Monday, November 27, 2000
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Marine science prof ‘harbors’ lifelong fascination with the sea
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Two parking lots will close for construction projects
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Derrick P. Alridge, assistant professor of social foundations of education, was selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow to study the history of the civil rights movement. Alridge held the fellowship this past summer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at Harvard University. His work as a fellow involved research for his book on W.E.B. Du Bois and development of a syllabus for his fall 2000 course on education and the civil rights movement.

Dhandapani Kannan, a professor in the department of mathematics, has been elected a member of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, which is a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Kannan was awarded a diploma as an Academician of the Academy of Nonlinear Sciences during the second international conference on stability and control of nonlinear systems, held in Moscow. Kannan presented a plenary lecture entitled “Risk-Sensitive Nonlinear Stochastic Filtering” at the conference. His area of specialization is applied probability. His current research interests include applications of stochastic differential equations to nonlinear filtering and finances and to
discrete-time stochastic flows.

David P. Landau, Research Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Simulational Physics, presented an invited talk at the Ising Centennial Colloquium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This special event was held to honor the birth of Ernst Ising, whose special theoretical model has become the “fruit fly” of statistical physics. (At last count there were more than 16,000 literature citations to his famous paper.) Landau’s presentation, “The Ising Model as a Playground for the Study of Wetting and Interface Phenomena,” described the results of a decade of increasingly powerful simulations carried out in the Center for Simulational Physics.

Finance professor Annette Poulsen began her term as president-elect of the 5,000-member Financial Management Association in October.

Marshall Welsh, cafeteria manager at Tate Student Center food
services, has been named a certified executive chef by the American Culinary Federation.
According to the ACF, certified executive chefs are educated in the areas of sanitation, nutrition and personnel supervision, pass a written test, have an employment experience equal to the level of certification granted and are professionally involved members of the culinary profession.

The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education television services department received two honorable mentions at the Columbus (Ohio) International Film and Video Festival. One honored program was Hugh Kenner, A Modern Master, written by Phil Williams, director of public information for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and co-produced by Williams and David Silvian of the Georgia Center. The other film was Zell Miller: A Great Georgian, produced by Andy Permar of the Georgia Center.

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