Posted on 08/06/2007 3:45:49 AM PDT by GOP_Raider
I’ve read “Ironbowl,” and attended quite a few myself. When I lived in Birmingham, burglars in moving vans used to cruise upscale neighborhoods looking for unoccupied houses to clean out during the game.
Robert Grubbs, last year's Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is a University of Florida graduate.
LOL..I’ve long thought I’d like one day to attend an SEC game...For years I’ve gone to games at West Point, which may just be the finest venue for seeing a football game, along with the whole ambience, tradition...the location on the Hudson...the cadets..it’s magical..
What’s education got to do with football? LOL
Georgia’s receivers set to impress
By CHIP TOWERS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/06/07
Athens — To see them huddled around Georgia wide receivers coach John Eason is to witness a who’s who of blue-chip prospects.
Among the dozen are five consensus high school All-Americans, two that were top-ranked at their position in North Carolina in back-to-back years, one that was ranked No. 1 in the nation and one that was an All-American in football and track. All 12 were at least first-team all-state, all of them are fast and lean and most of them, at this point, are experienced.
The wide receivers, impressive credentials aside, are the most questioned and criticized group of players on the Bulldogs’ football team.
Over the past couple of seasons, Georgia’s receivers have been vilified for dropping passes and condemned for not living up to their billings. Even the Bulldogs’ head coach is somewhat baffled by their lack of production to date.
“I do expect our receivers to play better,” Mark Richt said as the Bulldogs opened preseason camp this weekend. “They expect to play better. We have four seniors coming back, three juniors. I mean it’s time for them to play not only good but great.”
That’s the attitude of the wide receivers themselves.
“We’ve got a lot to prove this year,” senior flanker A.J. Bryant said. “We want to get everybody off our backs.”
When the subject turns to the criticism that they endured last season, the wideouts’ emotions range from concern to disbelief to anger to dogged determination.
“We’re looking at it as 2007,” junior Mohamed Massaquoi said tersely. “New season, new beginning. Let’s leave it at that.”
Said senior Mikey Henderson: “We’re all competitors. [The criticism] has only brought us closer together. We know fans are going to get on us if we don’t perform. That’s fine; that’s the way it’s supposed to be at Georgia. But we aim to change it.”
Here is the raw data: Georgia passed for 2,397 yards last season. Of those yards, sophomore quarterback Matthew Stafford passed for 82 percent of them. Sixty-nine percent of those receiving yards are back this season, including Massaquoi, who tied for the team lead with 30 receptions. Six of the Bulldogs’ top eight receivers are back.
Added to that group is senior split end Sean Bailey, who missed all of last season with a torn ACL. Before that Bailey had seven career touchdown catches and was the Bulldogs’ No. 1 deep threat.
“We definitely have the talent,” said Bailey, who had two long touchdown receptions in the 2005 SEC championship game before being sidelined with a knee injury. “We’re extremely, extremely deep. I think that’s going to make us that much better because we’re going to be competing every day for a starting job.
“We’re hungry. We’re ready to go out there and prove ourselves and get all these people off our backs.”
The whole group has been in Athens for voluntary workouts this summer. There they ran routes and caught passes several times a week from Stafford and Georgia’s other quarterbacks.
“I think they’re going to have a breakout year, to be perfectly honest,” Stafford said Saturday. “I’ve seen what they can do. I think they’re welcoming the pressure. They had a great spring. We didn’t drop one ball in the spring game. They’re playing with a ton of confidence and I have total trust in those guys. They’ve grown up a lot this offseason, and I’m ready to watch them make some plays for us.”
That goes double for the receivers.
“There’s definitely a chip on our shoulder,” Bailey said. “Any time you have critics out there saying things, you want to go out and prove them wrong. We use it as motivation. But we still have to play within ourselves and can’t let it get to us. We just want to be consistent and have fun.”
There’s a good chance they’ll get to display their wares. Despite their past woes, Richt views them as a team strength. And with a combination of a lack of depth and experience at tight end and talent at quarterback, the Bulldogs are considering utilizing four-receiver sets often this season.
The receivers are hoping to force Richt’s hand.
“That’s what we’re shooting for,” Henderson said. “Not to knock our tight ends, because we have great ones and have always had great ones here. But we’d love to have four wides out there getting open for Matthew. He has an unbelievable arm and we want him to use it.”
Not an alum, but a former faculty member who got “bit” when I moved to Auburn. Still live in the lovliest village.
UGA Points of Pride
updated January 2007
Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly Jan. 27, 1785, in Savannah, The University of Georgia is America’s first state chartered university and the birthplace of the American system of public higher education.
Two men who were leaders of the early University of Georgia also signed the United States Constitution. Abraham Baldwin, who wrote UGA’s charter and was the institution’s first president, and William Few, a member of the Board of Trustees, signed the Constitution on behalf of Georgia at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1787.
UGA is tied for 21st in U.S. News & World Report’s 2006 list of the 50 top public universities in America. The rankings are based on such factors as academic reputation, student retention, faculty resources, student selectivity and financial resources.
U.S. News and World Report ranks UGA 7th among public universities and 45th among all universities on its 2006 “Great Schools, Great Prices” list for national universities. The rankings relate a school’s academic quality to the net cost of attending.
Kiplinger’s magazine ranks UGA 10th on its list of best values among 100 public colleges and universities in America. Schools on the list—chosen on the basis of academic quality, cost and financial aid—are places that “combine outstanding economic value with a first-class education,” according to the magazine.
UGA is 9th among 345 public and private colleges on the Princeton Review’s “Best Academic Bang for your Buck” list. The rankings are based on an analysis of academic and cost-related factors.
Because about 98 percent of in-state first-year students come to UGA on the HOPE Scholarship, which covers tuition costs, the University was ranked by Money Magazine as one of nine “unbeatable deals” nationwide where students can attend college tuition-free. The magazine also listed UGA as the 6th overall best buy in the Southeast, and 27th in the nation, among some 1,100 institutions evaluated
The Wall Street Journal included UGA among 16 “Hot Schools” that are drawing increased attention from students and families because of cost, safety and academic quality advantages.
UGA is 10th on Princeton Review’s 2004 list of the 25 Most Connected Campuses, a ranking of universities with the best technological capabilities for teaching, learning and communicating.
Nine active, retired or deceased University faculty members have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors an American scientist can attain. Those elected to the Academy are Dr. Norman Allinger, retired professor emeritus of chemistry; Dr. Wyatt Anderson, professor of genetics; Dr. Brent Berlin, Graham Perdue Professor of anthropology; Dr. Jeffrey Bennetzen, Giles/GRA Professor of molecular genetics; the late Dr. Glenn Burton, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of agronomy; the late Dr. Lois Miller, Research Professor of entomology and genetics; the late Dr. Eugene Odum, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of zoology and Callaway Professor Emeritus of ecology; the late Dr. Norman Giles, Callaway Professor Emeritus of genetics; and Dr. Susan Wessler, Research Professor of botany and genetics.
Four UGA alumni have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. They are Wyatt Anderson, professor of genetics at UGA; Cynthia Kenyon, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco; Cori Bargmann, a professor at Rockefeller University in New York City; and Alfred Blalock, who, as chief surgeon at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the 1940s, developed a surgical technique to treat “blue-baby syndrome.”
Two faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest distinctions in the field of engineering. They are Dr. S. Edward Law, the D. W. Brooks Professor of biological and agricultural engineering, and Dr. Stuart O. Nelson, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering.
Michael Doyle, professor of food science and director of the Center for Food Safety, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, the medical equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
Eight active, retired or deceased faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most distinguished learned societies. Those elected to the Academy are Dr. Wyatt Anderson, professor of genetics; Dr. Brent Berlin, Graham Perdue Professor of anthropology; the late Dr. Norman Giles, Callaway Professor Emeritus of genetics; Dr. Stephen Hubbell, Distinguished Research Professor of plant biology; the late Dr. Hugh Kenner, Callaway Professor Emeritus of English and Franklin Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences; Dr. William McFeely, retired Abraham Baldwin Professor of humanities; the late Dr. Eugene Odum, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of zoology and Callaway Professor Emeritus of ecology, and Dr. Henry Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of chemistry.
UGA received a total of $140.1 million in research awards, grants and contracts in fiscal year 2006. Research expenditures in FY06 totaled $323.9 million.
The University libraries, with more than 4 million volumes, are ranked among the top third of the nation’s best 113 research libraries in ratings compiled by the Association of Research Libraries. The libraries contain one of the largest map collections in the United States; the main library houses the original Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
Fifteen internationally known authorities have joined UGA’s faculty as eminent scholars under the Georgia Research Alliance. The GRA — a consortium of state government, private industry and six Georgia universities — provides funding for leading scientists and scholars whose research and development work will benefit the state’s economy. UGA’s eminent scholars are:
Clifton Baile, an expert in the molecular bases of energy balance regulation and growth
Bruce Beck, an expert on environmental systems and water quality
Jeffrey Bennetzen, a molecular geneticist who specializes in plant genome structure and plant breeding and genetic engineering
Stephen Dalton, a researcher in molecular biosciences who specializes in work with embyronic stem cells
Roberto Docampo, a cellular biology expert whose research focuses on metabolic pathways in parasites that cause deadly diseases such as malaria and African sleeping sickness
Michael Hannafin, an authority in the use of technology for teaching and learning
Steven Knapp, a plant geneticist who specializes in research on plants with high economic and commercial benefits
Robert Maier, a specialist in the field of microbial physiology
Egbert Mundt, a leading researcher in poultry vaccines whose work was critical to development of a new diagnostic test for avian influenza.
Vasu Nair, an expert on the chemistry and chemical biology of molecules that help fight diseases caused by viruses, who is also director of the Drug Discovery Division in the College of Pharmacy
James Prestegard, an authority on the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the structure and dynamics of biological systems
Steven Stice, a leader in the field of transgenics—the science of manipulating or altering genes that allows for cloning and other genetic engineering techniques
Ralph Tripp, a specialist in vaccine development and treatment approaches for respiratory virus infections
B.C. Wang, a leading researcher in the field of x-ray crystallography
Ying Xu, an authority in computational biology and bioinformatics with special expertise in protein structure prediction and modeling
Enrollment for fall semester 2006 totalled 33,959–the second-highest in UGA history.
The 4,681 new freshmen who enrolled in the fall of 2006 had an SAT average of 1228 and a high school grade point average of 3.76. The SAT average is 238 points above the state average and 207 points above the national average.
Of the new freshmen who enrolled in the summer and fall of 2006, about 85 percent were Georgia residents and about 98 percent of the Georgia freshmen received the HOPE Scholarship. Altogether, for the current academic year, a total of 16,837 UGA students in all classes has HOPE Scholarships with a total value of $81.3 million. Since the HOPE Scholarship program was established in 1993, a total of 73,431 students has received scholarships worth a total of $668 million.
The 232 first-year students who enrolled in the School of Law in 2006 had a median score on the Law School Admission Test of 163, placing them in the top 10 percent of test-takers nationwide.
UGA students annually receive some of the most prestigious scholarships awarded to American undergraduates. In 2005-2006, four students received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, giving UGA a total of 30 Goldwater recipients in the last 11 years. A student also was chosen a 2007 Marshall Scholar—the fourth consecutive year a UGA student has won this scholarship. Other scholarships UGA students have received in previous years include the Rhodes Scholarship (19 total recipients), Harry S. Truman Scholarship (13 recipients), Gates Cambridge Scholarship (4 recipients) and Andrew K. Mellon Fellowship (4 recipients).
The first Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the state of Georgia was founded at UGA in 1914. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization in America. Only 270 colleges and universities have a chapter.
The University’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication administers the Peabody Awards program. Often cited as the most prestigious award in electronic media, the Peabody Awards recognize excellence, distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, cable television organizations, producing organizations and individuals. The Peabody archives, housed at UGA, contain some of the best radio and television programs produced in the last six decades.
The UGA chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band service fraternity was named top chapter among 179 chapters in the nation for the two-year span 2003-2005. The chapter is the first chapter at a Southeastern Conference school to win the honor in the last 25 years. In 2000, UGA’s Redcoat Band received the Sudler Trophy, the highest honor awarded to a college marching band. The Redcoats were the first band in the SEC to win the trophy.
In May of 2006, the Redcoat Band made a two-week concert tour in China, performing in five cities before thousands of people. The Redcoats are the first U.S. college band ever to give a marching band performance in China.
UGA and Delta Air Lines have created the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, an annual award that recognizes individuals or groups whose initiatives have promoted peace and cooperation among cultures and nations of the world. Delta Air Lines gave UGA an $890,000 grant to create the award, which consists of a $10,000 cash prize and an original work of art. Recipients of the award include former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev; Vaclav Havel, first president of the Czech Republic; and CNN founder Ted Turner.
The 76,481 fans who watched the women’s Olympic Gold Medal soccer game in Sanford Stadium Aug. 1, 1996, was at the time the largest number of people ever to attend a women’s sports event.
Excellence and balance have been trademarks of UGA athletics. Athletic teams have won 25 national championships, including 15 since 1999. The championships include: seven in women’s gymnastics (1987, 1989, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2005 and 2006); four in men’s tennis (1985, 1987, 1999, 2001); four in women’s swimming and diving (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005); two in women’s tennis (1994, 2000); two in football (1942, 1980); two in women’s equestrian (2003, 2004); two in men’s golf (1999, 2005); and one each in baseball (1990) and women’s golf (2001).
UGA is 9th in the 2006 Directors’ Cup standings, the annual ranking of the nation’s best all-around collegiate athletics programs.
Sports Illustrated ranks UGA 6th on its list of best colleges for women athletes. UGA has more than 250 female athletes on its 12 women’s varsity teams, and also has 27 club sports for women.
Swimmer Samantha Arsenault won the NCAA Today’s Top VIII Award in 2006. Presented by the NCAA Honors Committee, the award recognizes the nation’s top eight student athletes for outstanding achievement in athletics, academics and leadership. This is the seventh time in the last nine years that a UGA student athlete has received this honor. Previous UGA recipients are the late Lisa Coole (swimming, 1997), Matt Stinchcomb (football, 1998), Debbie Ferguson (track, 1999), Kristy Kowal (swimming, 2000), Kimberly Black (swimming, 2001) and Jon Stinchcomb (football, 2002). Football player Terry Hoage won the honor in 1984 when it was called the NCAA TOP VI Award.
Kristy Kowal and Kimberly Black also were chosen NCAA Woman of the Year in 2000 and 2001 in recognition of excellence in athletics, academics and community service. The late Lisa Coole won the honor in 1997.
UGA ranks 9th among the top 20 research universities in the number of students studying abroad. Nearly 29 percent of UGA undergraduates are involved in some form of international education each year. Many participate in study abroad and student exchange programs UGA conducts in 61 countries. UGA is 2nd in the number of students who travel on short-term study abroad.
Private giving to UGA soared to $108.3 million in FY06, a 12 percent increase over the previous year and the first time private donations exceeded $100 million. The gifts and pledges helped raise total support for UGA’s Archway to Excellence campaign to more than $460 million toward the campaign goal of $500 million.
Bernard Ramsey, who died in July of 1996, was UGA’s most generous benefactor. His total contributions to the University of about $44.7 million included an $18.8 million bequest — the single largest gift ever made to UGA. The Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Physical Activities Center is named for Mr. Ramsey and his late wife.
The Terry College of Business is named for alumnus C. Herman Terry, who died in June 1998, and his wife Mary Virginia Terry. Mr. and Mrs. Terry provided a $6 million gift that allowed the college to establish an endowment that supports outstanding business college faculty members and provides scholarships for top business students.
The late Charles A. Wheatley, an Americus businessman, made contributions to the University exceeding $10 million. Wheatley’s contributions include a $1.1 million bequest in his will, plus earlier gifts of stock in his engineering company and more than 3,000 acres of land valued at $8.5 million.
The UGA Athletic Association supports the University’s high educational goals for students through an ongoing $1 million pledge for academic scholarships, and an additional commitment of $1 million to be used at the University’s discretion. The Vincent J. Dooley Library Endowment Fund, established by UGA’s former athletic director, totals more than $2.9 million.
UGA’s undergraduate program in landscape architecture is ranked 1st in the country and the graduate program is 3rd in rankings compiled by Design Intelligence, a publication of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The graduate program in ecology is tied for 8th in rankings by U.S. News & World Report. All the programs are in the College of Environment and Design.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Terry College of Business’s MBA program 46th among more than 350 accredited MBA programs in the country. Among public universities, UGA’s program is tied for 23rd, and is 4th among public universities in the Southeast. The rankings are based on reputation, student selectivity, placement success, faculty resources and research activity.
A ranking by Forbes Magazine that measures return on investment for MBA degrees rates the Terry program in the top 50 nationally and 18th among programs at public institutions.
Business Week includes the Terry College MBA program among the 50 best business schools, and among the top 20 schools at public institutions, based on a survey of graduates and corporate recruiters.
Business Week ranks the Terry College’s undergraduate program 40th among the 84 best business programs in the country, and 17th among business schools at public institutions.
A 2006 Wall Street Journal ranking of MBA programs based on opinions and survey responses of corporate recruiters rates the Terry College 43rd in the regional schools category. Among all U.S. public business schools, the Terry College ranks 25th.
The Financial Times of London lists the Terry MBA program 56th among global MBA programs and 11th among public U.S. business schools. The Terry program is ranked 3rd in “value for money” in the United States.
The U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship gave the Terry College doctoral program in entrepreneurship its National Model Program Award for Excellence. Entrepreneurship Magazine includes Terry College in its list of 50 Top Entrepreneurship Colleges.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Terry College graduate program in accounting 24th in a reputational survey. The college’s Tull School of Accounting is 13th among graduate accounting programs in a survey conducted by CPA Personnel Report.
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Terry graduate program in management information systems 13th.
In U.S. News & World Report rankings of undergraduate “Best Business Programs,” the Terry College is tied for 29th among all schools and 18th among public institutions. Other undergraduate rankings include: insurance program, 2nd; real estate program, 2nd; management information systems program, 16th; accounting program, 17th; and marketing program, 21st.
The graduate program in public relations in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication ranked fourth among the nation’s top journalism schools in rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report. The Grady College graduate program in advertising ranked 5th, and the graduate program in radio/television ranked 12th.
The graduate program in public affairs, offered in the School of Public and International Affairs, ranks 3rd among more than 240 programs in the nation in U.S. News & World Report rankings.
The graduate program in number theory in the mathematics department is ranked 10th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
The graduate program in the College of Education is tied for 21st among more than 180 programs nationwide that grant doctor of philosophy or doctor of education degrees, according to U.S. News & World Report. UGA’s graduate education program is tied for 13th among all public universities in the country, and is 3rd among all universities — public and private — in the South. The program in secondary education is ranked 5th nationally; the vocational/technical education program is ranked 4th; and the elementary education program is ranked 3rd. The program in curriculum and instruction is 9th, and the counseling/personnel services program is ranked 5th in the nation. The program in higher education administration is ranked 7th.
The College of Education’s doctoral programs in kinesiology are ranked 14th in the nation by the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.
The College of Veterinary Medicine is tied for 9th among the nation’s veterinary schools and the College of Pharmacy is ranked 22nd in rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report.
The School of Law is tied for 34th among 174 of the nation’s accredited law schools in rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The school is tied for 15th among the nation’s public law schools and is one of the top four public law schools in the South.
The graduate program in the University’s School of Social Work is tied for 28th in the nation, and is tied for 3rd in the South, in rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
In U.S. News & World Report rankings of doctoral programs in the sciences, UGA is tied for 40th overall, tied for 18th among all public institutions and tied for 3rd among public institutions in the South. The doctoral programs in microbiology and evolutionary biology are tied for 8th nationally and are the only programs in the rankings located at a public institution in the South.
The doctoral program in rhetoric in the speech communication department is ranked 1st in the nation in a survey conducted by the National Communication Association. The department’s doctoral program in health communication is ranked 5th nationally and the doctoral program in interpersonal communication is ranked 15th. The survey was conducted among some 7,100 educators, practitioners and students in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries.
UGA’s clinical psychology program is ranked 6th in the nation in training and graduating doctoral students who go on to become research faculty members at other schools. The program is also ranked 10th in the number of publications produced by graduates of its Ph.D. program. The rankings resulted from a study of 166 graduate programs in clinical psychology and 1,916 scholars in the field.
UGA was among the world’s 20 most-cited institutions in agricultural sciences in the past decade according to In-Cites, a Web site that tracks and analyses research in the field. With 7,938 citations of its scientists’ research between 1994 and 2004, UGA was the 11th most-cited in the world and the 5th most-cited among U.S. universities.
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has created two specialized units to conduct research and support student training. The James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, and the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, are supported by grants from the Jim Cox Jr. Fund of Atlanta.
The University received a national award from the Council of Graduate Schools and Peterson’s for working to create a climate of more inclusiveness in graduate education. UGA was chosen from among 13 major American universities to receive the award, which recognizes efforts to increase the number of under-represented minorities pursuing graduate education in the U.S.
Among students nationwide who have their SAT scores automatically sent to colleges and universities for admission consideration, UGA is the 11th most popular choice of white women, the 15th most popular choice of white men and the 16th most popular choice of African American men, according to data compiled by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. If historically black colleges and universities are removed from the list for African American men, UGA is the 9th most popular choice.
According to Diverse Issues in Higher Education, UGA ranked 13th nationally in the number of doctoral degrees conferred on African Americans in 2005. UGA is 14th in total number of doctorates in education awarded to African Americans and 17th in total number of doctorates in education awarded to all minorities. UGA is 16th in total number of doctorates in health sciences awarded to African Americans and 17th in total number of master’s degrees in agriculture and related sciences awarded to all minorities. In other rankings, UGA is 23rd in the number of baccalaureate degrees awarded to Hispanics in agriculture and agriculture operations; 26th in the number of baccalaureate degrees awarded to African Americans in biological and biomedical sciences; 31st in the number of baccalaureate degrees awarded to Asian Americans in education; and 37th in the number of baccalaureate degrees in biological and biomedical sciences awarded to Asian Americans.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ranks UGA 13th nationally in percentage of African American law students, and 12th among law schools at flagship state universities in graduation rates for African American students.
The University ranks 5th among the nation’s top 125 research universities in the number of tenured and tenure-line African American faculty, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. UGA is 8th in total number of African American faculty, which includes both tenure-line and non-tenure-line faculty. Figures compiled by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education show the University has the second-highest percentage of African American faculty among the nation’s major state universities.
In addition to its status as a land-grant institution, the University is one of 30 institutions in the U.S. to be designated a Sea Grant College. The University in 1980 became the 15th institution to attain Sea Grant status — a recognition of excellence in marine research, education and advisory services.
The University was host for the Eighth Annual Conference of Former Secretaries of State in October of 1990. The meeting, which brings together former U.S. secretaries of state to discuss international affairs and U.S. foreign policy, was held at the University to honor the late Dean Rusk, who was Professor of International Law at UGA from 1970-90. Rusk, who died in 1994, was secretary of state in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
The late Dr. Eugene Odum, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of zoology and Callaway Professor Emeritus of ecology, received the 1987 Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The academy, which presents the Nobel Prize, gives the Crafoord Prize in fields for which the Nobel is not given.
The late Dr. Glenn W. Burton, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus of agronomy, received the 1983 National Medal of Science. The medal, which is presented by the president of the United States, has been given to only a limited number of scientists and engineers since it was initiated in 1962.
Dr. Norman Allinger, professor emeritus of chemistry, received the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. Presented for more than 150 years by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the Franklin Medal recognizes people who have transformed entire fields of knowledge through scientific discoveries and technological innovations. Allinger is one of the world’s leading experts on molecular mechanics, which allows calculation of molecular shape and molecular energetics.
Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, received the 1992 Centenary Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry in London. This is the society’s highest prize to chemists who don’t reside in Great Britain. The magazine The Scientist ranked Schaefer among the nation’s top 20 chemists and among the top 500 scientists in all fields in America.
The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center was created in 1985 as the first facility in the world devoted specifically to the study of complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates play key roles in regulating growth, development, cellular communication, gene expression and disease resistance in microbes, plants and animals. Because they help give shape to cells and organs, complex carbohydrates can play an important role in human diseases. The CCRC is home for three federally designated centers for carbohydrate research, and is a Georgia Research Alliance-supported regional center for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. With about $6.8 million annually in research awards, the CCRC is one of UGA’s largest research units in terms of funding.
The University has established a Cancer Center to coordinate numerous research and outreach programs that focus on prevention, treatment and cure of cancer. The Center would be UGA’s component of a proposed $60 million Cancer Center of Excellence that UGA and the Medical College of Georgia hope to jointly establish through the Georgia Cancer Coalition. Dozens of UGA scientists and departments are involved in research on various forms of cancer. Eight faculty members have been designated Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholars. UGA helped create the Ovarian Cancer Institute, which searches for genetic components of this disease, and the University received a $6.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on certain kinds of cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
University scientists established the first center in the United States to monitor changes in levels of ultraviolet light. The National UV-B Monitoring Center, funded by a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, measures the amount of UV light striking the earth’s surface and its effect on people, plants and ecosystems. Primarily produced by the sun, UV light is a form of radiation that can damage human health and plant and marine life.
UGA’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies is one of a few places in the country where a research machine called an accelerator mass spectrometer is located. The spectrometer, which allows scientists to obtain precise measurements from extremely small samples, will be used primarily to count the number of carbon-14 atoms in a chemical or biological sample. Carbon-14 dating is critical for research in environmental pollution, drug therapy and fields such as geology, hydrology and oceanography.
The UGA libraries have established the
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame to recognize authors for their contributions to the state’s literary heritage. Two writers, living or deceased, are chosen annually for induction into the Hall. Among the first members: Margaret Mitchell, Martin Luther King Jr., Flannery O’Conner, Sidney Lanier and W.E.B. DuBois.
The Georgia Review, the University’s quarterly literary journal, was for five consecutive years a finalist in the fiction category for a National Magazine Award, one of the highest accolades in the magazine publishing industry. The Review won the award in 1986. In the fall of 1989, the Review published a previously unpublished short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Withheld from publication by his family following his death in 1894, the story is considered the last of Stevenson’s finished works to be unaccounted for in literary circles.
UGA’s $43 million Student Learning Center, located in the heart of campus, is one of the largest and most technologically advanced facilities of its kind on an American university campus. The 206,000-square-foot building, on a 6.5-acre footprint, contains 26 classrooms with a total of 2,200 seats, and 96 small study rooms. An electronic library allows users to electronically access materials in other university libraries. The building has 500 public-access computers, and many classrooms and study rooms have laptop connections, including wireless. The building also has a coffee shop and reading room.
The Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences opened in 2006. The 200,000-square-foot, $40 million facility — named for the late senior U.S. senator from Georgia — provides space for faculty to conduct research in such areas as biomedicine, agriculture, ecology and environmental sciences, and is the home of UGA’s Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute. The U.S. Congress and the Georgia General Assembly each provided $10 million for the building, and UGA raised $20 million from other sources.
The University’s 257,000-square-foot Fred C. Davison Life Sciences Complex provides state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for the University’s biotechnology program. Scientists in genetics and biochemistry conduct research in recombinant DNA, molecular biology, gene-splicing and other areas of genetic engineering. The 425,000-square-foot Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities is one of the largest and most comprehensive fitness/exercise facilities for students and faculty in the country, and has been rated by Sports Illustrated as the nation’s best such facility. Covering some 5 ½ acres, the Ramsey Student Center contains gymnasia, recreational and competition swimming pools, racquetball courts, a volleyball gymnasium, weight training rooms, dance studios and concert seating. It also contains classrooms, research labs and administrative and faculty offices for the School of Health and Human Performance.
UGA’s Performing and Visual Arts Complex provides some of the finest facilities in the South for teaching, research and performance in the fine arts. The Complex includes the Hodgson School of Music; the Performing Arts Center, which has a 1,100-seat auditorium for major concerts and musical performances; and the Georgia Museum of Art, with 9,000 square feet of exhibition space. The second phase of construction for the Complex will include new buildings for the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and additional space for the art museum.
East Campus Village, a complex of four student residence halls and associated amenities located on East Campus near the Ramsey Center for Physical Activities, provides housing for 1,200 students. Living spaces are fully furnished suites with two or four private bedrooms, kitchens, one or two bathrooms and a common room. A dining hall, commissary, bookstore and an 850-vehicle parking deck are part of the complex.
The 135,000-square-foot Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, which opened in February 2004, is the third expansion of the center since it relocated to UGA from Colorado in 1985. The new facility includes fermentation and cell culture rooms and equipment to support medical glycoscience research; labs for plant growth and plant tissue culture research; laboratories for analytical services and training; and a suite for a 900 megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, the most powerful machine of its kind in existence and one of only a few such machines in the world.
Several distinguished faculty members have joined the University in recent years:
Fred Mills, a founder and principal trumpet of the famed Canadian Brass, joined the Hodgson School of Music as professor of trumpet and brass ensembles.
Andrew Paterson, a leading authority in plant genomics — the science of determining the location of every gene on the chromosome of a plant — brought a team of scientists and millions of dollars worth of equipment to create the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory.
Dr. James Nagel, an authority on American fiction who is especially known for his studies of Ernest Hemingway, joined the faculty as the first John O. Eidson Professor of English. He previously was University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University.
Alan Watson was appointed the first Ernest P. Rogers Professor in the School of Law. The recipient of seven earned degrees and author of 24 books and more than 80 articles, Watson is one of the world’s leading scholars in comparative law and legal history.
Nigel Adams, an internationally known chemist who was senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham in England, joined the chemistry department as a professor.
Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Pierre Howard joined UGA’s Institute of Ecology as a senior public service associate. He works in the Institute’s Center for River Basin Science and Policy.
Baritone Frederick Burchinal, who has sung leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera and has performed in opera houses around the world, joined the Hodgson School of Music as the first person to hold the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professorship in the arts.
A horticulturist at the University’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton developed a controlled-atmosphere storage system to extend the life of Vidalia onions. Onions stored in the facility show negligible loss of taste or firmness. Scientists estimate the storage process could quadruple the income of the 20-county Vidalia onion area.
A UGA study of fish in ponds near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster indicates the accident may have caused long-term genetic changes in wildlife. Toxicologists in the College of Pharmacy and researchers at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory analyzed the DNA of carp and found significant genetic changes in individuals many generations removed from the massive release of radioactivity in 1986.
Research in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine resulted in development of the drug RESTASIS™ to treat a disease called chronic dry eye. The disease, which affects an estimated one million people in the U.S., is characterized by insufficient production of tears and can lead to serious cornea damage. RESTASIS, which enables tear ducts to produce tears, is one of the first medicines ever developed first for veterinary use and then tested and approved for humans. It is marketed in more than 35 countries.
UGA animal and dairy scientists are working to develop a method of culturing a stable stem cell line that could be used to help cure Parkinson’s and other diseases and for possible treatment of spinal cord injuries. The cells, which can be directed homogeneously down neural pathways, could be used in drug discovery assays for neurological diseases, and could be used to test environmental toxins for their effects on the human neural system.
UGA geneticists have designed a gene that, when inserted in test plants, can remove heavy metal pollutants, such as mercury and lead, from soil and render them harmless. The plants show a dramatic ability to remove toxic mercury and convert it to a relatively inert form.
UGA researchers have discovered the gene that controls a serious disease called variegate porphryia, which can cause long-term chronic health problems. The discovery will lead to a screening process to help people avoid the effects of the disease through proper treatment.
New evidence from UGA scientists indicates that victims of Chagas’ disease, a tropical disease that afflicts millions of people in Latin America, may be receiving inadequate treatment based on a misunderstanding of how the illness progresses. The research indicates that congestive heart failure — a common result of the disease — is not caused by autoimmune reactions, but by the immune reaction to parasites in the heart itself.
UGA researchers have found that specific patterns of brain development are linked to reading disabilities, such as dyslexia. These patterns also correlate with language and reading ability in non-reading disabled children. The research suggests that variation in brain development, possibly under strong genetic influences, may be related to the later development of language and reading skills. The study argues against the long-standing notion that reading-disabled individuals suffer from “minimal brain damage.”
UGA food scientists have developed a culture of bacteria that can prevent a harmful strain of E. coli bacteria from being transmitted in the intestinal tract of cattle. The work could eliminate the danger of E. coli infections that sicken and sometimes kill people.
UGA earned $15.1 million in income from licensing agreements in 2006. The University ranked 24th in licensing income among 150 U.S. public and private universities in a survey conducted by the Association of University Technology Managers. A survey by the Milliken Institute ranked UGA 27th among more than 400 universities worldwide for technology transfer between 2000-2004.
A UGA scientist’s study of amphibian and reptile populations in the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory that has been under way for more than 25 years is the longest-running and most complete continuous such study in the world. Pitfall traps and drift fences overseen by Dr. Whit Gibbons in the Rainbow Bay area of the SREL have been checked every day, including holidays and weekends, without fail since the project began in 1978. The project has been included in the Guinness Database of Records.
The Center for International Trade and Security was created in 1987 to promote research, teaching and service on U.S. economic and security policies. It is the leading academic program worldwide focusing on actions governments can take to restrain the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The center works closely with the U.S. and foreign governments, and research and teaching institutions in Asia, Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The University’s public service program is one of the largest and most comprehensive conducted by an American educational institution. Public service workers annually tally more than seven million contact hours with Georgia citizens.
The University is home to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the State Museum of Art and the State Museum of Natural History. The Georgia General Assembly designated the University’s Botanical Garden the State Botanical Garden in 1984. The 312-acre forest south of the main campus features a 20,000-square-foot conservatory/visitor’s center that contains tropical and semi-tropical plants. The General Assembly designated the Georgia Museum of Art the State Museum of Art in 1982. Founded in 1945, the museum has a permanent collection of more than 9,000 works with primary focus on American artists. The General Assembly in 1999 designated the Museum of Natural History as the State of Georgia Museum of Natural History. Housed in several departments, the museum is composed of collections of arthropods, plants, rocks, snakes, fish, invertebrates, mammals, fungi, birds, pollen and plant microspores and contains more than 4,500,000 specimens.
The University is a co-sponsor of the Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators, one of the few programs of its kind conducted by a higher education institution in the U.S. The institute provides orientation for new members of the Georgia General Assembly, and offers programs on major issues and policy questions for incumbent legislators.
The Founders’ Memorial Garden on the University campus commemorates the founding in Athens of the first garden club in America.
The University’s Small Business Development Center was established in 1977 as one of the first such programs in the country. The program annually provides hundreds of small businesses and prospective entrepreneurs with counseling, management training, continuing education, alumni networking and advocacy.
ALUMNI
Since 1851, 25 governors of Georgia have been graduates of the University of Georgia, including the current governor, Sonny Perdue. Perdue is the fifth consecutive state chief executive, and the seventh of the last nine governors, to hold a UGA degree. Both of Georgia’s U.S. senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, are graduates as are U.S. Reps. John (Jack) Kingston and John Barrow of Georgia.
At least 9 UGA alumni are presidents or provosts of colleges and universities in the U.S. They are: Larry Penley, president, Colorado State University; Paul Zingg, president, California State University, Chico; William C. Merwin, president, Florida Gulf Coast University; Walter Kimbrough, president, Philander Smith College; Ruth A. Knox, president, Wesleyan College; Thomas A. Wilkerson, president, Bainbridge College; Frank Bonner, president, Gardner-Webb University; William G. Cale Jr., president, University of North Alabama; and Kerry Odell, provost, Potomac State College of West Virginia University.
Five UGA graduates have won a Pulitzer Prize either individually or as part of a team.
Other prominent alumni of the University include: Bill Anderson, country music recording artist and television personality; Dan Amos, CEO of AFLAC; Robert Benham, the first African American appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court and the first to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; James Blanchard, former CEO and chairman, Synovus Financial Corp.; the late D.W. Brooks, founder of Gold Kist, Inc., and advisor to seven U.S. presidents; Chef Alton Brown, host of Food Network’s “Good Eats”; Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop franchise; A.D. “Pete” Correll, retired board chairman, Georgia-Pacific Corp.; Thomas G. Cousins, founder and former chairman of Cousins Properties of Atlanta; U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mike Edwards, senior writer for the National Geographic Society; Theresa Edwards, one of the world’s premier female basketball players and the only American basketball player to participate in five Olympic Games; former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas; Dewey Grantham, noted historian of the South; the late Lewis Grizzard, syndicated newspaper columnist, humorist and author; John Huey, editor-in-chief of Time, Inc.; Raymond Hughes, chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera; Charlayne Hunter-Gault, international journalist ; M. Douglas Ivester, former chairman and chief executive officer, Coca-Cola Co.; sportscaster Ernie Johnson; W. Thomas Johnson, former chairman of the Cable News Network News Group; W. Randall “Randy” Jones, chief executive officer of Capital Publishing Inc. and founder of Worth magazine; Monty Markham, television and film actor and producer; Pat Mitchell, director of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City; Dr. Faida Mitifu, Congolese ambassador to the U.S.; Hala Moddelmog, chief executive, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; Julie Moran, former ABC sports reporter and host of “Entertainment Tonight;” Bryan Mundy, co-founder of EzGov. com; Fred Newman, sound effects artist on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion;” television journalist Deborah Norville; William P. (Billy) Payne, who was president and chief executive officer of The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, which managed the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; Deborah Roberts, producer and correspondent for ABC News; Charles S. Sanford Jr., retired chairman and chief executive officer, Bankers Trust of New York; Hines Ward, star receiver of the Pittsburgh Steelers and MVP of Superbowl XL; and novelists Philip Lee Williams and Stuart Woods.
http://www.uga.edu/profile/pride.html
I’ve not read either, but living in Auburn, I can tell you that whatever is written about the Iron Bowl is not an exaggeration! There is nothing—NOTHING— like being in Jordan-Hare on a beautiful November afternoon and watching Tiger or Spirit circle the stadium before the beginning of the game. In 2005 as the sun was setting over the stadium the skay turned a brillant orange and blue and (as Brodie was getting sacked for the 9th or 10th time), I thought “yes, all is right with the world.”
War Eagle!
Stadium Size
North: college stadiums seat 20,000
South: high school stadiums seat 20,000
Goalposts
North: have presided over some of the most memorable games in school history
South: third set this season
Heroes:
North: Mario Cuomo, John Kerry
South: Bear Bryant, Vince Dooley
Media Facilities
North: press box contains seating for announcer, radio broadcaster and local press writer. Scaffolds for television camera can be set up for important games.
South: permanent set for ESPN Game Day
Ticket Sales
North: 5 days before the game you can still purchase tickets for $10 at the ticket office.
South: 5 days before the game you might find a scalper selling them for $100.
Parking
North: college security opens up campus for parking a few hours before kickoff
South: RV’s begin rolling in on Thursday
Make-up
North men: cologne
North women: chapstick
South men: school color body paint
South women: school color body paint
Game Day
North: a few students party in the dorm and watch ESPN Game Day.
South: most students have a beer or two for breakfast and rush over to the ESPN Game Day set in front of the stadium to get on TV and wave at the folks up north who wonder why Game Day never comes to their school.
Tailgating
North: wieners on the grill, beer with a lime, local radio station on
South: 15’ grill trailer, keg on ice, TV and satellite with game on
Getting to Stadium
North: fans get directions from older alumni or security. When they get to the stadium they walk right in.
South: stadium can be heard a mile away. By kickoff it’s the state’s third largest city.
Concessions
North: generic plastic cups filled to the top with ice and “pop” (whatever that is)
South: souvenir cup with mascot served half full with “mixer” (you know what that means)
Friday Classes
North: thought of upcoming weekend keeps students from paying attention
South: what classes?
Campus Statues
North: University founders
South: Heisman Trophy winners
Homecoming Queen
North: also a physics major.
South: also Miss USA
Alumni during off-season
North: take law students on sailing trips before joining the law firm
South: take All-Americans on fishing trips so they don’t leave for the NFL
Alumni on game day
North: Don old collegiate blazer, pour a martini, and chat with the “old boys”
South: Keg stands in the parking lot
Mascot
North: also worked at community theater.
South: also worked at Disney World.
National Anthem
North: performed by Men’s Glee Club.
South: performed by both marching bands along with pyrotechnics and F-18’s
After Game
North: Head out quickly to get home and catch the next game on TV
South: A few more drinks in the parking lot because 90,000 fans cannot leave at once.
It’s going to be a tough year in the SEC. As a Tigers fan, I’m sorry that they were rated #2 pre-season. Way too much pressure.
After accepting the children of Harvard graduates and other 'legacy' acceptances, there is little room for kids who have real accomplishments.
The way things are looking though, I don’t think anyone in the conference has a shot to beat them with the possible exception of Florida. LSU’s D will be a force IMO.
Here is my assessment of the SEC East
1. Florida - As Tim Tebow goes, so go the Gators. If he is the second coming of Alex Smith, then Urban truly will be able to run his kind of offense, and SEC defenses are going to have a hard time stopping Florida, with all of their playmakers. But their defense is inexperienced, and they are going to have to step up fast. Also Florida’s depth is suspect, not many seniors and juniors. We’ll learn this year, just how good of a coach Urban Meyer really is.
2. Georgia - Again as with UF, UGA’s destiny is in the hands of their quarterback, Matt Stafford.
3. South Carolina - It could all boil down to UF against the old HBC. This should easily be Spurrier’s best team since coming to Columbia.
4. Tennessee - The Number 4 position is misleading, as all of the top 4 teams have a legitimate shot at the East, but I’m not sold that Eric Ainge is going to lead them to the title.
5. Kentucky - Andre Woodson may be the best QB in the SEC. But UK’s defense is the problem. But they’ve got an upset or two in them, and should be bowl-eligible.
6. Vanderbilt - I mean we’re talking Vanderbilt here.
Solid analysis, dfw.
I don’t know any of you got to see the preseason All-SEC Team, but it surprised me a little
http://www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=12416&html=football/news/20070727120500.html&sport=footb
RE: Florida on these teams, I was somewhat surprised to see only one Gator on the first team (Trautwein) but that Woodson from UK was the first team QB struck me as odd as well.
(BTW, never say the name ‘Ainge’ to a Ute. Makes us all crabby. ;) ).
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No problem! :)
It’s funny, what you mentioned about Phil Fullmer is exactly what a Gator fan said to me about Les Miles. I do have to agree with you though, you would think Tennessee would have a little more success than they’ve had.
But this gives me the chance to tell an Urban Meyer story. Back in 2003, the Utes were plyaing Texas A&M in College Station. Starting QB Brett Elliott was ineffective to say the least and the Ags lead 28-0 at half. The Utes rallied during the 2nd half to get to 28-26 with roughly a minute to go, the Utes were going for a game tying two point conversion when Elliott breaks his ankle and he’s out for the season.
Ah, snap! (If you’ll pardon the expression). Here we go again. Until this season, the last time the Utes had won an outright conference title was in 1957. Oregon and Cal were both coming into Salt Lake, the conference slate hadn’t even begun, and the starting QB was gone for the rest of the year. Fortunately, Brett’s backup took over the offense and for our sake it worked out.
The backup’s name...Alex Smith.
And the rest as they say, is history!
Methinks UGA might be looking for some payback in Athens after last year. :)
In the SEC, it’s getting to the point of, “On Any Given Saturday...”
THANK YOU, for posting that!!! I actually have a tear in my eye and chill bumps. 26 Days til Kick Off!
GO GEORGIA BULLDOGS!!!!!!
I think I am going to have a long season.
GO DAWGS!
Thanks for being about th only person on the thread who talked about the actually football season on this thread. Looks like we might have two LSU-Fla games. Winner of second game to play possibly USC.
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