Campus Notables

Jasper Cooke, public safety, attended the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police 2003 Annual Winter Training Conference at Callaway Gardens. Cooke was one of more than 300 heads of law enforcement agencies participating in the conference.

Ed Cashin

Edward J. Cashin, Jr., Center for the Study of Georgia History, presented a lecture on the history of the Augusta Canal based on his latest book, The Brightest Arm of the Savannah, The Augusta Canal 1845-2000, at the Morris Museum of Art. Cashin will be presented the 2002 Lilla M. Hawes Award from the Georgia Historical Society for his recent book, The Brightest Arm of the Savannah -- The Augusta Canal 1845 –2000. The Hawes Award, which annually recognizes the best book on local Georgia history, will be presented during April at the historical society’s annual meeting in Savannah. The Brightest Arm, published by the Augusta Canal Authority in November 2002, details the creation and construction of the Augusta Canal as one of the South’s few successful pre-Civil War industrial development projects. The book also assesses the canal's continuing impact on the city’s social and economic development through the 19th and 20th centuries.

Jurgen Brauer, business administration, recently edited ECAAR Review 2003: Conflict or Development? One of his photographs was selected to be featured on the cover of Underwater Photography. You can see the picture at www.uwpmag.co.uk/UwP11.pdf.

Priscilla Hollingsworth, fine arts, recently showed her work at the Etherredge Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

Jonathan Leightner, business administration, was interviewed recently by WAGT-TV about the economic impact of war with Iraq.

Elizabeth House

Elizabeth House, languages, literature, and communications, presented a paper, Space, Place, and Memory in Toni Morrison’s Paradise, at the Southern Humanities Conference Meeting.

Reese Library, recently earned a compliance rating by the U.S. Government Printing Office of its federal depository operation.

Eric Skipper, languages, literature, and communications, recently presented a paper entitled, The Tremendista Schoolmasters in Matute’s Historias de la Armamila and Deliebe’s El Camino at the 28th Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University.

Lillian Wan, Reese Library, received a plaque from Shepeard Blood Center
marking her 14th gallon of blood donations. Wan has been donating blood
since 1980.

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