UGA NEWS
TOPPING THE CHARTS: Former UGA track star Debbie Ferguson has been
named one of the top eight student-athletes in the country by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association. She is the third
student-athlete from UGA to make that list in the last three years.
Football player Matt Stinchcomb and swimmer Lisa Coole were
previously honored. Ferguson, a UGA Presidential Scholar, is
currently training for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/front2.html
TERRY COLLEGE MBA PROGRAM RANKED: In a first-ever ranking by Forbes
Magazine of MBA programs for "return on investment," UGA's Terry
College of Business ranked 11th among the nation's top regional
business schools. To calculate the worth of an MBA, Forbes compared
the salary gains generated by having an MBA to the cost of getting
it. According to that calculation, Terry MBA alumni were able to
recoup all of their investment (in foregone salary and tuition) in
just four years of net income gain after graduation. In another MBA
ranking, the London-
based Financial Times rated the Terry College 59th internationally and
16th among public U.S. business schools.
http://www.uga.edu/news/news.bureau/releases/releases2K/forbesrank.html
TOWN-GOWN RELATIONS: President Michael F. Adams spoke to the Athens
Rotary Club and the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce last week about
ways to build on and strengthen town-gown relations. The "fates and
fortunes" of the university and its surrounding communities are
virtually inseparable, he said.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/campnews1.html
RESEARCH
UGA LEADS COASTAL STUDY: With a grant from the National Science
Foundation, UGA will spearhead a six-year, $4.2 million project
focused on Sapelo Island and the Altamaha River. The new study will
extend the work of a current multi-year project that examined the
complex ecosystems and potential environmental problems of five
Georgia rivers.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/campnews2.html
GENETICIST PUBLISHES PIONEER WORK: UGA geneticist John Avise, a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, has written the first
textbook in a field he helped found and develop. The book,
Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species (Harvard
University Press), is about the geographical distribution of
genealogical lineages.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/campnews.html
EVENTS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: A university-wide celebration of Black History
Month, kicked off by King Week activities, will extend throughout
February and include a March 1 performance by the critically
acclaimed Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble at the Classic Center
Theater in downtown Athens.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/front3.html
IN THE NEWS
HUMANS IMPACT BIRD SPECIES: Clearing even isolated patches in a
forest can have a devastating impact on birds, according to Amber
Keyser, a UGA geneticist, who is quoted in an ABC News story about an
astonishing decline in bird species.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dyehard000119.html
STORM CUTS POWER: UGA's David Stooksbury, who serves as the state's
climatologist, was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer about
Georgia's "icing event" of the past week. Stooksbury, whose comments
were circulated nationally via the Associated Press, noted that
falling pine trees were the source of widespread power outages.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/25/national/ICE25.htm
DANCE MARATHON EXCEEDS GOAL: "The Marathon" the annual student-run
fundraising event organized by University of Georgia students
exceeded its goal at this past weekend's 24-hour dance-a-thon --
despite the freezing rain and ice which plagued Athens and other
parts of the south. The Athens Daily News reports that The Marathon,
the state's largest student-run philanthropy raised more than
$135,000 this year.
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/013100/stu_0131000011.shtml
PASSING
DAVID RANDOLPH, a professor in the School of Music and noted
authority on the tuba and euphonium, died Jan. 22. Contributions can
be made to a scholarship fund in his name.
http://www.uga.edu/columns/current/campnews3.html
SPOTLIGHT
UGA AT OXFORD: UGA is the first public university in America with a
year-round residency program at England's venerable Oxford
University. A Georgia Magazine article follows students who
participated in the program fall semester.
http://www.uga.edu/gm/1299/FeatOxford.html
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