In the Halls
News & Notes
Ramona (Mona) Adams (Public Service Assistant, Cooperative Extension) was promoted to public service assistant on July 1. She is with the Extended Foods and Nutrition Education Program in Richmond County.
Six FACS faculty members have received Scholarship of Engagement Grants, which will allow them to combine teaching, research and outreach activities. Alex Kojo Anderson (Assistant Professor, Foods and Nutrition), will focus on maternal and child nutrition in Ghana. Julia Reguero de Atiles (Senior Academic Professional, Human Development and Family Science) and Silvia Giraudo (Associate Professor, Foods and Nutrition) will focus on obesity education for children in Mexico. Ted Futris (Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science) will focus on a project called, “Building Relationships: University and Community Partners Supporting Healthy Marriages.” Denise C. Lewis (Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science) will explore intergenerational service-learning with a project focusing on Cambodian elders raising grandchildren.
Terri Black (Public Service Assistant, Cooperative Extension; BSFCS ’01, Human Development and Family Science; MEd ’05, Adult Education) was promoted to public service assistant in July. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Burke County.
Joni Callihan (Business Manager, Cooperative Extension) was selected as the 2007 Epsilon Sigma Phi Meritorious Support Service Award winner for state staff. She has worked for UGA for 20 years and the past 10 years has served as the business manager for FACS Extension. In the nomination letter, Callihan was praised for her knowledge of UGA accounting and budgeting processes, her ability to navigate the university’s various systems, as well as her conscientiousness, careful attention to accuracy and timeliness. During the past year, Callihan also completed the university’s “Front Line Leadership Certificate.”
Renee Dotson (Public Service Associate, Cooperative Extension; BSHE ’88, Consumer Economics and Home Management) was promoted to public service associate on July 1. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Gilmer County.
Sharon Gibson (Multi-Cultural Specialist, Cooperative Extension) and Pratt Cassity of the College of Environmental Design have received a U.S. Department of Agriculture- Rural Business Opportunity Grant for $50,000 to work with Colquitt County on training community members using the “Your Town” curriculum. Gibson also was promoted to public service associate on July 1.
Joseph Goetz (Assistant Professor, Housing and Consumer Economics) received the PhD Dissertation Award at the American Council on Consumer Interests meeting in April. His dissertation is titled, “A Five Nation Examination of Financial Risk Tolerance.”
Gail Hanula (Public Service Associate, Cooperative Extension) has been named a national winner in the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in the Distinguished Service Award category. She was presented the award during the NEAFCS meeting in St. Paul, Minn., in September. Hanula also has been promoted to public service associate.
Judy Harrison (Professor and Extension Foods Specialist, Foods and Nutrition), Melissa Mixon of Mississippi State and Angela Fraser of North Carolina State University were one of two teams of recipients of 10th anniversary “BAC Fighters!” awards given by the Partnership for Food Safety Education. The award was presented at a Washington, D.C., breakfast on Capitol Hill that included policymakers and members of the partnership.
Valerie Havill (Assistant Research Scientist, Institute on Human Development and Disability) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She will serve as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar from February-June 2008. Her work will focus on including families and children with disabilities in education, research and social communities.
Denise H. Horton (Director of Communications, FACS) was presented the 2007 Mass Media Friend of Extension Award at the annual meeting of the Georgia Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Earlier this summer, she also received the Power of Prevention volunteer award for the north Georgia region during the annual meeting of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia. She has served on the board of directors of Prevent Child Abuse Athens for the past seven years.
Susan Howington (Public Service Associate, Cooperative Extension) was promoted to public service associate on July 1. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Henry County.
Francine Jones (Director, Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute), Linnie Martin (Research Coordinator, Foods and Nutrition) and Andrew Turnage (Public Information Coordinator, Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute) have completed the 2007 UGA Managerial Leadership Series.
Lee Johnson (Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science) was promoted to associate professor and received tenure on July 1.
Esther Maddux (Professor Emeritus, Housing and Consumer Economics; BSHE ’72, Housing and Management) has earned a certificate in addiction and prevention studies and has gone into private practice in Lawrence, Kansas, with a focus on helping those with severe financial problems through intensive clinical guidance. She also continues to teach part-time at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
Julia Marlowe (Associate Professor Emeritus, Housing and Consumer Economics) received the Distinguished Fellow Award at the American Council on Consumer Interests meeting in April.
Joann Milam (Public Service Associate, Cooperative Extension; BSHE ’74, Home Economics Education) was promoted to public service associate on July 1. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Washington County.
Diane Miller (Senior Public Service Associate, Cooperative Extension) was promoted to senior public service associate on July 1. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Bulloch County.
Robb Nielsen (Assistant Professor, Housing and Consumer Economics) has been chosen as a Service-Learning Fellow for 2007-2008. Nielsen will develop an undergraduate course that will explore the research and information needs of a non-profit organization in Georgia.
Lance Palmer (Assistant Professor in the Department of Housing and Consumer Economics) and his wife, LeAnn, welcomed a new baby, Megan Terry Palmer, on May 25. The Palmers three other daughters are Amber, Mary and Amy.
Martha Partridge (Public Service Assistant, Cooperative Extension) was promoted to public service assistant in July. She is a FACS Cooperative Extension agent in Lincoln County.
Jane Rhoden (BSHE ’60, MHE ’64, Human Development and Family Science) died July 4 at age 68. She retired in the early 1990s, having served in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences in a variety of roles, including as assistant to the dean and director of what was then known as home economics journalism.
Mariana Souto-Manning (Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science) was awarded the 2007 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award for outstanding research during graduate study or immediately afterward. Souto-Manning earned her PhD from the University of Georgia in language education. Her research focused on the use of critical narrative analysis and has been published in the Bilingual Research Journal. Souto-Manning and her husband, Dwight, are also the parents of Thomas Souto-Manning, born in July.
Zolinda Stoneman (Director, Institute on Human Development and Disability) is the principle investigator for a $1.1 million grant to research ways to prevent young people from being injured while working on farms. The grant is from the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The three-year project, titled AgTeen, will focus on farm families who have children ages 10-19 who are working in cotton and/or peanut farming. In addition to IHDD, FACS and College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences faculty will be involved.
Linda G. Tepfenhart (Lecturer, Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors) died July 20 after an extended illness. She retired from FACS in 2002.
Livia Wade (Office Manager, Human Development and Family Science) has completed the 2007 UGA Front Line Leadership Series.
