Kim Coder

Kim Coder, professor of community forestry, was selected by the Georgia Urban Forest Council Inc. to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Coder is a founding member of the Georgia Urban Forest Council.  Since the council’s creation, Coder has served GUFC as president and education chair.

Over his professional career, Coder has served as the world president of the International Society of Arboriculture, president of the Southern Chapter of ISA and president of the International Arboricultural Research and Education Academy. He also was recognized by the ISA, receiving the highest international award for arboriculture education. In addition, he was twice appointed to the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, representing the universities of the nation to advise the secretary of agriculture on community forestry issues.

Brenda J. Cude, professor of housing and consumer economics, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors for the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association.

IMSA is a voluntary, nonprofit organization created to promote consumer protection and service through high ethical standards in the life insurance, long-term care insurance and annuity products industry.  IMSA-qualified companies represent nearly 60 percent of the individually sold life insurance, long-term care insurance and annuity products written in the U.S. These companies commit to maintaining high ethical standards and to being fair, honest, and open in the way they advertise, sell and service their products.

Adviye Ergul, an associate professor in clinical and administrative pharmacy, has been named a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Selection is based on academic accomplishments in hypertension research and service. Ergul was among eight scientists chosen this year.

Ergul’s research focuses on the role of endothelin, the most potent vasoconstrictor in the human body, in vascular complications associated with diabetes and hypertension. She has used animal models as well as human vascular tissue to explore how the structure of blood vessels changes during diabetes and high blood pressure. 

Carole Henry, an associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, has been named a 2006 Distinguished Fellow by the National Art Education Association for outstanding service to the profession. She will receive the award at the group’s spring meeting in Chicago.

The National Art Education Association includes more than 22,000 art educators from every level of instruction: early childhood, elementary, intermediate, secondary, college and university, administration, museum education and lifelong learning.