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V E R I Z O N / H O P E L I N E F E L L O W, HILARY HARDING, Receives New Fellowship ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hilary Harding, one of the Verizon/Hopeline Fellows for 2008-2009, has
received another award for research in interpersonal violence. Harding was awarded a fellowship by the Society of Public Health Education/Centers for Disease Control Student for 2009 in late February. She was selected based upon the merits of the project proposal she submitted as well as her record of past research accomplishments, according to Joan L. Jackson, the associate head of the department of psychology. The fellowship, awarded earlier this year, supports Harding’s work in injury prevention. “The Verizon/Hopeline Fellowship has made it possible for Hilary to devote the majority of her time this year to her research, and she is taking full advantage of this opportunity. It is a delight and privilege for me, as her major professor, to work with a student of Hilary’s caliber toward the goal of understanding, explaining, and ultimately preventing interpersonal violence,” Jackson wrote to Graduate School Dean Maureen Grasso. “We both are very appreciative of your efforts, along with those of your staff and Drs. Calhoun and Clay-Warner, in bringing the Verizon/Hopeline Program to the University of Georgia.” In addition to Hopeline, Verizon Wireless offers the consumer service #HOPE via their nationwide network. By dialing the number #4673, callers are connected to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The number accesses a toll and airtime-free hotline, which offers confidential help, crisis intervention, information and resources. G
G R A D U AT E D E A N R e c o g n i z e d b y CONFERENCE of S O U T H E R N G R A D U AT E S C H O O L S ----------------------------------------------------------------
Maureen Grasso, the dean of the
Graduate School, received the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education in the Southern Region at their annual meeting in Norfolk, Va. The conference awarded Grasso with their highest honor for contributions most benefiting graduate education in the southern region. “It is an honor and a privilege to receive this award,” she said upon receiving the peer-nominated honor which carries a $1,000 award. “Graduate education is my passion, and I’m very excited about the opportunity to continue bringing recognition to graduate programs not only at the
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University of Georgia, but also at other southern institutions.” Grasso served as president of CSGS in 2004-2005. The conference recognized her contributions to graduate education over the past 10 years at both the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She came to UGA in 2002, and created the Emerging Leaders Program and other professional development programs for graduate students. She implemented the Graduate School Teaching Portfolio Program, the Certificate in University Teaching, and other interdisciplinary certificate programs. Grasso established the Graduate Education Advancement Board, seeking to increase funding
opportunities for graduate students in UGA programs. Grasso also leads the Graduate School’s three-year Initiative for Optimal Doctoral Completion funded by a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools. G