Milestones
Dr.
Boggs named financial aid director
Dr. Beverly Boggs, a former executive director of student financial aid at Texas A&M System Health Science Center, has joined MCG as director of student financial aid.
Dr. Boggs will oversee MCG’s financial aid office, including allocating approximately $35 million in financial aid while developing policies, guidelines and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state and college regulations and statutes.
"We are delighted Dr. Boggs has joined our staff,” said Dr. Mike Miller, MCG vice president for enrollment and student services. “With nearly 20 years of professional experience in student financial aid and extensive work in the field at an academic health center, she brings a wealth of knowledge to MCG."
Dr. Boggs served as associate director of student financial aid at Texas A&M for four years before being named executive director in 2000. Previous appointments include financial aid director/compliance auditor at TAD Technical Institute in Kansas City, Mo., corporate financial aid director for the Education Corporation of America in Nashville, Tenn, and business manager/financial aid director at Phillips Colleges, Inc. in Greenville, S.C.
Dr. Boggs, who earned her doctorate from Texas A&M University, has researched adult literacy, student, faculty and human resource development, and student accessibility of higher education and training resulting from student default rates.
Ms. Hooper named nursing fellow
Vallire
Hooper, a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the School of
Nursing, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
A registered nurse in Georgia and South Carolina, Ms. Hooper is certified as a post-anesthesia nurse by the American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification.
She is a member of the Southern Nursing Research Society, International Academy of Nursing Editors, American Society of PeriAnethesia Nurses, Georgia Association of Post Anesthesia Nurses and Association of Operating Room Nurses.
Ms. Hooper received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree in nursing from MCG.
Dr. Yu selected president-elect of biochemist society
Dr. Robert K. Yu, director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and the Institute of Neuroscience, has been elected president-elect of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America. He will assume presidency of the 2,800-member organization in January 2008.
Dr. Yu, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, is founding president of the Society for Chinese Neuroscientists in America and former president of the American Society for Neurochemistry. He is a lifelong academician of Academia Sinica, the Republic of China’s premier academic institution, and a member of the advisory board of the academy’s Institute of Biological Chemistry. He founded the China-U.S. Biochemistry Admissions Program and is a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Health. He was recently appointed to Georgia’s Commission for Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood Research and Treatment.
Dr. Yu is associate editor and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Lipid Research and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience Research and Neurochemical Research. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Croatian Medical Journal, Neurologia Croatica, Journal of Biomedical Science and Journal of Oleo Chemistry. He is an invited member of the board of editors of the Chinese Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Obituaries
The MCG community extends condolences to the family and friends of:
Christine Jacobs, 61, a retired nurse assistant at the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home, who died July 30. She worked at MCG from 1987 to 2000.