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Columns::November 5, 2001

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Forest Resources staff awards
Campus Closeup
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Campus News

Kudos

Food microbiologists Larry Beuchat and Michael Doyle received the Partners in Public Health Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Center for Food Safety in Griffin, Beuchat and Doyle were nominated for the award by administrators at the National Center for Infectious Diseases.
Beuchat is an internationally recognized expert on fruits and vegetables. He was selected for the CDC honor based on his work on several outbreaks of Salmonella that were associated with raw tomatoes. Before Beuchat’s research, tomatoes were not viewed as potential vehicles for transmission of Salmonella. His research clearly showed the pathogen can grow and multiply on raw tomatoes at room temperature.
Doyle, director of UGA’s Center for Food Safety, was selected for the honor based on his participation in several investigations of large foodborne disease outbreaks. These investigations include a 1985 midwestern United States outbreak of Salmonellosis which affected approximately 250,000 people, and the 1998 hamburger-associated E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the western United States.

Retired faculty members Julie Horne and Bal Joshi joined a team of 11 North American volunteers who taught English to youngsters and adults in Spain.
Mornings were spent at local elementary schools, assisting the classroom teacher in conversational English lessons, and in the afternoons, volunteers had the opportunity to tutor adult students one-on-one.
The trip was organized by Global Volunteers, a private non-profit, nonsectarian international development organization based in St. Paul, Minn. Founded in 1984, Global Volunteers is a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Each year, Global Volunteers coordinates more than 150 teams of volunteers who participate on short-term human and economic development projects.

Bob Fecho, an assistant professor in reading education, has been elected to the executive committee of the Conference on

Karen Miller

English Education, a constituent group for teacher educators within the National Council of Teachers of English.
The executive committee is the primary governing body of the CEE. Committee members serve four-year terms. CEE provides a forum for sharing ideas on pre-service and in-service teacher education for English. More than 2,700 teacher educators, English language arts supervisors, curriculum developers, English department heads, and classroom teachers are members.
NCTE, with 77,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.

Karen Miller, associate professor of public relations, received the 2001 Institute for Public Relations “Pathfinder Award,” given annually to an individual for his or her contribution to research in the field.

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