Monday, September 14, 1998
		Kudos recognizes special contributions staff, faculty and administrators are making in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election in national and international societies; election into offices of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes and similarly notable accomplishments. Send items for consideration to Columns, University Communications, Alumni House, Campus Mail 4370. Clanton C. Black, a biochemist at the University of Georgia, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to teach plant physiology during the fall semester at the Mongolian National University in the capitol city of Ulaanbaatar. Black is one of about 2,000 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 1998-99 academic year through the Fulbright Program. Black has conducted extensive research in Asia and Mongolia for several years. He and his colleagues discovered how a new hybrid variety of rice in China can provide dramatic yield improvements over other varieties in that country. In other research, Black has worked on developing photoprotection in plants so they will be less susceptible to sun damage and drought. Gerald Firth and Edward Pajak, professors of educational leadership, received the Instructional Supervision Distinguished Research Award for editing The Handbook of Research on School Supervision. The book is the first comprehensive overview of the broadly defined field of school supervision that examines all the roles of educational leaders--from school superintendent and school principal to department head, team coordinator, curriculum director, instructional supervisor and others. The 1,340-page reference was authored by 77 recognized educational scholars and spans nearly 40 years of research. It is organized into nine sections with 52 chapters applicable to every educational level, from early childhood education to state educational departments. A national award for outreach and recruitment was presented to the Georgia Personal Assistance Corps/AmeriCorps program by Access AmeriCorps and the United Cerebral Palsy Association. Katie Ford, program coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of the Georgia PAS Corps, recognized for its efforts to recruit people with disabilities to serve in AmeriCorps. S. Edward Law, Brooks Distinguished Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, accepted the Electrostatics Society of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the UGA biological and agricultural engineering department's applied electrostatics laboratory's research program achievements. Law also received the 1998 Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal Award, which honors outstanding accomplishments in engineering research and education. Warren S. Perkins, senior research textile chemist, received the Harold C. Chapin Award from the American Association of Textile Chemists in recognition of his outstanding service to the association. Founded in 1921, AATCC is the world's largest technical and scientific society devoted to the advancement of textile chemistry. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., the association has some 7,000 individual and 260 corporate members in the United States and internationally.
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