Community briefs for August 11, 2003

Monday, Aug. 11, 2003 | 9:15 a.m.

County fire chief receives special honor

Clark County Fire Chief Earl Greene has received the honor of Chief Fire Officer by the Commission on Fire Accreditation International, a nonprofit corporation.

Chief Greene will be formally recognized with a designation at Fire Rescue International on August 21 in Dallas.

This honor is bestowed upon those who have the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the fire and emergency services profession. Greene is one of 305 internationally known designated Chief Fire Officers.

The Chief Fire Officer Designation Program is voluntary and is designed to recognize individuals who demonstrate excellence in excellence, professional development and community involvement among others qualities.

Six artists receive $30,000 in grants

Six Nevada artists have each been awarded $30,000 in grants from the Nevada Arts Council.

The $5,000 fellowships were awarded in the areas of literary arts, performing arts and visual arts.

The awards are intended to provide financial support to allow the artists to spend more time in the studio, develop marking strategies or research new techniques. Recipients were chosen by a panel of artists from western states and reviewed 165 applications: 77 in literary arts, 25 in performing arts and 63 in visual arts.

Cara Cole, a photographer from Las Vegas, received a visual arts fellowship. Honorable mention went to Susane Forestieri, a painter from Las Vegas.

Poets Aliki Barnstone of Las Vegas and John Quinn of Henderson each received honorable mention in the literary arts category.

Timothy Bonenfrant, a clarinetist from Las Vegas; Louis Kavouras, a choreographer from Las Vegas; and storyteller Shanta Nurullah of Las Vegas each received honorable mentions in performing arts.

Donation to fund law school position

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Boyd School of Law has secured its seventh donation to fund a professor position.

The law school was given $25,000 a year for an indefinite amount of time to create the Gordon & Silver, Ltd. Professor of Law -- a designation that will be given to a tenured professor with an expertise in business law during the fall semester.

"For a young law school like ours to have seven professorships spread across several tenured faculty is quite a distinction," said Richard Morgan, dean of the law school. "It is a result of having very good professors."

The donation will partially pay for the salary of a professor, Morgan said. The law school hopes to collect more professorships, which are a mark of maturity for a school.

Typically, a prestigious law school may have professorships for two-thirds of its tenured faculty.