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English prof receives Fulbright
An associate professor of English at UGA has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to spend an academic year teaching and conducting research in Hungary.
Don McCreary will fulfill a lifelong ambition to study in the storied European nation when he begins teaching in Budapest in late summer.
“As a linguist, I have always been intrigued by Hungary,” says McCreary. “I have seen dozens of Hungarian students in my English as a Second Language classes here and at the University of Delaware. They have always been among the most thoughtful intellectuals that I have been privileged to teach, and have been, without exception, the very best writers. The country has a difficult language and a culture that is rapidly modernizing but with considerable traditional influences from multi-ethnic groups such as the Gypsies. It’s all fascinating to me.”
McCreary will teach applied linguistics fall semester at Peter Pazmany Catholic University near Budapest and also work at the Center for Advanced Language and Learning and at the Foreign Languages Examination Board in Budapest itself. In the spring of 2002, he will be affiliated with the English department at the Teacher Training College of Nyiregyhaza in eastern Hungary near Ukraine.
This is McCreary’s second Fulbright Award. In his first, he taught and conducted research at the National University of Malaysia in 1991-92.
Law students win Jessup Competition
For the sixth time, the School of Law has claimed the championship in the Southeastern Regionals of the 42nd annual Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. The UGA team also captured the awards for best oralist (Clint Pridgen) and third best brief in the competition.
With the overall team victory, UGA secures a bid to the international finals in Washington, D.C., April 1-7, where national teams from 10 regions will compete against champions from around the world.
Representing UGA were second-year law students Claudia Campo, Rob McNiff, Clint Pridgen and Megan Watkins. Third-year student Anne Allen Westbrook served as student coach, and former world champion team member Myra Creighton, now a partner at the Atlanta law firm of Fisher and Phillips, acted as team adviser and coach.
This year’s hypothetical case concerned a dispute between two nations over their water boundary and the legality under international law of a seabed mining facility operated by one of the countries. UGA went 6-0 in the regional competition, defeating the University of South Carolina and Stetson, St. Thomas and Nova universities in the preliminary rounds; the University of Miami in the semifinals; and the University of Florida in the finals, in a unanimous decision.
Student selected for designers’ forum
Kate Jones, a third-year master of fine arts theater design graduate student, has been chosen to participate in the national Young Designers’ Forum 2001 March 21-24 in Long Beach, Calif. Jones is the first student selected from the drama department’s graduate design program to participate in the program.
She was selected in the areas of both scenic and costume design, though students are usually selected in only one of the three areas of eligibility (theatrical costume design, scenic design or lighting design). Participation is by juried selection and is limited to no more than 20 students in the nation.
A project of the United States Institute for Theater Technology, the Young Designers’ Forum brings together the nation’s most talented students with established designers and directors for a review and discussion of the students’ theatrical design portfolio. The forum is held in conjunction with the USITT national conference.
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