Elizabeth Andress (Professor, Foods and Nutrition) has received notice that the National Center for Home Food Preservation will receive nearly $600,000 over the next three years. The funding will allow the center’s on-line WebCT home food preservation self-study to be expanded and an undergraduate course in home food preservation will be developed.

Clifton Baile (Distinguished Professor of Animal Science and Foods and Nutrition) has been appointed to the Georgia Research Alliance Board of Directors.

Diane Bales (Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science) has been awarded the Distinguished Extension Award from Gamma Sigma Delta.

Don Bower (Department Head, Human Development and Family Science) has received an award from the Georgia Association of Extension 4-H for Outstanding Support by an Agriculture or Family and Consumer Sciences Professional.

Sue Chapman (Public Service Associate, FACS Extension) has been approved for appointment as Public Service Associate. She also has been appointed to the inaugural class of the Outreach Leadership Academy created by the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach. The academy is designed to develop emerging leadership and talent for the future of Public Service and the State of Georgia.

Steve Davis (Director, Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute) has been appointed to the Georgia Driver’s Education Commission because of the impact of the Parents Reducing Incidents of Driver Error (PRIDE) program developed and delivered by GTIPI, which is a grant-funded project of the FACS Extension program. This commission will advise the new Department of Driver Services regarding implementation of the new Georgia law requiring driver education.

Catrina Jackson Goudelock (Advisor, Housing and Consumer Economics; BSFCS ’95, Housing) and her husband Brandon are the parents of a son, Justin Chase, born Aug. 11.

Suzanne Griffeth (Director, Alumni Relations and Student Leadership; BSFCS ’99, Consumer Economics) has been promoted to director of alumni relations and student leadership programs. She was previously coordinator of alumni relations.

Helen Hall (Professor, FACS Education) received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Kappa Delta Epsilon, an education honor society in the UGA College of Education.

Judy Harrison (Associate Professor and Extension Food Specialist, Foods and Nutrition; PhD ’92, Foods and Nutrition) has been elected treasurer of Gamma Sigma Delta following her induction this spring into the organization.

Patricia Hunt-Hurst (Department Head, Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors; BSHE ’77, Home Economics Education; MS ’83, Clothing, Textiles, Interiors and Furnishings) has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by Gamma Sigma Delta.

Rebecca Mullis (Department Head, Foods and Nutrition) has been inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta.

Mary Ann Johnson (Professor, Foods and Nutrition) presented her research on nutrition and aging at a series of symposia at Seoul National University, Ewah Women’s University and Woosong University in Korea.

Yoko Mimura (Research Coordinator, Housing and Consumer Economics; MS ’94, Housing and Consumer Economics; ’01 PhD Housing and Consumer Economics) and her husband Dusan Kyselak are the parents of a son, Miloslav Kyselak, born in June.
Bill Quinn (Professor, Human Development and Family Science) has been named professor emeritus by the Board of Regents. He retired from FACS in spring 2005.

Tom Rodgers (Professor Emeritus, Housing and Consumer Economics) and Karen Tinsley (Associate Director of Research, Housing and Demographics Research Center) are co-principal investigators on a $75,000 rural development grant from the USDA Rural Community Development Initiative for support of the Georgia Initiative for Community Housing.
Mandel Johnson Smith (Extension Coordinator, Dougherty County) has won the 2005 Distinguished Service Award at both the regional and national levels from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Roger Swagler (Associate Professor, Housing and Consumer Economics) has been named professor emeritus by the Board of Regents following his retiremant in June. Swagler came to FACS in 1984 from the University of Tennessee as head of the Department of Housing and Consumer Economics. He served in that position until 1991. During the 1990-1991 academic year, Swagler was a Fulbright Professor in the department of development studies at the National University of Lesotho, Roma, Lesotho in southern Africa.