* Berry College senior Megan Moffatt was one of four Georgia college students chosen to receive a new award being presented by the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association.
The award is named for Dr. Ken Bernhardt, a longtime AMA member and 2001 recipient of the Wayne Lemburg Award for Lifetime Service to the AMA. A staunch supporter of education and the marketing community, Dr. Bernhardt endowed the Ken Bernhardt AMA-Atlanta Outstanding
The new program will honor four collegiate marketing students annually with a cash award. This year’s honorees represented Berry, Chattahoochee Technical College, Kennesaw State University and Georgia College and State University.
Miss Moffatt is the president of Berry’s Association of Marketers. She has served as a student tutor in marketing and a student reviewer for an online journal dedicated to student business research
* Rufus Massey, assistant vice president for enterprise development at Berry College, is the recipient of the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education for his work with Berry’s new Student-Operated Campus Enterprises program.
The Leavey Award is presented by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in collaboration with the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation.
* Dr. Peter Lawler, Dana professor of government and international studies at Berry College, has been awarded a $150,000 grant through the New Sciences of Virtue Project at the University of Chicago.
The grant will be used to develop a series of three interdisciplinary conferences at Berry. The first conference is scheduled for November.
* Dr. Krishna S. Dhir, Henry Gund professor of management and former dean of the Campbell School of Business at Berry College, has been elected president of the Decision Sciences Institute.
DSI is an international organization of academicians and professors who invested in the study of societal problems and applying effective methods and solutions to those issues.