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Columns::April 7, 2003

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Diane Batts Morrow, assistant professor of history and African-American studies, won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial

Kenneth Scott

Publication Prize for the Best Book in Black Women’s History for 2002. The award is given by the Association of Black Women Historians.
Morrow’s book, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
According to the letter informing Morrow of the prize selection committee’s decision, “The author has effectively mined obscure, 19th century documents to bring to life these fascinating and dedicated religious and socially conscious women.”

Kenneth Scott, associate vice president of the Environmental Safety Division, has been awarded the University System of Georgia Office of Real Estate and Facilities’ 2002 Distinguished Service Award for Environmental Safety. Scott’s work at UGA has included spearheading development and implementation of a comprehensive emergency operations program.
The Service Award for Environmental Safety was created for the annual board of regents’ Facilities Officers’ Conference to recognize University System professionals who have provided “exemplary service

Thomas Slater

to their home institution as well as the system as a whole.”

Thomas B. Slater, associate professor of religion and African-American Studies, was the Jackson Lecturer at Southern Methodist University’s Ministers’ Week. The theme of the conference was “Faith and Popular Culture,” and Slater spoke on the topic “Context, Christology and Civil Disobedience in the Book of Revelation,” which focused on the popularization of Revelation in contemporary movies.
Held annually on the SMU campus, Ministers’ Week is a three-day conference for the alumni and friends of SMU’s Perkins School of Theology and serves as a major continuing education event. The Jackson Lectureship is one of five endowed lectureships for the conference, which regularly invites leading scholars in theology, religious ethics, religious history, biblical studies, sociology of religion and psychology of religion to speak.

Cynthia O. Vail, an associate professor in special education, has been reappointed to the state of

Cynthia Vail

Georgia’s Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Intervention.
The ICC advises the Department of Human Resources, the Division of Public Health and other agencies responsible for serving children from birth to age three with developmental delays and disabilities, and their families, in providing a family-centered, comprehensive service delivery system that promotes child development and family functioning.
Members of the state ICC are appointed by the governor and serve independently of any particular agency. Vail has served on the state ICC since her original appointment by then-Gov. Zell Miller in 1998. She currently presides as chair of the council.

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