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August 14, 2009
Jeff’s bulldog Dooley is in the Cutest Dog Competition. Vote for him at http://www.cutestdogcompetition.com/vote.cfm?h=6D5E6BC2708530D670C7942BF4A9B4B3.
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 11, 2009
The UGA Alumni Association has finalized the schedule for the 2010 travel season! Please come to either preview, Atlanta or Athens, to see what adventures we will be offering beginning in January. All of our travel partners will be there to make presentations on their trips and answer any questions you might have. Hope to see you there. Bring another travel enthusiast with you! Click here for full details!
August 8, 2009
Savannah, GA- - The Rotary Club of Savannah South is please to announce that James Drake has been named Savannah Rotarian of the Year. The award was presented on August 4, 2009 by Jeff Heeder, President of the Savannah East Rotary Club.
Fellow Rotarian and Past District 6920 Governor, Kenan Kern, also of the Rotary Club of Savannah South said, “I have worked with Jim for many years and can personally attest to his unwavering commitment to Rotary and to the international Students who come to Georgia to study and learn about American values. It is great to see Jim recognized with this honor.“
The Savannah Rotarian of the Year Award is presented annually to a Savannah Rotarian who best exemplifies Rotary International’s motto of Service above Self. Cited for his work as Chairman of the Georgia Rotary Student Exchange Program (GRSP) and for the various offices that he has held in Rotary District 6920, Rotarian Drake was selected from a pool of candidates who all have demonstrated selfless service to others through Rotary.
Video of the presentation is available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1EoFHlGXs
August 8, 2009
Next Wednesday, August 12th, the Women In Business Council is hosting the 10th annual Lynne Smith Luncheon at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. This annual event is held each August in memory of Lynne Smith, an active business leader of our community who was tragically killed in an automobile accident.
This year the speaker is a special treat. Sgt. Courtney Gale of the Athens Clarke County Police Department will be joining us this year telling her story of strength and survival. You will remember, it was Courtney that was savagely attacked while working as off duty security for a local business 2 years ago. Her survival and recovery are indeed a miracle.
Ticket sales have been slow this year, and thus this email appeal. Please consider joining us yourself, or purchasing 2 tickets for a friend, or someone you work with and help the Women In Business have a great 10th Anniversary of the Lynne Smith Luncheon. The luncheon starts at 11:30 on Wednesday.
Reservations can be made on line on www.athensga.com. Tickets are $30 and can be paid online or at the door.
August 8, 2009
UGA grad, Laura Loving, appeared on Fox Business News recently. To view her interview, please click here. Congrats, Laura!
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.
July 15, 2009
 Daniel Armstrong, son of Deanna Armstrong with the Forsyth County chapter, is pictured to the left with children in Nepal. An email from his mother reads:
This picture was taken at the Light for Nepal Children orphanage when he was in Nepal. We’d sent over a bunch of UGA hats for the kids - they really like them and they look so cute in them! He was in Nepal for 6 weeks and had an incredible time from riding elephants to trekking to Mt. Everest Base Camp to living at the orphanage for the last couple of weeks. He has a blog but he hasn’t finished updating it yet as it was really hard to access the Internet over there and very slow (www.ltdantheman.wordpress.com). He’s a counselor at the Dawg Adventure Camp for the freshman right now. He’d love to go back to Nepal. The kids really miss him. A couple of the older ones walked to an Internet cafe and called him a couple of days after he came back and told him the younger ones really missed him.
July 14, 2009
 Mrs. Dale A. Prosch, CPA and partner of Dent, Baker & Company accounting firm, is a 1972 alumnae of University of Georgia (B. S. Degree in Accounting).
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – July 8, 2009 – Dent, Baker & Company, LLP was awarded the 2009 Best In Business Award by the Birmingham Business Journal. A panel of judges from Samford University’s Brock School of Business selected the accounting firm of Dent Baker from a group of four finalists in the category of companies that employ from 11 to 50 people.
“All of us at Dent Baker are very proud of this great honor for our company and our employees,” stated Dent Baker managing partner Jim Hart. “Our team really does have a passion for ‘getting it right’ and I think that the judges took note of that. I would also like to salute the other nominees as they are all very fine and deserving firms.”
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