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German Professor receives award
April 15, 2005
CARROLLTON,
GA - Dr. Muriel Cormican, associate professor of German at the University
of West Georgia, was recently presented with the Leader of the Year Award
in German by the Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers
of German.
The award is given to those who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in the promotion and teaching of German language and literature. Cormican’s recognition marks the third statewide award that a member of the UWG Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures has received in the last two years.
“I think the award recognizes the building of the German program here as much as it does my own teaching and research and so I really share it with my colleague, Dr. John Blair [professor of German at UWG],” said Cormican. “It puts our small, but active German program on the map in Georgia so students and teachers see that if they come here, they will get a quality education, lots of personal attention and real opportunities to advance their German skills and possibly study abroad.”
Cormican has been at UWG since fall 1997. Prior to that, she taught at Indiana University in Bloomington, the University of Nevada at Reno and the University of Missouri in Columbia.
For more information about the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at UWG, call 678-839-6515.
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