Gene Brody and Velma McBride Murry, professors of child and family development, were part of a team of researchers to receive the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations.
The award is presented annually to the author(s) of an outstanding research article in
a family journal for the year prior to the award. A plaque is given to each author of the award-winning article and a check for $1,000 is divided equally among all the authors. There is no nomination process for this award. A committee conducts an evaluation of the top scholarly journals in the family field.
Brody and Murry were recognized for their paper “The Strong African-American Families Program: Translating Research into Prevention Programming,” published in the journal Child Development.
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Gary Hill |
Gary M. Hill, professor of animal science from UGA’s Tifton campus, recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Southern section of the American Society of Animal Science. The organization includes livestock research, extension and teaching professionals from 12 Southern states. Hill is the current beef cattle coordinator for the 450-cow herd at the Tifton campus and conducts cow-calf grazing research, stocker grazing and by-product feeding research, and beef cattle digestibility and feedlot finishing experiments.
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Nancy Kropf |
Nancy Kropf, professor of social work, is the first recipient of an alumni award from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work. Kropf received the Ph.D. Alumni Making a Difference Award as part of VCU’s faculty-alumni reception at the annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Chicago last month. As the award recipient, Kropf will return to the VCU campus for a spring program with students, alumni and the social work practice community.
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Richard LaFleur |
Richard A. LaFleur, Franklin Professor of Classics, was named 2006 Professor of the Year by the Foreign Language Association of Georgia. LaFleur has taught at UGA since 1972 and served for
21 years as head of the classics department. A past president of the American Classical League and editor of The Classical Outlook, he has published numerous books on Latin literature and pedagogy, and received more than $1 million in grants.
The Georgia House of Representatives passed
a resolution last month honoring Pedro Villegas, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, for his contributions to the poultry industry in Georgia and worldwide.
Villegas has developed vaccines and procedures that help to stop the spread of poultry disease or mitigate its effects. He consults partners in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, especially, but has worked on projects throughout Asia and even Mauritius. |
