IN THE NEWS
Compiled by Laurie Anderson
Pratt Cassity was quoted in a November 22nd
issue of the Atlanta
Business Chronicle about East Atlanta revitalization. An influx
of young professionals in the East Lake, Kirkwood and Oakhurst communities
have recently caused restored home prices in the area to soar. Cassity
noted that property values rise when a historic district is protected.
Ian Firth was quoted in Thomas
Jefferson's Poplar Forest Fall 2002 newsletter. The bi-annual
newsletter is published by the Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest
(CJPF). Firth has for three years served as the chairman on Poplar Forest's
landscape advisory panel. The summer of 2002, archeologists uncovered
evidence of a 540 yard circular road centered around Jefferson's octagonal
house. Archeologists have been looking for the road for 10 years.
Laurie Fowler was featured in the December
2002 issue of Georgia Trend magazine and was invited to speak
about the college's innovative interdisciplinary course, the Etowah Practicum,
at the University of California at Davis and the University Of Alaska,
Spring 2003. The practicum, which is co-taught by Mary
Freeman, Elizabeth Pate, David Gattie, Alex Scherr and this spring
Marianne Cramer, was also featured in an invited
symposium at the annual Ecological Society of America meeting in Tucson
in August 2002. Fowler was also quoted in the January 6, 2003 business
section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a proposal before
the state legislature to streamline the transfer of development rights.
Paul Hendrix was quoted in the online edition
of National
Geographic in early January regarding invasive earthworm species.
James Porter and Kathryn Patterson's
coral reef research and the international attention it garnered this past
summer was spotlighted in an October 7, 2002 article in the Athens
Banner-Herald and on the cover of the December issue of Georgia
Magazine. Porter’s work made headlines after it was published
in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Columbus Business First newspaper of Columbus, OH, mentioned
the University of Georgia as one of several universities across the nation
participating in the U.S. Green
Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
certification program. The program promotes buildings that are environmentally
responsible and cost-effective, with greater emphasis on energy and water
management.
The University of Georgia was again named one of America’s top 20
public universities by U.S.
News & World Report, which annually ranks colleges and universities.
UGA is tied for 18th — the same position it held in the 2002 rankings
— with the University of Maryland at College Park.
This page last updated June 23, 2003.
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