Milner Ball, holder of the Harmon W. Caldwell Chair in Constitutional Law, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hamline University School of Law’s Journal of Law and Religion.

This honor is bestowed annually on someone whose life and work exemplifies the vision and work of the publication, an interfaith periodical committed to the integrated disciplines of law, religion and ethics.

Ball, who is also an ordained Presbyterian minister, has been a major contributor to the fields of law and religion for more than three decades. Through his work, he strives to promote a dialogue on the relationship between theology and law.

He supplements his scholarly pursuits with many social causes. Passionate about social justice, he is the founder of the UGA School of Law’s Public Interest Practicum, a program that places law students in local soup kitchens, housing projects and other settings where they offer legal support to the poor, needy and disenfranchised.

Jim Barsness and Radcliffe Bailey, two painting and drawing professors in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, are among only 20 national winners of an award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

They each received a grant of $15,000 in recognition of artistic merit and financial need to further their artistic careers.

The Mitchell Foundation strives to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities. To further this mandate, the foundation provides grants, stipends and scholarships for painters and sculptors.

Established in 1994, the foundation’s Painters and Sculptors Grant Program is conducted annually with the selection of 20 recipients. The foundation celebrates the unique legacy of Joan Mitchell as an American artist by encouraging the ambitions of developing artists.

Michael Doyle

Michael Doyle, Regents Professor of Food Microbiology and director of the UGA Center for Food Safety in Griffin, has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, the institute is a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on issues related to human health.

By accepting their election, members commit to devoting a significant amount of volunteer time as members of IOM committees whose work focuses on health policy issues.

Stephen Holland

Steven M. Holland, professor of geology, received the Charles Schuchert Award in recognition of work that “reflects excellence and quality” by a paleontologist under the age of 40.

The international award is normally presented to one individual each year by the Paleontological Society at the annual conference of the Geological Society of America.

Holland’s research integrates computer simulations of the fossil record with extensive field data on the richly fossiliferous Ordovician sequences of the eastern United States.

Holland is also the recipient of the Society for Sedimentary Geology’s 2000 James Lee Wilson Award for excellence in sedimentary geology by a young scientist.

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