Bjorn Kjerfve (\u201968)<\/strong> has been appointed the new chancellor of American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the United Arab Emirates after an intensive international search. Kjerfve has established himself as an expert in coastal and estuarine physical oceanography since majoring in science and math at Georgia Southern.<\/p>\n Daniel Purdom, M.D., (\u201980)<\/strong> was installed as president of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians at the Academy\u2019s Annual Scientific Assembly in June.<\/p>\n Julia Raschen (\u201992)<\/strong>, the principal of Brooks Elementary School in Coweta County, Georgia, has been named Georgia\u2019s 2014 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the U.S. Department of Education. Raschen was chosen for the award by her fellow principals through a statewide search conducted by the Georgia Association of Elementary School Principals. In November, she will travel to Washington, D.C., where she will meet with the distinguished principals from the 49 other states, the District of Columbia, and with elementary school educators from private and international schools.<\/p>\n Department of Biology alumnus Keith Choe (\u201999)<\/strong>, a professor at the University of Florida (UF), has been named UF\u2019s 2013-2014 teacher of the year.<\/p>\n S. Zebulon Baker (\u201901, \u201911)<\/strong> was selected as a winner of the 2014 State Historical Society of Iowa\u2019s \u201cAwards for Excellence in History\u201d during a ceremony at the Iowa State Capitol. Baker was presented with the Mildred Throne\/Charles Aldrich Award for the article, \u201cThis affair is about something bigger than John Bright: Iowans Confront the Jim Crow South, 1946-1951.\u201d<\/p>\n Matthew Wilson (\u201903)<\/strong> has been named chapter president of the Birmingham National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. He was also honored as one of the Top Advisors Under 40 in Birmingham, Alabama.<\/p>\n Eddie Lee Williams Jr. (\u201905)<\/strong> of Lithonia, Georgia, was among the graduates in the inaugural class of students awarded the Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alumni News Roundup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-summer-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}80s<\/h2>\n
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