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This week’s
Faculty Recognition Banquet pays tribute to the outstanding
faculty members who are receiving awards for teaching excellence.
Recipients of the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA’s highest
teaching honor, and the Richard B. Russell Award, which recognizes
junior faculty for outstanding teaching, were also introduced
for the first time last week at Honors Day.
This year, five of UGA’s outstanding teachers will receive
the 2004 Josiah Meigs Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Meigs
winners receive a permanent salary increase of $6,000 and
a fund of $1,000 for departmental use. The award is named
for Josiah Meigs, who in 1801 succeeded Abraham Baldwin as
president—and sole professor—of Georgia’s
fledgling state university.
This year’s Meigs winners are Corrie Brown, pathology,
College of Veterinary Medicine; David Hazinski, telecommunications,
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication; John Maltese,
political science, School of Public and International Affairs;
Richard Neupert, drama and theatre, Franklin College of Arts
and Sciences; and Scott Shaw, physics and astronomy, College
of Arts and Sciences.
The Russell Awards are named to honor Georgian and university
alumnus Richard B. Russell who had a love for new knowledge
and appreciation of our nation's youth. The awards are meant
to recognize excellence in undergraduate instruction.
Awardees receive a $5,000 cash award from the Richard B. Russell
Foundation.
The Russell Award will be given to Jody Clay-Warner, sociology,
College of Arts and Sciences; Denise Mewborn, mathematics
education, College of Education; and Marisa Anne Pagnattaro,
insurance, legal studies and real estate, Terry College of
Business.
Building the New Learning Environment
The new learning environment is an academic and intellectual
community on the campus of the University of Georgia humming
with the vibrancy of the true college experience—bright
and talented students working with brilliant faculty formally
in the classroom and informally over a cup of coffee or lounging
in the greenspace which stretches from one end of campus to
the other. It is a place which recognizes that new information
technologies are transforming traditional academic disciplines
and embraces those opportunities. |
Winners
of the 2004 Josiah Meigs Awards including (from left) David Hazinski,
Richard Neupert, Scott Shaw, Corrie Brown, and John Maltese will be
honored at this week's Faculty Recognition Banquet.
