Katie Gillespie
Katie Gillespie, a 2005 Agribusiness graduate, is one of thirteen students chosen to go to Kentucky and work as an intern with yearling thoroughbreds through the Kentucky Equine Management Internship (KEMI). The program was formed in 1998 as a non-profit organization to facilitate contact between colleges and universities and the Central Kentucky horse industry. The internship program provides students with a twenty-two week learning experience. Interns may choose Spring Session I which incorporates the spring breeding and foaling season or Fall Session II which encompasses the yearling sales prep and breaking season.
During her first week as an intern, Katie will attend a one-week short course orientation to the Kentucky horse industry that includes lectures and laboratories. She will then be required to work for her farm or host-site at least 40 hours each week during the entire course of the internship. She will also be required to complete the entire twenty-two week internship and attend weekly lectures and occupational learning experiences to successfully pass the program. In addition, she will submit weekly laboratory reports to document the completion of course objectives through farm work experience.
Anyone interested in KEMI may obtain further information about the program at www.kemi.org.
Yanping Chen
Yanping Chen, IT Professional Specialist, spent almost four weeks in the summer of 2005 visiting five cities in China with her husband, Dr. Wei-Jun Cai, 18-year-old son, Michael, and 13- year-old daughter, Diana. Dr. Cai of UGA’s School of Marine Science had speaking engagements in five of the six cities he and his family visited. While Dr. Cai was busy with his speaking tour, Yanping and their children visited local sights in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Quin Dao, and Xiamen. Their visit to Qing Dao was of special interest to the family, since it was the city where Yanping and Dr. Cai were married twenty years earlier. While in Shanghai, the family visited relatives they have not seen for fifteen years, including five uncles, two aunts and numerous cousins. Yanping and her family also returned to her hometown of Hangzhou, where they enjoyed visiting Yanping’s parents who took great pleasure in preparing many delicious traditional Chinese delicacies for their daughter and her family.
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>Shanghai
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>Hangzhou- West Lake |
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