UWG's Honor's College is the only one in the state, assisting academically gifted students reach their full potential. The Honors College offers smaller classes, capped at 16 students, in courses covering the entire university curriculum. Additionally, the Honors College facilitates undergraduate research opportunities for Honors students, including support for conference presentations and scholarly publications.
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The Carrollton fundraising committee recently met at the University of West Georgia Alumni House to develop plans for a fundraising event to be hosted by Dr. Walter and Ginger Reid, Tuesday, Sept. 21, at their home in Sunset Hills Country Club. Pictured, l-r, are Walter Reid, Ginger Reid, Michelle Morgan, Meghan Sullivan, Susan Fleck, and Carrie Penley. Committee members not pictured: John and Betsy Ayers, Ralph Fleck, Met and Corbett Lane, Jimmy Morgan, Randy and Deborah Pierce, Swede Sullivan, and Michael and Nalini Vavrick.
The League of Women Voters Carrollton - Carroll County invites the community to their third and final event in their Summer Writers Series. Jay Bookman, editorial writer, will speak on August 30, Monday, 6-8 pm at the Neva Lomason Library in Carrollton. Co-sponsored by Neva Lomason Library and Horton’s Books and Gifts, this series has hosted writers of political and historic importance.
Jay Bookman is a columnist and blogger at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, specializing in foreign relations, environmental and technology-related issues and state and local politics. He has won two national awards for outstanding editorial writing, the National Headliner Award and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award.
“What we are looking at in this Summer Writers Series is the past, present and future through the eyes and words of writers.” according to Robin Collins, president of the League, “Our work focuses on educating the public through engaging individuals and partnering with other organizations to stimulate informed, active participation and civil discourse.”
Prior to the League event, Mr. Bookman will visit the UWG campus to talk to Dr. Thomas Hunter’s Parties and Elections class. He will attend a reception in his honor in the Political Science Department Lounge. Sponsored by the Murphy Center for Public Service and the UWG Political Science Club, the reception is for the campus community.
Student, Chris Hardnett, UWG Political Science student remarked, "Such a powerful voice in media carries much influence and we are excited to know Mr. Bookman will be in town to share his thoughts and knowledge."
In addition, his work on environmental issues, Bookman has been recognized with the Aldo Leopold Award, granted by the Wilderness Society, and the American Conservation Award, by the National Wildlife Federation. He is an eight-time winner of the Best of Cox Newspapers Awards for columns and editorials.
In 2008, he became the only two-time winner of the $75,000 Eugene Pulliam Fellowship for editorial writing, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. He is using the fellowship to study the role of media in modern information warfare.
Bookman is also the author of “Caught in the Current: Searching for Simplicity in the Technological Age,” published by St. Martin’s Press in July, 2004, about the social impact of technology.
Collins describes the book, “In this thoughtful autobiographical story, Bookman and four friends go on their yearly trek down the Deschutes River in Oregon, leaving all technological communication devices behind. Seemingly isolated from the world, the four friends find the slow and easy flow of communication that always accompanies them on their annual guy trip as they fish and float and talk on the river.”
Bookman is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with degrees in history and journalism. He has lived in Atlanta since 1990, and previously worked for newspapers in Washington state, Nevada and Massachusetts. He is married with two daughters.
The University of West Georgia recently received a three-year National Science Foundation award to take the lead on the Apalachicola Ecosystems Project. The project will fund 15 semesters of student and graduate student assistantships, project expenses and research efforts.
AEP is a collaborative effort with the University of Arizona, Columbus State University, Pennsylvania State University and the Muscogee Creek Nation. The grant, totaling $211,320, was awarded to the groups collectively.
The project was created to investigate how Native American populations adapted to changing biophysical and colonial frontier environments. Researchers hope to better understand Native American resilience in different ways during the historic period.
Public education is important to AEP’s research efforts. In collaboration with Creek Indian descendants, the AEP will develop educational programs for members in local and descendant areas on the findings of the project.
For more information, contact Thomas Foster, director of the Antonio J. Waring Archaeology Laboratory, at 678-839-6456, or at tfoster@westga.edu.
Construction on the $5.1 million, 23,000-square foot University of West Georgia Bookstore is officially under way after a groundbreaking ceremony Monday afternoon.
Yusuf Holloway looked around at all the folks sporting University of West Georgia Blue and Red on Saturday afternoon and couldn’t help but picture University Stadium packed full of those colors next Saturday.The University Community mourns the passing of Mr. Robin (Rob) Tornow, Director of the University of West Georgia-Newnan from 1996-2007. Tornow passed away early this morning in Newnan. A retired Air Force Brigadier General, Rob transformed the UWG Newnan Facility from a very small off-site center of approximately 200 students to the primary source of higher education for citizens of Coweta County and surrounding areas. When Tornow retired in 2007, the Newnan Facility had grown to an enrollment of more than 2000 students annually. Under his leadership, several degree programs began to be offered at UWG-Newnan, including the BSN in nursing, the MBA, and several graduate-level education programs. He also helped to facilitate more than $1 million in infrastructure improvements, funded in part through partnerships that he nurtured with Coweta County.
"Rob worked tirelessly. He had extraordinary administrative skills and a remarkable ability to work with both University personnel and community leaders,” said Dr. Don Wagner, Dean of the Honors College, Extended Degree Programs, and USG eCore. “His sustained commitment to higher education served to make the Newnan Center one of the units in which this University can take great pride. All of us in the Honors College and Extended Degree Programs will miss Rob greatly."
Tornow was 68. Visitation will be Tuesday from 6 - 8 p.m. at McKoon Funeral Home in Newnan. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church, 33 Greenville St., Newnan. In lieu of flowers, contributions should be sent to: Lung Cancer Research Foundation, 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, New York, or online at lungcancerresearchfoundation.org.
Frances Smith Foster, an author and professor at Emory University, will give a public lecture at the University of West Georgia on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m.
Her talk will be entitled “Love, Lies, History and Happiness,” and will be held in the Technology-Enhanced Learning Center room 1200.
Foster is one of the foremost scholarly voices in African-American literature. She has edited or written more than a dozen books, including Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in Early African America and Love and Marriage in Early African America.
Foster refutes longstanding myths about the fractured nature and instability of family relationships in early African America. Foster has written about the resilience and domestic happiness Afro-Protestant families of the Antebellum era experienced despite the many obstacles they faced.
For more information about the event, please contact Patrick Erben, assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy, at 678-839-6144 or perben@westga.edu.
