Digital Commons @ Georgia Law Press Releases, Media Mentions, Graduates in the Media Archives News & Faculty Highlights 6-1-2013 06/2013 Newsclippings Office ofomm C unications and Public Relations Recommended Citation Office of Communications and Public Relations, "06/2013 Newsclippings" (2013). Media Archives. 37. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/media_archives/37 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Press Releases, Media Mentions, Graduates in the News & Faculty Highlights at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Media Archives by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact [email protected]. WOMEN SWIMMERS AND DIVERS CAPTURE TITLE • The UGA women's swimming and diving team won the NCAA championship in March.The title is the fifth in the program's history. Georgia won in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005, giving Jack Bauerle-led teams titles in three different decades. Bauerle was chosen as the National Coach of the Year for the sixth time. He earned previous honors in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006. Earlier this year, Bauerle was selected as the SEC Coach of the Year for the 14th time after leading the Lady Bulldogs to the conference title. Swimmer Allison Schmitt, who won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, was named the Honda Sports Award winner for swimming and is a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Award and the 2013 Honda Cup, to be presented June 24. New Atlanta office to support economic EAST CAMPUS RESIDENCE HALL NAMED development • An East Campus residence hall • UGA will open a new office in Atlanta to provide a closer link with the busi- known as Building 1512 since it opened ness sector and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, President- in 2004 has been named to honor the elect Jere Morehead announced in March.The Atlanta office also will make the late Gov. George D. Busbee. Georgia's considerable research, public service and outreach resources of the university 77th governor championed education more accessible for communities, development authorities and Chambers of during his time in office, particularly Commerce. Margaret Wagner Dahl, who serves as associate provost for eco- kindergarten through 12th grade, nomic development as well as director of the Georgia BioBusiness Center, will establishing the statewide public become associate vice president for economic development. Dahl will remain kindergarten system. Busbee died in director of the GBBC. The new Atlanta and campus offices will report jointly 2004 at age 76.Building 1512 opened to Vice President for Research David Lee and Vice President for Public Service in the fall of 2004 along with three and Outreach Jennifer Frum. The reorganization ofUGA's economic develop- named residence hails-McWhorter ment activities and programs will build upon the many economic development Hall, Rooker Hall and Vandiver Hall. The efforts the university currently has in place. The BioBusiness Center has helped apartment-style buildings offer two-, launch more than 30 companies that have attracted more than $150 million in three- and four-bedroom options to more investment, and UGA is consistently ranked among the top 10universities in than 1,200 students. the nation for moving research discoveries into the marketplace. JUNE 2013 • GEORGIA MAGAZINE 11 AROUNDTHE ARCH UGApp • Need to know when the next campus bus will arrive? What's on the menu at Snelling? If the Diamond Dawgs are winning? You can find that and more information on a new central mobile app planned and designed by the Student Government Association working with UGA Enterprise Information Technology Services. The app has a campus map and building search, a UGA people search, a UGA majors search, customizable calendars and locations and a quick contacts list with the ability to call Designated Dawgs, a free designated-driving service. One of the most anticipated functions of the UGA app is the campus bus tracker-a feature that allows users to pinpoint the next arrival time of buses by routes to their location, based on GPS technology. The app also shows the SEARED DUCK BRINGS HOME A SILVER real-rime capacity of dining halls and lets users see nutritional information for dining hall food choices. • Food Services Chef Shelly Orozco-Marrs' recipe of seared Future versions of the app will include a student duck with pancetta and chevre polenta, thyme butter carrots, information system through which students can register for sauteed arugula and spiced Madeira cherry jus earned a classes. silver medal in the 2013 National Association of College and Available in the Apple App Store (search for University University Food Services Southern Region Culinary Challenge. of Georgia, UGA and Bulldog) the app is offered for the Orozco-Marrs was one of six chefs selected to compete in iPhone, iPad or iPod. the regionals held at Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. Duck was the mandatory ingredient for all competitors, from Georgia Southern University, Oklahoma State University, University of EXAM SURVIVAL KITS North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Vanderbilt University. This is the 13th regional NACUFS competition in which a UGA Food Services chef has competed. The university has had a chef selected every year since 2001. The competition is judged and medals awarded by chefs from the American Culinary Federation. This is the second medal for Orozco-Marrs, who received a bronze in the 2011 Southern Region Culinary Challenge. Star light, star bright • In a galaxy far, far away burns a star now known as UGA-1785 thanks to Roger Hunter (BS '78), who leads the NASA search for inhabitable planets outside our solar system.The Kepler mission, as it's known, recently found three planets with light collected from the host star. The light from the star originated in 1801, NASA scientists determined, the first year of classes at UGA. Junior Laura Higgason, a student ambassador for the Hunter asked and was told that yes, the star could be nicknamed College of Family and Consumer Sciences, packs exam for UGA and the year the university was chartered. The Kepler survival kits to be given out at the end of spring semester. Space Telescope, launched in 2009, provides the technology Filled with snacks and water, the kits are funded by the to explore other galaxies. Since then, project scientists have FACS Alumni Association and packaged and distributed by FACS student ambassadors. In the program's third year, confirmed the existence of 115planets outside our solar system. 350 kits were distributed over two days in April to students Learn more about Hunter and Kepler from this June 2011 with classes in Dawson Hall. GM feature story: http://tinyurl.com/bq89nhy. 12 GEORGIA MAGAZINE· www.uga.edu/gm JUNE 2013 • GEORGIA MAGAZINE 35 en 1&1 Thanks,Abe t- _ The Stephens siblings owe their existence to President Abraham Lincoln- and the proof is on display at UGA. (Left to o right) Winston Stephens (AB '63); Rob Stephens, a 1971 graduate of the Medical College of Georgia; Lawton Stephens (JD Z '81) and Mary Hopper (AB '74,MPA '83) are en descendants of Alexander Stephens, vice president ofthe Confederacy.In 1865 en Stephens and Lincoln met in an attempt to negotiate the end of the Civil War. The c session ended without progress, but Lincoln •••• asked Stephens-a former Congressional colleague-if there was anything else he u could do for him. And there was: Stephens' nephew, John, had been captured by the Union, and Lincoln agreed to release him if the Confederacy would release a Union soldier of equivalent rank. After his release, John Stephens was taken to the White House, where Lincoln presented him with a letter to deliver to his uncle. The letter was handed down through the Stephens family and now is displayed at UGA's Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library (www.libs.uga. edu/nargrett) . PETER FREY CLASS NOTES Legion Department of Mississippi. the North Carolina Wildlife Compiled by Chase Martin David Loughridge (BSA '73, DVM Federation.Kibler is managing '78) of Chatsworth was named editor of North Carolina Sportsman 1945-1949 Veterinarian of the Year by the and South Carolina Sportsman Sam Massell (M '48) received Georgia Cattlemen's Association. magazines.Yvonne Durrett recognition for his involvement Mike Morris (BSEd '73, MEd '74, Williams (ABJ '78) of Marietta was in the Real Estate Catalyst Deal JD '79) of Athens was named chair one of 50 women leaders selected of the Year by the Atlanta Business of the Athens Area Chamber of from across the nation to participate Cbronicle. Commerce. in the 2013 class of Leadership America, the longest-running 1960-1964 1975-1979 women's leadership development Stuart Woods (AB '60) of Key Earl V. Rogers (BBA '76) of program in the .S. West, Fla., married Jeanmarie Marietta will become the new Cooper Jan. 10. president and CEO of the Georgia 1980-1984 Hospital Association in July. Doug DePriest CABJ'80) of 1970-1974 William Daniel Kibler (ABJ '78) Marietta was honored with a John C. Tardy (MPA'72) of of Winston-Salem, N.C., won the nomination from the International Walnut, Miss" was elected Governor's Award as Conservation Documentary Association for commander of the American Communicator of the Year from the documentary "Bomb Patrol: 36 GEORGIAMAGAZINE· www.uga.edu/gm PROFILE The greater good Former New York financier now helps Georgians escape poverty by Kelly Simmons _ Greg Skowronski's vacation to Tanzania in 2007 included a safari and climbing Mt. Kilamanjaro. Along the way, it tumed into a much deeper experience, one that would change the course of his career.