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‘Exemplary
efforts’: Six receive UGA’s first diversity award
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| From left: Anthony Capomacchia,
pharmaceutical biomedical sciences; Patricia Clifton,
Young Scholars Program; Vedas Burkeen and Jeremy Peacock,
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Kecia Thomas,
psychology and African-American Studies; Jenny Oliver,
Education; and Leara Rhodes, Journalism and Mass Communication;
and awards luncheon keynote speaker Carolyn Cartwright. |
Four faculty members and two graduate students
were honored Sept. 3 by the Office of Institutional Diversity
for “exemplary efforts to advance the university’s
mission of promoting diversity and maintaining academic excellence.”
Receiving awards at a recognition luncheon held on campus
were Kecia Thomas, associate professor of psychology and African-American
Studies; Anthony Capomacchia, a faculty member in the College
of Pharmacy; Jenny Penney Oliver, director of educational
innovation in the College of Education; and Leara Rhodes,
a faculty member in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
Graduate students Vedas Burkeen and Jeremy Peacock in the
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences were honored
for their work with students at Columbia High School in Decatur,
which is 99 percent minority and 96 percent African
American.
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Boons, CCRC faculty member, named Franklin Professor
Geert-Jan Boons, a professor at UGA’s Complex
Carbohydrate Research Center, has been named Franklin Professor
of Chemistry. He joins Richard LaFleur in classics, Levon
Ambartsumian in music, Judith Ortiz Cofer in English and John
Morrow in history as Franklin Professors.
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UGA,
Chilean non-profit collaborate on new program
During the past academic year, the UGA’s Institute of
Ecology and the Omora Foundation, a Chilean non-profit research
and education organization, began a new study-abroad program
to train undergraduates in the multidisciplinary nature of biological
and cultural conservation. |
Two law school faculty members
receive professorships
Two UGA School of Law faculty members have been rewarded with
new titles for their excellent work both in and out of the classroom.
Michael L. Wells has been appointed to the Marion and W. Colquitt
Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law and Anne Proffitt Dupre
has been named a J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law. |
Clearing the air:
UGA biorefinery reduces build-up of greenhouse gases
UGA scientists are developing a biorefinery that will be an
environmentally sound alternative to crude oil refineries. The
biorefinery processes biomass, such as agricultural waste and
biofuel crops, to produce fuel. And, it’s beneficial for
the environment. |
Learning
to manage
At a reception Aug. 31, 85 UGA faculty and staff members
were honored for completing leadership series courses offered
through the Training and Development Department. |
Help is just a heartbeat
away
Senior Daniel Scoggins, who works at the Ramsey Student Center,
gets a demonstration from Chris Scollay, coordinator of aquatics,
of the new automatic external defibrillator now available at
the facility. |
| Fly right
The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project is a new citizen-science
project at the State Botanical Garden. A training workshop
for monitors was held at the Garden last month. |
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