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NEWS NOTEBOOK: Weather team earns third place
Issue date: 4/14/09 Section: News
The University's atmospheric science students and their faculty competed in the national weather forecasting contest known as WxChallenge, winning a top-three finish in the national team rankings.
Several members won multiple regular-season and post-season individual honors. This is only the second year the University has competed in the contest.
The University's team finished the regular season in third place. Geography department faculty team member John Knox and graduate student Michael Carter qualified for the post-season individual tournament, which began April 6.
Knox assembled the UGA WxChallenge team in fall 2007 as a way to help teach undergraduates how to forecast the weather.
Grady College honors alumni
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has named the winners of its 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards. R. Alex Crumbley Jr. (ABJ '64), Josh Jackson (ABJ '94), and Jennifer Rainey Marquez (ABJ '00) will be honored in special award ceremony on Thursday, May 7. Crumbley, of McDonough, will be honored with the John Holliman Jr. Award for Lifetime Achievement, while Jackson, of Decatur, will receive the Henry W. Grady Award for Mid-Career Achievement.
Marquez, who lives in New York City, will receive the Dean John E. Drewry Young Alumnus Award.
They will be recognized at 4 p.m. in the college's Drewry Room with an awards ceremony.
A private awards dinner will be hosted by Grady College Dean E. Culpepper Clark and The Grady Society Alumni Board. They will receive recognition at Convocation.
- University news services
Several members won multiple regular-season and post-season individual honors. This is only the second year the University has competed in the contest.
The University's team finished the regular season in third place. Geography department faculty team member John Knox and graduate student Michael Carter qualified for the post-season individual tournament, which began April 6.
Knox assembled the UGA WxChallenge team in fall 2007 as a way to help teach undergraduates how to forecast the weather.
Grady College honors alumni
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has named the winners of its 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards. R. Alex Crumbley Jr. (ABJ '64), Josh Jackson (ABJ '94), and Jennifer Rainey Marquez (ABJ '00) will be honored in special award ceremony on Thursday, May 7. Crumbley, of McDonough, will be honored with the John Holliman Jr. Award for Lifetime Achievement, while Jackson, of Decatur, will receive the Henry W. Grady Award for Mid-Career Achievement.
Marquez, who lives in New York City, will receive the Dean John E. Drewry Young Alumnus Award.
They will be recognized at 4 p.m. in the college's Drewry Room with an awards ceremony.
A private awards dinner will be hosted by Grady College Dean E. Culpepper Clark and The Grady Society Alumni Board. They will receive recognition at Convocation.
- University news services
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