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April 2, 2018

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University mourns passing of former governor, senator

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Each Road Dawg program begins with a pep rally before UGA students host a panel discussion and group sessions.

‘Recruit the next generation’ Road Dawgs travel to six schools across Georgia

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Karmen Askew, a senior at Stewart County High School, wants to be a physical therapist one day. Jaquelyne Mencias, a freshman at Maynard Holbrook Jackson High School in Atlanta, is thinking about going into law or a field related to religion and culture.

Both students were able to hear what the University of Georgia has to offer when Road Dawgs visited their schools. More than 70 UGA students gave up their spring breaks to visit six schools around Atlanta, Columbus and Stewart County from March 12-15 to share their college experiences and answer questions.

“I’m still not sure what I want to do, so I asked questions so that I can clarify some things,” Mencias said. “I want to make sure I’m in the right place. If I can find multiple

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things that I like at the same place, then I’ll have more advantages when I get there.”

Askew echoed a similar sentiment, saying that “they’ve told me what to prepare for and what not to do.”

Road Dawgs is in its third year and continues to expand across the state. In the last three years, UGA students visited a total of 26 schools. This year, the group went to six schools—four in Atlanta, one in Columbus and one in Stewart County. The visit to Columbus and Stewart County was the first overnight trip for the Road Dawgs and an important way to reach high school students who might not be considering UGA as an option after graduation.

“Stewart County is one of the most highly impoverished areas in the state of Georgia,” said Joseph Gardner, principal of Stewart County High School and assistant superintendent of the

Stewart County School District.

“Exposure is key to our students.

Getting them exposed to college and to life after high school—this helps them so much.”

Michelle Sanchez, guidance director at Spencer High School in Columbus, sees the value in having UGA students travel to southwest Georgia.

“Coming into the school and letting them see their peers— I think that gives them more of a connection to the process,” she said. “For these students to give up their spring break to come and inspire and motivate other students—it means a lot to us.”

That is particularly true for Spencer High School senior Ja’von Holmes. He recently accepted his admittance to UGA to study computer science and joined the Road Dawgs to share his story with his fellow students. Holmes also See GENERATION on page 7

GEORGIA GROUNDBREAKERS

Zell Miller, a former governor, U.S. senator and creator of the HOPE Scholarship, passed away March 23. He was 86.

Miller was an influential politician in Georgia for more than 50 years (see Cybersights, page 7), but much of his legacy rests on his innovative and far-reaching efforts to improve education.

The HOPE Scholarship, Georgia’s unique scholarship and grant program that rewards students with financial assistance in degree, diploma and certificate programs at colleges and universities, has sent more than 350,000 Georgians to college.

He also created the Zell and Shirley Miller Fellowship, which is awarded annually to a doctoral student in the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education.

“The University of Georgia

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mourns the loss of one of this state’s greatest champions,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead.

“Governor Miller’s imZell Miller pact on higher education in Georgia—and indeed the nation—was profound. The University of Georgia would not be the world-class institution it is today without his vision and dedicated leadership. The thoughts and prayers of our university community go out to his family and friends.”

During his administration, faculty salaries in the University System of Georgia grew nearly See MILLER on page 8

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Women’s Studies director named University Professor

By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu

Juanita Johnson-Bailey, professor and director of the Institute for Women’s Studies, has been named University Professor, an honor bestowed on faculty members who have made a significant impact on the University of Georgia beyond their normal academic responsibilities.

Johnson-Bailey is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy in the College of Education, in addition to her appointment to the institute.

“Dr. Johnson-Bailey is a cherished mentor to students, a valued

colleague to faculty members across campus and a nationally and internationally recognized scholar,” said Provost P a m e l a Whitten. “I’m Juanita Johnson-Bailey delighted that s h e ’s b e e n named University Professor.”

Johnson-Bailey has made a profound impact on the advancement of diverse groups since she joined the faculty in 1995. She co-founded and advised a student organization

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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

UGA graduate, surgeon’s medical breakthroughs Four finalists announced for deanship of College of Education have been saving lives for more than 70 years

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

The year was 1925, and Alfred Blalock was already a failure at age 26.

The born-and-raised Georgian earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in 1918, then a medical doctorate from Johns Hopkins University four years later. But he didn’t get the surgical residency he coveted at Hopkins; he ended up interning in urology instead.

Then came an assistant residency in general surgery—but Blalock didn’t stand out enough for

his supervisors to want him back the next year.

This wasn’t part of the plan.

He went to Hopkins, for goodness’ sake.

When he Alfred Blalock was offered a chance to become Vanderbilt University Hospital’s first surgical resident, Blalock jumped at the opportunity to redeem himself.

But then he got stuck in an experimental laboratory instead of the

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operating room.

In time, though, Blalock would find the lab was exactly where he needed to be.

Today, a century after he graduated from UGA, Blalock is revered in the medical community for his life-saving innovations. Blalock, who died in 1964, was featured in a 2003 PBS documentary and a 2004 HBO film, Something the Lord Made, See GROUNDBREAKERS on page 8

Four finalists for the position of dean of the University of Georgia College of Education will visit campus in the coming weeks to meet with members of the university community.

A committee chaired by ­Michelle “Shelley” Nuss, campus dean of the Augusta University/ UGA Medical Partnership, conducted a national search to identify the finalists. The committee was assisted by the UGA Search Group in Human Resources.

Each finalist will make a public

presentation from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in Room 206 of Aderhold Hall.

Remote viewings on the Athens campus are available in Room 139 of River’s Crossing (Room 135 on April 3), Room 215 of the Ramsey Student Center for Physical ­Activities, and the student lounge (Room 233) of Aderhold Hall. Remote viewings on the Gwinnett Campus will be in Room 134 and on the Griffin Campus in Room 218 of the Student Learning Center. The finalists and the dates of their presentations are: • Arpana Inman, professor and chair of the education and human

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SCHOOL OF LAW

Yates speaks about public service at Edith House Lecture

By Emily Webb

Sally Q. Yates believes strongly in public service. For her, attorneys have certain skills and opportunities that other people don’t have. For this reason, she said, lawyers should devote some portion of their careers to public service.

“I am always going to be an advocate for public service because I was someone who didn’t expect to get the bug, but once you do, you really feel like you’re making a difference in the world,” she said. “Take a chance at some point in your career to grab hold of that. You may find, like I did, that you just couldn’t let go.”

Currently a Distinguished Lecturer from Government at Georgetown Law, Yates used her career experience to advise current University of Georgia School of Law students March 23 at the Edith House Lecture. The discussion was moderated by Associate Dean Usha Rodrigues and Gracie Shepherd, Edith House Lecture committee chair and vice president of UGA’s Women Law Student Association.

Yates has served in several leadership roles during her career—most recently as acting U.S. attorney general and as deputy attorney general. She also served as a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and was the first assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the office.

Yates was the executive articles editor of the Georgia Law Review while in law school.

She also earned her undergraduate degree in journalism from UGA in 1982.

“The thing I loved most about my law school experience were my classmates,” Yates said. “Here, it is competitive, but not in a cutthroat kind of way. That mindset of rigorous academics, of being competitive but being supportive with your colleagues, carries over in how you practice law.”

During her time at UGA, Yates was inspired by her professors. From C. Ronald Ellington, she learned that the most effective way to motivate people is not through fear of humiliation but rather through engendering respect. She enjoyed the first-year “boot-camp” mentality and the experience the faculty created. She had fun with her fellow classmates and built relationships with many of them that continue today.

Now, Yates is impressed by the experiential learning that is part of UGA’s curriculum.

“I believe that’s a really good thing,” she said. “Sometimes the class that has subject matter that’s fun is a real snooze to practice, but you don’t really know that until you see what lawyers do in that area. You have so many more opportunities to dip your toe into different areas and try things out.”

In 1989, Yates moved from working at the law firm of King & Spalding in Atlanta to working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. The move

SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY

TEDXUGA 2018

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UGA alumna Sally Yates, who served as acting U.S. attorney general and as deputy attorney general, delivered the annual Edith House Lecture March 23 to School of Law students.

was a scary change for Yates, who said that she originally thought she would return to commercial litigation after a few years with the federal government.

Yates’ advice to current UGA law students is to take their time deciding what they want to do with their career.

“You don’t have to have it all figured out right now,” she said. “When I was in law school, I had absolutely no thought whatsoever of becoming a prosecutor. Had I stayed into what I thought I wanted to do

Evolutionary TedXUGA presenters encourage biologist to deliver others to develop new connections 2018 Odum Lecture By Leigh Beeson Also known as “Ranger Nick,”

By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu

Hopi Hoekstra, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, will deliver the 33rd annual Odum Lecture at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology. Her talk, “From the Field to the Lab and Back Again: The Genetic Basis of Adaptation,” will take place April 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Odum School auditorium.

Open free to the public, the lecture will be followed by a reception.

Hoekstra’s research encompasses population, ecological and behavioral genetics, with a focus on understanding the mechanisms responsible for adaptation.

Using data gathered from field and laboratory experiments and natural Hopi Hoekstra history collections, she explores the evolution of variation in behavior, form and reproduction in wild mice.

Hoekstra holds appointments in the departments of organismic and evolutionary biology and molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, where she is also the curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The author or coauthor of more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications, her work has been extensively covered in the popular press. Among her honors and awards are the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Ernst Mayr Prize from the Society for Systematic Biologists and the Young Investigator Prize from the American Society of Naturalists. She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.

“It’s an honor to have Professor Hoekstra here to talk about how species are adapting to extreme ecological stresses,” said John Gittleman, UGA Foundation Professor in Ecology and dean of the Odum School. “As this work represents important integrative science, the Odum Lecture once again showcases the best ecological work of our time.”

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It’s easy to get wrapped up in your own world view, seeking out information that reaffirms the beliefs you already hold and discounting any material that challenges them. But that’s a dangerous intellectual place to be, especially when it comes to science, Marshall Shepherd told the audience at the sixth annual TEDxUGA on March 22 in the Classic Center.

“Science isn’t a belief system,” said Shepherd, the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences.

“My son—he’s 10—he believes in the tooth fairy. And he needs to get over that because I’m losing dollars fast.”

No one asks scientists if they believe in gravity because it’s accepted as fact that gravity is a force that exists, said the director of UGA’s Atmospheric Sciences Program. But when it comes to weather issues such as more frequent and intense storm systems, much of the public seems skeptical.

“When we expand our radius (of scientific understanding), it’s not about making a better future, but it’s about preserving life as we know it,” Shepherd said. “So as we think about expanding our own radius and understanding of science, it’s critical for Athens, Georgia; for Atlanta, Georgia; for the state of the Georgia and for the world: Expand your radius.”

Shepherd was one of eight presenters at TEDxUGA 2018, which featured notable alumni, professors and students from across campus telling their stories of inspiration and intellectual curiosity. This year’s theme was “connect,” focusing on the progress that can be made through unconventional collaborations.

For speaker Nick Fuhrman, an associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication at UGA, it only took 45 minutes for one person to change the course of his life.

Fuhrman was still in grade school when “Ranger Bill,” an environmental educator from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, came to his school with a turtle, owl and vulture, among other animals, in tow. Suddenly, Fuhrman knew what he was going to do when he grew up.

“Even though most of us in here might not be educators, every one of you is a teacher,” he said. “So the next time you have 45 minutes with somebody or even four minutes with somebody, what are you going to do to show them that you care?”

As far as UGA alumnus Godfrey Powell Jr. is concerned, some of the easiest ways to connect with those around you are also some of the hardest for this technology-centric society: Put down the phone or iPad and talk to people. Be highly cognizant of interactions with technology. Go off the grid sometimes. It’s too easy to become dependent on technology, Powell said, but it’s healthy to disconnect.

“I still get anxious at the rapid pace of innovation ... It’s enough to leave us constantly terrified,” he said.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

“As people who are using and creating technology, people like me, people like you, let’s ensure that the human spirit will never be subjugated by any technology,” Powell said. “For while it is wise to acknowledge our fears from steam engines to books to cars to smart phones to the as-yet unknown, it is human to confront them and overcome for the greater good.”

Other speakers at the event included Katy O’Brien, an assistant professor in the College of Education; Faiz Ali Saulat, a senior in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; Elizabeth Hardister, a senior in the School of Public and International Affairs and College of Public Health; DeRetta Cole Rhodes, chief human resource officer of metro Atlanta’s YMCA; and Janet Geddis, owner of Avid Bookshop.

when I graduated from law school, I wouldn’t have taken the chance to try and experience something else. Stay open to other opportunities and keep your eyes open to other experiences, because you never know what else might be out there.”

The Edith House Lecture is sponsored by the Women Law Students Association in honor of one of the first female graduates of Georgia Law. House, a native of Winder, was co-valedictorian of the law class of 1925, the first to graduate women.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Hollowell lecturer shares life lessons

By Emily Webb

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Maria Varela spoke at the School of Social Work’s 2018 Donald L. Hollowell Lecture about the lessons she learned as a photographer during the civil rights movement.

After college, Varela was invited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the major civil rights movement organizations of the 1960s.

After joining SNCC, she was asked to move to Selma, which she said terrified her, but she eventually agreed.

“They are lessons in movement building,” Varela said. “Coupled with the invitation has to be the trust of those who extend the invitation.

Maria Varela When you are trusted with meeting expectations—and with their support—learn how to do the job, you agree to do the things you never thought you could do.”

While at SNCC, Varela taught adult education classes showing those in attendance how they could take leadership in their communities. These interactions had a major impact on Varela.

“Passion is one of those emotions that can defeat fear,” she said.“But more than losing the fear was a transformation we all went through as we worked alongside community people who mentored us in profound ways. Movement victories and defeats come and go, but the authentic transformation of movement participants is enduring.”

Varela spoke about the pain of defeat, but she believes that a victory can happen when those in pain continuously poke at an issue until the system works through it.

According to Varela, part of the honor of speaking at the lecture was learning about Hollowell, the lecture’s namesake.The late civil rights attorney was the lead counsel in Holmes v. Danner, the 1961 case that secured the right for African-Americans to attend the University of Georgia.

Varela also discussed her concerns with the great man theory of history, which maintains that history can be largely explained by great men who used their powers to create an impact. History forgets, Varela said, about the foot soldiers and ordinary people, like Hollowell, who helped the movement. The theory, she said, also disenfranchises ordinary people from being leaders and changing the situation that they’re in because it fosters dependence on a charismatic leader to come along and change things.

“Equal to the goal of seeking change is the goal of nurturing leadership from the bottom up that will sustain efforts over decades, if not generations,” she said. “Great leaders are not the primary tool in the toolbox.”

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Led by director Dennis Kyle, researchers in UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases focus on a variety of neglected tropical diseases that devastate many of the world’s poorest nations.

Drug discoveries Dennis Kyle uncovers drug resistance in malaria and brain-eating amoeba

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

Roughly half a million people die every year from malaria.

It’s a significant decrease from the millions who died from the disease each year a decade ago, but with three of every four malaria-related deaths being children younger than age 5, that’s still one child dying every minute.

And the parasite that causes the disease is growing resistant to drugs to battle it.

Dennis Kyle puts the problem in simple terms: “We have to come up with better compounds to fight the disease.”

And that’s just what he’s doing.

Kyle is the director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, an interdisciplinary venture that focuses on tackling diseases that affect millions around the world. His area of expertise lies in developing new drugs and investigating drug resistance mechanisms to see why the drugs to combat certain diseases don’t work or stop working.

“Pretty much every drug that we come up with for malaria, within a few years of treating people with it, we get resistance,” said Kyle, the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery. He worked on the drug that is currently prescribed to people planning to visit

Africa to protect them against the diseases and “saw the first case of resistance in the second person we treated.”

To better protect travelers, that drug is now being used in combination with other medications, following the protocol set in place by researchers contending with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

An additional concern is that, in about half of the cases of malaria, the parasites enter the liver and become dormant, sitting for weeks, months, even years before being reawakened and thrusting their host into illness.

Working with the Gates Foundation and Medicines for Malaria Venture, Kyle developed a way to mimic the conditions in the liver for drug testing, and his lab is testing thousands of drug compounds to find new ones to serve as replacements for those that become ineffective.

His lab is also testing compounds against brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, a deadly organism found in many of the South’s freshwater lakes and rivers that travels up the nose and into the brain, where it destroys brain tissue. Infections are rare, but almost all cases are fatal.

“It’s terrifying. It’s the most pathogenic of any of the parasites we work on,” Kyle said.

A more ubiquitous amoeba to worry about is the Acanthamoeba, which is frequently found in contact lens cases.

This microorganism enters the eyeball

through abrasions on the surface of the eye, causing intense pain and potentially blinding or impairing vision permanently. When growing conditions aren’t ideal, the amoeba hardens and forms a cyst, which protects it and helps it survive until it can revert back to its amoebic form.

The compounds on the market now “probably overestimate” their efficacy in battling the microorganism, and most of them can’t penetrate the surface of the cysts, said Kyle. But his lab is working on a solution that could eliminate the threat of Acanthamoeba to contact lens wearers by destroying the amoeba in both of its forms.

“All these parasites have adapted to infect us, and we have to fight them off somehow,” Kyle said. “We have this misconception that they aren’t something we have to worry about here in Georgia or the U.S., but it’s amazing how many of them are here.

With temperatures rising, we might have even more of them.”

As the threat of emerging tropical infectious diseases continues to grow, it becomes more important than ever to face them head on. And Kyle and his lab are committed to doing just that.

Editor’s note: This story is part of the Great Commitments series, which focuses on cutting-edge research happening on UGA campuses. Read more about UGA’s commitment to research that changes lives at greatcommitments.uga.edu.

GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE

Irish poet to give reading at Seney-Stovall Chapel

By Dave Marr

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Sinead Morrissey, a Northern Irish poet whose work has been internationally acclaimed for more than two decades, will give a free public reading April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Seney-Stovall Chapel at 200 N. Milledge Ave. The event is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of its 2018 Global Georgia Initiative, in partnership with the department of English, the Creative Writing Program and Emory University.

Morrissey, who in 2013-2014 served as the first poet laureate of Belfast, has published six collections of poetry

including 2013’s Parallax, which won both the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Irish Times Poetry Prize, and 2017’s On Balance, which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Parallax was included in Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, edited by Fintan O’Toole in 2016, as the most important work by any Irish artist for the year 2013.

“Her relationship to the past is much more complex than any direct reckoning with the legacy of Northern Ireland’s recent violence,” O’Toole wrote. “A much larger past seems to crowd in on her, history’s lost people demanding recognition of their humanity.”

Morrissey is a professor of creative

writing and director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts at Newcastle University.

Joining Morrissey will be LeAnne Howe, a poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker and scholar who is the Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature in the English department of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Howe, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, was the inaugural recipient of the Modern Languages Association Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages in 2014.

More information is available at willson.uga.edu.

Daniel Mulhall, ambassador of Ireland to the U.S., will give a talk April 4 at 2:30 p.m. in Room 380 of Baldwin Hall. His lecture, “Global Ireland: Can a Small Country Make a Difference in a Troubled World?,” is open free to the public.

A career diplomat, Mulhall assumed the ambassadorship to the U.S. in 2017 after having served as Ireland’s ambassador to the United Kingdom for four years. He was previously ambassador to Germany and Malaysia.

Mulhall’s visit is organized by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the School for Public and International Affairs in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta.

Former ‘ethics czar’ will deliver SPIA’s Getzen Lecture on April 10

Walter M. Shaub Jr., former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, will deliver the annual Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability on April 10 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

Sponsored by the public administration and policy department in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, the lecture is open free to the public.

Shaub was OGE director from 2013-2017.

Prior to his appointment by former President Barack Obama, Shaub was deputy general counsel of OGE, a position he held since 2008. In addition, he served as a supervisory attorney at OGE from 2006 to 2008.

Previously, Shaub served as a staff attorney at several federal agencies, including OGE from 2001 to 2004, the Central Office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 2000 to 2001, the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1998 to 2000, and the VA’s BaltimoreWashington Regional Counsel’s office from 1997 to 1998.

“Having served as the government’s ethics czar from 2013 to 2017, Walter Shaub is one of the country’s leading experts on prevention of conflict of interest in the federal government,” said Matthew R. Auer, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs. “He has made decisions in many sensitive political contexts, always with an eye to defending important statutes like the Ethics in Government Act. We look forward to his remarks on April 10.”

The Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability is made possible by UGA alumni Katherine Getzen Willoughby and Dan Hall Willoughby Jr. in honor of her parents, Evangeline Sferes Getzen and Forrest William Getzen, lifelong advocates of public service and education.

CURO Symposium to be held April 9-10

This spring, 575 UGA undergraduates c­ onducting faculty-mentored research in a variety of disciplines will present their findings during oral and poster sessions at the 2018 CURO Symposium held April 9-10 at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.

The presenters are pursuing 103 different majors from 14 schools and colleges and are conducting research with 330 faculty members from 78 departments.

Jenna Jambeck, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, will give the keynote address, “Plastic Waste Inputs into the Ocean: Can We Come Together to Solve this Global Problem?,” April 9 at 3:30 p.m.

The poster session and reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. Oral sessions will be held 11:15 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. April 9 and 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

April 10.

For more information on the symposium, visit https://symposium.curo.uga.edu/.

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James Rose: The Mid-Century Experience. Through April 21.

Circle Gallery, Jackson Street Building. 706-542-8292.

Opera in Print: Fin-de-Siecle Posters from the Blum Collection. Through April 22. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia. Through April 29. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Ingrid Bolton. Through April 29. Visitor Center, Classroom 1, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

FACS 100 Centennial. Through May 18. Special collections libraries. 706-542-3386. connicot@uga.edu.

Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through June 17. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.

Through Sept. 21. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123. alexis.morgan@uga.edu.

MONDAY, APRIL 2 PASSOVER Jewish religious observance. Through April 7.

INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY The 2018 International Agriculture Day Reception and Awards program will feature the keynote address, “Efforts to Narrow the Gender Gap in Agriculture: One Woman’s Journey,” by Helga Recke. 3:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1073. ogp@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3 GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON SPORT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Through April 4. The purpose of the conference is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the silent protest of the 1968 Olympic Games that ultimately sparked a global and domestic wake-up call on civil and human rights. 8 a.m. Masters Hall,

Bolshoy performs in Faculty Artist Series season finale April 3

By Camille Hayes ceh822@uga.edu

Guitarist Daniel Bolshoy, a music lecturer in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will give the final performance in this season’s Faculty Artist Series. The performance will take place April 3 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

“This is my first solo recital at UGA,” said Bolshoy.

“I’m looking forward to sharing music that I’ve been playing in recent seasons.”

Bolshoy has woven together a guitar program filled with music written during the past 200 years. The composers whose works he is choosDaniel Bolshoy ing to perform are important to Bolshoy for different reasons.

“This music is a combination of material I’ve recorded before and music I’d like to record in the near future,” he said.

One of the pieces, written by Michael Karmon, was dedicated to Bolshoy himself. The Karmon piece is a musical depiction of the ancient city of Jerusalem, which was where the composer spent his childhood just like Bolshoy did.

Sonando Caminos, Bolshoy’s most recent CD, is devoted to the works of Spanish composer Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. In the April 3 program, audience members will hear a live performance of Sainz de la Maza’s Campanas del Alba.

Bolshoy also performs as a soloist with more than 60 orchestras around the globe. He also performs at many chamber music festivals across North America and Canada.

In addition to teaching at UGA, he also teaches master classes in other parts of the world. Recently, he taught master classes in Montreal, Canada, and Jerusalem, Israel. His background in guitar and education has made him a sought-after judge in many international music competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America and the Tabula Rasa festival in Russia.

“I am looking forward to playing this concert in front of my students, colleagues and the entire UGA and Athens community,” he said.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia sponsors more than 350 performances each year, and the Faculty Artist Series is part of the seasonal programming.

Tickets for the concert are $12 for adults and $6 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu or by phone at 706-542-4400. For those unable to attend this event, the concert will be streamed at music.uga.edu/streaming.

Georgia Center. 706-542-4434. jchepyat@uga.edu.

INTERDISCIPLINARY TOXICOLOGY SPRING WORKSHOP Annual event showcasing student research. Guest speakers are Lois D. Lehman-McKeeman, vice president, pharmaceutical candidate optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb; and Patricia Ganey, professor, Michigan State University. 8:30 a.m. Atrium and 175 Coverdell Center. 706-583-0058. jlmauro@uga.edu.

LUNCH AND LEARN Join the Richard B. Russell Library for Civic Knowledge, Civic Power, a weekly lunch and learn series focused on developing a better understanding of Congress. Anthony Madonna from UGA’s political science department will speak about how a bill becomes a law, with a focus on recent efforts to reshape health care legislation. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bag lunch.

Coffee and dessert will be provided. 12:30 p.m. 277 special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu.

WORKSHOP Teaching Philosophy Statements are living documents that allow instructors to reflect on their teaching and share with others their conceptualization of teaching and learning. In this first of the two-part workshop, participants will discuss the purpose of a TPS and typical components to include. The group also will engage in activities to help participants start writing their teaching philosophy. 12:30 p.m. N6 Instructional Plaza.

706-542-0534. zoe.morris@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Ecological Dynamics and Livelihood Adaptation in Rapidly Transforming Social-Ecological Systems,” Elizabeth King, assistant professor in the Odum School of Ecology and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. A reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

ESPANA EN CORTO: SPANISH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Through April 4. Join attendees for the sixth annual Spanish Short Film Festival, started by UGA students to showcase award-winning Spanish short films. Spanning two evenings, a different selection of films will be shown each night. Cosponsored by the UGA Romance languages department. 7 p.m.

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

THREE MINUTE THESIS Master’s and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance. Doors open at 7 p.m.; presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. Cinema 1 and the Lab, Cine. 706-542-6343. racmcd08@uga.edu.

BASEBALL vs. Georgia Tech. $5-$8. 7 p.m. Foley Field.

HUGH HODGSON FACULTY SERIES Daniel Bolshoy, lecturer of guitar, performs the finale of 2018’s Hugh Hodgson Faculty Series. $12. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752. (See story, left.)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 ARTFUL CONVERSATION Join Callan Steinmann, associate curator of education, for a conversation around Buchanan’s sculpture “Medicine Woman.”

2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE Sinead Morrissey has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. A former assistant director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, she has recently taken up position at Newcastle University as a professor of creative writing and director of the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. 7 p.m. Seney-Stovall Chapel. 706-542-3966. wcha@uga.edu. (See story, page 3.)

THURSDAY, APRIL 5 EXHIBITION POPUP EVENT 10 a.m. Education Resource Center. Georgia Museum of Art. texturewksh@gmail.com.

RURAL HEALTHCARE SYMPOSIUM The Rural Healthcare Symposium is a focused policy discussion on the emerging rural health care crisis in the U.S., emphasizing possible solutions. The symposium is free to students and staff across many disciplines, including UGA’s schools of law, public health, the AU/UGA Medical Partnership, business and health care journalism. For attorneys seeking continuing legal education credit, there is a fee. 9 a.m. Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall. hmurphy@uga.edu.

CONFERENCE Through April 7. The James C. Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation at the Terry College of Business, the College of Public Health and the School for Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia will host the 2018 North America Conference of the Chinese Economists Society. This theme of this year’s North American conference is “Regulatory Impact Analysis: Methods, Applications and Implications for Emerging Economies.” $150 for CES members, $120 for CES student members, $200 for non-CES members, $180 for non-CES student members. 1 p.m. Terry College Business Learning Community. zchen1@uga.edu.

CLASS Horticulturist Mike Sikes and landscape architect Connie Cottingham will tell you about their favorite annuals and share ideas about using annuals in the landscape in “Rethinking Annuals.” The class will cover a few annuals for cooler months, as well. $12. 2 p.m. Visitor Center, Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

DEI SPEAKER SERIES Self- and community-focused interventions play an important part in liberation work, but the intention for the intervention can make the difference between deepening internalized oppression

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and increasing the capacity for resistance. This talk addresses the need for healing and details various coping, care and healing strategies. Facilitated by Candice Hargons. 2 p.m.

G23 Aderhold Hall. brianabivens@uga.edu.

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LECTURE “Ethics in the Age of Partisan Warfare,” Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University professor and CNN political analyst. The lecture will explore past debates over ethics reform as well as the push for new oversight and enforcement amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct. A light reception will follow the program.

The event is co-sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the UGA School of Public and International Affairs and the UGA history department. 4 p.m.

Auditorium, special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu.

[TEXT]URE: WEAVING TOGETHER AN UNDERSTANDING OF NEW LITERACIES Rachel Kaminski Sanders, doctoral candidate in UGA’s language and literacy education department, will present her doctoral dissertation as a public pop-up experience in the museum’s Education Resource Center. 5 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

WORKSHOP Debra Alvis will guide this mindfulness workshop focused on mandalas, or sacred circles. “Awakening the Divine: A Mandala Workshop” will draw inspiration from Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan, an exhibition that highlights the Buddhist artistic heritage of ancient Gandhara. The workshop will include a history of mandalas, time with ancient and early medieval Buddhist art and the creation of a mandala as a visual meditation. Refreshments will be provided.

The workshop is free, but space is limited; call 706-542-8863 or email sagekincaid@uga.edu to reserve a spot. Funded in part by the Hemera Foundation. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. (See story, below right.)

PERFORMANCE Jonathan Biss’ all-Beethoven Ramsey Hall concert will feature the Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Appassionata. $39. 8 p.m.

Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6 TRACK & FIELD Spec Towns Invitational & Combined Events. Spec Towns Track.

HORTICULTURE CLUB SPRING PLANT SALE Through April 8. 8 a.m. Riverbend Greenhouses. 973-270-6114. smh12622@uga.edu. (See Bulletin Board, page 8).

INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR 11:30 a.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. 706-542-5867. isl@uga.edu.

LECTURE “Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: How Should We Respond to ‘Me, Too?’ ” Katie Hein, health promotion and behavior.

Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

SOFTBALL vs. Missouri. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

PERFORMANCE Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy, Othello, pits the conniving Iago against his trusting friend Othello, weaving a potent commentary on jealousy, betrayal and racism. $16; $12 for students.

Performances run at 8 p.m. April 6-7, 11-14 and at 2:30 p.m.

April 8 and 15. Fine Arts Theatre, Fine Arts Building.

706-542-2836. wclay87@uga.edu.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 TRACK & FIELD Spec Towns Invitational & Combined Events. Spec Towns Track.

FAMILY DAY: MINDFULNESS AND MANDALAS Spend time looking at Buddhist sculptures from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue at an easy pace and head to the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom to make mandalas, or decorated circles. Funded in part by the Hemera Foundation.

10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

WORKSHOP Roy Hodge from Exotic Wildlife will educate with his menagerie of exotic animals in “Exotic Birds and Reptiles on Planet Earth.”

Discover animal adaptations and learn about conservation concerns of many different animals including cockatoos, parrots, owls, lizards, anacondas, boa constrictors and more. $5 per person or $15 per family. Children younger than age 2 are admitted free. 10 a.m. Visitor Center, Great Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-583-0894. bwboone@uga.edu.

INTERNATIONAL STREET FESTIVAL The International Street Festival (also known as ISF or Street Fest) was created in 1999 and is an annual event that promotes internationalization and cultural awareness within the Athens community. The festival is student- and family-friendly. Various UGA student groups and community organizations host cultural displays and performances throughout the festival. Noon. Downtown Athens on College Avenue. 706-542-5867. isl@uga.edu.

MFA EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Opening reception for this year’s master of fine arts degree candidates at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

SOFTBALL vs. Missouri. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

SUNDAY, APRIL 8 SOUTHERN FLAME AZALEA ART SHOW RECEPTION Join Friends of the Garden for an opening reception of the

Tessa and Jeff Evason, the Psychic Duo, will take the stage during Masters of the Mind on April 9 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present Masters of the Mind April 9 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. The show features four internationally acclaimed mentalists performing together for the first time to demonstrate the power of the mind via telekinesis, hypnosis and predictions.

Guy Bavli, known as the Kinetic Man, has astonished audiences with his telekinesis skills for more than 30 years. Featured on more than 400 television shows, Bavli was named a “Super Human” by the History Channel’s Stan Lee’s Super Human. He has performed in 50 countries and has headlined at venues around the world, including 1,200 shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Jeff and Tessa Evason, the Psychic Duo, are regarded by some as the best two-person telepathy

invitational Southern Flame Azalea Art Show. The garden has invited artists throughout the state to create works celebrating the State Botanical Garden of Georgia’s 50th anniversary signature plant, the Southern flame azalea. View a variety of styles and media and cast a vote for the Audience Choice award.

Sponsored by Friends of the Garden. 2 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

SOFTBALL vs. Missouri. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

Daniel Bolshoy

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOUR Docent-led tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 3 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MONDAY, APRIL 9 HOMESCHOOL GROUP Send children on a naturalist adventure at the Garden during this course. Each session will be filled with instruction and activities that connect youth to natural wonders. Topics vary each month. There will be a field trip or two and curriculum-based lessons. Minimum age is 4. $25 per class. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, children’s classroom, State Botanical Garden. 706-583-0894. bwboone@uga.edu.

CURO SYMPOSIUM This spring, 575 UGA undergraduates conducting facultymentored research in a variety of disciplines will present their findings during oral or poster sessions at the CURO Symposium. Oral sessions will be held 11:15 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. April 9 and 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. April 10. The keynote address and awards ceremony, at 3:30 p.m. on April 9, will feature Jenna Jambeck, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, discussing “Plastic Waste Inputs into the Ocean: Can We Come Together to Solve this Global Problem?” The poster session and reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. The symposium is hosted and organized by the UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities.

Classic Center. 706-542-5871. curo@uga.edu. (See Digest, page 3.)

PERFORMANCE Performing for the first time together in Masters of the Mind, four internationally-acclaimed mentalists demonstrate the phenomenal power of the mind via telekinesis, hypnosis, mind reading and predictions. World-famous psychic duo Jeff and Tessa Evason present feats of telepathy. The Mind Artist offers a unique form of entertainment. Guy Bavli, known as the Kinetic Man, delivers an interactive entertainment experience. $39.

8:30 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center.

706-542-4400. (See story, above.)

COMING UP J.G. WOODROOF LECTURE April 10. “Food Product Development in the 21st Century: Turning Art into Science,” Stephen P. Lombardo, director of materials and process technology, McCormick & Company, Inc. Lombardo leads research in discovery, development, scale-up and commercialization of product, process and flavor delivery technologies for global application. The event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Department of Food Science and Technology, UGA Food Science Club and Phi Tau Sigma UGA Chapter. 12:30 p.m. Georgia Center. 706-542-1089. bellamy1@uga.edu.

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act performing today. Since 1983, they’ve appeared in more than 35 countries and on network TV specials. Fox television called the duo “the most amazing mind reading act you will ever see,” and Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, said, “This act is so good. Just breathtaking.”

Dale K, the Hypno-Comic, has entertained and educated audiences with his contemporary approach to the art of hypnosis. Using his creative abilities and abstract sense of humor, Dale K produces hypnosis demonstrations that are unconventional and hilarious. He is a hypnosis consultant for NBC and MTV and has hypnotized more than a million people worldwide.

Tickets for Masters of the Mind are $39. They can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400.

The Performing Arts Center is at 230 River Road on the UGA main campus in Athens.

Any additional information about the event may be sent directly to Columns. Email is preferred (columns@uga.edu), but materials can be mailed to Columns, Marketing & Communications, 286 Oconee Street, Suite 200 North, Campus Mail 1999.

Create a mandala during a mindfulness workshop with Debra Alvis on April 5 at 5:30 p.m. at the Georgia Museum of Art.

Mindfulness workshop introduces visual meditation

By Spenser Thompson sat55758@uga.edu

The exhibition Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan is on view through June 17 at the Georgia Museum of Art. In conjunction with the exhibition, the art museum will host a mindfulness workshop with Debra Alvis April 5 at 5:30 p.m.

“Awakening the Divine: A Mandala Workshop” will focus on the effect that mandalas, or sacred circles, have on achieving inner clarity. The workshop will include a history of mandalas, time with ancient and early medieval Buddhist art and a chance for participants to create their own mandala to serve as a piece of visual meditation. Alvis will introduce contemplative practices including gentle movement to facilitate a connection with inner wisdom and divinity.

Refreshments will be provided. Funded in part by the Hemera Foundation,the workshop is free but space is limited. Call 706-542-8863 or email sagekincaid@uga.edu to reserve a spot.

Alvis is a licensed psychologist, therapeutic yoga educator and mindfulness teacher. Her workshops, trainings and retreats integrate contemplative practices and the expressive arts. Alvis currently is a faculty member in the University of Georgia’s Division of Academic Enhancement.

Images of Awakening is organized by Nicolas Morrissey, an associate professor of art history at the university’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. The exhibition highlights the Buddhist artistic heritage of ancient Gandhara. Located in present-day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gandhara produced one of the most distinctive schools of ancient and early medieval Buddhist art.

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OFFICE OF THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST

PROMOTIONS College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

To Professor: Nicholas Fuhrman, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Dennis Hancock, crop and soil sciences; Gerald Henry, crop and soil sciences; Pingsheng Ji, plant pathology; and Zenglu Li, crop and soil sciences.

To Associate Professor: Koushik Adhikari, food science and technology; Woo Kyun Kim, poultry science; and John Snider, crop and soil sciences.

To Senior Public Service Associate: Rebecca Thomas, Northwest District Cooperative Extension, and Jennifer Hubbard, Southwest District Cooperative Extension.

To Public Service Associate: Dana Lynch, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Vonsuela Baker, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Paula Burke, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Brian Hayes, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Carole Knight, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; Joseph LaForest, Entomology Cooperative Extension; Crystal Perry, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Lucy Ray, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Justin Shealey, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Patricia West, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; and Janet Woodard, Northeast District Cooperative Extension.

To Public Service Assistant: Megan Bailey, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Caitlin Bennett, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Bonnie Boone, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Franklin Jackson, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Heather Kolich, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Jacqueline Nunn, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; Dinah Rowe, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; and Kelli Salmon, Northwest District Cooperative Extension.

College of Education

To Professor: Jolie Daigle, counseling and human development services.

To Associate Professor: Jennifer Brown, communication sciences and special education; Daniel Capps, mathematics and science education; and Nathan Jenkins, kinesiology.

To Clinical Professor: Earl Cooper, kinesiology; Janna Dresden, educational theory and practice; Allison Nealy, communication sciences and special education; and Carol Raymond, communication sciences and special education.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Sara Kajder, language and literacy education; and Petros Panaou, language and literacy education.

To Senior Lecturer: Mara McCrary, mathematics and science education.

College of Engineering

To Associate Professor: Mi Chorzepa, ­engineering; Javad Mohammadpour Velni,

TENURE The University of Georgia ­approved tenure for 55 faculty members. Those receiving tenure are:

engineering; Xianqiao Wang, engineering; and Clifton Woodson, engineering.

To Senior Lecturer: Peter Carnell, engineering, and Siddharth Savadatti, engineering.

College of Environment and Design

To Associate Professor: Rosanna Rivero, ­environment and design, and Alison Smith, environment and design.

College of Family and Consumer Sciences

To Professor: Swarnankur Chatterjee, financial planning, housing and consumer economics; Steven Kogan, human development and family science; and Katalin Medvedev, textiles, merchandising and interiors.

To Associate Professor: Sophia Anong, financial planning, housing and consumer economics, and Assaf Oshri, human development and family science.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Carol Laws, Institute on Human Development and Disability.

To Senior Public Service Associate: Karen Tinsley, family planning, housing and consumer economics.

To Public Service Associate: Doug Crandell, family and consumer sciences.

College of Pharmacy

To Professor: Somanath Shenoy, clinical and administrative pharmacy, and Yujun Zheng, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

To Associate Professor: Arthur Roberts, ­pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Trisha Branan, clinical and administrative pharmacy.

To Senior Academic Professional: Michael Fulford, pharmacy.

College of Public Health

To Associate Professor: Xiaozhong Yu, ­environmental health science.

To Senior Lecturer: KyleTurner, ­epidemiology and biostatistics.

College of Veterinary Medicine

To Professor: Roy Berghaus, population health; Robert Hogan, veterinary biosciences and diagnostic imaging; John Peroni, large animal medicine; Jane Quandt, small animal medicine and surgery; and Moges Woldemariam, pathology.

To Associate Professor: Samuel Franklin, small animal medicine and surgery; Balazs Rada, infectious diseases; Scott Secrest, veterinary biosciences and diagnostic imaging; and James Stanton, pathology.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Gregg Rapoport, small animal medicine and surgery.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

Douberly, chemistry; David Gay, mathematics; Daniel Hall, statistics; Anna Karls, microbiology; Jason Locklin, chemistry; Tricia Lootens, English; Abhyuday Mandal, statistics; Christof Meile, marine sciences; Cheolwoo Park, statistics; Robert Sabatini, biochemistry and molecular biology; Walter Schmidt, biochemistry and molecular biology; Richard Steet, biochemistry and molecular biology; Michael Usher, mathematics; Lianchun Wang, biochemistry and molecular biology; and Wenxuan Zhong, statistics.

To Associate Professor: Mark Abbe, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Jill Anderson, genetics; Jason Burnett, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Jonathan Eggenschwiler, genetics; Brian Haas, psychology; Jaclyn Hartenberger, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Moon Jung Jang, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Pengsheng Ji, statistics; Chang Khang, plant biology; Casie LeGette, English; Patricia Medeiros, marine sciences; Laurie Reitsema, anthropology; Daniel Rood, history; Emily Sahakian, theatre and film studies; Michelle vanDellen, psychology; and Brian Wesolowski, Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

To Senior Lecturer: Danielle Bray, E ­ nglish; Perry Buffington, psychology; Kara Dyckman, psychology; Andrei Galiautdinov, physics and astronomy; Emily Gertsch, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Olga Thomason, Germanic and Slavic studies; and Eileen Wallace, Lamar Dodd School of Art. To Senior Academic Professional: Brigitte Bruns, plant biology; Khedija Gadhoum, Romance languages; and Daphne Norton, chemistry.

To Senior Research Scientist: Stephane Benoit, microbiology.

To Associate Research Scientist: Gerrit Schut, biochemistry and molecular biology.

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

To Professor: Yan Jin, advertising and public relations, and Maria Len-Rios, advertising and public relations.

School of Law

To Associate Professor: Nathan Chapman, School of Law.

School of Public and International Affairs

To Professor: Cas Mudde, international affairs.

To Associate Professor: Chad Clay, international affairs; Daniel Hill, international affairs; and Temirlan Moldogaziev, public administration and policy.

School of Social Work

To Professor: Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, religion; Wayne Coppins, religion; Gary

Mark Abbe, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Koushik Adhikari, food science and ­technology; Jill Anderson, genetics; Sophia Anong, financial planning, housing and consumer economics; James Beasley, School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Jennifer Brown, communication sciences and special education; Jason Burnett, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Jason Cade, School of Law; Daniel Capps, mathematics and science education; Richard Chandler, School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Nathan Chapman, School of Law; Mi Chorzepa, College of Engineering; Chad Clay, international affairs; Joseph Dahlen, School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Puneet Dwivedi, School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Jonathan Eggenschwiler, genetics; Maria Ferrer, large animal medicine;

The University of Georgia has approved the promotion of 166 faculty members.

Those receiving a promotion are:

To Associate Professor: Orion Mowbray, School of Social Work, and Michael Robinson, School of Social Work.

Samuel Franklin, small animal medicine and surgery; Dorcas Franklin, crop and soil sciences; Brian Haas, psychology; Jaclyn Hartenberger, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Deloris M.C. Wenzel Hesse, cellular biology; Daniel Hill, international affairs; Moon Jung Jang, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Nathan Jenkins, kinesiology; Pengsheng Ji, statistics; Chang Khang, plant biology; Woo Kyun Kim, poultry science; Casie LeGette, English; James Martin, School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Patricia Medeiros, marine sciences; Javad Mohammadpour Velni, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Temirlan Moldogaziev, public administration and policy; Orion Mowbray, School of Social Work; Assaf Oshri, human development and family science; Balazs Rada, infectious diseases; Laurie Reitsema,

Terry College of Business

To Professor: David Eckles, insurance, legal studies and real estate; Stuart Gillan, finance; Jacqueline Hammersley, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; and Michael Pfarrer, management.

To Associate Professor: Robert Resutek, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Meghan Skira, economics; and Erin Towery, J.M. Tull School of Accounting.

To Senior Lecturer: Jason Matthews, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Sara McManus, marketing; and David Sutherland, ­management information systems.

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

To Professor: Robert Bringolf, forestry and natural resources, and Kamal Gandhi, forestry and natural resources.

To Associate Professor: James Beasley, Forestry and Natural Resources; Richard Chandler, Forestry and Natural Resources; Joseph Dahlen, Forestry and Natural Resources; Puneet Dwivedi, Forestry and Natural Resources; and James Martin, Forestry and Natural Resources.

To Adjunct Associate Professor: Brian Irwin, Forestry and Natural Resources, and Clinton Moore, Forestry and Natural Resources.

To Senior Research Scientist: Dehai Zhao, Forestry and Natural Resources.

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

To Librarian II: Steven Armour, libraries; Sarah Causey, libraries; Lindsey Reynolds, libraries; and MacKenzie Smith, libraries.

To Librarian III: Meagan Duever, libraries.

To Librarian IV: Amber Prentiss, libraries, and Ian Thomas, libraries.

Vice President for Public Service and Outreach

To Senior Public Service Associate: Kyle Hensel, Small Business Development Center.

To Public Service Associate: Shana Jones, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Mary Marlowe, Carl Vinson Institute of ­Government; Mara Shaw, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Kris Sikes, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Lori Tiller, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development; and Brandy Walker, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development.

Vice President for Research

To Senior Public ServiceAssociate: Paula Sanford, Carl Vison Institute of Government.

To Senior Research Scientist: Kazuhiro Aoki, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; Randolph Culp, Center for Applied Isotope Studies; and Robert Speakman, Center for Applied Isotope Studies.

To Associate Research Scientist: Maria Pena, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.

Source: Office of Faculty Affairs

a­ nthropology; Robert Resutek, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Rosanna Rivero, College of Environment and Design; Arthur Roberts, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences; Michael Robinson, School of Social Work; Daniel Rood, history; Emily Sahakian, theatre and film studies; Scott Secrest, veterinary biosciences and diagnostic imaging; Meghan Skira, economics; Alison Smith, College of Environment and Design; John Snider, crop and soil sciences; James Stanton, pathology; David Suggs, journalism; Erin Towery, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Michelle ­vanDellen, psychology; Xianqiao Wang, College of Engineering; Brian Wesolowski, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Clifton Woodson, College of Engineering; and Xiaozhong Yu, environmental health science.

Source: Office of Faculty Affairs

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Peter Frey

This year, a group of Road Dawgs, above, traveled to speak to high school students in Columbus and Stewart County.

said he wants to get involved with UGA’s Student Government Association and model United Nations.

“I feel like, with Road Dawgs, we’re all learning together. They share what they’ve learned instead of just what’s in black and white on paper,” he said.

The number of Road Dawg participants continues to grow. During its first year, 18 UGA students participated, and that number more than tripled this year. Not only does it help the high school students they speak with understand what is ahead, but it also helps the UGA students sharpen their public speaking skills and develop lasting friendships. In fact, Road Dawgs often leads to other leadership opportunities at the university.

“It’s definitely rewarding,” said Alondra Garcia, who graduates in May with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a certificate in music business. “I wouldn’t spend spring break any other way.”

The mission of Road Dawgs is to make high school students aware of the possibilities of their future and empower them to make decisions for a better life, and that starts with education after high school.

“Through our engagement with the student body, one of the things we consistently heard is that our students wanted to do more to recruit the next generation,” said Arthur Tripp, assistant to the president. “This was an idea that was originally developed by our students.”

Each Road Dawgs program begins with UGA students walking in to a cheer. Then, a few Road Dawgs share their own experiences and answer questions from the audience

during a panel discussion. After that, the UGA students go out into the audience for smaller group sessions.

“Everybody’s story is different and unique,” Tripp said. “When you can pull out the stories from our students and share that, it reaches people and shows what’s possible, regardless of your background. You write your own story.”

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Small group sessions are an important part of the Road Dawgs program.

The program ends with Road Dawgs teaching high school students to “call the Dawgs” before handing out souvenirs of their visit. High school students complete information cards during the program so that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions staff can reach out to them later.

“We think of it as planting the seed, particularly among freshmen, sophomores

In the first three years of the Road Dawgs program, nearly 120 UGA students have visited more than two dozen high schools across Georgia. Here’s a breakdown of their involvement.

2017

2018

UGA STUDENTS

UGA STUDENTS

18 29 70 26 UGA STUDENTS

TOTAL NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOLS VISITED

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Source: Office of Undergraduate Admissions

and juniors in high school,” said Rosa Arroyo Driggers, assistant director of undergraduate admissions.

According to Tripp and Driggers, the small group sessions are where the most meaningful conversation takes place. The high school students feel free to ask specific questions, which can range from scholarship information to campus culture.

“I feel like I would have benefited a lot from hearing directly from students and what their experience has been like at UGA,” said Andrea Zayas, a Road Dawg participant who graduates in May with a bachelor’s degree in finance. “What makes me really proud is thinking that maybe I was able to touch one or two future students and get them to start the process of getting to UGA.” It was important for students like Zayas and Garcia, a first-generation college student, to share their stories and help high school students understand the ways UGA is continuing to recruit the best and the brightest from the state of Georgia.

“Road Dawgs demonstrates our strong commitment to ensuring that the students at UGA are reflective of the citizens across the state of Georgia,” said Michelle Garfield Cook, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and strategic university initiatives and chief diversity officer. “It gives the high school students we’ve visited a fresh look at themselves and an opportunity to see themselves reflected in successful ways—perhaps in ways they had not conceptualized. By seeing our students, who are keenly interested in their success, they’re able to look in the eyes of a near-peer and see that ‘this could be me.’ ”

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New book details landscape architect’s life

Ellen Shipman and the American Garden

By Judith B. Tankard University of Georgia Press Hardcover: $39.95

Between 1914 and 1950, Ellen ­ hipman (1869-1950) designed more than S 600 gardens in the U.S. Her secluded, lush formal gardens attracted a clientele that included Fords, Edisons, Astors and du Ponts. Shipman’s imaginative approach merged elements of the Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts movements with a unique planting style enlivened by Impressionistic washes of color.

Ellen Shipman and the American Garden, being released April 15 by the University of Georgia Press, describes Shipman’s life and discusses her major works, including the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida; Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University.

Shipman was notable for establishing a thriving New York City practice and mentoring women in the profession. Many of the assistants she trained in her all-female office went on to become ­ successful designers in other parts of the U.S.

Columns is available to the community by ­subscription for an annual fee of $20 (second-class delivery) or $40 (first-class delivery). Faculty and staff members with a disability may call 706-542-8017 for assistance in obtaining this publication in an alternate format.

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Editor Juliett Dinkins Communications Coordinator Krista Richmond

UGA Libraries’ interview with Miller online

https://kaltura.uga.edu/media/t/1_lkhp4g69 In addition to holding the papers of the late Zell Miller, UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies also has a video oral history interview conducted in 2006 with the former Georgia governor and U.S. senator.

In the interview, Miller discusses his early life and political career.

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As part of a collaborative effort with Enterprise Information Technology Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the UGA Libraries also operates the Zell B. Miller Learning Center.

Since it opened in 2003, the MLC has hosted more than 30 million visitors.

Art Director Jackie Baxter Roberts Photo Editor Dorothy Kozlowski Writers Kellyn Amodeo Leigh Beeson The University of Georgia is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.

The University of Georgia is a unit of the University System of Georgia.

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PROFESSOR

GROUNDBREAKERS from page 1

Yousuf Karsh

To commemorate the 1,000th “blue baby” operation, Alfred Blalock shows a portrait of that child.

starring Alan Rickman.

“Blalock’s life was one of dedication and commitment to patient care, teaching and research. His ability to go to the laboratory and investigate the most profound medical problems was legendary,” wrote Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra, a medical historian at Western Michigan University and emeritus editor of the Journal of Investigative Surgery.

The first breakthrough

Moved by the devastation of World War I, Blalock began experiments in his Vanderbilt lab about the effects of traumatic injuries and blood loss.

These experiments led him to a life-saving conclusion: The men who went into shock on the battlefield weren’t dying from a virus— the commonly held belief at the time. They were going into shock because they lost too much blood.

His finding “led to the general use of transfusions and plasma infusion, which had been used sparingly until then,” according to Blalock’s 1964 obituary in The New York Times. It proved instrumental to minimizing lives lost during World War II. Blalock’s lessons learned on how to stop the bleeding continue to be relevant.

“Think about the Boston Marathon bombing—how few mortalities, how few people died because all the people on hand were trained to support people hemodynamically until they could get to the operating room,” said Jonathan Murrow, AU/UGA Medical Partnership associate dean of research at the Athens campus. “You can draw a straight line between some of the research Alfred Blalock did in the 1940s to those types of civilian-led efforts to save people’s lives today.”

His years at Vanderbilt didn’t just give Blalock a chance to do research and grow as a scientist, though; the university also introduced him to Vivien Thomas. An AfricanAmerican lab technician,Thomas played a key role in helping discover the cause of shock and would later become Blalock’s trusted adviser during surgeries due to his technical skills in the operating room.

In fact, Blalock was so reliant on Thomas that when he was offered the position of surgeon-in-chief and director of surgery at Johns Hopkins, he demanded a spot for Thomas as well.

The first ‘blue baby’ surgery

It was back at Hopkins in 1944 where Blalock made his next major contribution to medicine, with the help of Thomas and physician Helen Taussig. The three made an oddly progressive group in pre-civil rights era America: the white male surgeon, his African-American research assistant and a female pediatric cardiologist. But the trio were the first to determine what caused the deadly heart defect that led to blue baby syndrome, a condition that prevents adequate blood flow from reaching body parts and leaves infants

with a bluish-purple cast to their lips and extremities.

Blalock, Thomas and Taussig saw how the condition—officially known as “tetralogy of Fallot”—could potentially be fixed. But more importantly, they were the first to be brave enough to tackle the problem through surgery.

“Dr. Blalock was both a very skillfull (sic) and a very careful surgeon,” Taussig would later write in a paper published by the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. “He took two years … to develop an operation which he felt was safe to try on a child provided I felt certain that the operation was indicated.” She did.

On the table that historical day was Eileen Saxon, a 15-month-old child whom Blalock described in his surgical notes as “undernourished” and “very small.” As he scrubbed in, he called for Thomas, who would stand behind Blalock for the duration of the operation, offering technical guidance.

The knowledge that surgery might kill the girl weighed heavily on all in the OR, but without it, she’d surely die anyway.

Blalock made the incision, clipped the left pulmonary artery and connected it to the subclavian artery. Blood began to flow, flooding little Eileen’s limbs and turning them pink. The inaugural operation to untangle a child’s malformed heart was the first of countless procedures Blalock and Thomas would perform together.

Blalock’s legacy

Almost three-quarters of a century later, comedian Jimmy Kimmel stood on the stage of his late-night show blinking back tears as he told the audience that his newborn son was rushed into emergency surgery shortly after delivery.

“He appeared to be a healthy baby until about three hours after he was born,” Kimmel said, his voice cracking.

“We were happy. Everything was good,” he continued. “My wife was in bed relaxing when a very attentive nurse at Cedar Sinai Hospital … noticed he was a bit purple, which is not common.”

Little William “Billy” Kimmel had tetralogy of Fallot, the potentially deadly heart defect that once killed so many children and continues to affect approximately one in every 2,500 children born in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “(The doctor) went in there with a scalpel and did some kind of magic that I couldn’t even begin to explain,” Kimmel said. “He opened the valve, and the operation was a success.”

After the “longest three hours” of Kimmel’s life, Billy was out of surgery and stable.

Six days later, he went home.

Like thousands of other babies born in the last 70-plus years, Billy’s story had a happy ending, one that would’ve been impossible without the medical expertise of the children’s hospital cardiac experts … and the pioneer of life-saving techniques, UGA graduate Alfred Blalock.

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called Students of African Descent that led to a dramatic increase in the enrollment of African-American women doctoral students in her department’s graduate program. In 2006, she co-founded and convened the university’s first conference on diversity issues in higher education. She has served as major professor for 30 Ph.D. students, many of whom now hold academic and leadership positions in higher education.

“Dr. Johnson-Bailey challenged me, nurtured me and provided countless sources of information for my learning experience,” former student Alvetta Peterman Thomas, president of Southern Crescent Technical College, said in nomination materials. “She is a gifted teacher and remarkable academician.”

Libby Morris, the Zell B. Miller Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and director of the Institute of Higher Education, described Johnson-Bailey as a change-agent whose research, instruction and service has had a significant impact on the university community.

“She has routinely answered the call to make a difference,” Morris wrote in her nomination letter.

Johnson-Bailey also has contributed greatly to the development of the Women’s Studies curriculum, developing undergraduate and graduate courses that have broadened perspectives on women in units across campus. Her research has been published in more than 100 books, book chapters, journal articles and magazine articles.

Her acclaimed book, Sistahs in College: Making A Way Out of No Way, was awarded the 2001 Frandson Award for Outstanding Literature from the University Continuing Education Association and the Sadie T. Mossell Alexander Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Black Women’s Studies.

In addition to holding the title of Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, the university’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction, Johnson-Bailey was named the recipient of the Students of African Descent Outstanding Faculty Service Award, the College of Education’s Carl Glickman Faculty Fellow Award and the Graduate School’s Outstanding Mentoring Award. She received the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award from the American Association of University Women in 2015, and she was named to the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in 2009.

University Professors receive a permanent salary increase of $10,000 and a yearly academic support account of $5,000. Nominations from the deans of UGA’s schools and colleges are reviewed by a committee, which makes a recommendation to the provost.

To learn more about University Professorships and for a list of past recipients, see https://bit.ly/2uc9dxD.

MILLER from page 1 30 percent and higher education funding nearly 60 percent. Many of UGA’s East Campus buildings were funded while he was governor. Miller authorized nearly $300 million to repair and renovate buildings in the university system and almost $1 billion in capital spending.

Upon leaving the governor’s office in January 1999, Miller accepted teaching positions at Young Harris College, Emory University and UGA, where he served as the Philip H. Alston Jr. Distinguished Chair in Political Science until he was appointed to the U.S. Senate in July 2000 after the death of Sen. Paul Coverdell.

UGA established the Zell Miller Distinguished Professorship in 2005 to foster research, instruction and outreach relating to economic development policy. An anonymous donor funded the professorship to honor Miller.

The Zell B. Miller Learning Center at UGA was named in his honor in 2008. This innovative, technologically advanced learning environment features a unique combination of library and instructional space, modern classrooms, the best in campus computing and comprehensive instructional support for faculty.

Zell Bryan Miller was born Feb. 24, 1932, in the small Georgia mountain town of Young Harris, where he received an associate degree from Young Harris College.

He served for three years in the U.S. Marine Corps before earning a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in history at UGA. He was the author of several books, including The Mountains Within Me, Great Georgians, They Heard Georgia Singing, A deficit of Decency and Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways.

DEANSHIP from page 1 services department at the Lehigh University College of Education, April 3.

• Matthew Martens, professor in the educational, school and counseling psychology department and faculty fellow for academic programs in the Office of the Provost at the University of Missouri, April 5.

• Denise Spangler, the Bebe Aderhold Professor in Early Childhood Education and interim dean of the UGA College of Education, April 9.

• Damon Andrew, E.B. “Ted” Robert Endowed Professor and dean of the Louisiana State University College of Human Sciences and Education, April 11.

The CVs of the finalists, along with their full campus visit itineraries and candidate feedback forms, are available at https://bit.ly/2GdWG28.

Bulletin Board Spring plant sale

The UGA Horticulture Club Spring Plant Sale will be held the first two weekends in April to help raise money to fund horticulture club scholarships and educational activities.

The sale, April 6-8 and April 1215, will take place at the corner of Riverbend and College Station roads from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays at noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The April 13-15 sale will be held as part of UGA’s annual Plantapalooza plant sale with the State Botanical Gardens and the Trial Gardens at UGA. Ornamental landscape plants, vegetables and herbs, and houseplants and succulents all will be included.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ugahortclub.

Piano performance canceled

Pianist Murray Perahia has canceled his U.S. tour due to illness. He was scheduled to perform April 12 in Athens at the UGA Performing Arts Center.

Ticket holders may contact the box office at 706-542-4400 for more information.

Nutrition study participants

Researchers at the UGA Bone and Body Composition Laboratory are conducting a study to determine how dietary protein influences bone health and cognitive function in children ages 9-13.

Call ­706-542-49180 or email bone@uga.edu for more information.

Faculty research grants

The Division of Student Affairs is accepting proposals until April 13 for FY19 funding for research partnerships. The grants support projects that incorporate a Student Affairs facility, program or service into their research.

For more information, visit partner.studentaffairs.uga.edu or email Beate Brunow at b.brunow@uga.edu.

Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.