Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Faculty news

Regents Professor Loch K. Johnson was recently named this year’s ‘Most Outstanding Professor’ by the Dean William Tate Society. A student-operated organization, the Dean William Tate Society recognizes 24 outstanding freshmen each year and one outstanding professor, who are then invited to be members of the Society. Student members of the organization dedicate themselves to academic, extracurricular, and personal excellence. Faculty members inducted into the group are asked to serve as resources to students.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Op-ed

International Affairs student Maggie Mills says “Candidates owe solid answers on Iraq” in an op-ed for the Athens Banner-Herald.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Getzen Lecture

Lee H. Hamilton, the co-chair of the Iraq Study Group and former vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission, will highlight the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs’ annual Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability on Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

Hamilton is currently president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. Beginning in 1965, he served as a U.S. Congressman from Indiana for 34 years. During his tenure, he served as the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, the Joint Economic Committee and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress.