Marie Chisholm-Burns

Marie Chisholm-Burns, professor of clinical pharmacy and a clinical professor of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, was named a distinguished practitioner by the National Academies of Practice in Pharmacy.

The National Academies of Practice was founded in 1981 to advise governmental bodies on problems of healthcare. Membership as a distinguished practitioner is limited to only 150 active members, elected by their peers.

Chisholm-Burns also has been appointed to the editorial advisory board of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Gauri S. Datta, professor of statistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

The designation of Fellow is a superlative honor in the association, and for 87 years has signified an individual’s outstanding service to and leadership in the field of statistical science.

Each year, the association elects only one third of 1 percent of the total membership; this year, 60 members received the Fellows honor.

Datta was recognized for his contributions to the theory of small-area estimation, objective Bayesian inference and asymptotic theory, as well as for contributions to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

David Sommer

David W. Sommer, associate professor of risk management and insurance, received the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Robert I. Mehr Award.

Sommer received the award for his article, “The Impact of Firm Risk on Property-Liability Insurance Prices,” published in 1996 in the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

ARIA presents the Mehr Award each year to the author of a paper published 10 years previously that has best stood the test of time.

Paul Sutter

Paul Sutter, associate professor of history, was featured in The Greatest Good, a U.S. Forest Service documentary that aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting. The documentary brought together shared perspectives from national organizations, historians, political activists and key partners on 100 years of conservation and the prospects of the nation’s national forests. Sutter focused on the wilderness movement and its relationships within the U.S. Forest Service.

Dorothy Y. White, an associate professor in the department of mathematics and science education, was one of 11 delegates from the U.S. invited to participate in the International Workshop of Mathematics Education in Dakar, Senegal.

The workshop, sponsored by the Quality Education for Minorities Network through a grant from the National Science Foundation, set a collaborative research agenda for math education in the U.S. and Africa. These studies will provide a strong underpinning for future improvements in mathematics education across the African continent. White spoke on a panel about preparing teachers of mathematics.