Diane Cooper

Diane L. Cooper, a professor in the department of counseling and human development services and coordinator of UGA’s master’s degree program in college student affairs administration, received the Senior Scholar Award from the American College of Personnel Association. She will serve a six-year term as one of only a dozen active senior scholars.

Laura Dean, an assistant professor in the department of counseling and human development services, is one of only three people in the nation to receive the 2007 Annuit Coeptis Senior Professional Award from the American College Personnel Association.

The award recognizes contributions in administration, teaching, research and publications. It is among the most prestigious awards given by the ACPA.

William Eiland

William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries during its annual meeting on St. Simon’s Island.

During Eiland’s tenure as director, the museum has won 99 awards for its publications, programming and exhibitions, its collection has grown more than 25 percent and its dependence on state funds has declined by 50 percent.

On March 27, David P. Landau, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Simulational Physics, presented an invited plenary talk at the spring meeting of the German Physical Society in Regensburg, Germany. His talk was entitled “Spin Dynamics Simulations of Excitations and Critical Dynamics in a Heisenberg Antiferromagnet: Resolution of a controversy via finite size scaling.” The presentation was part of the Symposium on Finite-Size Effects at Phase Transitions. This meeting is the largest annual gathering of the German Physical Society with more than 4,000 participants.

In February, R. Baxter Miller, professor of English and African-American Studies, completed a course of lectures in Minsk and Bobruisk Belarus. Invited by the Belarusian State University, upon recommendation by the Department of State in Washington D.C., Miller delivered a keynote paper for an international conference on American studies. He also gave presentations on the re-­voicing of American literature within the context of African-American freedom. Miller also discussed the topic of teenagers and African-American civil rights at an elite private school in Minsk and at famed “American Corner” section of the public library in Bobruisk. Consequently, the Belarusian State University has requested student and cultural exchange with UGA.

Gwynn Powell, an associate professor of recreation and leisure studies, has been elected to the national board of directors of the American Camp Association. She will serve a three-year term on the board as a member-at-large. She is the current chair of the ACA’s annual national conference, past chair of the research symposium and is a recipient of its 2006 National Honor Award.