First journalism dean finalist visits campus to participate in open forum
The first of up to four finalists for the position of dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will be on campus for an open forum Feb. 8 at 9:30 a.m. in Drewry Reading Room in the journalism building.
John Soloski is director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. He has been on the faculty there since 1978 and was named director in 1997. He received bachelor’s degrees in English and political science from Boston College in 1974 and earned his master’s in journalism and Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Mass Comm Review and Communication Law and Policy. He has published several articles on the topic of libel law and sits on the executive committee of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The search committee is completing the list of finalists and will announce additional open forums in the coming weeks.
Larson named to Fulbright Chair
Edward J. Larson, Russell Professor of History and Law at UGA, has been named by the Fulbright Program as the holder of the prestigious John Adams Chair in American Studies for 2001. Larson left last month to begin a semester-long teaching commitment at the University of Leiden in Holland.
“The Fulbright Program is the premiere foreign academic outreach of our country,” Larson says. “I am honored to be asked to serve in this way.”
At the University of Leiden, he will teach two seminars in American law and American science policy. He will also research euthanasia, which is legal and quite common in Holland. Larson plans to do a comparative study of the laws and public sentiment surrounding the issue in Holland and the United States.
Larson will be making a number of return trips to the United States during the semester as he leads discussions across the country on the fragile environment of the Galapagos Islands, now threatened by a massive oil spill.
Students receive national fellowships
Two College of Education doctoral students are among only 14 scholars nationwide to receive American Educational Research Association/Spencer Foundation predissertation fellowships.
Michael S. Matthews and Kirsten C. Crowder, both seeking doctorates in educational psychology, received the awards that include a stipend of up to $16,000 plus additional support for travel to professional meetings and development courses.
Matthews is interested in the assessment of Spanish/English bilingual students. He is studying the development and evaluation of assessment methods that are less affected by linguistic and cultural differences than are the measures in common use.
Crowder, a student in the applied cognition and development program, is interested in the education of students with emotional disturbance and in qualitative research methods.
Grant helps train broadcast students
A grant to the university’s broadcast news program will put students on a par with their industry counterparts by allowing them to report news live from the field.
The $85,000 grant, awarded by UGA’s Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, will be used to purchase equipment that will permit students to report, edit and transmit news from a number of locations on campus without returning to their home base, the newsroom located at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The money will be used to purchase a generator for the satellite truck already owned by the broadcast news program. Use of the generator plus the purchase of satellite time will make it possible—for the first time—for students to do their own satellite live shots. |
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