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Columns::January 22, 2002

Reaching out: Strategic plan for campus diversity efforts drafted
Bob Boehmer to coordinate strategic planning, assessment
Civil War scholar will deliver Charter Lecture
Undergrad apprentice program introduces freshmen to research
Social work professor pens book about civil rights ‘foot soldier’
Held in high (self) esteem
Ethics at the edges
Campus Closeup
Vet medicine holds annual white-coat ceremony
Common Concerns

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Tony Capomacchia, interim head of the College of Pharmacy’s department of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, received a Role Model Citation from Minority Access, Inc.
The Minority Access program is completing its second year of a five-year cooperative agreement with the Office of Minority Health of the National Institutes of Health to identify role models of various types.
Capomacchia began a recruitment program in 1992 to increase the number of domestic graduate students in his department to 50 percent of the total. At that time 90 percent of the graduate students were international; no minority students were enrolled in graduate study.
In 1998, minority enrollment was six, increasing to 11 in 2000, or 20.3 percent of the total graduate enrollment. The College of Pharmacy expects to graduate two minority Ph.D. students in 2003 and one in 2004.

The International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England, listed Robert T. Golembiewski, Distinguished Research Professor of Public Management and Political Science, among its “Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century” and also on its list of “1,000 Great Americans.”

Larry Jones of the Institute of Higher Education has been given the Distinguished Membership award by the Association of Institutional Research. It is a lifetime achievement award for outstanding contributions in institutional research. AIR members include those on college campuses who provide management research and policy analysis. Jones is among 22 AIR members who have received this award in the 41 years that it has been given.

Warren Safter, environmental health and safety manager for the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, received the National Safety Council’s Distinguished Service to Safety Award. The award is the highest honor given to an individual for outstanding service in safety.
Safter is the former assistant director of public safety at UGA and past president of the Campus Safety Association. For 21 years he has worked to protect the health and safety of employees and students at colleges and universities. He has been active in local and national organizations devoted to protecting the public and the environment from radiation.

David Silvian, producer/director at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education’s television services department, presented a video at the 14th biennial conference of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children in Barcelona, Spain.
The video, Manifesto for Children, was part of the presentation “The Continuing Legacy of E. Paul Torrance,” which focused on the life of the UGA professor emeritus. The video was produced by Silvian and written by his wife, Alice, of the South Carolina Partnership for Distance Education.
The conference presentation addressed the scope of Torrance’s work, including the development of the Future Problem-Solving Program, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, the Longitudinal Study on Creative Talent and the Incubation Model.

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