Jana Sandarg, professor of Spanish, was named recipient of the Florence Steiner Award for the 2008 American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages, by the Georgia Department of Education.
Quentin Kuyper, Conservatory Program, and Patti Myers, Linda Banister, Christine Crookall, and Carl Purdy, music, and presented a lecture-concert on Music of the Baroque Period on Aug. 30 in conjunction with the Morris Museum of Art.
Kristin Casaletto has had artwork accepted into the following institutional collections: Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archive, New York; One Horse Press, Chicago; Kresge Museum of Art, East Lansing, Mich., GCSU Museum of Art; Louisiana State University Print Collection, Baton Rouge; and Southern Graphics Council Archive, University, Miss. Her work also continues to travel through 2010 to art museums in Montana as part of the Speaking Volumes, Transforming Hate exhibition, featuring artists who made work from racist literature which was taken out of circulation and transformed into art.
Kathy Schofe, public relations, served as one of three judges for the Wally Awards, an annual competition sponsored by the Carolinas Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society.
In the News
Edgar Johnson, communications and professional writing – Metro Spirit about being bald and beautiful
Steven Page, teacher education – Augusta Chronicle about succeeding in high school
Timothy Smith, political science – WAGT about health care reform
Dan Whitfield, business operations – Augusta Chronicle about furloughs
Debra van Tuyll, communications and professional writing – WGAC about YouTube and liability
Hubert van Tuyll, history, anthropology, and philosophy – BBC World News Service, about the Lend-Lease convoys, which carried American aid to Soviet Russia during World War II
Kathy Schofe, public relations—Augusta Chronicle, pandemic flu planning
Josh Gregory, athletics – Augusta Chronicle, U.S. Amateur

Sep 1, 2009
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