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Foundation Fellow named university’s 17th Udall Scholar

By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu

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Billy Payne played a central role in Atlanta’s bid to host the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996, which included activities at the University of Georgia. The many contributions of Payne and his father to UGA will be recognized April 30 with the formal naming of the William Porter Payne and Porter Otis Payne Indoor Athletic Facility.

Olympian triumph

UGA alum Billy Payne’s successful campaign to land Centennial Games put Atlanta on international map Editor’s note: This is part of a series, called Georgia Groundbreakers, which celebrates innovative and visionary faculty, students, alumni and leaders throughout the history of the University of Georgia—and their profound, enduring impact on our state, our nation and the world.

By Scott Henry

scott.thehenry@gmail.com

The story of Atlanta’s emergence as an international city began, as unlikely triumphs often do, with one man’s improbable dream.

And yet, William Porter “Billy” Payne was not known as a dreamer.

In fact, before 1987—when he resolved to bring the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta, in defiance of all odds—the then-middleaged real estate lawyer wasn’t widely known at all.

But Payne has become one of the era’s most celebrated Georgians thanks to his sheer determi-

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nation and a unique ability to unite others in pursuit of his long-shot ambition.

Payne’s success in winning the Olympic bid and preparing Billy Payne the city for the games effectively put Atlanta on the global map and became the catalyst for growth in tourism, private investment and international prominence that continues to this day.

Born in 1947 while his parents were undergraduates at the University of Georgia, Payne grew up as a self-described “passionate Georgia Bulldog.” Raised in Atlanta, he returned to Athens for college, playing UGA football like his father, Porter Payne, a former all-star who’d served as team captain. Earning his bachelor’s degree in political science and then his law degree from UGA,

UGA junior Guy Eroh has a particular passion for fish, and his focus on the sustainability of these aquatic animals has earned him national recognition as a 2018 Udall Scholar.

He was one of 50 undergraduates from across the nation and U.S. territories selected for the scholarship awarded to sophomores and juniors on the basis of their commitment to careers in the environment, Native health care or tribal public policy.

Eroh, from Portland, Oregon, is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in ecology and a master’s degree in forest resources.An Honors student and Foundation Fellow, he intends to earn a doctorate in biological

s­cience with an emphasis in molecular genetics and fisheries science, with the long-term goal of improving the recovery and sustainability of the world’s fish populations and their habitats.

“I am pleased that a University of Georgia student has once again received this prestigious academic scholarship,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “The university congratulates Guy on this significant achievement and wishes him the very best in all of his future endeavors.”

With the addition of Eroh, UGA has had 12 Udall Scholars in the past eight years and 17 total since the scholarship was first awarded in 1996.

Through the application of novel, relevant scientific

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OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTS the younger Payne co-founded a small firm in Atlanta.

Payne’s Olympic epiphany came to him soon after the dedication of a new sanctuary at his church, which was built with money he helped to raise.

“My wife Martha and I were driving home from church and I said, ‘you know, that was a really special feeling … we’ve got to think of something else,’ ” Payne said in a 2014 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The next morning, I go to my law practice. I got my legal pad. I’m writing down things that would motivate people.

Something big. Driving home that night, I was still thinking. Then the Olympics jumped into my mind …

I walk in and said to my wife, ‘I’ve See OLYMPICS on page 8

Historic preservation plan to be implemented at UGA

By Kellyn Amodeo

kwamodeo@uga.edu

The Office of University Architects at the University of Georgia unveiled a historic preservation plan to document and maintain UGA buildings 50 years and older on all campuses and across the state. After two years of research, the plan will be implemented at all of the university’s sites in Georgia.

President Jere W. Morehead established the study to create the plan, which was implemented by College of Environment and Design Dean Dan Nadenicek and a steering committee.

“One of the major strengths of the plan is that it provides a defensible and replicable process and a clearly articulated set of standard operating procedures,” said Nadenicek.“As steering committee chair, it was my pleasure to work with such a talented group of individuals who were all dedicated to providing the best possible historic preservation master plan for the University of Georgia.”

The president was in attendance at the April 11 reception to personally thank Nadenicek, the steering committee, faculty, staff and students who put in countless hours to create the plan.

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GRADY COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘60 Minutes’ among Peabody Award winners

Embark Georgia Leadership Conference set for May 16-17

By Margaret Blanchard mblanch@uga.edu

Nine entertainment programs and 12 news, radio/podcast and public service programs will receive Peabody Awards for programs released in 2017.

Peabody jurors also announced that Institutional Awards will be presented to 60 Minutes, the CBS News “magazine for television,” and to The Fred Rogers Company Company for carrying on the legacy of its eponymous founder, who starred in the iconic children’s program, Mr. Rogers’ N ­ eighborhood.

Both programs debuted 50 years ago.

Entertainment winners, including children’s and youth programming, include Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events; Netflix’s American Vandal; AMC’s Better Call Saul; Netflix’s Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King; HBO’s Insecure; HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; NBC’s Saturday Night Live: Political Satire 2017; Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale; and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

News programming winners are “Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride,”

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By Charlie Bauder

charlie.bauder@fanning.uga.edu

a series from NBC5/KXAS’s investigative news team in which reporters unravel shady real estate deals by the Dallas County Schools after a school bus camerasystem investment goes bust; See PEABODY on page 8

A statewide program that supports young people who have been homeless or in foster care pursue their educational goals will again hold its annual leadership conference at the University of Georgia.

The second annual Embark Georgia Leadership Conference is scheduled for May 16-17 at the UGA Tate Student Center.

Run by the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, Embark Georgia is a statewide network of higher education

professionals who provide support for youth who have experienced foster care or homelessness and are enrolled in or interested in attending any postsecondary educational institution in Georgia.

The conference aims to develop that network by bringing those educational professionals together with other agencies that work directly with foster care and homeless youth to provide technical assistance, leadership training and other forms of support that help the youth in their educational pursuits, said David Meyers, Fanning Institute faculty member.

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Around academe

Georgia Tech researchers use scanners to see layers of painting

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using high-speed scanners to peer beneath the layers of paint and see how classical artists created masterpieces.

Using terahertz scanners, the researchers are able to create a high-resolution glimpse of what lies beneath the surface of a painting.

These scanners emit electromagnetic waves, which penetrate the layers of pigment before being reflected back, thereby creating an image of a painting’s layers. Some of these layers are incredibly thin—as small as 20 microns thick, which allows the researchers to see more of the artist’s process.

The Georgia Tech researchers have been using the technique to study the painting “Madonna in Preghiera,” which was created by the workshop of 17th-century artist Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato. With the terahertz scanners, the researchers were able to identify the canvas support, ground, imprimtura, underpainting, pictorial and varnish layers.

The application also has been used on a Byzantine coin, to see through a layer of oxidation and read an inscription.

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UGA Commencement logistics: Severe weather plan and temporary platform

The University of Georgia will see increased traffic around certain areas of campus this week as it gears up for its spring Commencement ceremonies.

Motorists are asked to use caution when driving on Broad Street near the Arch as graduating students and their families gather to take photographs.

Undergraduate Commencement will be held at Sanford Stadium May 4 at 7 p.m., rain or shine. Only in the case of severe weather will the ceremony be rescheduled for Saturday, May 5, at 10 a.m. The decision on whether to hold the undergraduate exercise outside or move to the severe weather plan will be made by 10 a.m. May 4, and the information will be placed on the UGA home page, uga.edu, by 10:30 a.m.

Graduate Commencement will be held in Stegeman Coliseum May 4 at 9:30 a.m.

The clear bag policy will be in effect for both ceremonies.

East Campus Road adjacent to Sanford Stadium will be closed during the hours of Commencement.

Parking for guests with disabilities is available at the East Campus parking deck (E04) and North Campus parking deck (N06). An ADA accessible shuttle will be available from those areas to the stadium.

The West End Zone section of the stadium, including gates 1 and 10, will be closed for construction. Graduating students from the Terry College of Business, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Public Health, School of Social Work, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, College of Family and Consumer Sciences and College of Education should enter Sanford Stadium through Gate 2.

Students graduating from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, School of Public and International Affairs, College of Engineering, College of Environment and Design, Odum School of Ecology, College of Pharmacy and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication should enter through Gate 9.

Gates open for guests at 5:30 p.m., and guests should enter through Gates 4 and 6.

For guests who do not wish to attend undergraduate or graduate Commencement in person, the ceremonies will be streamed live at commencement.uga.edu.

The undergraduate ceremony will end as usual with a fireworks sendoff. Graduates and guests are requested to remain in place at the conclusion of the ceremony. The announcement will be shown on the video board after the fireworks sendoff is complete.

For UGA alumni with mobility disabilities who choose to pass through the Arch after graduation, the university will have a temporary platform in place on May 5 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

For more information on Commencement at UGA, see commencement.uga.edu.

DIVISION OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY STAFF COUNCIL

More than 50 departments, units take part in Staff Resources Fair

By Randolph Carter lrcarter@uga.edu

Spring break is usually a relatively quiet time at UGA. Classrooms and quads are empty, and the Tate Student Center’s usual bustling spaces are quietly resting and rejuvenating for the return of students. This year’s spring break, however, included a not-so-subtle difference. Hundreds of UGA staff visited Tate’s Grand Hall March 14 for UGA’s inaugural Staff Resources Fair. The fair was organized through a partnership of the University Staff Council and the Vice President for Finance and Administration’s Staff Resource Group.

“The goal of the fair was to promote awareness and access to the array of services, resources and opportunities that the university makes available to staff as they pursue both their professional and personal goals,” said Debi Chandler, co-chair of the fair.

More than 50 UGA units showcased their services, opportunities and products to more than 700 UGA staff who participated. Showcase units attending the fair included the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Community Practice), UGA Trial Gardens, UGA Health Center, the UGA Athletic Association and many other units offering unique services to UGA staff. Attendees were informed of

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The Staff Resources Fair, held March 14 at Grand Hall in the Tate Student Center, included several booths with information about opportunities to save money, enrich lives and support UGA’s mission.

the numerous opportunities available across the university to save money, enrich lives and support UGA’s mission.

Participants at the fair included staff from a number of the major units including Academic Affairs (including schools and colleges), Student Affairs, Finance & Administration, Development & Alumni Relations and Public Service and Outreach.

“The fair was good overall. Great information,” said Charlie Bauder, a public relations coordinator in the

J.W. Fanning Institute of Leadership Development, a public service and outreach unit.

Funding and co-sponsorship for the fair were made available through the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President for Finance & Administration, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Office of Institutional Diversity, UGA Dining Services, UGA Parking Services, Bulldog Print+Design and USG Well-Being.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

SCHOOL OF LAW

By James Hataway

By Saleen Martin

From a virtual reality system allowing pediatricians at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to practice delicate medical procedures to the construction of a new pedestrian bridge for the Wormsloe Historic Site near Savannah, students in UGA’s College of Engineering are using their senior design projects to give back to the state.

The yearlong projects are part of a capstone course that tests seniors on all the engineering concepts and skills they’ve learned and practiced during their undergraduate studies. They will present their projects on April 30 in the Tate Student Center’s Grand Hall. The event is open to the public from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“These projects have all the elements students are going to encounter when they become a practicing engineer,” said Donald Leo, dean of the College of Engineering. “They will need to navigate complex projects, break them down, apply the engineering skills they learned in class and work in teams to find solutions.”

The College of Engineering’s approach to its two-semester capstone senior design course differs from many other engineering programs, where students are assigned theoretical projects and present their findings only to a supervising professor.

UGA engineering students work closely with clients across the state and the nation. Many of these connections are facilitated by the Archway Partnership, a public service and outreach unit.

“The collaboration over a fairly long period of time is what I’m most proud of,” said York Delloyd, a computer systems engineering major. “Our project has direct implications for the real world and we can see and appreciate that.”

Delloyd’s team worked with Gulfstream Aerospace of Savannah to develop an eye tracking system for a virtual reality flight simulator. Gulfstream is interested in exploring the technology to not only determine a person’s flight readiness but also to optimize indicator and control locations within the cockpit of its jets.

A total of 77 teams involving more than 300 students produced capstone projects for a number of companies this year, a new record for UGA’s engineering college, which has experienced extraordinary growth since its founding in 2012.

Another group of students developed a continuous blood glucose monitoring system designed exclusively for cats and dogs, a project they worked on in partnership with a veterinarian.

“Right now, the vet has a device intended for monitoring blood glucose in humans, but the glucose levels in cats and dogs can be significantly higher than those for humans, and the device cuts off data before real levels are shown,” said Chery Gomillion, an assistant professor of engineering at UGA. Because there are no companies that make glucose monitors for pets, the students designed a computer program that converts readings from human monitors to a data set that displays glucose levels relevant to animals.

Students working with Caterpillar are designing a new tracking system that will follow parts as they move throughout the company’s massive manufacturing facility. Another team is helping the company develop new methods of detecting damaged or missing O-rings in heavy equipment.

Heather Gerken knows that the legal profession has a tainted reputation among the public. Still, she believes lawyers are an honorable, critical aspect of democracy, politics and upholding the law.

Gerken, who is dean at the Yale University Law School, delivered the university’s 116th John A. Sibley Lecture—and final spring 2018 Signature Lecture—April 13 in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom of Hirsch Hall.

There, she defended the honor of the legal profession and argued that lawyers are defenders of the rule of law who fight with integrity and ensure that everyone has the right to be heard.

“People look to lawyers, and they see an Heather Gerken industry of arguments for hire—a guild of professionals willing to promote any and all causes as long as the price is right,” said Gerken, who also is Yale’s Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law. “But this is not an accurate picture of what we do.”

Instead, she believes lawyers stand up for what is most important, including the rule of law.

“If you want proof of the important role that lawyers play in defending the rule of law, you just need to read the newspaper. Look at what is happening in Egypt, in Pakistan, in Guatemala, in France and Turkey,” Gerken said. “When countries slide into authoritarianism, you will always see lawyers.You will see those lawyers standing up for voting rights, for due process, for integrity and government, and for equality under the law.”

According to Gerken, lawyers are trained to see the flaws in both their arguments and their opposer’s arguments.

“The day that you become a lawyer is the day that you realize the law does not and should not mirror every single thing that you believe as a person,” Gerken said. “We must recognize the best in the other side and the worst in our own. That’s what it means to be a lawyer.”

Senior UGA engineering students Yale Law School design solutions for state, nation dean gives lecture jhataway@uga.edu

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RESEARCH NEWS

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Dogged determination

Biao He’s research uses a common canine virus to develop vaccines and treatments for infections such as rabies and tuberculosis.

Harnessing a canine virus to create vaccines

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

Like many people, University of Georgia researcher Biao He loves dogs.

But his affinity for man’s best friend runs a bit deeper than most.

The infectious disease specialist is using a common canine virus to fight lethal diseases that affect millions around the world. His research on the virus called PIV5 is being translated into new vaccines and treatments for deadly infections such as rabies, tuberculosis and HIV. The concept behind turning a virus into the base of a new vaccine isn’t new.

University of Georgia earned the patent for the technology, and many companies have since licensed it to develop new vaccines.

The main criteria for vaccine vectors, as they’re called, is that the virus being used is safe. PIV5 has a stellar safety profile in humans and dogs, having been used as a live vaccine for dogs for many years.

That makes it the perfect virus to use to inoculate people against harmful diseases.

“It’s really the viruses that are quietly replicating, that you don’t even know are there. Those are the ones that are really successful,” said He, the Fred C. Davison

Distinguished University Professor in Veterinary Medicine. “PIV5 is one of those viruses that can go on and on without causing any disease. All we did was take the virus and make it better.”

One application He is particularly excited about is creating a PIV5-based vaccine to help treat rabies once an animal or person has been infected.

In the U.S., rabies infections in people are rare, and because most pets are vaccinated against the disease, most animal cases are found in wildlife, like bats and foxes. As for people, treatments are very effective if the exposure to rabies is treated immediately.

But in other countries around the world, rabies is much more common and almost always deadly, in part due to lack of medications to treat or prevent the disease.

“What we’re trying to do is change that,” said He. Experiments in mice have been promising, showing that the vaccine could reverse rabies infection in about half the subjects even after symptoms began appearing six days after infection. “We may not get to 100 percent survival, but we want to see if we can give people a fighting chance for survival.”

Because many infectious diseases, like rabies and Ebola virus, are spread to people by bats, he decided to stop

the spread at its source.

He developed a PIV5-based rabies vaccine for bats, and working with collaborators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he was able to test an intranasal version of the vaccine in a bat colony. The goal was to see whether a vaccine could ultimately be aerosolized for mass delivery in bat communities. The initial testing results are very promising. They vaccinated a handful of the bats and put them back into their colonies. They found that many of the unvaccinated bats generated antibodies to the virus through contact with the inoculated members of their colonies.

“What we’re doing is trying to prevent bad things from happening to people,” He said. “Ultimately, we want to develop products that can be used to help humans and animals as well. Our goal is really just to make life better for everyone.”

And as He and his team continue to develop new treatments and vaccines for deadly infectious diseases, they’re getting closer to achieving that goal.

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.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Faculty members receive grants for humanities work

By Alan Flurry

aflurry@uga.edu

Three Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty members have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The awards, announced April 9, are among $18.6 million in NEH grants for 199 humanities projects across the country.

Professor of Spanish Elizabeth Wright and associate professor of French Rachel Gabara of the Romance languages department were awarded $6,000 each for summer stipends, highly competitive grants that provide full-time support for work by a scholar on a humanities project for two months.

Richard B. Russell Professor in American History Claudio Saunt was awarded $185,176 to support completion of “Mapping the People of Early America,” a database and web platform mapping the settlement and movement

of African, Native American and European populations in North America between 1500 and 1790.

Gabara’s stipend will support the last in a series of research trips to Europe and West Africa that provide the basis for her book project, Reclaiming Realism: From Documentary Film in Africa to African Documentary Film. The first book in English to focus on African documentary, Reclaiming Realism will trace and analyze the development of nonfiction film in West and Central Africa in the colonial and postcolonial eras, demonstrating the importance of African films to the understanding of global cinema.

Wright will use her stipend to conduct research for a new book, Stages of Servitude in Early Modern Iberia.

Wright will study rare books, treatises, travel narratives and other documents that reveal how the nascent theaters of Spain and Portugal contributed to the naturalization of demeaning

images of sub-Saharan Africans and the institutionalization of the Atlantic slave trade. She also will seek evidence of how black Africans and Afro-descendant Iberians navigated the nascent theater business to attain artistic validation and economic advancement.

Saunt will finalize a project mapping the demographic revolution—the arrival of hundreds of thousands of African and European peoples and the dwindling of the indigenous population—that underlay the sea change that swept across the North American continent. The Mapping the People of Early America, or MAP, Project is dedicated to producing an online, interactive time-lapse map of the African, Native American and European populations in North America between 1500 and 1790.

The map will be the first of its kind, showing the indigenous, European and African populations before the start of the U.S. Census in 1790.

A team of undergraduates from the Terry College of Business outperformed 37 other university competitors to capture first place in the 2017 Real Confidence University Challenge, an annual real estate investment contest sponsored by the Altus Group.

The four-member team won the $30,000 grand prize for managing the best commercial real estate investment portfolio with a return of 35.38 percent over four quarters ending in 2017.

The team’s strategy of investing in infrastructure projects generated the big return, said Andrew Kahn, who was the team’s captain last year and has since graduated in real estate and finance. In addition to Kahn, the Terry team consisted of Tyler Matthews, Whit Porter and Ben Renaud. They were advised by Darren Hayunga, an assistant professor of real estate.

The Terry team submitted its portfolio late in 2016, and judges scored their quarterly investment performance throughout 2017.

For the 2018 University Challenge, Terry College was one of 47 teams entered.

Two children’s books take top awards

Books about a magical mailbox and a secret Nazi mission topped the list of children’s book favorites at the 2018 Georgia Children’s Book Awards. This year’s winning books, It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton and Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz, received the most votes from children across Georgia and were officially announced during a ceremony at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. It Came in the Mail won in the Picturebook (grades K-4) category while Projekt 1065 won in the Book (grades 4-8) category.

The winners were selected from 20 nominees in each category, with 31,813 children casting votes for their favorites at 155 schools and libraries across the state. The Georgia Children’s Book Awards take place each year and is part of the Conference on Children’s Literature, hosted by the UGA College of Education.

Museum receives seven regional awards The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received several recent awards from the Southeast chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, the Southeastern College Art Conference and the Southeastern Museums Conference for its exemplary publications, design and exhibitions.

ARLIS-SE presented the museum with its Mary Ellen Lo Presti Award for the exhibition catalog Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects. This exhibition, organized by Parker Curator of Russian Art Asen Kirin, was on display at the museum from September to December of 2016.

The museum’s exhibition catalogs for Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Grafica Mexicana and Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950 won the awards, respectively, for outstanding exhibition and catalogue of contemporary materials and outstanding exhibition and catalogue of historical materials from SECAC. SECAC is a nonprofit organization that promotes the study and practice of the visual arts in higher education on a national basis.

Finally, the museum won multiple awards at the 2017 SEMC annual meeting. In SEMC’s publication design competition, the museum received a silver for its book Black Belt Color: Photographs by Jerry Siegel and an honorable mention for the exhibition catalog Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the 20th-Century Aesthetics of Design.

SEMC also honored the museum with gold awards for two exhibitions: Gifts and Prayers and Icon of Modernism.

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

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates. Through May 20.

Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@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 30 FINAL EXAMS Through May 3. For spring semester.

PAWS AND RELAX The UGA Libraries has invited some local therapy dogs to help students “Paws & Relax.” There will be five locations: the north quad in front of the main library, the colonnade outside the Miller Learning Center, the science library lawn and the lawns of Aderhold Hall and Ramsey Student Center. 11 a.m.

TUESDAY, MAY 1 LECTURE Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. 2 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-6074. ahorsman@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 TOUR AT TWO Docent-led tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

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

THURSDAY, MAY 3 NATURE RAMBLERS Also May 10. Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the Garden. 9:30 a.m. Visitor Center & Conservatory front fountain, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu.

CAES GRADUATION CONVOCATION 6 p.m. Classic Center. 706-542-0725. ksking@uga.edu.

WORKSHOP Join Athens-based artist Paige French for a four-part series of studio-based courses that will explore weaving and fiber arts through various techniques and materials. The cost of the course is a $15 materials fee, which will cover all necessary supplies for all sessions (May 3, 10, 17 and 24). Limited to 15 participants. Call 706-542-8863 or email callan@uga.edu to register. 6:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art.

FRIDAY, MAY 4 SPRING 2018 GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT 9:30 a.m. Stegeman Coliseum. https://commencement.uga. edu/graduate.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CONVOCATION 2 p.m. D.W. Brooks Mall. 706-542-3354. jtcook@uga.edu.

TERRY COLLEGE CONVOCATION 2 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-4590. zbrawner@uga.edu.

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH GRADUATION CELEBRATION 3 p.m. Athena Ballroom, Classic Center. 706-542-3187. cphadm@uga.edu.

The Blind Boys of Alabama take the Hodgson Concert Hall stage for a gospel music concert at 8 p.m. on May 11.

Blind Boys of Alabama to perform in Hodgson Concert Hall

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

One of the biggest names in gospel music comes to Athens when the UGA Performing Arts Center presents the Blind Boys of Alabama May 11 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Winner of five Grammys plus a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Blind Boys of Alabama have been called “gospel titans” by Rolling Stone magazine.

The original members of the group first sang together as children at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the late 1930s. Eighty years later, the ensemble still includes founding member Jimmy Carter, who leads the group today.

SPRING 2018 UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT 7 p.m. Sanford Stadium. https://commencement.uga.edu/ undergraduate.

fun run/walk. All fitness levels are welcome. For those participating in the USG Well-Being Program, this event is worth $25 in well-being credit. 6 p.m. UGA Golf Course. 706-542-7319. wellbeing@uga.edu. (See Bulletin Board, page 8.)

SATURDAY, MAY 5 TRACK AND FIELD Torrin Lawrence Memorial. Throughout the day. Various locations around campus.

Thomas Sully’s “Mother and Two Children” will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art from May 19 through July 29 as part of the exhibition Bloom Where You’re Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders.

Georgia Museum of Art exhibition to highlight variety of works from Deen Day Sanders collection

By Savannah Guenthner

savannah.guenthner@uga.edu

The exhibition Bloom Where You’re Planted: The Collection of Deen Day Sanders, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from May 19 through July 29, features a vibrant and highly varied collection of American works of art.

Sanders is noted for her philanthropy to the University of Georgia and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. She has served as president of the Garden Club of Georgia, National Garden Clubs Inc. and, most recently, as vice president of the World Association of Floral Artists, as well as on the boards of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, the U.S. Botanic Garden and the Diplomatic Reception Rooms in Washington, D.C. She also has spent a significant portion of her life building one of the most notable art collections in the state of Georgia at Bellmere, the home of Deen and Jim Sanders.

Bloom Where You’re Planted is an opportunity for visitors to see that collection. The exhibition will allow the public to view a cohesive collection that tells a story both of American life and of Sanders’ support of the State Botanical Garden, art and all things that grow.

Dating from the 19th to the early 20th century, the paintings, furniture, porcelain and other works in the exhibition emphasize the diversity of American art at this time. The exhibition focuses on themes of childhood, nature, still lifes, interiors and depictions of the American West and Native Americans. Together, they touch on every major trend in American art during the period, which speaks to Sanders’ eye as a collector and to the quality and scope of the works in general.

The collection’s visual art in particular highlights a number of influential artists, including Thomas Sully, Mary Cassatt, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Moran, Winslow Homer, Ernest Lawson and impressionist Childe Hassam. The show’s curator, Sarah Kate Gillespie, who is curator of American art at the museum, said that she is especially proud of the inclusion of two rarely seen works by John Singer Sargent in the exhibition.

Dale Couch, the museum’s curator of decorative arts, said the way in which Sanders’ collection functions together as a whole and speaks to her focused collecting.

“To speak of her personally in terms of collecting, a spirit of generosity is what comes to mind,” he said. “She is Georgia bred and born, Georgia throughout, no question about it, and loyal to our state and our region.”

The museum will publish an exhibition catalog including full-page color illustrations of every work on display as well as essays by Gillespie; Couch; Linda Chafin, conservation botanist at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia; UGA associate professor of history Akela Reason; UGA associate professor of education Jennifer Graff; and others, which will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop.

An opening reception for the exhibition will be co-hosted at the museum by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and the Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia May 18 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. ($5 non-members; free for members).

Other related programs include a Family Day on May 19 from 10 a.m. to noon, a Toddler Tuesday on May 22 at 10 a.m. (free but registration required via sagekincaid@uga.edu or 706-542-0448) and a public tour on June 6 at 2 p.m.

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CLASS The goals of “Plant Taxonomy” are to familiarize participants with the basic characteristics botanists look at when investigating an unknown plant and to introduce them to the use of classic identification tools like dichotomous keys (decision trees) to distinguish this plant from that. Bring a hand lens. $105. 9 a.m. Mimsie Lanier Center for Native Plant Studies, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6448. lchafin@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, MAY 6 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, MAY 7 GRADES DUE For spring semester. Noon.

TUESDAY, MAY 8 REGISTRATION For May session and extended summer session.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 CLASSES BEGIN For thru term and short session I. DROP/ADD Through May 15. For undergraduate and graduate level courses for extended summer session.

DROP/ADD Through May 10. For May session.

ARTFUL CONVERSATION Join Sage Kincaid, assistant curator of education, for a closer look at and conversation inspired by Pedro Orrente’s painting “The Crucifixion.” Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

SPRING INTO WELLBEING 5K & 1.5 MILE FUN RUN Spring into wellbeing on the 5K race course or the 1.5-mile

In addition to winning multiple Grammy Awards, the Blind Boys have been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and have performed at the White House for three different presidents.

“When the Blind Boys started out, we weren’t even thinking about all these accolades and all that stuff,” Carter said. “We just wanted to get out and sing gospel and tell the world about gospel music.”

Tickets for the concert are $39 to $46. They can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.

The Performing Arts Center is located at 230 River Road in Athens.

THURSDAY, MAY 10 STAFF APPRECIATION DAY All University of Georgia staff are invited to attend UGA’s fourth annual Staff Appreciation Celebration. An initiative of the Office of the President, the Staff Appreciation Celebration is a way for the university to say thank you to the staff. 10 a.m.

Intramural Fields.

FRIDAY, MAY 11 FRIENDS FIRST FRIDAY Cliff Brock, assistant curator of Flower Garden and Chapel, will discuss often neglected and misunderstood pollinators such as flies, wasps and moths in “The Overlooked Pollinators.”

Includes a full breakfast. Make reservations by May 4 at www.botgarden.uga.edu or 706-542-6138. Sponsored by Friends of the Garden. $12. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden.

WORKSHOP Celebrate National Public Gardens Day with “Native Plants: Who They Are and Ways Our Garden Celebrates and Protects Them.” Garden director Jennifer Cruse-Sanders will talk about the many ways the State Botanical Garden of Georgia champions native plants. Garden tours will be offered at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sponsored by OLLI@UGA and Friends of the Garden.

1 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

COLLECTORS ROAD SHOW The Collectors of the Georgia Museum of Art focus on connoisseurship and raise funds for acquisitions to enhance the museum’s permanent collection. This year’s biennial Collectors fundraiser features appraisers from Bonhams. The patrons party and silent auction will provide event sponsors with more in-depth item valuations throughout the evening, which will also feature hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.

All event sponsors receive patrons party tickets. Museum and Collectors members, $85 per person; nonmembers, $100 per person. Register at http://bit.ly/collectors-roadshow. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

CONCERT The Blind Boys of Alabama have the rare distinction of being recognized around the world as both living legends and modern-day innovators. Since the original members first sang together as kids at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in the late 1930s, the band has persevered through seven decades to become one of the most honored music groups in the world. $39-$46. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall,

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Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, above.)

SATURDAY, MAY 12 COLLECTORS ROAD SHOW The Collectors of the Georgia Museum of Art focus on connoisseurship and raise funds for acquisitions to enhance the museum’s permanent collection. This year’s biennial Collectors fundraiser features appraisers from Bonhams. Appraisers will provide verbal valuations of attendees’ treasured family heirlooms and favorite flea market finds. Maximum number of items per person is three. Advance reservations are strongly recommended and will be available online. $15 per item for Museum members; $20 per item for nonmembers. Additional items are $10 each. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, MAY 13 MOTHER’S DAY CONCERT Join the Athens Flute Choir for a program featuring familiar works that will conjure colorful images. Sponsored by Friends of the Garden. 2 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

MONDAY, MAY 14 HOMESCHOOL GROUP Send kids on a naturalist adventure at the Garden during this course. Minimum age is 4. $25/class. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, children’s classroom, State Botanical Garden. 706-583-0894. bwboone@uga.edu.

COMING UP RAMADAN May 15 through June 14. Islamic religious observance.

WORKSHOP May 15. The Georgia Museum of Art presents “Drawing in Nature” at the State Botanical Garden. Join artist Toni Carlucci to learn some of the secrets to drawing plants, flowers and other objects of nature using techniques that are fun, effective and easy to practice at home. Open to children ages 6 and older. Pre-registration is required. Limited to 25 participants.

4 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom 1, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6158. ckeber@uga.edu.

BASEBALL May 15. vs. Presbyterian. $5-$8. 6 p.m. Foley Field.

TOUR AT TWO May 16. Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art, will lead a special tour of A Legacy of Giving. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

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OFFICE OF INSTRUCTION

Aid and assistance: Director to retire after 40 years in higher education

By Tracy N. Coley tcoley@uga.edu

Tianming Liu, a Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Liu was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to quantitative mapping of structural and functional brain architectures using neuroimaging data.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is composed of the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers. College membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions Tianming Liu to “engineering and medicine research, practice or education” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of medical and biological engineering, or developing/ implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education.”

A formal induction ceremony was held April 9 during the AIMBE annual meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Liu was inducted along with 156 colleagues who make up the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2018.

Sonia Hirt, who will begin serving as dean of the College of Environment and Design in July, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the professional institute of the American Planning Association.

Election to Fellow is one of the highest honors that the American Institute of Certified Planners bestows upon a member. Fellowship is granted to planners who have been members of AICP and have achieved excellence in leadership; professional practice, teaching and mentoring; and research, Sonia Hirt public and community service. As outstanding professionals in the field of planning, Fellows of AICP address student organizations, state APA conferences and professional development programs.

Ashley Steffens, an associate professor of landscape architecture in the College of Environment and Design, recently was elected president of the Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture.

Steffens will serve a three-year term during which she will serve as president elect and chair of the Standing Committee for Management and Operations the first year, president and chair of the Standing Committee for Strategic Planning the second year and past president and chair of the Standing Committee for Organization and Structure the third year. She Ashley Steffens has been active with CELA for several years, previously serving on the executive committee as the vice president for communications and as track co-chair for design education and pedagogy for the annual CELA conference held at member institutions around the world.

At the College of Environment and Design, Steffens teaches computer and hand graphics and a community design studio, among other subjects.

She is the co-author of Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects: An Introduction.

Kudos recognizes special contributions of staff, faculty and administrators in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election into office of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes; and similarly notable accomplishments.

Bonnie ­Joerschke has taken her role as director of the Office of Student Financial Aid beyond her job requirements.

She’s made it her personal mission to help students who need extra support to attend UGA. Since her arrival from Purdue University in 2008, Joerschke has worked in partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the Division of Development & Alumni Relations and the Division of Academic Enhancement to provide access to college for more than 270,000 undergraduate and graduate students seeking financial aid, which totals more than $4.02 billion in federal, state, institutional and private scholarships, grants and loans over the last 10 years.

Around 81 percent of UGA students have the HOPE or Zell Miller scholarships, but many students can’t afford to pay the gap in expenses like books, supplies, housing and food not covered by the scholarships. Joerschke’s passion and her unquestionable compassion for those who fall in the $100 million financial aid gap each year has motivated Joerschke throughout her 40-year career in student financial aid, rooted in her own experience as a first-generation student from a single parent household.

“For me, the absolutely most rewarding part is being able to help students who wouldn’t be here—or anywhere else—without financial aid,” Joerschke said. “This is what provides them access to college, to overcome barriers to an education.”

To students like Ali Elyaman, she’s more than just a financial aid director.

“Bonnie understands many of the struggles low-income students face, and she cares about us like we were her own children,” said Elyaman. “She is always making sure that I’m up to par with my performance in school and just in life. She’s always there to listen to our problems, and if she can’t directly remedy them, she gives us advice and

RETIREES March

Six UGA employees retired March 1.

Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are: Jo h n C . B a t e s , r e s e a r c h p rofessional I, Warnell School of ­ Forestry and Natural Resources, 28 years, 4 months; Nadine K. Cohen, librarian IV, libraries-general operations, 23 years, 6 months; William T. Haley, skilled trades worker, Facilities Management Division-Central Campus Zone Shop, 17 years, 4 months; Gregory A. Lyle, research welder, Research Business Services, 32 years, 10 months; Pamela D. McNair, administrative associate II, Georgia Center, Conference and Hospitality Services, 29 years, 1 month; and William Dean Smart, locksmith, Busbee Hall, 25 years.

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Thirty UGA employees retired April 1.

Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are: Paula Lindsay Alexander, grants coordinator III, College of Educationdean’s office, 25 years, 4 months; Vernois Bolton, carpenter, Facilities Management Division-Off-Campus Zone Shop, 25 years, 5 months; Linda C. Buffington, administrative manager II, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, 31 years, 7 months; Mara

connects us to resources that can.”

Joerschke helps students work through residence hall issues, homelessness and food insecurity, and proactively connects them with campus resources like academic counselors and tutors, the Career Center, the University Health Center and food pantry. Her efforts have made a significant contribution to UGA graduation and retenPhoto courtesy of the Office of Instruction tion rates, which Bonnie Joerschke, director of student financial aid at UGA, will are among the retire June 30 after a long career of helping students who need highest in the extra support. nation for a Service Award for Financial Aid from ­public ­university. the College Board.

This year alone, Joerschke has Joerschke never intended to go into mentored 42 OSFA student scholars the field of student financial aid. Howwho are at-risk for not completing their ever, her two degrees in anthropology— degrees. She works throughout the the study of humankind—prepared her year to develop good relationships with for a career that started with a student them, so they know they have someone position in the financial aid office at a to count on. small community college in Colorado Over the last 40 years, Joerschke has in 1975 and blossomed into something built a national reputation as a leader about which she has become very pasin student financial aid. She’s served as sionate. Now, at the end of her career, member and chair on numerous profes- her greatest success has been the consional committees for Student Financial tribution of human-kindness to a field Aid Administrators at the state, regional dictated by hardline numbers. and national levels, including the College Joerschke has worked since she was Board, a nonprofit organization that 16 years old to help support her family, connects students to college success and so when she retires on June 30, she’s opportunity. Because of her knowledge looking forward to finding out what it’s and expertise in Pell Grants and higher like not to work. education financial aid regulations, she “Volunteerism is definitely in my has testified twice before the Advisory future,” she said. “My husband and I also Committee on Student Financial want to travel and work in the garden.

Assistance in Washington, D.C. In But I will continue helping people in ­ 2017, she received the Eleanor S. Morris some way. That’s just who I am.”

L. Cahoon, librarian II, librariesgeneral operations, 32 years, 1 month; ­Angela M. Callaway, business manager III, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, 33 years, 9 months; Anna Debora Cisneros, administrative associate II, Terry College MBA programs,15 years, 4 months; Tammy G. Cotton, administrative manager II, Plant Genome Mapping Lab, 27 years, 6 months; Melvin Elder, athletic equipment assistant, Athletic ­Association, 21 years, 1 month; Malgorzata A. Florkowska, research professional I, horticulture research, 20 years, 3 months; Christy Ann Glazer, human resources coordinator, College of Education-dean’s office, 26 years, 8 months; Diane L. Hartzell, program coordinator III, Office of the Vice President for Research, 22 years, 4 months; Clifford Heard, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division-Building Services, second shift, 31 years, 1 month; Martha Tanner Hughes, librarian IV, libraries-general operations, 32 years, 7 months; Jody Lee Jacobs, radiation safety ­manager, Office of the Vice President for Research, 15 years, 9 months; Brenda Popwell Keen, business manager II, The Georgia ­Review, 28 years, 8 months; Eric Glenn Lowe, research professional III, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, 29 years, 11 months; Steven W. Marcotte, ­associate director of ­student affairs, ­Residence

Hall ­Facilities ­Administration, 18 years, 7 months; Geraldine D. ­ McGuire, business ­ manager III, Office of the Vice P ­ resident for Research, 18 years, 8 months; Solange C. Mears, human resources specialist I, Office of Human Resources, 17 years; Bernard J. Meineke, public service associate, Small Business Development Center, 5 years, 8 months; Jerry Blake ­Nesmith, project director, Office of the Vice President for Research, 15 years, 1 month; Brenda D. Owens, pharmacist, University Health Center, 12 years, 4 months; Connie D. Perry, IT senior manager, EITS administrative information systems, 28 years, 6 months; Charles A. Purcell, electronic security technician, Facilities Management Division, Operations and Maintenance, Key Shop, 19 years, 10 months; Janet E. Rechtman, senior public service associate, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, 10 years; Diane S. Rousey, laboratory technician III, Tifton Diagnostic Lab, 26 years, 4 months; Amanda S. Summerville, accountant, English department, 14 years, 2 months; Essie K. Sutton, building services worker II, Reed Hall, 18 years; Jan G. Weathersby, county secretary, Southwest District, UGA Cooperative Extension, 23 years, 11 months; and Elizabeth C. Williams, administrative associate II, Terry College-dean’s office, 19 years.

Source: Human Resources

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‘Best way to learn’: UGA’s Speech and Hearing Clinic gives students opportunity to develop clinical skills

By Jim Lichtenwalter

james.lichtenwal25@uga.edu

Venture to the fifth floor of Aderhold Hall, and you’ll find one of the University of Georgia’s best-kept secrets, the Speech and Hearing Clinic.

“We still see people who tell us that they had no idea we are up here,” said Carol Ann Raymond, the clinic’s director and a practicing speech-language pathologist.

Housed in the communication sciences and special education department of the College of Education, the clinic is the training site for students receiving their master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders. Under the supervision of licensed clinical faculty, the students take their theoretical knowledge and apply it to actual patients.

The clinic first opened its doors in 1953 to satisfy the requirements for training students as laid out by the then-American Speech Language Hearing Association (the organization is now the Council on Academic Accreditation on Audiology and Speech Pathology). Since then, the clinic has been educating UGA students and providing assistance to residents of Georgia and beyond.

“Our mission is to provide a clinical education for our students and to be a service to our community,” said Raymond, who estimates that about 1,000 patients come through the clinic’s doors each year.

While many of the clinic’s patients are affiliated with the university, the majority of them have no connection to UGA. Some travel from as far as Savannah or even Indiana and Barbados. Patients come for a litany of reasons, ranging from help with their hearing aids to speech-language therapy.

This gives students a variety of cases from which to learn.

“I personally believe that the best way to learn is through experience,” said Carly McDaniel, a first-year graduate student.

“You can sit in a classroom all day long, but you only really learn things once you see and do them with an actual client.”

Students in the two-year master’s program spend three semesters seeing clients in the clinic and in part-time off campus placements before moving on to internships their second year. Their experiences in the clinic will prepare them as they move on to these internships and then into their careers.

“I really could not think of a better career path or a better way to help people,” McDaniel said.

Each week, McDaniel sees seven clients ranging from ages 2 to 19 who have speech and language disorders. In addition to her

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Jennie Cordell, center, has been coming to the Speech and Hearing Clinic for more than 30 years.

12 credit hours of class, she spends about 20 hours a week doing prep work and actually working with her clients during sessions. She is one of 26 students in the current cohort working in the clinic.

“We do therapy and treatment on those areas that our clients need help,” she said.

“Once we’ve established their needs, then we come up with a plan of what they are going to work on this semester.”

While the students do a significant amount of work with the clinic’s patients, they are carefully overseen by one of seven full-time and one part-time clinical faculty members.

“We have a very high standard of excellence,” said Raymond. “Our students are closely supervised, and we ensure they are providing our patients with the best possible care.”

McDaniel sees this component of the clinic as another perk of her education.

“On top of getting the client experience, you are also getting the professional expertise from people who have been in the field for such a long time,” she said.

This is important, because while the clinic needs to provide students with the opportunity to develop clinical skills, it also needs to give its clients effective services.

Irene Cordell has been so impressed with the care the clinic has provided her daughter, Jennie, that she’s been a client since 1985. Jennie, 39, Irene’s fourth child, has autism and is nonverbal. Yet the two have been coming to the clinic twice a week for more than 30 years.

“This clinic has done so much for us,” Cordell said.

Cordell is constantly amazed by how much effort the students put in to help their patients. Throughout the years, Jennie has gone through a variety of treatments at the

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clinic, ranging from learning sign language to using an iPad to communicate. The use of the iPad has opened up a whole new world for Jennie. With it, she can indicate if she is hungry or needs to use the restroom.

Irene said Jennie often expresses her wish to return to the family’s second home in Dublin through the device.

“People should come here,” Cordell said, gesturing around. “These students’ entire focus is you.”

The clinic also hosts annual Summer Intensive Communication Programs, which caters to three groups of patients for two weeks at a time. “Puppy Talk” is a themedbased program directed at 3- to 6-year-olds.

With this age group, client-centered intervention and enrichment activities improve speech, language and social communication.

Similarly, “Big Dawgs” is a program for children in grades two to five. “Smooth Dawgs,” a program for children 12 and older, is designed to help individuals who stutter.

“It is really fun, and the clients love it,” Raymond said. “They all do very well.”

After participating in the Summer Intensive Communication Programs or offcampus placements this summer, the current crop of master’s students will move on to the next portion of their program, which places them outside the clinic as full-time interns in area schools and hospitals. But another cohort of 28 is set to take over in the fall. Despite this changing of the guard, Cordell will continue bringing Jennie back to the Speech and Hearing Clinic twice a week.

“This place has been the most wonderful thing that could have happened to Jennie,” Cordell said. “They are all really doing a magnificent job.”

To learn more about the Speech and Hearing Clinic, visit https://bit.ly/2qS1Wik.

PRESERVATION

EMBARK

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About 175 people attended the inaugural conference in May 2017.

“Last year’s inaugural conference allowed leaders in this field to connect and collaborate with each other,” said Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute. “Having the experts in the room, sharing best practices and new ideas, helps ensure these students receive the support they need to achieve their educational goals. We look forward to again providing this leadership development opportunity and encourage everyone to attend.”

Open to higher education and high school professionals, case managers, homeless liaisons, private foster care professionals and any other interested community partners, the conference will include simulations, breakout sessions and networking opportunities.

Conference attendees also will hear from keynote speaker Clare Cady, a scholarpractitioner whose work rests in the intersection of higher education and human services.

The deadline to register is May 1. Visit https://bit.ly/2HmtGWA to learn more about the conference.

ABOUT COLUMNS

New book traces history of nation’s capital

George Washington’s Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic

By Adam Costanzo University of Georgia Press Hardcover: $74.95 Paperback: $29.95

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The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia is the largest holder of historic resources among state entities, and UGA is the largest holder among USG units with more than 730 historic buildings and 55 cultural landscapes across 11 Georgia counties.

“We want to ensure the Athens campus is taking steps toward preservation of historic buildings, but this goes well beyond the Athens campus,” said Scott Messer, director of historic preservation in the Office of University Architects. “All campuses are a part of this, not just Athens.”

The process started with a historic resource inventory, which came to life with the help of faculty and students in the College of Environment and Design and consultant teams.

The inventory includes a history, context, significance, condition and integrity of each historic building.

Now that the inventory is in place, the university can follow the detailed process on all historic buildings for things like maintenance and upkeep.

In addition to the benefits to the university’s legacy, the process provided experiential learning opportunities for graduate students in the College of Environmental Design. Nine graduate assistantships were created, and a number of internships were established in the historic preservation department to create the inventory and process.

At the reception, Nadenicek presented the college’s Dean’s Award to Messer for his work on the plan.

CYBERSIGHTS George Washington’s Washington traces the history of the development, abandonment and eventual revival of George Washington’s original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac.

Written by Adam Costanzo, the book was released this month by the University of Georgia Press as part of its Early American Places series.

In 1791,Washington’s ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L’Enfant’s plans for the city.

Yet the unprecedented scope of the plan; reliance on the sale of city lots to fund construction of the city and the public buildings; the actions of unscrupulous land speculators; and the convoluted mixture of state, local and federal authority in effect in the district all undermined Federalist hopes for creating a substantial national capital.

In an era when the federal government had relatively few responsibilities, the tangible intersections of ideology and policy were felt through the construction, development and oversight of the federal city.

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Editor Juliett Dinkins

USG site includes well-being information

usg.edu/well-being

The University System of Georgia is working to create a system-wide culture and environment of well-being.

As part of a comprehensive approach to achieving well-being that engages and empowers the entire USG community, a wellbeing section has been added to the USG website.

Among the topics discussed

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are financial well-being, health management, healthy eating, stress management, physical activity and being tobacco and smoke free.

The site also includes a video of success stories and a trending section with links to information on flu shots, LiveHealth online psychology, well-being coaching and ESPRY, the USG Employee Assistance Program.

Communications Coordinator Krista Richmond 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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got it, we’re going to bring the Olympics to Atlanta.’”

Payne left his law practice and took out a substantial bank loan to cover his family’s living expenses. Recruiting former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young as a partner in persuasion, he spent the next three-and-a-half years traveling to 110 countries selling Atlanta to Olympic officials— many of whom had never heard of the city.

“At the time,Atlanta was mostly associated with the Civil War and civil rights struggles, but I wanted to showcase its diversity and can-do spirit, and the collective strength of its people,” Payne says today, looking back at the lengthy Olympic bid process. “I wanted the world to see an aspect of the United States they didn’t know existed.”

During the 1980s, Georgia’s capital city had seen its downtown wither, its infrastructure decay and its population shrink. But beginning the morning of Sept. 18, 1990, when it finally won the Centennial Games, Atlanta moved quickly to get ready for its star turn. As president and CEO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games—the first time a bid chief had also overseen preparations—Payne led the way, wrangling more than $400 million in corporate sponsorships, enrolling thousands of volunteers and working with local and state officials to get everything built on time.

As ACOG constructed a new Olympic stadium, a world-class aquatics center and athlete housing that would later become college dorms, the city overhauled downtown streetscapes and renovated its airport, opening a dedicated international terminal.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority added several miles of rail and three new stations. Georgia made substantial state highway improvements, completing State Route 316 between Atlanta and Athens.

Thousands of new hotel rooms were built in or near downtown.

But Payne still felt something was missing.

From his window in the Inforum Convention Center one day in 1993, he looked down on the acres of blighted warehouses on the western edge of downtown and envisioned a park that could serve as a gathering space for visitors and locals during the games. Despite the tight deadline, he persuaded then-Gov. Zell Miller, state lawmakers and Atlanta officials to fast-track the purchase of the land

for the construction of a vibrant city center.

“The most defining part of the games was the creation of Centennial Olympic Park, which transformed Atlanta’s downtown,” says Dick Yarbrough, who served as ACOG’s managing director of communications and government relations.“Getting that park built is as good a testament to Billy’s enormous drive and vision as winning the games in the first place.”

When a terrorist’s bomb left two people dead and dozens injured halfway through the games, the park served as the scene of both Payne’s deepest anguish and fulfillment.

“My greatest memory is the reopening of Centennial Olympic Park after the bombing, with Andy (Young) giving an extraordinary speech,” Payne says. “The moment represented the power of resilience in the face of adversity.”

Payne is proud that he was able to bring the Olympics to his alma mater as well.

“It became obvious to me—rationally and emotionally—that our great flagship university should be part of our plans,” he says. “I could not imagine having the Olympics in Atlanta and not including UGA.” In addition to hosting volleyball matches and rhythmic gymnastics trials, the school saw a women’s soccer attendance record set when 76,489 fans packed Sanford Stadium to watch the final between the U.S. and China— an event that sparked a wave of interest in women’s soccer.

The apex of Payne’s salesmanship arguably came when he talked his old coach, Vince Dooley, and the university administration into allowing the stadium’s hallowed hedges to be temporarily removed to accommodate the soccer field.

After the games ended, some pundits predicted for Atlanta the kind of slump that befell Barcelona, with empty venues, vacant hotel rooms and dwindling civic coffers.

Instead, Atlanta embarked on a prolonged surge. The number of foreign consulates shot up. International tourism kept hotel rooms full. The city became a magnet for corporate headquarters. Two years after the games, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport became the world’s busiest airport, a distinction it continues to hold.

And Centennial Olympic Park became ringed with billions in new commercial development and cultural attractions, including the

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Faculty Fellows Program

The Division of Student Affairs is accepting applications for the Faculty Fellows Program until May 18.

The Fellows Program is a year-long opportunity for selected faculty members to create seamless learning opportunities for students by integrating co-curricular learning into their teaching or service work.

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

5K run/walk

The “Spring into Well-Being” 5K and 1.5 mile fun run/walk will be held May 9 at the UGA Golf Course. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m., and the race starts at 6 p.m.

Registration is free for the event, which is open to all UGA faculty, staff and their families.

Same-day registration is available.

For employees participating in the USG well-being program, this event is worth $25 in

well-being credit. All fitness levels are welcome. The first 200 people to pre-register will receive a 5K T-shirt (that can be worn May 10 at Staff Appreciation Day).

Snacks and water will be available after the race plus the Taqueria 1785 food truck will be present.

Pre-register online at https://bit.ly/2H6p1ot. To request a paper registration form, email wellbeing@uga.edu or call 706-542-7319.

Conference registration

UGA will host the international “Dirty Work” conference May 17-19. While there is no registration deadline, the deadline to sign up for lunches is May 1.

Some sessions are free and open to the public, including a minifilm festival and a session at the Morton Theatre.

Register at southernlaborstudies. org.

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Georgia Aquarium, World of Coca-Cola, the College Football Hall of Fame and the Center for Civil and Human Rights, helping jump-start what is now a busy and booming downtown.

“For Atlanta, the Olympics were a global networking opportunity beyond anything in its history and enhanced the city’s reputation as a world-class destination,” says Jeff Humphreys, director of the Simon S. Selig Jr. Center for Economic Growth at UGA’s Terry College of Business.“The games served as a catalyst to trade and tourism, affecting subsequent decisions regarding corporate relocations; foreign and domestic investment; government spending; and the locating of major conventions and sporting events.”

On April 30, the University of Georgia will permanently recognize the many contributions of Payne and his father with the formal naming of the William Porter Payne and Porter Otis Payne Indoor Athletic Facility. The naming opportunity is the result of gifts totaling $10 million, donated by friends of Billy and Porter Payne.

“The University of Georgia community as well as people across the state owe Billy Payne an enduring debt of gratitude for his vision and service,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead.“I cannot think of a more fitting way to honor Billy and his late father Porter than to permanently attach their names to the athletic program at their alma mater.”

Says Payne: “My dad was a wonderful man, tough but kind, and my role model in all things. To be forever linked with my dad and this facility is a much appreciated honor.”

Especially dear to Payne is the memory of taking part in the Olympic torch relay—more of a hobble for him shortly after back surgery—inside UGA’s Sanford Stadium, when he tipped the torch toward the seat where his late father had watched his son play football.

After the Olympics, Payne had more accomplishments ahead. In 2006, he became chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, one of the nation’s most exclusive clubs and home of the famed Masters Tournament. In 2012, he again made history by opening the club’s membership to women. He retired in 2017.

But Payne undoubtedly will be best remembered as the man who wouldn’t give up on a far-fetched dream of bringing the world to his hometown.

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“­ Charlottesville: Race & ­Terror,” in which a reporter for HBO’s VICE News Tonight and her crew documented the unfiltered declarations and threats of violence by white supremacists; CNN’s “Fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria” in which the network’s war reporters revealed many sides of the fall of ISIS and the devastation left in its wake; PBS NewsHour’s “Inside Putin’s Russia,” which provided viewers context for thinking about President Vladimir Putin’s global impact; BBC News’ “Plight of Rohingya Refugees,” in which BBC correspondents worked to pursue reports of entire villages destroyed and people being slaughtered as more than half a million Muslims fled persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh; CBS’ “The Whistleblower,” in which 60 Minutes and The Washington Post’s business reporting resulted in a far-reaching investigation into how the Drug Enforcement Administration was hobbled in its attempts to hold Big Pharma accountable in the opioid epidemic.

Winners for radio/podcast programming are NPR’s “Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S.”; Minnesota Public Radio’s “74 Seconds,” a podcast series about the 2016 death of Philando Castile as his girlfriend streamed what was happening over Facebook; Serial and This American Life’s “S-Town,” which breaks ground for the medium by creating the first audio novel, a nonfiction biography constructed in the style and form of a seven-chapter novel; Louisville Public Media’s “The Pope’s Long Con,” a podcast about a local politician that demonstrates the importance of checks and balances and local journalism; and Gimlet Media’s “Uncivil: The Raid,” in which public history and family stories intertwine for a retelling of the pivotal role played by 250 newly escaped slaves struggling for freedom during the Civil War in South Carolina. The winner in public service programming is Al Jazeera’s “The Cut: Exploring FGM,” Fatma Naib’s personal journey to explore the traditions and controversies inherent to female genital mutilation.

Peabody Award winners will be honored May 19 in New York. Hasan Minhaj, comedian, writer and senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is host for the ceremony.

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information and technologies, Eroh intends to revolutionize the way fish populations and their ecosystems are managed. He is preparing for a career specific to fish conservation as a researcher for a university or government agency.

“Guy is a most apt recipient of the Udall Scholarship,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program, who serves as the Udall Scholarship faculty advisor for UGA. “For as long as I have known him, Guy has been focused on the important role of fish in ecological sustainability. I applaud and am encouraged by his passion and commitment.”

Eroh is president of 5 Rivers UGA and has been a member of Trout Unlimited, the Upper Oconee Watershed Network, UGA Ocean Initiative, the Georgia chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology and the Georgia and Oregon chapters of the American Fisheries Society.

He currently conducts research with UGA faculty Cecil Jennings, Robert Bringolf and Jean Williams-Woodward to maximize hatch success of walleye eggs. Eroh also interned for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in the UK. His awards include the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Wildlife Leadership Award, Stamps Foundation Scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society.

He was one of three UGA students to receive a Goldwater Scholarship this spring. Eroh runs competitively with the UGA Club Cross Country Team and is a SCUBA-certified diver. He studied abroad through UGA programs in Costa Rica and Oxford, England.

In addition to Eroh, UGA junior Abigail West was one of 50 students nationwide to receive an

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Guy Eroh is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in ecology and a master’s degree in forest resources.

honorable mention from the Udall Foundation.

A Foundation Fellow from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, she eventually plans to pursue a master’s degree in fine arts after working at artistin-residency programs focused on sustainability.

The Udall Scholarship provides up to $7,000 for eligible academic expenses and includes a fourday orientation in Tucson, Arizona, and access to the Udall Alumni Network, an extensive group of environmental and tribal leaders and public servants. Since 1996, the Udall Foundation has awarded 1,574 scholarships totaling $8,090,000.

The Udall Foundation was established in 1992 to honor Rep. Morris K. Udall for his 30 years of service to the U.S. Congress. Legislation in 2009 incorporated the name of his brother, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall.The independent agency conducts programs that promote leadership, education, collaboration and conflict resolution in the areas of the environment, public lands and natural resources.