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Studies Institute gets DOE grant
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the African Studies
Institute a three-year grant of $364,818 to help develop a sustainable
African studies curriculum that can be used in other Georgia universities.
UGA will be working with the African Studies Council, a consortium
of schools in the University System of Georgia, and plans for the
grant include the teaching of African languages in selected institutions.
Collaborating institutions are UGA, Columbus State University and
Georgia State University, according to Lioba Moshi, director of
UGA’s African Studies Institute.
“The benefits of establishing the systemwide African studies
certificate will be immediate, broad and enduring,” says Moshi.
“Given the existing structural and international resources
at the University of Georgia, the program should be fully operational
within three years.”
The African Council is a consortium of institutions that have established
or have now-emerging African studies programs.
The proposed initiative focuses on improving the quality of teaching
and research on Africa through specific curriculum improvements
and opportunities for students to learn about Africa, providing
faculty development opportunities and building awareness on the
part of administrators who will approve and mandate program changes.
Three faculty receive Fulbright grants
Carl Huberty of the College of Education, Edward Simpson of the
Institute of Higher Education and Maria Gimenez of the School of
Law have received grants from the Fulbright Scholars Program, according
to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars located in
Washington, D.C.
CIES granted Simpson two awards in education. He will work with
the faculty of the National Institute for Higher Education in South
Africa to contribute to designing an academic operational model
for the newly established National Institute for Higher Education
in the Northern Cape. Simpson will also travel to the University
of Zagreb in Croatia to prepare professional education seminars
dealing with strategic planning, change and organizational culture.
Huberty will conduct presentations on “reporting empirical
results of studies in the behavioral and social sciences”
and “the conduct of empirical research that involves multiple
response variables” at the Faculty of Education of Suez Canal
University in Egypt.
Gimenez will travel to the University of El Salvador in Argentina,
where she will work
with other faculty to develop justice reform and judicial training
as part of the Americas’ economic integration process. She
will conduct workshops and research on the development of continuing
judicial administration training standards.
Senior awarded internship in Austria
UGA senior Jessica Satterfield has been awarded a year-long paid
internship with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna,
Austria. The IAEA is a branch of the United Nations that serves
as the global focal point for nuclear cooperation.
Satterfield, a political science major and an intern with UGA’s
Center for International Trade and Security, was one of 22 applicants
for the two positions with the agency.
Satterfield will work for a U.S. Department of Energy program designed
to provide assistance to the IAEA in verifying that nuclear material
under IAEA safeguard is not diverted for nonpeaceful purposes.
“Jessica Satterfield has compiled an outstanding record at
UGA and will represent the university, her state and nation well,”
says Gary Bertsch, director of CITS. “This prestigious internship
with the IAEA in Austria will allow her to extend the work she has
begun at UGA internationally.”
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