• Lynn Boland has been named the Georgia Museum of Art’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art. Boland will complete his doctorate in art history in September with a dissertation on dissonance in modern European art and music. Boland specializes in European art history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a secondary focus in contemporary American art.
• Charlie McAlexander, a former University of South Carolina radio announcer, has been named assistant to the dean for sports journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Rob McDowell, former assistant chief of the Watershed Protection Branch of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, has been named director of the Environmental Policy Program at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. McDowell, who became director July 1, will oversee the program’s research related to water and air quality, waste management, energy use, conservation and growth management in Georgia.
• Brian Rivers, former director of Security, Network Operations and Infrastructure for EITS, is now director of University Information Security.
• Jerome Schiele, professor and director of the Ph.D. program in the department of social work at Morgan State University in Baltimore, has been named associate dean in the School of Social Work.
• Joseph W. Whorton Jr. has been named permanent director of the Fanning Institute after serving as interim director for the past eight months. Whorton, a senior fellow at the Fanning Institute and associate professor of public administration at the School of Public and International Affairs, has served as interim director since November 2008.
