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College of Education Faculty Awards

Mary M. Frasier, director of urban initiatives and professor of educational psychology, has been named the 2002 Aderhold Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, and Andy Horne, professor of counseling and an expert in bullying and behavior problems in children, has received the 2002 Russell H. Yeany Jr. Research Award.
Frasier has brought national and international recognition to the college for her work in identifying and teaching students who are underrepresented in gifted education programs. She has worked selflessly as a mentor to many faculty and students during her 27-year tenure at UGA. In an era when the country began to question the equity of educational programming and realize that many poor and minority students were being denied equal opportunity, Frasier moved beyond the rhetoric.
As a researcher, scholar and advocate, she has had a profound effect on changing the way children are assessed for gifted services. She designed the Frasier Talent Assessment Profile (F-TAP), a comprehensive assessment system with multiple indicators that is much more effective in assessing the gifts and talents of low-income and minority children than single-indicator tests previously used. She has worked with school districts throughout the nation to implement this assessment.
In Georgia, the entire state changed its criteria due in large part to Frasier and her work with the Georgia Department of Education Task Force on the Revision of Rules and Regulations for the Identification of Gifted Students.
“Mary’s work in revising state of Georgia criteria for selecting students into gifted programs has made a tremendous impact on public schools in which I work across the state. A much broader range of students now has the opportunity for special services of gifted programs,” says Sally Hudson Ross, professor of language education and co-director of UGA-NETS, an innovative teacher mentoring program. “I am aware of this impact from discussions with mentor teachers with whom I’ve worked for eight years and with pre-service teachers who clearly understand these criteria--and their import--from their special education courses and school experiences.”
Andy Horne, recipient of the Yeany Award, is director of a multidisciplinary research project that is helping to design and test a national model for the prevention of aggression in middle schools. The Multisite Violence Prevention Project, funded by a $12.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control, involves collaborative work with researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth and Duke universities.
Horne is also director of Project A.C.T. Early: Advancing the Competencies of Teachers for Early Behavioral Interventions of At-Risk Children, which has won national attention over the last several years.
He has been principal investigator for several National Institute of Health grants exploring developmental aspects of behavior problems in children and was director of the Family Research Program, a project that examined the collaborative methods of helping families, schools and juvenile justice systems address problems of conduct.
The Yeany Research Award was established in 1998 to recognize outstanding cumulative research and is made possible by a gift from Russell H. Yeany Jr., dean emeritus of the college. The award winner receives a plaque, a one-time cash award of $1,000, and a $2,000 grant for professional development.
Four other College of Education faculty teaching awards have been given for the 2001-02 academic year:
• Diane Samdahl, an associate professor in recreation and leisure studies, received the D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence recognizing an associate or full professor.
• Norm Thomson, an assistant professor in science education, received the D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence traditionally awarded to an assistant professor.
• Peg Graham, an associate professor in language education, received the college’s Award for Teaching Excellence.
• Georgia Calhoun, an assistant professor in counseling and human development services, received the college’s Outstanding Teaching Award.

--Michael Childs

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