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Twins win Sullivan Award
Kelly and Coco Miller, twins on the women’s basketball team, won the Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete for 1999. The sisters, from Rochester, Minn., became the first athletes in the award’s 70-year history to win as a single entry.
“It’s an honor to be selected as this year’s recipient of the Sullivan Award,” says Kelly Miller, the SEC Player of the Year and, like her sister, a pre-med major and two-time Academic All-American. “We were up against a quality group of individuals and to be recognized as the top U.S. amateur athletes is a humbling experience.”
The other Sullivan Award finalists were Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne from Wisconsin; wrestler Stephen Neal of Cal State-Bakersfield; softball player Stacey Nuveman of UCLA; and diver Mark Ruiz from Orlando, Fla.
The award is presented by the Amateur Athletic Union, and the trophy was given to the Millers during the ceremony on April 6 in Manhattan.
Graduate Fellows Program begins
The University of Georgia Research Foundation and the Graduate School have initiated a Presidential Graduate Fellows Program to recruit exceptionally qualified students to UGA graduate programs. The inaugural class of 11 recipients--10 doctoral candidates and one master’s candidate--has been selected. “This group of students is highly recruited,” says Gordhan Patel, dean of the Graduate School. “They will bring unique qualifications to their respective graduate programs.”
The Presidential Graduate Fellows Program awards are for multiple years of support with an annual stipend of $20,000 and a waiver of tuition. Funding for the program is provided by the UGA Research Foundation, the Graduate School, and the student’s department.
Students entering UGA with a bachelor’s degree are guaranteed up to five years of funding, and students entering with a master’s degree are guaranteed up to three years of support, contingent on satisfactory performance and progress toward degree completion.
In addition to being engaged in research and graduate studies on a full-time basis, the recipients are expected to participate in monthly discussion groups with other Fellows and selected faculty and to serve as mentors to undergraduate students involved in research activities.
Sculptor’s documentary premieres
A documentary on the work of UGA sculptor Horace Farlowe will premiere on Georgia Public Television April 23 at 1 p.m.
The show will trace, from conception to design, a large water sculpture Farlowe made for Exploris, a new children’s museum dedicated to global education, in Raleigh, N.C.
“It was wonderful to learn about the art of stone carving and how a talented and creative individual such as Horace Farlowe goes about designing, carving and installing a complicated piece of sculpture like the one he did for Exploris,” says David Allen Silvian of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and director/co-producer for the project.
The documentary was written and co-produced by Athenian Nancy Lloyd and narrated by Robb Holmes of the Georgia Center. It opens with scenes from the Georgia Marble Company’s quarries near Tate where the marble for Farlowe’s installation was cut from stone laid down some 600 million years ago. From the beginning, Farlowe had decided to use Georgia marble, which has a long history of use in major American buildings and monuments, including the U. S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.
Farlowe, who has taught sculpture and created his own work at UGA since 1980, will retire at the end of spring semester.
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