By Nadine Randall
University of
Georgia
ATHENS, Ga. — Donald W. Bower was named a Walter Barnard Hill
Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow, heading the
list of six University of Georgia faculty members honored
Jan. 29 by the UGA Office of the Vice President for Public
Service and Outreach.
The Hill Award winners were recognized at a luncheon banquet
during the annual Public Service and Outreach Conference today
in
Athens, Ga. Besides Bower, the Hill Award winners were Scott
Brown, John Glisson, William Merka, Richard Milford and Jeffrey
Sanford.
The Hill Awards
The Hill Awards, named for former UGA Chancellor Walter B. Hill,
recognize distinguished achievement in public service and
outreach by faculty members and service professionals.
Each recipient is judged to have helped improve the quality of
life in Georgia in ways that exceed the normal accomplishments
of
a faculty member. These improvements can be in program
development and management, extension and public service
teaching, technical help, applied research or instructional
materials.
The award winners get a permanent salary increase and become
eligible for appointment as a Hill Fellow. The fellowship,
equivalent to a distinguished professorship, is the highest
award
offered in public service and outreach.
Don Bower
Bower, an associate professor and human development specialist
with the College of Family and Consumer Sciences Cooperative
Extension Service, received the 2003 Hill Fellow award.
Bower has helped CES become the primary provider of parenting
education in Georgia. He has overseen the creation of a national
model for assessing and credentialing parent educators within
the
CES system.
His leadership in the Extension Occupant Safety Education
Program
has helped it become Georgia’s main source of information and
training in the use of child safety seats and seatbelts.
Bower took the lead, too, in planning the Georgia Family Policy
Initiative, which will examine pending policy decisions from a
family impact perspective and provide practical recommendations
from the research.
Scott Brown
Brown has distinguished himself as a frontrunner in cutting-edge
on-farm programming during his UGA public service career.
He was the first county extension agent in Georgia and one of
the
first in the nation to test transgenic Bt cotton on the farm,
leading to significant improvements in the state’s cotton
production, economic efficiency and insecticide use.
John Glisson
Glisson is recognized nationally and internationally for his
improvements in the quality of services provided in poultry
medicine. His fowl cholera vaccine is the most widely used in
the
nation, and his VGGA vaccine for Newcastle disease is used in
broiler production throughout the world.
An outstanding clinical services chief in the UGA College of
Veterinary Medicine, Glisson was recently named the college’s
director of public service and outreach.
Bill Merka
Merka is known worldwide as one of the most innovative extension
poultry scientists in the field for his work in poultry waste
management and minimization.
His programs save the poultry industry more than $80 million
annually and have improved significantly environmental
protection
measures.
Richard Milford
Milford has has provided technical assistance to the Georgia
Department of Human Resources, the Department of Labor, the
Supreme Court of Georgia and other state and local agencies.
He has also developed a 10-year partnership between the UGA Carl
Vinson Institute of Government and the Georgia Department of
Technical and Adult Education to provide comprehensive
evaluation
and performance measurement programs in work-force training and
development.
Jeffrey Stanford
Sanford has received wide acclaim for helping businesses,
teaching business education programs, facilitating economic
projects and developing innovative consulting tools with the
Business Outreach Services/Small Business Development Center.
Since 1999, he has received two grants from the Small Business
Administration to start the Federal and State Technology
Partnership (FAST) initiative, which provides services to help
businesses introduce their technologies into the marketplace.
