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Honors student named university’s 24th Rhodes Scholar By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu
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UGA announced an ambitious goal of $1.2 billion for the Commit to Georgia Campaign as well as a lead gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation on Nov. 17 at a kickoff event at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.
‘Generous gift’
Laura Courchesne’s work throughout her three-plus years at UGA paid incredible dividends Nov. 19 as she became one of 32 students in the U.S. to be named a Rhodes Scholar, receiving the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world. Courchesne, an Honors Program student and Foundation Fellow from Fair Haven, New Jersey, is majoring in economics and religion in the Terry College of Business and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, respectively. Her studies focus on the emerging field of behavioral approaches to conflict; her primary research interest is
the link between nonstate armed groups and civilian populations. She is the 24th UGA student to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Recipients are nominated by their colleges and universities and are selected through a process spanning the 50 states, the District of Laura Courchesne Columbia and the U.S. territories. The 2017 scholars will begin their courses of study at the University of Oxford in October. “The University of Georgia is very proud of Laura for earning
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Robert W. Woodruff Foundation gives $30 million STUDENT AFFAIRS $2.4M donation to boost food to university for need-based aid By Katie DeGenova kdgen@uga.edu
The University of Georgia has received the largest single gift in its history to support the top priority of the Commit to Georgia Campaign: need-based financial aid. The $30 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation was announced at the kick off of the public phase of the campaign in Atlanta in mid-November. “The Woodruff Foundation is pleased to join alumni and friends of the University of Georgia to help expand opportunity for students with financial need,” said Russ Hardin, president of the Woodruff
Foundation. “Through its generous gift, the Woodruff Foundation has made a transformative investment in the lives of promising young students and in the future of our state,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “Closing the financial aid gap helps open doors of opportunity for Georgia’s best and brightest students.” The full cost of attendance at the University of Georgia, which includes tuition, fees, books, supplies, room and board, and transportation, totaled more than $26,000 for in-state students in the fall 2016 semester. “People often do not realize
that HOPE or Zell Miller scholarships only cover a part of the expenses related to college,” said Rahul Shrivastav, vice president for instruction. For students from the lowestincome households, this may mean juggling two or three jobs or taking out multiple loans to make ends meet. As a result, some students may not be able to take full advantage of all UGA has to offer while enrolled or they may accumulate debt as they begin their careers. “We recognize that many bright, hard-working Georgia students face significant financial barriers to attending the See AID on page 8
FALL 2016 COMMENCEMENT
scholarship, other programs By Stan Jackson ugastan@uga.edu
Like dozens of his fellow UGA students, Kyle McReynolds used to worry about finding enough money for his next meal. “You want to be engaged in class, engaged in studying, but all you can think about is how you’re going to pay for the next thing,” said McReynolds, a junior majoring in business management from Warner Robins. McReynolds and his classmates are now able to focus on their studies thanks to the Let All the Big Dawgs Eat Food Scholarship. The food scholarship and other programs that support students just received a big boost from
UGA graduate Jess Stokely, who is contributing $900,000 to the food scholarship and $1.5 million to general support for students. Stokely’s $2.4 million donation is the largest one-time gift ever made to the university’s Division of Student Affairs. Even with the competitive tuition rates at UGA, more students are finding it difficult to afford a college degree. More than 94 percent of UGA students receive financial aid, such as Pell Grants and the HOPE Scholarship. For some, there is still a gap to cover the full cost of attendance. College student food insecurity, lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious
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UGA’s first African-American female physics ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY doctoral graduate urges girls to pursue sciences New center to make UGA By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu
Whitney Ingram’s interest in science started as a girl. This month, she becomes the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics at UGA—and she wants other young girls to do the same. “I hope I can encourage girls to pursue the sciences no matter what might hold them down,” she said. “It’s fulfilling to go after something you really like. Go after what you love.” In particular, Ingram wants to see the number of minorities and women working in sciences grow. “There are not a lot of black
women in physics,” she said. “There are recorded data that show there are less than 150 black females— living or deceased—in physics. I want people to know that because it’s a small number—pitifully small.” As a child, Ingram read a story in National GeoWhitney Ingram graphic about the death of the sun. It scared her, but it also sparked an inquisitive nature that wanted to know more. “I’ve always had a natural interest in science,” she said.
In high school, she took even more of an interest in science. Her physics teacher “made it come to life” by encouraging interactive experiences and taking time to answer questions. “You look at the world differently when you apply physics,” she said. “I like the idea of breaking down what you see and really thinking about it.” Ingram started at UGA as a freshman in 2007 and changed her major to physics early on, saying she “had a whim to stick with something I was passionate about.” After getting her bachelor’s degree in 2011, she started the doctoral program. Ingram works in nanotechnology See GRADUATE on page 8
leader in disease ecology
By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu
With the launch of the new Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, UGA is poised to become a world leader in the increasingly important field of disease ecology. “We have a bold mission, but I genuinely believe we can achieve it,” said John Drake, a professor in the Odum School of Ecology and the new center’s director. “We hope to be the best in the world within five years, and I think that’s possible because of the vibrant research community we have here.”
Infectious diseases pose a serious threat to human health, causing millions of deaths around the world every year, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. They also take an enormous financial toll in lost productivity as well as costs associated with controlling them. Because most emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, a purely medical approach is not adequate for combating them; understanding how ecological processes and human impacts on the environment influence the See CENTER on page 8
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Around academe
UF Online growing but looking for strategies to increase enrollment
After canceling a contract with Pearson Education last year, the University of Florida is altering its strategy for getting more students enrolled in its online degree programs, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed. UF Online, a platform to earn a degree from the university exclusively through online courses, is integral to the state university system’s goal of making just less than half of all undergraduate credit hours online based. The university hasn’t reached enrollment goals it previously set but enrollment was up by 70 percent more than last academic year and made $66,000.
Report offers advice to maximize class scheduling efficiency
The new Higher Education Scheduling Index shows that more than a third of introductory-level courses at four-year public institutions had too many students per class offering, an issue that contrasts with the finding that the classrooms at those same kinds of institutions weren’t in use for more than half of the work week. Community colleges, on the other hand, focused on introductory courses and, as a result, fewer of those classes were overloaded than at traditional institutions. The report suggests four- and two-year institutions and community colleges can save money and reduce waste by terminating classes that don’t have enough demand.
VPN access changes on Jan. 3
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If you use UGA’s Remote Access Virtual Private Network to access university systems, you will soon need to use ArchPass Duo. Beginning Jan. 3, access to all VPN groups will require use of ArchPass Duo, UGA’s twofactor authentication system. Two-factor authentication requires “something you know” (such as a password) and “something you have” (such as a physical device) to access specified systems. This process requires users to verify their identities by providing both a password and a physical device. At UGA, the “something you have” is a mobile device, tablet or landline enrolled with ArchPass Duo used in conjunction with a UGA MyID password to access UGA systems. Currently, only users who need access to restricted data are required to use ArchPass Duo to authenticate. If you are not already an ArchPass user, you can self-enroll a cell phone, landline or tablet in ArchPass Duo through the Duo Self-Service Portal on the EITS website. You can find instructions at archpass.uga.edu. When logging in to the VPN, you will be asked for your MyID, password and an ArchPass Duo authentication method. Users who have not been granted privileges to access restricted data should use the default VPN group. Source: Enterprise Information Technology Services
A MATTER OF DEGREES Membership in the Alumni Association will expand Dec. 16 when more than 2,300 students receive their degrees. A breakdown of degrees conferred by level during the 2014-2015 academic year*:
Degree Bachelor’s Master’s** Professional Doctoral Total
Recipients 6,935 1,656 425 467 9,483
*The most recent year for which data is available **Includes educational specialist degrees Source: 2015 UGA Fact Book
UGA ARTS COUNCIL
Spotlight on the Arts breaks record with more than 23,000 attendees By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu
More than 23,000 people attended UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival this November, setting an attendance record for the fifth straight year. Held Nov. 2-13, the festival featured more than 100 events and exhibitions and engaged 23,211 people in the visual, literary and performing arts. Events featured special guests as well as hundreds of student artists, musicians, writers and performers, including more than 200 who took part in an Opening Celebration kaleidoscope performance. “The success of Spotlight on the Arts underscores just how important the arts are to the cultural and intellectual vitality of our university and state,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “I am so grateful to the members of the UGA Arts Council for organizing such an extraordinary festival.” For the first time in the festival’s five-year history, the UGA Arts Council held a Spotlight on the Arts Family Day. More than 1,000 children and adults participated in the Nov. 5 festivities, which included dramatic and musical performances, art activities, dance classes, writing workshops and a chance to interact with musical instruments. The 2016 festival also featured performances from the University Theatre, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and dance department, a Shakespeare symposium, a roundtable on arts and the environment, an open house at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and exhibitions at the art school, the Georgia Museum of Art, the State Botanical Garden, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass
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Artist Elizabeth Baker, a new Renaissance artist primarily working in the sonic medium but also incorporating movement, performed Nov. 4 at the Georgia Museum of Art as part of Spotlight on the Arts.
Communication and the College of Environment and Design. Special guests included worldrenowned music producer Jacknife Lee, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Newfoundland folk band the Dardanelles and several visiting scholars and writers, including Roy Blount Jr., who was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. The festival also included the third annual 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship in the Arts competition, a signature Arts Council event where students present
their scholarship in the arts in oral or poster form and compete for prizes. “This was another wonderful year for the festival,” said Russ Mumper, chair of the UGA Arts Council and vice provost at UGA. “The council is so pleased to have organized a festival aligned with its mission to foster an awareness and appreciation of the arts and a campus environment conducive to artistic innovation.” Planning is underway for the 2017 Spotlight on the Arts festival, and information about arts events year-round can be found at www.arts.uga.edu.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH, GRADUATE SCHOOL
JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
By James Hataway
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Symposium speaker: Responsible research drives scientific progress jhataway@uga.edu
The last 25 years have brought new technologies that have led to leaps in scientific advancement and opportunities for research collaboration. But with them have come added risks, as well as expectations for maintaining the public’s trust through responsible conduct of research and scholarship. As part of an ongoing effort to enhance the responsible conduct of research at UGA, the Graduate School and the Office of Research recently hosted a two-day symposium and workshop with Frank Macrina, vice president for research and innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University. “It is vitally important that we ensure the integrity of our research and scholarship,” said Vice President for Research David Lee. “It is the foundation of the trust and confidence that we want the public and decision-makers to have in our work.” Macrina is a nationally recognized expert in the responsible conduct of research, or RCR, and he has taught Frank Macrina scientific integrity to graduate and postgraduate trainees at VCU for more than 25 years. He is also the author of the highly regarded textbook Scientific Integrity, published by the American Society for Microbiology. “Frank’s visit to UGA and his important message mark the beginning of a new initiative to invigorate the culture that is the foundation for the integrity of our research and other scholarly activities,” said Christopher King, associate vice president for research and director of the Office of Research Compliance. In his public lecture, Macrina touched on a number of changes that affect how scientists and scholars conduct their research, how they relay their findings to the public and how they prepare the next generation of researchers See SYMPOSIUM on page 7
Grady College hosts international conference on media, public sphere s.moreno@uga.edu
UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication hosted the Thomas C. Dowden International Conference “Media and the Public Sphere: Empowered Audiences in the Digital Age” Oct. 20-22. “We were thrilled to welcome to Grady some of the nation’s leading experts on media analytics,” said Ann Hollifield, the Thomas C. Dowden Professor in Media Research at Grady College. “Our panelists discussed the challenges of understanding audiences and advertisers in this digital age and how that impacts media content decisions, audiences and the media’s role in the public sphere.” Panelists included Eric Bruce, research director at WSBTV in Atlanta; Billy McDowell, vice president of research at Raycom Media Inc.; Howard Shimmel, chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting; Steve Walsh, executive vice president of Local Television, comScore Inc.; and Reid Williams, senior director for analytics at Gannett. More than 50 scholars from UGA, the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Romania, the University of Florida, the University of Tennessee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others, presented papers and discussed their research. The James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, an outreach unit of the Grady College, partnered with the Institute of Communication at University Lyon 2, France, and the Center for Communication Research at the National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania, in organizing the conference. It was the sixth annual conference on the topic of media and the public sphere. This year’s conference honored Dowden, who received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in political science from UGA in 1962 and 1964, respectively. A pioneer in the cable industry, Dowden has been a generous supporter of the college.
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Aaron Beedle’s research indicates that rapamycin has beneficial effects for mice with a gene mutation that triggers muscular dystrophy.
A new strength
College of Pharmacy and College of Education researchers discover potential therapy By Elizabeth Fite ecfite@uga.edu
UGA researchers have shown that an FDA-approved drug reduces scar tissue and improves muscle function in mice with a gene mutation that triggers muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic diseases that cause progressive muscle weakness and degeneration. The study, published recently in the journal Skeletal Muscle by researchers in the College of Pharmacy and College of Education, offers insight into potential treatment for a class of muscular dystrophies that includes Fukuyama disorder, a severe form of childhood muscular dystrophy that affects muscle, eye and brain development. “The focus of my lab, overall, is to try to develop new therapeutic strategies for muscular dystrophy, because there are currently no cures,” said Aaron Beedle, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences in the College of Pharmacy who began the study in 2011. Beedle said she is especially excited about this study because the drug that was used, rapamycin, is already FDAapproved for other indications, making it easier to translate that treatment to
humans if it continues to produce solid evidence that it is effective in the mouse model. “I’m not suggesting that doctors or parents of these patients go out right now and ask for this drug,” she said. “I don’t think we’re there yet, but I think we’re one really solid study away from the point where we could justify suggesting that.” The idea to use the drug came from Beedle’s discovery that the mTOR protein, part of a pathway that helps regulate the cell cycle, was abnormal in her mouse model. To find out if mTOR was important in the progression of muscular dystrophy, the researchers needed to inhibit its function, and rapamycin is a well-known mTOR inhibitor, used primarily as an immunosuppressant for kidney transplant patients. The mice showed moderate improvement in muscle stamina when running, and muscle image analysis revealed a decrease in fibrosis, or scar tissue, and fewer new muscle fibers, suggesting the drug may have a protective effect. “I think a particular strength of this study is the physiological component to it—the treadmill running, the activity cages, the muscle function tests,” said Jarrod Call, skeletal-muscle researcher and
assistant professor of kinesiology in the College of Education who collaborated on the study. Call, also a faculty member at UGA’s Regenerative Bioscience Center, used a small, noninvasive machine to measure changes in muscle strength and force over the treatment period. Steven Foltz, the lead author on the study who conducted most of the experiments and received his doctorate in pharmacy from UGA this past summer, said that he never anticipated working on muscle before. But drawn by Beedle’s enthusiasm for her research, he joined her lab five years ago. “This is a significant time in the history of the field—muscular dystrophy research is really blowing up,” said Foltz, who began a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in September. Beedle said she has submitted a research proposal to the Muscular Dystrophy Association to conduct additional studies that build on these recent findings. “If we can generate that kind of an effect in a mouse, would that be possible in a human? That would have a very big impact on the muscular dystrophy field,” she said.
FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Study: Retail growth followed SNAP enrollment spike By Alan Flurry
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Increased enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Georgia contributed to the growth of grocery retailers at all levels from 2007 to 2014. A new paper from UGA researchers used U.S. Department of Agriculture and Georgia Division of Family and Children Services data sets to track the increase in retailers accepting SNAP benefits during what is known as the Great Recession. The publicly available data suggest that increased enrollment in the program improves access to food for SNAP beneficiaries by acting as an indirect subsidy to retailers. The study,“Growth in SNAP Retailers was Associated with Increased Client Enrollment in Georgia During the Great Recession,” was published in the November issue of Health Affairs. The
paper connects enrollment increases with the growth in the number of food retailers. The researchers divided food stores into four categories: large, mid-size, small and specialty retailers. Between 2008 and 2011, the number of SNAP enrollees increased by 87 percent; between 2007 and 2014, the number of SNAP retailers in Georgia increased by 82 percent, primarily due to growth in the number of small retailers. “In one of the roughest economic patches of the last 100 years, we see this huge boom in stores, which seems counterintuitive. During the recession, rather than closing their doors, we saw the number of SNAP retailers double,” said Jerry Shannon an assistant professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences geography department and lead author on the study. “I think that points to the fact that SNAP is very much an economic stimulus and that during times of economic hardship, stores rely
on SNAP as much as consumers might. Especially for small stores, it can be a vital source of financial support.” The study differentiates how much of the growth was represented by the opening of new stores versus existing stores becoming authorized SNAP retailers. “When we think about food deserts, or food accessibility, SNAP can help support stores, as it already does in lowincome neighborhoods,” Shannon said. “But it also highlights the dependence of those stores on SNAP.” Co-authors on the study are Sarah Shannon, an assistant professor in the sociology department in UGA’s Franklin College; Grace Bagwell Adams, an assistant professor in the health policy and management department in the UGA College of Public Health; and Jung Sun Lee, an associate professor in the foods and nutrition department in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Catie Sauer and Christopher Wisener, first-year master’s degree students in UGA’s College of Environment and Design, are part of the first-place team in Emory University’s Sustainability Case Competition for addressing Georgia’s water crisis. The team, which also includes three Emory students, will share a $2,000 prize and be eligible for paid internships with the city of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management next summer. The entry was a PowerPoint presentation in the competition that outlines a five-year plan for Georgia to mitigate the state’s water needs. Ideas proposed by the team included revenue-neutral taxes, several mandates for water conservation, rebate programs for water-saving measures and a method of replacing failing infrastructure. Eight teams and six judges took part in the Nov. 12 competition, and the teams had a limited amount of time at the gathering to come up with cohesive, interdisciplinary suggestions.
Georgia Museum of Art wins national and regional awards for newsletter, exhibits
The Georgia Museum of Art at UGA has received five national and regional awards for its exhibitions and publications. The museum’s quarterly newsletter, Facet, garnered a second-place award in the American Alliance of Museums’ annual publication design competition, the only national juried competition of its kind. Facet is designed by The Adsmith, a firm in Athens run by graduates of UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Facet also received a first-place award for design in the Southeastern Museums Conference’s publications design competition, presented during SEMC’s annual meeting in October. SEMC also presents awards for exhibitions, and the museum received two of those: a silver award for El Taller de Grafica Popular: Vida y Arte and a bronze for Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality.’ The museum organized both exhibitions in 2015. El Taller de Grafica Popular also received the Southeastern College Art Conference’s 2016 Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical Materials. Presented Oct. 20 during the organization’s annual meeting, the award is designed to recognize an exhibition of historical materials.
Applications accepted for VetCAMP 2017
Applications for VetCAMP 2017 will be accepted now through Jan. 27, according to organizers at the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. VetCAMP, or Veterinary Career Aptitude and Mentoring Program, is a seven-day summer program open to current high school sophomores, juniors and seniors who would like to explore veterinary medicine as a potential career path. The on-site program offers participants opportunities for observation of and participation in the various services in the UGA Veterinary Teaching Hospital, the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center and the college’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories. The students also will learn about requirements for admission to the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine, research opportunities, study abroad opportunities, the college’s curriculum as well as underserved specialties in the field of veterinary medicine. VetCAMP 2017 will be held June 11-17. The students will be housed on the UGA campus. The $900 fee includes lodging, meals, instruction and social activities. Scholarships or financial assistance are available to students with demonstrated need. Students who wish to be considered must complete an application packet that includes an application form, a teacher/counselor recommendation form, an essay, and an official high school transcript. Application materials may be downloaded from the VetCAMP website at www.vet.uga.edu/GO/camp. For more information, email vetcamp@uga.edu or call Parker Moore at 706-542-9975.
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GRADY COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Students discuss health care’s future at Parham Policy Day By Christi Hardeman cphardeman@uga.edu
Social work graduate students examined the future of health care policy and other public policy issues during Parham Policy Day, held Nov. 19 at the UGA Gwinnett campus. The annual student-run event is an opportunity for its organizers to hear from experts on public policymaking and to present their own research on the impact that policies have on marginalized populations. This year’s guest speakers discussed barriers to health care for underserved communities, possible changes to health care access over the next few years and how social workers might advocate for policy changes. Travis Patton, director of sponsored programs at Clark Atlanta University, told attendees that anticipated cuts to the Affordable Care Act will only exacerbate an already unequal distribution of services. Patton previously directed the National Minority Male Health Project, which addressed health disparities among low-income, minority populations. Patton encouraged social work students to advocate for policy changes that promote social justice, especially at the state level. Obie Clayton, Distinguished Professor and chairman of the sociology and criminal justice department at Clark Atlanta University, spoke about the barriers to health care for immigrants. He reminded students that impediments can include language, legal status, cultural attitudes and attitudes toward race. Clayton also discussed the effectiveness of innovative, local nonprofit physician clinics that serve the uninsured. Parham Policy Day concluded with an overview of the Affordable Care Act, highlighting current statistical trends aimed at increasing the number of insured Americans and providing greater access to and availability of health care. The students were led in a polling activity in which the majority of students concluded that, even though the ACA has tremendously increased insurance percentage rates in the U.S., access and availability could be improved. The event also included a poster competition featuring student research on social policy issues. Two posters tied for first place: “Aging in America” by Lakeshia McClendon and Elizabeth Berry explained the policy history, problems and available services, including home and community-based services, for the older adult population. “Georgia Maternal Death Rate” by Hannah Kim, Andrea Perkins and Kara Wickman highlighted ways that public policy can address Georgia’s maternal death rates, which are among the highest in the nation. Parham Policy Day was created in 2003 by June Gary Hopps, Parham Professor of Family and Children Studies, to honor Thomas M. “Jim” Parham, a former School of Social Work faculty member who helped to shape social policy under three Georgia governors and President Jimmy Carter. Hopps, who participated in lunch-counter sit-ins in the early 1960s that helped to change segregation policies, guided the graduate students.
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication hosted international journalists as part of the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, held Nov. 3-9.
Idea exchange
Sixteen journalists from North Africa, Near East visit UGA as part of Murrow Program By Gabrielle Cowand gcowand13@uga.edu
For the eighth consecutive year, UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication was selected to host international journalists who were participating in the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. This year’s program included 16 journalists representing 12 North African and Near East countries. As in the past, the college’s James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research organized and managed the program. “Only seven schools across the country were selected out of about 480 journalism programs, so the fact that our college has been recognized and chosen year after year reflects the merit of our program,” said Tudor Vlad, associate director of the Cox International Center. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, this year’s Murrow Program brought journalists from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia to participate in a three-week visit. The program was designed as an exchange of
best practices, an overview of free press in a democracy and the opportunity for the Murrow journalists to gain insight into the social, economic and political structures of the U.S. The journalists arrived in Athens Nov. 3 and stayed through Nov. 9. They spent the first part of their visit in Atlanta meeting with editors from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN. They also toured the Athens area and neighboring Oconee County. W h i l e o n U G A’s c a m p u s Nov. 7-8, the Murrow journalists met with Grady College Dean Charles N. Davis and Murrow student hosts. Designating student hosts was an innovation in the program last year. This year, 12 students served as hosts, one for each of the 12 countries represented by the Murrow delegation. “Over the past few years, we’ve increased the number of opportunities students have to interact with the journalists and learn from them,” said Lee B. Becker, director of the Cox International Center. “We found that the journalists have enjoyed the chance to spend more one-on-one time with students and the in-depth discussions that have resulted. We’ve had a lot of success, so much so that the State Department has asked that other universities do the same.”
The Murrow journalists and their student hosts participated in discussions about the principles of health communication and the goals of health and medical journalism, and U.S. journalism and mass communication education. “This was a great opportunity for people from a part of the world that is very important to us, but that we know far less about than we should, to talk to our students, and for our students to share with them their experiences here at Grady College,” Becker said. “The students enjoyed and learned a lot from meeting with the journalists, who seemed very pleased as well.” Taylor Cromwell, a senior journalism and international affairs double major, was one of the student hosts. “It was so eye-opening to hear the personal stories of all of these journalists,” Cromwell said. “I found out that we have so much more in common as journalists, even though we all came from very different backgrounds, and I think that everyone could learn from this experience.” The visiting journalists also had the opportunity to observe the college’s digital and broadcast journalism majors in the newsroom of Grady Newsource on election day and to visit the Red&Black and Flagpole.
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
VP: Many campus technology services will soon get additional security measures By Sara Pauff
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Access to all major systems at UGA soon will require the use of ArchPass Duo, according to Vice President for Information Technology Timothy M. Chester. “Two-factor authentication is something that I envision rolling out for all systems for all students and employees in the next 18 months,” Chester said during his annual State of Technology address on Nov. 18. Two-factor authentication initially was implemented at UGA in 2013 to protect university systems holding sensitive and restricted data. ArchPass Duo is currently used to access restricted and sensitive data. ArchPass Duo will be expanded in phases. Beginning in January 2017, use of ArchPass Duo will be required to access the Remote Access
Virtual Private Network, or VPN (See News to Use, page 2). “There’s a simple reason for that. Every time hackers in Russia, Korea or Asia get their hands on a MyID and password, the first thing they do is remote VPN into our campus systems and start looking around,” Chester said. “We need to prevent them from accessing our Tim Chester network, and two-factor authentication is going to help us do that.” vLab, the university’s virtual computer lab, will be the first system with many student users to require ArchPass Duo, Chester said, with plans to implement the change in spring 2017. There are also plans to eventually require ArchPass Duo to log
into Athena, he said. Chester also addressed technology milestones and goals in other areas, including: • Continued growth in UGA’s internet usage and the number of wireless devices on campus. The university’s internet usage has increased from 1.36 gigabytes in September 2011 to 6.72 gigabytes in November 2016. The number of wireless devices on the university’s wireless network has also increased, from 6,500 in September 2011 to 73,600 in November 2016. Over the past year, most of the university’s residence halls have received wireless upgrades. There are plans for 2017-2018 to replace all the legacy wireless access points across campus. • A four-year initiative, UGA’s OneSource Project, to replace the finance, human resources and payroll systems with a new system, powered by PeopleSoft. PeopleSoft applications for finance will be
deployed at the university level; UGA will join the University System of Georgia for a shared system for payroll and HR functions. • Increased training for researchers using the university’s high-performance computing resources. Over the past year, more than 1,000 researchers have gone through training workshops to use the high-performance computing clusters at the Georgia Advanced Computing Resources Center. • The implementation of a new data management website (see Cybersights, page 7) to provide a single online source for campus data and information sources as well as more efforts to improve data access for executives and UGA leaders. There are plans for an improved advising platform to help increase engagement between students and their advisors, as well as more tools to help advisors identify and support students before problems develop.
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EXHIBITIONS
Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 18831950. Through Dec. 11. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu The Stands: Environmental Art by Chris Taylor. Through Dec. 13. Circle Gallery, Jackson Street Building. 706-542-8292. Keep Your Seats, memorabilia celebrating the 110-year history of the UGA Redcoat Marching Band. Through Dec. 23. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects. Through Dec. 31. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Living Color: Gary Hudson on the 1970s. Through Jan. 8. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Storytelling: The Georgia Review’s 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective. Through Jan. 29. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Driving Forces: Sculpture by Lin Emery. Through April 2. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu On the Stump—What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia? Through Aug. 18. Special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu
MONDAY, DEC. 5 FALL CLASSES END FILM SCREENING Special EcoFocus Film Festival screening of the award-winning documentary The Burden: Fossil Fuel, the Military and National Security. 7 p.m. Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Furman. $5. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1231.
TUESDAY, DEC. 6 READING DAY For students. JINGLE BELL FUN RUN Participants are invited to walk or run a 5K at the UGA Golf Course. A tabling event with health tips, refreshments and stress dogs will be held after the run. This event benefits Toys for Tots. 9 a.m. Club House, UGA Golf Course. 706-542-8690. kgroft@uhs.uga.edu (See Bulletin Board, page 8). SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT Day-long event combining the
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra visits campus
A CLASSICAL NEW YEAR’S SHOW By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu
The UGA Performing Arts Center will ring in the New Year with a concert by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Dec. 31 at 7 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Joseph Young will conduct the program of light classical favorites that will include works by Johann Strauss, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms. “Last year’s New Year’s Eve concert was a rousing success with hundreds of revelers filling Hodgson Hall, and we expect this year’s event to be just as popular,” said George C. Foreman, director of the Performing Arts Center. The 90-minute concert is designed to be over in time for audience members to attend their other traditional New Year’s The ASO and the Chamber Chorus perform a portion of ‘Messiah’ during a Dec. 18 concert. Eve activities. Young was named assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra in 2014. Prior to joining the ASO, he was resident conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, and he also Kelley O’Connor, tenor Cullen Gandy served as a League of American Orchestras Conducting Fel- By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu and bass Gerard Sundberg will join the low with the Buffalo Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony. orchestra and chorus as featured soloists for Tickets for the New Year’s Eve concert are $37-$63. They The UGA Performing Arts Center this performance. Rivera and O’Connor can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, will present the Atlanta Symphony Or- were awarded Grammys for their work online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. chestra and Chamber Chorus Dec. 18 at on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. 2007 prize-winning recording of Golijov’s Norman Mackenzie will conduct the Ainadamar. program, which will include the “ChristTickets for the concert are $31-$72. mas” portion and the “Hallelujah Chorus” They can be purchased at the Performing from Handel’s Messiah. The concert will Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by open with another choral favorite, Viv- calling the box office at 706-542-4400. aldi’s Gloria. UGA students can purchase tickets for Mackenzie was named director of cho- $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket ruses for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra per student. in 2000, carrying forward the creative A pre-concert lecture will be given vision of legendary founding conductor by Ken Meltzer, author of the Atlanta Robert Shaw. At the ASO, Mackenzie Symphony Orchestra’s program notes prepares the choruses for all concerts and and host of the weekly radio show Meet recordings; during his tenure, the chorus the Classics on Atlanta’s AM-1690. The has made numerous tours and garnered lecture, which will begin at 2:15 p.m., its most recent four Grammy Awards. will be held in Ramsey Concert Hall in Soprano Jessica Rivera, mezzo-soprano the Performing Arts Center. The ASO rings in the new year with a concert on Dec. 31.
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Center for Integrative Conservation Research’s Annual Sustainability Science Symposium with the Office of Sustainability’s Semester in Review. 9 a.m. Jackson Street Building. 706-542-0458. SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE SEMESTER IN REVIEW Semester in Review is an opportunity for engagement, collaboration and a shared celebration of the projects and initiatives that have taken place this semester to further sustainability. The celebration will include welcoming remarks, a presentation by Office of Sustainability interns, an announcement of winners of the 2016 Sustainability Grant, poster presentations, table displays and a light lunch. 11 a.m. Jackson Street Building. 678-697-8497. niravilango@uga.edu PHI BETA KAPPA INITIATION CEREMONY Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s
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oldest and most widely-known academic honorary society. 3 p.m. Chapel. 706-542-0383. kcfite@uga.edu CLASSIC CITY BAND HOLIDAY CONCERT The Classic City Band will perform holiday music during a concert in the festively-decorated Conservatory. 6:30 p.m. Visitor Center and Conservatory, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7 FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAMS Dec. 7-13. TOUR AT TWO Join Asen Kirin, curator of the Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects exhibition and professor of art history at UGA, for a special tour. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.
THURSDAY, DEC. 8 WORKSHOP “Greenery Wreaths.” Bring the colors of the season home with a live wreath made in this workshop. $30. 5:30 p.m. Visitor Center, Great Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu
FRIDAY, DEC. 9 CLOSING RECEPTION Celebrate the BFA Exhibition 2 and the work of BFA students graduating in photography, painting and drawing, graphic design, textile design, ceramics, and art education. 6 p.m. Dodd Galleries, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 773-965-1689. kgeha@uga.edu
SUNDAY, DEC. 11 CONCERT “Sounds of the Season,” performed by the New Horizons
Band, will consist of holiday tunes. 2 p.m. Visitor Center and Conservatory, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu
COMING UP GRIFFIN CAMPUS GRADUATION & BRICK CEREMONY Dec. 15. Recognition and celebration of fall 2016 graduates. 10 a.m. Stuckey Auditorium and Naomi Woodruff Pavilion, UGA Griffin campus. FALL 2016 CONVOCATION: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Dec. 15. The College of Education will recognize and celebrate its fall 2016 graduates. 2 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-583-8146. jmbm@uga.edu FALL 2016 UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT Dec. 16. 9:30 a.m. Stegeman Coliseum.
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FALL 2016 CONVOCATION: COLLEGE OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES Dec. 16. The College of Family and Consumer Sciences will recognize its fall 2016 graduates. Registration required. Noon. Mahler Hall, Georgia Center. facsdean@uga.edu FALL 2016 GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT Dec. 16. 2:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. FALL SEMESTER GRADES DUE Dec. 19. Grades due by 5 p.m. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Dec. 19. vs. Virginia. 7 p.m. $5. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1231. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS No classes; offices closed through Dec. 26-Jan. 3. SPRING CLASSES BEGIN Jan. 5.
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Dr. John R. Fischer, director of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, recently received the 2016 C.W. Watson Award from fish and wildlife agencies in the Southeast. This is the highest award presented by the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, which is a consortium of state agencies that have the primary responsibility for management and protection of the fish and wildlife resources in 15 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Fischer has worked with SCWDS for 24 years and has led the group for more than 16 years. The Watson Award is presented to the individual who, in the opinion of the award committee, has made the greatest contribution to wildlife or fish conservation during the previous year or years. It is presented jointly by the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, the Southeastern Section of the Wildlife Society and the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Kellie Gerbers, assistant director for outdoor recreation in the recreational sports department, received the Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education’s Jim Rennie Leadership Award Nov. 11 at the AORE Annual Conference awards banquet. This award is AORE’s highest honor for association members. Gerbers served on the AORE board of directors this year in Kellie Gerbers addition to her work at UGA. She is a longtime presenter and active member of the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association, the American College Personnel Association and the Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education. The Jim Rennie Leadership Award commemorates contributions to AORE which are “far beyond the ordinary,” and which “have had a significant and lasting impact on the Association and its mission.” The award also recognizes “professional work or leadership of unusual significance in the field of outdoor recreation and education.” Changying “Charlie” Li, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2016 New Holland Young Researcher Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Established in 1972, the award recognizes the dedicated use of scientific methodology to discover facts or principles significant to the agricultural engineering profession. Li was honored for his research and teaching of sensing and automation in food and agricultural systems. The ASABE is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food and biological systems. John M. Ruter, the Allan Armitage Endowed Professor of Horticulture and director of the Trial Gardens at UGA, was recognized as a Fellow by the International Plant Propagators’ Society, Southern Region of North America, during the society’s recent meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This annual recognition is given to an individual each year who has made outstanding contributions to plant propagation and the nursery industry in the southeastern region. IPPS is a global network of professionals with an interest in plant production with the aim to improve the knowledge, skills, productivity and professionalism of its members. IPPS has 1,600 members over eight geographical regions around the world, spread over four continents. 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.
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Amanda Abraham’s research focuses on improving the accessibility and quality of substance use disorder treatment in the U.S.
SPIA faculty member wages fight against drugs, addiction epidemic By Shannon Adams
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Amanda Abraham is pushing back against the opioid epidemic. Abraham, an assistant professor in the public administration and policy department in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, is studying ways to fight the drastic increase in opioid-related overdose deaths over the past 15 years. Her policy research focuses on improving the accessibility and quality of substance use disorder treatment in the U.S. “I want people to see addiction as a legitimate chronic medical disease and for people to have access to affordable care, because many people don’t,” she said. “You can get really good care, but in most cases you have to pay a substantial amount of money to do so, and that shouldn’t be the case.” Abraham, who earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from UGA, is currently teaching a course in program evaluation and working on several research projects. They run the gamut on addiction, from educating health care professionals about screening and brief intervention for alcohol and drug use to a study on whether or not insurers are complying with parity regulations regarding adolescent care for mental health and addiction. All of her work aims to reduce the stigma of and improve care for people suffering from substance use disorders. The rate of deaths due to opioid overdose has increased by more than
200 percent over the past 15 years, and overdose deaths related to heroin more than tripled from 2011 to 2014. Despite this, Abraham said that quality and accessibility of care in the U.S. remains low for many Americans suffering from opioid use disorders, particularly Medicaid enrollees. “There’s been a great deal of stigma attached to substance abuse treatment, and so the field is behind many other areas of medicine in terms of research and adoption of evidence-based practices,” she said. “Substance abuse disorder treatment has been isolated from mainstream health care so historically public and private insurers have either not covered substance abuse treatment or imposed limits on treatment services that were more restrictive than limits placed on medical and surgical services.” Abraham’s research combats this issue. The National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey, one of the projects she works on with principal investigator Peter Friedmann, examines the impact of health reform on the accessibility and quality of substance use disorder treatment using a nationally representative sample of specialty substance use disorder treatment programs in the U.S. This study includes interviews with state agencies that oversee substance use disorder treatment, Medicaid agencies and state insurance commissioners. Another line of Abraham’s research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and partnering with Jayani Jayawardhana, Matt Perri and Henry
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Assistant Professor Public Administration and Policy Department School of Public and International Affairs NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Health Services Research UGA, 2007-2010 Ph.D., Sociology, Louisiana State University, 2006 M.A., Sociology, Louisiana State University, 2004 B.A., Sociology, UGA, 1998 At UGA: 11 years (four as a tenure-track faculty member)
Young in the College of Pharmacy and David Bradford in SPIA, looks at the impact of Medicaid policy on inappropriate prescription of opioids in Georgia. She also has a Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment training grant with which she is training social work, pharmacy and psychology students at UGA and Georgia State to use SBIRT. Her goal is to identify effective policies and improve treatment to help patients with substance use disorders receive the care they need. “In some cases people get kicked out of treatment for relapsing,” Abraham said. “Would you kick out a patient who didn’t comply with their diabetes regimen? Would a primary care physician say, ‘I’m done with you?’ ” Abraham’s research seeks to eliminate such disparities in the treatment of substance use disorders.
RETIREES December
Seventeen UGA employees retired Dec. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are: Gregory A. Ashley, IT associate director, COE Centers, 26 years; Robert Earl Bell, public service assistant, UGA Extension Service-Southeast District, 29 years; Ronald M. Cervero, associate dean, College of Education, 30 years; Lynn C. Clapp, ADS Eatonton Beef Farm, 32 years; Kevin D. Clark, associate research scientist, food science and technology, 15 years; Valerie Crump, registered professional nurse,
University Health Center, 4 years; Maxine H. Heard, administrative specialist II, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, 22 years; Judy E. Hibbs, senior public service associate, foods and nutrition, 28 years; Ann S. Johnson, postal services assistant I, Mail & Receiving Services, 10 years; Anthony Durward Johnson, horticulturist, Field Research ServicesGriffin campus, 15 years; M. Ellen Martin, student affairs professional III, Associate Dean’s Office, Academic Affairs, 28 years; Gregory C. Price, senior public service associate, Office of the Associate Dean for Extension, 27 years;
Marcie A. Simpson, public service assistant, Office of the Associate Dean for Extension, 27 years; Jerri B. Snodgrass, library associate I, UGA Extension Service Library-Griffin campus, 18 years; John T. Stubbs III, farm supervisor III, Northwest Research and Education Center, 29 years; Mark Dwayne von Waldner, public service associate, UGA Extension Service-Southeast District, 30 years; and William F. Waters Jr., lab animal facilities supervisor, VP Office for Research, 29 years. Source: Human Resources
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Legacy of leadership University registrar set to retire in January
By Tracy Coley tcoley@uga.edu
Jan Hathcote will walk through the front door of the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building for the last time as registrar Jan. 4. After 26 years at UGA, she will assume a new title: retiree. Hathcote leaves a legacy of leadership that has transitioned into the digital age an office that serves 36,000 UGA undergraduate and graduate students annually in course registration and degree planning. Hathcote came to UGA in 1990 as an assistant professor of fashion merchandising and went on to become associate dean for academic affairs and research for 14 years in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. She also served as interim dean from 2006-2007 before becoming a full professor in 2011. She earned her bachelor’s degree in home economics education from UGA in 1974 and received a doctorate in human ecology from the University of Tennessee in 1989. “One of the biggest surprises coming into this position is the fact that this office runs opposite of the academic calendar. Most of our work is done in the summer and through fall registration, and then again when grades are due,” Hathcote said. “That was quite an adjustment and not something I realized as a faculty member at UGA.” When Hathcote took over the reins of the Office of the Registrar in 2011, a large task loomed before her. She was put on the ConnectUGA project advisory and implementation teams with other campus offices to launch Banner and the new Athena student information system. At that time, students were still registering for classes through the 30-year-old OASIS registration system and using older legacy systems that pulled data from different areas. “Part of the challenge in this process was creating a culture change and shifting our staff from working in silos to working with each other. And this extended beyond our office and getting our staff to collaborate with staff in other offices, like Curriculum Systems, Student Financial Aid, Admissions, the Bursar’s Office and EITS,” said Hathcote. Hathcote’s office, along with support from EITS, also has just launched DegreeWorks Plans, an add-on to Banner that pulls course information from Athena and allows students and advisors to map out degree plans. Also launched in 2014 is a new e-transcript system
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Registrar Jan Hathcote will retire Jan. 4 after 26 years with the University of Georgia.
in which current and former students may request their transcripts online, cutting down the delivery time to days rather than weeks. She also guided her staff in two major initiatives to reduce class sizes and move the campus toward a centralized class reservation system. Other technological changes her office implemented include electronic certified enrollment verification, imaging 65,000-70,000 paper records from the 1970s to the present into the central database, moving more than 480,000 student records from the legacy (IMS) system into Banner and creating an electronic graduation application through Athena. Hathcote also has brought other skills to the table that have had just as much impact on the way the Office of the Registrar conducts business. She remodeled the office into a more customer-friendly environment, creating open space and walk-up desks and eliminating the tall counter that created barriers between students and staff. She also had a digital information screen mounted in the hallway to keep students up-to-date on schedules and important deadlines. Additionally, she resurrected an advisory council to guide the office in decision-making and disseminating information to other offices across campus as well as worked to develop strong relationships with the registrar staff at Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Kennesaw State universities for collaboration in best practices. As registrar, it’s interesting to note that
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Hathcote’s signature is imprinted on over 50,000 diplomas and 300,000 transcripts. She has been responsible for coordinating the planning of the academic calendar; certifying veteran educational benefits and student athletes for NCAA eligibility; serving as secretary of the University Council and organizing elections, facilitation and minutes; managing residency status for currently enrolled students; and sitting on the Commencement Steering Committee, which coordinates two Commencement ceremonies and a printed program each year. “I feel really great about how far this office has come in such a short period of time,” said Hathcote. “Whoever is chosen as registrar after me will have a fully supportive and well-trained staff that can handle just about any challenge or change.” Hathcote plans to take advantage of her retirement and spend more time with her husband and family, including her two grandchildren, and go to their lake house more often. She will continue to support UGA through two scholarship funds she established several years ago.The Jan M. Hathcote Social Science Academic Support Fund helps graduate students in the social sciences on research-related expenses, including paying for research data and travel to research locations. The Jan M. Hathcote Scholarship supports undergraduate students in fashion merchandising or in the social sciences.
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SYMPOSIUM from page 2 and scholars. The responsible conduct of research movement began in earnest during the 1970s following a series of high-profile cases of scientific misconduct, Macrina said.These cases caught the attention of the public, Congress and the scientific community, and there were a number of public hearings in the 1980s focused on cases of misconduct. “By the beginning of the 1990s there were mandates put in place; there were federal requirements that said we had to train our future scientists who were being supported by taxpayer dollars to learn about the concepts of responsible conduct of research and to do research ethically,” Macrina said. Following this period of intense scrutiny, journals began to develop policies describing the credit and responsibilities of authors, including the assurance that all authors made significant contributions and that they may be held accountable for the integrity of the work. “This is unprecedented accountability in authorship that really wasn’t with us in the ’80s and even in the beginning of the 1990s,” Macrina said. He also pointed to the development of online and open access journals as a major transformation in the communication of scientific findings. He noted that, since 2007, the National Institutes of Health has mandated that all research findings supported in part by the NIH must enter an open access journal within 12 months of the original publication. Other federal research sponsors have or are developing similar platforms to push papers into open access journals that can be read by scientists and the public. These mandates extend beyond the sciences to work supported by such agencies as the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education. Macrina also discussed the increasing adoption of pre- and post-publication review. In the former, other experts in the field are allowed to comment and help improve the paper before it moves to a more formal review process. “Pre-publication review is becoming part of the culture of responsible research,” Macrina said. “I think it’s probably a matter of just a few years before all journals do that.” In post-publication review experts are assigned review published papers and add comments. Ultimately, Macrina said that researchers and scholars need to adapt to new and emerging standards to make sure that they continue to earn and maintain the public trust by producing the best research possible.
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Book on Athens music scene details culture
Party Out of Bounds: The B-52’s, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia 25th anniversary edition University of Georgia Press By Rodger Lyle Brown Paperback: $24.95
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from Athens. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s and 1980s and the spawning of Athens bands such as the B-52’s, Pylon and R.E.M. Their creative momentum helped to usher in a new wave of music on a national and international level, putting Athens on the map. Brown takes the reader on a romp from the South’s dirty back roads and all-night porch parties to the precipice of rock superstardom. This 25thanniversary edition includes new and rarely seen photographs by locals on the scene; a foreword by Charles Aaron, former longtime editor and writer at SPIN magazine; and an afterword by UGA’s David Barbe, drawn from an essay originally published in the Oxford American’s 2015 music issue.
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EITS launches new data management site
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EITS has launched a new website for data management and governance at UGA (see story, page 4). The website is part of a larger framework for data management at UGA and serves as a central repository for resources available for data stewards, system owners and users of institutional data. People seeking information on
how to request institutional data across multiple units at UGA may use the site to guide them to the appropriate source for data. The site provides information about the data management and governance committee, and how those with designated roles are responsible to ensure data at UGA is properly managed and secured.
Art Director Jackie Baxter Roberts Photo Editor Dorothy Kozlowski Senior Writer Aaron Hale Communications Coordinator Krista Richmond 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 and its applications in cloaking and sensors. For example, one project she worked on involved metamaterials that can be used as sensors for glucose and other molecules. During her time at UGA, Ingram earned several scholarships and fellowships, attended eight conferences throughout her academic career, and authored or coauthored 14 studies for publication. Additionally, Ingram was chosen as part of a national competition to be one of 65 students to represent the U.S. delegation at the Annual Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau, Germany, in 2015, where she had the opportunity to meet Nobel
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Laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology, peace and literature. She’s looking at postdoctoral research positions after graduation but also hopes to find time to travel and pursue other hobbies in addition to finding ways to mentor those with an interest in science. Not only has Ingram gained factual knowledge in her study of physics, but she’s also learned some life lessons like learning to collaborate and being flexible. “Because you have to look at things differently, I think it’s good to never approach something from just one direction,” she said.
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meals, is increasingly becoming a focus on major college campuses across the country. Food and financial insecurity can impede students in several ways from financial strain and multiple loans, to time commitment and working multiple jobs, to nutrition quality and wellness. The food scholarship initiative currently sponsors one-year meal plans in the university’s dining halls for 46 students with demonstrated need. That number will grow with additional scholarships being awarded next semester. Thanks to the spacious new dining facilities on campus, many students choose to meet in the dining commons to study and work on projects. Stokely earned his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from UGA in 1958 and was the
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first of his family to graduate from college. He said food insecurity is on his heart, which is illustrated by his leadership of a ministry at his church in Pearland, Texas, that has sent food to 54 countries. “With my background in food management, I feel like I have a God-given mandate to feed all the people I can in my life,” Stokely said. “I received a scholarship when I attended Georgia, and that meant a great deal.” His gift to the Student Affairs general fund will support initiatives that enhance the student/faculty relationship and provide assistance to students experiencing hardship as well as several other student-support programs. Need-based financial aid is the No. 1 priority for UGA’s Commit to Georgia Campaign.
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emergence and spread of infectious diseases is critical. Disease ecology provides this kind of insight, exploring interactions between hosts and pathogens and/or parasites within their ecological context. “The future of managing global disease is all about predicting emergence and spread,” said John Gittleman, dean of the Odum School. “The center is a world leader in developing and applying predictive science. This is an exciting, dynamic opportunity for Odum and UGA.” The new center takes advantage of the university’s existing strengths in disease ecology and computational ecology, bringing together faculty and students from across campus to tackle some of the most challenging problems in the global fight against infectious diseases.The center grew out of the Computational Ecology and Epidemiology
Study Group, an informal network of UGA scientists with a shared interest in quantitative research methods. At a recent reception celebrating the center’s opening, Drake thanked David Lee, vice president for research; Gittleman; and Fred Quinn, head of the infectious diseases department in the College of Veterinary Medicine, for their support, which he credited as instrumental in starting the center. Center members to date include faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates and students from units such as the infectious diseases and pathology departments in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the epidemiology and biostatistics department in the College of Public Health, the genetics and mathematics departments in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Odum School.
Bulletin Board Story clarification
A sentence in the Nov. 28 article about the vexpansion of the Center for Applied Isotope Studies should have read: “The center, which operates under the Office of Research, was founded in 1968 by John Noakes.”
Jingle Bell Fun Run
The University Health Center and UGA Golf Course will host the 2016 Jingle Bell Fun Run Dec. 6. Open free to the UGA community, the 5K stroll will be held at UGA Golf Course and will benefit the Student Veterans Association’s Toys for Tots campaign. The first 200 participants to bring an unwrapped, unused toy or $5 will receive a long-sleeve T-shirt. Registration opens at 9 a.m., and the run begins at 10 a.m. Auxiliary Services is providing free shuttle bus rides leaving from Tate Plaza or the University Health Center starting at 8:30 a.m. Additionally, there is free parking at the UGA Golf Course. At the end of the run, UGA student groups will offer techniques and strategies to be a Healthy Dawg. Included are the Atlanta Pet Partners therapy dogs. More information is at https://studentaffairs.uga.edu/ calendar/event/3346/.
University Woman’s Club
The University Woman’s Club will hold its holiday
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this most prestigious scholarship,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “Her outstanding record at the university made this award possible, and her research interests have the potential to impact the world around us. I look forward to all that she will continue to accomplish as a UGA alumna and Rhodes Scholar.” For Courchesne, her move to Oxford to pursue master’s degrees in social anthropology and politics research will extend the relationships she’s already built at that institution. She previously attended Oxford during its Trinity Term in 2014 and 2015 and conducted research with the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. This past June, she completed Oxford’s executive leadership course on the changing character of armed conflict. Currently, she’s working as a research assistant under the supervision of Oxford’s Annette Idler examining illicit economies, militant groups and local populations at the borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan and between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. She also has been invited to join a team at Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme to conduct a four-year project on military transformation, consulting with the Colombian army on dealing with nonstate armed groups. Adding to her list of current endeavors, she’s also a research assistant for the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton University and a research analyst for the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Unit for Relations with Arms Carriers. At UGA, she’s working with Jeffrey Berejikian in the School of Public and International Affairs studying psychological ramifications of
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drone strikes on noncombatant populations. Courchesne has conducted research in Bali, Indonesia; Binghamton, New York; Lausanne, Switzerland; the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; and the Carter Center’s Americas Program in Atlanta. In addition to being a Foundation Fellow, she is a Leonard Leadership Scholar and UGA Presidential Scholar; received a research assistantship through UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, or CURO; is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society and Blue Key Honor Society; and has earned CURO graduation distinction. She was an Honors teaching assistant at UGA and is an editor for the UGA Journal for Undergraduate Research Opportunities and on the board of trustees for the Jonathan D. Rosen Family Charitable Foundation. “Beyond having an incredible intellect, Laura also has profound empathy,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of UGA’s Honors Program, and the UGA faculty representative for the Rhodes Scholarship. “Rhodes Scholars are not just smart—they make the world better. Laura is dedicated to that being her life’s work.” A new U.S. Rhodes Scholar class is selected each year on the Saturday preceding the Thanksgiving holiday. Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, according to the organization, but also for their character, commitment to others and the common good, and for their potential for leadership. Other recent Rhodes Scholarship recipients from UGA include Juliet Elizabeth Allan in 2013, Tracy Yang in 2011, and Deep Shah and Kate Vyborny in 2008.
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university, and that far too many students graduate with burdensome debt,” said Hardin. “UGA’s ambitious campaign will help ensure both the educated workforce and the leadership our state needs to prosper in future years.” The Woodruff Foundation gift builds positive momentum for the Commit to Georgia Campaign. “The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is always at the center of key philanthropic initiatives in Georgia,” said Kelly Kerner, vice president for development and alumni relations. “Its commitment signals to other philanthropists that there is an opportunity to have a huge impact on our students and our state.” Students who receive need-based aid know first-hand how such a gift can impact
luncheon, “Sounds of the Season,” Dec. 13 at 11 a.m. at the Athens Country Club, 2700 Jefferson Road. Tickets are required for admission to the luncheon. The UWC’s next general meeting will be held Jan. 10 in the Fellowship Hall of Central Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road. Guest speaker for the program, which will begin at 11:30 a.m., is Paul Schroeder, a professor of clay mineralogy in the geology department of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Schroeder will discuss his research on hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, for gas and oil.
Student life grant proposals
The UGA Parents Leadership Council is accepting grant proposals for the 2017-2018 academic year to fund programs and events that enhance the student experience at UGA. Grant applications are due Jan. 27 by 5 p.m. Grants will be accepted only from UGA schools, colleges, units, departments, divisions or student organizations registered with the Center for Student Activities and Involvement. Proposals must demonstrate a direct and positive effect on student life at UGA. Grants will be awarded in February by a committee established by the Parents Leadership Council. Since 2002, the council has funded $1.6 million in grants to various programs and organizations on
individuals, as well as the institution as a whole. Chloe Hamby, a second-year political science major, struggled with family illness and financial difficulties. These adversities, however, only increased her drive. “If I didn’t have my scholarship, I wouldn’t be here today,” said Hamby. “The fact that people I’ve never met are willing to help me get my education makes me extremely motivated to work hard and achieve my goals.” The $30 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation will impact thousands of other UGA students like Hamby. “This monumental gift will be felt for generations to come, and the lives of countless students and their families across this great state will be forever changed by this tremendous act of generosity,” said Morehead.
campus including the Counseling and Psychiatric Services Center at the University Health Center, the Office of the Dean of Students, Designated Dawgs Safe Rides program, Campus Kitchen at UGA and more. For a complete list of guidelines and requirements, visit https://t.uga.edu/2O0. For more information, email Anna Gray, parent and leadership giving coordinator, at annagray@uga.edu.
Student employee recognition
The UGA Career Center, in coordination with the National Student Employment Association, is accepting nominations until Feb. 7 for the university’s Student Employee of the Year. The top 100 student employees will be invited, along with their nominating faculty/staff member, to an awards luncheon April 12 at the Tate Student Center. All undergraduate students enrolled at UGA and employed on-campus and all graduate students who are on the student employee payroll and are performing student employee jobs can be nominated. Graduate administrative, research or teaching assistants are not eligible. Visit bit.ly/SEOTYUGA for more information. Contact Aaron Brown at agb@uga.edu or 706-583-5475 with questions. Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.