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Researcher one of
few with funding
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red A Black
The day the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig exploded
in the Gulf of Mexico wax
the day “all hell broke
loose” in the University's
marine sciences program.
As soon as Samantha
Joye, a professor in the
department, left for a
previously-scheduled
research cruise in the
Gulf, phones in the
department began ring
ing off the hook as media
grappled for comments
(torn professors and
researchers who did not
always know much about
the situation.
“When you’ve got an
emergency like this, [the
National Science
Foundation] has rapid
response money,” said
Bill Miller, the associate
director of academics in
the department. “It’s like
throwing hundred-doUar
bills on the sidewalk.”
However, Miller said,
by the time many of the
University professors got
in touch with NSF, they
were told the rapid
response money was
already divvied up.
Stagnated research
“We’ve still got the
samples, but we didn’t
get more funding, so we
haven't been able to
make a lot of progress,”
Miller said.
He said government
funded organizations,
such as the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and NSF,
are in the midst of review
ing grant proposals. He
said the University should
receive some money, but
added the marine scienc
es program is Franklin
College's second-most
funded department, and
professors had funding
for other projects, just
not those associated with
the oil spill.
The Gulf research of
Joye and Patricia
Medeiros, however, are
the exceptions, because
they both worked with
natural seepage of oil in
the Gulf before the spill,
Miller said.
Conditions in the Gulf
Joye and Medeiros
returned earlier this week
from another Gulf trip,
this time looking for evi
dence of oil in sediment.
In her Sept. 6 blog
entry, Joye wrote she and
her team observed a thin
layer of what appeared to
be sedimented oil in a
sample gathered 20 miles
from the Mississippi
coast.
Though they will not
know the oil content until
the samples are analyzed
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had expected to see."
What she did not
expect to see came in a
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“It contained some
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she wrote. “The top,
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of oil.”
Miller said now that
oil is in the Gulf system,
researchers will have to
consider it when they
take samples. He said the
presence of oil does not
make ‘ research gathered
before the oil spill null
and void, but gives scien
tists a control to com
pare recent samples to.
Major changes coming
Right now, the under
graduate marine science
courses taught by profes
sors such as Miller only
count as non-required
science classes or elec
tives. That will change if
the Board of Regents
grants the department’s
request and gives the
University a marine sci
ence major.
“We’ve put forward
proposals for it in the
past,” Miller said, adding
another proposal was
possibly in the works.
He said the major was
not necessarily required
by the University because
most marine science
involves like other sci
ence majors extensive
knowledge of biology,
chemistry and physics as
well, so the major would
be similar to those.
“It would change the
face of this program for
sure,” Miller said.
“Because there’s no
major, there’s more time
for research. It’s kind of a
give-and-take.”
He said if the depart
ment received a major,
more faculty would need
to be hired, but said the
possibility was something
the department would
embrace.
“One of the things I’ve
asked the provost the
new provost is to take
a hard look at student
demand when he makes
faculty hiring decisions,”
University President
Michael Adams said in
an interview Thursday.
“It’s not just student
demand ... But in many
instances, the driving fac
tor is what do the stu
dents think they need
professionally. And we
will try and meet those
needs."
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center has many programs and services to help students with essays.
Upgrades to center’s services
can improve student writing
By JEN INGLES
The Red & Black
The Writing Center at the University
has reinvented itself physically, virtually
and functionally.
Headquartered on the ground floor
of Park Hall, the room is cozy, lit by
natural light and desk lamps and decked
in earth tones. There are desks for one
on-one studying and clusters of chairs
grouped to facilitate discussion.
The center’s services and website
have also been made over.
Assistant Director Beth Beggs said
when the Regents’ Exam was done away
with in March 2010, it presented an
opportunity for the center to move its
efforts in a different direction.
“The bulk of the work the center did
last year was to help those students
[required to take the Regents’ Exam]
write well enough to pass that test,"
Beggs said. “It was in many ways reme
dial work. Our focus now is on writing
excellence.”
Beggs talked about the various ways
the center helps students develop bet
ter writing skills.
Undergraduates in any discipline can
get help writing anything from technical
reports to persuasive essays.
The center has reference books for
every held of study at the University,
and will help students tackle any ques
tions they may have about content, for
mat or style.
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“The Writing Center website that you
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“I’m really pleased and impressed with
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Davis earned a Service-Learning
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CRIME
NOTEBOOK
Suspicious phone calls
University Police
announced Tuesday they had
received two reports of fraud
ulent phone calls soliciting
surveys on behalf of the
University Police Department.
The reported phone calls both
occurred Monday night.
An announcement was
released through UGA News
Service to alert students that
University police were not
conducting any type of survey.
“We wanted to make sure
[the calls] wouldn’t tarnish
the police department’s
image, but we also wanted to
make sure no one was being
taken advantage of," said
University Police Chief Jimmy
Williamson.
Williamson said he didn’t
think all of the fraudulent calls
were reported, and that some
who were called might have
given out information.
“The parties that contacted
us thought that the call was
legitimate, and then when the
questions started, they real
ized it might not be,” he said.
“I know we got two phono
calls, but my experience tells
me that they didn’t contact
only two people.”
Williamson encouraged stu
dents contacted by people
claiming to be from University
Police to verify the call.
“You can ask for the offi
cer’s name, and you can call
[706-542-2200] and they can
verify it,” he said.
Arrest follows noise complaint
A University student was
arrested and charged with
underage drinking after offi
cers responded to a noise
complaint at The Station
apartments at about 1 a.m.
Tuesday, according to an
Athens-Clarke County police
report.
The report stated that
Jordan Powell Rilton, 20, told
officers he didn’t have an ID
after being approached at his
apartment. He later admitted
his age.
Rilton was transported to
Clarke County Jail.
—Complied by
Tiffany Stevens
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