2008 Woodie Awards
UGA Today
Issue date: 3/26/08 Section: News
- Study Abroad Information Session. Sponsored by University Studies Abroad in the South Pacific and Caribbean. Learn how to earn Univ. credit while traveling in Antarctica, Australia, Belize, Fiji, New Zealand or the United Kingdom. Programs offered year round and suitable for any major. Spaces still available in summer programs.
www.uga.edu/oie/southpacific. 6 to 7 p.m. 250 Student Learning Center. Contact:
706-542-9713, pacific@uga.edu
- Doug McKillip to speak. Join the University/ACC Young Democrats for pizza and discussion on the current legislative session, led by State Representative Doug McKillip (D-Athens). 6 p.m., SLC 348. Contact: lelrod@uga.edu
- Meeting: University Research Foundation board. 10 a.m. Hilton Garden Inn.
- Lecture: The San - A Traditional Culture in Southern Africa. Sponsored by African American Studies, African Studies and the African American Cultural Center. Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Ph.D. student, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, speaks as part of the APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture Series. 12:15 p.m. African American Cultural Center, Memorial Hall, 4th floor. Contact: fsgiles@uga.edu
- Lecture: Managing Your Finances as a Graduate Student. Sponsored by Graduate School Professional Development Seminars. Lance Palmer, assistant professor in the department of housing and consumer economics, delivers the lecture. 3:30 p.m. 348 Student Learning Center. Contact: janeb@uga.edu
- Norman H. Giles Distingished Lecture: Fungi vs. the Immune System: War Between the Worlds. Sponsored by the Genetics Department. Dr.Gerald Fink, department of biology at MIT, delivers the lecture. 4 p.m. C127 Life Sciences Building. Contact: 706-542-8000
- Rules of Nature, Rules of Life. Sponsored by the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, faculty of environmental studies at Evergreen State College, gives the talk. Her research is focused on the ecology of tropical and temperate forest canopies, particularly the role that canopy-dwelling plants play in forests at the ecosystem level. She carries out field research with the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. 4 to 5 p.m. Odum School of Ecology auditorium. Contact: 706-542-0935,
dorindad@uga.edu
- Lecture: Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory. Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics. Bjorn Poonen, UC Berkeley, surveys some of his favorite problems in number theory, such as Fermat's last theorem (solved). This lecture is aimed at a general audience. This is the first lecture of the 14th Annual Cantrell Lectures. Refreshments 3:30 p.m., lecture 4 to 5 p.m. 202 Physics Building. Contact:
lorenzini@math.uga.edu
- Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com.
Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis.
www.uga.edu/oie/southpacific. 6 to 7 p.m. 250 Student Learning Center. Contact:
706-542-9713, pacific@uga.edu
- Doug McKillip to speak. Join the University/ACC Young Democrats for pizza and discussion on the current legislative session, led by State Representative Doug McKillip (D-Athens). 6 p.m., SLC 348. Contact: lelrod@uga.edu
- Meeting: University Research Foundation board. 10 a.m. Hilton Garden Inn.
- Lecture: The San - A Traditional Culture in Southern Africa. Sponsored by African American Studies, African Studies and the African American Cultural Center. Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Ph.D. student, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, speaks as part of the APERO Africana Brown Bag Lecture Series. 12:15 p.m. African American Cultural Center, Memorial Hall, 4th floor. Contact: fsgiles@uga.edu
- Lecture: Managing Your Finances as a Graduate Student. Sponsored by Graduate School Professional Development Seminars. Lance Palmer, assistant professor in the department of housing and consumer economics, delivers the lecture. 3:30 p.m. 348 Student Learning Center. Contact: janeb@uga.edu
- Norman H. Giles Distingished Lecture: Fungi vs. the Immune System: War Between the Worlds. Sponsored by the Genetics Department. Dr.Gerald Fink, department of biology at MIT, delivers the lecture. 4 p.m. C127 Life Sciences Building. Contact: 706-542-8000
- Rules of Nature, Rules of Life. Sponsored by the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, faculty of environmental studies at Evergreen State College, gives the talk. Her research is focused on the ecology of tropical and temperate forest canopies, particularly the role that canopy-dwelling plants play in forests at the ecosystem level. She carries out field research with the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. 4 to 5 p.m. Odum School of Ecology auditorium. Contact: 706-542-0935,
dorindad@uga.edu
- Lecture: Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory. Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics. Bjorn Poonen, UC Berkeley, surveys some of his favorite problems in number theory, such as Fermat's last theorem (solved). This lecture is aimed at a general audience. This is the first lecture of the 14th Annual Cantrell Lectures. Refreshments 3:30 p.m., lecture 4 to 5 p.m. 202 Physics Building. Contact:
lorenzini@math.uga.edu
- Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com.
Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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