Dr. Joe W. West, Assistant Dean for Tifton Campus, sends out the TUGA Times e-newsletter to Tifton Campus personnel each week.
Items for inclusion in TUGA Times may be submitted to Teri by calling 386-3338 or email.
Tifton Campus: Administration
TUGA Times
October 9, 2009
Congratulations:
Dr. Stanley Culpepper, Crop and Soil Science Department, was presented with the D. W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Extension on Tuesday of this week. This is an outstanding award and we congratulate Dr. Culpepper and appreciate the contributions he makes in his work. We also appreciate the recognition he brings to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and to the UGA Tifton Campus.
Congratulations to Johnny Crawford for being inducted into the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame. We’d like to thank him for the many contributions that make him so deserving of this award. Please read the following excerpt from an article written by Sharon Dowdy with the Office of Communications:
“The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences inducted Johnny Crawford into the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Athens Sept. 25. Johnny Crawford was a charter member of the UGA Cooperative Extension Cotton Team and head of the university’s Extension plant pathology department and is president of South Central Gin Company. Crawford joined the UGA faculty first as a UGA Extension plant pathologist on the Tifton campus working on cotton. He later became an Extension agronomist working on cotton and in the early 1990’s he was named head of the Extension plant pathology department. His work with nematode control, irrigation, variety selection and crop management laid the foundation for a rebound in Georgia cotton production, from a low of 100,000 acres in the 70’s to over a million acres every year since ‘95. Now retired, Crawford remains active in agriculture as a cotton farmer and president and general manager of South Central Georgia Gin Company.”
See attached photo:
Cecil Spooner (left), president of the UGA CAES Alumni Association Executive Committee, and CAES Dean and Director Scott Angle (right) are shown congratulating Johnny Crawford (center) on being named to the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame.
SecureUGA, which was launched in 2008, is an information security education and awareness program that includes mandatory, self-paced, online awareness presentations. All employees on the UGA payroll are required to complete ten awareness modules by November 30, 2009. This includes faculty, staff, administrators, and all student workers, graduate assistants, research assistants, teaching assistants, and work-study students. For more info, please visit the following website:
https://infosec.uga.edu/sate/cyber_security.php
Furloughs:
Meetings regarding furloughs are occurring on a weekly basis with bookkeepers to discuss potential problems and FAQ. Ken Spurlin recently met with the Entomology Department and will be making his way to other departments to answer questions or get answers for you.
Upcoming Events
- Sunbelt Expo – October 20 - 22
- 1st Furlough Day - October 30
- Open Enrollment Mtg. - Small Auditorium, TCCC - November 3, 10 AM
- Ag Awareness - November 5, 9 AM to 1 PM
- South Campus Tailgate - Legion Field, Athens - November 21
- 2nd Furlough Day - November 25
- Thanksgiving Holidays - November 26 & 27
- SecureUGA Training Deadline - November 30
- 3rd Furlough Day - December 24
- Christmas, New Years Holidays - December 25 thru January 1
- 4th Furlough Day - January 4
- Campus activity calendar
Please send your items for the TUGA Times to Teri at (229) 386-3338 or terish@uga.edu