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Columns::April 8, 2002
UGA honors: Research, scholarly endeavors recognized
Former UGA First Lady, Ruth Stanford, dies in Americus
Online journal features undergrad research in humanities and arts
Four UGA students receive Goldwater Scholarships
Lineup for 2002-03 Performing Arts Center season announced
Carl Vinson Institute of Government marks 75 years of ‘instituting change for a better Georgia’
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Campus Closeup
Update: Private Giving
Kudos
Life’s a reef
Words of welcome
Campus News
UGA celebrates its ‘many faces’ of academic excellence
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
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.
In case of inclement weather, the program will be held in the Ramsey Student Center. A decision to move to the Ramsey Center will be made by 10 a.m. and announced on Athens radio stations and the UGAToday Web site (www.uga.edu/news/).
Undergraduate classes will be cancelled for sixth, seventh and eighth periods (1:25-4:25 p.m.) so students and faculty can attend Honors Day.
Several hundred students who rank in the top 5 percent of their class will be recognized. They include 42 First Honor Graduates--students who have maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average during their academic careers at UGA--as well as students who have been elected to scholastic and leadership honor societies and those who have received national or international scholarships and fellowships.
Honors Day is also the first public introduction of winners of UGA’s top teaching awards for the year. Among them are recipients of the Josiah Meigs Award--the highest honor given for teaching excellence--and the Richard B. Russell Award, which recognizes young faculty for outstanding teaching.
This year’s Meigs Award winners are Ronald L. Bogue, comparative literature, and Jeffry M. Netter, banking and finance. The Russell Award recipients are C. Ann Hollifield, telecommunications; Stefanie A. Lindquist, political science; and Marc L. Lipson, banking and finance. Linda Medleau, small animal medicine, will be recognized as winner of the Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award.
Faculty members chosen as outstanding teachers in schools and colleges will be introduced, and awards will be presented for excellence in academic advising and for special efforts to encourage undergraduate research.
The UGA Symphonic Band, under the direction of F. David Romines and Brett Bawcum, will provide music for Honors Day. A reception for all student and faculty honorees and their guests will follow the program.
Larson, who is also head of the history department, will give a speech titled “Historical Reflections on a Memorable Year.” A former recipient of the Russell teaching award, he has received the Christ-Janer Award for outstanding research in the humanities from UGA, and has held the Fulbright Program’s John Adams Chair of American History in the Netherlands.
In addition to his 1997 book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Larson is author of three other books and numerous other publications. |
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