| The recipients of the 2004 Walter Barnard Hill
Awards and the Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service
and Outreach Fellow were announced by the Office of the Vice President
for Public Service and Outreach on Jan. 29. Winners were recognized
at a luncheon banquet during the annual Public Service and Outreach
Conference.
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Rusty Brooks |
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Stephen Condrey |
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Judy Harrison |
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Anant Jain |
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Kenneth Lewis |
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Richard Rohs |
This year’s Hill Award recipients are Rusty Brooks, Vinson
Institute of Government; Judy A. Harrison, College of Family and
Consumer Sciences; Anant V. Jain, Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
and College of Veterinary Medicine; Kenneth L. Lewis, Cooperative
Extension Service and College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences; and F. Richard Rohs, Cooperative Extension Service and
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The 2004 Hill
Fellow is Stephen E. Condrey, of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
Named for former UGA chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, the Hill Awards
recognize distinguished achievement in public service and outreach
by faculty members and service professionals. Recipients are expected
to have made contributions to improving the quality of life in Georgia
that go beyond the normal accomplishments of a faculty member. Improvements
may be in the areas of program development and management, extension
and public service instruction, technical assistance, applied research,
or development of instructional materials. Recipients are awarded
a permanent salary increase and become eligible to be selected later
as Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow. Similar
to a distinguished professorship, this fellowship is the highest
award offered in public service and outreach.
Stephen Condrey
Stephen E. Condrey, program manager for the human resource management
program at the Vinson Institute of Government, was named the 2004
Hill Fellow. Since receiving a Hill Award in 1998, Condrey has developed
more than 100 new projects for the management program, totaling
almost $1 million in contracts. He manages the majority of technical
assistance projects within the program and has also served as co-principal
investigator of a $1.5-million grant to assess Georgia’s welfare
reform efforts. Condrey also served as principal investigator of
a study to examine the economic impact of the Georgia Lottery.
Condrey is also an author and editor and a professor in UGA’s
School of Public and International Affairs. His teaching expertise
has been shared with audiences beyond Georgia: he has taught human
resource management at both the Russia Academy of Atomic Energy
in Moscow and at the Shanghai Administrative Institute in China.
Rusty Brooks
Hill Award winner Rusty Brooks, an associate professor in the Vinson
Institute of Government’s International Center for Democratic
Governance and in the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, develops national and international programs in economic
development for governments, non-governmental organizations and
the private sector through his work at the Vinson Institute.
Over the years, Brooks has served as an ambassador for the university
by providing training, lectures and technical assistance on sustainable
development in Ukraine, Croatia, Zimbabwe, the Republic of Georgia
and China. In the state of Georgia, Brooks is responsible for the
development of programs focused on developing heritage tourism based
on the historic and cultural resources found throughout the state.
Judy Harrison
Judy A. Harrison, an associate professor and extension foods specialist
in the department of foods and nutrition in the College of Family
and Consumer Sciences, has created a variety of innovative programs
to educate adults and children in Georgia about food-borne illness.
“Smart Kids Fight BAC,” a curriculum for kindergarten
through third grade, and “Fight BAC! With Allen and Bernie,”
for adults, are two such programs Harrison has developed. She also
educates county extension agents in home food preservation and has
trained 159 agents from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Texas,
as well as home food preservation industry professionals from the
United States and Canada.
Anant Jain
Anant V. Jain, senior public service associate and head of the toxicology
section at the Athens Diagnostic Laboratory in the College of Veterinary
Medicine, has been an important force in establishing the toxicology
section of the lab as a national leader in test development and
validation. Jain has developed, validated and implemented 40 analytical
procedures used in the lab; since joining the university, he has
provided more than 18,000 toxicology reports to veterinarians and
performed more than 5,000 consultations. One of the first procedures
Jain developed was used to detect aflatoxins in mixed feeds containing
citrus pulp, considered to be a high-energy source in feed given
to cattle. He has also developed a screening procedure for detecting
nitrate that accumulates in forages during drought and that can
poison livestock.
Kenneth Lewis
Kenneth L. Lewis, county extension coordinator and agricultural
and natural resources agent for Crisp County, coordinates the educational
programming for about 150 full-time farmers. Lewis also helped his
county receive a $20 million community grant from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture Enterprise Zone program. The funds will be used to
develop local partnerships and programs to increase local employment,
economic stability and quality of life for the area. The extensive
knowledge Lewis has acquired through his research about watermelon
crops, a major economic force in Crisp County, has made him a valuable
resource to fellow extension agents seeking advice on assisting
growers with crop problems.
Richard Rohs
F. Richard Rohs, a professor and extension staff development specialist
in the department of agricultural leadership, education and communication,
trains extension professionals from both an in-service and a graduate-education
perspective. Rohs helped develop the Southern Extension Leadership
Development Program and later implemented the Leadership Development
Program in Georgia, which helps participants develop a plan to increase
their leadership and managerial knowledge and skill. These plans
then provide the foundation for follow-up training seminars. Through
Rohs’s programs, an estimated $15 million has been saved in
training, development and employee replacement costs by reducing
turnover of faculty and staff.
Rohs has also developed the master of extension education degree
that has become the primary advanced degree for extension service
professionals.
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