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Columns::January 21, 2003

Common ground: Talking about race: UGA students explore sensitive topics
Federal judge will give annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture
New lecture series marks Founders’ Day
UGA honored for ‘transforming’ its school counseling program
Inaugural research grants awarded
Teaching Academy inducts new members
Power supply
Professor works to promote geography to ‘global’ community
Retirees
Minority recruitment at UGA
Floored by his own chair

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John Avise

Genetics professor John Avise has been named president of the national Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution for 2004. He will serve as president-elect during 2003.
This is Avise’s third national society presidency. He served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution in 1994 and president of the American Genetic Association in 2000.

Carmon Colangelo, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, participated in the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. His exhibition,“Da, Da, Da: Foundation of Age,” was shown at the Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool School of Art and Design, in Liverpool, England.
Throughout the biennial, the Liverpool School of Art and Design presented a series of exhibitions and events featuring work by research staff from the school and their international associates.
Colangelo’s exhibition featured mixed media prints combining lithography, silkscreen, intaglio and digital printing.

John Dagley, current head and graduate coordinator of counseling and human development services, was one of six scholars across the nation named a 2002 Fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. A founding member of the ASGW,

Henry Schaefer

Dagley was recognized for his contribution in teaching, research and writing about issues impacting counseling and the schools.
His research interests lie in scale construction and instrument development, family constellation variables, career development issues and construct of encouragement.

Henry F. Schaefer III, director of UGA’s Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry and Graham Purdue Professor of Chemistry, received the 2003 American Chemistry Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry.
The award recognizes Schaefer’s research in the field of theoretical chemistry. According to the society, award recipients have advanced theoretical methodology or contributed to new findings of chemical systems. The award includes $5,000 and a certificate.
The ACS recognized Schaefer “for his development of novel and powerful computational methods of electronic

Abraham Tesser

structure theory and their innovative use to solve important chemical problems.”
Schaefer also received an honorary degree from the Yunnan University in Kunming, China.

Abraham Tesser, professor emeritus and former director of the Institute for Behavioral Research, received the Career Contribution Award from the International Society for Self and Identity.
The award recognizes contributions to theory and research on self and identity that span a career, contributions which promote and inspire creative and integrative work.
Tesser’s scholarly contributions began with interests in processes of attitude formation and change, interpersonal relations and exchange, application, methodology and measurement, as well as contributions to the topic of self and identity.

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