Monday, September 18, 2000
Made in the shade
Reaching out
Committees begin searches for new directors of Vinson, Fanning institutes
Anderson named first Sterling-Goodman Professor
Info about weather-related closings available from many sources
Professor’s career choices take her down roads less traveled
Social work names new associate dean, director of Ph.D. program
Held in high regard
Kudos
Brent Berlin, Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology, received the Martín De La Cruz Award from the Academia Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional for his work and research projects on ethnomedicine, medical ethnobotany and ethno-pharmacology. The award will be presented to Berlin Nov. 14 in Mexico City at the 14th International Congress of Traditional Medicine in the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Associate professor of agricultural and applied economics Andrew Keeler has received a 12-month appointment to the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. While serving on the council’s staff, Keeler will participate in the negotiations over an international agreement to address global climate change and will collaborate in the writing of the Economic Report of the President. He will also be responsible for the council’s studies on the economic aspects of environmental issues. His council term began in July.
The President’s Council of Economic Advisors is an advisory body selected by the president to analyze and interpret economic developments, to appraise programs and activities of the government and to formulate and recommend national economic policy to promote employment, production and purchasing power under free competitive enterprise.

John McKissick, coordinator of the Center of Agribusiness and Economic Development, has been appointed to the technical advisory committee of the Rural Development Council.
Initiated in August 1999, the Georgia Rural Council is the collaborative effort of extension agents, economists, farmers and politicians to develop a comprehensive assessment of the economic conditions and prospects in rural Georgia. The council also seeks to use this knowledge to improve the quality of life of rural Georgians through economic development. The technical advisory committee is responsible for the preparation the annual “State of Rural Georgia” report, which offers a rigorous analysis of rural economies and expert opinion on how they could be further developed. The TAC is also consulted by the Rural Council in regards to specific projects, key development issues, and requests for assistance.

Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry Henry F. Schaefer III received the Gold Medal of Comenius University in a ceremony in Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Gold Medal of Comenius University is given to “persons who have made outstanding contributions to science, to Comenius University and to the country of Slovakia.” The recipient of the 1999 Gold Medal was U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Schaefer received a separate honor with a similar title, the Gold Medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University, in a second ceremony. During the same trip to central Europe, Schaefer delivered the First Ede Kapuy Lecture at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary.


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