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Visitors to the Georgia National Fair in Perry enjoy a ride on “Pharaoh’s Fury.” As part of the fair’s 25th anniversary, a group of Grady College students took photos of the fairgoers, competitions and entertainment.

All’s fair

Grady College photojournalism students create visual archive for one community jwmills@uga.edu

The Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry became a classroom for a group of UGA photojournalism students, whose work will create a visual archive of the 25-year-old event.

Funded in part by a $500 grant from the UGA Office of Service-Learning, a unit of the offices of the vice president for public service and outreach and the vice president for instruction, students in Mark Johnson’s advanced photojournalism class at the Grady College of Journalism

and Mass ­Communication spent Oct. 11 at the fair, taking photos of the fairgoers, competitions and entertainment.

“By showing the community what is happening and documenting an event that touches on state agriculture, entertainment and industry, we are providing a service to the community,” said Johnson, a senior lecturer of photojournalism.

“And those who weren’t there can understand it and those that were can remember it.”

Students researched in advance how other photographers have covered state and world fairs so they could get an idea of what they

would see and how they could cover it differently.

“What we want to do is help the Georgia National Fair build up their visual archive as they celebrate their 25th anniversary,” Johnson said. “There’s a rich history of photographs of fairs. We want to contribute to that.”

During the 12-hour day, students took tens of thousands of photographs, focusing on the candid image so that future generations can look back at the timeless moments captured.

And while this event was a learning experience, one of Johnson’s See FAIR on page 8

southeastern conference

Three faculty named 2014-15 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows

By Sam Fahmy

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$1.3M NSF grant to train future teachers of middle-grade math

By Michael Childs

By Julia Mills

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their counterparts from other SEC institutions. sfahmy@uga.edu The fall workshop was held Oct. 13-15 at the Three UGA faculty University of Missouri members—Melissa in Columbia, and the Harshman, L. Stespring workshop will phen Miller and Judith be held in February at Wasserman—will gain Texas A&M University a deeper perspective on modern academic Melissa Harshman Stephen Miller Judith Wasserman in College Station.

The SEC ALDP leadership as 2014is managed locally by a liaison, 2015 SEC Academic Leadership SEC institutions and beyond.

Development Program Fellows.

Based on their areas of inter- an individual designated by the The ALDP Fellows program est, the UGA ALDP Fellows provost to serve as the primary at UGA is part of the broader will work with select senior ad- point of contact on each campus.

Academic Leadership Develop- ministrators. The fellowship also Liaisons lead their fellows through ment Program of the Southeastern includes two three-day SEC-wide the yearlong SEC ALDP and Conference. The program seeks workshops that include lectures, organize university development to identify, prepare and advance panel discussions and opportuni- opportunities. academic leaders for roles within ties for the fellows to interact with See FELLOWS on page 8

deeper knowledge of the content they teach and the flexibility to help diverse students learn mathematics. The project will look at ways the UGA students’ understanding of certain concepts, such as ratios and proportional relationships, can build upon their understanding of multiplication and division. This “interconnected” knowledge can help both teachers and students remember what they learn.

“We’re focusing on teacher cognition, and avenues for them to learn the content in ways that are successful for teaching,” said Izsák, a professor in the College of Education’s mathematics and science education department. “It’s this kind of instructional approach that makes mathematics seem reasonable. You’re starting with things that make sense to students.”

New research taking place at the College of Education examines how future mathematics teachers can develop flexible methods for solving problems in middle-grade mathematics.

Funded by a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, “Investigating Proportional Relationships from Two Perspectives,” examines how future mathematics teachers make connections among multiplication and division, fractions, ratios and proportional relationships, linear functions and statistical samples.

By learning to solve mathematical problems in multiple ways, said Andrew Izsák, the grant’s principal investigator, future teachers gain See GRANT on page 8

School of Law

Former secretary of homeland security to give Sibley Lecture

By Lona Panter lonap@uga.edu

Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California system and former U.S. secretary of homeland security, will present “Anatomy of a Legal Decision” as the School of Law’s 112th Sibley Lecturer Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture is open free to the public.

Napolitano became the 20th president of the University of California in September 2013.

She leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program. The University of California system

has more than 234,000 students, approximately 208,000 faculty and staff, over 1.6 million living alumni and an Janet Napolitano annual operating budget of more than $24 billion.

A distinguished public servant with a record of leading large, complex organizations at both the federal and state levels, Napolitano served as the U.S. secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013, as the governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009 and as the

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ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY

Associate dean named Athletic Association Professor in Ecology

By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu

Sonia Altizer, a professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the Odum School of Ecology, has been named the UGA Athletic Association Professor in Ecology.

Altizer studies the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases.

Working with diverse systems ranging from monarch butterflies to vampire bats, Altizer and her students explore questions about

Sonia Altizer

host-parasite interactions, the relationship of animal behavior and disease and the impact of human-caused environmental changes on infectious dis-

ease dynamics.

Altizer’s work has advanced the science of disease ecology and

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2 Oct. 20, 2014 columns.uga.edu Cornell to expand engaged learning

Around academe

Cornell University announced earlier this month that it will expand off-campus engaged learning.

Backed by a $50 million gift from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust and enhanced with $100 million from other philanthropies, Engaged Cornell will provide students with real-world experiences in different communities all over the world, The New York Times reported.

By 2025, the university is aiming for all students to have taken at least one Engaged Cornell course.

2 schools report incorrect data given to U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report announced earlier this month that two colleges submitted incorrect data for the most recent rankings.

The magazine moved Lindenwood University, one of the institutions with incorrect data, to its “unranked” category since the correct data would have resulted in a different rating.

Lindenwood added the numeral 1 in front of the correct number of alumni donors used in the magazine’s calculation of the alumni giving rate; when the correct figure of 2,411 was used, instead of 12,411, the giving rate dropped from 37.5 percent to 11.9 percent.

The correction for Rollins College—the other institution—did not change its ranking.

Benefits enrollment to begin Oct. 27

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Benefits open enrollment will be held Oct. 27 through Nov. 14. During this time, faculty and staff can make their elections in the ­MyBenefits@UGA system.

The University System of Georgia once again will offer four health plans. “HSA Open Access POS” will be named “Consumer Choice HSA,” and “Open Access POS” will be named “Comprehensive Care.” The plan names for “BlueChoice HMO” and “Kaiser Permanente HMO” will not change.

USG again will match employee health spending account contributions: $375 for individual coverage and $750 for more than individual coverage. In addition, USG will pay the HSA monthly service fees and the monthly service fees for all flexible spending accounts.

The USG is requiring employees to certify tobacco use. Even if you do not intend to make any changes to your health coverage, you must access the MyBenefits@UGA system during open enrollment and indicate whether you, your spouse or dependents are tobacco users. Those who don’t complete the certification process will be assessed a nonrefundable surcharge of $75 (up from $50) per month starting in ­January.

Detailed plan information and the dates, times and locations for open enrollment information sessions are at www.hr.uga.edu.

Questions can be directed to Human ­Resources at benefits@uga.edu or 706-542-2222.

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School of Law

PepsiCo leader speaks about role of corporations in the modern age

By Lona Panter lonap@uga.edu

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi spoke to university students and faculty on Oct. 1, discussing the role and responsibilities of corporations as well as her company’s Performance with Purpose strategy, which strives to deliver sustainable financial success by operating in line with the needs of society.

Nooyi, the chief architect of Performance with Purpose, addressed a large crowd composed of members of the School of Law, the Terry College of Business and the School of Public and International Affairs in the Chapel.

She said that when she joined PepsiCo in the 1990s, “it became very clear the world around us was changing in profound ways, and we needed to evolve our company in anticipation of these changes.”

After her appointment to CEO in 2006, Nooyi placed renewed emphasis on research and development and made strategic business moves, including several acquisitions, expansions and inclusions of new products. By doing so, PepsiCo was able to create a plan that would allow for both profits and progress, according to Nooyi.

The multibillion-dollar corporation places a focus on three types of sustainability—nutritional, environmental and talent—to meet the company’s needs and expectations, Nooyi said.

With additions to the PepsiCo family such as Tropicana and Quaker Oats, the company’s nutrition business now accounts for 20 percent of its revenue.

The food and beverage giant also

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Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, discussed the role and responsibilities of corporations as well as her company’s Performance with Purpose strategy during an Oct. 1 speech in the Chapel.

looks for ways to minimize its carbon footprint and focuses on attracting and retaining “the best of the best,” Nooyi said, adding that the company embraces diverse perspectives in an environment where “everyone can bring their whole selves to work.”

Nooyi shared several examples of Performance with Purpose in action at PepsiCo. These actions include partnering with local suppliers in India to change agricultural practices that have reduced water usage so much so that by 2009, PepsiCo India estimates it conserved more water than it consumed.

Also in India, the company has found ways to add the generally unused fruit from cashews into some of its drinks, creating a business opportunity for

PepsiCo while providing local farmers with a new source of income.

The company also created a program called PepsiCorps, which gives its employees the opportunity to work in underserved parts of the world “to improve economic, social and environmental aspects of communities.”

What these groups have done is “simply outstanding,” Nooyi said, noting that through sanitation work in Ghana, rainwater harvesting in India and the creation of gardens in New Mexico, employees have been able to return to the corporate world with new perspectives, which is “critical” for a global company.

“At PepsiCo, you can change the company and make a difference in the world at the same time,” Nooyi said.

UGA 2015 Campaign for Charities

Franklin College

By Aaron Hale

Gregory Lecture

Columbia history Annual drive to raise money for charitable organizations underway professor to give aahale@uga.edu

The Campaign for Charities has begun its two-month drive to collect pledges and money for local, state and national charitable organizations.

The motto this year is “Looking forward, giving back.”

The Campaign for Charities, which runs until Dec. 15, is an opportunity for faculty and staff to donate to a variety of charity organizations that are part of the State Charitable Contributions Program, including United Way charities, federated charity organizations and independent organizations. Many of those organizations are engaged in the local community.

Success for the campaign depends on participation from a large section of the university community.

“The motivation for all of us is to unite as a team to help our neighbors in need,” said Charles Davis, honorary campaign chair and dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass ­Communication.

Davis announced this year’s campaign goal of $425,000 at the Campaign for Charities kickoff breakfast Oct. 9 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

UGA employees have received materials about this year’s campaign through campus mail.

Faculty and staff can make pledges through payroll deductions or give one-time contributions to individual or multiple charities by filling out the campaign card or by visiting the campaign website at http://t.uga.edu/10N.

The campaign materials also include a full list of participating charities; that list is on the website, too.

All UGA employees are encouraged to return a campaign card by campus mail or online. Those cards and donation amounts are anonymous.

For those who participate in this year’s campaign, the university will hold weekly drawings Nov. 3 through Dec. 15 for prizes such as parking credits, golf packages and bookstore credits.

UGA has a proud tradition of hosting successful Campaign for Charities drives.

Donations to the university’s Campaign for Charities have topped $400,000 for eight consecutive years.

For 16 years, UGA has won the Governor’s Cup for the highest contribution per employee for a state agency of more than 9,000 employees.

Last year, UGA’s campaign raised $402,298, with a 19 percent participation rate.

UGA President Jere W. Morehead said that as the state’s flagship university, UGA has a special obligation to be a leader in the statewide charitable effort.

He asked faculty and staff to “dig a little deeper” this year to help those in need in the community.

“This campaign is really about people,” said Morehead, who noted that the campaign affects UGA employees’ neighbors and families. “We are a community that thrives on serving others.”

ON THE WEB

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By Alan Flurry

aflurry@uga.edu

Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, whose 2010 book The FieryTrial:Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery received the Pulitzer Prize for History, will deliver the 2014 Gregory Distinguished Lecture.

Foner’s lecture, drawn from a forthcoming book on the subject, is “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.” The lecture will take place Oct. 27 at 4 p.m.

Eric Foner in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art. It is open free to the public.

One of only two people to serve as president of the three major professional organizations—the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Society of American Historians— Foner is one of the few historians to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes in the same year.

Foner also has served as co-curator of two prize-winning exhibitions on American history, A House Divided:America in the Age of Lincoln and America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War 5.

The lecture is supported by the Amanda and Greg Gregory Graduate Studies Enhancement Fund in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

RESEARCH news

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Digest Four vice president for instruction finalists to make public presentations

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Marie Mitchell, a professor of management in the Terry College of Business, co-authored a study that explains why employees who face social exclusion partake in “some pretty unsavory behaviors.”

Left out, lash out

Study details what happens when employees feel excluded

By Matt Weeks

mweeks@uga.edu

When employees feel left out, they act out.

That’s the message that new research from the Terry College of Business delivers as it explains why employees can become weasels to benefit their work group.

“Everybody has a need for social approval. It’s the basis of our human functioning,” said Marie Mitchell, coauthor of the research and a professor of management at UGA. “But when individuals are faced with a risk of social exclusion, it motivates some pretty unsavory behaviors. We already know how people react when they’re definitely being excluded from a group, when someone is mistreating them or abusing them. But what we sought to examine this time is: What if you’re not sure?”

Employees can feel disconnected from their work when they think they weren’t invited to lunch or when they feel isolated from group activities like getting coffee. These actions are often so subtle that it’s hard to tell if they’re purposeful.

Regardless, the new research published in the Journal ofApplied Psychology shows that their effect on employees can be harmful.

“When people believe that they are at

risk for exclusion, they assume that there is something about their personality or their makeup that suggests they’re not a valued group member, so they have to do something above and beyond what they’re currently doing to demonstrate their value to the group,” Mitchell said.

“So they engage in behaviors that are pretty seedy. They undermine anybody outside that work group, they cheat to enhance their group’s performance level, they lie to other work groups.”

Such behaviors can ripple throughout an organization, causing managers to expect unrealistic performance goals and contribute to an overtaxing, suspicious environment. They even can affect the bottom line.

“These unethical, productivitycheating type behaviors,­people think they’re more productive than they actually are,” Mitchell said. “They’re lies, essentially. They’re not really reflecting performance levels or the productivity of an organization. And what’s worse is they can ultimately undermine productivity and the organization’s effectiveness because if those things come to light within a group context, they will totally undermine the group and its internal dynamics. They could potentially be a dark seed within the organization as well.

Those kinds of cheating behaviors have taken down companies like Enron and World Com.” So what can organizations do about this phenomenon? Mitchell has some answers.

“If you’re a manager and you see someone who is not integrating well with the rest of the employees, take care in handling them and try to get them better integrated with their colleagues,” she said. “Look at the internal dynamics and norms of what constitutes performance behaviors for your employees.

Employees who are at risk of exclusion are far likelier not to engage in these behaviors if they think the entire work group will be held accountable if their behavior isn’t ethical.

“If there are structures in place that demonstrate a value to ethical behavior, and even include for example, bonuses or other motivators for that behavior, that can help,” she also said. “Accountability systems should demonstrate that they hold individuals to doing things the right way as opposed to the wrong way.”

Co-authors of the paper include Stefan Thau of INSEAD; Rellie Derfler-Rozin and Marko Pitesa of the University of Maryland; and Madan M. Pillutla of the London Business School.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Researchers develop method for early dementia diagnosis

By James E. Hataway hataway@uga.edu

UGA researchers have developed a unique method of diagnosing the earliest stages of dementia by applying tasks commonly used to gauge levels of impulsive or risky behaviors related to financial decisions.

This approach, which has been used in the past to evaluate the decision-making processes of problem gamblers and other impulse control disorders like substance abuse, may help diagnose many forms of dementia before more obvious symptoms emerge. They reported their findings in the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.

“The brain is so good at compensating for losses associated with dementia that disorders like Alzheimer’s disease can progress for years before anyone notices symptoms,” said Cutter Lindbergh, lead author of the study and doctoral candidate in psychology in the Franklin College of

Arts and Sciences. “By the time people realize something is wrong, the disease has become irreversible, so we need better diagnostics to give medical interventions the best chance of success.”

The number of people living with dementia worldwide is estimated at 35.6 million, resulting in more than $600 billion in annual costs, according to the World Health Organization. But as people live longer and elderly populations increase worldwide, the number of dementia sufferers will double by 2030 and more than triple by 2050.

For their task, the researchers evaluated 35 healthy adults and 25 older adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, an intermediate stage of cognitive loss that generally does not impact a person’s ability to carry out everyday tasks.

These participants were asked a variety of hypothetical questions related to money designed to gauge their levels of impulsivity and proneness to

risky behavior.

For example, one might be asked if he or she would rather have $50 now or $100 in 30 days. Alternatively, researchers might ask if someone would rather have a guarantee of receiving $60 or a 50 percent chance of receiving $100.

“What we found is that people who are in very early stages of dementia tend to display greater levels of impulsivity compared to healthy adults,” Lindbergh said.

These impulsive tendencies could be an indication that patients are at risk for more severe forms of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease and allow health professionals to begin medical interventions much earlier.

But the task is more than just a diagnostic tool. The problems study participants contemplate during the task are similar in many respects to everyday challenges people face as they manage their finances, homes and family affairs.

Four finalists for the position of vice president for instruction at UGA will visit campus in the coming weeks to meet with members of the university community.

A committee chaired by Jennifer Frum, vice president for public service and outreach, conducted a national search to identify the finalists and was assisted by the UGA Search Group in Human Resources.

Each finalist will make a public presentation from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center. The finalists and the dates of their presentations are: • Bernard Mair, a professor of mathematics and associate provost for undergraduate affairs at the University of Florida, Oct. 27.

• Ronald Cervero, a professor of lifelong education, administration and policy and associate vice president for instruction at UGA, Oct. 29.

• Rahul Shrivastav, a professor and chair of the department of communicative sciences and disorders at Michigan State University, Nov. 5.

• Robin Wright, a professor and head of the department of biology teaching and learning and senior associate dean for undergraduate initiatives at the University of Minnesota, Nov. 10.

The CVs of the finalists, along with their full campus visit itineraries, are available on the Provost Office’s website at http://t.uga.edu/10M.

Saturday Morning Club resumes Oct. 25

The Performing Arts Center will kick off the 2014-2015 Saturday Morning Club Oct. 25 with a performance by the UGA Wind Symphony under the direction of Jaclyn Hartenberger.

Tickets for each performance are $10, $6 for children. They can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

Launched in 2013, the Saturday Morning Club features UGA student performers and is designed for children ages 4-12 and their parents and grandparents. All performances begin at 10 a.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center.

The 2014-2015 season schedule includes the Saxophone Extravaganza on Nov. 8, UGA Theatre on Feb. 14, UGA Dance on March 28 and the UGA Symphony Orchestra on April 18.

School of Law to host “Children and International Criminal Justice” conference

The School of Law will host the conference “Children and International Criminal Justice” Oct. 28 in the school’s Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom.

Starting at 9:15 a.m., there will be a public plenary session that will include a panel discussion followed by the keynote address at 11:30 a.m. by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The afternoon program will consist of closed workshop sessions. Attendees will include academicians and legal professionals from international organizations such as UNICEF and the Office of the Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, in addition to ­nongovernmental organizations including Human Rights Watch, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross, No Peace Without Justice, Save the Children and the Carter Center. The discussions will assist the special adviser to advise the Office of the Prosecutor, in the process of its development of a policy paper on children.

Conference cosponsors, in addition to the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, the law school’s Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy and the Georgia Law Project on Armed Conflict and Children, are the UGA African Studies Institute, the Planethood Foundation and the American Society of International LawSoutheast.

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Russell Library to celebrate its 40th anniversary

The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies will host a scholars and policymakers symposium Oct. 27-28 to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

Richard Baker, U.S. Senate historian emeritus, will kick off the symposium with a keynote address Oct. 27 at 6 p.m.

The keynote and all symposium events will be held in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

On Oct. 28, scholars from a number of institutions will participate in panel discussions, highlighting their use of Russell Library collections in recent publications. Presenting scholars will include Chris Manganiello, Jason Sokol, Gregory Mixon, Tammy Ingram, Monica Gisolfi, Michelle Brattain, Thomas Okie and Ashton Ellett. Panels will be organized around the Russell Library’s six key collecting areas: politics, social relations, public good, environment, economy and peace and war.

Featured policymakers will include Chris Carr, state commissioner of economic development; Michael Thurmond, former state labor commissioner and current superintendent of the DeKalb County School System; Abit Massey of the Georgia Poultry Federation; as well as congressional staffers and others. Speakers will comment on the creation of related public policy.

The Russell Library is a center for research and study of the modern American political system. Established in 1974 through the efforts of the Richard B. Russell Foundation, the Georgia General Assembly and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the library’s original mission was to collect and preserve materials that document the life and career of the late Richard B. Russell, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1933 to 1971.

Panel sessions are open free to the public.They will be held in Room 271 of the Russell Special Collections Building.

The full schedule is online at http://tinyurl.com/krt7kqp.

The dance department will present its fifth annual Community Dance Day celebration Oct. 26 starting at 1:30 p.m. in the dance building on South Campus.

The afternoon of free events is aimed at sharing the joy of dance with members of the university and Athens communities.

Community Dance Day 2014 will feature folk and circle dance session classes for children and adults as well as demonstrations, talks and a closing reception.

Concurrent offerings include classes in ballroom dance, ballet, creative modern dance and hip-hop for youth and exercises in modern technique and fundamental movement awareness—known as Bartenieff fundamentals—for the novice adult.

The event will feature a class and discussion session with Mary Claire Mixon, a dance teacher at Cedar Shoals High School, and Michelle Arington, a certified nutrition counselor with Thrive Integrative Medicine, on nutrition and healthy eating habits for teen and college-age dancers.

An outdoor reception will begin at 4:15 p.m.

“We are so pleased to host our fifth annual Community Dance Day celebration,” said Rebecca Gose, an associate professor of dance and Community Dance Day founder and coordinator. “This year we hope to appeal to all kinds of dancers and movers of all kinds as well as our dance patrons of the Athens and UGA community, joining with UGA dance students to celebrate the joy and enrichment that dance can bring to our lives.”

Parking in surface lots adjacent to the dance building is free on the day of the event.

Additional paid parking is available in the South Campus parking deck.

Space for this free event is limited.

To preregister, visit the website http://communitydancedayuga. eventzilla.net.

jlevinso@uga.edu

Jiman Choi: Traces of Silence. Through Nov. 6. Gallery 307, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 773-965-1689, kgeha@uga.edu.

Landscapes of the Hereafter: Three Historic Cemeteries in Athens, Ga. Through Nov. 7.

Circle Gallery.

XL. Through Nov. 16. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

Wild Flowers, Wild Places. Through Nov. 23. Visitor Center and Conservatory, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.

An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab. Through Dec. 7. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

Vince Dooley: A Retrospective, 1954-1988.

Through Dec. 15. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123, hasty@uga.edu.

Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene. Through Jan. 4. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

The ... of E6, part of Athens Celebrates Elephant Six. Through Jan. 4. Georgia ­Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

Emilio Pucci in America. Through Feb. 1.

Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

Food, Power and Politics: The Story of School Lunch. Through May 15. Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies.

Terra Verte. Through May 31. Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.

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The UGA Opera Theatre will present ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Nov. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

UGA Opera Theatre to present Engelbert Humperdinck’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’

By Joshua Cutchin jcutchin@uga.edu

The UGA Opera Theatre will present Hansel and Gretel in a special three-night engagement Nov. 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series, the performance also will feature the Georgia Children’s Chorus, the dance department and the UGA Symphony Orchestra, conducted by professor Mark Cedel.

Tickets are $18, $5 for students. They can be purchased at the UGA Performing Arts Center box office, by calling 706-542-4400 or online at www.uga.edu/pac.

The quasi-children’s opera is the best-known work of Engelbert Humperdinck, 19th-century German composer. Based upon the session for retirees will be held at 1 p.m.

Masters Hall, Georgia Center.

706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu. faculty Recital Joshua Bynum, professor of trombone. $10; $5 with a UGA student ID. 6 p.m. Ramsey Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center.

706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Open Enrollment Info Sessions A session for retirees will be held at 9 a.m.; a general session will be held at 1 p.m.

Masters Hall, Georgia Center.

706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu.

Workshop “Wage Slaves and Revolutionists: The ­Historical Background of Jack London’s ­The Iron Heel.” The Global Capitalism Initiative will be reading and commenting on a chapter from Jon Falsarella Dawson’s book manuscript, The California Naturalists: ­Frank Norris, Jack London and John ­Steinbeck. 12:30 p.m. 201 LeConte Hall. alishamc@uga.edu.

School of law Dean Candidate Presentation A presentation by Mark P. McKenna, currently professor and associate dean for faculty research and development in the University of Notre Dame Law School.

12:30 p.m. Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall.

Tuesday Tour at Two 2 p.m. Special collections libraries.

706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu.

Tree Identification Workshop To be held Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. in ­October and November. Instructor: Dan Williams, forest resources manager in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. 5 p.m. Oconee Forest Park. ­williams@warnell.uga.edu.

Class “Beginning Cold Process Soapmaking.”

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well-known Grimm brothers’ fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel tells the story of a brother and sister sent by their mother to gather food in the Ilsenstein, a dark and foreboding forest noted for harboring all manner of ghoulish entities. The duo loses its way and meets a grotesque witch, and soon the children find themselves captive in her gingerbread house, desperate to escape.

“Ultimately, the story is how the children’s savvy allows them to triumph,” said Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor in the Arts at UGA and director of the Opera Theatre. “Their wits save them from their trials, both at home and in the forest.”

UGA’s production of the opera will be sung in English, using a libretto unique to the performance that draws upon several translations. Presented as a fully staged concert production,

the opera will feature Marisan Corsino as Hansel, Elisabeth Slaten as Gretel, Chalis Montgomery in the dual role of the mother and witch, Isaiah Feken as the father and Alexis Minogue as the Sandman and Dew Fairy, two spirits encountered by the children in the forest.

“Beyond beautiful singing, musical elements, melodies and an understanding of the text, I find the most important element in any opera to be the relationships between characters,” Burchinal said.

The opera will include participation from the UGA Ballet Ensemble, choreographed by dance department head Lisa Fusillo; scenic art from former Metropolitan Opera veteran Jill Biskin; costumes by Christin Schifano and Teresa Armacost; and set design and construction by Donnie Simonds.

Opera coach Kathryn Wright, assistant coach Nicolò Sbuelz and Georgia Children’s Chorus director Carol Reeves also assisted in preparation for the production.

The main focus of this class is the “cold process” soapmaking method. $45. 6 p.m.

Visitor Center’s Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.

Concha-Holmes Reception A reception with ecological anthropologist and filmmaker Amanda Concha-Holmes, who will be on campus as a Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellow. Part of Hispanic Heritage Month. 5 p.m. Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. alanasha@uga.edu.

Lecture “Pestilence in the 21st Century: Are Diseases Moving Out of Control?,” Sonia Altizer, Odum School of Ecology. Part of the Anthropocene Lecture Series. 7 p.m. Chapel.

706-542-1693, biomngr@uga.edu.

Documentary Screening Who Owns Water? follows two brothers as they paddle from the headwaters of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers in Georgia all the way to the Apalachicola River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. Sponsored by the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. $7.50. 6:30 p.m. Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. 706-542-0935, dorindad@uga.edu.

Andrew Ladis Trecento Symposium This symposium in memory of scholar Andrew Ladis celebrates both his love of trecento painting and his commitment to its display, study and preservation in a museum context. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, mlachow@uga.edu.

Scream on the Green A fall festival with a large-screen viewing of Hocus Pocus, which will be shown an hour after the event begins. 6 p.m. Ramsey Student Center front lawn. 706-542-8667, smithj@uhs.uga.edu.

Recital Violinist Paul Huang. $28. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 Open Enrollment Info Sessions A general session will be held at 9 a.m.; a session for retirees will be held at 1 p.m.

Masters Hall, Georgia Center.

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Ecology/ICON Conservation Seminar “The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology and Restoration of the FIRE FOREST,” Kay Kirkman, the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center. 1:25 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu.

Tour at Two “Aspects of Modernism: American Art of the 1920s and 1930s.” 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, mlachow@uga.edu.

McGill Lecture Speaker: Antonio Mora, the Peabody Awardwinning host of Al Jazeera America’s Consider This. 4 p.m. 250 Miller Learning Center. 706-543-8220, freemans@uga.edu.

Walk-in Flu Shot Clinic Walk-ins can receive a flu shot. $10-$35; See http://t.uga.edu/ZC for exact pricing.

4 p.m. Allergy and Travel Clinic, University Health Center. 706-542-5575.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 Withdrawal Deadline for Fall Semester Workshop “What Research Tells Us About How People Learn: Practical Implications for College Teaching.” In this highly interactive session, participants will explore elements of learning research that have the greatest applicability for the college classroom. 9:30 a.m.

372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu.

Engineering Graduate Seminar “Aggregation and Control of Flexible Loads in Smart Grids: Electric Vehicle Case,” Javad Mohammadpour. Moderated by Bobby Wainright and Rebecca Oglesby-Miller.

12:30 p.m. Driftmier auditorium, Driftmier Engineering Center. 706-542-7295, javadm@uga.edu.

Alfred Heber Holbrook Lecture Carl Brandon Strehlke, an adjunct curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will deliver the keynote address, “Curating the Renaissance,” of the Andrew Ladis Trecento Symposium. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, mlachow@uga.edu.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

Lecture “Critical Reflections on Teaching in Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia,” Nichole Ray, women’s studies. 12:20 p.m. 250 Miller Learning Center. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu.

Geography Colloquium “The Sugar Tariff and the Spatial Logic of American Empire,” April Merleaux, Florida International University. 3:15 p.m.

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Reading Fiction writer Julia Elliott will present a free, public reading in celebration of the publication of her debut short-story collection The Wilds. Opening for Elliott will be Atlanta-based poet L.S. McKee. The event is sponsored by The Georgia Review and the UGA Creative Writing Program. 7 p.m. The Globe, 199 N. Lumpkin St.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 Al-Hijra Class “Warm-Season Grasses of the Georgia Piedmont.” $50. 9 a.m. Visitor Center’s Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden.

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The Count Basie Orchestra will perform Oct. 26 at 3 p.m.

Count Basie Orchestra to give jazz concert in Hodgson Concert Hall

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The Performing Arts Center will present the Count Basie Orchestra Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Tickets are $35-$40 with discounts for UGA students. They can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga. edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

William “Count” Basie started the Count Basie Orchestra in 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri. Within a year, America was listening in on radio shows throughout the country to hear what would become “the swingingest band in all the land.”

In the history of jazz music, Basie is the only bandleader whose orchestra still is performing sold-out concerts all over the world—with members personally chosen by him—30 years after his death.

Since Basie’s passing in 1984, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, Bill Hughes, Dennis Mackrel and now Scotty Barnhart have led the Count Basie Orchestra and maintained it as one of the elite performing organizations in jazz.

The orchestra has won 18 Grammy Awards and 20 Downbeat and Jazz Times polls, more than any other big band in jazz.

The current 18-member roster includes musicians hired by Basie himself: Carmen Bradford, who joined in 1983; Clarence Banks ,who joined in 1984; Mike Williams, who joined in 1987; and Doug Miller, who joined in 1989.

Ecology Ramble Participants will learn about what salamanders are found around Athens and about the habitat conditions they need to survive and thrive. 10 a.m. Visitor Center’s back patio, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.

Saturday Morning Club Concert For children ages 4 to 12 to learn about making music. $10, $6 for children.

10 a.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-3301, btyler@uga.edu.

(See Digest, page 3).

Marine Science Day Noon. UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Community Dance Day The fifth annual Community Dance Day is a day of free classes, talks and a reception.

Space for this free event is limited.

1:30 p.m. Dance building. Preregistration: http://communitydancedayuga.eventzilla. net. 706-542-4431, renghaus@gmail.com.

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Concert Count Basie Orchestra. $35-$40. 3 p.m.

Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 Benefits Open Enrollment Begins Through Nov. 14. UGA faculty and staff can begin making their elections in the ­MyBenefits@UGA system. 706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu. (See News to Use, page 2).

VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTRUCTION CANDIDATE PRESENTATION A presentation by Bernard Mair, professor of mathematics and associate provost for undergraduate affairs at the University of Florida. 9:30 a.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center. (See Digest, page 3).

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The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Accordion Virtuosi of Russia Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. With a repertoire ranging from folk music to rock songs, the ensemble has performed for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976 and Moscow in 1980.

Tickets for the concert are $30-$35 with discounts for UGA students. They can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

The Accordion Virtuosi of Russia was founded by professor Pavel Smirnov in 1943 during the Leningrad siege. Within six months the ensemble was invited to record on the state radio.

Since its inception, the Accordion Virtuosi of Russia has been led by three generations of the Smirnov family— first by its founder, Pavel Smirnov, and now by his sons Yuri and Vladimir, as well as his grandson Yaroslav.

The Accordion Virtuosi of Russia has performed at prestigious venues around the world including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Verona’s Arena, Olympia Hall in Paris and the Great Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg.

The group has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Japan, China and Africa.

The ensemble is the winner of numerous international music competitions and was recently named “Best Accordion Orchestra of Europe” by the EU Musika Orchestra Society in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Accordion Virtuosi of Russia will perform Oct. 28 in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Learning Workshop “Building Civic and Community Engagement into STEM Coursework.” Representatives of the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Center for Innovation-South at UNC-Asheville will share what SENCER is doing with courses across the country, integrating real-world, community issues into STEM-related disciplines.

10 a.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. 706-542-0892, pmatthew@uga.edu.

Blood Drive 2:30 p.m. Family and Graduate Housing Office.

Sibley Lecture Speaker: Janet Napolitano, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Arizona governor. Napolitano currently serves as president of the University of California system. 3:30 p.m. Chapel.

706-583-5487, hmurphy@uga.edu. (See story, page 1).

Gregory Distinguished Lecture “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad,” Eric Foner, Columbia University. 4 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-2053, berry@uga.edu. (See story, page 2).

Russell Library 40th Anniversary Symposium Through Oct. 28. 6 p.m. Special collections libraries auditorium. 706-542-5788, jlevinso@uga.edu. (See story, above left).

Coming Up Children and International Criminal Justice conference Oct. 28. 9:15 a.m. Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, School of Law. (See Digest, page 3).

Concert Oct. 28. The Accordion Virtuosi of Russia. $30-$35. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, above).

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The American Statistical Association presented its Founders Award to Christine Franklin, the Lothar Tresp Honoratus Honors Professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ statistics department.

The ASA is the nation’s preeminent professional statistical Christine Franklin society, and the honor is presented annually to ASA members who have rendered distinguished and long-term service to the association.

One of three recipients of the Founders Award in 2014, Franklin was recognized for her leadership in curriculum development and teaching statistics, her research and her professional service in helping grow the field of statistics education. An active member of ASA, Franklin is a longtime leader and champion of national efforts in statistics education, particularly in the area of implementing statistics in K-12 education.

Su-I Hou, an associate professor of health promotion and behavior and director of the Taiwan Study Abroad Program in the College of Public Health, completed her term as president of the ChineseAmerican Academic and Professional Association in the Southeastern United States.

Hou continues to serve on CAPASUS’ executive board and to guide the Young CAPASUS group, which she formed during her term to better bridge the generation gap among its members.

The National Poetry Series announced the five winners of its 2014 Open Competition, which included Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno by Ed Pavlic, a professor of English and creative writing in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

The National Poetry Series arranges publication of the winning books, scheduled to be released in summer 2015. Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno will be published by Fence Books.

The prize also includes a cash award of $10,000.

About 1,200 manuscripts are entered for the open competition each year.

Amy Reschly, an associate professor in the College of Education’s educational psychology department, was named editor-elect of School Psychology Review, the flagship journal of the National Association of School Psychologists. She will serve as editor-elect in 2015 and as editor in 2016.

Reschly’s research focuses on Amy Reschly student engagement, the promotion of high school completion, problem-solving and curriculum based measurement. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of School Psychology, the Journal of Early Intervention and the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Philip Tomporowski, a professor of kinesiology in the College of Education, was an invited speaker at a symposium held Sept. 25-27 in Berlin, Germany. His presentation provided a history and description of the Physical Activity and Learning project, which involves a multidisciplinary team of UGA faculty who are partnering with the Clarke County School District this fall to provide a new after-school enrichment program for about 60 students in two elementary schools aimed at improving the children’s health and stimulating their learning in reading and mathematics.

The symposium, “Move and Improve? A Neuroscientific Rationale for Physical Activity and Exercise as a Means of Enhancing Academic Performance,” was organized by the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

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Kristina Jaskyte, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, has been focusing on how foundations and boards of directors affect a nonprofit organization’s ability to respond effectively to change.

Shake it up: Associate professor studies innovation at nonprofits

By Laurie Anderson laurie@uga.edu

What makes a nonprofit organization successful?

According to Kristina Jaskyte, the ability to continuously innovate is very important. Exactly how organizations innovate, however, isn’t clear.

“I’ve been researching innovation and creativity in nonprofits for 14 years, and I am still trying to put the ‘What makes nonprofits innovative’ puzzle together,” said Jaskyte, an associate professor in the School of Social Work.

Jaskyte looks at ways that nonprofits successfully manage continuous innovation. Lately she has been focusing on how foundations and boards of directors affect a nonprofit’s ability to respond effectively to change.

“An organization is innovative when it anticipates problems as well as new uses of technology and puts mitigation or adaptive strategies in place,” she said.

Increasingly, foundations are supporting projects that require new approaches to address a problem or need. For nonprofits that are averse to risk, that appears to be a good thing.

“After spending years looking at the inside workings of these (nonprofit) organizations, I am starting to wonder whether the only way—or major way—to force nonprofits to innovate is to allow them to come up with innovative solutions to

receive funding,” she said.

An organization’s board of directors also can foster or inhibit innovation, and what works varies with the prevailing national culture, she said. In the U.S. for instance, many successful boards encourage participation in decisionmaking as a way to find the best solution to a problem. Other cultures, however, value avoiding group conflict, and this is reflected in boards that discourage open disagreement or criticism. Yet Jaskyte has found that both types of boards can oversee long-running, innovative nonprofits.

Preliminary data on a recent study the researcher conducted supports the importance of characteristics such as strong relationships between the board members, the board chair and the nonprofit’s executive director. Other factors also play roles, she said, but there’s not yet enough evidence to determine what factor or combination of factors supports a sustained level of innovation.

Jaskyte’s students also participate in research. A few years ago, she developed a program to improve a nonprofit work environment by encouraging creative approaches to problem-solving. Three students in her Innovations in Nonprofit Organizations class implemented the program in a local organization and found it to be “extremely effective,” said Jaskyte. They published their findings in the Nonprofit Management and

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Associate Professor School of Social Work Ph.D., Social Work, University of Alabama, 2002 M.S.W., Social Work, Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), 1996 B.S., Sociology, Vytautas Magnus University, 1993 At UGA: 12 years

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Since then, she has sought other opportunities to test the program, but so far only has been able to present short demonstration workshops at professional meetings.

“As shocking as it sounds, I have yet to find an organization that is interested in taking a very close look at itself and then go through a transformation process,” Jaskyte said.

Jaskyte was first drawn to studying innovation and creativity while addressing women’s issues with a large nonprofit in her native Lithuania in the early 1990s.

Fresh from earning her master’s degree in social work in a country where the field was still new, she suddenly discovered an aspect of social work that fascinated her.

“I promised myself that if I ever got back to school, I would study innovations in nonprofit organizations,” she said.

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Professors’ tool for veterinary students wins award A Web-based tool designed to teach critical thinking skills to veterinary students, created by a multidisciplinary team of UGA faculty, has won a second prestigious national award.

The “Case-Based E-Learning Module to Enhance Veterinary Students’ Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decision Making” won the 2014 Division of Distance Learning Crystal Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. The award will be presented at the AECT convention in November.

The interactive learning tool was developed over the last four years by Ikseon “Ike” Choi, an associate professor of learning, design and technology in the College of Education, in collaboration with Karen Cornell, a professor

of soft tissue surgery; Kate E. Creevy, an associate professor of internal medicine; and MaryAnn Radlinsky and Chad Schmiedt, both associate professors of soft tissue surgery in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

“College instructors often wrestle with contradictory goals—covering broad topics while enhancing students’ higher-order thinking,” Choi said. “Our interdisciplinary team has tried to solve this problem through refined learning theories and advanced technologies.”

The tool is populated with veterinary case studies to help students hone critical thinking skills while also providing practice for making difficult medical decisions. The students use the tool in the fall of their third year of veterinary instruction, which enables

them to diagnose difficult cases and also hear the diagnoses faculty members would make on the same cases.

The online instruction occurs several months prior to when the students begin their hands-on instruction in the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital, so the students are able to build their confidence in diagnosing cases prior to ever working with a live patient.

Funding for the project has been provided by the UGA Learning Technologies Grant Program ($29,680) and the UGA Junior Faculty Grant Program ($9,750). Last fall, the group received the Jerrold Kemp Endowed Lecture Series Award for development of the learning program at the AECT’s annual conference.

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Doris Christopher describes her leadership style as that of a “turnaround manager,” or someone who helps foster growth in an academic unit.

Christopher, now in her third year as assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of academic programs for the UGA Griffin campus, is working on a turnaround at UGA-Griffin in the form of increased enrollment.

Christopher and her staff have been working to draw more students to the Griffin campus by creating partnerships with nearby colleges, working to increase the diversity of programs offered at the campus and fostering a campus community.

UGA-Griffin, located 40 miles south of Atlanta, offers undergraduate and graduate majors from five of UGA’s schools and colleges. The undergraduate programs, first offered in 2005, are degree-completion programs for transfer students or those seeking a second bachelor’s degree.

The campus offers students who can’t live in or travel to Athens a path to earn a UGA degree. Many of these students are working professionals.

“It’s really about those students who are location-bound,” Christopher said. “To have a UGA campus where we are located in south metro Atlanta, it really offers another opportunity to earn a UGA degree.”

Christopher came to UGA in 2007 from Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, where she served as chief administrative officer for the Center for Graduate and Professional Learning, and before that from California State University, Los Angeles, where she was an associate dean in the business college. It was there that she earned a reputation for building new programs and reviving others.

Perhaps one of the biggest accomplishments in Christopher’s short tenure at UGA-Griffin is her work building partnerships with nearby colleges, which enroll students who may want to complete

The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at UGA has appointed 17 leaders from across the state to serve on its new advisory board.

The board will help guide the strategic direction of the institute, a unit of the UGA Office of Public Service and Outreach, in fulfilling its mission of strengthening communities and organizations through leadership development, training and education.

“Recognizing that leadership development is key to community and economic vitality, UGA has a strong tradition of working with communities to develop leaders, particularly through the Fanning Institute,” said Jennifer Frum, vice president for public service and outreach. “The 17 individuals comprising Fanning’s new advisory board come from diverse walks of life throughout Georgia and are thus critical to helping Matt Bishop (the institute’s director) and his team at Fanning continue to serve the leadership development needs of Georgia.”

Each appointee offers a unique perspective and has been exposed to the work of the Fanning Institute as clients, supporters, partners and program alumni.

Fanning’s new advisory board represents a range of experience with leadership development. The new members come from a variety of backgrounds in business, civic and community affairs, nonprofits and higher education.

“Each of these distinguished leaders brings a unique perspective to our work in leadership development. I am very excited to have them on our advisory board as they will provide invaluable counsel and support to what we do with community, youth and nonprofit leadership development,” Bishop said.

Board members will provide input on existing and new programs and initiatives, help identify

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Doris Christopher, assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of academic programs for the UGA Griffin campus, has been working to create partnerships, increase program diversity and foster a campus community.

their bachelor’s degree at UGA. In recent months, Christopher has helped lead efforts to create transfer articulation agreements with Georgia Perimeter College and Gordon State College.

These partnerships enable students who are interested in coming to UGA to follow a road map that clearly lays out the course and degree requirements. The agreements provide a pathway and educational plan for those students because their advisers work with them on getting the appropriate courses before they apply to UGA. UGA-Griffin, which already was strong in traditional science programs, also has expanded its degree offerings with the psychology and sociology interdisciplinary program launched in fall 2013.

Now 10 undergraduate majors are offered, plus graduate programs in student affairs leadership, mathematics education and workforce education.

And for the students who already are enrolled at UGA-Griffin, Christopher plans to build a tight-knit community, which can be challenging at a commuter campus.

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At the beginning of fall semester, UGA-Griffin launched its inaugural Welcome Week, which offered activities for students, faculty and staff.

Each day of the week, the campus showcased activities centered on a different theme.

UGA-Griffin also hosts regular Coffee and Culture events on campus, which offer students free coffee, snacks and chair massages.

“It creates a welcoming environment—the life and feel of the way a college campus should be,” Christopher said.

Christopher credits UGAGriffin faculty, staff and administrators for the effort poured into making the campus thrive.

She said,“It really is about the energy of my team.The faculty and staff have launched amazing new events on the campus to bring awareness to prospective students and working professionals as to who we are, where we are and what we do. These events such as Bionic Educator, Psych Day at UGA and CJ Day at UGA have exposed hundreds of individuals to our campus through these venues.”

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Professor emeritus pens new book

The Oyster King: The Man Who Bought Saint George Island

By James L. Hargrove Green Heron Associates Paperback: $9.99

The Oyster King: The Man Who Bought Saint George Island combines prose and poetry in a pictorial history of the role of the visionary dreamer William Lee Popham in the development of Saint George Island in the Florida Panhandle.

The book, written by UGA foods and nutrition Professor Emeritus James L. Hargrove, sketches the life of the poet, preacher and real estate promoter, Popham. In the early 20th century, Popham purchased Saint George Island with plans to sell real estate based around oyster harvesting in Apalachicola Bay—even though there were no direct routes or bridges to the island.

Though successful at first, ­Popham would run afoul of the newly formed Internal Revenue Service and was charged with mail fraud.

resource opportunities and build regional and statewide partnerships that inform and expand the Fanning Institute’s work.

The board held its first meeting Sept. 29.

The newly appointed board includes Jimmy Allgood, chairman of the board, Allgood Pest Solutions, Dublin; Luis Gianfranco “Gio” Carrion, senior financial analyst, The Hanover Insurance Group, Atlanta; Chris Clark, president and CEO, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Peachtree City; Gretchen Corbin, commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Atlanta; J. Griffin “Griff” Doyle, vice president for government relations, UGA, Athens; Horace Johnson Jr., Superior Court judge, 10th Judicial District of Georgia, Covington; and Milton Little Jr., president and CEO, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Atlanta.

Also serving on the advisory board are Dink NeSmith, president, Community Newspapers Inc., Athens; Andrea Oates, instructor, South Georgia Technical College, Americus, and city councilwoman, Plains; Roy Reeves, director, Southwest Georgia Bank and Southwest Georgia Financial Corp., and chair, Colquitt County Archway Partnership, Moultrie; Deborah Richardson, executive vice president of development, National Center for Human and Civil Rights, Atlanta; Frank Ros, vice president, Hispanic strategies, Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta; Dan Sisson, regional vice president, MidAtlantic Region, AT&T, Columbia, South Carolina; Tisha Tallman, president and CEO, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta; Dale Threadgill, professor and founding dean, UGA College of Engineering, Athens; T. Rogers Wade, chairman of the board of trustees, Georgia Public Policy Foundation and senior partner of Capitolink Inc., Atlanta; and Philip A. Wilheit Sr., president, Wilheit Packaging and Marketing Images, Gainesville.

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Blog to aid community gardeners blog.extension.uga.edu/communitygardening A new blog has been created to help connect Georgia community gardeners with resources from UGA Extension and the Center for Urban Agriculture.

UGA experts, local gardening celebrities and experienced

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UP FOR DEBATE—Students from UGA won the Oct. 8 debate against the Oxford Union Society.

UGA now leads the series 3-2. Above: Logan Gramzinski, left, a graduate student in rhetorical studies at UGA, and Mayank Banerjee, a student at St. John’s College in Oxford, debate the resolution “On balance, United States drone strikes enhance its national security objectives.”

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This method also helps meet the ambitious goals set by mathematics curriculum standards for middle schools in the past 25 years. “Strengthening middle school mathematics education is as urgent as any challenge facing STEM education in the United States,” Izsák said. “Weak conceptual understanding of middle grades mathematics has been identified as a critical obstacle to students’ readiness for college, especially community colleges.”

The research team includes Sybilla Beckmann, a Meigs Professor of Mathematics, and Laine Bradshaw, an assistant professor in the educational psychology department with expertise in psychometrics (statistics for assessment).

Through a series of interviews with College of Education students, the researchers will learn how pre-service teachers deepen their understanding of content they will teach. Some of the information gathered related to teacher reasoning and learning will be used in future editions of Beckmann’s textbook Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, which is used in teacher education courses around the nation.

main priorities is helping students understand that photography is a community service.

“At its core, we believe journalism is a type of community service,” he said. “Through workshops like this we get the students to see the impact they can have on a community.”

Students also had the opportunity to work with professionals on improving their photos. Throughout the day they spoke to five different editors who shot alongside them and provided immediate feedback.

“You can see improvement in the students as the day goes on,” said Woody Marshall, director of photography at the Macon ­Telegraph.

“An editor can tell someone how to pan a picture, but it’s easier to show them.”

Students provided the Georgia National Fair with a set of edited images to bolster its archive. On Oct. 12, the Macon Telegraph published an online gallery of the student’s photographs.

Marshall will follow up with students by assessing their work and how it reflects what he has seen in his years covering the fair.

To view the gallery online, visit http://tinyurl.com/ogbtz4k.

Bulletin Board Pottery sale

The UGA Ceramic Student Organization will hold a special pottery sale Oct. 28-29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Work on sale will include small, hand-built sculpture as well as functional pottery such as teapots, mugs, plates, vases and bowls. All work was made by ceramic students or faculty.

Prices will range from $8-$100.

Proceeds from the ceramic sale support upcoming student educational field trips to the Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design Fair in Chicago and the Kohler Company in Wisconsin.

Hourly parking is available in the parking deck next to the Performing Arts Center on River Road.

For more information, contact Ted Saupe, tsaupe@uga.edu.

Sexual assault forum

The Equal Opportunity Office is hosting an “Open Dialogue on Sexual Assault” Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 248 of the Miller Learning Center.

Open to the entire UGA community, the discussion will be an opportunity to ask questions, share information and engage in dialogue about sexual

assault issues in general and about UGA’s efforts to prevent sexual assault and address its effect within the UGA community.

Representatives from the EOO, the UGA Health Center, the UGA Police Department, the Office of the Dean of Students, University Housing and others will take part in the discussion.

Dream Award nominations

Nominations are being accepted until Oct. 31 for the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award, which recognizes individuals in the UGA and AthensClarke County communities who have worked to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality and justice a reality.

Recipients of the President’s ­Fulfilling the Dream Award are recognized at the annual MLK Freedom Breakfast, which will be held Jan. 23 at UGA. Tickets for the breakfast will be available until Nov. 21 on the Office of Institutional Diversity website at diversity.uga.edu or by contacting the office at 706-583-8195.

Nominations forms are available at http://t.uga.edu/Vv or by contacting UGA’s Office of Institutional Diversity by email diverse@uga.edu, phone 706-583-8195 or fax 706-583-8199.

Printed nominations can be sent to: UGA Office of Institutional Diversity,

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yielded information with implications for wildlife conservation and human health. One project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, explores how human activity affects the spread of rabies in vampire bats in Peru. As cattle ranches expand into previously undeveloped forest areas, they provide vampire bats with a new source of food in the form of livestock—and bring them into greater contact with people. Work in Altizer’s lab showed that efforts to prevent the spread of rabies by culling vampire bat colonies actually could be making the problem worse, information that could help Peru’s ministry of health fight the disease more effectively.

Another NSF-funded project focused on animal migrations and the spread of disease. Altizer and her students showed that monarch butterfly populations that undertake the longest migrations have fewer, and less virulent, parasites than those that stay put. Migration allows animals to escape parasite-laden habitats and also culls infected individuals that can’t withstand the lengthy journey. Because migration for monarchs—and many other species—is declining due to human activities, understanding the relationship between disease and migration is increasingly important.

“It’s an honor to appoint Sonia Altizer to the first Athletic Association Professorship in Ecology,” said John Gittleman, dean of the Odum School. “Sonia represents the best of today’s academic scholarship by combining extraordinary research and teaching while giving back in every way through multiple forms of service to the university. We are very grateful to the Athletic Association for rewarding one of UGA’s best.”

Altizer engages in public service and outreach through Project Monarch Health, a citizen-science project she initiated in 2006.

Project volunteers—many of them schoolchildren—from across the U.S. and Canada collect nondestructive samples from wild monarch butterflies in their own yards. She and her students test the samples for parasites, which gives them a snapshot of where and when infection levels are highest, while providing a platform to teach participants about scientific principles.

“I am very grateful to the UGA Athletic Association for supporting this professorship,” Altizer said. “It is hard for me to imagine being at a better place than the University of Georgia, and I am fortunate to interact with wonderful colleagues and amazing students here.”

attorney general of Arizona from 1998 to 2003. She began her career in 1983 as a judicial clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Additionally, she has been named one of the world’s most powerful women by Forbes magazine.

Napolitano earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia and her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Santa Clara University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She was the university’s first female valedictorian and was selected as a Truman Scholar. In 2010, she was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal (Law), the University of Virginia’s highest external honor.

The Sibley Lecture Series, established in 1964 by the Charles Loridans Foundation of Atlanta in tribute to the late John A. Sibley, is designed to attract outstanding legal scholars of national prominence to Georgia Law. Sibley was a 1911 graduate of the law school.

c/o Awards Selection Committee, 210 Holmes-Hunter Academic ­Building, Athens, GA 30602.

Leadership retreat

Leadership Journey—a new personal leadership opportunity for graduate students, young professionals and the young at heart—now is accepting applications for a Nov. 6-7 retreat. The two-day, one-night retreat includes a 5-mile trek through the North Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains and an overnight stay at the Len Foote Hike Inn. The retreat combines activities designed to challenge participants to reflect on their individual leadership styles and future goals, have fun and get to know new people.

Leadership Journey is co-developed and co-led by UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a public service and outreach unit, and the Outdoor Recreation Program.

Food, lodging and transportation from Athens is included.

More information, including ­registration forms, is online at http:/­/leadershipjourneyuga.weebly.com/.

Registration, which closes Oct. 21, also is available at http://t.uga.edu/108.

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FELLOWS from page 1 “This program is a wonderful opportunity for UGA’s three SEC ALDP Fellows to engage with colleagues and explore avenues for advancement in higher education,” said Meg Amstutz, associate provost for academic programs and UGA’s SEC ALDP liaison.

“The yearlong experience will offer them a broad look at university leadership, both here and across the conference.”

Harshman, an associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, joined the UGA faculty in 1993.

Harshman directs the university’s FirstYear Odyssey Seminar program and has served as graduate coordinator, gallery director and chair of the printmaking and book arts department in the school of art.

Harshman’s university-level service includes tenure on the Franklin College Faculty Senate, University Council, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board, the Lilly Fellows Selection Committee, the Innovative Instructional Summer Grants Program Review Committee and Faculty Awards Committee. She is currently on the Instructional Advisory Committee for the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Miller, a professor of psychology in the Franklin College and director of the UGA Bioimaging Research Center, joined the UGA faculty in 1991. His research encompasses a variety of behavioral processes as they relate to both brain function and dysfunction, and he has published more than 90 journal articles and book chapters and presented more than 160 conference papers, primarily in the areas of neurocognitive processing and neuroimaging. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the state of Georgia, private foundations and by industry. He has served as a commissioner for accreditation for the American Psychological Association; on the board of directors for the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology Programs; and as a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology.

Wasserman, an associate professor in the College of Environment and Design, joined the UGA faculty in 1998. She directed the Master of Landscape Architecture Program in the CED and was interim coordinator for the Master of Environmental Planning and Design Program. Currently, she serves as director of the CED Advanced Visualization Initiative and as the college’s diversity representative.

Wasserman holds the elected post of secretary for the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and previously served as the Southeast regional representative. Additionally, she chairs accreditation evaluation teams for the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her published research includes the design of urban environments for active use and health, California modernism in landscape architecture and place-making for cultural meaning.

The application deadline for next year’s SEC Academic Leadership Development Program is April 10.

To learn more, see http://t.uga.edu/10L.