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Columns::April 21, 2003

Honors and Awards
UGA’s top students and teachers recognized at Honors Day ceremony
University hosts state championship for future problem solvers
The greening of South Campus
Flower(ing) power: UGA scientists plot key events in plant evolution
Office of Research Services appoints a new director
Education dean receives diversity award from housing residents
On-the-job training: Engineers team up with businesses for new designs
Lifelong interest in animals leads prof to career as wildlife biologist
Retirees
Forum essay: International education
Making a scene
Across the board

Campus News

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Three College of Education faculty members—Ronald Cervero, Sharan Merriam and Karen Watkins—were inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.
Cervero, professor and department head of adult education, has contributed groundbreaking theory and research in professional practice and program development.
Merriam, professor of adult education, has made significant contributions to the field of adult education in philosophical foundations, adult learning and development, and qualitative research methods.
Watkins, professor of adult education and director of the School of Leadership and Lifelong Learning, has worked over the years on the theory and practice of many dimensions, factors and approaches to adult learning, including learning organizations, action learning, workplace learning, reflective learning, informal learning, incidental learning and facilitating learning.
The IACE Hall of Fame was incorporated in 1995 to recognize “innovative leaders who believe passionately in the evolutionary power of education, and who are exemplary lifelong learners who have left lasting impressions on the students, institutions and organizations they have served.”

“Techniques for Mapping Suburban Sprawl” by Jeanne Epstein, Karen Payne and Liz Kramer has been awarded the second place 2003 ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems. The paper was published in the Journal of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
All three authors work for UGA’s Institute of Ecology. Epstein is the education program specialist for the Georgia land use trends project of the institute’s Natural Resources and Spatial Analysis Laboratory. Kramer is director of the National Resources and Spatial Analysis Laboratory.
Currently with UGA’s Marine Extension program, Payne is the former project coordinator for NARSAL’s Georgia

Carl McCoy

GAP analysis project.

Carl L. McCoy, public service assistant with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has been elected to the executive committee of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations.
The executive committee makes all key decisions affecting the operations and work program for the section, which currently numbers approximately 500. McCoy provides technical assistance to local government through the institute’s human resources management section.

Michael J. Padilla, associate dean for educator partnerships in the College of Education, received the 2003 Distinguished Service to Science Education Award from the National Science Teachers Association.
Padilla, who has been a national leader and scholar in science education for the past 25 years, was a

major contributor to the National Science Education Standards sponsored and released by the National Academy of Sciences in 1996. He was the primary writer of both the teaching and professional development components of the standards.

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