Faces and places
Mercer professors selected for teaching program
Two Mercer University faculty members were selected as Governor’s Teaching Fellows, a highly selective program sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia.
Karen Weller Swanson, associate professor of education and director of doctoral studies in curriculum and instruction in the Tift College of Education, and James Hunt, professor of law and business in the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics and the Walter F. George School of Law, have been involved in the prestigious program designed to encourage higher education faculty to develop important teaching skills through emerging technologies and instructional tools.
Swanson participated in the program’s intensive two-week summer symposium, while Hunt is participating in the 2015-16 academic year fellowship consisting of six three-day symposia.Stone Insurance Agency added Jami Conover to its team of agents. Conover graduated from Warner Robins High School in 1997.
She has worked in the medical insurance industry for the past several years in individual and group markets.Amy Carlson has joined Heart of Georgia Hospice as clinical manager. She has more than nine years experience in nursing.
Heart of Georgia Hospice is a not-for-profit organization that serves the terminally ill in 10 Middle Georgia counties.The Elliott Wall Law Firm LLP announced that James Elliott Jr. has again been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for the 21st consecutive year. Elliott was selected for his excellence in the practice area of workers’ compensation.
Attorneys are selected as Best Lawyers using a process of review surveys completed by peers in their practice areas and geographical regions.Wesleyan College added seven new faculty members to its staff for the 2015 fall semester.
Laura Jessica Strausberg, assistant professor of chemistry, comes to Wesleyan from the University of Puget Sound where she was a visiting assistant professor of chemistry.
Tommi Gill, assistant professor of nursing, retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2006 and has since worked in various levels of nursing leadership and administrative positions. Gill was most recently the director of women’s service at Spalding Regional Hospital in Griffin.
Wendy Hamm, assistant professor of education, recently retired from 30 years of teaching in public education. Most recently she was a GA TAPP instructor at Middle Georgia RESA.
Line Valerie Goss, assistant professor of economics, was recently with Caterpillar Inc., Forest Products Group, in LaGrange where she was an advanced revenue analyst.
Megan McMahon, assistant professor of accounting, previously worked for accounting firms in Atlanta and Macon and served as the director of finance for the City of Macon.
Virginia Blake, public services librarian and archivist, earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Maine, her master’s in public administration at Georgia College & State University and her master’s degree of library and information science from the University of South Carolina.
Stacie Barrett, assistant professor of business and assistant director of Wesleyan’s executive master of business administration program, has served as an adjunct in Wesleyan’s business department since coming to the college as the EMBA coordinator in 2012.
-- Angela Woolen
This story was originally published September 6, 2015 at 10:42 PM with the headline "Faces and places ."