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Deans’ Forum
The mathematics department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the mathematics education department in the College of Education are sponsoring a Deans’ Forum presentation Oct. 29 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in room 328 of the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center.
Lynn Arthur Steen, professor of mathematics at St. Olaf College, will address the topic “Does College Math Prepare Students to Teach High School Math? Analysis of the relation between undergraduate mathematics and the public’s diverse goals for high school mathematics.” The presentation is free and open to the public.
Steen has served as the president of the Mathematical Association of America and is the former executive director of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Why Numbers Count (1997), On the Shoulders of Giants (1991), Everybody Counts (1989) and Calculus for a New Century (1988).
For additional information, call 542-4548.
Holmes-Hunter Lecture
Emmy Award-winner Michel McQueen, Washington, D.C., correspondent for ABC News, will deliver the 14th annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture on Nov. 5. The lecture will begin at 10 a.m. in the Tate Student Center Theater and is free and open to the public.
McQueen primarily reports for ABC’s Nightline, where she contributed a number of reports for the ongoing series “America in Black and White.”
She won an Emmy for a segment for ABC’s Day One news magazine on the international campaign to ban the use of land mines.
Student athletes
The University of Georgia ranks first in the Southeastern Conference, third in Division I and sixth in the nation for the number of Academic All-Americans in all sports during the 1990s, according to figures published in the NCAA News. UGA boasts 34 Academic All-Americans.
Nebraska tops the list with 77, followed by MIT with 50, Augustana with 47, Notre Dame with 43 and Nebraska Wesleyan with 39. MIT, Augustana and Nebraska Wesleyan are Division III schools. Georgia, Kansas and Division III’s Illinois Wesleyan each have 34.
“This is a tribute to our coaches for recruiting outstanding student-athletes, to our young people for being dedicated and committed to getting the best out of their educational opportunities and to our academic counseling staff for motivating and assisting the student-athletes in achieving their highest potential,” says Athletic Director Vince Dooley.
Of Georgia’s 34 Academic All-Americans, 21 were named to the first team, nine made the second team and four made the third team; 19 of the honorees are women and 15 are men.
Volleyball leads the way for Georgia with eight Academic All-Americans, including three-time honoree Jill Moore and two-time honoree Nikki Nicholson, who was recognized in 1995 and 1996 as the sport’s Academic All-American of the Year.
Women’s swimming, men’s swimming and men’s tennis ranked next with five each. Al Parker was selected as the Academic All-American of the Year for men’s tennis in 1990 and 1991.
In other sports, there were three in gymnastics, two in football, two in women’s golf and one each in men’s basketball, women’s tennis, men’s cross-country and baseball. In 1990, Alec Kessler of the men’s basketball team was named the Academic All-American of the Year for all sports.
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