financially self-supporting, these auxiliary units are related to the educational objectives of the University.
Campus Transit System operates a fleet of 41 buses for students, staff, and faculty when the
University is in session. Daytime service is provided on nine routes from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Night
service is provided on three routes Monday through Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Van service
is available for disabled students, staff, and faculty unable to use regularly scheduled buses. Buses
are available to charter for educational-related purposes.
University Bookstore
is a retail facility specializing in textbooks, general books, specialized and general school supplies, computer software and supplies, UGA clothing and novelties, and
convenience items. Books not carried in stock may be procured through special order.
University Food Services seeks to satisfy the food service needs of students, faculty, and staff with
a variety of wholesome foods served at reasonable prices. Four dining facilities--Bolton Hall, Snelling
Hall, Oglethorpe Hall, and Tate Center--are maintained by University Food Services for its customers.
McWhorter Dining Hall serves participants in athletic programs. University Food Services provides
banquet services and catering from the Tate Center facility.
University Golf Course is a teaching and recreational facility available to students, faculty, staff,
alumni, and their dependents, plus conferees. The 18-hole championship course, designed by Robert
Trent Jones, includes driving range, putting greens, and chipping green. "Golfing weather" hours are
weekdays from 8:00 a.m. until sundown, and weekends and holidays from 7:30 a.m. until sundown.
The Pro Shop carries a complete line of golfing equipment and supplies.
University Printing provides quality offset printing services for University offices and departments.
Services include design phototypesetting from manuscript or word processing disk, paste-up,
negative and plate work, press work, and bindery/finishing work. The plant is staffed and equipped
to produce stationery, business cards, office forms, brochures, booklets, programs, posters, journals,
and perfect-bound books. Several sizes and types of presses enable University Printing to produce
everything from simple single-color jobs to sophisticated four-color process work in the quantity
required.
University Vending locates vending machines throughout campus for the benefit of students, faculty,
and staff. The equipment and service are operated and maintained by private contractors. In addition
to food and beverage vending, the program includes coin-operated telephones and change machines.
University Parking Services
provides specified parking lots for commuter students, campus housing
residents, graduate students, faculty, staff, and handicapped persons. In addition to the lots for
registered vehicles, a high-rise parking deck next to the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and
several pay-by-the-hour lots in heavy traffic areas of campus are provided for visitors and to
accommodate University personnel for short periods of time.
THE JAMES C. BONBRIGHT UTILITIES CENTER is a research center that operates out of the Terry College
of Business. The center conducts research and organizes conferences that focus specifically on regulatory
policy as it relates to the electric, natural gas, and telecommunications industries. The center's main goal is
to serve the training and educational needs of industry executives, public utility commissioners, federal, state
and municipal government officials, and researchers in the public and private sectors, including those
associated with universities, and professionals in accounting, finance, and law.
THE HIMAN BROWN AUDIO PRODUCTION CENTER was established in 1988 as part of the College of
Journalism and Mass Communication and named in honor of the man whose radio mystery and adventure
shows earned him the title "Mr. Radio Drama." The center is devoted to education and building a future for
radio drama and audio in general. Its responsibilities include scholarships, curriculum development, grant
procurement, and production of new shows and workshops. It also functions as an archival depository for old
and new shows and a distribution center for audio educational material for middle schools and high schools.
THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED ULTRASTRUCTURAL RESEARCH serves the University System by
providing a repository of facilities and expertise to assist in pursuing and achieving research and instructional
needs employing advanced microscopical instrumentation. A variety of light and electron microscopes as well
as complete darkroom and image processing facilities are available for use. The center assists researchers
from nearly every science-related discipline at UGA and is recognized as a regional asset to scientists
throughout the southeastern United States. The center reports to the Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences and also serves the private sector.
THE CENTER FOR APPLIED ISOTOPE STUDIES is a multidisciplinary, self-supporting research facility
focusing on the use of state-of-the-art technology to resolve current problems. Emphasis is placed on the use
of nuclear analytical tools and methodologies in applied research. The CAIS plays a strong support role on
the UGA campus by assisting academic departments, research units, and individuals with problems related
to instrumentation, methods, and techniques in isotopic analysis. The CAIS also provides analytical services
to the scientific and industrial communities nationally and internationally.
THE CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES promotes and coordinates research between the
humanities--archaeology, anthropology, and art history--and the sciences--geology, geochemistry, chemistry,
and biology. The center coordinates the research of University scholars in fields relating to archaeology and
art history, facilitates collaboration with experts outside the University, serves as a resource center of
laboratory equipment and technical support for archaeologists, art historians, and museums worldwide, and
coordinates interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the archaeological sciences.
THE CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES exists to nurture and guide academic programs and exchanges on Asia
for students, faculty, and appropriate staff members. The programs focus on language and area studies, but
also involve students and faculty from law, business, agriculture, education, journalism, veterinary medicine,
and the arts and sciences. Specific purposes and programs focus on: 1) curriculum planning, review, and
development in modern Asian languages and related area studies; 2) cultural programs and a program of
distinguished Asianist speakers and visitors; 3) student and faculty exchange agreements such as that at
Kagoshima University in Japan; 4) development of library and related instructional and research facilities; 5)
planning and application for external funding for Asian Studies at UGA; and 6) research and research
collaboration on East Asia.
THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE RECOVERY conducts basic research in areas related to the
use of microorganisms in biotechnology and in solving environmental and ecological problems. Center faculty
members represent Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Marine Programs, and Microbiology at the University
of Georgia School of Forestry and the USDA Richard B. Russell Research Center. The center promotes
interaction among members, provides education of pre- and postdoctoral students through seminar programs
and courses, establishes contacts and cooperation with industries and governmental agencies, and seeks
international cooperation.
The center is committed to extending the biotechnology required for the use of microorganisms as
inexpensive and energy-efficient catalysts for converting the earth's main renewable resource, biomass, to
desired products. Studies include biochemistry and genetics of microorganisms that have potential uses in
practical processes related to agriculture, forestry, pulp and paper, and biochemical industries, and that may
be important for ecological and other environmental considerations.
THE CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL QUANTUM CHEMISTRY seeks to develop theoretical and
computational methods through mathematical models for describing and understanding the movement and
function of electrons in molecules and to apply the theoretical methods to significant problems of broad
chemical interest. Areas of current special concern include: (1) the mechanism of chemical vapor deposition,
critical to the fabrication of devices for the microelectronics industry (2) the potential energy hypersurfaces
that govern elementary gas-phase chemical reactions, particularly those important in combustion; (3)
molecular anions of fundamental importance in atmospheric and environmental chemistry; (4) fundamental
problems in physical organic chemistry involving, for example, carbenes and other biradical species and
systems such as [10] annulene; and (5) hydrogen bonding in systems such as the hydrogen fluoride, water,
and methanol oligomers.
THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, an ongoing program of the Department of Social Science
Education with assistance from the Terry College of Business, exists to increase the level of economic literacy
in Georgia through the improvement of economics instruction in Georgia schools. The center provides in-service teacher training, develops instructional materials, and encourages innovation in economic education.
THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
is an interdisciplinary collaboration among
scientists in the School of Marine Programs, the Institute of Ecology, and other units of the University involved
in environmental science. Its major objectives are to develop and apply new biotechnologies to study and
solve environmental problems, to develop protocols for biotechnology risk assessment and improvement of
product efficacy, and to develop long-term linkages between University researchers and industrial users of
bioengineered microbes and other products.
THE
CENTER FOR FAMILY RESEARCH, a component of the Institute for Behavioral Research, is an
interdisciplinary unit of social and behavioral scientists that seeks to promote the understanding of the family
through research. The center facilitates the exchange of information and ideas about family research across
disciplinary boundaries; enhances research efforts of faculty members, including the ability of both emerging
and eminent scholars to obtain extramural funding; and facilitates the development of young scholars.
Colloquia, conferences, and seminars are offered for faculty and students on a regular basis.
THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT in the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences at the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin develops and improves methods for
detecting, enumerating, controlling, and eliminating pathogenic microorganisms in foods. The center develops
methods to quantitate, prevent formation, and eliminate microbial toxins in foods and studies mechanisms
of pathogenicity of food borne pathogens. Center programs also address physical and chemical attributes
affecting quality and storage stability and consumer attitudes and perceptions of food quality.
THE CENTER FOR FOREST
BUSINESS, housed in the Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, was
established in 1997 to integrate the business aspects of forest production and processing with the biological
and ecological requirements of sustainable production. The center provides timely, relevant education,
research, and service programs to business and industry leaders, forest landowners, and students. The
center's mission is to provide national leadership in education, research, and service to the forest industry
and private landowners in the following areas: integration of sound forest business principles and practices
with contemporary biological and quantitative methods to achieve sustainable forest production; investigation
of forest resources and forest industry alternatives that are economically competitive in the global
marketplace; and proposal of market-based solutions to forest resource problems and opportunities. The
center's principal activities will focus on: a graduate program to educate professionals to successfully occupy
senior-level positions in private industry and public organizations: research to improve planning and provide
financial analyses to forest industry and private forest landowners; and service programs to educate
professionals and organizations about the financial, biological and social components of intensive forest
production.
THE CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS promotes scholarly inquiry and creative activity in the
humanities and the arts by supporting faculty research grants, lectures, symposia, publications, visiting
scholars, visiting artists, collaborative instruction, and public conferences, exhibitions, and performances.
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 Initiative for Global Understanding, the center addresses cultural and political issues related to
the emergence of a global society.
THE CENTER FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH conducts research on questions of short-
and long-term interest to the insurance community and provides periodic seminars and conferences on issues
facing the industry. The center also sponsors continuing education programs for the insurance industry in
Georgia and gives financial support to students and faculty of risk management and insurance.
THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND SECURITY
(CITS), is an interdisciplinary and inter-university research, teaching, and service project designed to contribute to enlightened trade and security
policies. CITS produces policy-relevant research on political, economic, and security issues related to
international trade and technology transfer. The center encourages and coordinates collaborative activities
within the University, the state, the nation, and overseas. CITS currently directs international projects in North
America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia.
THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES
(CLACS) coordinates interdisciplinary
research, curriculum offerings, and public programs dealing with Latin America and the Caribbean and
provides lectures, seminars and conferences on campus. Through colloquia, travelogues, cultural events and
outreach, the center brings together faculty from University colleges and schools currently engaged in work
related to this region of the world. An innovative program, Graduate Student Field Research Travel Awards,
allows students to conduct preliminary thesis or dissertation work in Latin America. The Certificate Program
in Latin American Studies serves undergraduate students. With an endowment from the Murphy Foundation,
CLACS operates the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden on campus, with sister gardens in several
countries.
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