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Columns::April 8, 2002

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UGA Honors: Research, scholarly endeavors recognized

The university honored outstanding faculty and graduate students April 3 at the 20th annual research awards banquet sponsored by the non-profit University of Georgia Research Foundation. The event recognized exceptional accomplishments in UGA research and scholarly endeavors.
Creative Research Awards went to Clifton A. Baile, Peter H. Hauschildt and Karen S. Calhoun. Both Baile and Hauschildt received the Lamar Dodd Award, which recognizes exceptional research activity in the sciences. Calhoun received the William A. Owens Award for her scholarly and creative activities in the social and behavioral sciences.

UGA celebrates its ‘many faces’ of academic excellence

From young freshmen relishing their first Dean’s List appearance to seasoned professors still fired with a zeal to teach, the university celebrates its many faces of academic excellence April 10 with the annual Honors Day program.
Outstanding undergraduates, faculty, teaching assistants and academic advisers will be honored during the 2 p.m. program in the law school quadrangle on North Campus, between Old College and the main library. Edward Larson, the Russell Professor of History and winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for history, will be the Honors Day speaker.

Traditional American music comes to Hodgson Hall

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason will appear at the Performing Arts Center April 13 in a concert called “American Classics--The Civil War and Beyond.”
Fiddler and composer Jay Ungar gained national attention when his composition, “Ashokan Farewell,” was featured by Ken Burns in the award-winning PBS documentary, The Civil War. Ungar was born and raised in New York to immigrant--Hungarian and Macedonian--parents.
Mason began her musical career in the mid-’70s as an accomplished and versatile accompanist on guitar and later adding piano, bass, and singing to her list of credentials.

Former UGA First Lady, Ruth Stanford, dies in Americus

Ruth King Stanford

Ruth King Stanford, the wife of University of Georgia President Emeritus Henry King Stanford, died March 31 in Americus. Mrs. Stanford, 87, had been in failing health for some time.
There will be no funeral or memorial service.
Ruth Stanford was UGA’s First Lady from June of 1986 until July of 1987, the year in which her husband led the university between the administrations of Fred C. Davison and Charles B. Knapp.
Known for their friendliness, high energy and good humor, the Stanfords earned a reputation as goodwill ambassadors for UGA, travelling the state to tout the university’s growing academic excellence and urge alumni and state leaders to support the institution.

Cameron Anderson of Centerville (left) and Matt Stone of Warner Robins attended the recent training workshop for newly elected municipal officials.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government marks 75 years of ‘instituting change for a better Georgia’

First, there was the Institute of Public Affairs, then the Institute for the Study of Georgia Problems, followed by the Institute of Law and Government, the Institute of Government and, finally, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
The name may have changed, but after 75 years the outreach mission remains essentially the same. This year, the Vinson Institute is celebrating its diamond anniversary with special events, a local community service project, a commemorative resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives, and the 23rd Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators in December.

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