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Columns::October 8, 2001
UGA responds to governor”s budget-reduction directive
Recipients of Brooks award for excellence announced
Federal, state laws cover university employees called to military service
New grants will fund two Brazilian projects
Taking the next steps
On the road again
UGA welcomes new faculty
On a mission
Stretching their skills
Campus News
Four named faculty fellows for scholarship program
By Joelle Prine
jprine@uga.edu
Four faculty members have been named as senior faculty fellows for the Foundation Fellows Program, the university’s premier undergraduate scholarship program.
Dan Coenen, William Lee, Annette Poulsen and Gregory Robinson have begun four-year terms serving as mentors and role models to the students in the fellowship program. They join a group of eight other senior faculty fellows who represent a range of academic disciplines from the humanities to the sciences.
“Our senior faculty fellows are chosen from a wide variety of disciplines on the basis of their nationally recognized scholarship and their demonstrated interest in undergraduate education,” says Steven Elliott-Gower, associate director of the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs.
Coenen, the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, received the Josiah Meigs Award, UGA’s highest teaching award, in 1998. Popular with students, Coenen has served as a UGA senior teaching fellow and was inducted into UGA’s Teaching Academy last year. He specializes in constitutional law, contracts and criminal law.
Lee is a professor of telecommunications in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. This summer, he received a grant from the Magness Institute at the National Cable Television Center and Museum to study First Amendment issues concerning the Internet and cable modems.
Poulsen, who holds the Augustus H. “Billy” Sterne Chair of Banking and Finance, teaches financial management and corporate finance in the Terry College of Business. She is director of UGA’s Center for Enterprise Risk Management and currently serves as editor of The Journal of Corporate Finance.
Robinson is Research Professor of Chemistry. His research is focused on the organometallic chemistry of the main group elements, including aluminum, gallium and indium. He previously has been an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technische Universitat Berlin.
“It is a great pleasure to welcome professors Coenen, Lee, Poulsen and Robinson to the Foundation Fellows Program,” says Jere Morehead, associate provost and director of the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs. “They are well respected on campus, and will make wonderful contributions to our program.”
Senior faculty fellows are assigned four to eight students and generally meet with them as a group once a semester, then follow up with individual contacts. Many senior faculty fellows have previous involvement with the Foundation Fellows program through participation in dinner seminars or travel-study programs.
The Foundation Fellows Program was established in 1972 by the trustees of the University of Georgia Foundation and is supported by a $56 million endowment. Currently, there are 90 students in the program.
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