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THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER offers a graduate program in artificial intelligence. The center supports and encourages interdisciplinary research and service activities involving its graduate students and faculty from several departments and schools. Through its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, its Industrial Partnership Program, and its research report series, the center promotes the integration of artificial intelligence technology by industry and government agencies in the state and the nation.

AUXILIARY SERVICES, including the University Bookstore, Campus Transit System, Food Services, University Golf Course, University Printing, University Vending, and University Parking Services, are supported by income generated from the sale of merchandise and services to students, faculty, and staff. Financially self-supporting, these auxiliary units are related to the educational objectives of the University.

Campus Transit System operates a fleet of 41 buses for students, staff, and faculty when the University is in session. Daytime service is provided on seven routes from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Night service is provided on three routes Monday through Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Van service for disabled students, staff, and faculty who are unable to use regularly scheduled buses is available. The Campus Transit System buses are available to charter for educational-related purposes.

University Bookstore is a retail facility specializing in textbooks, general books, specialized and general school supplies, personal computers, UGA clothing and novelties, and convenience items. Books not carried in stock may be procured through special order.

University Food Services seeks to satisfy the food service needs of students, faculty, and staff with a variety of wholesome foods served at reasonable prices. Four dining facilities--Bolton Hall, Snelling Hall, Oglethorpe Hall, and Tate Center--are maintained by University Food Services for its customers. McWhorter Dining Hall serves participants in athletic programs. University Food Services also provides banquet services and catering from the Tate Center facility.

University Golf Course is a teaching and recreational facility available to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their dependents, plus conferees. The 18-hole championship course, designed by Robert Trent Jones, also includes driving range, putting greens, and chipping green. "Golfing weather" hours are weekdays from 8:00 a.m. until sundown, and weekends and holidays from 7:30 a.m. until sundown. The Pro Shop carries a complete line of golfing equipment and supplies.

University Printing provides quality offset printing services for all offices and departments of the University. Services include design assistance and consultation, phototypesetting from manuscript or word processing disk, paste-up, negative and plate work, press work, and bindery/finishing work. The plant is staffed and equipped to produce stationery, business cards, office forms, brochures, booklets, programs, posters, journals, and perfect-bound books. A mix of several sizes and types of presses enables University Printing to produce everything from simple single-color jobs to sophisticated four-color process work in the quantity required.

University Vending locates vending machines throughout campus for the benefit of students, faculty, and staff. The equipment and service are operated and maintained by private contractors. In addition to food and beverage vending, the program includes coin-operated telephones and change machines.

University Parking Services provides specified parking lots for commuter students, campus housing residents, graduate students, faculty, staff, and handicapped persons. In addition to the lots for registered vehicles, a high-rise parking deck next to the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and several pay-by-the-hour lots in heavy traffic areas of campus are provided for visitors and to accommodate University personnel for short periods of time.

THE JAMES C. BONBRIGHT UTILITIES CENTER operates as part of the Terry College of Business. The center focuses on sponsoring conferences on regulatory policy as it relates to the electric, natural gas, and telecommunications industry. The center has as its aim to serve the training and educational needs of professionals in both the private and public sector, especially in the Southeast.

THE HIMAN BROWN AUDIO PRODUCTION CENTER was established in 1988 as part of the College of Journalism and Mass Communication and named in honor of the man whose radio mystery and adventure shows earned him the title "Mr. Radio Drama." The center is devoted to education and building a future for radio drama and audio in general. Its responsibilities include scholarships, curriculum development, grant procurement, and production of new shows and workshops. It also functions as an archival depository for old and new shows and a distribution center for audio educational material for middle schools and high schools.

THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED ULTRASTRUCTURAL RESEARCH serves the University System by providing a repository of facilities and expertise to assist in pursuing and achieving research and instructional needs employing advanced microscopical instrumentation. A variety of light and electron microscopes as well as complete darkroom and image processing facilities are available for use. The center assists researchers from nearly every science-related discipline at UGA and is recognized as a regional asset to scientists throughout the southeastern United States. The center reports to the Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and also serves the private sector.

THE CENTER FOR APPLIED ISOTOPE STUDIES is a multidisciplinary, self-supporting research facility focusing on the use of state-of-the-art technology to resolve current prolems. Emphasis is placed on the use of nuclear analytical tools and methodologies in applied research. The CAIS plays a strong support role on the UGA campus by assisting academic departments, research units, and individuals with problems related to instrumentation, methods, and techniques in isotopic analysis. The CAIS also provides analytical services to the scientific and industrial communities nationally and internationally.

THE CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES promotes and coordinates research between the humanities--archaeology, anthropology, and art history--and the sciences--geology, geochemistry, chemistry, and biology. The center coordinates the research of University scholars in fields relating to archaeology and art history, facilitates collaboration with experts outside the University, serves as a resource center of laboratory equipment and technical support for archaeologists, art historians, and museums worldwide, and coordinates interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the archaeological sciences.

THE CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES exists to nurture and guide academic programs and exchanges on Asia for students, faculty, and appropriate staff members. The programs focus on language and area studies, but also involve students and faculty from law, business, agriculture, education, journalism, veterinary medicine, and the arts and sciences. Specific purposes and programs focus on: 1) curriculum planning, review, and development in modern Asian languages and related area studies; 2) cultural programs and a program of distinguished Asianist speakers and visitors; 3) student and faculty exchange agreements such as that at Kagoshima University in Japan; 4) development of library and related instructional and research facilities; 5) planning and application for external funding for Asian Studies at UGA; and 6) research and research collaboration on East Asia.

THE CENTER FOR AUDIT RESEARCH within the J. M. Tull School of Accounting seeks to stimulate a continuing commitment to audit research that has practical implications. In the broad context of governmental, internal, and financial statement auditing, the center encourages practitioners and academicians jointly to explore implementation issues of audit research, and it disseminates research ideas and findings.

THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL RESOURCE RECOVERY conducts basic research in areas related to the use of microorganisms in biotechnology and in solving environmental and ecological problems. Center faculty members represent Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Marine Programs, and Microbiology at the University of Georgia and the USDA Richard B. Russell Research Center. The center promotes interaction among members, provides education of pre- and postdoctoral students through seminar programs and courses, establishes contacts and cooperation with industries and governmental agencies, and seeks international cooperation.

The center is committed to extending the biotechnology required for the use of microorganisms as inexpensive and energy-efficient catalysts for converting the earth's main renewable resource, biomass, to desired products. Studies include biochemistry and genetics of microorganisms that have potential uses in practical processes related to agriculture, forestry, pulp and paper, and biochemical industries, and that may be important for ecological and other environmental considerations.

THE CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL QUANTUM CHEMISTRY seeks to develop theoretical and computational methods through mathematical models for describing and understanding the movement and function of electrons in molecules and to apply the theoretical methods to significant problems of broad chemical interest. Areas of current special concern include: (1) organosilicon chemistry, specifically the prediction and understanding of the properties of silicon analogs of common hydrocarbon compounds; (2) the potential energy hypersurfaces that govern elementary gas-phase chemical reactions, particularly those important in combustion; (3) molecular ion complexes such as NO₃ ^-(H₂O)_n of fundamental importance in atmospheric and environmental chemistry; (4) fundamental problems in physical organic chemistry involving, for example, carbenes and other biradical species and systems such as the [n] paracyclophanes; and (5) hydrogen bonding in systems such as the formic acid dimer and the guanine-cytosine base pair.

THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, an ongoing program of the Department of Social Science Education with assistance from the Terry College of Business, exists to increase the level of economic literacy in Georgia through the improvement of economics instruction in Georgia schools. The center provides in-service teacher training, develops instructional materials, and encourages innovation in economic education.

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY provides a wide range of print and non-print services and complete computer and network support for the College of Education community. Traditional services include photocopying, desktop publishing, graphics, faxing, lamination, video and audio tape duplication, equipment checkout, and video production and editing. CET's computer and network services provide support for more than 500 faculty and staff and over 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Services include the management of six instructional computer labs which support College of Education students through coursework and open access. CET also schedules and coordinates a distance education classroom as part of the Georgia Statewide Academic and Medical System (GSAMS) network, a statewide distance education system with over 200 sites.

THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY is a component of the Institute of Ecology. Its major objectives are to address basic questions in microbial ecology via laboratory, field, and modeling studies; to develop protocols for biotechnology risk assessment and product advertisement; and to develop long-term linkages between University researchers and industrial users of bioengineered microbes and products.

THE CENTER FOR FAMILY RESEARCH, a component of the Institute for Behavioral Research, is an interdisciplinary unit of social and behavioral scientists that seeks to promote the understanding of the family through research. The center facilitates the exchange of information and ideas about family research across disciplinary boundaries; enhances research efforts of faculty members, including the ability of both emerging and eminent scholars to obtain extramural funding; and facilitates the development of young scholars. Colloquia, conferences, and seminars are offered for faculty and students on a regular basis.

THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY ENHANCEMENT in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences develops and improves methods for detecting, enumerating, controlling, and eliminating pathogenic microorganisms in foods. The center develops methods to quantitate, prevent formation, and eliminate microbial toxins in foods and studies mechanisms of pathogenicity of food borne pathogens. Center programs also address physical and chemical attributes affecting quality and storage stability and consumer attitudes and perceptions of food quality.

THE CENTER FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH conducts research on questions of short- and long-term interest to the insurance community and provides periodic seminars and conferences on issues facing the industry. The center also sponsors continuing education programs for the insurance industry in Georgia and gives financial support to students and faculty of risk management and insurance.