Monday, March 29, 1999
		Judith Ortiz Cofer, professor of English, won the 1998 Hugh J. Lake Award for four poems in the winter issue of Prairie Schooner, a literary quarterly published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Hugh J. Lake Award was established in memory of Prairie Schooner’s editor from 1980 through 1987. James Kibler, professor of English, has been named winner of a prestigious award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers for his book Our Fathers’ Fields. Kibler’s book was named winner of the Fellowship’s Award for Non-Fiction, and he will be honored during ceremonies at the 10th Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature in April. Members in the Fellowship are drawn from writers of fiction, poetry, drama, criticism and history. To be considered for membership, writers must have been born and raised or have resided for a significant part of their lives in the South or have written works that in character and spirit embody aspects of the Southern experience. Headquartered in Chattanooga, the Fellowship meets every two years in conjunction with the Conference on Southern Literature. Joseph P. Riley, professor of science education, won the 1999 Gustav Ohaus/National Science Teachers Association Award for Innovations in Elementary Science Teaching. Founded in 1944, the association, with more than 53,000 members, is the largest organization dedicated to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning. Riley won the award for his “Science Teachers Teaching Teachers” program, which provides staff development for a cadre of teacher leaders on hands-on science, process skills, safety in the science classroom and teaching adult learners. Lucy Rowland, head of science collections and branch services at the library, has been appointed to the Center for Research Libraries’ new initiative in the sciences, the Science Research Materials Project. The project will be working primarily with rarely held scientific serials published in Third- World and developing countries, to preserve and make them available to a wider audience. The SRMP committee is chaired by Patricia Yocum at the University of Michigan and members represent libraries at Cornell, Penn State, the University of California--San Diego, Yale, Indiana and Chicago, in addition to UGA. Rowland is a member of the biomedical and life sciences division, as well as the Georgia and North Carolina chapters of SLA. Fausto Sarmiento, associate director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and adjunct graduate faculty member at the Institute of Ecology, has been elected president of the Andean Mountains Association. AMA is the regional academic organization representing Andean scholars in the United States and in universities and conservation NGOs of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Sarmiento’s tenure as president, which began in December 1998, will end January 2002. 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.
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