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$1.3M grant to fund behavioral health training for students By Laurie Anderson laurie@uga.edu
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Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., speaks during the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast Jan. 23.
‘Spiritual view of the world’
Behavioral health needs are a growing issue in Georgia, particularly among transitional youth between the ages of 18 and 25. A new three-year, $1.3 million grant is helping the UGA School of Social Work address these needs. The school’s researchers are developing specialized training for social work master’s degree students through funding provided by the Health Resources Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program will emphasize collaboration with families who use behavioral health services and will teach students how to work in concert with families, at-risk youth and health and social work professionals. According to a 2011 report by the Carter Center, Georgia ranks in the bottom half of states nationally
regarding its ability to meet growing behavioral health needs such as treatment for mental illness, trauma and other issues. The shortHarold Briggs age is particularly serious among transitional age youth, who are at a higher risk for developing behavioral health disorders and are among those least likely to seek services, said Harold Briggs, associate dean and co-principal investigator for the project. Adding to the difficulty of providing effective care, he said, is a lack of input from those being served as well as a lack of coordination between providers of different professional services. The curriculum for the program
Freedom Breakfast speaker said King believed in divine miracles that overcame obstacles College of Veterinary Medicine Noted infectious disease Sponsored by UGA, the During his address, Young reBy Aaron Hale aahale@uga.edu Athens-Clarke County Unified called a meeting he had with King researcher to join UGA Government and the Clarke and President Lyndon Johnson at Martin Luther King Jr. became the transcendent civil rights leader who broke down barriers for equality in America because of the “spiritual” way he looked at the world. That was the message from Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., during the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast Jan. 23. By spiritual, Young said, he meant that King believed in divine miracles that overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles such as the path to passing voting rights legislation in the 1960s.
County School District, the MLK Freedom Breakfast commemorates the life of the late civil rights leader. The event, which was held in the Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center, had a capacity crowd with more than 600 people in attendance. Young, who was a strategist and negotiator with King during the civil rights campaigns in Birmingham and Selma, delivered an inspiring keynote address about continuing King’s work. “We believe that Dr. King’s message to redeem the soul of America from the triple evils of racism, war and poverty is not only possible but necessary,” Young said.
the White House to discuss a push for voting rights legislation in 1965. According to Young, the president said that while he badly wanted a voting rights law, he didn’t have the political power at that time to get a bill through Congress. When the civil rights leaders left the White House that night, King told Young, “I think we have got to find a way to get the president some power.” At the time, Young thought King’s statement was either crazy or arrogant. But that meeting inspired the King-led march on Selma, which See BREAKFAST on page 8
Finance and Administration Division Parking Services expands electric vehicle charging program on campus By Allison Harper aharper1@uga.edu
Due to the popularity of UGA’s first electric vehicle charger and recent grant funding by the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority, UGA Parking Services has expanded charging locations to include the South Campus and East Campus parking decks. Service at the stations began Jan. 15. The chargers are located near the Lumpkin Street entrance in the South Campus parking deck and the main entrance in the East Campus parking deck. UGA’s first electric vehicle
charger, located in the North Campus parking deck, has been used 390 times since it opened for service in May 2014. Over the fall and summer semesters, “we saw an average of 46 sessions per month at the one charger,” said Don Walter, manager of Parking Services. “This has resulted in a total of 1,712 kilograms of greenhouse gas savings since installation. The one charger also has resulted in 511.63 gallons of gasoline saved.” The new installations bring the total number of electric vehicle charger parking spots on campus to six—each level 2 charger has two See ELECTRIC on page 8
By Sam Fahmy
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One of the nation’s leading infectious disease researchers is joining UGA as its newest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Ted M. Ross, director of the vaccines and viral immunity program at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, will join the College of Veterinary Medicine Aug. 17 as the GRA Eminent Scholar in Infectious Diseases. “Dr. Ross has an outstanding record of success in translating his pioneering research into promising new vaccine candidates,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “His expertise complements the University of Georgia’s growing research
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enterprise in infectious disease and will strengthen the university’s ties to vaccine researchers at other institutions and with Georgia’s economically important life sciences industry.” Ross’ research focuses on developing and testing vaccines for diseases such as influenza, dengue, respiratory syncytial virus, chikungunya virus, Ebola and HIV/ AIDS. The work he began while a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh to create a universal vaccine to protect against all strains of seasonal and pandemic influenza has resulted in a new vaccine platform. In 2012, an agreement was signed between Sanofi Pasteur and the University of Pittsburgh for continued
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College of Education
Professor using NSF grant to teach meaning behind numbers
Paul Efland
An electric vehicle charger located in the South Campus parking deck opened for service Jan. 15.
A way to think about mathematics connects both kindergarten students and high school seniors, whether they’re counting to five, working their way through a complicated algorithm or exploring the world around them. UGA’s Kevin Moore describes that way to think as quantitative reasoning. He’s using a five-year, $741,492 National Science Foundation grant to increase the use of quantitative reasoning in how math is both learned and taught. “If you look at most approaches
to teaching mathematics, it’s all very numbers-based,” said Moore, an assistant professor in the College of Education’s mathematics and science education department. “Students are playing with numbers all the time. But when those numbers aren’t representative of something to them, they’re just playing with them procedurally, just multiplying and dividing because,‘Oh, that’s what we do,’ without a deeper understanding. So quantitative reasoning is about putting meaning to the numbers.”
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Around academe
Survey: Perception gap exists between students, employers
A report released by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that while college students believe they are equipped with the skills for the workforce, employers feel differently. The study surveyed 613 current college students and 400 executives in businesses and nonprofits. According to the survey, employers believed recent college graduates were lacking in areas of written communication (27 percent of employers said students were prepared), oral communication (28 percent), working with others in a team (37 percent) and ethical judgment and decision-making (30 percent). A majority of students said they were prepared in these areas.
Amazon launches textbook creator
Amazon.com is offering another platform for educators to self-publish textbooks. The company announced a new app to help educators and authors self-publish textbooks for Kindle. The Kindle Textbook Creator can convert PDFs of textbooks, study guides and other content into Kindle books. The app features a dictionary look-up tool and lets students highlight text and make notes.
Prevent mice and rats from coming indoors during the winter months
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During the winter months when people spend more time indoors, so do rodents. With a little forethought, you can rid your home of uninvited winter guests, according to a UGA wildlife specialist. The first step is to make sure your intruders are rodents. Michael Mengak, a specialist with the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, said to watch for droppings, tracks, burrows and nests. If you determine you do have rodents, the next step is to get rid of them. Mengak recommends using traps, not poison baits. Place traps in rooms, attics, basements and garages. Put them along walls, in cupboards, in drawers or on countertops. Set rat traps with the bait holder across its path at a right angle to the wall. Sticky traps also work well for mice. Snap traps are easy to set and inexpensive. Multi-catch traps work fine but are more expensive. For more information on rodent control, visit georgiafaces.caes.uga.edu.
Regenerative Bioscience Center
New faculty members join RBC as center marks its 10th anniversary By Charlene Betourney
of Georgia, I knew that a strong scientific community would enhance the research environment I Ten years ago with could offer my students, and only a handful of researchfacilitate the research coners, UGA’s Regenerative Bioscience Center made a ducted in my laboratory,” commitment. he said.“After speaking with The center aimed not several members, I knew only to establish a nonprofit the RBC was the scientific collaboration, but also to help community I was seeking.” Luke Mortensen Jarrod Call Woo Kyun Kim graduate and undergraduate Call is a skeletal muscle students draw from a diverse group of The three newest faculty to join the physiologist. His laboratory combines faculty that fosters opportunities for center are Luke Mortensen, Jarrod Call molecular and physiological techniques more dialogue and engagement in the and Woo Kyun Kim. to investigate how disease affects skeletal advancement of regenerative medicine. Mortensen, an assistant professor in muscle regeneration. Currently, the lab Today, under the direction of Steven the College of Agricultural and Envi- is working in collaboration with Robert Stice, a Georgia Research Alliance Emi- ronmental Sciences, moved to Athens in Guldberg, director of the Parker H. Petit nent Scholar in the College of Agricul- mid-October. He earned his postdoctoral Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscitural and Environmental Sciences, the fellowship at Harvard Medical School, ence at Georgia Tech, to enhance delivery center has grown to almost 30 members. where he developed a laser imaging of bone marrow and adipose-derived stem For Stice, the new year sets the stage technology that will allow the design of cells to skeletal muscle. for what will become the age of remark- unique cell therapies for bone repair in “Ultimately, these technologies may able research breakthroughs within the disorders like osteogenesis imperfect, a be used to improve muscle recovery after genetic bone disorder that causes bones injury in aging and diseased populations,” collaboration of the center. Call said. “As we close out our first decade at to break for no apparent cause. “I was inspired to join the ranks of the Kim is an assistant professor of poultry the RBC, we realize that we have made great strides in the field of regenerative RBC by its resident stem cell expertise science in the College of Agricultural and medicine,” Stice said. “For instance, we and its history of focus on translation Environmental Sciences. He earned his have currently developed the first ever interdisciplinary science—not to men- postdoctoral fellowship at the University swine stroke model in the U.S.” tion the open and friendly environment,” of California, Los Angeles. Kim’s key attraction to the RegenHe also cited a collaboration in the Mortensen said. field of toxicology for finding new ways Mortensen’s work about the use of erative Bioscience Center was diversity. to detect environmental toxins and po- nanoparticles to track transplanted cell “The RBC provides a broader optentially prevent brain disorders, such as viability in vivo recently was published portunity of resources to interact with autism, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and in Nature Communications. and learn from the top researchers in the “There is a lot of potential in using field of interdisciplinary research,” he said. traumatic brain injury. Another achieveHis research focus is identifying ment has been additional funding for the vivo microscopy to not just watch stem continued success of “fracture putty,” a cell behavior, but to selectively manipu- compounds that can stimulate bone fast bone-healing orthopedic process. late the cells and their environment,” formation and reduce fat deposition using mesenchymal stem cells. “This will help millions of Americans Mortensen said. “Our therapies with chicken MSCs who have long bone fractures every year Call, an assistant professor in the and help our military address the most College of Education, has worked on could be a useful model in the potential to halt osteoporosis and promote bone costly and extensive medical problem campus less than four months. facing our (soldiers),” Stice said. “When I arrived at the University growth,” Kim said. cbetourney@uga.edu
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Why I Give
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Georgia Fund 2015
Position: Executive director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography At UGA: I have been at Skidaway for 13 years, but Skidaway has only been part of UGA for the past year.
Beneficiary of his gifts to the university: General funds for the use and discretion of the UGA Skidaway Institute Why he contributes: “The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is a very special institution doing incredible research and education in support of the global ocean. My wife, Dodie, and I have supported it since we first arrived in Savannah in 2001, and we are continuing to do so now that it is aligned with UGA. We think everyone should consider a gift for this important cause.”
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Irish photographer to talk about ‘Things Left Unsaid’ By Dave Marr
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GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE
Public education advocate to speak Feb. 4 at UGA Chapel By Kristen Morales kmorales@uga.edu
A leading advocate and author for public education will visit UGA to talk about national educational policies and their effects on local schools. Anthony Cody, co-founder of the Network for Public Education and the author of The Educator and The Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation, will speak Feb. 4 at 5:15 p.m. at the Chapel. Open free to the public, the lecture will be followed by a reception in Demosthenian Hall. Cody’s talk, “Local Schools, National Policies: Who’s Listening?” is presented by the UGA College of Education and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. It is part of an ongoing public conversation about education. Cody spent 24 years teaching in Oakland, California, and during that time the rise of the Common Core, test-based teacher evaluation systems, and other national educational policy initiatives sparked him into action. His blog, “Living in Dialogue,” first appeared on Education Week in 2008 but became independent of the magazine this past August, just before the publication of his first book. “Anthony Cody poses tough questions to everyone who is interested in public education,” said Jack Parish, the education college’s dean of outreach, who is involved with programs such as the college’s Professional Development School District and its Early Career Principal Residency program. “The visit is a chance to hear his perspective on education and an opportunity to question him and one’s own beliefs about national educational policies.”
Paul Seawright, an Irish photographer whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world, will visit UGA for a lecture Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. The talk, “Things Left Unsaid,” is the second installment in the 2015 Global Georgia Initiative, an annual speaker series sponsored by the Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The lecture, which is open free to the public, is presented in partnership with the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art. Seawright’s early work was focused Paul Seawright on his native Northern Ireland during the late days of the “Troubles” in the 1980s and ’90s. In 2002, after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he accepted a commission by the Imperial War Museum in London to document the battle sites there. His photographs from Afghanistan have been exhibited and published around the world, and he has had dozens of international solo and group exhibitions since then. “Paul is an artist in photography with an international reputation,” said Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and director of the Willson Center. “He is drawn to the subject of conflict and representation, which is reflected in his latest series—Things Left Unsaid, which has just had a successful showing in Paris—as well as in his background in Belfast and his commission as a war artist in Afghanistan. “Things Left Unsaid makes the familiar strange in its haunting and disconnected images of broadcast news studios from which war reports are transmitted,” Allen also said. “Paul’s visit offers a rare opportunity to hear a unique artist—who is also a committed academic—discuss the philosophy and practice of his craft.” Seawright is a professor of photography and head of Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster.
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Digest ‘Maximizing Study Abroad’ author to give presentation on Feb. 4
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Justin Lavner, an assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences psychology department, led a study that found that the severity and number of married couples’ overall problems stay stable over time, even as their relationship dissatisfaction grows.
Satisfaction not guaranteed Psychology study finds that marital problems remain stable, even as dissatisfaction grows
By Alan Flurry
aflurry@uga.edu
A new study authored by a UGA psychologist shows that the severity and number of married couples’ overall problems stay stable over time, even as their relationship dissatisfaction grows. The research published in the Journal of Family Psychology suggests a departure from conventional wisdom, both on the part of the public and in the research community. “It was kind of a surprise. On the one hand, our study disproves what the researchers thought: That if satisfaction is declining, problems must be increasing,” said Justin Lavner, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences psychology department. “But it also disproves what a lot of the public is thinking: That problems are going to get better—that once people get married things are going to improve. These positive and optimistic expectations end up not mapping onto reality.”
While problems and conflicts in marriage long have been thought to be inevitable, very few studies have examined how newlywed couples’ issues change as marriage progresses. “The vast majority of people get married during their lifetimes, and what is known is that, on average, satisfaction declines,” Lavner said. “So the question is, how do couples’ problems actually change? So many people enter marriage happily, but then go on to struggle. What explains that disconnect?” The study used data from 169 newlywed couples assessed eight times over the first four years of marriage to examine how couples’ marital problems changed. Ratings of 19 specific problems indicated that couples’ difficulties in areas such as in-laws, household management, amount of time spent together and unrealistic expectations do not change. The only area that showed consistent change for husbands and wives was showing affection, which worsened on average. Overall, the total severity and
number of couples’ problems remained stable over the four years, even though couples’ relationship satisfaction declined on average. Lavner and co-authors Benjamin Karney and Thomas Bradbury from the University of California, Los Angeles, hypothesize that instead of any change in the conflicts, it is couples’ drop in tolerance for their problems that leads the decline in satisfaction. “The advice we would give is to pay attention and to talk about what’s going on, because it’s not going to improve just on its own,” said Lavner, who is a specialist in family and couple relationships. “Have the real conversation about the state of the marriage and the challenges for you, as well as the strengths, to build on those. But talk about the challenges, and if you decide you need help, couples therapy is a good option. “There is this idea that relationships don’t need maintenance,” Lavner also said. “People say, ‘We have a good relationship, so that should just protect itself.’ Well, it’s pretty clear that’s not true.”
School of Public and International Affairs
Researchers to study impact of painkiller abuse policies By Caroline Paczkowski cparis@uga.edu
State policies that curb the abuse of opioid prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin may be having some unintended side effects and hurting those who need the medications the most. Researchers in the UGA School of Public and International Affairs are using a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate whether prescription drug monitoring programs in place in most states are keeping patients who need opioids from receiving them. The grant program, through the foundation’s Public Health Law Research program, is designed to provide funding for studies that analyze or evaluate laws and their effect on public health. “With prescription drug monitoring programs covering nearly every state, they have the potential to have a widespread effect on people’s access to important therapies for pain, yet no one has analyzed the relationship between the monitoring programs and pain management,” said Courtney
Yarbrough, a second-year doctoral student in the public administration and policy department. “The grant gives us the opportunity to explore the implications of these laws in detail and to provide objective information to policymakers and states as they continue to update their programs.” Yarbrough and W. David Bradford, the George D. Busbee Professor in Public Policy in the public administration and policy department, are collaborators on the grant. “Opioids fall under the Controlled Substances Act because of their potential to be addictive, and they can be very dangerous if taken inappropriately,” Bradford said. “Opioids have become a major public health concern in recent years. Between 1999 and 2010, sales of opioid analgesics increased by more than 300 percent, and opioid overdose deaths rose 265 percent for men and 415 percent for women.” Most states have responded to the epidemic by implementing prescription drug monitoring programs, an electronic registry where doctors and pharmacists must report opioid prescriptions written and dispensed. The purpose of the
programs is to monitor behavior and detect either inappropriate use by patients or inappropriate prescribing or dispensing by health care providers. For many patients, opioids are the only feasible treatments for their pain. Prescription drug monitoring programs might have an adverse effect on pain management if they restrict access to drugs for people who need them by creating stigmas surrounding the drugs, discouraging doctors from prescribing them or making them more costly to obtain, Bradford said. Bradford and Yarbrough’s study will use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which tracks Medicare patients over time to examine changes in patients’ pain outcomes before and after prescription drug monitoring programs are implemented in their states. With this very rich data, the effects of the monitoring programs will be analyzed on a variety of patients— such as nursing home, hospice or cancer patients—who might be particularly vulnerable to changes in opioid access. The study also will explore the differential effects of some state-to-state variations in monitoring programs.
Andrew D. Cohen, author of the Maximizing Study Abroad guidebook will visit UGA for a presentation and conversation. His talk, “Enhancing Students’ Language and Culture Learning in Study Abroad,” will be held Feb. 4 at 3 p.m. in Room 150 of the Miller Learning Center. The hour-long event is open free to the public. A professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, Cohen will describe the development at Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research on Language Acquisition of the Maximizing Study Abroad student guidebook and the companion guidebook for program professionals and teachers. More than 50,000 copies of the student guidebook have been purchased over the last decade. Cohen’s visit is sponsored by the Office of International Education in collaboration with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.
‘Georgia Review’ to present Feb. 4 reading by poet Noah Blaustein
The Georgia Review at UGA will present a reading by Noah Blaustein Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at Ciné, located at 234. W. Hancock Ave. He is the second of three readers on the 2014-15 Georgia Poetry Circuit. The reading is open free to the public, and the poet’s books will be available courtesy of Avid Bookshop. Blaustein, the author of Flirt, has published poems in the Los Angeles Review, the Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Harvard Review, Orion, Pleiades and many other journals. His anthology Motion: American Sports Poems was an editor’s pick of National Public Radio and The Boston Globe, and a Librarian’s Pick of the New York Public Library. The Georgia Poetry Circuit is a consortium of colleges and universities that annually brings three poets of national reputation to its member campuses, providing important access to the literary arts for Georgia residents across the state. The Georgia Review has been the UGA liaison to the circuit since the latter’s founding in 1985.
Philosophy colloquia series to resume
As part of its fall 2014-spring 2015 colloquia series, the philosophy department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences will present lectures by faculty members from Cornell and Columbia universities. Both talks are open free to the public. Karen Bennett, a professor in Cornell University’s Sage School of Philosophy, will lead the first colloquium Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 205S of Peabody Hall. On Feb. 13, Frederick Neuhouser, a professor of philosophy in Columbia University’s Barnard College, will lead the colloquium “Social Ontology and the Possibility of Pathology.” Part of the Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series, Neuhouser’s talk will be followed by a reception.
NPPA headquarters will move to UGA
The National Press Photographers Association is relocating its headquarters to UGA. NPPA is the voice of visual journalists, representing photographers, videographers, multimedia journalists, editors, designers, visual managers and academicians, with nearly 6,000 members nationwide and around the world. The association’s move will provide the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s growing photojournalism department access to resources for students including contact with visiting professionals, participation in workshops taught by NPPA staff and members and employment opportunities, including the potential to work with the organization’s News Photographer magazine and website. The relocation also will allow Grady College’s research faculty to access the association’s Best of Photojournalism contest entries for study.
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The following events are open to the public, unless otherwise specified. Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.
UGAGUIDE Not Ready to Make Nice
Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond
By Eva Chamberlain etcuga@uga.edu
Chanticleer will perform Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The Performing Arts Center will offer a pre-concert lecture 45 minutes prior to the vocal ensemble's performance.
Grammy-winning Chanticleer to perform traditional gypsy music By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu
The UGA Performing Arts Center will present Chanticleer Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The Grammy-winning vocal ensemble will perform a program titled “The Gypsy in My Soul,” featuring traditional gypsy music from Eastern Europe along with songs by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Peter Gabriel and Irving Berlin. Tickets, which are $25-$42 and discounted for UGA students, can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. Founded in 1978 in San Francisco, Chanticleer has been called “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker magazine. This season the ensemble is performing throughout the U.S. with concerts in 25 states and will tour to Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for its “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity,” Chanticleer is known around the world for the seamless blend of its 12 male voices and its original interpretations of vocal literature, encompassing every genre from Renaissance music to jazz and gospel. In 2000 Chanticleer won a Grammy for best small ensemble performance for Colors of Love, and in 2003 the ensemble won two Grammys for best small ensemble performance and best classical contemporary composition for Lamentations and Praises. During its 30th anniversary season in 2008, Chanticleer was named Musical America’s ensemble of the year, marking the first time a vocal ensemble had received the award. Chanticleer’s Performing Arts Center concert will be recorded for national broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, heard by 1.3 million listeners across the country. The Performing Arts Center will offer a pre-concert lecture 45 minutes prior to the Chanticleer performance. The lecture is open free to the public. Visitors are invited to make it an evening by visiting the Georgia Museum of Art for dessert and gallery tours prior to the pre-concert lecture.
Exhibitions Witness: The Photographs of Billy Howard. Through Feb. 12. Circle Gallery, Jackson Street Building. Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond. Through March 1. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, above right). Creatures in the Garden. Through March 8. State Botanical Garden. The Life and Work of Alice Fischer, Cultural Pioneer. Through March 8. Boone and George-Ann Knox Gallery II, Georgia Museum of Art. A Year on the Hill: Work by Jim Fiscus and Chris Bilheimer. Through March 8. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-9078, mlachow@uga.edu. “OC” Carlisle Solo Art. Through May 11. Candler Hall. Food, Power and Politics: The Story of School Lunch. Through May 15. Russell Library Gallery, special collections libraries. Terra Verte. Through May 31. Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, Georgia Museum of Art.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Black History Month Kickoff To promote Black History Month events featuring music, tabling from student organizations and opportunities to get involved in Black History Month programming. 10 a.m. Tate Student Center Plaza. 706-542-7128, meganrp@uga.edu.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Brown Bag Panel Discussion “Excellence in Teaching Fully Online Courses.” Methods used to teach fully online classes can vary greatly from one course to the next; however, the common attribute that can be found in the narratives
The Georgia Museum of Art at UGA is presenting the exhibition Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond through March 1. Not Ready to Make Nice features provocative work by the anonymous Guerrilla Girls artists, a feminist collective famous for combining humor, hard facts and art on street posters, billboards and stickers. Their creations draw attention to the underrepresentation of women artists and artists of color in museums around the world. The exhibition features major works from rarely shown international projects tracking the group’s artistic and activist influence around the globe. The exhibition is organized by in-house curators Lynn Boland, the Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, and Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art (see story, page 7), in partnership with Neysa Page-Lieberman, curator of Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond director and curator of the exhibitions, performance and student spaces department at Columbia College Chicago. “As the title of the show demonstrates, they tackle issues beyond inequality in the art world and, through their posters, billboards and performances, seek to raise our awareness on a range
author of the Maximizing Study Abroad guide. 3 p.m. 150 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-4208, martina@uga.edu. (See Digest, page 3).
Ecology Seminar “From Best Practices to Results: Evaluation and Monitoring at the Rainforest Alliance,” Deanna Newsom, senior analyst of research and evaluation at the Rainforest Alliance. 4 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu.
Photo Sharegroup meeting This meeting will be devoted to sharing digital images from mostly outdoor photography: nature (flora and fauna), gardens, travel, landscapes and abstracts. 6:30 p.m. Classroom 1, State Botanical Garden.
Guest Lecture “Traces in the Stacks: Digitization and the Future of 19th-century Print,” Andrew Stauffer, an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia. Presented by the Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenthand Nineteenth-century Literature. 4:30 p.m. 265 Park Hall. 706-318-8072, legette@uga.edu.
Reading Noah Blaustein will give a reading. Blaustein has had published poems in Zyzzyva, the Massachusetts Review, Harvard Review, Barrow Street, Poetry Daily,The Fish Anthology, Orion, Pleiades and many other journals. 7 p.m. Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. 706-542-3481. (See Digest, page 3).
University theatre A Lesson Before Dying. Also to be performed Feb. 4-8 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. $12; $7 for students. 8 p.m. Seney-Stovall Chapel. 706-542-2836, dinac@uga.edu.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
PRESENTATION and conversation “Enhancing Students’ Language and Culture Learning in Study Abroad,” Andrew D. Cohen,
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By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu
The UGA Performing Arts Center will present A Night in Old New Orleans Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The show reunites the stars of One Mo’ Time, the off-Broadway hit musical that ran for over three years at New York’s Village Gate. Tickets for A Night in Old New Orleans are $25-$35 and are discounted for UGA students. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A Night in Old New Orleans features clarinetist Orange Kellin and song-and-dance man Vernel Bagneris along with other talented New Orleans musicians who bring to life the Big Easy sounds of yesteryear. Kellin has a long and illustrious career as a musician, arranger and music director. He has performed and recorded with many musicians, most notably accompanying Louis Armstrong at Satchmo’s 70th birthday concert at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1970. He also played on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack and appeared in the film Pretty Baby. Bagneris is an Obie and Outer Critics Circle award-winning singer, dancer and actor. He appeared in the film Pennies From Heaven with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, and he choreographed and acted in the Oscar-winning Ray with Jamie Foxx. Joining Kellin and Bagneris will be pianist and singer Steve Pistorius and drummer Walter Harris, both veterans of the New Orleans traditional jazz scene and regulars at Preservation Hall.
Bassoonist Pollard to perform in faculty series recital Feb. 9 Amy Pollard, an assistant professor of bassoon in UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will present the latest recital in the Hodgson Faculty Series Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets to the performance, which will take place in Ramsey Concert Hall, are $10, $5 for students with a UGACard. The recital, which also will feature resident accompanist Damon Denton on piano, is titled “Strange Interludes,” a name taken from James Lassen’s eponymous composition. “I’ve wanted to perform Strange Interlude No. 3 for some time now,” Amy Pollard Pollard said. “It combines a lot of interesting jazz rhythms and complex time signatures, things that people aren’t familiar with hearing on the bassoon.” In addition to Strange Interlude, Pollard will perform an ambitious program of contemporary works bookended by more traditional compositions: Eugène Bozza’s Prélude et Divertissement; Philippe Hersant’s Niggun; Hexen (Witches) by Miguel del Aguila; and Franz Berwald’s Konzertstück, Op. 2. The next, and final, concert in the 2014-2015 Hodgson Faculty Series will feature tenor Lawrence Bakst with pianist Kathryn Wright on March 18.
Spring Tuesday Tour Join a guided tour of the three museum galleries. 2 p.m. Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries galleries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu.
Tour at Two Led by docents. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-9078, mlachow@uga.edu.
Performing Arts Center to present A Night in Old New Orleans
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Guest Lecture Anthony Cody’s lecture “Local Schools, National Policies: Who’s Listening?” is part of an ongoing public conversation about education in partnership with the community, the UGA College of Education and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 5:15 p.m. Chapel. davemarr@uga.edu. (See story, page 2).
UGAAlert Test 9 a.m. 706-542-5845, prepare@uga.edu. (See Bulletin Board, page 8).
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By Joshua Cutchin
shared by these faculty panelists are strategies that have proven to be successful at fostering interaction, student engagement and student learning. 11 a.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu.
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of social issues such as the biases of Hollywood or the fight for marriage equality,” Gillespie said. The exhibition also includes documentary material depicting famous actions, behind-the-scenes photos, secret anecdotes from the movement and iconic work from the 1980s and 1990s illustrating the evolution of the group’s feminist-activist philosophy and unique approach to arts activism. The Guerrilla Girls maintain their anonymity by adopting the names of dead female artists and wearing gorilla masks. “There are several interactive elements to the exhibition where visitors will be encouraged to leave comments and messages relating to the content of the show,” Gillespie said. “This is a great way to engage visitors and to start a real dialogue about some of the issues the Guerrilla Girls raise.” Associated events include a gallery talk with Gillespie on Feb. 13 from 12:20-1:10 p.m. and a panel discussion sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts on Feb. 19 at 5:30 p.m. The discussion will include Page-Lieberman, Frida Kahlo, founding and current member of the Guerrilla Girls, and Romaine Brooks, a former Guerrilla Girl. A reception sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies will follow the discussion.
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Guest Lecture Paul Seawright is professor of photography and head of Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster. His talk, “Things Left Unsaid,” will be delivered in partnership with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This event is part of the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative. 4 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art. davemarr@uga.edu. (See story, page 2). “Make It An Evening” Participants can enjoy coffee, dessert and a gallery tour by Mary Koon prior to the Chanticleer performance in Hodgson Concert Hall. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-9078, mlachow@uga.edu. Film I Confess. (1953, NR, 95 minutes). A forgotten but
flawed film, I Confess features a priest accused of murder but bound to keep secret the real killer’s confession. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-9078, mlachow@uga.edu. Women’s Basketball vs. South Carolina. To be televised on the SEC Network. $5; $3 for youth. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. “Stories of Everyday Black History” This program will provide an intimate glimpse into the experiences of black faculty and staff members at UGA. It will honor and give voice to the experiences and histories of present-day influential black faculty and staff on campus. 7 p.m. Reception Hall, Tate Student Center. 706-542-7128, meganrp@uga.edu. Concert Chanticleer, vocal ensemble. $25-$42. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, above left). Film The Normal Heart (2014) will be shown. $2; $1 for UGA students who pay activity fees. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theatre. 706-542-6396.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Friends First Friday This monthly event includes a full breakfast and an opportunity to meet new people while learning about the garden, gardening or garden history. RSVP to 706-542-9353 by Feb. 4. $12. 9 a.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-9353. Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series Lecture “Double Consciousness in the 21st Century: Negotiating Identities Among Academically Successful Black Women,” Danielle Dickens, a lecturer in the psychology department. 12:20 p.m. 148 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu.
Holmes-Hunter Lecture Judge Glenda Hatchett will deliver this year’s lecture. Hatchett, former chief presiding judge of the Fulton County Georgia Juvenile Court, was Georgia’s first African-American chief presiding judge of a state court. She also presided over the twice Emmynominated syndicated show Judge Hatchett. 2 p.m. Chapel. Colloquium Karen Bennett, a professor in Cornell University’s Sage School of Philosophy, will lead this colloquium. 3:30 p.m. 205S Peabody Hall. (See Digest, page 3). Film Birdman (2014) will be shown Feb. 6-8 at 3, 6 and 9 p.m. $2; $1 for UGA students who pay activity fees. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theatre. 706-542-6396.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Women’s Golf Lady Bulldog Invitational UGA Golf Course. 706-542-1621. Class “Natural History of Georgia Plants.” $105. 9 a.m. Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu. Equestrian vs. South Carolina. 10 a.m. Equestrian Complex. 706-542-1621. Men’s Basketball vs. Tennessee. To be televised on ESPN/2. $15. Noon. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1231. A Night in Old New Orleans Clarinetist Orange Kellin and his trio join Obie Award-winning song-and-dance man Vernel Bagneris for an evening of great tunes from the old days of the Big Easy. $25-$35. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, above).
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Equestrian vs. Delaware State. 10 a.m. Equestrian Complex. 706-542-1621.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 health screenings UGA students can get a free cholesterol screening and blood pressure check Feb. 9-12 and Feb. 16-19 from 8 a.m. to noon and 1-3 p.m. There is a $10 fee for non-fees paid students, UGA faculty or staff members, spouses and domestic partners. Participants must be fasting, having had no food or drink other than water after midnight the night before. Check-in is at registration. University Health Center. 706-542-8690, bbingeman@uhs.uga.edu. Lecture Julie Heffernan’s work explores mind’s eye imagery to create complex environments that address climate change, environmental degradation and human folly. Part of the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist/Scholar Series. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116, michelleegas@uga.edu. concert Hodgson School professor Amy Pollard performs on the bassoon. $10; $5 with a UGACard. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu. (See story, above).
Coming up Noontime Concert Feb. 10. Free lunchtime concert by The Knights chamber orchestra from New York. Noon. Chapel. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu. Dedication Ceremony Feb. 13. The Veterinary Medical Center will be dedicated. 2 p.m.
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Institute of Higher Education faculty members Sheila Slaughter and James C. Hearn received awards from the Association for the Study of Higher Education at the group’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. Slaughter, the McBee Professor of Higher Education, received Sheila Slaughter the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award, the highest honor presented by the association. The award is given to “an individual whose professional life has been devoted in substantial part to the study of higher education and whose career significantly has advanced the field through extraordinary scholarship, leadership and service,” according to the ASHE website. James Hearn Slaughter is a distinguished scholar of higher education whose research concentrates on the relationship between knowledge and power as it plays out in higher education policy at the state, federal and global levels. She is a past-president of ASHE and a recipient of lifetime research awards from both ASHE and the American Educational Research Association. She is the author or co-author of four refereed books and numerous articles and book chapters in major journals across several disciplines. Hearn received the Excellence in Public Policy in Higher Education Award. Given by the ASHE Council on Public Policy in Higher Education, the award recognizes “excellence in work at the nexus of academic scholarship and policy practice in the field of public policy and higher education,” as stated in award guidelines. Hearn is associate director of the institute and focuses his research on organization, policy and finance in postsecondary education. His research has appeared in education, sociology and economics journals as well as in several edited books. Hearn is a past recipient of the Distinguished Research Award of Division J of the AERA. Yao-wen Huang, a professor of food science and technology and the director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ China Study Abroad Program, was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology. He was inducted into the academy during the 17th International Yao-wen Huang Union of Food Science and Technology World Congress in Montreal, Canada. Fellows elected bi-yearly to the union are acknowledged by their peers as outstanding representatives of international food science and technology. Fellows serve as independent people to work for and promote high standards of ethics and scientific endeavors. They are at the forefront of the organization helping to strengthen global food science and technology for humanity. Huang was recognized for his professional achievement. His research primarily focuses on food safety and microbiology and new product and process development. He specializes in the development of rapid detection techniques for food pathogenic bacteria and toxic compounds using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with nano substrates. The technique has the potential to be used in the food safety system. He also has developed a novel processing technology to convert shrimp by-catch and peanut byproduct into valuable food products, cannonball jellyfish and peanut chips, respectively. Kudos recognizes special contributions of staff, faculty and administrators in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election into office of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes; and similarly notable accomplishments.
CAMPUS CLOSEUP
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Walter Biggins, senior acquisitions editor, is like “a talent scout for books.” He reads manuscripts, works with authors, conceptually edits for ideas and structure and helps decide which books the University of Georgia Press will publish.
‘Talent scout for books’: Acquisitions editor helps keep presses running By Matt Chambers mattdc@uga.edu
After having heard about working in scholarly publishing from friends who had interned in the field, Walter Biggins was a new college graduate when he accepted a position as assistant to the director of the University Press of Mississippi in 1999. That position propelled him down a career path that continues to this day in his role as senior acquisitions editor for the University of Georgia Press. Biggins, who graduated from Millsaps College with a bachelor’s degree in English, had never been exposed to scholarly publishing before he joined the staff of the University Press of Mississippi, but he took to it quickly. After starting off doing tasks like grant writing and administrative work, Biggins began to accumulate more responsibilities and transitioned to the role of acquisitions editor. “At the University Press of Mississippi, the director had two full-time jobs: being the director and acting as an acquisitions editor for 25-30 books,” Biggins said. “Because of that, I learned a lot about acquiring books and working with authors in a way I might not have if I’d been an assistant for a director at any other press.” As a senior acquisitions editor at UGA, Biggins is like “a talent scout for books.” He reads manuscripts, works with authors, conceptually edits for ideas and structure and helps decide which books the University of Georgia Press will publish. The process starts with Biggins
reading over a manuscript pertaining to a field in which he has experience. Those fields include African-American studies, 19th- and 20th-century American history, American literature, Caribbean studies, film and popular culture and international relations. If he believes the book might be worth pursing, Biggins will work with the author to address any structural or conceptual issues the manuscript might have. He also will begin looking for experts who can complete a peer review of the work before it is published. “One of the things that’s cool about being an editor is that you learn to have a limited interest in a lot of different fields,” Biggins said. “So while I’m not necessarily an expert in 18th-century Caribbean studies, I know the field well enough to know who the experts are.” For Biggins, the best part of his job is finding a manuscript he thinks could make a “really cool book,” and then improving upon it. He also likes that his role as a senior acquisitions editor permits him some say in creating a new series or focusing on certain content areas. “That’s fun too, not just thinking about individual books, but also thinking about the fields of study and what’s not being produced that we could publish,” he said. While not all his acquisition areas are personal favorites, Biggins does have a passion for pop culture, particularly comic and movie criticism. “Since I was 16 or so, I was really interested in the way people talk about movies,” Biggins said. “I was a weird,
Facts Walter Biggins Senior Acquisitions Editor University of Georgia Press B.A., English, Millsaps College, 1999 At UGA: 22 months
nerdy kid who was as interested in criticism as I was with the films themselves.” Biggins, whose list of favorite writers includes many film critics, grew up in a household where comics and films were prevalent. His parents also encouraged the discussion of movies. Biggins’ stepdad even gave him For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies, a compilation of essays by The New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael. “I still have that book with all the marginal notes I wrote in it from when I was 18,” Biggins said. “I can remember picking through that and marveling at her prose, and now I argue with her. There are things she likes that I don’t.” In his mind, the way humans discuss popular culture defines “how we think of ourselves and the way we look at the world.” Biggins said the field of popular culture criticism provides a broader and deeper understanding of humanity. And with his work at the UGA Press as well as his personal criticism writing, Biggins feels like he’s improving that understanding. “I like knowing that in some small way, I’m shifting the conversation or I’m adding to it and giving people ways to think about things,” he said.
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Cornell appointed associate dean for academic affairs By Kat Gilmore
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Dr. Karen Cornell, a board-certified veterinary surgeon and a professor in the small animal medicine and surgery department, is now associate dean for academic affairs for the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. Her appointment was effective Jan. 1. “I am honored to work with my colleagues in the tradition of excellence in veterinary education at the University of Georgia by providing a program utilizing progressive educational methodologies in a supportive environment, so that veterinary students may develop the competencies necessary to succeed in our ever-changing society,” Cornell said. Cornell joined the veterinary
medicine college in 1998 as an assistant professor of soft tissue surgery and by 2010 had earned the rank of tenured professor. She has served the college on multiple committees and in four Karen Cornell significant leadership roles: director of continuing education since January 2014; assistant department head for small animal medicine and surgery since 2011; interim director of the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital from 2009-2010; and chief of staff for surgery from 2002-2008. Cornell has garnered multiple accolades for her educational efforts, including
twice being awarded the highest teaching award presented to veterinary educators, the Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teacher Award (now the Zoetis Distinguished Teacher Award), in 2001 and 2006. In 2011, she was named a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Small Animal Surgery. In addition, she was a member in the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program from 2001-2003 and is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy. She also served as a mentor in both programs. Cornell has been recognized by veterinary students, being selected to “hood” their class on graduation day and give the Commencement address. Cornell has been involved in the training for dozens of interns and residents who became board-certified veterinary surgeons.
GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART
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Grady college New program in narrative media writing to begin By Stephanie Moreno s.moreno@uga.edu
Paul Efland
One of Sarah Kate Gillespie’s first big undertakings as curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art is to spearhead efforts to reinstall the museum’s permanent art this summer.
The storyteller
Curator brings fresh perspective to campus conversation on American art By Aaron Hale
aahale@uga.edu
Art museum curators get to tell a story through how works of art are displayed. The complexity of that story can vary depending on the pieces with which a curator has to work. For Sarah Kate Gillespie, one of the most intriguing parts about being American art curator at the Georgia Museum of Art is getting to tell a story through such a rich collection of art. “There’s a lot to work with,” she said. Gillespie became curator of American art at the museum in July; her previous experience includes being an assistant art professor and curator in New York. One of Gillespie’s first big undertakings is to spearhead efforts to reinstall the museum’s permanent art this summer. The reinstallation, which will occur in the expanded wing of the museum, involves moving art on display, putting some works into storage and reintroducing other pieces. Gillespie said that she, along with the museum’s other curators,
will examine the museum’s collection of American, European and decorative art and ask some big questions: “What story do we want to tell? Can we tell it differently?” Before coming to UGA, Gillespie was an assistant professor of art history at York College, City University of New York, where she taught classes on 19th- and 20th-century American art,AfricanAmerican art and the history of photography. She also has served as the Luce Curator of Fine Arts at the Brooklyn Historical Society and curatorial and research associate at the former Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Coming to UGA from New York, Gillespie is able to bring a fresh perspective to the museum’s collection. Gillespie’s experience in the New York art community also helped her develop connections in the American art world that are valuable for drawing exhibitions and guest curators to the museum. Gillespie’s specialty is in 19thand early 20th-century visual culture in America. “We’re a young nation. Our visual arts are very young,” she said. Gillespie studies how the
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Book honors UGA math education professor
Pursuing Excellence in Mathematics Education Edited by Edward Silver and Christine Keitel-Kreidt Springer eBook: $99 Hardcover: $129
Pursuing Excellence in Mathematics Education recognizes the more than 40 years of sustained and distinguished lifetime achievement in mathematics education research and development of Jeremy Kilpatrick, Regents Professor of Mathematics Education in the UGA College of Education. With contributions from a variety of skilled mathematics educators, this text honors Kilpatrick by reflecting on his groundbreaking papers, book chapters and books—many of which are now standard references in the literature—on mathematical problem solving, the history of mathematics education, mathematical ability and proficiency, curriculum change and its history, global perspectives on mathematics education and mathematics assessment. Chapters also offer contributions on mathematical problem solving, mathematics curriculum, the role of theory in mathematics education, the democratization of mathematics and international perspectives on the field of mathematics education.
nation’s nascent art culture developed around American ideals. With this background, she was excited about the museum’s American collection, which is strong in its stock of 19th-century landscapes and impressionist paintings. One of Gillespie’s favorite paintings in the collection is “Portrait of Mrs. Catherine Munro, ca. 1818” by Samuel F.B. Morse, an artist best known as inventor of the telegraph and Morse code. The portrait is simple—the subject dressed in black, red and white stares out from the painting. Gillespie previously has studied Morse’s daguerreotypes. In addition to Morse’s other talents, Gillespie said, “He was a gorgeous portraitist.” Like all curators at the museum, Gillespie is looking for ways to connect with other faculty on campus particularly for bringing UGA students from various disciplines to see the artwork. “We really think of ourselves as a teaching museum,” she said. History classes frequently visit the museum. But since art can intersect with nearly any discipline, including the sciences, Gillespie
said she welcomes the opportunity for any instructor to find learning opportunities at the museum. Looking forward, Gillespie has ambitious plans for the museum when it comes to the display and conversation of American art. “We should think big,” Gillespie said of the museum. “There is no reason why we cannot become a center for the study of the interpretation of American art in the Southeast.” Right now, she said, there really isn’t such a center in the South focusing on American visual art, though the Georgia Museum of Art is a leading museum in American decorative arts. As curator, Gillespie said, her job toward building the museum’s reputation begins with developing nationally important shows that can tour to other institutions. Given its association with the university and its existing resources, the museum certainly is poised to become a leader in American visual arts. Gillespie said, “We have the collection to do it, and we have the education infrastructure as a resource.”
This fall, UGA will become the first major research institution to offer a low-residency Master of Fine Arts degree in narrative media writing. Featuring concentrations in narrative nonfiction and screenwriting, the five-semester program is geared toward experienced writers who are interested in taking their careers to the next level. Leading the program are awardwinning author and journalist Valerie Boyd and award-winning producer Nate Kohn, both faculty members of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. “We want a diverse group of students who are ready to reach a certain level of mastery of their craft,” said Boyd, narrative nonfiction director. “It’s a program where they can bring their industry experience, and that experience will be respected and built upon.” Students will begin each semester by visiting campus for an intensive 10-day residency consisting of writing workshops, craft lectures, seminars and panel discussions across concentrations. That will be followed by a four-month online writing period, during which each student will work closely with an assigned professional faculty mentor. “A low-residency model is an excellent way to teach writing because it gives students both a writing community and solitude to write, the kind of alone time that writers have to get used to in order to produce good work,” Boyd said. Top-notch authors, screenwriters, literary agents and other industry professionals will work one-onone with students to develop and hone essential career skills. The narrative nonfiction concentration is designed for students who want to develop their research, reporting and writing skills to take on topics of national and global importance, beyond the self-focused genres of memoir and personal essay. The screenwriting concentration is designed for feature film and television writers who want to explore new creative opportunities in telling stories that matter.
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BREAKFAST from page 1 changed the landscape for voting rights. Young said he learned something from King. “I was like President Johnson,” said Young. “I was thinking politically. (King) had a spiritual view of the world.” King believed in finding ways to overcome so-called political realities, Young said. In the present day, Young said fulfilling King’s dream is less about racial issues and more about closing class divisions and finding economic opportunities. Investing in education and training police is one way to address these concerns. Young said an old friend once told him, “If you think education is expensive, just look at the cost of ignorance.” Also at the breakfast, UGA presented four
awards to Athens and campus community members for exemplary community service. Ricky Roberts, an academic adviser in the UGA Honors Program; Charles King, a senior education major from Atlanta; Lemuel “Life” LaRoche, founder of the Chess and Community Conference, Inc.; and Joan Prittie, executive director of Project Safe Inc., received the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award for significant efforts to build bridges of unity and understanding as they strive to make King’s dream of equality and justice a reality. The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast and the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Awards are spearheaded by the UGA Office of Institutional Diversity.
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From left, UGA President Jere W. Morehead stands with Joan Prittie, executive director of Project Safe Inc.; Lemuel “Life” LaRoche, founder of the Chess and Community Conference Inc.; Charles King, a senior education major from Atlanta; and Ricky Roberts, an academic adviser in the UGA Honors Program, all of whom are 2015 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award recipients. The awards were presented at the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast Jan. 23.
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Georgia United Credit Union is partnering with the Internal Revenue Service and UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences to provide the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The VITA program provides free tax return assistance to individuals and families with low to moderate income who do not have depreciable property, business losses or extensive stock transactions. This year’s assistance site is the Georgia United Credit Union at 190 Gaines School Road. Sessions will be available on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings through April 9 and on Saturdays through April 11. To see a complete list of available dates and times or to make an appointment, go to http://tinyurl.com/ktcnj7o. For those without Internet access, phone reservations can be made at 706-227-5400, ext. 6486.
UGAAlert test
As a part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, a campus-wide full test of the university’s mass emergency notification system, UGAAlert, will take place Feb. 4 at 9 a.m. The phone number reflected on caller ID during the test will be 706-542-0111. Campus community members are encouraged to program this number into their cell phone so they will recognize it as a UGAAlert emergency call in the future. For more information, contact the Office of Emergency Preparedness at 706-542-5845 or prepare@uga.edu.
University Woman’s Club
The University Woman’s Club will
meet Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Central Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road. Guest speaker for the meeting will be Sgt. Mark Malueg of the AthensClarke County Police Department. He will give a behind-the-scenes look at human and child sex trafficking in Athens. He will discuss how the Internet has made it easier for pimps to conduct their criminal activity and exploit their victims. He will discuss the various crimes that are committed in human trafficking and provide examples of cases that he has investigated in Athens. He also will talk about the tactics police use to combat these crimes.
Lean Six Sigma program
The Terry College of Business’ Office of Executive Programs will hold its Lean Six Sigma program March 9-13 at the Tate Student Center. Early-bird registration, which ends Feb. 9, for the general public is $3,250; UGA employees can register up until March 9 for $2,587.50. The five-day course is for middleand senior-level business professionals who want to become more efficient at meeting organizational goals and objectives. It will be taught by Mary McShaneVaughn, an adjunct faculty member in Terry’s executive education program. In the classroom sessions, students learn the Six Sigma methodology DMAIC (which stands for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control). DMAIC begins with defining a problem in terms of the business and customer, then collecting data on targeted metrics. Students will analyze the data to identify root causes and implement a solution and
stresses interprofessional training for integrated care, or the systematic coordination of different health care services, such as mental health, substance abuse and primary care services in the treatment of individuals. “This is going to change things for the better for the people who ultimately receive services,” Briggs said. “It is our hope that our graduates will enter the workforce ready to dive in and meet the needs of this at-risk population.” Also overseeing the project are School of Social Work faculty members Shari Miller, director of doctoral and undergraduate programs; David Okech, director of the master’s degree program in social work; Sandra Murphy, director of field programs; and Leon Banks, admissions coordinator for the school’s master’s degree program in social work. The School of Social Work will partner with two Atlanta-based nonprofits, the Georgia Parent Support Network and the Social Empowerment Center. In addition to providing internship opportunities for students, the nonprofits will enlist families and transitional age youth to help the program’s administrators identify service needs. Family members
also will engage in nontraditional roles such as evaluation and research and will work with professionals on how to approach other families who are receiving help or would benefit from behavioral health services. The Georgia Parent Support Network, directed by Sue Smith, is recognized nationally for incorporating family input in its organizational structure to address the needs of children with mental illness, emotional disturbances and behavioral difficulties. The Social Empowerment Center, directed by Shelley Hutchinson, supports families in crisis and serves a large number of transitional age youth. “Family knowledge is of key importance,” Briggs said. “Social workers are typically the ones who are in a position of prescribing and deciding. This approach is new with respect to social work education because students will learn how to look at the issues involving systems of care through a collaborative professional and family lens.” After completing classroom courses, graduate students will work in internships at service agencies that have interprofessional teams or provide some elements of integrated care.
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plugs and corresponding parking spots. The chargers can fully power a vehicle in two hours. Rates start at 75 cents per hour for the first two hours and then increase to $1.50 per hour. Location was a significant factor in choosing the new parking spots. Walter said that in addition to supporting a greater area of campus, Parking Services selected the South Campus parking deck to provide greater service for guests visiting the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the East Campus parking deck to allow Ramsey Student Center users to power their vehicles while working out. “We are happy to see that there is a growing demand for the EV chargers on campus, which allows us to expand the service,” Walter said. “We hope the program continues to gain popularity and grow.”
control plan to ensure that the improved process is carried out consistently. More information, including a program overview, registration and the agenda, is at http://t.uga.edu/1aG.
SecureUGA training
SecureUGA, an online, self-paced security awareness training program mandated by University System of Georgia policy, is available for all UGA employees to complete by March 31. This training is required for all employees, including student workers, and contractors. This online training program is available at http://secure.uga.edu. SecureUGA helps UGA employees and contractors understand, identify and respond appropriately to information security threats. Protecting sensitive and restricted data is everyone’s responsibility. Current employees who previously have completed SecureUGA can select one of three options to meet the training requirements for SecureUGA. They are a brief refresher module, an opt-out quiz and SecureUGA core module series. UGA employees who completed SecureUGA on or after Sept. 1, 2014, have completed their SecureUGA training requirement for this cycle. Those employees are not required to take SecureUGA again during this annual training cycle. The program recently has been updated with a new look and training modules. For more information about SecureUGA, visit http://secure.uga.edu. Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.
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development and commercialization of influenza vaccines based upon this platform. Ross is conducting his research with nearly $18 million in funding from a variety of federal agencies, foundations and corporate sponsors. He will be the 15th active GRA Eminent Scholar at UGA. “We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ross to the GRA Academy of Eminent Scholars,” said Michael Cassidy, president and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance. “Over the past 25 years, GRA and the research universities have built a world-class vaccine research and development enterprise. The addition of Dr. Ross will strengthen Georgia’s national and international standing in groundbreaking vaccine development.” Ross participates in several vaccine working groups and has published more than 100 papers and book chapters on infectious disease and vaccine development. “In addition to developing economically important and potentially life-saving vaccines, Dr. Ross will provide our students with unparalleled instruction and mentorship,” said Provost Pamela Whitten. “He is an important addition to a world-class faculty.” Ross is a Fellow of the International Society for Vaccines, where he serves as treasurer and executive board member, and as chair of the Vaccine and ISV Annual Global Congress. “I am looking forward to joining the research faculty at the University of Georgia to develop cutting-edge, life-saving vaccines,” Ross said. “We expect to build a critical mass of scientists centered on immunology and vaccines for infectious diseases. Working together with biomedical and infectious disease researchers at UGA and the other leading institutions in the state of Georgia, we will work towards a world-class research community focused on developing the next generation of novel vaccines and immunotherapeutics.”
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Quantitative reasoning is needed in virtually all academic fields. It is used in most every profession and is necessary for decision-making in everyday life, he said. And yet, it remains largely absent from the teaching and learning of mathematics, particularly at the secondary level. He wants to build on this knowledge by redesigning a current mathematics education course to focus more on developing future teachers’ quantitative reasoning. He believes the new version of the course can be used as a model by universities and colleges across the nation to prepare more secondary teachers to teach quantitative reasoning in mathematics. Moore wants his UGA pre-service teachers to help future middle and high school students explore math in a deep way, so that they understand mathematics in ways that benefit their learning and future success. In addition to providing transformational experiences for 150 pre-service teachers over the five-year life of the grant, the project will influence the pre-service teachers’ future middle and high school students and those teachers with whom they collaborate professionally.