FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Changing places
Two faculty members named associate dean in Franklin College; new development director joins staff
Jean Martin-Williams
Thomas Mote
Michael Cumbie
By Alan Flurry
psychology and sociology. Russell Malmberg continues in his current role as an associate dean with primary responsibilities focused on facilities and research matters and as point of contact with the biological sciences programs: biochemistry and molecular biology, cellular biology, genetics, marine sciences, microbiology, plant biology, and the division of biological sciences. Martin-Williams is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and also served as director of UGA’s Lilly Teaching Fellows program for more than a decade. As associate dean, she will serve as point of contact for the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the departments of dance, English, and theatre and film studies. She also will have general responsibilities for curricular matters in the college, online courses and programs, summer courses and programs and the college’s instructional programs at the Griffin campus. A Distinguished Research Professor, Mote has served as head of the geography department since 2011. He also served as the founding director for the Program in Atmospheric Sciences until 2011. His scholarship is in climate science, with a focus on the effect of climate change on atmospheric circulation in the Arctic. In 2014, he was one of two UGA faculty members selected to participate in the University System of Georgia Executive Leadership Institute.
As associate dean, he will serve as the point of contact for the departments of chemistry, computer science, geology, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and statistics. He also will have general responsibilities for graduate affairs in the college and will manage the college’s supplemental instructional budget. Martin Kagel, the A.G. Steer Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies, is the interim associate dean for humanities departments and international programs, serving as the college liaison with the Office of International Education and point of contact for the departments of classics, comparative literature, Germanic and Slavic studies, history, philosophy, religion and Romance languages. Kagel joined the dean’s staff while Noel Fallows serves as interim associate provost for international education. Cumbie arrived at UGA from the College of Coastal Georgia where he served as the vice president for advancement. From 2006-2015, he served as the director of development for the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Western Illinois University. Prior to his fundraising experience, Cumbie had a 24-year career in the U.S. Army, including an appointment as chief of counterintelligence at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. “I am thrilled to welcome our new Associate Deans Martin-Williams and Mote and Michael Cumbie to what is already an outstanding leadership team,” said Franklin College Dean Alan Dorsey.
aflurry@uga.edu
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences welcomed two new associate deans in August. Jean Martin-Williams will serve as associate dean for the Fine and Performing Arts, and Thomas Mote will serve as the associate dean for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Both move from faculty positions within Franklin College. The college also welcomed new senior director of development Michael “Mick” Cumbie, who comes to UGA from the College of Coastal Georgia where he served as the vice president for advancement. The new associate deans take the roles of outgoing staff in the Franklin College. Senior Associate Dean Hugh Ruppersburg retired on June 30 after 39 years of distinguished service at UGA, including as an interim dean and interim vice provost. Chuck Kutal has returned to his faculty role in the chemistry department after serving 14 years as an associate dean in the Franklin College. Associate Dean Kecia Thomas is now senior associate dean with primary responsibilities centered on faculty affairs, including faculty recruitment, promotion and tenure; faculty professional development; and grievances. Thomas also leads diversity initiatives for the college and serves as point of contact for the social and behavioral sciences: anthropology, communication studies, geography,
WEEKLY READER
Collection meditates on language, literacy
Imperfect Tense By Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor Whitepoint Press $15
Imperfect Tense is a meditation on language by Melisa CahnmannTaylor, professor of language and literacy education in UGA’s College of Education. Informed by Cahnmann-Taylor’s Fulbright study in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as her experience teaching English as a second language, this poetry collection is grounded in teaching, learning, and living between languages and cultures. The poems play, imperfectly, with form, including sonnets, sestinas, pantoums, terza rima, couplets and syllabic verse. Others compress the essence of qualitative interviews and fieldwork observations through free verse and prose poetry. Much like the imported “dragon fruit,” these poems grasp displacement as opportunity while relishing in perpetual “outsiderness” as a way inside a fundamentally shared human condition.
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CAES Ag and environmental sciences staff members win six ACE awards By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu
UGA communications, photography and design professionals were recognized with several honors at the Association for Communications Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences Awards. J. Faith Peppers, director of public affairs for UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received the ACE Professional Award, the highest recognition given by the organization, for her service. During her time with ACE, Peppers has been president and Southern Region director, served on the board of directors and several committees, presented at conferences and taken part in learning communities. She also worked closely with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities to secure a permanent seat for an ACE representative on the governing board’s communications and marketing committee. As a member of that committee, Peppers worked with a national team to enact a Plan of Work, which brought focus to national priorities, created issues management and communications for new deans and directors, and built connections between local institutions and the national land-grant system. In addition, Peppers, Edwin Remsberg, Kady Dulny and Rob Cooper received a gold award for a single marketing item in the marketing and media relations category. Peppers, Remsberg, Dulny, Cooper, Merritt Melancon and Josh Paine took a bronze award for best innovative use of communication technology in the information technology category. Remsberg also received a gold award for picture story in the photography category. In the design categories, Paine, Katie Walker and Caitlin LeMoine received a silver award in posters. And Walker, Paine, LeMoine, Angela Rowell, Carla Wood, Cindy Allen and Kathryn Schiliro took a gold award in the exhibits category. Rowell, Todd Hurt, Marcie Simpson and Clint Thompson received a silver award for educational packages in the distance education and instructional design category. The Critique and Awards Program, part the organization’s annual conference held recently in Memphis, gives ACE members an opportunity to receive a professional critique of their work and recognizes excellence in those categories. To learn more about the awards program, visit www.aceweb.org/awards
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