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Archaeological collection from natural history museum comes to UGA

By Elizabeth Elmore eelmore@uga.edu

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Dr. Dale Green believes that better data can lead to better medical care and is working to expand UGA’s training and research opportunities in health and clinical informatics fields.

‘A better way’

Informatics faculty member works to improve delivery of clinical care

By Rebecca Ayer alea@uga.edu

Dr. Dale E. Green can still recall the frustrations he experienced with patient records early on in his career as a physician.

“It’s late at night in the emergency room, someone is critically ill, and yet you have a stack of paper charts and 10,000 pages of patient records to go through,” said Green, an associate professor for health policy and management in the College of Public Health. “Typically, the chart you actually needed to deliver the best care was the one that didn’t come with the big stack.

There just had to be a better way.”

Today, as one of eight new UGA faculty members recruited through the Presidential Informatics Hiring Initiative, Green is using the big

data tools of informatics to improve the delivery of clinical care. And, in his first faculty appointment, Green will expand UGA’s training and research opportunities in the health and clinical informatics fields.

This spring, he introduced the university’s first undergraduate and graduate courses in health informatics and analytics. Topics covered in the class include the history and scope of biomedical informatics, policy and regulatory framework of health information technology, information technology architecture, public health informatics, electronic health records, data standards, privacy and security standards, population health data analytics, as well as a variety of special topics.

“As health care reform has demanded better management of

medical information, the need for workers with health informatics skills has grown rapidly in Georgia and across the U.S.,” said Green. “I look forward to working with colleagues in the College of Public Health and across campus to build a worldclass health informatics education program at UGA that meets these workforce needs.”

Although health informatics has been around in some form since the mid-1960s, it was the passage of the 2009 HITECH Act that led to the fast-track adoption of health information technology in hospitals and physicians’ offices.

From 2008 to 2015, adoption of See INFORMATICS on page 8

PRESIDENTIAL INTERDISCIPLINARY HIRING INITIATIVE

The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology has received an extensive archaeological collection that includes artifacts and other paleoenvironmental materials recovered by the American Museum of Natural History during a decade of excavation led by David Hurst Thomas on St. Catherines Island, Georgia.

The St. Catherines Island Collection contains more than 109,000 cataloged artifacts, 2,650 radiocarbon samples and paleoenvironmental assemblages of animal bones, mollusk shells and

plant remains. The collection coming to UGA includes prehistoric ceramics, partially reconstructed ceramic vessels, prehistoric ceramic pipes, lithic projectile points (arrowheads), bone tools, shell beads, shell gorgets and shell ear plugs.

The materials are accompanied by a comprehensive digital database that contains relevant field notes, photographs, catalogs, reports and publications that relate to the excavations conducted on the island from 2005 to 2015.

The university also will receive any future artifacts excavated on the island.

“This is one of the most

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GRADY COLLEGE

Individual, institutional winners named for 76th Peabody Awards

By Margaret Blanchard mblanch@uga.edu

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected Norman Lear to receive an Individual Award and the Independent Television Service an Institutional Award for their contributions to storytelling in television.

These honors are reserved for individuals and institutions whose work and commitment to broadcast media define and transform the field. The Peabody Awards are based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

Lear and ITVS will be celebrated May 20 at a gala event in New York City. The event will be taped for a television special to air June 2 at 9 p.m. EST and PST

on both PBS and FUSION networks.

Rashida Jones, a previous Peabody Award winner for Parks and Recreation, will serve as Norman Lear host. Supporting sponsors of the 76th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony include the Emerson Collective, an organization focused on education, immigration reform, the environment and other social justice initiatives, and The Coca-Cola Co. Lear changed the face of television—and the faces. He revolutionized and democratized a traditionally timid, overwhelmingly See PEABODY on page 8

SIGNATURE LECTURE

Breaking boundaries: Programs bring faculty Harvard professor discusses together for research endeavors, opportunities ethical challenges facing AI

By James Hataway jhataway@uga.edu

Elisabeth “Lilian” Sattler came to the University of Georgia on a mission.

After working for two years as a licensed pharmacist in her native Germany—filling prescriptions and counseling patients on the proper use of medications—she couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing, that she could do more to help her patients live healthier, happier lives.

But what her patients needed wasn’t a new wonder drug; they needed help learning how to eat.

“I noticed in my own practice that many of my patients had no real understanding of appropriate nutrition for their medical needs,” Sattler said. “Some of these people were already living with cardiovascular diseases like heart failure or hypertension, and although I knew from my training and research that nutritional guidance can have a profound impact on these conditions and pharmacists receive nutrition-related questions all the time, most pharmacists aren’t trained to counsel their patients about nutrition.”

So, Sattler left her practice in Germany and came to UGA

in 2009 to pursue a doctoral degree in foods and nutrition, where she learned new ways to steer patients toward a healthier Lilian Sattler lifestyle.

After graduation, Sattler was recruited by UGA as part of the Presidential Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative. Launched in late 2013 by President Jere W. Morehead, this initiative has strengthened UGA’s See HIRING on page 7

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

Believe it or not, one of the “most intelligent” machines out there is the one that cleans your house while you’re doing something else, said Barbara Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University.

Many people may not realize Roomba is an example of artificial intelligence, said Grosz, who gave the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture March 27. But the field is actually much broader than the average person might know, encompassing everything from the

voice-activated technology in a smartphone to trading algorithms guiding decisions on Wall Street to the recommendations you see when you turn on Netflix or visit Facebook.

“There are now a range of kinds of applications, which you see in daily life,” said Grosz, an AI expert whose contributions include establishing the research field of computational modeling of discourse and developing collaborative multi-agent systems for human-computer communication.

“Interpreting languages, learning, drawing inferences, making

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Around academe

Nursing, psychology, English top disciplines for new faculty hires

More faculty are being hired in nursing, psychology and English than any other disciplines, according to a new report from an annual CUPA-HR survey.

The survey also tracked salary information for more than 230,000 full-time faculty and found the highest salaries went to tenure-track law professors and that older faculty tend to make more on average than younger faculty.

More high school students taking courses for college credit in Georgia

Georgia’s streamlined Move on When Ready program, which allows high school students to take courses for college credit, nearly tripled dual enrollment in the state from 2013 to 2017, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Implemented in 2015, the program enables students to take courses through Georgia universities, sometimes by having college instructors come teach courses on high school campuses, other times high school students can commute to the university campuses for classes or take them online.

Maximize your tax refund

News to Use

According to the latest IRS data, nearly eight out of every 10 Americans will receive a tax refund. UGA Cooperative Extension experts suggest using these smart strategies to help you maximize your refund.

• Catch up on bills. If you have outstanding bills or bills past due that are accruing interest and late fees, put your refund toward these first.

• Assess your overall debt and credit situation. Who are your creditors? If you have multiple accounts from which to choose, begin paying the one with the highest interest rate to save the most money in the end.

• Create or increase emergency savings.

When the tire goes flat, the car battery needs replacing or the washing machine breaks, money in an emergency account will let you pay for these expenses without adding to your debt load.

• Invest in your retirement. Opening an individual retirement account or making extra contributions to an existing retirement fund is an excellent use of tax refunds.

• Invest in your home. Tax refunds can be used as a down payment for a potential home or to pay an extra mortgage payment for your current home. Tax refunds also are great for home improvements, which add to the overall value of your home.

• Don’t forget to share. Donate a portion of your tax refund to the charitable organization of your choice.

• Finally, splurge a little to reward yourself.

Make a pleasure purchase, like a new television or a family vacation.

Source: UGA Cooperative Extension

Best botanical gardens The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA, a public service and outreach unit, is among the top 10 gardens in the U.S. in the most recent USA Today poll. The top 10 botanical gardens on the list are: 1. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 2. New York Botanical Garden 3. Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis) 4. Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix) 5. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens (Fort Bragg, California) 6. The Dawes Arboretum (Newark, Ohio) 7. State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA 8. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 9. Atlanta Botanical Garden 10. Chicago Botanic Garden Source: Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

2017 OIE awards honor faculty, staff for internationalization efforts

By Sue Myers Smith suesmith@uga.edu

The Office of International Education honored several UGA faculty and community members April 4 at its annual International Education Awards Reception. The awards recognize those who have made outstanding contributions to the university’s internationalization and advanced international education through instruction, research and service.

A team of three UGA faculty and staff was awarded the Richard F. Reiff Internationalization Award, which honors a tenured or tenure-track faculty member who has made major contributions to the overall internationalization of UGA. Miguel L. Cabrera, George Vellidis and Victoria C. McMaken worked together to establish the first dual degree program in sustainable agriculture between UGA and the University of Padova in Italy. Cabrera and Vellidis are both professors in the crop and soil sciences department, and McMaken is associate director of global programs for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor William Finlay received OIE’s Study Abroad Award, which honors faculty or staff members who have made significant contributions to the university’s study abroad efforts. Finlay teaches in the sociology department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He founded what is now the School of Public and

Pictured, from left, are Scott Horn and Kelly Horn; Scott Connelly; Nikki Vellidis, who accepted the Reiff Internationalization Award for her father, George; Jessica Hunt; Noel Fallows; Victoria McMaken; and William Finlay.

International ­ Affairs’ study abroad program in ­Verona, Italy, and founded and co-directs UGA’s Stellenbosch study abroad program in South Africa.

Scott and Kelly Horn received the Mary Ann Kelly Open Arms Award, which honors one or more people in the UGA community who have gone above and beyond their formal duties in facilitating the presence of international students or scholars at UGA. The Horns provided physical and emotional assistance for Yanzhou Zhang, an international faculty member, after she was severely injured in a traffic accident while performing field work.

Zhang’s husband was out of the country when the accident occurred, and the Horns provided the airline ticket that brought him to Athens to help care for Zhang while she was in the hospital. Kelly Horn took leave

UGA LIBRARIES

New online library catalog system to debut May 26

from work to help Zhang understand the medical procedures and paperwork related to her injuries, and the Horns provided Zhang’s family with a hotel room close to the hospital.

Awards were presented to those making major contributions to the programs housed in UGA’s international residential centers. UGA Costa Rica presented its Costa Rica Adelante Award to Scott Connelly, an assistant professor in the Odum School of Ecology. UGA at Oxford presented its Friends of UGA at Oxford Award to Jessica Hunt, assistant director and major scholarships coordinator for the UGA Honors Program. UGA Cortona, Italy, presented its Dedicato a Cortona Award to Melissa Harshman, professor and area chair of printmaking and book arts in the Lamar Dodd School of Art in the Franklin College.

DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS

By Jean Cleveland jclevela@uga.edu

The UGA Libraries is getting a new online catalog system May 26. The new GIL-Find will combine the best features of both the current GIL-Find and GIL Classic at the same URL: http://gilfind.uga.edu.

There will be little interruption in service, but users should note these dates: • The deadline for submitting summer reserves lists is April 25; • GIL Express will be on hiatus May 5-30; • Ordering of new materials for library collections is on hold until after May 26.

During this time, users are encouraged to use Interlibrary Loan to get books and articles. Patrons can continue to request materials to be ordered for the collection and the request will be held until ordering is resumed.

“Favorites” saved in a current GIL-Find account will not automatically migrate to the new system. Save them by email or into EndNote before May 21.

“When the current online system was installed 18 years ago, libraries had almost solely physical items,” said Jason Battles, deputy university librarian and director of libraries technology. “The new system will allow us to better manage our print and digital collections, improve efficiency through shared services across the University System of Georgia and expand our assessment capabilities.”

All USG libraries are making the switch, and Georgia Tech, along with Emory University, have completed their conversions. The new catalog system is from Ex Libris, a major library vendor with a long history of working with the UGA and USG libraries.

With the new system, patrons can use one catalog to search for resources in different formats—no need to check a separate system for online journals; use one catalog to search both UGA and USG collections; use your MyID to log into your account and request GIL Express books, review what you have checked out and save favorites; and browse lists of books by subject, author, title and more.

Most books are automatically renewed twice before having to be returned or renewed in person at the library.

Information, including dates and times for orientation sessions in June and August, will be posted on the UGA Libraries blog at http://www.libs.uga.edu/news.

Mary-Morgan Logan

More than 750 personal notes were written to thank UGA donors.

Students show gratitude at sixth Thank a Donor Day

By Leigh Raynor lraynor@uga.edu

A record-breaking number of students gathered April 13 at Thank a Donor Day to show their appreciation for UGA donors. Coordinated by the Office of Donor Relations and Stewardship, this campus-wide tradition has celebrated the impact of private donations for the past six years.

This year, participants wrote more than 750 personal notes of gratitude, demonstrating the unique ways donors have made a difference in students’ lives. Many schools, colleges, departments and student organizations were represented, creating special thank you messages for their supporters.

Newly elected Student Government Association President Cameron Keen expressed his appreciation for faculty and staff donors.

“Seeing the way that you care about [UGA] and care about the students has been inspiring to me,” said Keen.

“And when I graduate, I would love to follow in your shoes to give back to this place that has meant so much to me and has truly changed my life.”

Correction

The article in the April 17 Columns about the first class of participants for the Women’s Staff Leadership Institute should have stated that Julie Cheney started her career in higher education in 1999 not that her career started in the Institute of Higher Education.

We regret the error.

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Digest Save the Date for UGA Staff Appreciation

All University of Georgia staff are invited to attend UGA’s third annual Staff Appreciation Celebration for some portion of this exciting event!

The event will occur on May 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UGA intramural fields and will feature lunch, door prizes, activities and an all-around good time with fellow staff.

An initiative of the Office of the President, the Staff Appreciation Celebration is a way for the university to say, “Thank you, staff!”

New retirees reception to be held April 27 Dorothy Kozlowski

UGA President Jere W. Morehead listens to community and university leaders during a discussion about economic development.

‘Meaningful conversation’ University hosts meetings with local civic and business leaders to discuss mutual priorities

University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead recently hosted meetings with members of the university and local civic and business leaders to discuss priorities of mutual interest—including education and economic development. These meetings allowed the groups to explore new ways to expand the many existing partnerships between UGA and

Athens-Clarke County.

“The meaningful conversations that took place during these meetings are paving the way for new collaborations between the university and AthensClarke County,” Morehead said.

“I am grateful to the many local leaders who participated, and I look forward to continuing our work together to support our shared community.”

The university already has many strong partnerships with the community, such as Experience UGA, which aims to bring every Clarke County public school student (PreK-12) to UGA each academic year. In addition, faculty and students from the institution work regularly with local organizations to complete service-learning projects that address important community needs.

NEW MATERIALS INSTITUTE

Shades of green: UGA scientists, engineers help turn ocean plastic into new products

By Terry Marie Hastings thasting@uga.edu

Two years ago, socially conscious entrepreneurs Rob Ianelli and Ryan Schoenike founded their company, Norton Point, to manufacture sunglasses made from the huge amounts of plastic cleaned up from coastlines.

Their goal was to be a part of the solution to one of the planet’s greatest challenges: the 8 million tons of plastic entering Earth’s oceans each year. Moreover, they wanted to reinvest their profits in research, education and development efforts that help reduce the impact of ocean plastic.

Now, engineers and polymer scientists with the University of Georgia’s New Materials Institute are helping Norton Point, which is based in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with testing of its “ocean plastics” products and finding new product applications.

“Packaging represents about half of all plastics produced, and single-use plastic items make up the majority of what is found on beaches,” said Jenna Jambeck, associate professor of engineering and director of the Center for Circular Materials Management in the New Materials Institute.

Her study of ocean plastics, published in the journal Science in 2015, quantified for the first time the amount of plastics flowing into the earth’s oceans, drawing worldwide attention to the issue.

Jambeck’s study was published at an opportune time for the Norton Point founders, who had been exploring the idea of manufacturing sunglasses from ocean plastics.

“But we were concerned about doing it right,” said Schoenike.

They connected for the first time with Jambeck last year at an Oceans conference, and since then, Schoenike said, the New Materials Institute has “moved our goals and the issue forward” together.

Jambeck said that one of the plastics used in singleuse plastic products is high-density polyethylene, or HDPE, which doesn’t biodegrade.

“It only breaks down in the environment by creating smaller and smaller fragments,” she said.

Jambeck said we Amy Ware need to ask how we can recapture the Jason Locklin and Jenna Jambeck of UGA’s New Materials valuable resources Institute help companies develop sustainable materials and in materials like lit- practices based on green engineering principles. tered plastics—that is, repurpose them “Norton Point wants to know into new products. how the recycled materials respond “By changing the way we think to different manufacturing processes about waste,” she said, “valuing the like extrusion and injection moldmanagement of it, collecting, capturing ing, and how they compare with and containing it, we can open up new virgin petroleum-based high-density jobs and opportunities for economic polyethylene in terms of qualities innovation, and in addition, improve like impact-resistance, toughness and the living conditions and health for durability,” said Jason Locklin, director millions of people around the world of UGA’s New Materials Institute and and protect our oceans.” associate professor of chemistry and New Materials Institute research- engineering at UGA. ers will work with Norton Point to The institute also is looking to help help make “green” products from Norton Point identify new types of re-purposed plastics obtained from products that make the best use of the locations around the globe. material properties of ocean plastics.

The Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and the UGA Retirees Association will host a reception April 27 for UGA faculty, staff and administrators who retired between May 2016 and April 2017.

The new retirees, who were mailed invitations to the event, will be presented with certificates thanking them for their service to the university.

The annual reception for new retirees is a tradition at UGA that allows retirees to be formally recognized for their service. The UGARA Council is grateful for the support of UGA President Jere W. Morehead and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Pamela ­Whitten to make this a special occasion.

The keynote speaker for the event will be Hugh Ruppersburg, Emeritus University Professor and senior associate dean of arts and sciences.

Information will be available at the reception about UGARA, which includes all UGA retirees—faculty, staff and administrators—who become members when they officially retire from the university. UGARA is governed by a council that consists of elected ­members who serve three-year terms.

The council members for 2016-2017 were Mark Eason, president; Tom Landrum, vice president; Freda Scott Giles, secretary; Tommy Altman, treasurer; plus Paul Kurtz, Laura Dowd, Jim Cobb, Nancy McDuff and Tom Eaton. Tom Lauth, former UGARA president, served this past year as UGA’s representative to the University System of Georgia Retiree Council.

Landrum will succeed Eason as president of the council for 2017-2018. Incoming council members ­include Marilyn Huff-Waller, Ruhanna Neal and Henry Hibbs. They will succeed council members who have completed their service.

For more information about UGARA, see ugara.uga.edu/ or visit the UGARA Facebook page.

Photojournalist receives Grady College’s 2017 McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage

A photojournalist who has visited more than 60 countries covering history-shaping events is the 2017 recipient of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage.

Daniel Berehulak, a freelance journalist and regular contributor to The New York Times, received the medal April 10 from the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and its McGill Program for Journalistic Courage.

Berehulak’s coverage includes the Iraq War, the trial of Saddam Hussein, child labor in India, Afghanistan elections and the return of Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan.

He has documented people coping with the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan and the Chernobyl disaster.

Samples of his photography can be viewed on his website at DanielBerehulak.com.

Berehulak, who is based in Mexico City, was awarded the Oliver Rebbot Award in March 2017 for his written and photographic coverage of murders of drug users in the Philippines that appeared in a multimedia feature on The New York Times website. He also has won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, five World Press Photo awards, two Photographer of the Year awards from Pictures of the Year International and the prestigious John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club.

The McGill Medal is named for Ralph McGill, the late editor and publisher of The Atlanta Constitution.

McGill was regarded by many as “the conscience of the South” for his editorials challenging racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.

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EXHIBITIONS

Advanced and Irascible. Through April 30. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection. Through May 7. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Equality Under the Law: History of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Through May 12. ­Hargrett Library Gallery, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu Necessary Words & Images: 70 Years of The Georgia Review.

Through May 12. ­Hargrett Library Gallery, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions. Through May 21. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu A Championship Tradition: The NCAA Tennis Tournament in Athens. Through May 30. Rotunda, special collections libraries.

706-542-5788. hasty@uga.edu On the Stump—What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia?

Through Aug. 18. Special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu

MONDAY, APRIL 24 CONCERT The Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s Wind Symphony will perform. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25 LUNCH AND LEARN “Use of the Executive Order,” Michael Lynch. This program series is sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the School of Public and International Affairs, the UGA College Republicans and the UGA Young Democrats. For more information, email russlib@uga.edu or call

Panel to discuss NCAA tennis in Athens on May 3

By Tray Littlefield

trayl@sports.uga.edu

The Hargrett Library and the ITA Men’s Tennis Hall of Fame will cohost a panel discussion about the history of the NCAA tennis championships in Athens. The talk will be held May 3 at UGA’s Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

When the NCAAs return to Athens for the 29th time beginning May 18, it will mark the 45th anniversary of the championship’s first appearance at Georgia’s tennis facility, now called the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. Georgia men’s tennis coach Manuel Diaz was a UGA freshman playing for Magill when the NCAAs first arrived in 1972; he’s now in his 29th season as the tennis team’s head coach and has won three of his four national championships on the home courts at UGA. Diaz will be joined on the panel by longtime Georgia women’s coach Jeff Wallace, who played for UGA in the early 1980s before beginning his tenure as the head coach of the women’s team, as well as Jack Frierson, a former UGA player and assistant coach under Diaz. An Athens native, Frierson grew up serving as a ball boy at the NCAAs for many years before going on to play and coach in the event a few blocks from his childhood home.

As coaches, Diaz and Wallace have won NCAA team titles on their home courts—Wallace’s Lady Dogs won in 1994, the first time the women’s championships were held in Athens—and Frierson was Diaz’s assistant when the Bulldogs won here in 1999.

The panel discussion is being held in conjunction with the exhibit A Championship Tradition: The NCAA Tournament in Athens,which will be on display in the rotunda of the Russell Building through May 30.

The exhibit explores the teams and players who have shaped the rich tradition of collegiate tennis in Athens through photographs and objects relating to the NCAA tournament, using materials from the archives of the UGA Athletic Association, which are housed in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Open free to the public, the panel discussion will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The exhibit will be open before and after the event, which also is on display weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. The Russell Building is located at 300 S. Hull St., across the street from the Hull Street parking deck.

Moderating the discussion will be John Frierson, curator of the ITA Men’s Tennis Hall of Fame. Like his older brother, Frierson was an NCAA ball boy for many years, before later covering the event for the Athens Banner-Herald and numerous other news outlets.

706-542-5788. 12:30 p.m. 277 special collections libraries.

TUESDAY TOUR AT TWO Guided 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. Participants should meet in the rotunda on the second floor of the special collections libraries. 2 p.m. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu ODUM LECTURE IN ECOLOGY The 32nd annual Odum Lecture, “Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies,” will be given by Iain Couzin, University of Konstanz, Germany, and director of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, collective behaviour department. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu CONCERT The UGA Philharmonia will perform. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 CLASSES END For spring semester.

CSO SPRING POTTERY SALE Through April 27. All work was made by ceramic students or faculty. Prices will range from $10 and up. Proceeds from the sale will support a student educational field trip to a national ceramic conference as well as to help bring resident artists to campus. 9 a.m. First floor lobby, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-338-3652. tsaupe@uga.edu (See Bulletin Board, page 8.)

CLASS “Flower Arranging Unit 5” focuses on creative miniature design. $45. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu ARTFUL CONVERSATION Sage Rogers Kincaid, assistant curator of education, will lead an in-depth gallery conversation featuring selected works from Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL MEETING 3:30 p.m. Theater, Tate Student Center. 706-542-6020.

BOOK SIGNING Shawnya L. Harris, the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, will sign copies of her book Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name and is published by the museum.

Books will be on sale at Avid and through the Museum Shop.

6:30 p.m. Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Ave. 706-542-4662.

By Don Reagin

dreagin@uga.edu

Twenty-four University of Georgia students, faculty and staff members who died since last April will be honored at the university’s annual candlelight memorial service April 27 at 7 p.m. on the steps of the Chapel.

UGA President Jere W. Morehead will lead the service, called “Georgia Remembers … a Candlelight Memorial.” Names of each of the 12 students and 12 faculty and staff members will be read aloud, followed by a toll of the Chapel bell and the lighting of a candle.

Names will be read by Janet Frick, chair of the executive committee of University Council; Michael Lewis, chair of the executive committee of the Staff Council; and Cameron Keen, president of the Student Government Association.

Members of the university’s Arch Society will light candles as each name is read aloud. Franklin Scott, senior campus minister with Baptist Collegiate Ministries at UGA, will deliver an opening prayer, and Renee Dubose, pastor of Our Hope Metropolitan Community Church, will deliver a closing prayer.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, the flames from the Arch Society members’ candles will be passed to attendees so they can light their own candles of remembrance.

The Southern Wind Quintet from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will provide music, and the university’s Army ROTC will present the colors and ring the bell.

Students whose names will be read, along with their hometowns and the areas of study they were pursuing, are: • Ashley Elizabeth Block, a doctoral candidate from Athens studying integrative conservation and anthropology; • Kayla Leigh Canedo, a second-year student from Alpharetta majoring in psychology; • Logan Elane Davis, an incoming first-year student from Newborn majoring in public relations; • Brittany Katherine Feldman, a second-year student from Alpharetta majoring in human development and family science; • Rejer Ayanna Finklin, a doctoral candidate from

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 FINAL EXAMS Through May 4.

NATURE RAMBLE Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the State Botanical Garden. Sessions start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer. This is a ramble not a hike; the group will stop to view interesting plants, insects, butterflies, mushrooms, etc., along the way. 9:30 a.m. Meet at Shade Garden Arbor, State Botanical Garden.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY CONFERENCE The conference will be a day of practical tips for enhancing skills and putting professional development on a faster track. $39-$189. Georgia Center.

HONOR CORD RECEPTION UGA President Jere W. Morehead will present honor cords to graduating student veterans. A reception will follow. 3:30 p.m.

Student Veterans Resource Center, Tate Student Center.

706-542-7872.

TEEN STUDIO Teens ages 13-18 are invited to this studio-based workshop led by local artist and educator Kristen Bach. The group will learn about still-life painting traditions and check out examples of still-lifes in the museum’s permanent collection, then make their own in the studio classroom. Includes a pizza dinner.

This program is free, but space is limited. Please email callan@uga.edu or call 706-542-8863 to reserve a spot.

5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. GEORGIA REMEMBERS: A CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL An annual memorial ceremony honoring students, faculty and staff members who passed away since April 2016. 7 p.m.

Chapel. 706-542-7774. (See story, above right.)

FILM Take a break from studying to join the Georgia Museum of Art for popcorn and danger to watch Vertigo in the Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden. Visitors are invited to bring blankets and chairs to watch this outdoor film. Cosponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council and the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association. 8:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

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Decatur studying educational administration and policy; • Ashton Hope Keegan, a graduate student from Watkinsville majoring in communication studies; • Ange Daniel Konan, a third-year student from Lawrenceville majoring in biology; • Claire Cameron Rogers, a third-year student from Suwanee majoring in psychology; • Halle Grace Scott, a second-year student from Dunwoody majoring in marketing; • Christina Devon Semeria, a second-year student from Canton majoring in exercise and sport science; • Joshua Lawrence Tucker, a third-year student from Moultrie majoring in electrical and electronics engineering; and • Jack Usry, a second-year student from Rye, New York, majoring in art.

Faculty and staff whose names will be read, along with the positions they held, are: • David Lee Andrews, research professional II, plant pathology research; • Douglas Sherwood Atkinson, public service assistant, Marine Extension Service; • Anna Durham Boling, public service associate, Carl

Cheri Wranosky and others. There is no charge for artists to participate; email gmoastudent@gmail.com for more information. 11 a.m.

READING DAY For spring semester.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “The Roles of Fungi in Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Wet Forest,” D. Jean Lodge, botanist with the USDA Forest Service in Luquillo, Puerto Rico. A reception will follow the seminar. The seminar is cosponsored by the plant biology department and the Georgia Museum of Natural History. 1 p.m. 117 ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu

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Candlelight memorial service to be held April 27 to honor, remember students, faculty and staff

THURSDAY, APRIL 27

CTL FACULTY RECOGNITION LUNCHEON Center for Teaching and Learning will host its Faculty Recognition Luncheon and End-of-the-Year Celebration.

The event includes a buffet lunch and remarks from William Vencill, associate vice president for instruction. 11:30 a.m.

Grand Hall, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-583-0067. megan.mittelstadt@uga.edu

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SYMBIOFEST Symbiofest is a one-day meeting where anyone can give a 10-minute presentation on some aspect of their symbiotic (mutualistic, parasitic, commensal) research. This year’s keynote address, “Stressful Times: Skeletal Signatures of Coral Reef Bleaching and What They Tell Us about the History of Mass Bleaching and Recovery in the Central Pacific,” will be given by Anne Cohen, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 9 a.m. 117 ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.= MORNING MINDFULNESS WORKSHOP The Georgia Museum of Art invites participants into the galleries to take part in free guided mindfulness meditation sessions, held every other Friday during the spring semester. Sessions include instructor-led meditation followed by a period of reflection. Stools (without backs) are provided; please bring a cushion if desired. Reservations are encouraged; please contact 706-542-0448 or sagekincaid@uga.edu 9:30 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. CONFERENCE The Healing the World Through the Arts conference on art and mindfulness, organized by Jerry Gale, UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, will begin with presentations in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium by Christy Gray, artist Bob Hart, singer Maggie Hunter, marine biologist Tish Yager and others, from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. After that, breakout sessions will be held throughout the museum from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on subjects including yoga, tai chi, walking meditation, nonviolent communication, singing and the museum’s Artful Conversation program. No registration required. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

BASEBALL vs. Florida. $5-$8. 7 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SATURDAY, APRIL 29 POP-UP GALLERY AND MARKET Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for its first pop-up gallery and artists’ market, to be held at Athens artist Stan Mullins’ art studio at 650 Pulaski St. Athens-area artists will be exhibiting and selling their work in a unique environment, including UGA art students, Lisa Freeman, Peter Loose,

BASEBALL vs. Florida. $5-$8. 2 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

SUNDAY, APRIL 30 BASEBALL vs. Florida. $5-$8. 1 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

COMING UP TUESDAY TOUR AT TWO May 2. Guided 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. Participants should meet in the rotunda on the second floor of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. 2 p.m.

706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu TOUR AT TWO May 3. Join Lynn Boland, the Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, for a special tour of the permanent collection that will examine the theme of social commentary in art. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

GRIFFIN CAMPUS GRADUATION RECEPTION May 3. The Griffin campus graduate reception honors and celebrates the Griffin campus 2017 spring graduates and their immediate families. 6 p.m. Stuckey Auditorium, 1109 Experiment St., Griffin. 770-412-4400. ccm16@uga.edu NATURE RAMBLE May 4. Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the State Botanical Garden. Sessions start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer. This is a ramble not a hike; the group will stop to view interesting plants, insects, butterflies, mushrooms, etc., along the way. 9:30 a.m.

Meet at Shade Garden Arbor, State Botanical Garden.

GRIFFIN CAMPUS GRADUATION CELEBRATION May 4. The UGA Griffin campus graduation celebration and brick ceremony recognizes and celebrates spring 2017 graduates. 10 a.m. Stuckey Auditorium, 1109 Experiment St., Griffin.

770-412-4400. pbeaven@uga.edu STUDIO WORKSHOP May 4. Join Heather Foster, Athens artist and educator, for a

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Vinson Institute of Government; • Willie Kenneth Christopher, building services worker I, Facilities Management Division; • Danny Paul Hill, building materials coordinator, Facilities Management Division; • Walter Michael Lattimore, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division; • Shannon Marella Bridges Lay, manager, Student Accounts; • M. Howard Lee, Regents’ Professor, physics and astronomy; • Maria Pozo-Hurtado, instructor, Romance languages; • Bettye Prelow Smith, professor, career and information studies; • Charles Howard Tatum, lead building services worker, Facilities Management Division; and • Jeffery Stephen Whitfield, police lieutenant, UGA Police Department.

In the event of rain, the service will be held in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall.

The candlelight memorial service is coordinated by the Office of the Dean of Students within UGA Student Affairs.

four-part series of studio sessions focused on the human figure.

Students will try their hand at gesture drawings, paper shadow portraits, live model drawings and abstracted paintings. This workshop is open to artists of all levels of experience. The cost of the course is a $15 materials fee, which will cover all necessary supplies for the four sessions. Space is limited; call 706-542-8863 or email callan@uga.edu to reserve a spot.

6:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. SPRING 2017 COMMENCEMENT May 5. Graduate ceremony at 10 a.m. at Stegeman Coliseum.

Undergraduate ceremony at 7 p.m. at Sanford Stadium. Find details at commencement.uga.edu COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH GRADUATION CELEBRATION May 5. Celebrate the Class of 2017 at this year’s College of Public Health graduation celebration. 3 p.m. Athena Ballroom, Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas St. 706-542-3187. cphadm@uga.edu BOOK SIGNING May 5. Coach Vince Dooley will be signing copies of his newly released book. 4 p.m. Bookstore.

GARDENS OF THE WORLD BALL May 6. The Gardens of the World Ball is the premier fundraiser for the State Botanical Garden, raising needed funds for a facility that is free to the public and reaches statewide in education and conservation efforts. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu EXHIBITION OPENING May 6. The Past Is Never Dead: Kristin Casaletto shows prints by the contemporary Georgia-based artist. Casaletto’s work addresses issues of history and how it is interpreted as well as questions related to identity and race. A relative newcomer to the South, Casaletto approaches the region’s complex history from the perspective of an outsider without marginalizing its culture. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu WOMEN’S GOLF May 7. NCAA Women’s Golf Regional Practice Round. 7:30 a.m.

UGA Golf Course.

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOUR May 7. Tour highlights from the permanent collection led by docents. 3 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

WOMEN’S GOLF May 8. NCAA Women’s Golf Regional. 7:30 a.m. UGA Golf Course.

REGISTRATION May 8. For May session and extended summer session.

SPRING SEMESTER GRADES May 8. Due by 5 p.m.

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FACULTY PROFILE

Julie A Luft, the Athletic Association Professor of Mathematics and Science Education in the ­College of Education, was honored during the National Science Teachers Association’s annual ­conference in Los Angeles. She was one of three to be named an NSTA Fellow in recognition of her 30 years advancing science education.

The NSTA Fellow award honors extraordinary contributions to science education through a personal commitment to education, specifically science; work that positions recipients as leaders in their field; and significant contributions to the profession that reflect dedication to NSTA and the larger educational community.

Jeremy Kilpatrick, a Regents’ Professor who recently retired from the UGA College of Education’s mathematics and science education department, received the 2017 Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education during the annual Mathematics Matters in Education workshop in early April.

The award recognizes his more than 50 years of contributions to mathematics education research, notes the award committee, and many of his papers, book chapters and books are now standard references in the field’s literature.

After receiving his doctorate in mathematics education in 1967 from Stanford University, ­Kilpatrick taught at Columbia University’s Teachers College before joining the University of G ­ eorgia faculty in 1975. Along with several Fulbright awards, an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University in Sweden and other lifetime achievement awards, Kilpatrick was selected as an inaugural Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009 and elected to the U.S. National Academy of Education in 2010.

J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of UGA’s Atmospheric Sciences Program, has been named chairman of NASA’s Earth Science Advisory Committee. The scope of the committee includes the advancement Marshall Shepherd of scientific knowledge of the Earth through space-based observation and the pioneering use of these observations in conjunction with process studies, data assimilation and modeling.

Ron Gitaitis, a plant pathologist with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been inducted into the Vidalia Onion Hall of Fame.

“We wanted to recognize Dr. Gitaitis’ contribution to the Vidalia industry, especially since the University of Georgia has played a key role in providing Ron Gitaitis critical crop research and helping the industry by providing unbiased, scientific data to the growers,” said Susan A. Waters, director of the Vidalia Onion Committee.

Based on the UGA Tifton campus, Gitaitis researches bacterial diseases on Vidalia onions, and he was the first scientist to discover three species of onion bacteria. He has published numerous reports and journal articles, and he has mentored scientists at UGA and other institutions throughout his career. After 37 years of service to UGA, he plans to retire in June.

The Vidalia Onion Committee administers the federal marketing order that authorizes production research, marketing research and development, and marketing promotion programs for Vidalia onions.

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Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin researches ways to use theater, film and television performances to tell history.

Franklin College faculty member uses performance to share history

By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu

An assistant professor in the theatre and film studies department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin conducts research that focuses on two main questions: How can one use theater, film and television to tell history? And how does performance affect the ways in which members of the African diaspora see and understand each other?

Through archival-based performance pieces, books and articles, Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, who also has a joint appointment in the Institute for African American Studies, develops innovative responses to these questions.

Her latest endeavor began in a graduate school class at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts when she took a class on the history of the world’s fairs.

“That very class with professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is the reason why I’m currently working on what we hope to be a Broadway-bound musical called AT BUFFALO. It gave me the opportunity to learn about the crazy, fantastical world of world’s fairs,” she said. “Think Disney World meets the Olympics meets carnivals, all the size of a miniature city. The Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, the Pledge of Allegiance, the microwave—all of those things come from world’s fairs.”

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin helms a team of theater professionals to develop the musical, which explores three exhibits about black culture on display at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The first exhibit, known as Darkest Africa, featured 98 west and central Africans brought to

the U.S. to live in a re-created Disney World kind of attraction that simulated an African village. Across the street was the Old Plantation, which re-created a “happy” slave life scene in an Antebellum cotton field. The third display called the American Negro Exhibit, however, chronicled the progress and history of African-Americans, as told by a group of African-American intellectuals including W.E.B. Du Bois.

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin received national recognition early on in the development process of the musical through grants, a festival selection and residencies. This fall, she and her team will be in Buffalo to finish the musical’s script and score. The work, she said, illustrates her methodology of “performing the archive.”

“I am arguing and showing that one must embody archival material to understand it, not just read it,” she said.

“We must perform the archive—that means taking our present-day creative arts practices and combining them with the historical analysis of archival material. When we do that, we actually are creating research sites, because now bodies, especially on stage, are proxies for the archive.”

She also is working on a book called Laughing after Slavery thanks in part to a fellowship from the Willson Center.

The book centers on a character known as Laughing Ben who was depicted at the same 1901 fair.

“Anyone who does work on black stereotypes in the U.S. knows the image of this figure,” she said. “He’s been used as the epitome of almost everything that’s wrong with how society views African-Americans.”

What’s often left out about this figure,

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Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin Assistant Professor Theatre and Film Studies Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University, 2009 M.A., Performance Studies, New York University, 2003 A.B., Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, 2001 At UGA: 1 year, 8 months

she said, is the story behind his laugh.

“Laughing Ben was a former slave who literally made slavery a laughing matter,” she said, “but he was not a stereotype. Performing his archive helps me to make this argument in the book.”

Beyond research, her love of teaching comes from growing up on two university campuses—Tuskegee University and Kansas State University.

Academic parents instilled in her a clear love of education and learning, lasting impressions that still bring light to her face and informs her teaching. In courses on performance studies, as well as African-American studies, her overall teaching philosophy is the pursuit of an even broader relevance.

“It has become clear to me that what I’m actually teaching, regardless of the topic or subject matter, is life,” she said. “I’m teaching human beings how to fearlessly identify, use and serve the world with their gifts and talents. I am teaching them the very skills that we know will be demanded of humanity in the 21st century.”

CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

New director named for Lilly Teaching Fellows Program Steven Lewis, a faculty member in the physics and astronomy department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the incoming director of the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program in UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

Current director Jean MartinWilliams, a professor of music and associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is stepping down at the end of the spring semester after 11 years of leadership.

Each spring semester, 10 tenuretrack assistant professors in their first

three years at UGA are selected as CTL Lilly Teaching Fellows for a two-year program of professional development, interaction and ­engagement.

A Lilly Fellows alumnus from the Steven Lewis 1999-2001 cohort, Lewis brings extensive experience in teaching innovation and mentorship to his new role. He received a Sandy Beaver Teaching Excellence Award

in 2006 from the Franklin College and was co-recipient of the inaugural 2014 Creative Teaching Award for his work in developing a studio-based introductory physics sequence for engineering students using the SCALEUP pedagogy. Now in his eleventh year as associate head of the physics and astronomy department, Lewis has mentored junior faculty in best teaching practices.

The selection process for 2017-2019 Lilly Teaching Fellows is entering its final stages, and the next cohort will be announced soon.

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

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HIRING

Shannah Montgomery

The UGArden is one of the many places David Berle has put his teaching-by-doing skills to work since joining the faculty in 1999.

Practitioner of the Year

Professor receives national recognition for service-learning

By Christopher James chtjames@uga.edu

Drive by the UGArden on South Milledge Avenue any day of the week and you’re likely to see David Berle, a wide brimmed hat shading his face, working the fields alongside students.

The garden is one of the many “classrooms” he has occupied since he joined UGA as an instructor in 1999 and began putting his teaching-by-doing skills to work.

Berle’s commitment to service-learning was recognized recently by the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education, which named him Service-Learning Practitioner of the Year.

It’s the second time in less than a year that Berle, an a­ ssociate professor of horticulture in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been honored on a national level for his service in academia. Last fall he was among five finalists for the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award, a national honor given annually by Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 1,000 universities committed to civic engagement.

At UGA, Berle was engaged in service-learning before it was officially recognized by the university.

“He’s definitely one of our early leaders,” said Shannon Wilder, director of the Office of Service-Learning, established in 2005 as a public service and outreach unit. “I think he’s a champion. When you’re trying to launch university-wide initiatives you have to have champions who believe in what you’re doing and tell students and colleagues it’s important and here’s why.”

In one of his early courses, he brought members of the UGA Landscape Club together with students in a Geographic Information Systems course to create a beautification and management plan for the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery in east Athens.

“It made sense that you would continue to do work

in the community in some way,” he said. “I’ve always had some sense that people who have certain advantages should make some effort to help those that don’t, whether it’s volunteering or giving money for tax-deductible donations.

The one thing this job affords me is the opportunity to kind of do that.”

More recently, he received a U.S. Department of ­Agriculture grant to launch a Certificate in Local Food Systems program, which led to the creation of the UGArden, a student-run farm that provides produce to families and older adults in need in the Athens area. He is the former director of the certificate program and currently serves as director of the UGArden.

He and Kim Skobba, an assistant professor of financial planning, housing and consumer economics in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, teach a course on green building, during which students build a tiny house, which is then given through a nonprofit organization to a Georgia farmer who needs housing.

“I think the big takeaway message from David is to follow your passion and if you see an opportunity, just try it,” Skobba said. “Have the courage to try new things. … He has a lot of different ideas that he’s developing and he just forges these connections with people.”

He left such an impression on English major Shea Conlan that she went into horticulture upon graduating in 2015.

Conlan, who is education and outreach director for the nonprofit Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa, recalls learning to drive a tractor and work a roto-tiller during her time at the UGArden.

“Ultimately it’s empowering to say that I am confident in operating a tractor,” Conlan said. “He just went above and beyond to make sure we were having a well-rounded experience and learning about all different parts of organic gardening.

“Even if I’d discovered horticulture without the first-hand experience, I wouldn’t be prepared to do the job I do now,” she also said. “I wouldn’t have the knowledge I have now.”

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existing research and teaching strengths and fostered new partnerships across campus. It has brought 15 faculty to campus in the past three years.

These faculty join other outstanding faculty recently recruited through the Presidential Informatics Hiring Initiative and the Presidential Extraordinary Research Hiring Initiative.

“The challenges facing our state and the world are becoming increasingly more complex,” said Morehead.

“It is the role of the University of Georgia as a leading research university to respond to these challenges with innovative solutions. The faculty members hired through these initiatives are positioned to build partnerships across traditional disciplinary lines to tackle society’s most pressing issues.”

Additional support for interdisciplinary research endeavors has come in the form of a new seed grant program that will provide grants to multidisciplinary teams of researchers whose projects focus on UGA’s research strengths. As of March 23, 160 faculty have applied for grants, and awards will be announced in May. Now an assistant professor with joint appointments in the College of Pharmacy and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Sattler is delivering on the promise of this hiring initiative by bridging the gap between two critical human health fields.

She teaches her first year PharmD students the essentials of nutrition and lifestyle intervention for disease management, and she teaches nutrition graduate and undergraduate students about pharmacotherapy for a variety of diet-related diseases.

In addition to learning how to counsel patients, Sattler’s PharmD students create video tutorials that teach practicing pharmacists about the essentials of nutrition and disease. From these tutorials, Sattler is planning to develop an online continuing education and outreach program for pharmacists in Georgia.

“My teaching mission is closely aligned with my research, which focuses on disparities in cardiovascular health, particularly in older populations,” she said. “I’m working on a number of projects with researchers and doctors at UGA Medical Partnership and Emory University, and I have expanded this work internationally through ongoing collaborations and funding with researchers at the University of Liverpool in England after obtaining the UGA/University of Liverpool seed grant during my first year.”

These partnerships, combined with Sattler’s personal experience working with patients in Georgia, have convinced her that pharmacists could serve as a new front line in the fight for better health, particularly for patients from low-income areas who lack access to care.

“I am convinced that teaching pharmacists how to counsel patients on evidence-based nutrition can make an impact on health disparities by giving patients in need the tools to achieve better disease self-management. A lot of patients do not have access to dietitians, and unlike most doctors, pharmacists are open to the public; people can come in any time and ask us for help,” Sattler said. “But to really help these patients, we have to teach our students to address these issues appropriately, to provide more patient-centered comprehensive care. And I think we have to take an interdisciplinary approach to make that work.”

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INFORMATICS

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Anna Semon holds a ceramic pipe fragment from the late Mississippian period. Semon is the lab director of North American archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History.

important archaeological collections to come to the Laboratory of Archaeology since its founding in 1947,” said Mark Williams, director of the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology. “It will enhance our already extensive coastal collection and allow current and future researchers to continue answering questions concerning the role that islands and coastal regions played in the development of human societies over time.”

The excavations for the St. Catherines Island Collection were sponsored by the Edward John Noble and St. Catherine’s Island foundations.

St. Catherines Island, located along the Georgia coast, is a culturally and ecologically unique barrier island that contains diverse evidence of human occupation that spans more than 4,000 years. It is home to the most completely excavated Spanish mission in the Southeast; archaeological work on the island has been taking place for more than 42 years.

According to Victor Thompson, director of the UGA Center for Archaeological Sciences, the Edward John Noble and St. Catherine’s Island foundations selected the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology to steward and care for this collection in perpetuity because of UGA’s commitment to Georgia archaeology, as well as the lab’s role on St. Catherines Island since the late 1960s.

In addition, the lab’s integrated curation, teaching and research mission, combined with its resources, facilities and expert faculty and staff, led to its selection.

“The fact that these two foundations and the American Museum of Natural History have entrusted the University of Georgia with this world-class collection illustrates the lab’s expertise and commitment to enhancing our understanding of Georgia’s history,” said Alan Dorsey, dean of the Franklin College of

Arts and Sciences. “The lab’s commitment to preservation and research make it one of the Southeast’s leading archaeological institutions.”

The transfer of the St. Catherines Island Collection began April 10 when the first portion of the collection arrived; 170 boxes of materials were driven from New York City to Athens and unpacked by UGA faculty, staff and students alongside American Museum of Natural History staff. The collection is valued at just under $14 million, based on precedents set forth in the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and conventional practice in the field of natural history and North American archaeology.

This valuation takes into account the costs of excavation and curation, but the true value of the St. Catherines Island Collection lies in its potential to inform about Georgia’s Native American and early Colonial history.

The collection will be housed in the lab’s current facility on Riverbend Road in Athens until the lab relocates to a larger facility later in the year that will accommodate its growing curation needs. The collection will not be viewable to the public at this time but will be accessible to UGA students and researchers, as well as researchers from around the world who are interested in studying this important collection.

The UGA Laboratory of Archaeology participates in archaeological research throughout the state, including St. Catherines Island. Its mission is to preserve and curate archaeological collections and records and to facilitate research and training for archaeology students and professionals.

The Laboratory of Archaeology’s ongoing service to the state has led to the production of significant scholarly works that have shaped the understanding of archaeology in the southeastern U.S.

Bulletin Board Spring pottery sale

The UGA Ceramic Student Organization will hold a spring pottery sale April 26-27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, 270 River Road.

Work on sale will include hand-built sculptures for home and garden as well as functional pottery such as teapots, mugs, boxes, plates, vases and bowls. All work was made by ceramic students or faculty.

Prices range from $10 and up.

Proceeds from the ceramic sale will go to support a student educational field trip to a national ceramic conference and to help bring resident artists to campus.

Hourly parking is available at the Performing Arts parking deck, located next to the Performing Arts Center on River Road.

For more information, email Ted Saupe at tsaupe@uga.edu.

Faculty Writing Retreat

Write@UGA will hold a Faculty Writing Retreat May 17-18 from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Miller Learning Center.

Faculty members may elect to register for just one or both days.

Breakfast, lunch, refreshments and snacks will be provided along with a comfortable and quiet space for participants to work. Writing faculty also will be available should participants wish to discuss a project in process.

For more information, email Lindsey Harding at lharding@uga. edu or Elizabeth Davis at eadavis@ uga.edu. Registration, which is open until May 7, may be completed online at https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/ jfe/form/SV_bkoPTn2ruvdDlPv. Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.

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basic electronic health record technology by nonfederal acute care hospitals rose from 9 percent to 84 percent.

“Initially, health care organizations viewed the transition from a paper to an electronic medium as a means of improving patient record keeping,” Green said. “But the use of electronic health records and other health information technologies has grown tremendously since then, expanding on the idea that easily accessible health data can lead health care providers down the path to better clinical decisions.”

Today, health and clinical informatics focuses on collecting, storing, retrieving and using health care information to foster better collaboration among a patient’s various health care providers. It is an evolving specialization that links information technology, communications and health care to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care.

While electronic health records can codify diagnoses and symptoms to facilitate billing and provide a means to format and abbreviate patient information in a way physicians can quickly absorb, its adoption has not been without challenges.

“The nuances of human communication have largely been obscured in the electronic medium,” Green said. “None of us in the field realized the magnitude of the cultural and workflow change the adoption of this new information technology would present.”

The medium, he explained, is in many ways similar to communicating with tweets.

“On top of that, these systems are very complex and cognitively burdensome to work with,” Green said. “The variety of functions dealing with medications and physiological variables, text data and discrete data elements all align to make it difficult in many cases to actually process the information.”

These usability problems can often put patients at risk, he said. Through his research, Green plans to explore how to better design these health information systems to improve clinical care and patient safety, while decreasing health care costs.

A physician in pulmonary, critical care

and sleep medicine, Green began his foray into clinical informatics 14 years ago on the medical staff at Athens Regional Medical Center.

“As a physician at ARMC, I became an advocate for implementing informatics at the hospital and over time it became a fulltime job,” he said. “Eventually, I was given the responsibility of being in charge of the whole clinical informatics program.”

Green served as ARMC’s chief medical information and quality officer for eight years, leading the implementation and redesign of the hospital’s electronic health record system, as well as its quality improvement and patient safety programs.

Then the Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, shifted health care payment reimbursement in the U.S. from a fee-for-service to a value-based system. Under the new care model prescribed by the ACA, health care providers were to be paid for the value, rather than the volume, of services delivered.

Green sought to expand his expertise as the health care industry evolved to respond to the ACA’s new policies. In 2012, he became chief medical information officer at Cornerstone Health Care, a physician-owned and led multi-disciplinary practice of more than 330 physicians and health professionals and 119 practice locations in communities throughout central North Carolina.

“Rather than being incentivized by sickness, the industry was shifting to become incentivized by wellness,” he said. “The ACA was changing medicine in a dramatic way, and Cornerstone was a national leader in this transition.”

Green soon was playing a large role at Cornerstone’s health care services startup, CHESS, designing and developing the company’s population health program and data analytics program. In 2014, he received his board certification in clinical informatics.

“As a physician, clinical informatics appealed to me because I recognized that better data could lead to better care,” said Green. “Empowered by good health care policy, it has the potential to improve public health as well.”

PEABODY

HARVARD

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white-bread medium with a collection of recognizable, risible characters whose racial and gender diversity was as unprecedented as their biases and brash opinions.

From All in the Family and Sanford and Son to Maude, Good Times and The Jeffersons, all the Lear hits shared, to one degree or another, a grounding in the real, polarized America we all knew, not some fantasy nation crawling with dreamy genies, twitchy witches and friendly Martians.

In Lear’s watershed shows of the ’70s, no topic was too touchy to tackle—not racial discrimination, not sexism, not homosexuality, not abortion, not even rape. Better than anyone working in television, Lear has created an influential body of work that politicized the personal, personalized the political and showed us ourselves in all our ridiculousness and nobility.

If any organization can claim a foundational place in the flourishing of documentary film over the past generation, it is the Independent Television Service.

Conceived by independent filmmakers who saw a paucity of diversity in public media, ITVS was formed by Congress in 1988. Since then, ITVS has had a broad transformative impact on the media landscape, particularly in public media. With more than 1,400 films funded and a staggering 32 Peabody Awards, ITVS’ output represents an accomplished range of work as rich as any broadcaster or funder.

Landmark films within the Peabody canon include How to Survive a Plague by David France, Marco Williams and Whitney Dow’s Two Towns of Jasper, Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter and The Invisible War by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.

These works remain as relevant today as when they were initially broadcast and have made an impact that is impossible to measure.

At a time when public media is under political scrutiny, there is no better time to recognize the vital contributions to public discourse and knowledge than that provided by ITVS.

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decisions and acting on those decisions— these are all things that systems that have some AI component in them are able to do.”

Grosz joked that she never expected the field of AI to become so intriguing that someone outside the sciences would be interested in learning more on the topic, but shows like HBO’s Westworld and the creation of intelligent personal assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, have helped thrust it into the mainstream.

But with the proliferation of smart devices and gadgets comes serious ethical concerns, Grosz said.

For instance, Mattel’s Hello Barbie, a smart doll designed for young children, has a button children press to have “conversations” with Barbie. The doll has basic scripts programmed into its technology and fills in the blanks of those templates based on what the child tells it, eventually tailoring responses as it learns likes and dislikes.

But the child’s sentences are recorded and analyzed in the cloud.

“Is it ethical to encourage a child to confide in a computer system? To trust the advice it will give a child?” Grosz asked.

Such toys aren’t meant to completely replace human interaction, but in the case of Westworld and even the smart Barbie, they give people the opportunity to mistreat systems that are meant to be representative of people, she said.

AI also is used in some cases to predict criminal behavior, with technology that uses statistics to figure out who is most likely to commit a crime, repeat offend or be the victim of a crime. But that technology should be used as a source of supplemental information to inform decision-making, not to actually make decisions itself, Grosz said.

“We should be complementing people, not replacing them, because all systems are likely to encounter conditions or questions their creators didn’t anticipate,” Grosz said.

“To be truly smart, they need to work well (and) they need to complement people.”