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Brian Buck, clinical associate professor and director of the residency program at the College of Pharmacy, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Buck was recognized as a Fellow at the society’s summer meeting and exhibition in Seattle for his distinguished service to pharmacy practice in hospitals and health systems.

The ASHP Practitioner Recognition Program honors excellence in practice and promotes public awareness of outstanding pharmacists. Buck is best known in pharmacy practice for his work in promoting, developing and directing post-graduate residency training programs.

Elaine Cress
Elaine Cress, professor of exercise science and director of the Aging and Physical Performance Laboratory in the College of Education’s department of kinesiology, received the 2008 Herbert H. deVries Award for Distinguished Research in the field of aging and gerontology from the American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation. Cress also serves as a faculty member in UGA’s Institute of Gerontology, based in the College of Public Health, where she works to provide a way to quantify the concept of physical reserve as it relates to functional ability and physical capacity.

R. Bruce King, Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, received a Doctor Honoris Causa degree from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. The degree was awarded at a formal academic ceremony in Romania on June 12.

Babes-Bolyai University is the largest university in Transylvania with more than 50,000 students. Since 2000 King has been an adjunct professor in the faculty of chemistry and chemical engineering at Babes-Bolyai University.

David P. Landau
David P. Landau, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Simulational Physics, presented an invited talk at the international conference on the Grand Challenge to Next-Generation Integrated Nanoscience, held in Tokyo in June. This conference was sponsored by the $1 Billion Next Generation Supercomputer Project, being funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Landau’s presentation, “Wang-Landau Sampling for ‘Biologically Inspired’ Nanophysics: The HP Model,” featured advances in understanding problems at the interface between statistical physics, biology and nanoscience. The research was carried out in collaboration with Thomas Wuest in the Center for Simulational Physics.

Marshall Shepherd, associate professor of geography and atmospheric sciences, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Climate Working Group of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science Advisory Board. This group provides scientific advice and broad direction to the regarding NOAA’s climate programs, in the context of national and international activities.

SAB is a federal advisory committee that reports directly to the undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere.
 
 


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