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Twenty-five undergraduates participated in the first Student Tour of Georgia during spring break.

Inaugural Student Tour of Georgia highlights UGA’s commitments to state

By Kelly Simmons

simmonsk@uga.edu

Twenty-five University of Georgia undergraduate students got a firsthand look at how UGA is making a difference in Georgia communities during the inaugural Student Tour of Georgia over spring break.

It was UGA’s first such tour organized specifically for students and was based on the popular New Faculty Tour, sponsored by UGA Public Service and Outreach, which introduces about 40 new faculty to the state each August. PSO and the Division of Student Affairs coordinated the Student Tour of Georgia, which was sponsored by the Office of the President.

A primary goal of the tour was to help students better understand the land-grant and sea-grant missions of the university and how

the University of Georgia fulfills those missions by helping to create stronger, healthier and more secure communities.

“I am pleased that our students were eager to travel throughout the state to learn more about its history, the wonderful communities we enjoy and the integral role that the University of Georgia plays in the lives of all Georgians,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “It is a testament to our students’ intellectual curiosity and their desire to play a vital role in the state’s continuing success.”

From the mountains to the coast, the students saw examples of ways that UGA has helped boost the local and statewide economy and improved the quality of life for Georgians.

In Alto, near Gainesville, they learned about Jaemor Farms’ transition from a traditional farm

to an agritourism destination with assistance from UGA agricultural extension agents and Small Business Development Center consultants.

Still known for lush strawberries and peaches, sweet corn, tomatoes, watermelons and pumpkins— among many other fruits and vegetables—Jaemor Farms now attracts customers from miles away for annual strawberry festivals, corn mazes, u-pick days, canning classes and other family events.

Later in the week, the students toured an energy-efficient model home on the campus of UGATifton and learned about the research underway on the South Georgia campus, where scientists have created smartphone apps to control crop irrigation and developed new breeds of pecans that are high yielding and highly resistant to disease.

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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

The University of Georgia’s Innovation District initiative is now benefiting from greater industry and community engagement with the first meeting of the Innovation District External Advisory, or IDEA, Board on March 28. The purpose of the IDEA Board is to ensure that the growth and development of the district is informed by the private sector and the local business community.

The IDEA Board will meet several times during the next 18 months and focus particular attention on industry and alumni engagement, district master planning and innovation programming and support.

“This board, full of highly talented and successful leaders, will play an important role in the success of this transformational university initiative,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “I am grateful to the members of the board for their support and service, and I look forward to hearing their ideas and insights in the months ahead.”

As UGA’s campus of the future, the Innovation District will include an integrated set of facilities offering spaces and amenities to inspire collaboration, discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship, ultimately making the university a more powerful driver of economic

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GRADY COLLEGE

Rita Moreno to receive Peabody Career Award at May ceremony

By Margaret Blanchard mblanch@uga.edu

The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors has selected Rita Moreno as the recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, presented by Mercedes-Benz. The honor is reserved for individuals whose work and commitment to electronic media has left an indelible mark on the field. The Peabody Awards are based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

“Rita Moreno is a unique talent who has not only broken barriers, but whose career also continues to thrive six-plus decades after her acting debut,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of Peabody. “We are delighted to celebrate her many contributions to entertainment and media, as well as her passion

for children’s programming and important social issues.”

With the addition of the Peabody Career Achievement Award, Moreno has Rita Moreno won all of the most prestigious awards in show business: the Oscar, the Tony, two Emmys® and a Grammy. Her countless credits span more than six decades, beginning with her Broadway debut at age 13. Moreno has starred on Broadway, in London’s West End and appeared in more than 40 feature films and on countless television shows. She has performed in numerous regional theaters, including her one-woman See PEABODY on page 8

OFFICE OF RESEARCH

Simons receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award New faculty Innovation Fellows

By Camie Williams an impressive record of external more than camiew@uga.edu

Distinguished Research Professor Ronald L. Simons has been named the University of Georgia’s recipient of the 2019 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.

The SEC award recognizes professors with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship and is administered by provosts at each of the 14 universities in the conference.

Simons, who is a faculty member in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of sociology, will receive a $5,000 honorarium.

“Dr. Simons is an extraordinary scholar who consistently produces high-impact research, has achieved

funding, and has received numerous professional accolades,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “He has brought great distinction to the University of Georgia and is a deserving recipient of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award.”

Simons’ research has revealed the impact of social and environmental conditions on gene expression, aging and health. His longitudinal studies about the impact of persistent family economic hardship and conflict on biological aging and the development of chronic illness, including cancer, diabetes and dementia, have resulted in the creation of programs for at-risk families.

His research has garnered

$45 million in grant funding, which includes continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health for three decades.

Ron Simons That work has resulted in more than 220 peer-reviewed articles and several books. With more than 28,000 citations, Simons ranks in the 99th percentile for sociologists and in the 95th percentile or higher in the fields of family studies, criminology and developmental psychology.

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Program accepting applications

By Aaron Hale

aahale@uga.edu

The Office of Research is now accepting applications for the university’s new Innovation Fellows Program. This program is designed to support faculty who want to engage in commercialization and product development, with an eye toward fine-tuning their research programs to align with industry and market needs.

Faculty of all ranks are encouraged to apply.

President Jere W. Morehead announced the Innovation Fellows Program during the State of

the University address, delivered in January. It is part of a multipronged effort to fuel greater innovation on campus.

“This new program is responding to a vibrant and growing culture of innovation and entrepreneurship among the faculty at the University of Georgia,” said Morehead. “I am excited to see this initiative launch and take shape in the months and years ahead.”

Each semester, one to three faculty will be named Innovation Fellows. Fellows will receive up to $10,000 in funding to support customer discovery, make connections

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NEW MATERIALS INSTITUTE

Walmart Foundation grant seeks to reduce plastic waste

By Kat Gilmore

Mary Frances Early lecturer finds lessons in her experiences at UGA

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

kygilmor@uga.edu

An $800,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to the University of Georgia New Materials Institute will help researchers understand how multilayer plastic packaging biodegrades and also help manufacturers in their attempts to design and select more sustainable materials.The research funded by the grant will seek to yield both upstream and downstream solutions aimed at reducing the buildup of plastic packaging in the environment.

“The grant will help us examine how the selection of materials for flexible packaging influences the biodegradability of that plastic in different environments, and also how the unique microbes that exist in these environments influence the biodegradation process,” said Jason Locklin, director of the New Materials Institute and a principal investigator on the grant. “Our data will be used to propose new and logical standards to help find ways to manage packaging waste that is presently being thrown away or blown away.”

Multilayer packaging protects nearly half of the food produced from spoiling before it can be eaten. This complex packaging is also extremely difficult material to recover and recycle, said Locklin. Currently, when two or more types of plastic are bound together to create this flexible packaging, the composite film either does not biodegrade or biodegrades at a rate too slow to meet certification requirements that allow the manufacturer to claim its film will biodegrade; these requirements vary by country.

There are numerous microbial environments in which plastic packaging—when comprised of the right materials— could fully biodegrade, including landfills, municipal waste water treatment plants and industrial composting facilities.

The research team will examine packaging biodegradability in all of these settings and propose new testing standards that governments and certification laboratories can adopt so that all flexible plastic packaging is subjected to rigorous, standard testing protocols.

The team will also conduct a nationwide assessment of existing waste management infrastructure to determine the most advantageous means of managing waste, including the proximity of composting, recycling and other waste processing facilities to the communities they serve. As part of this assessment, the team also will consider whether additional infrastructure may be needed as new types of materials produced to replace conventional plastics begin to make their way into these waste and recycling streams.

The other principal investigators on the project are Jenna Jambeck, who leads the institute’s Center for Circular Materials Management, and Evan White, an assistant research scientist. Jambeck is an associate professor in the College of Engineering. Locklin is a professor of chemistry and biochemical engineering who is jointly appointed to the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of chemistry and the College of Engineering.

“Tackling our plastics problem is going to require new approaches to the entire cycle of production, consumer use and disposal,” said David Lee, vice president for research at UGA. “We’re grateful to the Walmart Foundation for its support of research that aims to create benefits both for the environment and for the communities it serves.”

The UGA New Materials Institute is committed to preventing waste through the design of materials and systems that adhere to green engineering principles. The institute partners with industry and businesses to design materials for their use that are bio-based, fully biodegradable, or completely recyclable, and safe for people, animals and the planet. In addition, it works with businesses, governments, foundations and other organizations to redesign systems so that they generate less waste and promote circularity in materials management.

Mary Frances Early may be known as a quiet trailblazer, but that was not Christopher Emdin’s first impression of her.

“It is in every narrative I’ve heard thus far, and in every description thus far, of her graceful revolutionary status, of her quiet movement-building—this idea of this demure person who shifted culture,” said Emdin, New York Times best-selling author and creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement.

“But if you talk to her for five minutes, you realize that’s not true. The authentic-lived reality is one who is loud and unapologetic about speaking to and for those who are like her.”

Emdin, who is associate professor in the mathematics, science and technology department in Teachers College at Columbia University and director of the science education program and associate director of Columbia’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education, delivered this year’s Mary Frances Early Lecture on March 26.

Early herself agrees with Emdin’s initial assessment.

“The documentary written about me is called The Quiet Trailblazer, but some people have found that I’m not always quiet,” she told the audience. “I am when I need to be, and I speak up

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Christopher Emdin delivered the 19th annual Mary Frances Early lecture March 26.

… when it’s time to speak up. And one must learn when to do each.”

Emdin shared that students today can still find lessons in Early’s experiences and build a better future by learning from the past.

In order to help students today understand those lessons, Emdin said it is crucial to meet them where they are and engage with them and create conversation about what changes are needed.

“The things you will hear will rattle against your norms,” he said. “You

cannot have a system of education where the theories and philosophies that guide that education were constructed in an era when the young people who we need to be successful were not given consideration.”

For Emdin, it’s important to appreciate what’s come before but also keep an eye toward what’s to come.

“To continue Mary Frances Early’s legacy is to be free,” he said. “There’s a whole leap of places to go. This isn’t about constructing enemies; it’s about identifying allies.”

WILLSON CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS

Global Georgia panel seeks an international perspective

By Dave Marr

davemarr@uga.edu

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will present “Moving Statues: A Conversation of the Global South” on April 10 at 6 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. Part of the 2019 Global Georgia Initiative, the event will include a panel discussion and a presentation by photographer and video artist Christo Doherty, an associate professor and deputy head of the Wits School of Arts of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Doherty will present on his recent research and photographs concerned with the removal of statues and monuments from South Africa’s apartheid era, followed by a conversation with American scholars whose work has explored related issues in the U.S. The panelists for the conversation are Valerie Babb, the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities in African American Studies and English at Emory University; Malinda Maynor Lowery, associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina; and Akela Reason, associate professor and director of the Museum Studies Certificate Program in the history department of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center, will serve as moderator.

Doherty has researched the mysterious disappearance of a memorial to the Irish Volunteer Brigade, which fought with the Afrikaners against the British Empire in the

Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, amid the 2015 protests of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which demanded the removal of monuments to John Cecil Rhodes and other apartheid-era figures of the oppressive white minority regime in South Africa.

“Human societies all around the world create monuments to their real and imagined pasts, and have done so for Christo Doherty millennia,” said Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and director of the Willson Center.

“The cultures these symbols and statues represent become fraught in times of transition. This conversation brings together voices from South Africa and the American South to discuss the diverse ways in which changing societies think about the present in light of their shared and difficult pasts.”

This event is associated with the Global Georgia Initiative research group in Global Studies of the American South, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

It is presented in partnership with the UGA department of history, the Atlanta History Center, the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina and the department of African American studies at Emory University.

The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene.

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‘We Need New Names’ author to give 2019 Betty Jean Craige Lecture on April 15

By Dave Marr

davemarr@uga.edu

Author NoViolet Bulawayo will visit UGA on April 15 to give the department of comparative literature’s Betty Jean Craige Lecture.

Bulawayo’s talk on “The Immigrant Experience in America,” which is also part of the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, takes place at 4 p.m. in the Chapel.

Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe, attended college in the U.S. and is now a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University.

Her 2013 debut novel We Need New Names

was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, an annual award for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Among many other honors, We Need New Names also won the Pen/Hemingway Award for a debut novel and was named a New York Times notable book of 2013.

The novel tells the story of a girl’s childhood split between a Zimbabwean shantytown and suburban Detroit and captures both the young heroine’s experiences amid the instability of her homeland and the unease of her assimilation to her new country.

“I have been teaching We Need New Names for several years now, and I never tire of doing so,” said Peter O’Neill, an associate

professor of comparative literature and chair of the department’s annual lectures, conferences and events committee. “Nor do my students. In class evaluations, it is ranked consistently as the favorite NoViolet Bulawayo book of the semester by many of them. Since comparative literature is home to African languages and literatures, Ms. Bulawayo is the ideal guest speaker for our department’s annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture.”

The Betty Jean Craige Lecture is given

each year in honor of Craige, who is University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and a former director of the Willson Center. The African Studies Institute, the Institute for African American Studies and the Institute for Women’s Studies are co-sponsors of Bulawayo’s visit.

The Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context by addressing pressing contemporary questions, including the economy, society and the environment, with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.

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Digest Russell Library’s Civic Knowledge, Civic Power series will begin April 15

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‘Listen and learn’

More than 3,000 students have participated in IMPACT, formerly known as Alternative Spring Break, since the program began in 1994.

More than 350 students use their spring break to volunteer with service organizations across the US

By Stan Jackson ugastan@uga.edu

A break in classes does not mean a break from learning or service at the University of Georgia. Over spring break, March 11-15, 378 UGA students traveled to 22 cities across the country, where they volunteered with more than 50 community service organizations.

IMPACT Service Breaks, a program run by the Center for Leadership and Service, engages students in affordable and substance-free experiential service learning.

Amanda Torrence, senior coordinator for community engagement, said that it makes her heart full to see so many students from across campus and from various backgrounds come together to serve.

“But not just that,” Torrence said.

“To learn—about themselves—about their community.”

Torrence said IMPACT is different from other service opportunities in that students visit the same communities year after year, building sustained relationships with the people there.

For example, UGA students have been serving with Asheboro, North Carolina, for 20 consecutive years. She said that it is important to maintain positive and ongoing relationships with communities instead of just showing up.

“It’s about working with these

­ artners who know these communities p far better than we ever could,” she said.

“We listen and learn what they tell us their needs are instead of us deciding the need for them.”

Formerly known as Alternative Spring Break, IMPACT began at UGA in 1994 with a group of students interested in spending the week of spring break engaged in community service.

Since the beginning of the program, more than 3,000 UGA students have participated. This year, through winter and spring trips, the students served a total of 15,120 hours, or 1.72 years, of service.

For Kamryn Lyle, a senior international affairs major from Marietta, experiential learning opportunities like her IMPACT trip to Birmingham add value to her education beyond simply preparing her for a job.

“It’s not just about my career path— it’s about learning to be an active citizen, right?” Lyle said.

Lyle said that service is a big part of the culture at UGA. She thinks that the university attracts students who are concerned and willing to learn about what’s going on in their communities.

“These are students who are willing to delve into everything,” she said. “[UGA] helps build this big community of relationships where you’re hyping each other up to do service and get

involved. There are a lot of very good resources and a lot of very motivated students.”

Aly Shakoor, a sophomore economics major from Decatur, spent his spring break serving with nonprofits dedicated to shelter and resource access in Charlotte, North Carolina. He said that service is a great way to see the broader social issues.

“People tend to stay in bubbles, unless they’re forced out of a bubble or step outside of the bubble,” he said.

“You need to know how you fit into that larger community.”

For Delaney Burke, a freshman criminal justice and international affairs major from Alpharetta, learning to build community is perhaps the greatest lesson from her service experience. She now has a different perspective and is not as quick to make assumptions about people or communities.

“It’s cool to get past the surface level,” she said. “Doing service goes so much deeper from the start. Through respect and admiration —awareness— that’s how you make community.”

Students interested in learning more about IMPACT should attend the open house on Sept. 30.

The next trips are scheduled for fall break, Nov. 1-3, in a new partnership between the Center for Leadership and Service and the Archway Partnership, a unit in public service and outreach.

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Minority markets see economic growth, financial gain

By Matt Weeks

mweeks@uga.edu

Every racial and ethnic minority group in America is making financial gains but not at equal rates, according to the latest Multicultural Economy Report from the University of Georgia.

The annual report calculates the consumer buying power—or total income after taxes—for minority markets in the U.S.: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Published by the Selig Center for Economic Growth, a unit of UGA’s Terry College of Business, the Multicultural Economy Report is available for purchase.

The sustained growth of the U.S. economy culminated in an estimated $14.8 trillion of buying power

nationally in 2018, an increase of 100% since 2000 and 30% since 2010, with the biggest percentage gains occurring in minority markets.

The combined buying power of African Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans is estimated to be $2.4 trillion, while the nation’s Hispanic people command $1.5 trillion in spending power—larger than the GDP of Australia.

“The economic expansion has been quite good in recent years, and we’re still seeing the benefits of that for every group in America,” said Jeff Humphreys, Selig Center director and author of the report. “While minority markets are certainly enjoying more buying power than ever before, the rate of growth differs. We find the largest percentage increases in the Asian and Hispanic mar-

kets, followed by relatively slower rates of growth in the African American and Native American populations. Whites comprise the largest share of the U.S. market but have the slowest percentage rate of buying power growth.”

While buying power is increasing across the country, the biggest gains come from Western states. The top 10 states with the largest percentage increase in total buying power since 2000 are Utah (156%), North Dakota (150%), Wyoming (143%), Texas (137%), Washington (131%), Arizona (131%), District of Columbia (130%), Montana (125%), Nevada (122%) and Idaho (118%).

The five slowest-growing states since 2000 are Michigan (57%), Illinois (71%), Ohio (74%), West Virginia (75%) and Missouri (76%).

The Richard B. Russell Library’s annual Civic Knowledge, Civic Power series will be held April 15-22. The program seeks to bolster civic knowledge on campus and in the community by highlighting the critical role Congress plays in American politics and government.

Open to the public, the series features lectures and discussions led by political science faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs. On April 15, Anthony Madonna will discuss the origins and evolution of the National Emergencies Act of 1976 at 11 a.m. in Room 277 of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. On April 17, Audrey Haynes will explore how public opinion shapes the presidential impeachment process at noon in Room 277 of the special collections libraries.

Jamie Monogan will conclude the series on April 22 at noon in Room 277 of the special collections libraries by highlighting the current state of U.S. immigration policy.

The keynote lecture will be given by Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College. Her lecture, “Government Shutdowns and Partisan Risk: What We Can Learn from the Forgotten Debacle of 1879,” will take place April 18 at 4 p.m. the auditorium of the special collections libraries. Richardson will probe the partisan nature of recent federal government shutdowns by recounting the nation’s first government shutdown. A reception will follow the lecture.

The Civic Knowledge, Civic Power series ­coincides with national Congress Week, an ­initiative sponsored and promoted by the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress.

For more information, contact russlib@uga.edu or call 706-542-5788.

School of Law wins Intrastate Moot Court Competition for second year

The University of Georgia School of Law took home the top trophy in the Intrastate Moot Court Competition for the second year in a row and the seventh time in 10 years.

Second-year law students Huel M. “Kip” O’Kelley IV, S. Frances Plunkett and Justin C. Van Orsdol captured the title for UGA and also won the Best Brief Award. All five law schools in Georgia field two teams in this annual Peach State courtroom contest.

The law school’s second team, comprised of second-year students Eric S. Abney, Addison Smith and Georgia L. Turner, finished as semifinalists. They were coached by third-year students Thomas Grantham and Timia Skelton.

Lea Salonga’s ‘The Human Heart Tour’ coming to Athens for sold-out show

UGA Presents is bringing Tony Award winner Lea Salonga to Athens April 26 for a sold-out concert at the Performing Arts Center. Salonga’s 7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall show is part of her “The Human Heart Tour” which is taking her to venues throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Salonga rose to international fame in 1989 when she was selected to play Kim in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The role won her the Tony Award as well as Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World awards.

She returned to Broadway as Erzulie, the goddess of love, in the revival of Once on This Island.

Salonga is also known to millions of Disney fans as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan and Mulan II. Tickets for the concert are sold out, but anyone interested in attending is encouraged to check the Performing Arts Center website periodically for updates on ticket availability: pac.uga.edu.

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The following events are open to the public, unless otherwise specified.

Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.

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Stony the Road We Trod. Through April 28. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

New Gods | Old Gods. Through April 28. Athica. 706-338-2751. lhfancher@gmail.com.

Fighting Spirit: Wally Butts and UGA Football, 1939-1950.

Through May 10. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

Nevertheless, She Resisted: Documenting the Women’s Marches. Through May 17. Hargrett Library Gallery, special collections libraries. 706-583-0213. jhebbard@uga.edu.

Life, Love and Marriage Chests in Renaissance Florence.

Through May 26. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Jean Mann. Through June 23. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

Under the Big Top: The American Circus and Traveling Tent Shows. Through July 5. Special collections libraries.

706-583-0213. jhebbard@uga.edu.

Out of the Darkness: Light in the Depths of the Sea of Cortez.

Through Oct. 27. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1817. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MONDAY, APRIL 8 2019 CURO SYMPOSIUM Through April 9. More than 650 UGA undergraduates conducting faculty-mentored research in an array of disciplines will present their findings during oral and poster sessions. The symposium opens April 8 at 11:15 a.m. and includes 216 oral presentations and 395 posters. Jennifer McDowell, professor and chair of the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will deliver the keynote address titled “Minding Your Brain” at 3:30 p.m. in Ballroom E. The poster session and reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. Oral presentations will continue April 9 at 9:30 a.m. with the last session ending at 4:45 p.m. For the presentation schedule and more information, visit https://symposium.curo.uga.edu/. 11:15 a.m. Classic Center. 706-542-5871. kabethel@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 WORKSHOP “Assessment for Reflective Teaching and Learning” will focus on the role of reflective teaching and learning that results from the assessment process. The session will highlight the importance of reflective teaching and learning for improvement of student learning outcomes, as well as improved teaching practices. 9 a.m. M.A.L.L., Instructional Plaza. 706-542-1355. jamie.adair@uga.edu.

READING The Creative Writing Program presents a reading and book talk with professors LeAnne Howe and Magdalena Zurawski. The reading will be followed by a discussion curated by professor Andrew Zawacki. Howe’s latest work is Savage Conversations, published by Coffee House Press. Zurawski’s latest work is The Tiniest Muzzle Sings Songs of Freedom, forthcoming from Wave Books. 7 p.m. Cine. 706-542-2659. cwp@uga.edu.

FILM SCREENING Chronicling the aftermath of a 2008 immigration raid—the largest in U.S. history—at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, The U-Turn follows the legal fight of the plant’s undocumented workers for U-visas available to victims of crimes. Filmmaker Luis Argueta will introduce the documentary and participate in a Q&A session after the screening. 7 p.m. 213 Miller Learning Center. 510-725-8733. rnavitsk@uga.edu.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 BOOK SALE The UGA Library Staff Association’s spring book sale includes books, CDs, DVDs and other items with proceeds to be shared with Project Safe. 9 a.m. Lobby, Main Library. jcropp@uga.edu.

CENTER FOR VACCINES AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR “Protein Design Versus Pathogen,” Eva Strauch, assistant professor, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, University of Georgia. 11 a.m. S175 Coverdell Center. 706-542-3214. cvi@uga.edu.

LECTURE “The Web of Life: Birds and the Memory of South American Temperate Forests,” Tomas Ibarra, Franklin International Faculty Exchange Fellow. At the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Ibarra is an assistant professor and researcher at the Centre for Local Development, the Centre for Intercultural and Indigenous Research and the Centre for the Socioeconomic Impact of Environmental Policies. 1:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building.

706-542-1753. fsarmien@uga.edu.

PERFORMANCE Through April 14. Young Frankenstein. $16; $12 for students.

8 p.m. on April 10-13; 2:30 p.m. on April 14. Fine Arts Theatre (Room 200), Fine Arts Building. 706-542-4247. wclay87@uga.edu.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11 WOMEN’S GOLF Through April 13. Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. UGA Golf Course.

MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR “Practical Applications of Streptomyces Metabolism and

ARCO Chamber Orchestra concert will feature concertos and world premieres

Levon Ambartsumian will perform the world premiere of a new orchestration of Schubert’s best-known chamber works, Fantasia in F minor.

By Yeasol Kang

yeasol89@uga.edu

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra presents a Thursday Scholarship Series performance featuring two Hugh Hodgson faculty members Levon Ambartsumian and Evgeny Rivkin, who will perform concertos.

The concert will take place in Hodgson Concert Hall on April 9 at 7:30 p.m. and will highlight works

by Mozart, Schubert and Glinka.

The first part of concert will feature Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414. Known for its brilliant character and natural and pleasing melodies, the concerto was written in 1782 for home performances and was orchestrated for small chamber orchestras. Rivkin, professor of piano, will perform as a soloist in this piece.

The second part of the concert will open with one of Schubert’s best-known chamber works, Fantasia in F minor. This composition, originally written for piano four-hands where two players perform on one piano,

was orchestrated for solo violin and string chamber orchestra by the world-renown composer Efrem Podgaits. The North American premiere of this arrangement will be performed by the Ambartsumian, the Franklin Professor of Violin. Ambartsumian, who performed the world premiere in Moscow last month, will perform the South American premiere this summer in Santiago, Chile.

For the finale, under the baton of Ambartsumian, the artistic director of ARCO, the ensemble will perform Valse-Fantasie by Mikhail Glinka. Also known as Melancholy Waltz because of its minor key, this piece was initially a work for piano. Award-winning Russian composer Igor Kholopov arranged it for a small chamber orchestra with four woodwinds and strings.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children and UGA students and can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu, by calling 706-542-4400, or in person at the Performing Arts Center box office at 230 River Road in Athens.

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Jerusalem Quartet to perform April 16 concert

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The Jerusalem Quartet is coming to UGA on April 16 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall. The awardwinning ensemble’s program will feature string quartets by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven.

Founded in 1993 in Israel, the Jerusalem Quartet has performed on some of the world’s leading concert stages with biannual visits to North America and regular appearances at London’s Wigmore hall, Tonhalle Zurich, Munich Herkulessaal and Theatre des Champs-Elysees. The ensemble also has been invited to perform at premier music festivals such as Salzburg, Verbier, SchleswigHolstein, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Rheingau, Saint Petersburg White Nights as well as Ravinia in the U.S. The Jerusalem Quartet records exclusively for the harmonia mundi label. The quartet’s recordings, particularly the albums featuring Haydn’s string quartets and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” have been honored with numerous awards including the Diapason d’Or and the BBC Music Magazine Award for chamber music.

The quartet’s Athens concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music program in the U.S. Tickets for the concert start at $30 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

A pre-performance talk will be given by Theresa Chafin, a graduate music student at UGA. Open to the public, the talk will begin at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

Hodgson Concert Hall and Ramsey Concert Hall are located in the Performing Arts Center at 230 River Road in Athens.

Metabolites,” Jason Sello, Brown University. 11 a.m.

404D Biological Sciences Building. khbrown@uga.edu.

LECTURE “Antagonistic Cooperation: Poetry, Prose and American Poetics, 1825-2016,” Elizabeth LeRud, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics in the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and career instructor of English at the University of Oregon. This event is part of the Interdisciplinary Modernism/s Workshop, a Willson Center Faculty Research Cluster. 4 p.m. Library, Park Hall.

PANEL DISCUSSION Innovation Gateway’s annual Technology Transfer Educational Series, “Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry,” is a four-part series that highlights how Innovation Gateway collaborates with UGA researchers to maximize the impact of their discoveries by partnering with industry, or helping to launch startup companies, to move discoveries from the lab or field to the marketplace. The fourth and final event in the series, “Success Stories: Turning UGA Research into Products,” will feature an exclusive panel of UGA researchers and entrepreneurs sharing their licensing and startup success stories and experiences, followed by questions from the audience. The one-hour panel discussion will be followed by a networking reception with refreshments. Space is limited, and registration is encouraged.

RSVP to Tyler Duggins at tduggins@uga.edu or 706-542-8969.

4 p.m. Cine.

The Jerusalem Quartet will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. April 16 at Hodgson Concert Hall.

UGA NIGHT AT SIX FLAGS Join UGA students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends for a night at Six Flags. More event information available on Facebook and the Center for Student Activities and Involvement website. $33.50 through April 11. 6 p.m. Six Flags Over Georgia.

706-542-6396. involvement@uga.edu.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 PLANTAPALOOZA Plantapalooza, which brings together three University of Georgia units for one big plant sale, will be held at the State Botanical Garden, the Trial Gardens and the UGA Horticulture Club.

Profits from the plant sale help fund research and continued support for the garden. The Trial Garden venue only accepts cash or check. All of the proceeds benefit the garden in the way of student labor and supplies. The UGA Horticulture Club will be selling garden and landscape plants near the intersection of Riverbend and College Station roads. Profits help fund horticulture club scholarships and educational activities at UGA. For more information on plants for sale, visit botgarden.uga.edu.

8 a.m. connicot@uga.edu or trial-gardens@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Vanderbilt. 1 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

MONDAY, APRIL 15

GEORGIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE EXPERIENCE WEEKEND Through April 13. The Georgia African American Male Experience (GAAME) is an annual program created to increase the enrollment and support African American males at the University of Georgia. During this weekend experience, which focuses on leadership and leadership development, admitted African American male students will meet with distinguished faculty, community leaders, prominent alumni and leading members of the student body. Students will also participate in various extracurricular activities that the university has to offer. 7 a.m.

Georgia Center. 706-583-8195. mrdst3@uga.edu.

LUNCH AND LEARN Join UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for a lunch and learn series focused on developing a better understanding of Congress with “The Congressional Delegation and the Federal Emergencies Act.” Civic Knowledge, Civic Power invites guest speakers to give brief talks on topics connected to the history and function of this branch of government, followed by informal discussion. In this talk, Anthony Madonna will discuss the 1976 Federal Emergencies Act. Coffee and desserts provided.

11 a.m. 277 special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu. (See Digest, page 3.)

SIBLEY LECTURE The 117th Sibley Lecture, titled “Are Supreme Court Decisions the Law of the Land?,” will be delivered by David A. Strauss, the Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and faculty director of the Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic at the University of Chicago. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the board of directors of the American Constitution Society, Strauss previously served as attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General and special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Noon. Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, Hirsch Hall. nikko.terry@uga.edu.

ANDREA CARSON COLEY LECTURE In “The Experiences of Trans Students Today: What We Know and Do Not Know (But Should),” Genny Beemyn will examine past and current research on the experiences of trans college students. Beemyn is the director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Trans Policy Clearinghouse coordinator for Campus Pride. Cosponsored

by UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies. 12:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Kentucky. 4 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

MFA OPENING RECEPTION Enjoy the opening reception for this year’s Lamar Dodd School of Art Master of Fine Arts degree candidates. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MCGILL MEDAL PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION The 2018 McGill Fellows will present the 2019 McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage to Associated Press visual journalists Maad Al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty for their work with their colleague Maggie Michael. Their features shed light on the civil war in Yemen. 3:30 p.m. Peyton Anderson Forum, Journalism Building. 706-542-5038. murrayd@uga.edu.

COMING UP ARTFUL CONVERSATION April 17. Join Callan Steinmann, curator of education, for a session of slow looking and conversation about Beauford Delaney’s painting “Portrait of Imogene Delaney” (1963). 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE DAY LECTURE & AWARDS April 17. The reception and awards program includes a keynote address featuring experts in international agriculture, nutrition and food security. Keynote: Eric Danquah, “Transforming Agriculture in Africa through Modernizing Higher Education: A University of Ghana Story.” 3:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1073. bkloster@uga.edu.

BOOK DISCUSSION April 17. Lillian Leitzel was a star of the Ringling Brothers Circus, where she captivated audiences with her highflying act.

But her scandalous life outside of the big top would make even the reality stars of today blush. Learn more at a discussion of Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus

by Dean Jensen. 6 p.m. 258 special collections libraries.

706-542-6367. kdotson@uga.edu.

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See The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer April 12-13 at Ramsey Concert Hall.

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer opens April 12

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer to Athens for three performances April 12 and 13. Australia’s The Last Great Hunt theater company will perform Alvin Sputnik at 7 p.m. on April 12 and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on April 13.

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer is an award-winning one-man show that melds technology and multimedia into a touching story of enduring love and survival. The visually inspired show employs a unique blend of puppetry, animation and live and recorded music to present an exploration of the next and oldest frontier: the deep blue sea.

Creator Tim Watts debuted The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik at Perth’s Blue Room Theatre in 2009 before presenting a highly successful season at the New York International Fringe Festival, where it was awarded outstanding solo show. The show has gone on to win multiple international awards including best theatre production at the Auckland Fringe Festival, best male performer at Dublin Fringe and best original show at Fil Festival in Rio de Janeiro.

The family-friendly show, designed for ages 10 and older, has been compared to Pixar’s Wall-E for the stage.

“Alvin Sputnik is an endearing Australian solo show told in stick-figure animation and puppetry…akin to a theatrical Wall-E,” wrote The New York Times.

Watch the trailer for Alvin Sputnik at https://bit.ly/2FecOie. Tickets for the show are $30 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400.

A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

Ramsey Concert Hall is located in the UGA Performing Arts Center at 230 River Road in Athens.

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OFFICE OF THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST

PROMOTIONS Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

To Librarian IV: Mariann Burright, librariesgeneral operations; and Viki H. Timian, libraries-general operations.

To Librarian III: Susan Clay, librariesgeneral operations; Mandy Mastrovita, libraries-general operations; Mary Poland, libraries-general operations; and Donald S. Summerlin, libraries-general operations.

Vice President for Public Service and Outreach

To Associate Research Scientist: Ajaya K. Biswal, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.

To Public Service Associate: Mona Behl, Marine Extension Service; Rebecca Moore Brownlee, Small Business Development Center; Jennifer F. Ceska, State Botanical Garden of Georgia; Alex Robert Daman, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Angelique H. Jackson, Archway Partnership Project; David Lee Lakly, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; William Matthew Lastinger, Small Business Development Center; and Jay Scott Pippin, Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

Vice President for Research

To Senior Research Scientist: Christian Heiss, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; and Scott Edward Noakes, Center for Applied Isotope Studies.

College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

To Professor: Dan Barry Croom, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, entomology research college; Aaron Thompson, crop and soil sciences; R. Scott Tubbs, crop and soil sciences; and Marvin Lenny Wells, horticulture.

To Associate Professor: Mark Abney, entomology; Abigail Borron, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Benjamin Campbell, agricultural and applied economics; Xiangyu Deng, food science and technology; Hunt Brendan, entomology; Lohitash Karumbaiah, animal and dairy science; Hongxiang Liu, animal and dairy science; Ali Missaoui, crop and soil sciences; Chad Michael Paton, food science and technology; and Ashfaq Ahmad Sial, entomology.

To Senior Public Service Associate: Denise Everson, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Casey Downs Mull, 4-H Youth; Paul Jesse Pugliese, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Uttam Kumar Saha, Feed and Environmental Water Lab; Mary Sheffield, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; and Amanda Marie Tedrow, Northeast District Cooperative Extension.

To Public Service Associate: Leigh Anne Phelps Aaron, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Kasey L. Bozeman, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; Susan L. Culpepper, Northwest District Cooperative

TENURE The University of Georgia ­approved tenure for 64 faculty members. Those receiving tenure are:

Extension; Chesley R. Davis, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Jason D. Duggin, animal and dairy science; Lauren Dye, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Lauren L. Griffeth, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Alexandria C. Griner, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Kathryn A. Holland, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Stephanie Maxie Hollifield, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Jason T. Lessl, Soil, Plant and Water LabCooperative Extension; Allison P. Perkins, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Randi Roxanne Booker Price, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; L. Rochelle Sapp, Southwest District Cooperative Extension; Andrew Garrett Sawyer, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Keishon J. Thomas, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Jakyn J.Tyson, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; and Jessica Warren, Southeast District Cooperative Extension.

To Public Service Assistant: Tony L. Barnes, Southeast District Cooperative Extension; Joel Burnsed, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; Stephanie Skojac, Northwest District Cooperative Extension; Tripp Williams, Northeast District Cooperative Extension; and Laura Ashley Witcher, Northwest District Cooperative Extension.

To Associate Research Scientist: Jennifer Jo Thompson, crop and soil sciences.

College of Education

To Professor: Amy B. Ellis, mathematics and science education; and Bernadette D. Heckman, counseling and human development services.

To Associate Professor: Jarrod A. Call, kinesiology; Ashley J. Harrison, educational psychology; In Heok Lee, career and information studies; Tisha Lewis-Ellison, language and literacy education; Darris Means, counseling and human development services; and Julianne D. Schmidt, kinesiology.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Karen Bryant, lifelong education, administration and policy; and Mary K. Guay, language and literacy education.

To Associate Research Scientist: Hye-Jeong Choi, College of Education Centers; Georgia Wood Hodges, mathematics and science education; and Kevin R. Raczynski, College of Education Centers.

College of Engineering

To Professor: Stephan A. Durham, environmental, civil, agricultural and mechanical engineering; Jenna R. Jambeck, environmental, civil, agricultural and mechanical engineering; Sudhagar Mani, chemical, materials and biomedical engineering; Leidong Mao, electrical and computer engineering; and Yajun Yan, chemical, material and biomedical engineering.

College of Environment and Design

To Professor: Robert Alfred Vick, Dean’s Office-Environment and Design.

Mark Abney, entomology; Amanda J. Abraham, public administration and policy; Christine Albright, classics; Tessa Andrews, genetics; Analisa Arroyo, communication studies; Fikri Avci, biochemistry and molecular biology; Michele Barletta, large animal medicine; Jennifer Birch, anthropology; Betram Bynum Boley, forestry and natural resources; Abigail Borron, agricultural leadership, education and communication; Joshua Bousquette, Germanic and Slavic studies; John Bray, theatre and film studies; Benjamin Britton, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Clifton Buck, marine sciences; Michael Cacciatore, advertising and public relations; Houjian Cai, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences; Jarrod A. Call, kinesiology; Benjamin Campbell, agricultural and applied economics; Mary Elizabeth Ager Caplan, School of Social Work; Shira Chess, entertainment and media studies; Malissa Clark, psychology; Amanda Erikson Coleman, small animal medicine and

The University of Georgia has approved the promotion of 168 faculty members.

Those receiving a promotion are:

College of Family and Consumer Sciences

To Professor: Theodore G. Futris, human development and family sciences; and Yoo-Kyoung Seock, textiles, merchandising and interiors.

To Associate Professor: Claire de La Serre, foods and nutrition; Lilia Gomez-Lanier, textiles, merchandising and interiors; and Robert Pazdro, foods and nutrition.

College of Pharmacy

To Associate Professor: Houjian Cai, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Rebecca H. Stone, clinical and administrative pharmacy.

To Public Service Associate: Ashley Nicole Hannings, College of Pharmacy.

College of Public Health

To Professor: Curtis A. Harris, health policy and management; and Xiao Song, epidemiology and biostatistics.

To Associate Professor: Hanwen Huang, epidemiology and biostatistics; and Anne Marie Zimeri, environmental health science.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Kerstin Gerst Emerson, health policy and management.

College of Veterinary Medicine

To Professor: Amie Koenig, small animal medicine and surgery; Paula M. Krimer, pathology; Nicole Cecile Northrup, small animal medicine and surgery; Corey Fontaine Saba, small animal medicine and surgery; and Elizabeth W. Uhl, pathology.

To Associate Professor: Michele Barletta, large animal medicine; Amanda Erikson Coleman, small animal medicine and surgery; Roberto A. Palomares Naveda, population health; and Jesse R. Schank, physiology and pharmacology.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Andrew Craig Bugbee, small animal medicine and surgery; Emmanuel Rollin, population health; and Jarred M. Williams, large animal medicine.

marine sciences; Malissa Clark, psychology; Jennifer Crenshaw, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Berna Gueneli, Germanic and Slavic studies; Takahiro Ito, biochemistry and molecular biology; Jain Kwon, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Justin Lavner, psychology; James Derrick Lemons, religion; Rielle Navitski, theatre and film studies; Peter O’Connell, classics; Sarah Shannon, sociology; Kristen Shockley, psychology; Jiyeon So, communication studies; and Magdalena Zurawski, English.

To Associate Research Scientist: Benhui Yang, physics and astronomy.

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

To Professor: Jooyoung Kim, advertising and public relations.

To Associate Professor: Michael Cacciatore, advertising and public relations; Shira Chess, entertainment and media studies; and Bartosz Wojciech Wojdynski, journalism.

Odum School of Ecology

To Associate Professor: Elizabeth Gallant King, ecology.

To Associate Research Scientist: Patrick Rod Stephens, ecology.

School of Law

To Professor: Mehrsa Baradaran, law.

School of Public and International Affairs

To Professor: Alexander H. Kaufman, political science.

To Associate Professor: Amanda Abraham, public administration and policy; and Rongbin Han, international affairs.

School of Social Work

To Associate Professor: Mary Elizabeth Ager Caplan, School of Social Work; and Tiffany Renee Washington, School of Social Work.

To Clinical Associate Professor: Anthony Joseph Mallon, School of Social Work.

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Terry College of Business To Professor: Dezso Benedek, comparative literature; Dana Bultman, Romance languages; Adrian Burd, marine sciences; Marla Carlson, theatre and film studies; James E. Coverdill, sociology; Kelly Dyer, genetics; Tad T. Gloeckler, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Todd Harrop, chemistry; Deepak Mishra, geography; Amy Ross, geography; Julie Spivey, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Stephanie Tingler, Hugh Hodgson School of Music; AmyTrauger, geography; Susanne Ullrich, physics and astronomy; and John P. Wares, genetics.

To Associate Professor: Christine Albright, classics; Tessa Andrews, genetics; Analisa Arroyo, communication studies; Fikri Avci, biochemistry and molecular biology; Jennifer Birch, anthropology; Joshua Bousquette, Germanic and Slavic studies; John Bray, theatre and film studies; Benjamin Britton, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Clifton Buck,

surgery; Jennifer Crenshaw, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Claire de La Serre, foods and nutrition; Xiangyu Deng, food science and technology; Lilia Gomez-Lanier, textiles, merchandising and interiors; Berna Gueneli, Germanic and Slavic studies; Rongbin Han, international affairs; Curtis A. Harris, health policy and management; Ashley J. Harrison, educational psychology; Hanwen Huang, epidemiology and biostatistics; Brendan G. Hunt, entomology; Takahiro Ito, biochemistry and molecular biology; Lohitash Karumbaiah, animal and dairy science; Elizabeth Gallant King, School of Ecology; Jain Kwon, Lamar Dodd School of Art; Justin Lavner, psychology; In Heok Lee, career and information studies; Joshua Lee, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; James ­Derrick Lemons, religion; Tisha Lewis-Ellison, language and literacy education; Hongxiang Liu, animal and dairy science; Darris Means, counseling and human development services; Ali Missaoui,

To Professor: Santanu Chatterjee, economics; Marie S. Mitchell, management; and Jessica Beth Rodell, management.

To Associate Professor: Joshua Lee, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Tim Samples, insurance, legal studies and real estate; Julio Sevilla, marketing; and Benjamin C. Whipple, J.M. Tull School of Accounting.

To Senior Public Service Associate: Jeffrey M. Humphreys, Terry College of Business.

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

To Professor: Sonia M. Hernandez, forestry and natural resources.

To Associate Professor: Bertram Bynum Boley, forestry and natural resources.

To Senior Public Service Associate: Charles T. Bargeron IV, forestry and natural resources.

Source: Office of Faculty Affairs

crop and soil sciences; Walter Scott Monfort, crop and soil sciences; Rielle Navitski, theatre and film studies; Peter O’Connell, classics; Roberto A. Palomares Naveda, population health; Chad Michael Paton, food science and technology; Robert Pazdro, foods and nutrition; Tim Samples, insurance, legal studies and real estate; Jesse R. Schank, physiology and pharmacology; Julianne D. Schmidt, kinesiology; Julio Sevilla, marketing; Sarah Shannon, sociology; Kristen Shockley, psychology; Ashfaq Ahmad Sial, entomology; Jiyeon So, communication studies; Tiffany Renee Washington, School of Social Work; Benjamin C. Whipple, J.M. Tull School of Accounting; Bartosz Wojciech Wojdynski, journalism; Chen Zhen, agricultural and applied economics; Anne Marie Zimeri, environmental health science; and Magdalena Zurawski, English.

Source: Office of Faculty Affairs

UGA ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

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CAES Rally Coffee takes grand prize at 2019 FABricate entrepreneurial competition

By Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

Dorothy Kozlowski

Ramatulai Jagne, a first-generation college student from metro Atlanta, started Ramla Apparel during her first year at UGA.

Successful launch

Freshman starts business selling unique products

By Sara Freeland freeland@uga.edu

Most University of Georgia students spend the first semester of their freshman year adjusting to campus and studying for exams.

But after Ramatulai Jagne finished her homework, she worked on launching her business, Ramla Apparel. The online business sells protective hair bonnets from Gambia; shea butter and oil perfumes from Dubai; as well as wax print dresses, jewelry and accessories from a variety of places in West Africa like Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana.

It’s a blend of Gambian culture, African American culture and American culture, and many of the products are imported from Gambia.

“The idea is finding things that remind you of Africa in a way that’s accessible,” she said. “That’s our slogan: Bringing the motherland to your doorstep.”

Jagne, a first-generation college student from metro Atlanta, runs the business with her mom, Lala Jobe, who emigrated from Gambia in the 1990s.

When the website launched in January, the hand-woven fans sold out in two days. Their signature product— the wax printed bonnet, lined in satin—sold out the fastest.

Designed to protect ethnic hair from breaking and keep in moisture, the bonnets are a rarity at their price point, Jagne said.

“We can’t really have a large stock of each bonnet because the fabric is so unique,” she said. “They’re all very novel, and we have new ones coming in all the time.”

The idea for the business was years in the making. Jagne and her mother had been talking about starting a business for a while, and while on a road trip last summer they decided it was now or never.

“We can’t just keep talking about it,” she said. “If we want

something to happen, we have to take small deliberate steps.”

They saw a need in the market—a need to connect with African culture—and a gap in the market for an online marketplace for reasonably priced imported African goods.

That day, they started doing their research. For Jagne, that meant learning how to build a website and learning the technical aspects of an online business.

It also meant getting a business license, naming the business and querying friends and family about what products they would want to purchase.

Before the launch, Jagne spent her free time during her first semester at UGA taking product pictures and uploading the pictures to the website. Now that the website has launched, it’s about maintaining the business.

She handles marketing and promotions for the business.

She sends out emails and manages its social media accounts.

Her mother handles the day-to-day aspects of the business: mailing out the products and importing the products from Gambia. She’s currently working to restock products that sold out after the initial launch.

The business is based in family connections. One of Jagne’s aunts works at the Gambian airport, and another lives in England and is married to an African tailor who makes a lot of clothing for the business. A few cousins travel frequently to Nigeria and Kenya and supply them with products. And her mother and 12-year-old sister often appear in product photos.

Jagne’s business is one of hundreds launched over the years by students still in school, and part of an increasing trend of student entrepreneurship on campus. An intended management information systems and international business major, Jagne said her UGA classes are coming in handy.

“My classes now are coinciding with what I need to know for the business,” she said. “I took MIST 2090 and that was learning how technology and business intersect, how to make things more efficient and organized. I used that a lot.”

WEEKLY READER

A two-woman team, Herb Girls Athens, won the $2,500 grand prize at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ FABricate entrepreneurs’ contest.

In the final pitch contest held on March 27 at UGA’s Student Center for Entrepreneurship, called Studio 225, CAES agribusiness master’s degree student Eileen Schaffer and psychology student Amy Wright wowed the judges with their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory coffee supplement. The powder, Rally Coffee, is designed to be mixed into brewed coffee to give extra health benefits and is spiked with cinnamon, cardamom and chicory for added flavor.

“Not only did we have high-quality ideas presented, but what also really excited me was the diversity of the products,” said Doug Bailey, CAES assistant dean for academic affairs. “Where else are you going to find a barbecue sauce, an herbal supplement, a physical replacement for fungicides, new makeup formulas and a way to process poultry litter into fertilizer? It really shows the depth and breadth of the interests and the imaginations of our students in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.”

Since 2017, students from CAES have presented their best ideas for world-changing technologies, innovative business plans and market-disrupting food products during the college’s annual FABricate entrepreneurship challenge.

This year’s competitors were given the option of taking a new business development seminar class as they worked to refine their product concepts and business plans. Vanessa Shonkwiler, an applied economist and business development specialist who works with the CAES Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, guided students through the process of bringing their ideas to fruition.

Cash prizes were awarded to the Herb Girls and to second place winner Beer-BQ Sauce for their line of Athens-made beer-infused barbecue sauces, Classic City Sauces. The Beer-BQ team was made up of two agribusiness undergraduate students, Blake Carter and Tristan Smith, and mechanical engineering undergraduate Coleman Purcell.

In all, five product development teams made it to the final pitch contest. The other teams and products include: • Sydney Mai, an environmental chemistry undergraduate, and Xiao Tan, a landscape architecture undergraduate, developed Flower-ly Lips, Fairy’s Secret, a plant-based cosmetics line meant to be safe for children.

• Davis Verner, a turfgrass management undergraduate, McCoy Savage and Luke Kosko, both agribusiness master’s degree students, developed Agrow-Fert, a process to mine phosphorus from poultry litter to be used in fertilizer.

• Annakay Abrahams, a doctoral student studying plant pathology, developed SporAvert, a water-permeable membrane that can be used to cover high-value crops to prevent the spread of fungal diseases.

For more information about these businesses, visit https://bit.ly/2Utssi2.

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Still Hungry in America Photographs by Al Clayton Text by Robert Coles Introduction by Edward M. Kennedy New foreword by Thomas J. Ward Jr. University of Georgia Press Paperback: $32.95

Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America resonates today. The work was created to complement the July 1967 U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. At those hearings, witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thousands of American families. The most powerful testimonies came from the authors of this book.

Al Clayton’s camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the results of insufficient food and improper diet. Physician and child psychiatrist Robert Coles described the medical and psychological effects of hunger. His narrative conveyed the plight of the millions of hungry citizens in the most affluent nation on Earth.

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UGA Research magazine available online

ugaresearch.uga.edu/magazine-2/spring-2019/ The spring 2019 UGA Research magazine is now online.

This edition’s cover story examines how the UGA Marine Institute recovered after flooding from Hurricane Irma and embraced a new mission. Also covered in-depth are the science/art partnership between marine science’s Samantha Joye and Willson Center Delta Visiting Chair Rebecca Rutstein,

as well as the impact of Georgia’s accountability courts.

Read about Henry “Fritz” Schaefer’s contributions to theoretical chemistry over his career, Mable Fok’s plans to use light to help solve spectral bandwidth problems in wireless communications, alumnus Jon Keeley’s work examining California wildfires for the U.S. Geological Survey and more.

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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from page 1 “The UGA-Tifton campus blew me away, seeing what an international reach the university has and how cutting-edge its agriculture and sustainability practices are,” said Kathleen Reynolds, a finance and marketing major from Johns Creek. “I have lived in Georgia my whole life, and I thought I knew my state, but it wasn’t until the Student Tour of Georgia that I fully grasped just how awesome and innovative Georgia is and what a pivotal role UGA plays in this.”

During a visit to Pulaski County, a UGA Archway Partnership community about 50 miles south of Macon, students heard Jeff Tarver, a Pulaski County native, talk about launching a program to help the county’s youth improve their grades and graduation rates. The LIFE League program combines basketball with goal-setting, good decisionmaking and life skills.

The participants, both male and female in middle and high school, were considered at risk of dropping out of school. The high school graduation rate for program participants is now 90%, about 15 points higher than the local average.

Tarver, LIFE League CEO, was an at-risk youth himself but was able to turn things around, go to college and become a faculty member at Middle Georgia State University.

That impressed the UGA students.

“No matter who you are or where you come from, you can make a difference,” said Arryn Evans, a criminal justice and psychology major from Starke, Florida.

At a stop in Fayetteville, students learned about the burgeoning film industry in Georgia and toured Pinewood Studios, where Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War and many other films were shot.

In Atlanta they visited the Center for Civil and Human Rights as well as Ebenezer Baptist

AWARD from page 1 Church, where they listened to a recording of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last sermons before his assassination.

During a visit to the state Capitol, the students sat in on legislative committee meetings—and learned a little bit about the freedoms Americans enjoy.

“It was really interesting to see how easy it is for people in Georgia to see what’s happening inside the Capitol,” said Elisabeth Balencinova, an international student from France. “In France, you cannot access your Capitol.”

A bus tour of the Georgia Ports Authority in Garden City, which is undergoing an expansion to accommodate larger barges, and a visit to Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah drove home the importance of economic development initiatives. At Gulfstream, the students learned about research and development of high-end private jets and sat in the machines the company uses to test its smaller systems.

“I am excited to tell my friends who are engineering majors about the work Gulfstream is doing to provide jobs and revenue for Georgia,” said Julia Allen, an economics major from Columbus.

The tour group learned about the coastal ecosystem during a trawl on the R/V Georgia Bulldog and had their pictures taken with Uga X at UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant on Skidaway Island, near Savannah.

“It was cool to learn about UGA’s seagrant mission right after learning about what being a land-grant university means,” said Madison Drummond, an advertising and sports management major from Appling. “I realized that the work being done (at Skidaway) is just as much a part of UGA as Herty Field or the Arch. The impact of this university goes beyond one campus or research lab and actually creates change in our state and beyond.”

Bulletin Board Departmental MyID accounts

EITS is conducting its annual cleanup of unused departmental MyID accounts.

Departmental MyID accounts are often used by units, colleges and departments for testing systems, running automated processes and establishing a contact email for a department or program.

Employees who maintain a departmental MyID account should have received an email notice with instructions on how to verify and claim the account for another year. This notice will be sent to the departmental email address and the departmental MyID owner’s UGAmail address, if one is on file.

Employees who maintain a departmental MyID account but do not receive an email notice should contact Access Services at adminfo@uga.edu or 706-542-4000.

Access Services can also provide a complete list of departmental MyID accounts. To have a copy of the list sent via SendFiles, send an email to adminfo@uga.edu.

Verify and claim your departmental MyID accounts by May 24. If an account is not claimed, it will be deactivated.

More information can be found at https://eits.uga.edu/access_and_security/ myid/departmental_myids/.

Golf League

The 2019 Faculty/Staff Golf League has begun.

All UGA faculty and staff of every skill level are welcome to join each Tuesday evening of daylight saving time for nine-hole events in individual or team formats.

Weekly and season-long winners

will receive golf shop credits.

Find more information at https:// golfcourse.uga.edu/facultystaffleague.

Faculty research funds

Student Affairs is accepting proposals for FY20 funding for research projects until May 15.

The funds support projects that can increase understanding of elements of student success in a broad sense and involve a partner from Student Affairs.

For more information, visit https://faculty.studentaffairs.uga.edu or email Beate Brunow at b.brunow@uga. edu.

Grant proposal deadline

The Center for Teaching and Learning is accepting proposals until April 19 for its 2019-2020 Learning Technologies Grants Program.

Projects must focus on the innovative use of technology to assist students in meeting the educational objectives of their academic programs. This year, projects must employ the use of active learning and/or open educational resources.

Grant award recipients will be announced by late June. Funds will be available after July 1.

Complete details about the program, including proposal requirements, are at http://ctl.uga.edu/ltg.

Submit completed proposals to the Learning Technologies Grant survey.

Send questions to Philip Bishop, senior coordinator of learning technologies, at philip.bishop@uga.edu.

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

Simons, who is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, has a strong reputation for mentoring students from groups underrepresented in his discipline, including several students who developed an interest in sociology while they were incarcerated. In all, he has mentored and supervised nearly 30 students who earned a Ph.D. in sociology, most of whom have gone on to become faculty members at research universities.

His former students include six academic department chairs, three deans, an associate provost and an assistant to the president.

Eric A. Stewart, a former doctoral student, serves as the Ronald L. Simons Professor of Criminology at Florida State University, an endowed professorship that Stewart chose to name in honor of his mentor.

“Professor Simons was a model professor: a passionate, energetic teacher who stimulates interest in the subject matter, devotes a tremendous amount of time in

INNOVATION

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The fellowship begins with a weeklong immersion in UGA’s innovation-oriented curriculum from programs like NSF I-Corps followed by another week of activity planning and matching with mentors. The remainder of the semester will require a weekly commitment of about eight hours to keep moving the Fellows’ potentially commercially viable ideas forward.

At the end of the program, Fellows will have a deeper understanding of industry needs as well as the tools to better assess how those needs align with their particular research interests. They also will be strongly connected to the university’s growing

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passing on the theoretical and methodological tools of the discipline in a highly effective manner and actively fosters the professional development of those fortunate enough to study or work alongside him,” Stewart wrote in his nomination letter. “I can truly say that I owe my career to Professor Simons’ mentoring and guidance in shaping my development in the field.”

Simons is a Fellow of UGA’s Owens Institute for Behavioral Research and serves as co-director of the UGA Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships, which studies the intersections of genetic and environmental contributions to health and health behavior.

“Dr. Simons has dedicated his career to making a positive impact on individuals and communities,” said Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Libby V. Morris. “He exemplifies how outstanding mentorship and innovative research can change lives for the better.”

innovation ecosystem, including the new Innovation District initiative.

“In addition to gaining new insight into how their research program aligns with industry needs, we hope these Fellows will serve as beacons for innovation within their home departments, informing and inspiring fellow faculty to connect with the Innovation District initiative and to find new ways to make their research available to the wider world,” said Derek Eberhart, associate vice president for research and executive director of Innovation Gateway.

Applications for the fall 2019 Innovation Fellows Program are due May 20, and instructions can be found at http://startups. uga.edu/Innovation_Fellows/. Appointments will be announced the week of June 3.

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development in Georgia.

The district will be a hub for university startups, research commercialization and experiential learning, a place where bright ideas become new products and business ventures that benefit communities across the state. The district also will make it easier for industry partners to collaborate with UGA’s talented faculty and students to solve business problems and foster innovation.

The IDEA Board includes distinguished university alumni and supporters, industry partners and business leaders, and other individuals with expertise and experience in areas of importance to the success of the Innovation District initiative.

The IDEA Board members are: • David Bradley, president and CEO, Athens Area Chamber of Commerce • Terry S. Brown, managing partner, Asana Partners • Michael Cocroft, managing partner, Red Clay Consulting • Anthony M. Ferguson, northeast region director, Georgia Power

PEABODY

• Keith Kelly, president and CEO, Kelly Products Inc. • Davis P. Knox, CEO and co-founder, Fire and Flavor • Francis W. Milward, head of global assay and services, vaccine research and development, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health • Chaly Jo Moyen, senior vice president of strategy, planning, and decision science, Coca-Cola North America • Teresa L. Ostapower, senior vice president for technology transformation, AT&T • Michael Patrick, Innovation and New Ventures, Chick-fil-A • Wesley Rogers, president and CEO, Landmark Properties • John W. Rooker, CEO, Rooker Co. • Matt Rushing, vice president of product line for global crop care, AGCO Corporation • Dana Williams Spinola, CEO, fab’rik • Richard Stamper, entrepreneur • Matthew P. Warenzak, partner, Smith, Gambrell and Russell, LLP • Halsey Wise, chairman and CEO, Lime Barrel Advisors.

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show, Life Without Makeup, at the Berkeley Rep. For three seasons, Moreno starred in the widely popular Latino remake of Norman Lear’s classic sitcom, One Day at a Time, on Netflix, which was nominated for a 2017 Peabody Award. Just recently, she signed on as an executive producer in the Steven Spielberg remake of West Side Story, a film in which she is also co-starring. When she is not shooting a TV show or film, she can be found on the road, performing concerts with her band.

Moreno received The Kennedy Center Honor for her lifetime contributions to American culture and was honored by her peers as the 50th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2015, she served as the grand marshal of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. That same year she released her “first ever” all Spanish language album, Una Vez Mas, produced by good friend, Emilio Estefan. She also added New York Times best-selling author to her list of accomplishments with her first book, Rita Moreno: A Memoir, published by

Celebra Books. Moreno was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush and the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

The Peabody Career Achievement Award is presented by Mercedes-Benz, the presenting sponsor and official automobile of the 78th annual Peabody Awards Ceremony.

“Mercedes-Benz is honored to partner with Peabody to present the second annual Career Achievement Award to Rita Moreno, a true pioneer who continues to inspire all of us with her inimitable artistic gifts,” said Monique Harrison, head of brand experience marketing at Mercedes-Benz USA. “We are proud to support the 78th annual Peabody Awards and to show our deep appreciation for the importance of trailblazing storytelling in the media. We are very much looking forward to celebrating with all of the honorees.”

Moreno will be celebrated with fellow Peabody Award winners on May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.