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Columns::September 17, 2001

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Dorothy F. Carrillo, director of UGA-Gwinnett Extended Education and Outreach, has begun a two-year term as president of the Georgia Association for Women in Education.
GAWE is a statewide, professional association dedicated to providing professional support for women educators through programs, services, advocacy and publications. GAWE also administers the Louise McBee Scholarship.
A member of GAWE since 1991, Carrillo has previously served as vice-president for membership and vice-president for professional development.

Food Services received three national menu awards during the 2000-2001 academic year.
UGA entered its “Dinner on the Wild” event into the national competition.
The three food service award-winning menus are: residence hall/standard menu (second place); residence hall/special special event (first place) for “Dinner on the Wild”; and residence hall/special event (second place) for Dinner at the Spa-Good For You Gourmet.

Roy Grant, associate professor of music, received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Music Therapy from the American Music Therapy Association.

Margarethe Hoenig, professor of physiology and pharmacology and small animal medicine, has been re-elected president of the International Society for Comparative Endocrinology.

Three historians won four top book awards during the 2000-2001 academic year.
Associate professor of history Michael Kwass won the David Pinkney Prize for the best book in French history published in 2000. His book is Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Egalité, Fiscalité.
Kwass’s colleagues Claudio Saunt and Chana Kai Lee also won major book awards.
Assistant professor of history Claudio Saunt received the Sydnor and Wheeler-Vogelin prizes for his first book, A New Order of Things: Property, Power and the Transformation of the Creek Indians. The Sydnor Prize is awarded by the Southern Historical Association for the most distinguished book in Southern history published for the year. The Wheeler-Vogelin Prize is given by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
Associate professor of history Chana Kai Lee’s book For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer won the

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Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians.

Rebecca Mullis, chair of the foods and nutrition department, is working to develop a comprehensive health plan to address women’s health as a part of a think tank established by the Georgia Department of Community Health’s Office of Women’s Health. The group will spend the next year developing the health plan and establishing a variety of outcomes and indicators that can be measured in the future.

Steve Stahl, a professor of reading education and director of the College of Education’s Reading Clinic, received the Research into Practice Award from the American Educational Research Association for an article he wrote about research on different learning styles.
Stahl was recognized for his article “Different Strokes for Different Folks? A Critique of Learning Styles.” The article appeared in American Educator, a magazine published by the American Federation of Teachers.

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