UGA NEWS 10/25/00 No classes Thursday and Friday as the university observes a fall break, but campus offices will remain open. SENIOR JUDGE HORACE WARD RECALLS DESEGREGATION BATTLE: Judge Ward, who 50 years ago sought admission to UGA's School of Law, will talk about the events leading to the desegregation of the university at 4 p.m. Oct. 31 in the Chapel. http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/ward.html ANOTHER READING RESEARCH GRANT: Education professor Steven Stahl will lead a $5.5 million project to improve young children's reading achievement, the third major grant to the College of Education announced in recent weeks. http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/reading.html UGA PROF DEVELOPS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CD-ROM: Computer science professor David Gries has created a new way for students to learn Java programming language. http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/yamacraw_java.html BRANTLEY NAMED ASSOCIATE VP FOR HUMAN RESOURCES: Anthony Brantley, who has held the top human resources position at two North Carolina colleges, has been chosen for the UGA post succeeding Loretta Harper, who went to the University of Utah. http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/vpresources.html "ELEGANT SALUTE" RAISES MONEY FOR GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART: A total of $563,779 was raised by the Friends of the Museum at the biennial event that drew guests from across the state. http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/elegantsalute.html IN THE NEWS ECONOMIC FORECASTER ON STATE ECONOMY: UGA's Jeffrey Humphreys says in the Atlanta Business Chronicle that chances have increased that the Georgia economy will have a "hard landing." http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2000/10/23/story3.html CYBERSITES UGA Today (news Web site) (http://www.uga.edu/news ) Columns (weekly newspaper) (http://www.uga.edu/columns) Georgia Magazine (quarterly magazine) (http://www.uga.edu/gm) Master Calendar (http://www.uga.edu/uc/calendar) National Alumni Association (http://www.uga.edu/alumni) Visitors Center (http://www.uga.edu/visctr/) Career Services Center (http://www.uga.edu/career) The Georgia Fund (http://www.uga.edu/annualfund) University of Georgia (http://www.uga.edu) To sign-on or sign-off of UGANEWS, change your e-mail address or view the archives, visit http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/uganews.html You can also unsubscribe by sending e-mail to [log in to unmask] and typing SIGNOFF UGANEWS in the body (not the subject line) of the note. Send comments and questions about UGANEWS to [log in to unmask] We welcome your feedback. Copyright 2000 University of Georgia. All Rights Reserved
