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Highlights
from Last Year's Activities
Highlights from last year’s activities:
Senior
Reception:
Last
year’s highlights included our fall and spring receptions for
graduating BIO majors. The receptions were bigger and better than
ever. Honored guests included Senior Vice President Karen Hohlbrook,
Vice President for Academic Affairs Thomas Dyer, Associate Vice
President Ann Crowther , Arts and Sciences Dean Wyatt Anderson,
and Associate Deans Hugh Ruppersburg and Robert Anderson. Dr. Dyer
and Betty Jean Craige, Director of the Center for Humanities and
Arts, provided wonderful addresses bidding our graduates farewell.
Parents, faculty and staff enjoyed thoroughly good cheer in the
form of conversation and refreshments as we honored our students.
May’s reception, which was held in the newly air conditioned
lobby of Biological Sciences on a lovely spring evening, was shared
with the departments of Cellular Biology, and Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology. Each department then retired to a room in BioSciences to
honor its seniors. Biology’s ceremony was held in 404E - it
was a great way to personally congratulate our majors, wish them
well, say goodbye, and remind them to keep in touch. All agreed
it was a heartwarming evening.
We
also initiated several new events at our reception. First, we started
recognizing seniors of other colleges who have impacted biology
and its faculty. We also began honoring retired faculty; our first
honoree was Eugene Odum, founder of the ecology program at UGA.
At the end of the spring reception, we showed a nostalgic video
of the university and Athens scene, creatively filmed and edited
by student Ellen Rodgers, with help from the BLC staff.
Special Programs:
INTERNSHIP
IN BIOLOGY:
The
division activated a new course to allow BIO majors to do an internship.
BIOL 4940/4940H covers supervised work experience with public agencies,
private industry, mass media or non-profmait organizations in the
area of the biological sciences. You can take it for 3 credit hours,
repeatable for a maximum 6 hours. It will NOT count towards credit
for the BIOL major, but will count towards general electives and
the Regents 39 hour rule. The prerequisites are BIOL 1107 and 1108,
at least one advanced biology course required for the major, and
permission of the Biology program. See Ms. Palevitz in room 411
for more information.
COURSE
REQUIREMENT CHANGES:
We
made several updates to our majors checksheet to stay current with
new courses and changes to existing ones. See Ms. Palevitz in room
411.
What's to come:
New
programs are planned for this year, including a spring careers workshop
on biotechnology. Stay tuned for more information.
We
have also instituted a new Biology Majors e-mail listserv to better
serve you with up to date information. Please make sure Ms. Palevitz
has your latest e-mail address, or send an email to "listserv@listserv.uga.edu"
with the words "join BIOMAJOR your name" in the
body. You will get an email asking you to confirm your list registration.
Simply reply to that email and you're on the list!
[see
highlights from 2000]
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