Presenter: Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Georgia State University

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Presenter: Ron Simons, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Georgia

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Congratulations to Katie James, who has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Mississippi effective fall 2015.  Katie will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Congratulations to undergraduate student Keller Sheppard, whose paper “Interorganizational Collaboration in the Social Service Sector: Differences across Agency Types” received first place the SEUSS undergraduate sociology conference's paper competition.

Congratulations to Tim Gill and Matt May who have both been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Congratulations to Dawn Robinson who has been awarded a 4-year grant from the Department of Defense - Army Research Office.  The title of her project is "Computational Models of Cultural Meaning and Social Interaction."

Congratulations to Jeff Gardner who has been awarded the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowship to continue learning the Mam language in Guatemala this summer.

Congratulations to Taylor Houston, who has accepted a tenure-track position at Graceland University effective fall 2015.

Congratulations to Ashleigh McKinzie who has been awarded the very prestigious NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award from Sociology.

Congratulations to Dr. Ronald Simons and Dr. Leslie Gordon Simons who have received notification that their proposal "Biomarkers of Health Risk Among African American Couples" has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.