Monday, October 2, 2000
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Kudos
Ron Carlson, Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Law, is one of two national recipients of this year’s Harrison Tweed Award for Special Merit in Continuing Legal Education. Carlson, an expert in criminal law, received the award from the American Law Institute-American Bar Association during a ceremony in New York City.
Tweed Award recipients are recognized for significant contributions to continuing legal education at the national or state level, as well as career achievements in advancing the education of the bar. Harrison Tweed (1885-1969) was a member of the New York City Bar who served as president of the American Law Institute and first chairman of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education.

Robert T. Golembiewski, Research Professor of Public Administration, was honored at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management in Toronto, Canada. Based on publications in the academy’s three journals, Golembiewski was named a charter member of the academy’s Hall of Fame. All members of the association since 1950 were Hall of Fame candidates. The total pool of eligible candidates numbered in the tens of thousands. Golembiewski was among the top four choices, who were joined by 29 others at three levels of rated publication. He is joined by two LSU and Florida scholars representing the Southeastern states among academy members, who are typically in schools of business and management.

Peter G. Klein, assistant professor of economics in the Terry College of Business, is serving as senior economist for industrial organization on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. Klein is responsible for the council’s studies on competition, regulation, and other microeconomic issues. He will also collaborate on writing the economic report of the president. His council term began in July.
The President’s Council of Economic Advisors is 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.

Former provost S. William Pelletier, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and director of the Institute for Natural Products Research, has been elected vice president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy. Following his one-year term as vice president, Pelletier will become president of the society.
The American Society of Pharmacognosy is dedicated to chemical and biological research on plant, animal and marine products that may lead to the discovery of compounds useful in the treatment of human disease entities.

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