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Vol. 42, No. 14
October 27, 2014
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$2.5M grant to fund study of baby boomer health, relationships By Cal Powell
jcpowell@uga.edu
UGA graduate student Danielle Rosensteel picks blueberries from a test plot at the UGA Blueberry Research and Demonstration Farm in Alma. Georgia is now leading the nation in blueberry production.
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Berry good news University team helps Georgia become nation’s leading blueberry producer
By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu
With the tally from the 2014 growing season complete, it’s official. Georgia now leads the nation in blueberry production. UGA blueberry breeder Scott NeSmith, who often is credited with helping to create the beginnings of this blue tsunami, was surprised to hear Georgia’s production topped the nation this year. The state has been No. 1 in blueberry acreage for the last few years, but it was uncertain when all this new acreage would impact the state’s annual blueberry production. “We’ve been gaining a lot of potential over the last five years, and I think we just reached that potential a little earlier than we thought,”
said NeSmith, who helped launch UGA’s current blueberry breeding program in the late 1980s. “Other states have held onto their positions as far as production goes, but we’ve just gotten much higher numbers.” The North American Blueberry Council released its report on the 2014 growing season in early October, noting that Georgia produced 96 million pounds of blueberries this year. Michigan, traditionally regarded as the blueberry capital of the country, produced 91.5 million pounds. “Georgia’s going to be a blueberry leader for the next generation,” said Gary Black, the Georgia commissioner of agriculture, who made the official announcement Oct. 14 at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie.
Hundreds of Georgia farmers have worked tirelessly over the last three decades to increase the state’s blueberry production and meet consumers’ growing demand for blueberries. The increase in production has been buoyed by the research and Extension support of UGA faculty and staff. When NeSmith started producing blueberry varieties that could thrive in Georgia’s sandy soils and warm summers, farmers were growing only about 3,500 acres of blueberries. Today, they are cultivating about 20,000 acres and have grown production tenfold. “We probably only produced about 5 million or 10 million pounds a year back in 1990,” he said. “That’s a long ways to go to See BLUEBERRIES on page 8
UGA Student Affairs
Nearly 800 UGA students complete new bystander intervention training program By Kristine Groft
kgroft@uhs.uga.edu
In fall 2013, a team from the University Health Center’s health promotion department created “Watch Dawgs,” a bystander intervention training program for UGA students, faculty and staff. Bystander intervention is an initiative that asks individuals to actively prevent incidents before they occur, ensuring the safety of fellow members of the
campus community. “Effective bystander programs foster a supportive environment for others to speak out against sexist attitudes, rape myth beliefs, dangerous behaviors including excessive alcohol consumption and sexual violence,” said Liz Prince, associate director of health promotion and the John Fontaine Jr. Center for Alcohol Awareness and Education. “Confronting these situations can start the shift in social norms of a community and society as a whole.”
The training program focuses on what might be observed before dangerous situations occur. Incidents typically occur on a continuum of increasing danger. If individuals can recognize some of the cues early on, they can intervene and prevent the situation from escalating. The program engages students in an interactive process, enabling them to practice skills through hypothetical scenarios and discuss See PROGRAM on page 8
Baby boomers’ marital relationships and health during their transition to later adulthood are the focus of a new UGA study funded by a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The study will examine continuity and change within couples’ relationships over 30 years and how chronic stressful experiences—such as financial, work and marital difficulties—affect mental and physical health outcomes in elder years. Kandauda “K.A.S.” Wickrama, a UGA Athletic Association professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences’ department of human development and family science, is the principal investigator on the project, which
continues research with nearly 400 couples who have participated in the I o w a Yo u t h and Families Project since Kandauda Wickrama 1989. The data assembled under these earlier waves will be augmented by a third project, a genome-wide association study, which collected genetic data from the same participants. The genetic biomarkers of the participants will add a potentially groundbreaking set of data to an already rich study, Wickrama said. “Research has shown that chronic stressful experiences really make dysfunction in the physiological system, leading to chronic See STUDY on page 8
Office of Institutional Diversity
Young, former UN ambassador, will speak at Freedom Breakfast By Sara Freeland freeland@uga.edu
Andrew Young, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will be the keynote speaker for the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast Jan. 23 at 7:30 a.m. in the Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center. Sponsored by UGA, the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government and the Clarke County School District, the MLK Freedom Breakfast commemorates the life of the late civil rights leader. This year’s theme is “The Power of the Dream: Justice for All.” Along with Young’s address, recipients of the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award will be
recognized at the event, which has averaged more than 600 attendees in recent years. The award highlights the work of local Andrew Young citizens who have made significant efforts to build bridges of unity and understanding as they strive to make King’s dream of equality and justice a reality. Nomination forms to recognize community members, UGA faculty, staff and students are available at http://t.uga.edu/Vv and are due Oct. 31.
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EOO to host sexual assault forum
An Open Dialogue on Sexual Assault will be held Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 248 of the Miller Learning Center. The Equal Opportunity Office invites the entire university community to ask questions, share information and engage in dialogue about sexual assault issues in general and about the university’s efforts to prevent sexual assault and address its effect within the UGA community. Representatives from UGA’s Equal Opportunity Office, the UGA Health Center, the UGA Police Department, the Office of
the Dean of Students, University Housing and others will be available to answer questions. Based on the response from this discussion, future events on more targeted topics may be held. The goal is to raise university awareness for this area of concern. The event is part of the nationwide “It’s On Us” campaign, a movement aimed at changing the way the public thinks about sexual assault, raising awareness that sexual assault is a societal problem, supporting survivors and recognizing opportunities to intervene and prevent sexual assault.
2 Oct. 27, 2014 columns.uga.edu ‘U.S. News’ to issue new global, country-level, subject-area rankings
Around academe
U.S. News & World Report will release an inaugural global ranking of universities on Oct. 28. According to an announcement by the publication, the 2015 Best Global Universities rankings will list the top 500 universities across 49 countries. U.S. News also will release rankings of the top universities in Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand and Latin America. There also will be country-level and subject area-specific rankings. The rankings will be based on indicators such as global and regional reputation, academic research performance and data on faculty and doctoral graduates. U.S. News will release comprehensive methodologies and frequently asked questions to explain the data, ranking factors, weights and calculations.
National hiring expected to grow
New graduates in the spring may have an easier time finding a job than their peers who graduated during the Great Recession. According to “Recruiting Trends,” an annual national survey of companies by Michigan State University, hiring is expected to grow by 16 percent next year. That follows several years of very modest hiring growth. Information services and finance and insurance are the two industries anticipating the most growth. Detailed findings will be available in November.
Get vaccinated as flu season nears
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Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a contagious disease caused by one of many influenza viruses. It primarily attacks the respiratory tract—the nose, throat and lungs—in humans. Influenza spreads when a person sends the flu virus into the air and other people inhale the virus. The virus enters the nose, throat or lungs of a person and begins to multiply, causing symptoms of the flu. Influenza usually comes on suddenly and may include fever, headache, tiredness, dry cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, body aches and insomnia. The best way to prevent influenza is to get the flu shot. Last year, a new quadrivalent or four-strain vaccine came on the market, which is protective against four of the possible strains predicted for the upcoming season. Flu shots are available for students, faculty, staff and faculty emeritus by appointment at the University Health Center. Call the center’s Allergy/Travel Clinic at 706-542-5575 to make an appointment. The regular shot is $30 for faculty and staff, and the high-dose shot is $35 for faculty, staff and retired faculty older than 65. A valid UGA ID is required, and payment can be made by cash, check or card at the UHC cashier’s desk. Faculty and staff will be given a statement to file with their private insurance company. Source: UGA Health Center
Banking it A report from a Wall Street recruiting firm found that more than 65 percent of the 2014 investment banking analyst class graduated from just 30 schools, one of which was UGA. UGA was one of only nine public universities included in the top 30.
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College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University breaks ground on Food Technology Center in Griffin By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu
Large and small food businesses alike received a boost Oct. 17 when UGA—in partnership with state and local officials— broke ground on the Food Technology Center located on the Griffin campus. The facility will house the Food Product Innovation and Commercialization, or FoodPIC, Center. “The food industry is thriving in the state of Georgia, and FoodPIC is playing a leading role in its growth and economic success,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “Upon completion, the center will support a valuable partnership between the University of Georgia, the public sector and the global food industry.” Gov. Nathan Deal named a few of the companies the center has supported in recent years. “Since 2007, FoodPIC has been helpful to a number of famous customers who include Chick-Fil-A, Boar’s Head, Coca-Cola and Kellogg,” he said. “They’ve all utilized the services of this facility. But even more, smaller businesses have come here to get assistance, advice and support to make their products more productive in terms of being customer-friendly and accepted at the marketplace.” The state-of-the-art facility—which will be located at the southeast corner of the Melton Building—will house pilot plants and laboratory spaces for hot and cold temperature work; wet and dry processing; quality control laboratories; refrigerated, frozen and dry storage; a demonstration kitchen; and
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State, local and university officials broke ground on the Food Technology Center Oct. 17 on the UGA Griffin campus. From left to right are: Rep. Robert Dickey (R-Musella); Kristine Braman, interim assistant dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UGA Griffin campus; Doris Christopher, assistant vice president for academic affairs and director of academic programs, UGA Griffin campus; Gary Black, Georgia commissioner of agriculture; Scott Angle, dean and director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Milton Cochran, construction project manager, U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration; UGA President Jere W. Morehead; Gov. Nathan Deal; Tommy Hopkins, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia; Rep. David Knight (R-Griffin); Charles Copeland, chairman of the Griffin-Spalding Development Authority; Ryan McLemore, mayor of Griffin; Jerry Arkin, former assistant dean of the college, UGA Griffin campus; and Dick Phillips, FoodPIC Center director.
administrative offices. “FoodPIC is a perfect example of how our state’s higher education system is not only educating students but providing cutting-edge research to support industry and promote economic prosperity,” said C. Thomas “Tommy” Hopkins, a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, whose family has lived in Griffin for generations. “This facility will be yet another example of increasing jobs and intellectual property in Georgia.” Researchers from the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and industry experts will use the new Food Technology Center to provide
guidance to business owners in the areas of food product development, concept generation and evaluation, packaging, safe processing, business development, pilot plant preparation and consumer acceptance. The FoodPIC staff includes engineers, chemists, microbiologists, consumer sensory scientists and research chefs. The facility is being constructed through leadership and funding provided by Deal, members of the General Assembly, the University System of Georgia chancellor and board of regents, the Griffin-Spalding Development Authority, the U.S. Economic Development Administration and UGA.
School of Public and International Affairs
Parthemos Lecture focuses on president, ‘fourth Congress’
college of public health College of Public Health reaccredited for 7 more years
By Aaron Hale
By Rebecca Ayer
aahale@uga.edu
President Barack Obama may face his toughest congressional opposition yet when a new Congress convenes in January after the midterm elections. If that’s the case, it would follow a historical pattern for the relationships of U.S. presidents with their fourth Congresses, according to David Mayhew, a renowned congressional scholar and the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, at the George S. Parthemos Lecture Oct. 15 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. A “fourth Congress” is the legislature a second-term president faces after midterm elections. For a president, Mayhew said, “Unquestionably, the fourth Congress is the worst.” By the time a president has been in office six years, he usually faces a Congress made up of more members of the opposing party and has a harder time pushing through his legislative agendas. “ ‘Hope’ and ‘change,’ those are yesterday’s stories,” Mayhew said. Despite the discord, Mayhew said, a two-term president’s final two years in office still can be legislatively productive. During his visit to UGA, Mayhew arrived days before the lecture to speak in classrooms and meet with faculty and students. Mayhew’s lecture centered on the history of fourth Congresses in the 20th and 21st centuries, and what that history might say about Obama’s final two years in office.
During the lecture, Mayhew noted that six former two-term presidents— Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush—faced a hostile fourth Congress typically made up of majorities of the opposing party. Mayhew said this tends to lead to increased gridlock and little hope of passing the president’s domestic policy agenda. Despite the historical friction, significant legislation historically still gets passed and presidents remain influential in the process, Mayhew said. This legislation can include international trade agreements and compromises between the president and Congress on domestic policy. But oftentimes, it is major events that shape the legislative agenda. That’s what happened for Bush’s fourth Congress, which passed a bank bailout package in response to the 2008 financial crisis. “Looking at these presidents in these fourth Congresses,” he said, “I’m struck by how much the presidency is a crisis management office.” Sponsored by the School of Public and International Affairs’ political science department, the George S. Parthemos lecture is named after a UGA political science professor and administrator who died in 1984. Each year, the Parthemos Lecture brings to Athens a prominent political scholar. Mayhew is author of the influential book Congress: The Electoral Connection as well as Divided We Govern and Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitution.
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The College of Public Health has received a full seven-year reaccreditation— the maximum term awarded—from the Council on Education for Public Health. CEPH is the only independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools and programs of public health.Accreditation by CEPH provides assurance that the school or program has been evaluated and has met accepted standards established by the public health profession. “Our reaccreditation not only affirms the strengths and accomplishments of the College of Public Health, but demonstrates our commitment to training the next generation of public health practitioners and scholars,” said Dr. Mark Wilson, associate dean for academic affairs. Schools seeking accreditation are evaluated on criteria such as the program’s curriculum, student learning outcomes, resources, research opportunities as well as student and faculty interactions. For reaccreditation, schools are required by CEPH to conduct a self-study detailing how the school met each criterion. The CEPH Board of Councilors acted at its Sept. 18-20 meeting to approve the college’s reaccreditation, extending it to Dec. 30, 2021. This was the CPH’s second review for accreditation as a school of public health. With its initial review in 2009, the college became the first CEPH accredited school of public health in the University System of Georgia.
RESEARCH news
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Digest College of Pharmacy Oct. 31 seminar to focus on substance abuse issues
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Sara Wagner Robb, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, left, mentored Chunla He, a biostatistics graduate student, as she found that a disruption of a person’s 24-hour biological clock is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.
Rhythm of the night Study: Biological clock disruptions increase breast cancer risk
By Molly Berg
mberg14@uga.edu
The disruption of a person’s circadian rhythm—their 24-hour biological clock—has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to new UGA research. The culprit, in this study in particular, is artificial light. “Exposure to artificial light leads to a significantly higher risk for developing breast cancer,” said Chunla He, a biostatistics graduate student in the UGA College of Public Health. “To decrease the use of artificial light, people should avoid working at night and implement earlier bed times.” Her research, published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, examined key studies that included risk factors for developing breast cancer. “A large body of related research about circadian rhythms and breast cancer exists,” He said. “However, these studies are inconsistent and have a variety of limitations.”
Under the mentorship of Sara Wagner Robb, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, He turned to previous studies to see what the research revealed. In addition to other relevant exposures, He examined studies on breast cancer and flight attendants, who typically work both day and night shifts. The flight attendants represented a group of workers particularly susceptible to disrupted circadian rhythms, which are heavily influenced by light. In her analysis, He found that employment as a flight attendant was related to an increased risk of breast cancer. “People naturally secrete the hormone melatonin, which helps to regulate the circadian rhythm,” she said. “When the sleep-wake cycle is disrupted by artificial light, melatonin secretion is adversely affected.” Robb recommends spreading this information to shift workers so they understand the harms in disrupting their circadian rhythms.
“Individuals engaging in this type of work should be aware of these risks and may make efforts to adjust their circadian rhythms,” she said. “Although additional studies are certainly needed, scientists are becoming increasingly aware of the health risks associated with night workers and others exposed to circadian-disrupting behaviors.” Robb and He also advise that future research needs to examine social constraints, which may foster disruption of circadian rhythms, on shift workers. Additionally, shift workers should contact their primary-care physicians for personalized treatment and options. “This information tells us the harm in disrupting our natural cycle,” He said. “With this new analysis, we must be cautious in our exposure to artificial light.” The article was co-authored by Sonia Taj Anand, a former graduate student in the College of Public Health; Mark H. Ebell, professor of epidemiology; and John E. Vena, of the Medical University of South Carolina.
Genetic analysis reveals surprises about monarch butterflies bethgav@uga.edu
With their distinctive orange wings, remarkable long-distance migration and widespread presence, monarch butterflies are some of the most recognizable butterflies in the world. A team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Chicago and including UGA ecologist Sonia Altizer, has published a study in Nature that reveals unexpected answers to the origins of monarchs and the genetic basis of their best-known traits. “The results of this study shift our whole thinking about these butterflies,” said the paper’s senior author Marcus Kronforst of the University of Chicago. The scientists analyzed the genomes of nearly 100 monarchs from around the world to explore questions about the monarch’s evolutionary history and characteristic traits—where it originated, what genes determine its migratory behavior and what causes its bright orange warning coloration. What they learned surprised them and underscored the importance
Three join Peabody Awards board
UGA has approved three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards board. Joining other experts who select electronic media’s most coveted prize are Martha Nelson of New York, Naibe Reynoso of Los Angeles and Jonathan Gray of Madison, Wisconsin. In April, Nelson, Reynoso and Gray will join Peabody Awards Director Jeffrey P. Jones, board Chair Thomas Mattia and the other board members in Athens to choose the recipients of the 74th annual Peabody Awards from an international field of more than 1,000 entries from broadcast and cable television, radio and the Internet. The 2014 recipients will be announced in mid-April. Gray is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A prolific writer, he is the author and editor of nine books. Nelson capped a 20-year career at Time Inc. as its editor-in-chief, the first woman in the company’s 90-year history to hold the title. She is the founding editor of InStyle magazine, with duties also including overseeing the production of several InStyle TV specials and the launch of InStyle.com. She went on to be the editor of People magazine, guiding the re-launch of People.com to become the No. 1 entertainment magazine website. Reynoso is an Emmy- and AP award-winning journalist, host and media producer whose work spans television, radio and online news platforms. She has served as a news, entertainment and lifestyle reporter for Univision, Reelz Channel, CNN Español and Fox News Latino.
School of Law team wins tournament
Odum School of Ecology By Beth Gavrilles
The College of Pharmacy will hold the 2014 Substances of Abuse seminar Oct. 31 from 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at Pharmacy South. The seminar, which will focus on the changing landscape of substance abuse, will provide six hours of continuing education credit and six hours of continuing medical education credit. Evolving issues, such as the legalization of medical marijuana and illicit and prescription drug abuse, will be discussed in addition to research and treatment of drug abuse. The program is open to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians and other health care professionals as well as social workers, educators and public safety employees. The cost is $125. Students majoring in health professions, social work, education or public safety can register and attend the seminar free of charge. Seminar speakers will include College of Pharmacy faculty Randall Tackett and Trina von Waldner. For more information on the symposium and details on registration, contact Elise Fortson at 706-542-6232 or elisef@uga.edu.
of efforts to conserve North America’s migratory monarchs, whose numbers are declining. They started their study by looking at the monarch’s evolutionary history. Analyses were based in part on butterflies from Altizer’s collection. “The monarch is an outlier,” said Altizer, an associate dean of the Odum School of Ecology and the UGA Athletic Association Professor in Ecology.“Other species in the same genus and in the same subfamily as monarchs are generally tropical butterflies that have fairly restricted geographic ranges, while monarchs have a very broad modern geographic range and can migrate tremendous distances. Yet nobody understood the historical connection between these different monarch populations around the globe.” They expected the genetic analysis to show that, like Neotropical birds, monarchs originated in the tropics and later expanded into North America and became migratory. Instead, they found just the opposite. “For monarchs, the migratory North
American population appears to be ancestral to all other modern populations,” Altizer said. “It appears to have given rise to the current populations in the New World tropics and in Europe and in the Pacific.” The researchers also wanted to discover the genetic basis for migratory behavior. The component of the monarch genome that appeared to show the strongest link to long-distance migration was a gene that affects the structure and function of flight muscles—a gene very different from one that predicts dispersal propensity in other butterflies. Finally, they looked for the genetic basis for the warning coloration of monarch wings by comparing the DNA of a small group of rare white monarchs from Hawaii with the more common orange ones found elsewhere. Again, their results ran counter to expectations. Instead of genes that affect the production of orange and red pigment causing the difference, it was a gene that affects the ability of the pigment to spread across the wing.
The UGA School of Law won the inaugural National Trial Advocacy Tournament, hosted by the University of Florida Levin College of Law Oct. 3-5. The team was composed of third-year law students Garrett S. Burrell, Joshua H. Dorminy, Whitney T. Judson and Ashley R. Wright. They were coached by advocacy director Kellie Casey who called the win a “very great start to the advocacy season.” Additionally, Dorminy was named as the best advocate of the final round, and Judson was selected for delivering the best closing argument in the preliminary rounds. “The competition was intense, and I could not be more proud of the team’s performance. Their hard work and dedication really paid off,” Casey said. Georgia Law faced competition from Mississippi College, Fordham University, the University of Akron and Faulkner University and went undefeated in all four rounds to eventually overcome Florida Coastal School of Law for the national title.
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Performing Arts Center to present pianist Nov. 3 By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu
The UGA Performing Arts Center will present award-winning pianist Javier Perianes Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. His program will include works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Debussy and Manuel de Falla. Tickets for the recital are $28; the performance is free to UGA students with a valid UGA ID. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A native of Spain, Perianes is one of his country’s rising young classical music stars. He was the artist-in-residence at the 2012 Granada Festival, and he also was in residence with Teatre de la Masestranza and the Seville Orchestra during the 2012-2013 season. Perianes now is gaining an international reputation, with notable appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris and Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London. Following a recital in Switzerland, the Neue Luzerner Zeitung wrote of Perianes’ performance, “The Lucerne debut was a revelation. Perianes’ touch is incredibly gentle and sensitive. This confers on the music clarity and intimacy without any loss of expressive power. Perianes is not a virtuoso full of vigor; he is instead a poet at the keyboard.” His CD of the piano music of Manuel de Falla was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award. In 2012 he received the National Music Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
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Javier Perianes will perform Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.
EXHIBITIONS 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.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 Benefits Open Enrollment Begins Through Nov. 14. UGA faculty and staff
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Mitch Easter of Let’s Active, Mike Mills of R.E.M. and Ken Stringfellow of both Big Star and The Posies chat before performing in Australia at the Sydney Festival 2014.
Spotlight • Slingshot to feature concert of Big Star’s ‘Third’ album By Dave Marr
davemarr@uga.edu
The streets of downtown Athens will become a prominent venue for UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival with Spotlight • Slingshot, a free public concert Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. on College Square. Topping the bill of five bands will be an orchestrated performance of Memphis band Big Star’s legendary “Third” album, with an all-star lineup featuring original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Chris Stamey of the dB’s, Mitch Easter of Let’s Active, Pat Sansone of Wilco and Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, both of Big Star and The Posies. Augmented by a host of other musicians, the group will perform the album known both as “Third” and “Sister Lovers” in its entirety as well as a selection of songs from the band’s other two albums and by original member Chris Bell. The orchestral section will include student musicians from the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The concert, with original string, wind and guitar parts transcribed from the album’s actual multitrack studio masters, has been performed around the world, including in London, Sydney, Chicago, Seattle and New York’s Central Park. The Jane and Harry Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Terry College of Business’ Music Business Program are sponsoring the concert, a special presentation of the Slingshot Festival of music, electronic art and technology.
can begin making their selections in the MyBenefits@UGA system. 706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu. 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. 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. 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. Russell Library 40th Anniversary Symposium Through Oct. 28. The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies will host a scholars and policymakers symposium to celebrate the library’s 40th anniversary. 6 p.m. Special collection libraries auditorium. 706-542-5788, jlevinso@uga.edu.
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T h e e v e n t i s supported by the Athens Downtown Development Authority, the UGA Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach. “The Spotlight on the Arts festival is an ideal occasion for collaboration between artistic communities in the university and in Athens,” said Nicholas Allen, the Franklin Professor of English and director of the Willson Center. “The Spotlight • Slingshot concert brings together a tremendous slate of rising and established performers with important ties to the city and to UGA at the historic gateway between town and campus. Our ability to present world-class artists with such strong local connections speaks to the creative vibrancy of the whole community.” Athens acts The Glands, New Madrid, Blacknerdninja and Ruby the RabbitFoot will share the Spotlight • Slingshot bill. The Glands, who released two acclaimed albums in 1997 and 2000, will be playing their second show in Athens since headlining AthFest in 2012. Representatives from the local nonprofit organization Nuçi’s Space will be present at the event to offer information and accept donations for its fundraising campaign to restore St. Mary’s Steeple, all that remains of the church where R.E.M. played its first show on April 5, 1980. More information on the performance of Big Star’s “Third” is available at www.bigstarthird.com. “The Great Debate” Ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, the UGA Young Democrats and College Republicans will debate state and national issues. 7 p.m. Chapel.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 School of law Conference The Children and International Criminal Justice Conference will examine issues related to children and international criminal justice and will feature a keynote address by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. 9:15 a.m. Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, Hirsch Hall. amann@uga.edu. Blood Drive 10 a.m. Reception Hall, Tate Student Center. Workshop “Performing Educational Research in Your Course Using Qualitative Research Methodologies.” 10 a.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu. Tuesday Tour at Two A tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. 2 p.m. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu. Ecology Seminar “Dispersal, Demographic Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Open Populations,” Erik Noonburg, Florida Atlantic University. Reception precedes seminar at 3:30 p.m. in lobby. Hosted by Jeb Byers, an associate professor in the Odum School of Ecology. 4 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@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.
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Georgia Writers Hall of Fame events to take place Nov. 9-10
Janice Kerbel to present Visiting Artist/Scholar talk
By Jean Cleveland
The Lamar Dodd School of Art will present a lecture by London-based Canadian artist Janice Kerbel Nov. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Room S151 of the art school. Part of the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist/ Scholar Lecture Series, the lecture is open free to the public. An artist whose work in many ways defies strict categorization by genre or medium, Kerbel often makes use of existing systems of organizing and presenting information. Her projects have taken many forms, from creating a manual for robbing a branch of a London bank for Bank Job in 1999 (published as 15 Lombard Street in 2000) to Deadstar (2006), a map of an invented “ghost town” inspired by a residency in Wyoming, for which the artist used town planning, local topography and ghost stories. More recently, she has worked with various forms of narration, creating a radio play for BBC Radio, commissioned by the London public art organization Artangel as well as projects such as Ballgame (Innings 1-3), a sound installation featuring a recording of a sports commentator narrating a fictional baseball game. Other works by Kerbel include Kill the Workers!, a play that takes its cue from dramatic narrative but is executed solely with theatrical lighting; and Remarkable, a series of text-based silkscreen posters that announce the achievements of a range of extraordinary beings.
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Mary Hood, Alfred Uhry and the late Olive Ann Burns will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Nov. 10 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. This year’s ceremony is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. The annual observance begins Nov. 9: At 2 p.m., Hood will read from selected works. A Brunswick native, Hood has received the National Magazine Award, the Townsend Prize and the Robert Penn Warren Award, among others, for her short stories and poetry. At 4 p.m., Hood and Uhry will participate in a discussion moderated by Hugh Ruppersburg, English professor and senior associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. A playwright, lyricist and screenwriter, Uhry is best known for his play Driving Miss Daisy, which premiered in New York in 1987 and later was adapted into a film. Ten years later, Last Night of Ballyhoo, the second play in what is referred to as his Atlanta trilogy, captured the Tony and his place in theatrical history as the only playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and a Tony Award. At 7 p.m., UGA’s theatre and film studies department will present a staged reading of Ballyhoo, followed by a panel discussion including Uhry and UGA faculty. The induction ceremony is Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. Burns, who died in 1990, was an Atlanta journalist who penned her first novel, Cold Sassy Tree, at age 60 after a cancer diagnosis. Open free to the public, all events will take place in the second floor auditorium of the Russell Special Collections Building. Register at http://t.uga.edu/122 or contact Leandra Nessel at lnessel@uga. edu or 706-542-3879.
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Artist Odilon Redon’s third series of prints illustrating French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s “Temptation of St. Anthony” will be on display Nov. 1 through Jan. 25.
Georgia Museum of Art to show Odilon Redon’s lithographs By Eva Chamberlain etcuga@uga.edu
The Georgia Museum of Art will present the exhibition The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redon’s ‘St. Anthony’ Nov. 1 to Jan. 25. The exhibition will feature French artist Odilon Redon’s third series of prints illustrating French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s Temptation of St. Anthony. Flaubert based his novel loosely on St. Athanasius’ Life of St. Anthony of Antioch, written circa 360 A.D.Athanasius’ account describes Anthony’s retiring to the desert at age 20 to live as a hermit and the subsequent temptations and torments that he suffered at the hands of the devil. Anthony’s struggle was a popular theme in medieval and Renaissance art, and it enjoyed a revival in the 19th and 20th centuries when many artists were interested in psychology, spirituality, non-Christian religions, dreams, hallucinations and occult phenomena such as hypnosis. Introduced to the novel in 1882 by a friend, Redon addressed it in three different series of lithographs, dated 1888, 1889 and 1896. The latter makes
Café Soul Hosted by the Black Affairs Council, the Beta Zeta chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and the Asian American Student Association. This is a multicultural talent event during BAC Week. Spoken word artist Tro’juan Henderson will headline the event. $4-$8. 7 p.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center. 770-906-3388.
featured in the exhibition Negritud in Latin American Art. Featuring art from members of the Atlanta art collective Contrapunto, the works in this exhibit exemplify the often over-looked but integral influence of African culture on art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Part of Hispanic Heritage Month. 2 p.m. Gallery 101, Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Concert Accordion Virtuosi of Russia. $30-$35. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu.
Flu Shot Clinic Participants can get a flu shot. Insurance accepted. $10-$30; Exact pricing is at http://t.uga.edu/ZC. 2:30 p.m. R. C. Wilson Pharmacy Building. 706-542-9979.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 Vice President for Instruction Finalist Presentation A presentation by Ronald Cervero, a professor of lifelong education, administration and policy and associate vice president for instruction at UGA. 9:30 a.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center. Open Enrollment Info Session For retirees. 1 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center. 706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu. Ecology/ICON Conservation Seminar “Coordinating Science and Politics for Conservation of a Federally-endangered Plant, Canby’s Dropwort,” Lisa Kruse, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. 1:25 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu. Blood Drive 2 p.m. Four Towers Building. Tour at Two Join Chiara Tondi Resta, a UGA undergraduate Honors classics student, for a gallery tour of the exhibition An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, mlachow@uga.edu. Panel Discussion A discussion with the curators and artists
Open Dialogue on Sexual Assault 4:30 p.m. 248 Miller Learning Center. (See story, page 1). Recital The UGA Bassoon Studio. 6:30 p.m. Edge Recital Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu. Volleyball vs. Florida. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1621.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 Open Enrollment Info Sessions A general session will be held at 9 a.m. and another will be held at 2 p.m. Chapel. 706-542-2222, benefits@uga.edu. Dia de los Muertos Celebration To include pan dulce and hot cocoa for breakfast. Part of Hispanic Heritage Month. 9 a.m. Tate Student Center Plaza Engineering Graduate Seminar “Stochastic Control, Simulation Optimization,” Sergiy Minko. Moderated by Jaya Kanumari. 12:30 p.m. Driftmier Auditorium, Driftmier Engineering Center. 706-542-7295, javadm@uga.edu. Music in Athens: A Sacred Harp Symposium The Athens Music Project, a Willson Center Research Cluster, will host a symposium on
up this exhibition, which will be on view during UGA’s 2014 Spotlight on the Arts (see special section), a nine-day festival organized by the UGA Arts Council that includes guest performances and special events on campus in film, dance and other arts categories. “Showing this series of lithographs is exciting for me because Redon is one of my favorite artists,” said Laura Valeri, associate curator of European art at the museum and curator of this exhibition. “I’ve always loved how strongly his emotions come across in his work. Some of these prints were shown at the museum in 1991, but not the complete set. This will be a unique opportunity for a new audience to see them all together as a series.” The lithographic prints represent the mysterious and fantastical themes common in Redon’s work and demonstrate the artist’s interests in the expressive possibilities of the lithographic crayon. In contrast to the impressionists, his contemporaries, Redon embraced a color palette of black and white. He also focused his attentions on what was beyond the visible world.
the sacred harp music tradition. The sacred harp tradition originated in the South and is named after a historical book of hymns titled The Sacred Harp. 4:15 p.m. Special collections libraries auditorium. jkidula@uga.edu. Recital The UGA Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of professor Timothy Adams Jr. 6 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu. UGA Hockey vs. Clemson. $7-$25. 7 p.m. Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas St. Faculty Recital Hugh Hodgson School of Music oboe professor Reid Messich will give a free recital. Messich, who has been a faculty member at UGA since 2010, has performed with many orchestras in the U.S., including the Jacksonville Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Miami City Ballet, the West Palm Beach Opera, the Boca Raton Symphonia and the Augusta Symphony Orchestra. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 Fall Break For students. UGA offices open.
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State Botanical Garden Fall Festival Participants will celebrate the space that will become known as the Forest Play area of the Children’s Garden. Donations for the Children’s Garden will be accepted. 10 a.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu. Book Release Talk Garden volunteer Ann Blum has created the popular puppet shows for the State Botanical Garden’s annual Insect-ival Family Festival for the past 20 years. Each fun and informative puppet show is now in her new
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book, as well as interesting facts that support the themes and lessons within the puppet shows. 11 a.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu. Exhibition opening The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redon’s ‘St. Anthony.’ Through Jan. 25. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, above left).
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Volleyball vs. Auburn. 1:30 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Recital The Verismo Trio. Founded in 2010, the group has been hailed for its “compelling and fun” performances featuring original compositions and inspired arrangements. 5 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu. Recital Pianist Javier Perianes. $28. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400, ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, above left).
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The UGA Arts Council will present the third Spotlight on the Arts festival Nov. 6-14. The nine days of events showcase UGA’s offerings in visual, literary and performing arts. See the special section for more information.
Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Nov. 4. Janice Kerbel. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116, michelleegas@uga.edu. (See story, above). Vice President for Instruction Finalist Presentation Nov. 5. A presentation by Rahul Shrivastav, a professor and chair of the department of communicative sciences and disorders at Michigan State University. 9:30 a.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center.
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Mark Abney, an assistant professor of entomology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received $248,411 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assess integrated pest management techniques for peanuts. Valid economic thresholds are not available for many of the most common pest species found in the crop, so growers must make insect management decisions based on limited or outdated information. Abney’s research will develop monitoring protocols to determine pest densities in the field. This data will help researchers develop an economic injury level, which indicates levels of pest infestation at which losses equal the cost of control. Fanbin Kong, an assistant professor of food science and technology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received $5,000 from the Georgia Department of Agriculture to evaluate the absorption of selected nutrients and bioactives in peanuts during simulated digestion. Using a model stomach and Fanbin Kong intestine system, Kong and his collaborators can simulate the digestion of foods and gauge whether different food types and processing techniques affect the rate of nutrient absorption in the body. Their research will help inform food processing techniques so that people receive the optimal amount of nutrients from the foods they consume. David Meyers, a public service assistant at the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, was awarded $95,193 by the University System of Georgia through the College Access Challenge Grant to help support EMBARK, a campus-based program of support for homeless and foster youth at UGA and a statewide network of USG, technical colleges and community organizations. The goal of EMBARK is to give underrepresented students—including those who have been homeless or in foster care—the resources they need to obtain a college degree. Ruthann Swanson, an associate professor of foods and nutrition in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, received $33,000 from the Georgia Department of Education in support of the School Nutrition Director’s Certification Program. Designed primarily for Ruthann Swanson individuals who are employed as school nutrition directors or coordinators as well as those who have been offered employment in those fields, the SNDCP is a nondegree granting graduate-level program that hones skills in human nutrition, nutrition education, business management, human resource management and educational leadership. Students completing the program requirements are recommended to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission for certification as a school nutrition director. Wendy Zomlefer, an associate professor of plant biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, received $74,385 from the National Science Foundation as part of a $2.5 million collaborative grant comprising 12 institutions, headed by Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. This project will allow researchers to make data available for 5 million plant specimens from the Southeast using the latest digitization and data capture tools. The Southeast is botanically rich, and millions of plant specimens have been collected from this region over the past three centuries. But it is difficult to retrieve data from these specimens currently residing in herbaria at museums and universities. Upon completion, the data set will facilitate exploration of the effects of climate change, speed the discovery of vulnerable populations and improve the ability of land managers to conserve regional biodiversity. ReveNews is a roundup of recently funded research projects at UGA. To have information about your research project included, email James Hataway at jhataway@uga.edu.
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Ikseon “Ike” Choi, an associate professor in the department of career and information studies in the College of Education, uses a floor-to-ceiling whiteboard to keep track of his ideas on how people learn and how technology can expand knowledge.
Associate professor aims to take technology beyond the classroom By Michael Childs mdchild@uga.edu
The first thing you notice about Ikseon “Ike” Choi’s office at River’s Crossing is that he uses an entire wall, from floor to ceiling, as a giant whiteboard. Covering the wall in writing of various colors, Choi keeps track of his ideas, pondering how people learn and how technology can unpack even more knowledge. “I have always been interested in understanding human beings,” said the South Korea native.“I realized that learning is an essential part of human lives.” Choi’s interest in computers as learning tools led him to eventually seek a doctorate in instructional systems. “When I was younger, I thought technology could play a larger part in human life in the future. But I didn’t choose the path of studying technology, I chose to study the path of humanity—how to integrate technology to advance human lives,” he said. Choi is a faculty member in the College of Education’s Learning,Design andTechnology program, which prepares students to design and implement lesson plans and training programs for all levels of learners. He teaches graduate courses in learning theories, real-world problem solving and reasoning, learning-environment design and e-learning evaluation. “Our goal is to prepare professionals to identify and analyze learning problems and then create and implement effective solutions to support learning and performance in its place,” he said. Through his multidisciplinary collaborations with leading scholars in teacher education, agricultural science,
engineering, and in both human and animal medicine, Choi’s research has sought the most effective ways to promote and evaluate the development of learners’ real-world problem-solving abilities. “There is a gap between what we teach in school and how students are supposed to perform in the real world,” Choi said. “Textbook knowledge is not enough for them to know how to deal with real-world problems.” Choi focuses on integrating complex situations, the kind faced in the real world, into the classroom. To this end, Choi developed an interactive learning tool, the “Case-Based E-Learning Module to Enhance Veterinary Students’ Diagnostic and Therapeutic Decision Making,” to help third-year veterinary students hone critical thinking skills and practice making difficult medical decisions. The students use the Webbased tool to diagnose difficult cases, and then hear the diagnoses faculty members would make on the same cases. Choi developed this particular version of the tool with UGA College of Veterinary Medicine faculty members Karen Cornell, Kate Creevy, MaryAnn Radlinsky and Chad Schmiedt. Choi also is leading a UGA partnership with the South Korean educational robotics firm RoboRobo to bring $23,000 worth of robotics education kits into elementary school classrooms in Barrow, Clarke and Jackson counties. He and his colleagues are developing new robotic education programs. The school-based research site brings together faculty members and graduate students to work with area teachers to develop robotics workshops customized
Facts Ikseon “Ike” Choi
Associate Professor Department of Career and Information Studies College of Education Ph.D., Instructional Systems, Pennsylvania State University, 2002 M.Ed., Educational Psychology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 1996 B.A., Education, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 1992 At UGA: 11 years
for specific classroom needs. Robotics provides opportunities for students to think more deeply and to relate their problem-solving strategies to the real world, Choi said. He believes the introduction of robotics education will draw more students into science and technology fields. But Choi has a larger, global vision of what could be done with robotics after a recent visit to Haiti. “What if we create a robust, affordable and integrated science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, curriculum with robotics, and distribute this highquality learning experience on a global scale to help the children in developing countries?” he asked.“In Haiti, they need to develop a lot of human resources for technology and engineering positions if they are going to develop their economy. “The kids there are eager to learn to use technology,” he said. “I could see the excitement in their eyes and a great vision for their future.” And another idea goes on the whiteboard.
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Russell Library honored with state award By Jan Levinson Hebbard jlevinso@uga.edu
UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is among the recipients of the third annual Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities. Director Sheryl B. Vogt accepted the award from Gov. Nathan Deal in a ceremony at the state Capitol. The commendation recognizes the library as “an invaluable resource for scholars all around the world. For 40 years this esteemed academic
institution has chronicled Georgia’s political and social story, preserving our historical foundations for the next generation of government and educational leaders to learn from.” A center for research and study of the modern American political system, the library’s original mission was to collect and preserve materials that document the life and career of the late Richard B. Russell, U.S. senator from Georgia from 1933 to 1971. With particular emphasis on the role of Georgia and the U.S. Congress, current
collection development and programming focus on the dynamic relationship of politics, policy and culture—generated wherever public interest intersects with government. The Russell Library, housed at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, was among 13 citizens and organizations recognized for their contributions to innovation and growth of the state’s civic and cultural vitality. The awards were presented in partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Humanities Council.
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Students tour UGA Printing and Duplicating to learn about printing process By Matt Chambers and Taylor Adkins mattdc@uga.edu; adkins@uga.edu
Surrounded by massive machines and piles of paper, the students in Julie Spivey’s graphic design class beamed with pride as they saw their hard work roll off the press during a tour of UGA Printing and Duplicating last month.The class had created individual business cards, and after a tour of the printer in the building next to the Performing Arts Center parking deck, the students were able to examine the end product. Caitlin LeMoine, a junior, said she was pleased with how her cards turned out. “Seeing the difference between what was on the computer screen and what was printed was really interesting,” she said. Spivey, an associate professor of graphic design in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, said seeing those differences between on-screen design, ink-jet printouts and press-run products was one of the purposes of the UGA Printing and Duplicating tour. “This is just completely eyeopening to them. They’ve been designing on a screen for an ink printer, so this is something totally new,” Spivey said. “You can talk abstractly about printing and such, but it doesn’t really register until they’re here smelling the ink and seeing the press in action.” Prior to seeing their printed business cards, the students began the tour with an explanation about offset printing from assistant manager Jeff Allen. Offset printing is a process in which images or designs are transferred from a plate to rubber blankets or rollers, then the printing surface. After the lesson on the printing technique, Ken Storey, a senior graphic designer at UGA Printing and Duplicating, showed the students some mistakes they made when designing their business cards and how to correct those issues. He also gave some tips on how graphic designers can work with staff at a printing press to keep the cost of a
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Jeff Allen, an assistant manager at UGA Printing and Duplicating, left, shows UGA graphic design students part of the offset printing process that the unit provides. Julie Spivey, an associate professor of graphic design in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, teaches the class, which toured the facility last month.
project low and save time. Julie Rodriguez, a third-year graphic design major, said she learned a lot about the process of getting a final product. “Being a designer doesn’t mean just coming up with ideas and making something,” she said. “You really have to understand all the steps of the process, all the way down to getting it in your client’s hands.” Spivey said one of the reasons behind the press tour—something she does with her class every semester—is to show students that they will be working with other professionals to produce their work. “It also makes them realize that as designers they would need to establish relationships with the printer they’re working with because they are the professionals who know all of this,” she said. Allen, who has led many tours for Spivey’s classes, said that he enjoys showing the students around because not everyone understands what all goes into the printing process. “It’s hard to design for printing, and I like that this tour shows the students how it’s different and what all they need to do to do it right,”
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Graphic design students look over a sheet of uncut business cards that were designed by the class as part of a project.
he said. Jake Green, a senior graphic design major, said he learned how complicated the printing process can be. He said the tour gave him a solid foundation for working with a printer, but he knows there’s still more he needs to learn. “In my mind, I could just print it out at my home printer and everything will just be fine, but to get a bunch more prints out, I have to work with a printer, and to do that I need to know a lot more,” he said. “I feel like I’ll learn a big part of it
by just having experience working with a printer though.” Max Harrell, manager of UGA Printing and Duplicating, sees visits and tours as the perfect avenue to be more connected to students. “We’re excited about being able to bridge the gap from being strictly a production area to being a positive experience for students and to be more student related,” he said.“More involvement with the student body will allow those who have an interest in this area to benefit from hands-on experience.”
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Goat grazing program gets Ford Co. grant By Allison Hellenga hellenga@uga.edu
The College of Environment and Design, in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Office of Sustainability, will use a grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund to continue a two-year effort to remove invasive vegetation using prescribed grazing with the help of one of humankind’s oldest species of domesticated livestock—goats. UGA’s “Grazing Our Way Back to Community Sustainability” project was one of the 10 selected for implementation. The grant will support three sustainable community projects. First, it will allow the continuation of prescribed grazing research using goats to reclaim an overgrown and highly impaired stream on campus called Tanyard Creek. Second, a new prescribed grazing effort will be launched in Driftmier Woods—adjacent to the Driftmier Engineering Center—to begin restoring the old-growth forest. Finally, the grant will allow the creation of a junior herders program at Barrow Elementary School to teach students the importance of reclaiming the community’s landscapes. Ansley McKinney, president of the Society for Conservation Biology, will serve as the student leader for these projects with assistance from UGA faculty and staff, including Eric MacDonald, an associate professor in the College of Environment and Design; John Schramski, an associate professor in the College of Engineering; Elizabeth King, an assistant professor in the Odum School of Ecology and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; and professionals in the Office of Sustainability. So far, the Tanyard Creek Chew Crew has engaged more than 500 volunteers who have donated nearly 1,200 hours. The Ford College Community Challenge grant—in the amount of $25,000— will assist in expanding these efforts and engaging additional volunteers. Project implementation will continue until spring 2015.
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Research office unveils new website http://research.uga.edu/
A redesigned website from the Office of the Vice President for Research helps researchers easily find the services, tools and information they need to conduct research. Launched in August with new navigation, the website connects business and industry with UGA technologies, companies, research and expertise, and it helps visitors
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Transparency 2.0: Digital Data and Privacy in a Wired World—edited by Charles N. Davis, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and David Cuillier, director of the Arizona School of Journalism—investigates issues around the collision of information and personal privacy in a digital world. Delving into the key legal concepts of information access and privacy, contributors examine issues regarding online access to court records, social media, access to email and complications from government data dumps by WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden and others. They offer solutions to resolving conflict and look to the future as a new generation learns to live in an open digital world where the line between information and privacy blurs ever faster.
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and donors find out more about UGA research or give to identified research areas. In addition to search functions, there’s an A-Z list of topics to help locate specific information. The home page of the new website features the latest UGA research news, announcements and a new calendar of UGA research events from across campus.
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Jesus Mendoza works on his homework with help from Kate Browne, a junior early childhood education major. Mendoza is one of dozens of neighborhood children who come to the Awesome Clubhouse @ La Escuelita after school.
Education professor’s Awesome Clubhouse opens for second year By Kristen Morales kmorales@uga.edu
An after-school program launched by a UGA professor is beginning its second full academic year of serving children in a West Athens neighborhood. The Awesome Clubhouse @ La Escuelita serves elementary-age children in Garnett Ridge and surrounding neighborhoods with child-focused activities that encourage creative thinking.Weekly special programs teach about cooking, nutrition, art and the outdoors while UGA students studying early childhood education gain experience in supporting children’s learning and exploration in a child-centered, creative space. Stephanie Jones, a professor in the College of Education, started the program in the summer of 2013, implementing it after a six-month incubation period. The space was home to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Athens, which hosted programs in the three-bedroom rental house but consolidated its West Athens programming to a different location in January 2013. The owner of the Garnett Ridge neighborhood then contacted Jones, whose research focuses on poverty and its role in education, about hosting an after-school and summer program in the unoccupied space. The Awesome Clubhouse also serves as a teaching tool for Jones and other professors, offering an on-site location for UGA students to learn about early childhood education.
“This is one of our only places where we are embedded in a neighborhood,” Jones said.“The children have so much power and autonomy here, so the students can see them in ways they won’t see them in schools.” The idea, Jones said, is to give children a place to come and be creative while subtly guiding them toward a strong sense of self and learning. Open shelves and baskets hold items for play. By encouraging children to explore and pull out what they need, Jones said, it’s helping them be creative with what they find. Then it’s up to Jones and the dozen or so UGA early childhood education students to cultivate that curiosity by asking questions and encouraging unstructured play. “There’s a lot of research that tells us that when we create a curriculum out of a child’s interests, they have a really high level of success,” Jones said. “It’s cultivating curiosity, creativity and a sense of power.” The Awesome Clubhouse is funded by Jones’ workshop “The Other Side of Poverty,” which helps educators better address the needs of students coming from poor backgrounds. The College of Education’s Dean’s Office also provides program support. And a core partnership with the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia helps provide an array of snacks and site maintenance. Other UGA professors host enrichment programs such as an art club, a “Storybook Chefs” program linking literacy and food and a Saturday morning early childhood education program.
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 sculptures 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 at the parking deck next to the Performing Arts Center on River Road. For more information, contact Ted Saupe at tsaupe@uga.edu.
Cook’s Holiday tickets
Online ticket sales for Food Services’ Cook’s Holiday begin Nov. 3. Tickets are $16.95 for adults and $8.50 for children age 12 and younger. Children age 5 and younger will be admitted free. This year’s event, which has a
“whimsical holiday” theme, will be held Dec. 17-19 at the Village Summit in the Joe Frank Harris Commons. It will include lunch and dinner buffets. The lunch buffet will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 17 and 18 and Dec. 19 from 11 a.m to 1:30 p.m. A limited number of reservations will be accepted for 11 a.m. lunch buffet seatings; these reservations also may be made online beginning Nov. 3. The dinner buffet will be held Dec. 17 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner buffet, which also go on sale Nov. 3, are limited and should be purchased in advance because they may not be sold at the door. Complimentary parking for the lunch and dinner buffets will be available at the East Campus parking deck. Additional information, including the menu, is at http://t.uga.edu/mp.
Technology presentation
Timothy M. Chester, vice president for information technology, will give his annual State of Technology at UGA presentation Nov. 11 at 2 p.m. in Room K-L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. UGA students, faculty and staff may
methods for intervention in a variety of situations. Nearly 800 students have completed the training, including several Greek organizations and almost all student-athletes. Scenarios, background information and resources are available on a range of topics including alcohol use, depression, discrimination, disordered eating, hazing, relationship abuse and sexual assault. The university began addressing the need for sexual assault awareness and prevention programs well ahead of last month’s launch of the “It’s On Us” campaign, a nationwide initiative led by the Obama administration. In addition to the University Health Center
and Watch Dawgs, departments across campus have planned several programs that support the tenets of “It’s On Us,” including the Office of the Provost’s Women’s Resources Initiative, a collaboration with Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Student Government Association to bring “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” Recreational Sports’ “Late Night at Ramsey” and an Open Dialogue on Sexual Assault, hosted by the Equal Opportunity Office. The National Awareness Week for “It’s On Us” is Nov. 17-21. Beginning in November, students will be able to register for Watch Dawgs training by visiting www.uhs.uga.edu/watchdawgs.
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health problems like hypertension, diabetes and obesity as well as mental disorders,” he said. Co-investigators on the grant are Steven Beach in the UGA department of psychology and Catherine Walker O’Neal, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of human development and family science. Researchers at Iowa State University will collect data from the Iowa couples as part of the study. “The current project focuses on the ways that healthy marriages can support the healthy attitudes and habits that will shape couples’ ability to negotiate health challenges as they appear,” Beach said. “This has the potential to guide the development of new interventions to strengthen marriage as couples age and also ways to help keep spouses healthy.” The study will be the first able to link observed marital interaction to future changes in health in older couples, according to Beach. “This provides an opportunity for key tests of theory and new ideas about how to help couples, protect relationships from the impact of economic adversity and maximize their positive influence on future health,” he said. During his time at Iowa State University, Wickrama was part of the earlier waves of data collection led by Rand Conger, now with the University of California, Davis, and his research team following the economic hardships that affected many of the participants during the farm crisis in the 1980s. Roughly half the study participants are farmers from rural Iowa. “Adding two new waves of data to these past waves provides a wealth of prospective data on men and women as they currently transition through the retirement years,” Wickrama said. “There is a large cohort of baby boomers in the United States entering their elder years, and they will experience many health problems. It’s very important that we study this group of elder people.”
get to 100 million pounds. I remember when we hit 25 million pounds a year, we were thinking, ‘Well, it just doesn’t get better than this.’ ” But it did. Between 2011 and 2014, Georgia farmers increased blueberry production from 59 million pounds to 96 million pounds. One of the factors contributing to the blueberry’s success in Georgia is the collection of UGA-developed, Georgia-adapted blueberry varieties. NeSmith has developed 15 new blueberry varieties over the last decade or so, each with attributes that make it attractive to Georgia growers. The top performing varieties thus far are Rebel, Vernon and Ochlockonee. “I believe the university has made a significant investment to support blueberry production in Georgia,” said Brent Marable, a plant licensing manager in the UGA Technology Commercialization Office. “To see the fruits of that labor—pardon the pun—to come out in such a significant way and to be recognized nationally as No. 1 is very rewarding.” The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences blueberry team is made up of researchers in plant pathology, entomology, horticulture, crop and soil sciences and food science and UGA Extension specialists who are experts in blueberry cultivation. “Plant breeding has made, and is continuing to make, a significant contribution to the Georgia blueberry industry,” Marable said, “but it is also evidence of other blueberryrelated research in entomology and plant pathology as well as the ongoing involvement of the Extension. It’s really the effort of the entire UGA blueberry team that’s being recognized by this ranking.” The team has helped Georgia’s pioneering blueberry farmers make the most of this blueberry boom so far, according to Black.
breakfast from page 1 attend the event and ask questions about technology services at UGA. Topics in the presentation will include technology trends at UGA and how IT-related initiatives are impacting students, faculty and staff at the university. Reservations are not required to attend. For more information, contact Kerri Testement at kerriuga@uga.edu.
Diversity award nominations
The Graduate School is accepting nominations for three diversity awards: the Graduate School Faculty Diversity Award, the Graduate School Diversity Engagement Award and the Diversity Research Scholarship for Graduate Students Award. The deadline for submitting nominations online is Nov. 21 at 5 p.m. Information about each award and the nomination process is online at http://t.uga.edu/10E. Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.
Young has served as an ordained minister, a U.S. congressman, United Nations ambassador and was the mayor of Atlanta during the Atlanta Olympic Games. He has worked for civil and human rights and has advocated for investment in Africa through GoodWorks International. He confronted segregation with King and was a key strategist and negotiator during the civil rights campaigns in Birmingham and Selma that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1972, the first African-American elected from the Deep South since Reconstruction. He served on the Banking and Urban Affairs and Rules committees, sponsoring legislation that established a U.S. Institute for Peace, the African Development Bank and the Chattahoochee River National Park, while negotiating federal funds for MARTA, the Atlanta highway system and a new international airport for Atlanta. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the nation’s first AfricanAmerican ambassador to the United Nations, where he negotiated an end to white-minority rule in Namibia and Zimbabwe. Tickets for the breakfast are $20 and $160 for tables of eight. Tickets will not be sold the day of the event. To order tickets, see http://t.uga.edu/Y5; to pay online by credit card, see http://t.uga/edu/Y6.
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UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival to return Nov. 6-14 Book lovers, film and theater buffs, tech geeks and devotees to music—from baroque to rock and roll—can find something to love at this year’s Spotlight on the Arts festival, presented by the UGA Arts Council.
The nine-day festival, set for Nov. 6-14, features a Tony Awardwinning playwright, a Grammy Awardwinning soprano, art-making robots and a music composition performed on Google Glass among the more than 60 events on tap. The offerings include guest performances by British baroque quartet Red Priest, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and five-time Grammy Award-winning soprano Kathleen Battle, as well as UGA Opera Theatre presentations of “Hansel and Gretel” and University Theatre productions of “The Great Gatsby.” The 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival also includes events featuring Academy and Tony award-winning playwright Alfred Uhry, who will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. One of the most buzzed about events is the free Spotlight • Slingshot concert on College Square, which features five bands, including an orchestrated performance of 1970s band Big Star’s legendary “Third” album. “Each year, the Spotlight on the Arts festival shines a light on
the breadth and the quality of arts programming at the University of Georgia,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “This year’s festival truly offers something for everyone, and it’s shaping up to be the best one yet.” Now in its third year, the Spotlight on the Arts festival is an annual showcase for UGA’s offerings in visual, literary and performing arts.
relics from the early days of Athens’ music scene. In addition to the Nov. 12 Google Glass performance of “Adwords/ Edward” commissioned by Cynthia Johnston Turner, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s new professor of conducting and director of bands, the festival highlights the age of technology in an event giving the public the opportunity to experiment with art-making machines called Artbots Nov. 12-14. UGA’s Athens campus will be the perfect place for music devotees, with performances by the UGA jazz band, symphonic band and wind ensemble, as well as the young choreographer series and a performance sampler
“This year’s festival truly offers something for everyone, and it’s shaping up to be the best one yet.” Last year, more than 15,000 people participated in Spotlight on the Arts events, ranging from film festivals to open dance classes. The festival gives students and members of the community additional opportunities to participate in tours of the Georgia Museum of Art, led by the museum’s leaders, attend poetry readings and book talks, as well as see dramatic performances. Exhibits range from pottery and paintings to
from the department of dance and other events. And book lovers will have a chance to hear from award-winning writers. In addition to a stop on the Georgia Poetry Circuit with a reading from Sholeh Wolpe on Nov. 7, poet C.S. Giscombe will headline two events Nov. 13 as part of the Ballew Lecture Series. The festivities will include the induction of three authors—Alfred Uhry, Olive Ann Burns and Mary Hood—into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame on Nov. 10. In celebration, the
UGA department of theatre and film studies will present a staged reading of Uhry’s Tony Award-winning play “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” the day before the ceremony, and Uhry, who also wrote “Driving Miss Daisy,” and Hood will participate in a panel discussion. Irish actor Barry McGovern will present a reading Nov. 10 from the prose, poetry and letters of Samuel Beckett. In addition to performances of “The Great Gatsby” throughout the festival, several documentaries are on the schedule, including a look back at the storied Iron Horse Nov. 7. Film fans can also enjoy a Nov. 11 Peabody Decades examination of cops, crime and mystery radio and television programs and a Nov. 14 roundtable discussion on the modern comic book/ superhero movie. Art admirers have ample opportunity to participate in special tours at the Georgia Museum of Art— including one led by director William Eiland—and to hear from artists and enjoy other special events. A Nov. 14 art opening reception at the Lamar Dodd School of Art also will be a popular event, featuring work from students completing their bachelor of fine arts degrees. Children can participate in the Saturday Morning Club’s Saxophone Extravaganza at the Performing Arts Center or in a “Happy Birthday, GMOA!” celebration at the Georgia Museum of Art on Nov. 8. The family fare also includes the UGA Community Music School’s Instrumental Petting Zoo that day. Many of the performances are free or discounted for students. Events presented by the Performing Arts Center, dance department, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and
A Spotlight event will premiere the first musical composition inspired by and performed with Google Glass.
University Theatre are available for purchase online at www.pac.uga.edu, at the box office or by phone at 706-5424400 (toll free at 888-289-8497). More information on the 2014 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including the complete schedule of events, can be found at www.arts.uga.edu as well as on the Arts Council Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/UGAarts) and Twitter feed (@UGA_arts). Members of the UGA Arts Council include representatives from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Creative Writing Program, the department of dance, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Georgia Museum of Art, The Georgia Review, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Performing Arts Center, Special Collections Libraries, the department of theatre and film studies, the UGA Press and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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The outdoor exhibit “Terra Verte” will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art’s Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden throughout the festival.
The UGA Arts Council is excited to announce its inaugural 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship competition. The event, which will award two prizes of $433 each, will give the campus community insight into the scholarship and research in the arts conducted by University of Georgia graduate students. For the competition, graduate students have 4 minutes, 33 seconds to describe their research. They can use up to 33 visual aid slides to help
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explain the topic. The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in the Chapel, as part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival. The Spotlight event is inspired by John Cage’s landmark 1952 composition 4’33,” which calls for a pianist simply to sit silently at a piano for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Cage’s 4’33” challenged audiences to reconsider the function of art and the borders between traditional
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art disciplines and between artistic practice and philosophy. Points will be awarded based on performance, originality and passion, as well as conciseness, comprehension, engagement and the ability to convey the research to a non-specialist audience. Sound and props are permitted. Two winners will be chosen: one by a panel of faculty within and outside the arts and another chosen as an audience favorite.
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For updates to the Spotlight calendar, go to arts.uga.edu Thursday, Nov. 6 Tour at Two: “The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redon’s St. Anthony” 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Led by Laura Valeri, associate curator of European art. UGA Jazz Band 6 p.m., Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center A free concert by the UGA Jazz Band, under the direction of David D’Angelo. “The Past is a Grotesque Animal” 7 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art This 2014 documentary is a personal, accessible portrait of artist/frontman Kevin Barnes of the Athens-based band Of Montreal,
University Opera Theatre: “Hansel and Gretel” Thursday, November 6 & Friday, November 7• 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center Based on the classic fairytale, Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” combines hummable tunes and lush orchestration in a tasty treat that is sure to delight. The stunning performance is presented by the UGA Opera Theatre and Hugh Hodgson School of Music Director of Opera Frederick Burchinal. Tickets: $5 for students, $18 for the general public, pac.uga.edu
whose pursuit to make transcendent music at all costs drives him to value art over human relationships. Made possible by a Kickstarter campaign, the film was funded by $100,000 pledged by fans of the indie pop band. 2014, NR, 77 min. University Opera Theatre: “Hansel and Gretel” 7:30 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($18/$5 with UGA student ID) Part of the School of Music’s Second Thursday Scholarship Series. Frederick Burchinal and the UGA Opera Theatre present Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” a masterwork of the opera repertoire, in a stun-
ning three-night series of performances. Opening of University Theatre production: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. Friday, Nov. 7 Tour at Two: “Emilio Pucci in America” 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Led by Mary Koon, independent curator. “Abbott Pattison: Celebrating 60 Years of the Iron Horse” 4 p.m., UGA Special Collections Libraries auditorium This year marks the 60th anniversary of the installation of renowned sculptor Abbott Pattison’s “Iron Horse” sculpture on UGA’s Myers Quad, the riot after its placement and its removal. The Brown Media Archives preserves all the interview materials and prints of Atlanta filmmaker Bill VanDerKloot’s award-winning 1980 documentary, “Iron Horse,” which recounts the events through interviews with alumni who were involved. Join us for a free screening of the film with a discussion by VanDerKloot and faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art. A reception will be held at 3 p.m. preceeding the screening. Georgia Poetry Circuit reading by Sholeh Wolpe 7 p.m., Lyndon House Sholeh Wolpe, Iranian-born poet, translator and editor, reads from her work under the sponsorship of “The Georgia Review” and the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Her eight books include “Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths” and “The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles.” This event is open to the public free of charge. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. University Opera Theatre: “Hansel and Gretel” 7:30 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Perfor ming Arts Center ($18/$5 with UGA student ID) Part of the School of Music’s Second Thursday Scholarship Series. Frederick Burchinal and
British Baroque quartet Red Priest will bring their ‘break-all-rulles, rock-chamber concert approach to early music’ to UGA in a Wednesday, Nov. 12, performance. the UGA Opera Theatre present Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” a masterwork of the opera repertoire, in a stunning three-night series of performances. Saturday, Nov. 8 Saturday Morning Club: Saxophone Extravaganza 10 a.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($10 adult, $6 child) The Saturday Morning Club is a fun series featuring UGA student performers and designed especially for children ages 4-12 and their parents/grandparents. Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, with this entertaining concert experience. Family Day: Happy Birthday, GMOA! 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Celebrate the 66th anniversary of the day the Georgia Museum of Art opened its doors to the public in this special extended Family Day. Explore highlights of the museum’s permanent collection with a special scavenger hunt, design a birthday card inspired by your favorite work of art and create your own button to take home. Refreshments will be served. UGA Community Music School Instrumental Petting Zoo 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music CMS faculty will be on hand to answer questions about various programs, presenting performances throughout the day (second floor lobby) including a solo recital at 11 a.m. (Edge Recital Hall). There will also be an Instrument Petting Zoo (UGA Band Hall - 1st floor) with various instruments featured in our ensembles and private lessons available for hands-on experiences. Guests will be invited to touch, pick up
and hear demos from faculty. Community Ballet Class and Presentation 2 p.m., Studio 274, Dance Building The Department of Dance will offer an open community ballet class taught by assistant professor Joan Buttram, founding artistic director of the UGA Ballet Ensemble. The class will be intermediate-advanced level. A
Fame Author Discussion 4 p.m., Auditorium, Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries A moderated panel discussion between playwright Alfred Uhry and fiction author Mary Hood. Uhry, an Atlanta native most well known for his play “Driving Miss Daisy,” has been honored with an Academy
Five-time Grammy Award winner Kathleen Battle will perform a special program of spirituals at the UGA Performing Arts Center Sunday, Nov. 9. presentation by the UGA Ballet Ensemble dancers will immediately follow in the New Dance Theatre. Spotlight • Slingshot Concert on College Square 4-9 p.m., College Square The Willson Center and the Music Business Program of the Terry College of Business present a special Spotlight on the Arts installment of the Slingshot festival of music, electronic art and technology. To be held on College Square in downtown Athens, Spotlight • Slingshot is a free public concert, which features five bands, including an orchestrated performance of 1970s band Big Star’s legendary “Third”
Spotlight • Slingshot Saturday, Nov. 8 • 4 p.m. The streets of downtown Athens will become a public venue for the Spotlight on the Arts festival with Spotlight • Slingshot, a free concert on College Square Saturday, Nov. 8 beginning at 4 p.m. Topping the bill of five bands will be an orchestrated performance of 1970s band Big Star’s legendary Third album, with musicians including original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens, Mike Mills of R.E.M., Chris Stamey of the dB’s, Mitch Easter of Let’s Active, Pat Sansone of Wilco, and
album. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of
Ken Stringfellow of Big Star and The Posies. Local acts The Glands, New Madrid, Blacknerdninja, and Ruby the RabbitFoot will also perform.
glamour, greed and excess. Sunday, Nov. 9 The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and “The Georgia Review” present Mary Hood 2 p.m., Auditorium, Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Mary Hood, one of the 2014 inductees into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, will read from selected works. Hood, a Brunswick, native, has received a National Magazine Award, the Townsend Prize, and the Robert Penn Warren Award, among many others, for her short stories and poetry. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 2:30 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. Kathleen Battle: The Underground Railroad 3 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($75/65/50) A special concert of spirituals that celebrates the roots of African-American music. Battle will be joined by UGA’s student singers, under the direction of Daniel Bara and Gregory Broughton. Georgia Writers Hall of
Award, two Tony Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize for his work. Hood, a Brunswick, native, has received a National Magazine Award, the Townsend Prize, and the Robert Penn Warren award, among many others, for her short stories and poetry. Moderated by Hugh Ruppersburg. Reception to follow. Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Performance: The Last Night of Ballyhoo 7 p.m, Auditorium, Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries UGA’s theatre and film studies department will present a staged reading of Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-winning play, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.” The performance will be followed by a panel discussion including Uhry and UGA faculty members. Monday, Nov. 10 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 10 a.m., Auditorium, Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame will induct Olive Ann Burns, Mary Hood and Alfred Uhry. Hood and Uhry will be present to accept their awards. Lecture: “Beckett’s Crossings” 4 p.m., 148 Miller Learning Center Featuring Nels Pearson, associate professor of English, Fairfield University. Sponsored by the
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Monday, Nov. 10 • 10 a.m. Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Atlanta native Alfred Uhry is the only American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and two Tony Awards — and on Nov. 10 he will add another accolade: induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame at the UGA Libraries. In addition to the ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10—which will also include authors Mary Hood and Olive Ann Burns—the festivities will be preceded by a reading from Hood at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, a panel discussion with Uhry and Hood at 4 p.m. and a reading of Uhry’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” at 7 that evening. Willson Center. Barry McGovern 8 p.m., Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. The Irish actor presents performances from Samuel Beckett’s prose and poetry. Sponsored by Irish Consulate ATL. UGA Symphonic Band 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center A free concert by the UGA Symphonic Band, under the direction of Michael Robinson. Tuesday, Nov. 11 University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 10 a.m., Fine Arts Theatre Special matinee for area schools. Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed, and excess. Empty Bowls painting for the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art ($7) Participants are invited to come to the Georgia Museum of Art to create their own designs with glazes on ceramic bowls to be used in the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia’s annual Empty Bowls Luncheon in March 2015. Tour at Two: “American Landscape in the Permanent Collection” 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Led by Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art. Guided tours of Special Collections galleries and vault 2 p.m., Special Collections Libraries, Russell Building Special tours will be offered of the vault, which is usually closed to the public. Book talk: Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, editors of “Georgia Women, Vol. 2” 3 p.m., Special Collections Libraries Clark, associate professor of history at UGA, and her coeditor will discuss their new book, “Georgia Women, Vol. 2” (July 2014), a comprehensive collection of essays that reveal the depth and breadth of the
contributions women have made to Georgia’s history. The event is co-sponsored by the UGA Libraries and UGA Press. Surviving Outside the Box: A Conversation with Athensbased Visual Artists 7-8:30 p.m., Ciné , 234 W. Hancock Ave. Panel discussion with local visual artists moderated by Dana Bultman, associate professor of Romance languages and Willson Center associate academic director for public programs. Panelists include Andy Cherewick, Jill Biskin and Jim StipeMaas. Peabody Decades: Watching the Detectives 7 p.m., Russell Special Collections Library The Peabody Decades uses the Peabody Awards Collection, the largest broadcast archives in the Southeast, to tell stories about radio, television, and our cultural history. “Watching the Detectives” will examine the history, development and art of radio and TV programs about cops, crime and mystery, starting with Suspense in 1946. It will include clips from more than a dozen shows, including “The Naked City,” “Columbo,” “Police Story,” “The Rockford Files,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “NYPD Blue,” “Law & Order,” “Prime Suspect,” “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Sherlock” and “Breaking Bad.” Refreshments will be served before the program, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Hodgson Wind Ensemble 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($10/$5 with UGA student ID) Richard Strauss’ Serenade in Eflat, Schwantner’s “…and the mountains rising nowhere,” Xenakis’ “Akrata,” and Previn’s “Music for Wind Orchestra (No Strings Attached)” are a few selections from this exciting concert by the Hodgson Wind Ensemble. Wednesday, Nov. 12 Artbots 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Come experiment with art-making machines with the team from The Hatch, a makerspace in Athens. Co-sponsored by The Hatch. Tour at Two: Director’s Tour 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Join William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, for a tour of the permanent collection. “Adwords/Edward” 3:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Experience the first composition inspired by, composed for and performed on Google Glass. Composed by Kevin Ernste of Cornell University and commissioned by Cynthia Johnston Turner, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s new professor of conducting and director of bands, “Adwords/Edward” musically explores the ramifications of wearable technology. Refreshments will be served. Red Priest 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($35/25) The world’s most unusual baroque quartet, compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and Cirque du Soleil. A pre-concert lecture will be held 45 minutes prior to the performance.
Young Choreographers Series: Senior Exit Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors. The 2014 Senior Exit Concert will include choreography by four Department of Dance B.F.A. candidates, performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. Thursday, Nov. 13 Artbots 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Come experiment with art-making machines with the team from The Hatch, a makerspace in Athens. Cosponsored by The Hatch. Artful Conversation 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Join Carissa DiCindio, curator of education, for an in-depth discussion of Howard Thomas’s painting “Little Grand Canyon Yellow” (1964). C.S. Giscombe Lecture 4 p.m., Miller Learning Center Author C.S. Giscombe will discuss the song “Still a Fool” by Muddy Waters. This event is part of the Ballew Lecture Series, sponsored by the English department and Creative Writing Program. Lamar Dodd School of Art Open House 5-8 p.m., School of Art Main Building, Ceramics Building & Thomas Street Building Demonstrations, activities, exhibitions and lectures, including the Visual Resource Library, Art Education, Art History, Graphic Design, Science Illustration, Art-X, Photography, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking and Bookarts, Fabric Design, Ceramics and Sculpture. “Earth Red: Howard Thomas Paints a Gouache” 5:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Join us for special screenings of Jim Herbert’s first film, dating from 1964. Introduced by Margaret Compton, media archives archivist. Cosponsored by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries and the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Make It an Evening 6 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Enjoy a tour and dessert at Georgia Museum of Art prior to the pre-concert lecture and concert by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra at the Performing Arts Center. Johnstone Lecture: Olmsted in the South 7 p.m. State Botanical Garden of Georgia Kirk Brown will portray Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. A reception following the 7 p.m. lecture gives attendees the opportunity to chat with Olmsted himself, a flawed genius who influenced this country to create national parks and city park systems, defined the profession of landscape archi-
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materials with the team from The Hatch, a makerspace in Athens. Co-sponsored by The Hatch. This is a drop-in event. Tickets: Free
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tecture, and championed a design style that works with a site to enhance its natural features. Although the event is free, make reservations online at www.uga. edu/botgarden, 706-542-9353 or garden@uga.edu. Russian State Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m., Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center ($62/52) Performing an all-Russian program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. A pre-concert lecture will be held 45 minutes prior to the performance. Young Choreographers Series: Senior Exit Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors. The 2014 Senior Exit Concert will include choreography by four Department of Dance B.F.A. candidates, performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. Student Night at Georgia Museum of Art 8-10:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Join the Student Association of the Georgia Museum of Art for a night of music, food, fun and DIY projects. Student night is generously sponsored by UGA Parents & Families Association. C.S. Giscombe Poetry Reading 8 p.m., Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. Author C.S. Giscombe, awardwinning poet and professor
A 60-foot wall drawing created by one of artist Tristan Perich’s drawing machines will be on display throughout the Spotlight festival. Garden History Society. Artbots 10 a.m. - 5p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Come experiment with art-making machines with the team from The Hatch, a makerspace in Athens. Cosponsored by The Hatch. Department of Dance Performance Sampler 12:15-12:45 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building UGA dance students will perform a variety of dance styles in classical and contemporary ballet, contemporary modern and aerial dance with mixed media featuring faculty created choreographic works by UGA Ballet Ensemble, CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company and Spring Dance Concert. This will showcase a sample of works to be presented in the spring 2015 Department of Dance concert productions. Tour at Two: “An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab” 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Led by Mark Abbe, assistant professor of ancient art history, Lamar Dodd School of Art. Cinema Roundtable: “The Superhero Movie: Past and Future” 4 p.m., 148 Miller Learning Center
University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” November 6-8, 12-14 • 8 p.m. Sunday, November 8 • 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 11 • 10 a.m. (special matinee for area schools) Fine Arts Theatre “The Great Gatsby” adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adapta-
at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, will read from his work. Sponsored by the English department Ballew Lecture Series and Creative Writing Program. Friday, Nov. 14 Southern Garden Heritage Conference: Olmsted’s Legacy in the South 9 a.m.-5 p.m. State Botanical Garden of Georgia ($115) Presentations by Lucy Lawliss of the National Park Service, Bill Alexander of The Biltmore Estate, Spencer Tunnell of Tunnell and Tunnell in Atlanta, Kirk Brown, Andrew Kohr and others will speak of the Olmsted Legacy in the Southeast. Register at www. uga.edu/botgarden or 706-5426156. This conference is sponsored by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design in cooperation with The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., Friends of The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center, and the Southern
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Panelists discuss the modern comic book/superhero movie in this free Willson Center event. B.F.A. Exit Show Opening Reception 6 p.m., Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents its fall B.F.A. Exit Show with work by students completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in drawing and painting, photography, printmaking, jewelry and metal and art education. Artwork will be exhibited throughout the school in Gallery 101, Gallery 307 and the Orbit Galleries beginning Nov. 13. The opening reception is free and open to the public. Young Choreographers Series: Senior Exit Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors. The 2014 Senior Exit Concert will include choreography by four Department of Dance B.F.A. candidates, performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. A
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reception will follow. University Theatre: “The Great Gatsby” 8 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre Adapted by Simon Levy from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and directed by T. Anthony Marotta. A self-made millionaire and the socialite he loves personify the Jazz Age in this new adaptation of Fitzgerald’s famous novel of glamour, greed and excess. Stephen Burns Recital 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Join international trumpeter, conductor, composer and teacher Stephen Burns for an exciting performance in collaboration with the dance department, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music trumpet studio, and the faculty brass and voice departments. Ongoing exhibitions Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting ceramist Ji Man Choi Special Collections Libraries Rotunda: Archival UGA football memorabilia, with focus on 50th anniversary of Vince Dooley’s arrival at UGA Media Gallery: Arts Rocks Athens. A look at the early Athens music scene and its origins in the School of Art Russell: National School Lunch Program, authored by Sen. Russell Hargrett: Gone With the Wind, 75th anniversary of movie Georgia Museum of Art “An Archeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab” Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene The…of E6, part of Athens Celebrates Elephant Six Emilio Pucci in America Odilon Redon Tristan Perich: Machine Wall Drawing Terra Verte State Botanical Garden of Georgia Carol and Hugh Nourse ‘Wild Flowers, Wild Places” photography exhibit.
Special Post-Festival Event saturday, Nov. 15 “Been in the Storm So Long: Remembering 1864 and 1964 in 2014” 8 p.m. Margaret Mitchell House, 990 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Rickey Bevington hosts a stellar lineup of local scholars, poets, artists and musicians in a farreaching roundtable discussion of the coincident anniversaries of the 1864 Battles of Atlanta and 1964 Civil Rights Act. Panelists include Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey; artist Robert Morris; singer-songwriter Caroline Herring; and historians Robert Pratt, Brett Gadsden and Joseph Crespino. Featuring Robert Morris’ “Slavery By Another Name” exhibit. Sponsors include the Atlanta History Center; University of Georgia History Department; Willson Center; Woodruff Library at Emory University
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UGA Arts facilities & programs UGA Arts Council (arts.uga.edu) Facebook: UGA_Arts Twitter: @UGA_Arts History: Members of UGA’s visual, literary and performing arts programs and facilities were invited to a meeting to explore collaboration in 2011. With support from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the council’s mission is to foster an awareness and appreciation of the arts and an environment conducive to artistic innovation. Individually and collectively, the member units of the Arts Council promote excellence in the arts through academic programs, performances, exhibitions, scholarship and outreach activities to advance the university’s goals of serving students, the state and the nation. To that end, the council created the Spotlight on the Arts festival, a nine-day event now in its third year. Creative Writing Program (cwp.uga.edu) History: The Creative Writing Program, part of the English department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, began with the vision of a beloved faculty member of English, James Kilgo. Throughout the 1980s, Kilgo led groups of undergraduate students to Sapelo Island each summer to pursue their craft in a supportive, group environment on the pristine Georgia coast. By the 1990s, creative writing became a formal degree program with workshops offered in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including master’s and Ph.D. concentrations, and creative writing classes for undergraduates in English and other majors. Facility: The Creative Writing Program offices are located in Park Hall. Students: About 100 undergraduate, 30 graduate Worth Noting: The program hosts events throughout the academic year, bringing both well-known and up-and-coming writers to campus and the Athens community. Some notable writers include Lydia Davis, Heather McHugh, Michael Ondaatje, George Saunders and Natasha Tretheway. The popular graduate-student run VOX series features fall and spring semester readings at Ciné in downtown Athens. Spotlight 2014 highlights: C.S. Giscombe, visiting writer in English, VOX Reading at Ciné (Nov. 13) Department of Dance (www.dance.uga. edu/) Facebook: UGA Department of Dance Twitter: @UGA_Dance Ticket info: Via PAC box office and at pac.uga. edu History: Dance classes have been taught at UGA since the 1930s, and the department was officially created in 1978. Facility: The Dance Building was formerly the Women’s Physical Education Building, constructed in 1928. The building underwent extensive renovation in 1997-98 and what is currently the New Dance Theatre was formerly home of the Georgia Gym Dogs. Students: Several hundred students participate in dance classes each year, with about 25 majors and 50 minors. Worth noting: The department provides a variety of performance company options focused on pre-professional training, student choreography and student performance. The companies perform for local, community, state, national and international audiences. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Dance Performance Sampler (Nov. 14); Young Choreographer’s Series Senior Exit Concert (Nov. 12-14)
Georgia Museum of Art (georgiamuseum.org/) Facebook: The Georgia Museum of Art Twitter: @GMOA Admission: Free. Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays to 9 p.m, Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. History: First opened to the public in 1948. Named the official art museum for the state of Georgia in 1982. Facility: Since 1996, the museum has occupied a contemporary building in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex that houses more than 10,000 objects of visual art. The museum was remodeled and expanded in 2011, receiving LEED Gold certification. Students: The Georgia Museum of Art Student Association regularly organizes free Student Nights at the museum. Student docents are trained to offer tours, and the museum has a robust internship program for students in 11 majors. Worth noting: The museum always has key works on display from its permanent collection, as well as traveling and in-house organized temporary exhibitions. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Artbots, an opportunity to experiment with art-making machines (Nov. 12-14) “The Georgia Review” (garev.uga.edu/) Facebook: The Georgia Review Twitter: @GeorgiaReview History: Founded at UGA in 1947 and published continuously since then, The Georgia Review has become one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a diverse gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews and visual art. The Georgia Review has twice taken a top prize in the annual National Magazine Awards competition and has been a finalist numerous times in various categories, including General Excellence. The journal marked its 65th anniversary with an anthology of 28 short fiction works titled “Stories Wanting Only to Be Heard.” Facility: The Georgia Review’s offices are located on the seventh floor of the main library. Worth noting: Single copies, subscriptions, back issues and merchandise can be purchased from the office during standard hours (weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and from the journal’s website. Student rates are available, and special gift subscriptions are offered for the holidays. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Georgia Poetry Circuit reading by Sholeh Wolpe (Nov. 7); Reading by Mary Hood (Nov. 9) Hugh Hodgson School of Music (www. music.uga.edu/) Facebook: Hugh Hodgson School of Music Twitter: @UGAMusic Ticket info: Via PAC box office and at pac. uga.edu History: The School of Music, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is named after visionary professor Hugh Hodgson, an Athenian and UGA alumnus who became the university’s first music professor in 1928. Hodgson chaired the Department of Music from its inception until his retirement in 1960. Facility: In fall 1995, the School of Music moved to its current home at the Performing and Visual Arts Complex. Performances are held in the Performing Arts Center or the School of Music’s 180-seat Edge Recital Hall, named for Robert Edge, a UGA Rhodes Scholar (1960) and a student of Hodgson. Students: Approx. 350 undergraduate, 250 graduate Worth noting: The school features nearly 400 performances annually in the UGA PAC’s Hodgson and Ramsey Halls, as well as the HHSOM’s 180-seat Edge Recital Hall and state-of-the-art Dancz Center for New Music. Spotlight 2014 highlights: UGA Opera Theatre presents “Hansel and Gretel” (Nov. 6-7), Hodgson Ensemble performance (Nov. 11)
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Lamar Dodd School of Art (art.uga.edu/) Facebook: Lamar Dodd School of Art Twitter: @ldsoa YouTube: /LDSOA History: Founded in 1937, the School of Art is named for Lamar Dodd, who headed the department from 1939 until his retirement in 1972. Facilities: Main building, ceramics building, Thomas Street Building, Broad Street studios. The school has two dedicated galleries as well as rotating displays throughout the main building. The galleries are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Students: More than 1,000 students majoring in studio disciplines plus art history and art education, including graduate degrees offered in 10 disciplines. Worth noting: The Lamar Dodd School of Art is one of the largest units in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and is one of the largest university art programs in the nation. Spotlight 2014 highlights: LDSOA B.F.A. Exit Show Opening Reception (Nov. 14) Performing Arts Center (pac.uga.edu/) Facebook: UGA Performing Arts Center Twitter: @ugapac Ticket info: Box office and at pac.uga.edu History: Opened in 1996 Facility: Performing Arts Center houses two acoustically superb concert halls: the 1,096-seat Hodgson Hall, named for School of Music founder Hugh Hodgson, and the 368-seat Ramsey Hall, named for Bernard Ramsey, UGA’s most generous individual benefactor to date. Worth noting: The PAC records many of its concerts for broadcast on American Public Media’s “Performance Today,” the most popular classical music program on public radio, reaching 1.4 million listeners across the country. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Kathleen Battle: The Underground Railroad (Nov. 9); Russian State Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 13), Baroque ensemble Red Priest (Nov. 12), The Saturday Morning Club concert for children ages 4-12 and their parents and grandparents (Nov. 8) Special Collections Libraries (www.libs.uga.edu/scl/) Facebook: Richard B. Russell Jr. Building Special Collections Libraries Twitter: @ugalibsref Admission: Free. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. Closed university holidays and home football gamedays. Guided tours are given each Tuesday at 2 p.m. History: Georgia’s newest cultural attraction is a 115,000-square-foot archival research facility designed with a museum component to exhibit artifacts from Georgia’s storied past. UGA’s three special collections libraries—Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the Walter J. Brown Peabody Awards and Media Archives—hold historical and cultural artifacts of state and national significance. Worth noting: The innovative facility includes a 30,000-square-foot, largely subterranean vault. The vault is kept at 50 degrees Fahrenheit and 30 percent humidity to preserve archives and artifacts. Spotlight highlights: Tours of the vault, normally closed to the public (Nov. 11); Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Nov. 10) with related events (Nov. 9) Department of Theatre and Film Studies (www.drama.uga.edu/) Facebook: UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University Theatre at UGA Twitter: @UGATheatre, @UGATheatreFilm YouTube: UGATheatreFilm Instagram: ugatheatrefilm Ticket info: Via PAC box office, Tate Center ticket window and at www.drama.uga.edu/box-office History: The department’s roots reach back to 1893, when students formed the Thalian
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Dramatic Club, one of the oldest college dramatic clubs in the country. In 1931, the club merged with a rival club to become the Thalian-Blackfriars, the university’s official theatrical club, and by 1932, the new “University Theatre” was offering its first season ticket campaign. In 1939, the Department of Dramatic Art was created and in 2004 its name was changed to the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, nearly a decade after the department had expanded to incorporate the study of digital media. Facility: The Fine Arts Building houses the 682-seat Fine Arts Theatre, renovated in 2010, and the 100-seat Cellar Theatre, as well as classrooms for the department. Students: About 200 undergraduate theatre majors and film studies majors, with 42 graduate students. Worth noting: The department’s alumni include visual effects artist Chris Wells (“Captain America,” “X-Men” and “Avatar”), celebrity chef Alton Brown, actors Monte Markham, Wayne Knight, Kyle Chandler, and members of the cast of “Walking Dead” and “Vampire Diaries.” Spotlight 2014 highlights: Performances of “The Great Gatsby” (Nov. 6-9, 11-14); Staged reading of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Alfred Uhry’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (Nov. 9) The UGA Press (www.ugapress.org/) Facebook: University of Georgia Press Twitter: @UGAPress Instagram: ugapress History: Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the UGA Press has been to support and enhance the university’s reputation as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world. A full member of the Association of American University Presses since 1940, the Press is also the oldest and largest book publisher in the state, producing some 80 new books a year and with more than 1,500 titles in print. Press authors and their works are often honored by a variety of scholarly, literary and regional organizations. Facility: The University of Georgia Press is located on the third floor of the main library. Worth noting: UGA Press books can be purchased directly from its website, at the campus bookstore, in person at its offices in the main library, or at any other brick-andmortar or online book retailer. It also has a small art gallery in its lobby, which is currently exhibiting work by Shannon Candler. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Book Talk with Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, editors of Georgia Women, Vol. 2 (Nov. 11) The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (willson.uga.edu/) Facebook: Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Twitter: @WillsonCenter History: Founded as the Humanities Center in 1987, it was renamed the Center for Humanities and Arts (1997), then the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2005), in honor of UGA benefactors and Georgia business leaders Jane and Harry Willson. Facility: The Willson Center is currently housed in the psychology building, while renovations are under way at its new home at 1260 S. Lumpkin St. The move is expected in December. Worth noting: The mission of the Willson Center is to promote research and creativity in the humanities and arts. The center presents lectures, symposia, public conferences, exhibitions and performances by visiting artists and scholars as well as UGA faculty. These events are held in various venues on campus and in the community. Spotlight 2014 highlights: Spotlight • Slingshot, a free concert on College Square in downtown Athens (Nov. 8); a reading from the prose, poetry and letters of Samuel Beckett by the Irish stage and screen actor Barry McGovern (Nov. 10)
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