UGA News Roundup for Sept. 28: You're Invited to Several Events on Campus

Here's a roundup of news releated to the University of Georgia.

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Put on your dancin’ shoes!

The UGA dance department is hosting a Community Dance Day Celebration from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9. The event is free, but those who wish to attend need to register in advance by calling 706-542-8579.

The event will be held in the Dance Building on the UGA campus, and the public is invited. Plan to park in the deck near the .

Classes for children and adults will start at 1:30 and include ballroom dance for ages 12 and older, creative movement for ages 4 to 11 and a discussion of dance performance. A reception will be held 2:15 and then, at 3 p.m., an hour-long performance by the CORE Concert Dance Company, the UGA Ballet Ensemble, the Ballroom Performance Group and community guest performers from the East Athens Dance Center and Classic City Dance.

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Yee-haw! Do-se-do!

The Friends of the will host A Highfalutin’ Hootenanny on Friday, Oct. 14. Things will get under way at 6:30 p.m. with drinks and music by String Theory. Supper follows at 7 p.m., and then dancing to the Good Vibrations band.

will provide barbecue sandwiches and will supply beer. Atlanta’s King of Pops will cool down Hootenanny guests with gourmet popsicles, featuring flavors such as chocolate sea salt, coconut lemongrass and grapefruit mint.

Tickets are $75 per person for those 41 and older and $50 for those 40 and younger. To purchase tickets, by Oct. 3, call 706-542-4662 or visit the museum’s website.

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Pardon me, boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo? Big band sound is coming to the with the Glenn Miller Orchestra at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets are $20 to $39 with special discounts for UGA students.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra is directed by trombonist Gary Tole, who leads the orchestra in authentic performances from the big band era.

To purchase concert tickets, see www.uga.edu/pac or call the Performing Arts Center box office at 706/542-4400 or toll free at 888/289-8497.

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Eileen Kennedy, assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences in the , has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for more than $570,600 over the next three years. Her project will look at specific mechanisms related to breast cancer.

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The University of Georgia Foundation has given $750,000 to UGA for scholarship support. University administration and the Office of Admissions will use the funding to meet critical scholarship needs.

“Of all the ways the foundation supports the University of Georgia and its students, the provision of scholarship funding has important and tangible benefits,” said Bill Young, Jr., chairman of the University of Georgia Foundation board of trustees. “This funding will help make attending UGA a reality for some deserving students who might not otherwise be able to attend.”

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He doesn’t get a statue, a la Abraham Baldwin, but R. Chappelle Matthews does get a bust.

Matthews served in the Georgia House of Representatives for 28 years, representing Athens and UGA. He promoted the importance of education and championed programs at the university—especially public service and outreach.

A bust will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in front of the Treanor House at 1240 S. Lumpkin St.