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April 13, 2010
 Arlington, Va.- Susan S. Morris was recently selected as the Department of Defense Education Activity’s (DoDEA) Teacher of the Year for 2010.
Morris teaches Social Studies and Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) to 7th and 8th grade students, at Boeblingen Elementary and Middle School in the Heidelberg District. She also taught at DoDEA’s Kaiserslautern and Patch American High Schools.
Prior to coming to DoDEA, Morris taught 8th grade American History and 7th grade World Geography at F.B. Leon Guerrero Middle School in Yigo, Guam; 11th and 12th grade American Government at George Washington High School in Mangilao, Guam; and 10th grade International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Geography, 7th grade Language Arts, and 8th grade Literature and Social Studies at Verdala International School in St. Andrew’s, Malta.
The Teacher of the Year program recognizes teachers for their dedication and contributions to the lives of military dependent children. The program also allows and encourages teachers to be educational leaders. Teachers selected as a Teacher of the Year promote the teaching profession and work with educational officials to enhance educational quality for students.
Dr. Shirley Miles, DoDEA Director, praised Morris for the support and dedication that she shows her students both in and out of the classroom.
“Ms. Morris is a dedicated teacher that genuinely cares for the well-being of her students. The support that she shows on a day-to-day basis is crucial to students who may be coping with a parent who is deployed,” she said.
Morris’ principal, Dale M. Moore praised her leadership qualities and ability to be a strong role model for her students and fellow peers.
“Susan is a natural leader and demonstrates this skill in a variety of ways at our school, acting as a role model not only for our students but for teachers as well,” said Moore. “She is not afraid to take on an extra challenge and eagerly takes them on if there is a demonstrated benefit for our students.”
Frank Roehl, Superintendent for the Heidelberg District, DoDEA Europe, also recognized Morris for her exceptional teaching ability and her willingness to connect with her students.
“Susan actively demonstrates a total commitment in support of her students’ academic growth as well as their social and emotional development,” he said. “This caring supportive attitude is not lost on her students who return her enthusiasm for learning and personalize her modelling of positive citizenship and service.”
The process to find the DoDEA teacher of the year begins with the nomination of a candidate by a parent, the school’s Parent-Teacher-Student Organization (PTSO), a colleague or a student. The nominees complete application packets that are submitted to their District Office. A panel selected by the District superintendent decides the District Teacher of the Year. Another panel at DoDEA headquarters selects the Teacher of the Year from the District Teachers of the year. The DoDEA Teacher of the Year goes on to compete in the National Teacher of the Year competition. The DoDEA Teacher of the year will also have the opportunity to do a sabbatical semester where they devise a project that will be beneficial to teachers and students.
Morris graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelors of Science in Education with a concentration in history, geography, Asian studies and political science; and a Masters of Education with a concentration in Curriculum Development and Asian Studies.
In the classroom she works with her students towards defined goals and standards, focuses on each individual student’s learning, and uses multiple techniques and assessments to reach those goals. Morris is an active mentor to her students and her support extends beyond the classroom.
Building strong student-teacher relationships and allowing students to believe in their abilities and trust in their success is Morris’ key to success in the classroom.
February 10, 2010
Washington , D.C. – Husch Blackwell Sanders is pleased to announce it has significantly expanded its Government Contracts practice with the addition of seven partners in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Six of the attorneys were formerly partners at Wickwire Gavin, which merged with Akerman Senterfitt in 2006. The seventh attorney was a partner at Holland & Knight.
“This team of attorneys brings a phenomenal opportunity to the firm’s clients to do more business with the federal government,” said the firm’s Co-Chairman David A. Fenley. “With the addition of these partners, Husch Blackwell has become one of the premier providers of full service government contract representation for firms within the Am Law100.”
Steven M. Kupka, Managing Partner of the firm’s D.C. office, added, “Our Washington, D.C., office continues to grow to meet clients’ needs, with 17 attorneys now based here. Partner and leader of our Government Contracts practice Walter A.I. Wilson joined us in 2009, and we’re excited to expand our sphere of influence thanks to the impressive depth of our Government Contracts practice.”
Government Contracts attorneys represent domestic and international clients in all areas of federal supply, service and construction contracts and all phases of government contracting, including bid protests, compliance with federal laws and regulations, Defense Contract Audit Agency audits, compliance audits, Federal Supply Schedule procurements, contract administration, change order negotiations, and claims and disputes.
Brian P. Waagner focuses his practice on the resolution of claims and disputes arising from public and private construction projects. He represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, sureties and design professionals in all aspects of the preparation, prosecution and defense of claims, including fraud and False Claims Act issues. In addition to his bench and jury trial experience in state and federal courts and the boards of contract appeals, Waagner represents many clients in alternative dispute resolution proceedings such as arbitration and mediation.
Waagner earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School (1994), where he was Managing Editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He earned his A.B. from the University of Georgia (1990), where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
November 11, 2009
Des Moines, Iowa: Four Farm Bureau Rural Family Medicine Scholarships were awarded during the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians’ (IAFP) Annual Meeting held November 5, 2009 at the Des Moines Marriott. Noreen O’Shea, D.O., President of the IAFP Foundation and Barb Lykins, Director, Community Resources of the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation, made the four $2,500 award presentations.
Carol Gunnett, MD – completed her undergraduate education at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA; graduated from University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; trained at the Northeast Iowa Family Medicine Residency Program, Waterloo, IA; and is now practicing in Clarksville, Iowa.
The purpose of the Farm Bureau Rural Family Medicine Scholarships is two-fold:
- To encourage residents, upon graduating from an Iowa family practice residency program, to pursue a medical career in Iowa communities with populations under 10,000.
- To encourage medical students to enter an Iowa family residency and to practice in a rural Iowa community.
Barb Lykins, Iowa Farm Bureau Director Community Resources says “The Iowa Farm Bureau is committed to Iowa’s rural character; after all it is the rural communities and citizens who created Iowa and continue to be the backbone of this great state. We’re proud to sponsor this scholarship as a means to not only ‘give back’ to our rural citizens, but to encourage our highly-valued graduates to stay in Iowa and serve the rural community.”
The IAFP Foundation is the philanthropic body of the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians. Each year the IAFP Foundation works with the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation to make these scholarships possible. “Iowa’s strength and even its identity come from its rural roots.” States IAFP Foundation president, Dr. Noreen O’Shea. “The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians and its Foundation strive to enhance that strength by encouraging young physicians to serve in rural areas. By establishing their “medical homes” in the small towns of Iowa, they will continue the legacy of quality healthcare that for which Iowa is known. We also are honored to partner with the Iowa Farm Bureau Foundation in its wise investment in its own roots and in these young doctors.”
Since its inception in 1993 sixty-eight scholarships have been provided totaling $170,000.
August 14, 2009
Amanda Barbee has nailed two hole-in-ones in the past two weeks. The first was on the Woodlands course at Chateau Elan (#13) and yesterday’s was on the Par 3 course at Chateau Elan (#3). She now has two plaques hanging at the club house.
August 14, 2009
The law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that Samuel D. Almon has joined the firm as an associate in its litigation group. Almon works in Brownstein’s Los Angeles office.
With broad experience representing clients in a wide variety of legal matters, Almon’s practice primarily focuses on complex civil and appellate litigation. Almon was formerly an association at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles where he successfully represented both appellants and appellees before federal and state appellate courts. Additionally, Almon has served as a law clerk for the Honorable Stanley F. Birch, Jr. of the Unites States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Ga.
Almon is a member of the Federal, American and Los Angeles County Bar Associations. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia where he graduated cum laude.
August 13, 2009
National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel Ronald Meisburg announced the appointment of career attorney Dorothy D. Wilson as Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management of the Office of the General Counsel in Washington. In her new position, Ms. Wilson will assist the General Counsel in managing the 32 Regional Offices of the NLRB and provide programmatic support for the national enforcement and administration of the National Labor Relations Act.
Ms. Wilson received her bachelors degree from Auburn University in 1972 and her legal degree from the University of Georgia in 1975. She worked for the State of Georgia before she began her NLRB career as a field attorney in the St. Louis Regional Office (Region 14) in 1981. She was promoted to the Supervisory Attorney position in St. Louis in 1991 and the Deputy Regional Attorney position in 1997, also in St. Louis. She transferred to the Nashville Resident Office of Region 26 (Memphis) in 2000 and was promoted to Regional Attorney in Memphis in 2004.
August 3, 2009
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Distinguished Professor Emeritus William C. Carter, Ph.D., is the winner of the 2009 Alabama Humanities Award. The award will be presented at the Alabama Humanities Awards Luncheon at noon Monday, Sept. 14 in the Wynfrey Hotel.
The luncheon, which will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Alabama Humanities Foundation (AHF), will honor Carter, an author and renowned expert on the French writer Marcel Proust.
Carter, who chaired the AHF Board for two terms, was instrumental in developing UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library’s Proust collection, now the third-largest in the world, and he co-produced the award-winning documentary “Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life,” which aired on PBS in 1993.
Carter’s book Marcel Proust: A Life, the first comprehensive English-language biography on Proust, was published in 2000. It received critical acclaim and was listed as a Notable Book of 2000 by The New York Times, one of the Best Biographies of 2000 by the London Sunday Times and among the Best Books of 2000 by the Los Angeles Times. His 2006 Proust in Love was called a “marvelous study of the comic splendor of the great novelist’s vision of human eros and its discontents” by literary critic Harold Bloom.
The French government honored Carter for his contributions to French culture by awarding him the Palmes Académiques in 1989. In 1992 he won the Prix Servir du Rotary International, an annual award given to Americans who have made outstanding contributions to Franco-American cultural exchanges.
Carter is a native of Jesup, Ga. He completed his bachelor’s degree in French at the University of Georgia in 1963. In 1965, he won a one-year Fulbright-Hays Grant to study in France at the University of Strasbourg. Afterward, he returned to the University of Georgia and earned a master’s degree in French in 1967. In 1971, he earned his doctorate in French from Indiana University. He joined the UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in 1975 and served as department chairman from 1979 to1990.
Carter won the 2002 UAB Caroline and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction, and he was named as a Distinguished Professor of French at UAB in 2004. Carter retired from UAB in 2008. In June 2009, the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees named him a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
July 30, 2009
Washington, DC—July 22, 2009— The 2009 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) ICAAC Young Investigator Award will be presented to Xiaorong Lin, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station. Sponsored by Merck U.S. Human Health, this award recognizes early career scientists for research excellence in microbiology and infectious diseases.
C. neoformans, an opportunistic fungal pathogen, has a defined sexual cycle with two mating types. In nature and clinical isolates though, one mating type (α) predominates. Dr. Lin’s work provided evidence for a modified form of the sexual cycle involving only one mating type suggesting that the population can undergo sexual recombination despite the presence of predominantly only one mating type. This work implies that recombination can produce spores with greater genetic diversity, and it can have profound effects on how pathogenic characteristics appear in a population.
Dr. Lin established her lab at Texas A & M in 2008. Her first independent studies described the use of agrobacterium as a transkingdom mutagenesis tool for Asperigillus fumigatus and showed that pigment mutants are highly virulent in a heterologous host model system.
Dr. Lin received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Georgia in 2003 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.
The ICAAC Young Investigator Award will be presented during ASM’s 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 12-15, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. ASM is the world’s oldest and largest life science organization and has more than 43,000 members worldwide. ASM’s mission is to advance the microbiological sciences and promote the use of scientific knowledge for improved health, economic, and environmental well-being.
June 15, 2009
Dr. Ron Binder ‘97, Director of Greek Life at the University of South Carolina was recently named the Greek Advisor of the Year by the Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity. Binder was given this award not only for his good work with the USC chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha, but for his over 20 years of Greek Advisor experience at four major institutions. “We are delighted to bestow this honor upon Dr. Binder for his work with Lambda Chi Alpha chapters, and his work with fraternity and sorority members across the country. He has made a very positive difference in the lives of thousands of individual fraternity and sorority members,” commented Tim Reuter, Director of Education for Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity. The award will be given at Lambda Chi’s Centennial Celebration in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 31. Lambda Chi Alpha is a men’s fraternity, founded in 1909, and currently has 200 chapters with more than 10,000 undergraduate members and over 200,000 alumni.
May 27, 2009
 Lily Kelly-Radford, PhD, joins Executive Development Group as a partner. Kelly-Radford will provide executive coaching and leadership development to clients worldwide, with partners Randall P.Kelly-Radford is also owner of LEAP Leadership, Atlanta, a leadership consultancy focused on the entertainment and sport industries. She was previously executive vice president global markets at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). At CCL, Kelly-Radford led worldwide delivery of executive education in North America, Europe and Asia.
“Lily joins us at a time when global and cross-cultural experience is more vital than ever in our international practice,” says Shullman, who is based in Columbus. Kelly-Radford also expands the Greensboro-headquartered Executive Development Group presence in the United States, as she is based in Atlanta.
Kelly-Radford earned a Doctoral degree (’82) and Masters (’80) in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia. She is licensed to practice in four states.
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