Spring
2003
FACULTY NEWS
compiled by Jane Link and Laurie Anderson
 Congratulations
to Mary
Anne Alabanza Akers for receiving a "Community Heritage
Award" from the United Way of Atlanta. She helped Cobb Microenterprise
Council establish and evaluate a program that targets low-income individuals
starting microbusinesses.
Wade Brown's paper 'Goin' Down the Road:
Heritage Aspects of the Car Culture' was published in "20th
Century Heritage: Our Recent Cultural Heritage," David S. Jones,
ed., The University of Adelaide, 2002 (ISBN 0-9581987-1-3).
 Miguel
Cabrera was named a Fellow by the American
Society of Agronomy (ASA). The ASA Fellowship is the highest honor
bestowed on members of ASA. Fellows are active Society members who have
been nominated because of their superior achievement in research, education,
public service, personal achievement, recognition, and service; and a
minimum of 10 years of Society membership.
 Alan
P. Covich has agreed to serve as the next director of the
Institute of Ecology, pending Regent’s approval, it was announced
in late August, 2002.
 In
March, 2003, Dean Jack
Crowley was inducted as a Fellow
in the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Fellowship is granted to members
of AICP who have achieved excellence in professional practice, teaching,
mentoring, research, public service, and leadership. Those chosen become
members of the College
of Fellows (FAICP).
 Thanks
to a grant from Rotary International, Kwesi
DeGraft-Hanson was able to teach landscape architecture and
environmental design in Ghana
for six months in 2002. His work with the Osu community produced conceptual
master plans for community revitalization and a community-based environmental
"clean-up day."
 Patty
Gowaty was named a UGA
Distinguished Research Professor, it was announced in early April,
2003. The honor recognizes faculty for creative and original contributions
to knowledge and whose work promises to continue to foster significant
new creativity.
 In
early April Stephen
P. Hubbell was also named a Distinguished
Research Professor, and in May became a Fellow
of the prestigious
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 In
October, 2002 Brian LaHaie became president-elect
of the Georgia Chapter
American Society of Landscape Architects (GaASLA). His term as president
will begin at the ASLA national convention in New Orleans, October 2003.
 Jim
Kundell received a plaque at the dedication of the Cauley
Creek Water Reclamation Facility (Fulton County, Georgia) in late
August 2002, in appreciation of his leadership in promoting water re-use.
 Judy
Meyer was named a National
Clean Water Hero by the Clean
Water Network in October 2002, one of 30 individuals so honored
nationwide.
 Kudos
to Jim
Porter for getting the Josiah Meigs Award for excellence in
teaching, the highest such honor given at the University of Georgia. Porter
received the award at the annual UGA Faculty Recognition Banquet on April
24, 2003.
 Congratulations
to Cathy
Pringle,
who was elected president of the North American Benthological Society
(NABS). She serves as president for 2002-2003.
 Ron
Pulliam received the Ecological Society of America’s
Distinguished Service Citation at their annual meeting in Tucson, August
2002.
 Scott
Weinberg was appointed associate dean of the College of Environment
and Design (CED), it was announced on September 24, 2002. (See story,
below.)
This page last updated June 11, 2003.
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