Cisco A. Jamie Cuticchia, bioinformatics pioneer with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics who was responsible for the collection of the data constituting the human gene map and who is director of human genome database Leonard DeLonga, sculptor, painter, and professor at Mount Holyoke College Charles Herty, academic, chemist and businessman; namesake of UGA's Herty Field Cynthia Kenyon, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, member of National Academy of Sciences Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author, professor, and president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center Eugene Odum, American biologist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, author of the first ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology'' Kerwin Swint, political scientist and author, known for his research and writing in the fields of political campaigns, mass media, and political history Sports Distinguished faculty and staff The University of Georgia has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. Notable past and present faculty and staff include: Administration Donald R. Eastman III, served as the vice president for university relations at the University of Georgia 1991–1998; vice president for strategic planning and public affairs at the University of Georgia 1998–2001 Karen Holbrook, former senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UGA; former president of Ohio State University Arts and humanities Education Donna Alvermann, educator, currently university-appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of Georgia Mathematics Andrew Granville, professor of mathematics and David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics at the University of Georgia, 1991–2002 Carl Pomerance, former professor of mathematics at University of Georgia, distinguished number theorist (Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture) Robert Rumely, professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia and numbers theory researcher (Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test) Scientific research Sports References University of Georgia people