Monday, March 26, 2001
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The staff of UGA’s environmental safety division--Ken Scott, Chad Jordan, Bob Wentworth, An Nguyen, Amy Andrews, Maria Kuhn, Bill Favaloro, Mark Demyanek, Marge Massey and Greg Bell--received a 2000 Governor’s Pollution Prevention Award from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
The award is presented to organizations that “demonstrate outstanding leadership and commitment to Georgia’s environment through innovative pollution prevention efforts.” The winner in the academia category, UGA was recognized for pollution-prevention programs such as the e-mail listserve that allows laboratories to post and exchange surplus chemicals and a training course to promote inventory management. The university’s Poultry Nutrient Management Program Team and Cooperative Extension Service were honorable mention award winners.

A book by Edmund Feldman, emeritus professor of art, has been translated into Chinese and distributed for use in Taiwan.
Written for art educators at many grade levels, Philosophy of Art Education is already used as a textbook in Israel, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. According to Feldman, it “endeavors to give the reader good reasons why art in all its styles, media and technique is necessary for the education of all citizens as well as art students, designers, critics and collectors.”

Mel Hill, the Robert G. Stephens Jr. Senior Fellow in Law and Government in the Institute of Higher Education and a former director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, received an honorary diploma from Uzhgorod State University, Ukraine, “in recognition of his significant impact on the development of friendship and cooperation between the Uzhgorod State University and the University of Georgia.”

Judy Purdy, a marketing and outreach specialist for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’s education, communication and technology unit, received the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Best Paper Award for the Agricultural-Communications Section.
The agricultural communications section of SAAS holds an annual three-day meeting of communications professionals from Southern land-grant universities. Peer-reviewed papers accepted for presentation at the meeting represent a variety of communications research topics.
The judges voted unanimously to award Best Paper to “What’s with the Dog? Using Student Focus Groups to Guide Nontraditional Recruitment Efforts,” written by Purdy and colleagues Jay Bauer and Carol Williamson, also of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Georgia Center for Continuing Education’s television services department has received four honors from the 22nd Annual Telly Awards, which showcase and give recognition to outstanding non-network and cable TV commercials and programming.
Producer David Silvian’s Horace Farlowe: A Carver of Stone was awarded a silver Telly (the award’s highest honor) and his production Hugh Kenner: A Modern Master received a bronze Telly (as an award “finalist”). Producer Andrew J. Permar received a bronze Telly for Zell Miller: A Great Georgian, while producer George Rodrigues received a bronze Telly for Foot Soldier for Equal Justice.

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