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Columns::February 3, 2003
Symposium explores benefits of diversity in higher education
State budget woes: no raises likely, some positive news
Taste of home cooking
University Council will consider six new degrees and institute in engineering
University holds its first Nonprofit Expo
NSF grant will support teaching of science food in public schools
Researchers identify first active DNA transposons in rice genomes
Prof gets ‘leading’ role with students
Update: Private Giving
Newsmakers
Professor discusses legal ramifications of the USA Patriot Act
Birthday lecture
Campus News
Good works
2003 Hill Award recipients announced
By Nadine Randall
dini@uga.edu
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Donald Bower
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The recipients of the Walter Barnard Hill Awards and the Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow were recognized at a luncheon banquet during the annual Public Service and Outreach Conference on Jan. 29.
This year’s winner of the Hill Fellowship is Donald W. Bower, Cooperative Extension Service/Family and Consumer Sciences. The Hill Award winners are Scott Brown, Cooperative Extension Service/Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; John Glisson, avian medicine; William Merka, poultry science; Richard Milford, Vinson Institute of Government; and Jeffrey Sanford, Business Outreach Services/Small Business Development Center.
The Hill Awards, named for former UGA Chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, recognize distinguished achievement in public service and outreach by faculty members and service professionals. Each recipient is judged to have made contributions to the improvement of the quality of life in Georgia that exceed the normal accomplishments of a faculty member.
The award recipients receive a permanent salary increase and become eligible for appointment as a Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow. The fellowship, equivalent to a distinguished professorship, is the highest award offered in Public
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Scott Brown
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Service and Outreach.
Donald W. Bower, this year’s Hill Fellow, is an associate professor and human development specialist with the College of Family and Consumer Sciences Cooperative Extension Service. Bower has been instrumental in helping the extension service become the primary provider of parenting education in Georgia and has overseen the creation of a national model for assessing and credentialing parent educators.
His leadership in the Extension Occupant Safety Education Program has helped it become the primary source in Georgia for information and training in the use of child safety seats and other passenger safety equipment. In addition, Bower has taken the lead in planning the Georgia Family Policy Initiative, which will examine pending policy decisions from a family-impact perspective and provide practical recommendations.
Scott Brown has distinguished himself as a frontrunner in cutting-edge on-farm programming. He was the first county extension agent in Georgia--and one of the first in the nation--to test transgenic Bt cotton on the farm.
His studies have led to significant improvements in production and economic efficiency of crop diversity and insecticide use. Brown’s technical expertise and program input have earned him the D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Extension Programming, the
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Georgia King Cotton Award and the National Association of County Agricultural Agents Award.
John Glisson is recognized internationally for his significant improvements in the quality of services provided in poultry medicine. His fowl cholera vaccine is the most widely used product for chickens in the nation, and his vaccine for Newcastle disease is used in broiler production around the world.
As clinical services chief in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Glisson brought the college an increased number of submissions and clinical income; he was recently named the college’s director of public service and outreach.
Glisson also has gained acclaim for his teaching and research activities, as well as his involvement in national, state and local organizations.
William Merka has earned an international reputation as one of the most innovative extension poultry scientists in the field for his work in poultry waste management. Merka’s programs save the poultry industry more than $80 million annually and have significantly improved environmental protection measures.
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In addition, Merka and colleagues formed the National Poultry Waste Management Symposium, which has established a national dialogue among regulatory agencies, the poultry industry and the academic community to address environmental problems.
Richard Milford has established an impressive record of public service activities since he joined the Carl Vinson Institute of Government in 1987. As the program director over state government program evaluation initiatives with the Vinson Institute’s Governmental Services Division, Milford has provided technical assistance to the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Labor, the Supreme Court of Georgia and other state and local agencies. He also has developed a 10-year partnership between the Vinson Institute and the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education to evaluate technical college programs in workforce training and development.
One of Milford’s most innovative programs is the Local Government Mystery Shopper Program, the first of its kind in local government customer-service performance measurement.
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Milford has since directed a parallel national program.
Jeffrey Sanford has received national acclaim for assisting businesses, teaching business education programs, facilitating economic projects and developing innovative consulting tools.
As a rural economic development consultant in the Small Business Development Center’s Statesboro office, Sanford developed the nationally recognized Mystery Shopping Program to help rural businesses improve their facilities and customer service. Sanford’s programming successes led to his promotion to the Augusta SBDC office as a lead consultant and area director, and eventually to his appointment as the director of program development and quality assurance for the statewide SBDC program.
Since 1999 Sanford has received two grants from the Small Business Administration to start the Federal and State Technology Partnership initiative, which provides services to help businesses successfully introduce their technologies into the marketplace.
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