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Georgia Museum of Art director William U. Eiland received the 1999 Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in the Southeast Award from the Southeastern College Art Conference.
The award honors museum professionals who advance the arts in higher education by facilitating cooperation among teachers and administrators who are concerned with the development of art in their institutions and their communities.
The SECAC promotes art in higher education and serves more than 300 individual members and more than 100 institutional members.

Patricia Kalivoda, coordinator of faculty development in the Office of Instructional Support and Development, has been elected to a three-year term on the Core Committee of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.
The Core Committee is the governing board of this large academic association of professionals in faculty and instructional development from more than a dozen countries, including the United States and Canada.

Two faculty members in the department of history have won awards for their work.
Assistant professor Claudio Saunt won the Bolton-Kinnaird Award from the Western History Association for the best article of the year on Spanish borderlands history. His article, “‘The English has now a Mind to make Slaves of them all’: Creeks, Seminoles and the Problem of Slavery,” was published in the winter/spring 1998 issue of The American Indian Quarterly.
Assistant professor Michael Kwass won the Koren Prize for best article of the year from the Society for French Historical Studies. His award was for the essay “A Kingdom of Taxpayers: State Formation, Privilege and Political Culture,” published in the Journal of Modern History in fall 1998.

Librarian Gayle Williams has been appointed coordinator of Latin American Partnerships for the Association of Research Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, a temporary position funded by a U.S. department of education Title VI grant.
As a grant recipient, Williams is responsible for planning and executing formal agreements with Latin American research libraries to contribute to the LARRP journal table-of-contents database maintained at UT-LANIC and providing document delivery of database citations.
Over the next three years, Williams will travel to Bolivia, Guatemala, Trinidad and Uruguay to advise library partners on implementation and participation in LARRP. She also will continue her duties as bibliographer for Latin America, Spain and Portugal at the UGA library on a half-time basis during the first year of the grant.

Jennifer Frum, research coordinator in the Office of International Development, received a Fulbright grant to attend a seminar in the U.S.- Germany International Education Administrators Program.

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