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February 20, 2017

Vol. 44, No. 26

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UGA recognized by AACSB International in business education

By David Dodson ddodson@uga.edu

Kelly Dyer

Sonia Hernandez

John Mativo

‘Heartfelt commitment’

Three faculty members receive Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu

Three UGA faculty members have been named recipients of the Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early career teaching honor.

“This year’s Russell Award recipients combine innovation in the classroom with a heartfelt commitment to student success,” said Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Pamela Whitten, whose office administers the awards.“They inspire students and exemplify the University of Georgia’s unrivaled learning environment.”

The prize was established during the 1991-1992 academic year by the Russell Foundation and named for Richard B. Russell. Recipients receive a $7,500 cash award and are honored at the Faculty Recognition Banquet during Honors Week.

The 2017 Russell Award winners are: • Kelly Dyer, associate professor of genetics in the Franklin College of

Arts and Sciences, • Sonia Hernandez, an associate professor with a joint appointment in Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, a unit in the department of population health in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and • John Mativo, associate professor of career and information studies in the College of Education.

Dyer, who joined UGA’s faculty in 2007, uses innovative methods to teach courses in evolution and genetics, allowing students to explore cutting-edge research both in the classroom and laboratory environments. In addition to advising graduate students, while at UGA Dyer has mentored nearly 50 undergraduate students as well as several high school students and teachers in research projects.

Dyer is a 2012 recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious early career honors for researchers. She was a 2009 Lilly Teaching Fellow and has served on

various nomination panels for elite scholarships, such as the Rhodes and Goldwater scholarships, through the Honors program. She currently coordinates the genetics graduate program at UGA and serves on the councils of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Genetics Association.

Hernandez, who became a tenure-track faculty member in 2008, uses a multidisciplinary approach to engage her students in courses related to wildlife diseases and conservation medicine. Her classes, including an experiential learning course taught in Costa Rica, incorporate meaningful real-world experiences alongside lectures and more traditional approaches, and she is dedicated to mentoring students and acting as an advocate for students who are underrepresented in her fields.

Hernandez is a 2013 recipient of the Warnell School’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she was named the 2013 Western Veterinary Conference Educator See AWARDS on page 8

WILLSON CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS

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Seed Life Skills is a nonprofit, research-based curriculum founded by chef Hugh Acheson that is dedicated to providing young people with essential knowledge and skills in family and consumer sciences.

Acheson and Almeta Tulloss, executive director of the Athensbased organization, have partnered with UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts to produce a symposium on “Food, Culture and Community” Feb. 22, the first in what is planned to be a series of annual collaborations for the Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative.

The symposium’s main event is a 4 p.m. panel discussion in the Chapel that will bring together a handful of world-renowned figures in culinary and food policy circles.

Joining Tulloss on the panel will be chef Tom Colicchio, author, restaurateur and head judge on the Bravo TV series Top Chef; Helen Rosner, executive editor of the online food culture magazine Eater; Rashid Nuri, president and CEO of the Atlanta-based Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture; and chef Michel Nischan, author, food equity advocate and founder and CEO of the nonprofit organization Wholesome Wave.

Acheson will serve as the panel’s

See INNOVATIONS on page 8

GRADY COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

Peabody Media Center partners with FUSION, The Root for Black History Month The Peabody Media Center, FUSION and The Root have launched a content partnership that will bring Peabody’s rich media archive together with FUSION’s diverse voices to explore issues of contemporary importance.

This endeavor marks the first industry collaboration for the UGA-based Peabody Media Center, a scholarly outreach arm of the prestigious Peabody Awards, since it was launched last November.

The first project produced under the Media Center’s new Peabody Spotlight programming banner, each episode in the Black History Month series revisits African-American history from several perspectives by drawing from the Peabody Archive, the

third largest repository of audiovisual materials in the U.S. Content from this and future Peabody Spotlight series, in keeping with the spirit of the Peabody Awards, will focus on significant current issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners and finalists, as well as 75 years of broadcasting’s best programming.

The series will be featured throughout February across the digital, social and OTT platforms of FUSION and The Root, the leading news and culture site for African-Americans, and will include contemporary Peabodywinning programming by some of the most creative storytellers working in television today.

See PEABODY on page 8

FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Symposium panel will bring top chefs to UGA

By Dave Marr

A women’s initiative for students in the UGA Terry College of Business was commended as an “innovation that inspires” by AACSB International, the largest business education network and accrediting organization in the world.

AACSB’s Innovations That Inspire showcased 35 ways that business schools are globally empowering future business leaders and challenging the status quo to address societal needs. The objective of the Terry College women’s initiative, established two years

ago, is to support the recruitment, retention and advancement of students in the business school by providing a range of resources and experiences that inspire confidence and advance their academic and professional goals.

AACSB International honored its second annual class of innovators at its 2017 Deans Conference Feb. 6. A total of 315 submissions from 33 countries were under consideration.

“With great pleasure, I am thrilled to recognize the Terry College of Business for its role in driving innovation in business education

moderator and Chuck Reece, editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Bitter Southerner, will give opening remarks.

The symposium also will include a cooking competition for high school students at Athens Community Career Academy, with some of the visiting panelists as judges, at 11:30 a.m., and a 7 p.m. dinner to benefit Seed Life Skills hosted by Acheson’s Five & Ten restaurant in partnership with Creature Comforts Brewing and the Willson Center. Tickets to the dinner have sold out, and attendance at the cooking contest is limited. To inquire about See SYMPOSIUM on page 8

2017 Darl Snyder Lecture to focus on fight against malaria

By Alan Flurry

aflurry@uga.edu

The UGA African Studies Institute will present the 25th annual Darl Snyder Lecture Feb. 23 at 9 a.m. at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

UGA alumna Alexandra Wright, Overseas Research Fellow for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will speak on “Capacity Strengthening Vector Control Laboratories in Resource Limited Settings in East and West Africa: A Necessary Step in the Fight against Malaria.” Registration

is free, and the public is invited to attend.

The 2017 Snyder Lecture will include two days of legacy presentations Alexandra Wright and discussions, including a roundtable discussion,“Health Management in Africa: Achievements and Challenges.” Featured panelists are Oliver Wonekha, Uganda’s ambassador to the U.S.; representatives from the U.S.

See LECTURE on page 8

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DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

Around academe

Alumnus gives Rembrandts to UNCChapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum is now home to seven works by Rembrandt van Rijn in addition to more than 100 works of art from 17th-century Europe thanks to a $25 million gift from alumnus Sheldon Peck and his wife.

According to a Carolina Alumni Review news release, the Pecks’ gift is the largest in museum history and includes $8 million for curation and new acquisitions. The museum at UNCChapel Hill is the first public university museum in the country—and the second museum in the U.S.—to own works by Rembrandt.

Task forces, universities reconsider need for remedial math courses

Two out of every five incoming college freshmen at public four-year universities will wind up in a remedial course, and of those one in three will require remedial math courses, according to a recent New York Times article.

At community colleges, the rate of students needing refresher math courses is even greater at three out of every five students.

But recent questions about whether all students need to take algebra have resulted in 11 states setting up task forces to determine the course’s necessity and by extension the necessity of the remedial courses that focus on preparing students for college algebra. Ohio’s public institutions allow students to substitute statistics or quantitative reasoning classes if they don’t plan on pursuing a math or science field rather than subjecting them to remedial courses to prep them for algebra.

Student Affairs grants facilitate new faculty research partnerships

By Stan Jackson ugastan@uga.edu

Three UGA research projects have been named as the inaugural recipients of the Student Affairs Faculty Research Grant.

The grants encourage the use of Student Affairs programs and facilities as a principal laboratory for research, enhancing the role of the division in campus research.

The recipients include projects that will assess the social and financial impact of the UGA Food Scholarship, examine family relationships when students transition to college and investigate plans to improve water quality.

Erin Richman, director of Student Affairs academic partnerships and initiatives, said incentivizing partnerships between Student Affairs and faculty benefits both students and researchers.

“The grants encourage researchers to access the many campus resources using our robust facilities,” said Richman. “Ultimately, we not only create innovative partnerships, but we maximize the impact of scarce research dollars.”

Recipients of the 2017 Student Affairs Faculty Research Grants are: n “An Exploration of How the UGA Food Scholarship Affects Students’ Social and Financial Success in College,” Georgianna L. Martin, an assistant professor in the College of Education’s counseling and human development services department. n “Parent-Child Relationships across Students’ Transitions to College,” Katie Ehrlich, an assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences psychology department and the Center for Family Research, and Anne Shaffer, an associate professor in the psychology department. n “Concept Plans to Improve Water Quality,” Jon Calabria, an associate professor in the College of Environment and Design, in partnership with the Office of Sustainability.

Ehrlich said Student Affairs departments have unique access to students on campus, and she looks forward to sharing the results of her research to enhance campus programming.

“By establishing a formal partnership with Student Affairs, we hope to open

National Danish Performance Team to visit university

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Plant cool-season vegetables now

News to Use

Many gardeners gave up on planting a fall vegetable garden last year due to the exceptional drought conditions. However, there is a second window of opportunity in late winter to plant a number of cool-season vegetables.

Cool-season vegetables include beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, collards, kale, lettuce, mustard greens, onions, English peas, Irish potatoes, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard and turnips. Most cool-season vegetables, if planted now, will be ready to harvest around early April or May. Cool-season vegetables are generally very fast growing and are easily planted by direct seeding into the soil. There is no reason to purchase or grow transplants this time of year, since the soil moisture and weather conditions are ideal for seed germination.

Many cool-season vegetables grow close to the ground and have direct contact with the soil, so avoid using fertilizer sources such as animal manure that could increase the chance of contamination by foodborne pathogens.

As with all vegetables, select a garden site that receives at least eight to 10 hours of sunlight a day. Select a location that is conveniently located near your home and a water supply.

The soil should have a good texture and be well drained. Adding a mulch of wheat straw, leaves, compost or pine straw will help conserve soil moisture, control weeds and reduce cultivation.

Source: UGA Cooperative Extension

GRADUATE ASSISTANCE The Graduate School awarded more than 250 graduate fellowships and assistantships in fall 2016. A breakdown of them by type and number: Type

No. of assistants

National Science Fellows Graduate School assistants

24 205

Dissertation Completion Awards

13

Presidential Graduate Fellows

31

TOTAL 273 Source: 2016 UGA Fact Book

the dialogue about what resources on campus are most beneficial as students enter college,” said Ehrlich.

She also said that the grant played a role in expediting a new faculty collaboration with Shaffer.

“Had it not been for this award, Anne and I likely would have had a slower start to starting a joint project,” she said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Victor K. Wilson, whose office funds the grants, points to the program as rounding out his division’s support of the university’s three-part mission of teaching, research and service.

“We are proud of the excellent learning experiences and service opportunities Student Affairs offers,” Wilson said. “We have always been very supportive of research, and these grants clearly communicate Student Affairs’ desire to be a full partner in faculty research.”

The call for proposals for the 20172018 cycle will go out in early March with a submission deadline in May. Visit partner.studentaffairs.uga.edu for more information.

By Melissa Seguin

melissa.seguin25@uga.edu

Pictured from left are Jimmy Allgood, chairman of the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development advisory board; Roy Reeves, recipient of the Innovation in Community Leadership Award; Jennifer Frum, UGA vice president for public service and outreach; and Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute.

PSO recognizes longtime community servant with new leadership award Roy Reeves, a Moultrie businessman who was instrumental in the launch of the first UGA Archway Partnership, was presented with the inaugural award for Innovation in Community Leadership by the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, during the institute’s annual conference.

Reeves was selected for his decades of public service in Colquitt County.

“The Innovation in Community Leadership Award recognizes an individual or organization that has taken extraordinary steps to enhance and sustain their community leadership development programming,” said Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute, a unit of UGA Public Service and Outreach.

“This year’s winner, Roy Reeves, has been involved in various aspects of community leadership programming in his hometown of Moultrie for more than three decades. His leadership in public education, the faith community, youth development and community engagement has resulted in hundreds of emerging leaders being trained to take on community leadership roles.”

Reeves, who did not know ahead of time that he was the award recipient, said he was honored to be recognized.

“I believe everything rises and falls on leadership,” Reeves said as he accepted the award. “The greatest resources a community has are its volunteers.”

More than 150 people from

39 Georgia counties attended the Community Leadership Conference, held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Feb. 2-3. Participants included representatives from chambers of commerce, colleges and universities, K-12 schools, nonprofit organizations, community leadership programs, power companies, housing authorities, judicial systems, county commissions and the medical field.

This year’s theme, “Transforming Leaders,Transforming Communities,” focused on helping community leaders improve existing programs.Workshops targeted adult, youth and nonprofit leadership programs, bringing together leaders from the public and private sectors of Georgia communities. The Small Business Development Center, another PSO unit, presented a session on digital marketing.

Reeves, who owns Reeves Properties in Moultrie, has chaired the executive committee of the Colquitt County Archway Partnership since it was launched as a pilot program in 2005.

Archway, also part of UGA PSO, connects selected Georgia communities with the extensive resources at UGA and other Georgia higher education institutions to address locally identified critical community needs.

Reeves’ volunteer work in the Moultrie community dates back to the 1980s, when he returned to his hometown to join the family business.

The National Danish Performance Team will perform in Athens Feb. 20-Feb. 22 as part of a 10-month world tour.

The NDPT consists of 28 athletes and five chaperones who travel the world to stress the importance of an active and healthy lifestyle and to encourage exercise. The group also strives to promote understanding in the world while presenting an important part of Danish culture and voluntarism. The athletes range in age from 19-28.

On Feb. 21, two Clarke County schools, Chase Street Elementary and Fowler Drive Elementary, will host workshops featuring performers from the team. These workshops will promote healthy living through sports and gymnastics as a fun and empowering activity.

Schools were selected based on their engagement with UGA’s Physical Activity and Learning Program, which was launched with seed funding from the Obesity Initiative.

This ongoing study based in the College of Education’s kinesiology department explores the relationship between exercise and academics and incorporates games and activities into after-school homework time.

Later that day, the NDPT will put on its IMANI show in the Ramsey Center volleyball arena, sponsored by the UGA Obesity Initiative, UGA Recreational Sports, the UGA Division of Student Affairs, Fight Against Youth Obesity and Exercise is Medicine. The show begins at 7:15 p.m. and is free to the public.

On Feb. 22, the performers will visit the UGA Child Development Lab at the McPhaul Center as well as the Clarke County Early Learning Center.

These visits are in partnership with the Eat Healthy, Be Active program in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

More information and videos can be found at https://www.dgi.dk/ ndpt.

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Associate professor Julianne Schmidt, right, and Emily Miller, a graduate student in the department of kinesiology, demonstrate the driving simulator in the UGA Concussion Research Laboratory.

Lingering effect Study: Concussion may affect driving even after symptoms disappear

By Kristen Morales kmorales@uga.edu

The effects a concussion has on driving a vehicle may continue to linger even after the symptoms disappear, according to a new study by UGA researchers.

Julianne Schmidt, associate professor in the UGA College of Education’s kinesiology department and lead author of the study, said even though participants felt like they had recovered from their concussion, they were still likely to drive erratically while using a driving simulator—at times similar to someone driving under the influence of alcohol.

“They had less vehicle control while they were doing the driving simulation, and they swerved more within the lane,” Schmidt said. “This is a pretty large indicator of motor vehicle accident risk, and this is at a time point when they are considered recovered.”

The study, recently published by the Journal of Neurotrauma, included 14 college-age participants, all of whom were within 48 hours of no longer feel-

ing the effects of their concussion. It is the first study of its kind to look into how a concussion impacts a person’s ability to drive.

Typically, concussion research has focused on how the injury affects athletes, Schmidt said. Before injured players can return to the field, they must pass a series of tests to determine how well their brain is functioning, even after concussion symptoms disappear. Before this study, the issue of driving after a concussion has never come up—even among athletes.

“In athletics, we don’t restrict their driving before their symptoms resolve.

Often, people will get a concussion and drive home from the event or practice that caused the concussion—there are no restrictions there,” said Schmidt.

“Whereas, we would never let them go out on the field or court; we’re very strict about that.”

This study, she said, implies that driving should be restricted at least until symptoms clear and possibly after that. Schmidt said her research team’s next step is to determine

more precisely when driving abilities improve. The team also plans to come up with guidelines to help determine when driving should be restricted.

But because the study showed that the effects of a concussion lasted longer than its symptoms, Schmidt said the research has implications beyond athletes.

“The driving simulation shows they are performing very differently on the road compared to people who are not concussed, even after such symptoms resolve,” she said. “We have very finetuned recommendations for when a concussed individual is ready to return to sport and the classroom, but we don’t even mention driving in our recommendations. And only 50 percent of people intend to restrict their driving at any point following a concussion, which means that by the time they are feeling better, they are almost certainly on the road.”

The study was funded by a grant from the UGA Office of Research, and researchers from Augusta University and the University of Kansas Medical Center collaborated on the project.

UGA SAVANNAH RIVER ECOLOGY LABORATORY

Study: Toxic elements from fly ash found in raccoons

By Vicky L. Sutton-Jackson vsuttonj@uga.edu

Coal-burning power plants produce more than half of the electricity in the U.S., and they generate huge amounts of coal ash in the process. One type of coal ash is a fine, powdery particle called fly ash, which for many years was treated as waste and disposed of in landfills.

Now, researchers at the University of Georgia and the University of Florida have shown that the toxic elements in fly ash accumulate in the livers of raccoons that forage for their food in and around the ponds containing the waste. Researchers said the study findings can inform communities located near the remnants of coal waste about its potential dangers to public health and the ecosystem.

Coal ash is one of the largest types of industrial waste in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2012, 470 coal-fired electric utilities generated about 110 million tons of coal ash.

University of Florida doctoral candidate Felipe Hernandez examined raccoons from two distinct habitats: one contaminated and the other uncontaminated, both located on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. He worked with James Beasley, an assistant professor at UGA’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Beasley said the contaminated habitat surrounds five pond-like basins that are currently undergoing remediation, or environmental cleanup procedures, but received coal waste from 1953-2012. During that time, these impoundments discharged waste into the surrounding landscape.

Hernandez suspected that there would be a direct connection between the coal fly ash and what they would find in the systems of the raccoons captured from the contaminated site.

“Arsenic, selenium and lead are trace elements that are normally present in these animals at low concentrations,

but we found significantly higher concentrations of these elements in the liver of the raccoons from the contaminated site,” said Hernandez.

“Toxic concentrations of arsenic and lead can impact the central nervous, blood, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, urinary and reproductive systems in wildlife.”

Hernandez said trace elements become toxic at variable concentrations in different species, but the researchers warn that contaminants in raccoons can transfer to higher-level predators through the food chain and to humans who consume game meat.

“Our results found concentrations were 18 to 125 percent higher in the raccoons from the contaminated site,” he said.

Beasley said the team also observed lower red and white blood cell counts in the raccoons. However, he noted, “the levels are not high enough to have substantial effects that would prove detrimental to the health of this particular population.”

Students and faculty in the Institute of Higher Education’s executive doctoral program in higher education management will host an open house for prospective students in Atlanta on Feb. 23.

Prospective students will have an opportunity to attend an education module with IHE faculty member Erik Ness from 3:30-4:15 p.m., followed by a leadership module with Charles Knapp, UGA president emeritus and director of the Ed.D. program, from 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Both events, as well as a reception from 6-8 p.m., will be held at the Terry Executive Education Center, 3475 Lenox Road, Live Oak Square. RSVPs are requested.

Questions about the open house or the Ed.D. program should be directed to Leslie Gordon, associate director of the program, at gordonls@uga.edu.

School of Law to host WIPI law conference

The UGA School of Law will host the 12th annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference Feb. 25 in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall starting at 9:30 a.m. This year’s conference will explore issues surrounding vulnerable people in custody, expanding access to justice through community lawyering and health care access and disability rights.

Francys Johnson, who currently serves as the president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, will deliver the keynote address. Johnson is a 2004 graduate of Georgia Law who frequently lectures and writes on the concept of race, measuring equity and understanding of the power in public policy. He has served on the political science and criminal justice faculties at Georgia Southern and Savannah State universities.

Conference panelists include representatives from groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta Legal Aid, the Georgia Advocacy Office and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The conference is free for members of the UGA community. For attorneys, three continuing legal education credits are available at a cost of $75. The fee for all other entrants is $10. Registration is strongly encouraged, and breakfast and lunch will be provided.

For more information and to register, visit http://law.uga.edu/working-public-interest.

Georgia Museum of Art receives awards

The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries presented the Georgia Museum of Art at UGA with five awards at its annual conference, held Jan. 18-20 in Augusta. The museum received the following awards: Education Program of the Year, Student Project, Exhibition of the Year, Community Service Award and Museum Professional of the Year.

Tricia Miller, the museum’s head registrar, received the Museum Professional of the Year Award. As head registrar, she oversees the museum’s permanent collection and all works on loan to about 25 temporary exhibitions annually.

The exhibition Man’s Canyons: New York City on Paper received the award for Student Project. It was organized

by UGA undergraduate student and volunteer curatorial intern Catherine Huff.

Icon of Modernism received the 2016 Museum Exhibition of the Year Award (> $100,000). It was organized by the museum’s curator of American art, Sarah Kate Gillespie.

Volunteer David Matheny received the Community Service Award. Matheny has served in many roles at the museum over decades, including on the Public Affairs and Statewide Outreach Committee of its Board of Advisors and as a dedicated fundraiser.

Finally, Morning Mindfulness, held every other Friday while UGA is in session, won Education Program of the Year. Morning Mindfulness, led by Jerry Gale, professor of human development and family science in UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, is a free guided mindfulness meditation session that includes a meditation portion followed by a period of reflection.

GAMG is a private, nonprofit statewide organization dedicated to encouraging growth and improving professional practices of museums and nonprofit galleries throughout the state.

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

Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.

UGAGUIDE EXHIBITIONS

Artists of the New York School. Through March 19. ­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 To Spin a Yarn: Distaffs, Folk Art and Material Culture. Through April 16. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Advanced and Irascible. Through April 30. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection.

Through May 7. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Equality Under the Law: History of the Equal Rights Amendment. Through May 12. ­Hargrett Library Gallery, special collections libraries.

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

‘A World of Difference’

By Jessica Luton

The NCAA Tennis Tournament in Athens. Through May 30. Rotunda, special collections libraries.

706-542-5788. hasty@uga.edu

jluton@uga.edu

The UGA dance department’s CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company will present its annual 2017 season performance Feb. 22-25 at 8 p.m. at the New Dance Theatre in the dance building. The company will premiere “A World of Difference,” a 65-minute nonstop aerial dance and multimedia performance.

The concert consists of juxtaposed abstract and dramatic sequences immersed in a surreal aural and visual landscape created through interactive film animation. Performers will exhibit technical aerial abilities on the silks, slings, lyra, trapeze and bungee.

“We bring together UGA student artists who will demonstrate extraordinary aerial dance skills,” said Bala Sarasvati, CORE artistic director and the Jane Willson Professor in the Arts. “These extremely committed artists bring a unique set of talents to the arts at UGA.” Tickets are $16 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets, visit the Tate Student Center ticket office or order at pac.uga.edu or by phone at 706-542-4400. Tickets also will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 p.m. Student groups who can make a one-time purchase of eight or more student tickets will receive a group rate of $5 per ticket. On opening night only, students groups making a one-time purchase of five or more student tickets will receive the group rate of $5 per ticket, plus free pizza following the show.

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, FEBRUARY 20 PRESIDENTS DAY Classes in session; offices open.

Orchestre National de Lyon

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Orchestre National de Lyon Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Music director Leonard Slatkin will conduct a program that includes the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz and two works by Ravel, Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie and Tzigane.

The concert also will feature Slatkin’s own composition, Kinah, a musical elegy to his parents, famed Hollywood musicians Eleanor Aller and Felix Slatkin.

The Orchestre National de Lyon was founded in 1905 as the Societe des Grands Concerts de Lyon. In 1975, the orchestra’s own concert hall, Auditorium MauriceRavel, was opened, funded by the city of Lyon. It is one of the largest concert halls in France, with more than 2,000 seats, and it boasts outstanding acoustics.

Tickets for the concert are $31 to $72 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.

A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior to the performance in Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center.

ANIMAL VOICES FILM FESTIVAL The award-winning film Lion Ark follows the dramatic rescue and relocation of 25 lions held captive in illegal circuses in Bolivia and their inspirational journey to freedom. 7 p.m.

148 Miller Learning Center. 706-224-3796. sos@uga.edu CONCERT This will be a mixed program of Roger Vogel’s music including a tuba/euph ensemble, trumpet ensemble, trombone duet, marimba and voice duo, and trumpet and piano solo.

8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 WORN WEAR ZERO WASTE EXTRAVAGANZA Patagonia clothing company will bring its mobile sewing truck to repair clothes, and participants can learn how to achieve zero waste. 10 a.m. Tate Plaza and Lawn.

706-542-3152. alentini@uga.edu ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Mutualism: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go From Here?,” Judie Bronstein, University of Arizona. A reception will follow the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the Odum School lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu SIGNATURE LECTURE “The Elephant in the Room,” Rick Ridgeway, vice president of environmental affairs, Patagonia clothing company. Part of the Signature Lecture series. Sponsored by the UGA Office of Sustainability. 6:30 p.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center.

Tutto Italiano

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The program, Tutto Italiano, will include music by Puccini, Respighi and Verdi.

The concert will open with Mendelssohn’s Venice-inspired Venetianisches Gondellied.

The Performing Arts Center has partnered with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to present an entire season of concerts on the Franklin College Chamber Music Series. Musicians from CMSLC are visiting Athens six times during the 2016-2017 season, establishing the greatest presence in one location for the Chamber Music Society outside of New York City.

CMSLC is the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music with a rotating roster of outstanding instrumentalists. For the Tutto Italiano program, the Orion String Quartet will join Chamber Music Society members pianist Alessio Bax and violinist Paul Huang.

Tickets for the concert are $42 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.

The concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, heard by 1.4 million listeners across the country. Patrick Castillo from CMSLC will give a pre-concert lecture at 2:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

SEMINAR “Growing More with Less: Tiny House Utilization in the Farming Industry,” Will Johnston, founder and director of Tiny House Atlanta. Part of the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Seminar Series. 3:30 p.m. 307 Conner Hall. 706-542-8084. sustainag@uga.edu

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By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present violinist Lara St. John Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. She will be joined by jazz pianist Matt Herskowitz for a program she’s calling “From Jazz to Gypsy Bookended by Ravel.”

The concert will open with Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Piano and close with Tzigane. The program also will include arrangements of George Gershwin’s “But Not for Me” and “Fascinating Rhythm” along with Gypsy music from Hungary, Palestine, Macedonia, Armenia and Israel.

A native of Canada, St. John has performed with major orchestras around the world.

Tickets for the concert are $36 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

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READING The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program and the University of Georgia Press present a reading by Christopher Salerno, winner of the 2016 Georgia Poetry Prize. Salerno’s collection, Sun & Urn, features poetry that pushes beyond the tragedies of loss to the wilder realms of renewal and meaning. Reading alongside Salerno will be poet Daniel Schoonebeek, whose collection of poems Trebuchet was published by UGA Press in 2016. 7 p.m. Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave. cwp@uga.edu IMANI: NATIONAL DANISH PERFORMANCE TEAM TOUR The Imani Show is a dynamic mix of tumbling, vaulting, minitrampoline that is choreographed with acrobatics. 7:15 p.m.

Volleyball Area, Ramsey Student Center. (See story, page 2.)

CONCERT The UGA Symphony Orchestra will perform works from Bruckner and Mozart. $12; $6 with UGA student ID. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 CLASS “Flower Arranging Unit 3: Design for Dining Table,” the third in a series of five units taught by a National Garden Club Master Flower Show Judge, will focus on dining table arrangements. $50. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu

WORKSHOP In “Engaging Students with Learning Technologies,” participants will discuss activities that can be used to encourage student engagement and learning technologies that can support these activities. 10 a.m. 372 Miller Learning Center.

706-542-6585. cnbishop@uga.edu ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR “Environmental Health Visualized: Access, Axis and Affect,”Davis T. Dyjack, executive director and CEO of the National Environmental Health Association. 11 a.m.

S175 Coverdell Center. ebush@uga.edu

GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE: SEED LIFE SKILLS SYMPOSIUM Seed Life Skills is a nonprofit, research-based curriculum founded by Chef Hugh Acheson that is dedicated to providing young people with essential knowledge and skills in family and consumer sciences, also known as home economics.

Panel discussion is at 4 p.m. at the Chapel. (See story, page 1.)

DARL SNYDER LECTURE The keynote address for the 25th annual Darl Snyder Lecture will be given by UGA alumna Alexandra Wright, Overseas Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The Snyder Legacy Program and the Ambassadors Roundtable followed by a reception will be held Feb. 22 from 12:20-6:30 p.m. The lecture is Feb. 23 at 9 a.m. followed by a luncheon at 11:45 a.m. Special collections libraries.

706-542-0506. tanndunc@uga.edu (See story, page 1.)

LEWIS LECTURE SERIES “Psychobiology of Pain and Exercise: Bulldog to Badger,” alumnus Dane Cook. There will be a reception following the lecture. 3:30 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center. emevans@uga.edu CONCERT The Georgia Woodwind Quintet, the Ensemble in Residence at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will perform. 8 p.m.

Ramsey Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu PERFORMANCE CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company presents “A World of Difference”, a 65-minute nonstop aerial and multimedia performance displaying aerial dance on silks, lyra, slings, trapeze and bungee. $16, general admission; $12, students and seniors. 8 p.m. New Dance Theatre, dance building. ugadance@uga.edu (See story, top far left.)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 WORKSHOP Rachel Toor, a former acquisitions editor at Oxford and Duke university presses and a professor in the graduate creative writing program at Eastern Washington University, gives her top 10 strategies for how to write better academic prose in “Writing for Love, Money and Applause (and to Snag Academic Jobs, Tenure and Promotions).” 10 a.m. Room F/G, Georgia Center. edwatson@uga.edu WORKSHOP “Evidence of Student Learning: Collection Methods to Consider” will introduce and explore different direct and indirect methods of collecting data for program assessment purposes. 2 p.m. N6 Instructional Plaza. edwatson@uga.edu ADPR VANTAGE POINT SPEAKER “The New CCO & The Age of Corporate Communication,” Stacey Tank, vice president of corporate communications and external affairs at The Home Depot. 2 p.m. Peyton Anderson Forum, journalism building.

WORKSHOP In “Crafting a Nonfiction Book Proposal,” Rachel Toor, a former acquisitions editor at Oxford and Duke university presses and a professor in the graduate creative writing program at Eastern Washington University, will describe the components of a book proposal. Participants are encouraged to come with an idea for a book, a draft of a proposal or even a complete manuscript. 4 p.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. edwatson@uga.edu CONVERSATION ON COLLECTING Join collector Brenda Thompson and Curlee Raven Holton, director of the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, for a discussion with Shawnya Harris, the museum’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, on varied aspects of collecting African-American art. They will discuss the importance of partnerships between academic institutions and private collectors in nurturing and fostering an awareness of African-American artists. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Alabama. $5. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1231.

CONCERT The ARCO Chamber Orchestra’s spring concert. $20; $6 with UGA student ID. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall.

706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 CLASS Learn the basics of propagating native wildflowers and shrubs by seeds, cuttings and division in “Native Plant Propagation.” Models for inexpensive grow-light systems and a propagation timeline will be provided to ensure that seedlings are ready to be transplanted outdoors in early spring. $50.

9 a.m. Mimsie Lanier Center for Native Plant Studies, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu PANEL DISCUSSION “Women in Higher Education in Times of Anxiety: Advising

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Graduate Students, Research, Lessons Learned or Wished We Had Learned,” a panel organized by the Gender in Academia FLC that includes Laura Bierema, Janet Buckworth, Janet Frick and Anne Bothe Marcotte and moderated by Bettina Kaplan. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series.

12:20 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM EVENT “Freedom of Associate: The Case for Mostly Open Border,” George Rainbolt, Georgia State University. Reception will follow lecture. 3:30 p.m. 115 Peabody Hall. 706-542-2823.

GMOA BLACK HISTORY MONTH DINNER The dinner and awards ceremony feature the presentation of the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award and the Lillian C. Lynch Citation. Presenting sponsor: Morgan Stanley. Call 706-542-4199 to register. $75 nonmembers; $55 members.

6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4199.

CONCERT Leonard Slatkin conducts an appealing program with the Orchestre National de Lyon that includes the Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz and two works by Ravel, Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie and Tzigane. $31-$72; $6 for UGA students (must show student ID). 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu (See story, top left.)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 CLASS “Conservation Landscaping” will offer suggestions on plants, management and design techniques to use in your own gardens. An emphasis will be placed on mimicking systems to work with nature and will give attendees more ideas for plants and techniques to use at their own home. $50. 9 a.m.

Visitor Center, Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6156. ckeber@uga.edu WORKING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST CONFERENCE The 12th annual Working in the Public Interest (WIPI) conference will shine a light on current social issues affecting the law and potential solutions. Free for UGA faculty, staff and students; $10 for others. CLE credits are available for a fee.

9:30 a.m. Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall. taylorparker@uga.edu (See Digest, page 3).

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. LSU. $15. 6 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 706-542-1231.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 CONCERT: TUTTO ITALIANO The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center offers a unique, all-Italian concert which stretches forward from the 1820s all the way into the 20th century, featuring works by Mendelssohn, Puccini, Resphghi, Verdi and others. $42; $6 for UGA students (must show student ID). 3 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu (See story, bottom far left.)

ORCHID MADNESS: VANILLA SUNDAY Did you know that vanilla flavoring is extracted from the pods of an orchid plant? Celebrate the vanilla bean orchid with treats including vanilla sundaes from Freddy’s Frozen Custard. $20. 4:30 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 MIDTERM For spring semester WRITE@UGA 2017 EXHIBIT This event will feature writing programs, initiatives and publications associated with UGA. This exhibit will be the culminating event of Write@UGA 2017. 11:30 a.m. Tate Student Center. lharding@uga.edu or eadavis@uga.edu WORKSHOP “Mentoring FYO Students” is an opportunity for faculty to share their strategies and experiences as mentors.

2 p.m. Conference Room, North Instructional Plaza. edwatson@uga.edu ANIMAL VOICES FILM FESTIVAL A Dog Named Gucci is the story of an abused puppy and the brave man who came to his rescue. 7 p.m. 148 Miller Learning Center. 706-224-3796. sos@uga.edu

COMING UP LECTURE Feb. 28. “Home Court Advantage: Promoting Pro-Level Diversity in the Atlanta Hawks,” Nzinga Shaw, senior vice president of community and chief diversity and inclusion officer at the Atlanta Hawks and Phillips Arena Organization.

Noon. G23 Aderhold Hall.

CONCERT March 1. Maggie Snyder, violist of the UGA Franklin Quartet and faculty member of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will perform a concert with guest artist Tim Lovelace. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall. 706-542-4752. ccschwabe@uga.edu GLOBAL GEORGIA INITIATIVE: SCREENING OF ‘500 YEARS’ March 2. The Sundance-selected 2017 documentary 500 Years continues the story of the Guatemalan indigenous Mayan peoples’ human rights struggle that began in director Pamela Yates’ earlier films When the Mountains Tremble (1983) and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011).

Yates and Paco de Onis, producer of 500 Years and Granito, will take part in a discussion following the screening. 7 p.m.

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Order of importance

Your birth order can have an impact on your love life, according to experts.

Oldest children tend to be intelligent and responsible highachievers who are good with organization and responsibilities, in addition to having nurturing and caring tendencies, which can serve them well in relationships.

If compromise is the cornerstone of a good relationship, middle children have a leg up on other birth order types. They’re natural-born peacemakers, Linda Campbell, a faculty member in the College of Education, told the Huffington Post.

“Middle children learn to become adaptable and are often very diplomatic and good at negotiating because of their dealings with older and younger children,” said Campbell, a professor in the college’s counseling and human development department.

“Fairness is very important to them.”

Youngest children are often attention seekers, risk takers and charmers. In relationships, youngest children tend to be playful and spontaneous and they’re easy to be around, Campbell said. On the negative side, they often expect others to make decisions for them and can be a little too flighty for some partners.

Children with no siblings are conventional, responsible and dependable but because they always had their parents’ attention, only children sometimes can be needy and demanding in love.

Tangled branches

For the past 30 years, the American Chestnut Foundation has diligently practiced selective breeding in an effort to revive the American chestnut.

TACF technicians cross the American species with a chestnut variety from China that resists the Cryphonectria parasitica fungus. Offspring that are most resistant to the fungus are selected, especially those that are most similar to the American chestnut. These selections bear, for example, thinner and narrower leaves. Then those offspring are re-crossed with the American chestnut. Six generations of crossing have yielded a hybrid with 94 percent of its genes coming from the American variety.

Last year, the American Chestnut Foundation planted 150,000 such hybrid seeds, according to Ruth Goodridge, communications director of the organization. The ultimate goal is to generate seeds for the hybrid that can be sown to grow into blightresistant trees.

However, the genetics of the hybrids can be unpredictable, Scott Merkle, a forest biologist at UGA who is involved in genetic engineering efforts to revive the American chestnut, told scienceline.org.

“No matter how much traditional breeding is done, you still end up with a lot of genes from the Chinese chestnut, and you don’t know what these genes are,” Merkle said.

Successes with the chestnut tree are important because they could provide lessons that help conservationists save other trees.

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Every day is different for Cameron Jacob, a skilled trades worker who does maintenance work on residential facilities at the Health Sciences Campus.

Maintenance worker’s upbringing builds appreciation for the outdoors

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

Cameron Jacob is good at fixing things that are broken, and on the Health Sciences Campus where residential facilities range from around 40 to 60 years in age, there’s often a lot that needs upkeep.

Jacob’s maintenance job in University Housing keeps him busy repairing broken heaters and busted pipes among other projects in the six ranch-style houses, 48 townhouses and residence hall on the campus.

His work days vary.

“We could have a slow day, and then a day you’re working in sewage,” Jacob said. “You just never know.”

That variety keeps things interesting more than seven years after he first took the job.

“I haven’t reached a point when I don’t like getting up and going to work,” Jacob said. “I really enjoy helping people, and I feel like we provide a good service for students.”

Jacob is currently working to complete the Certificate in Supervisory Excellence program from UGA’s Department of Training and Development. His final course is scheduled for

early March, but he’s already putting the skills he’s learning to use by substituting as supervisor whenever his boss is out.

“Whether it is resolving conflicts or assigning tasks, the supervisor training has given me the confidence to tackle any issue that might arise,” he said. “It’s also been eye-opening to see the amount of resources and support available at the university.”

Jacob grew up as an Army brat, moving from state to state and finally settling in Athens in the fall of 1990.

Living in places like Colorado and Washington gave him an appreciation for the outdoors that’s carried over into his adult life. Jacob always enjoyed camping growing up, but after getting married and becoming a father, he realized he’d probably have to change his camping style if he wanted to make those trips family events.

“My wife had never had the bug to be outdoorsy—her idea of roughing it is a five-minute power outage,” he said jokingly.

Jacob convinced her to go on a camping trip to Lake Tugalo in Georgia to see if she liked it enough for them to potentially invest in an RV, but he forgot to check the weather forecast.

The trip was going well until lightning

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Cameron Jacob

Skilled Trades Worker Health Sciences Campus/Family and Graduate Housing University Housing At UGA: 7.5 years

and torrential rain stranded them inside the tent Jacob brought while all their gear got soaked. But his plan worked: Although his wife was miserable at the time, she told him on the ride home that she’d need something with a roof over her head if she was going to do this camping thing again.

“We purchased a travel trailer and have never looked back,” Jacob said.

Exploring Georgia’s extensive state park system is easy from his home base just outside Athens. And Jacob gets to be part of the UGA community, something he wanted since arriving in Athens more than 20 years ago.

“The overall feeling that I’m contributing to these students’ experiences and doing a little part in helping develop them into the future leaders of America,” he said, “it’s just gratifying.”

RETIREES January Thirty-nine UGA employees retired Jan. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are: Wayne A. Adams, water treatment operator, Facilities Management Division-HVAC Shop, 18 years, 11 months; Sheila W. Allen, dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, 30 years, 6 months; Barbara A. Boyd, travel coordinator, Athletic Association, 10 years, 7 months; Sharon A. Brooks, administrative associate I, comparative literature, 14 years, 10 months; Barbara A. Carlson, administrative specialist II, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Office, 20 years, 5 months; Lirong Chen, part-time associate research scientist, biochemistry and molecular biology, 15 years, 4 months; Jimmy D. Crowe, plumber, Facilities Management Division-Plumbing Shop, 22 years, 6 months; Caroline J. Davis, laboratory technician II, microbiology, 32 years, 3 months; Leslie M. DeSimone, interior designer, Facilities Management Division-Engineering Department, 30 years, 3 months; Stanley K. Diffie, research professional III, entomology research, 32 years, 5 months; Nicola Dovey, assistant director, Disability Resource Center, 1 year, 10 months; Linda M. Duncan, laboratory technician II, pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, 12 years, 5 months; Elizabeth E.

English,publicserviceassociate,UGACooperativeExtensionNortheast district, 23 years, 6 months; Gaynell W. Fielding, administrative assistant II,Registrar’s Office,15 years, 2 months; Rita B. Free, academic advisor III, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Office, 24 years, 2 months; Margaret E. Green, research professional I, horticulture research, 27 years, 9 months; Stephen L. Hajduk, professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, 10 years, 4 months; Donna C. Hallman, program specialist I, Athletic Association, 18 years, 5 months; Vickie L. Hogan, human resources specialist I, Office of Human Resources, 10 years, 5 months; Regina L. House, application programmer associate, Libraries-general operations, 28 years, 7 months; Liliana Jaso-Friedmann, professor, infectious diseases, 28 years, 3 months; Laura J. Johnson, event coordinator, Continuing Legal Education, 39 years, 3 months; L. David Kesler, carpenter, Facilities Management Division-Structural Support Shop, 21 years, 4 months; Christler Harris Moore, clinic assistant, University Health Center, 29 years, 2 months; Gloria J. Morris, senior accounting technician, Marine Institute, 10 years, 7 months; Randall Nation, equipment operator III, animal science research, 28 years, 9 months; William Brice Nelson Jr., program coordinator III, Associate Dean’s

Office, Academic Affairs, 31 years, 6 months; Jerry Blake Nesmith, project director, Office of the Vice President for Research, 13 years, 10 months; Robin S. Phillips, digital print technician II, Bulldog Print + Design, 29 years, 10 months; John Pickering, associate professor, Odum School of Ecology, 32 years, 1 month; Robert Alan Pippin, agricultural research assistant III, crop and soil sciences-UGA Cooperative Extension, 18 years, 9 months; Alice H. Pitts, administrative associate I, assistant dean-Tifton campus, UGA Cooperative Extension, 19 years, 5 months; Joanne Ratliff, senior lecturer, language and literacy education, 19 years, 6 months; Richard D. Reaves, executive director, School of Law, 34 years, 3 months; Jeffrey Frank Skinner, senior academic professional, School of Social Work, 16 years, 3 months; Vonnie D. Swain, assistant director, University Budget Office, 29 years, 9 months; Myron Dietrich Tucker, building services supervisor, Facilities Management Division-Building Services, North campus, 10 years, 4 months; Robert Joe Warren, professor, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, 33 years, 1 month; and Melissa R. Waters, lab animal facilities supervisor, Office of the Vice President for Research, 29 years, 2 months.

Source: Human Resources

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Israeli scholar, alumna consults with faculty on joint research project

By Kathryn Kao kathk1@uga.edu

Cain Hickey, who has worked in the grape and wine industry, will begin his work with Georgia wine growers March 1.

‘Agricultural commodity’

Extension viticulture specialist to help state’s vineyards

By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

Wineries are becoming big business in Georgia, and the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is working to support this growing sector of the economy with new expertise for wine growers.

Earlier this month, UGA Extension hired its first fulltime wine grape Extension specialist. Cain Hickey, who has worked in the grape and wine industry and been involved in viticulture research and extension since 2007, will begin his work with Georgia’s wine growers March 1.

As the state’s Extension viticulturist, Hickey will help wine grape growers across the state improve their vineyards and research new growing practices and grape varieties that could improve the quality and renown of Georgia’s wines. He’ll also work with the growers of the state’s more-traditional vineyard crop: muscadine grapes.

“Wine grapes are a growing agricultural commodity in Georgia, and they offer some distinct advantages,” said Mark McCann, UGA Extension’s assistant dean for agricultural and natural resources. “They can fit into small and medium acreage, wine making is a value-added process, and the aesthetic properties of a vineyard offers agritourism opportunities.

UGA CAES is pleased to add a viticulturist to serve this growing industry.”

In 2005, almost of all of the state’s 1,834 acres of grape vines were muscadine grapes, which are grown primarily in south and central Georgia. In 2015, the latest year that statistics are available, UGA’s Farm Gate Value survey showed the locus of Georgia’s wine production had broadened. While more than 1,000 acres of muscadine grapes are still spread across the state, more growers have introduced traditional and hybrid wine grapes to farms in north Georgia.

Habersham County, home to a half dozen wineries, produced more than $2 million in grapes and wine in 2015.

According to a 2014 study, Georgia’s wineries have more than a $7 million annual impact on the state’s economy each year.

UGA Extension has supported the burgeoning industry with its plant disease and pest experts and through county Extension agents, but Hickey’s hire will fill a void in the system. When he begins in March, Hickey will be an assistant professor of viticulture in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences horticulture department.

He received his doctorate in 2016 from Virginia Tech, where he focused on applied research in several viticulture areas, including irrigation management, cover crop and rootstock use, and canopy and fruit-zone management.

Hickey said he looks forward to working with Georgia grape and wine industry members to help solve regional vineyard management issues through his extension and research appointment.

WEEKLY READER

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija, the first Israeli Arab woman to be appointed an associate professor at an Israeli research university and a graduate of UGA’s College of Education, is consulting with College of Education professor Allan Cohen and a grant team at the University of Kentucky on a joint research project.

During her recent visit to the UK College of Education, Nasser-Abu Alhija, along with Cohen and Hye-Jeong Choi, co-principal investigators of a $1.6 million grant from the Fadia Nasser-Abu National Center for Special Alhija Education Research, spent the day with UK professor Brian Bottge and his grant team discussing math assessments and research designs for evaluating them.

“Teaching math is very important to me,” said Nasser-Abu Alhija. “The thinking is whether we can implement the same project back home. I wanted to learn first hand how the Kentucky project was implemented and the requirements needed to accomplish it.”

Nasser-Abu Alhija was most impressed with the project’s approach to helping students with disabilities connect math with real-life situations. At the end of her six-month visit to the U.S., she will work on attaining a grant and the cooperation of schools in Israel to conduct a potential comparative study.

In addition to evaluating student achievement, Nasser-Abu Alhija teaches research method courses and statistics in the Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education at Tel Aviv University, where she also heads the Center for Advancement of Teaching.

She and her team are responsible for administering, analyzing and reporting the results from all teaching evaluation surveys at the university.

“The purpose is to help faculty improve their teaching,” said Nasser-Abu Alhija. “We have several services for teachers like regular workshops, individual counseling and classroom observations. We have to work together with the students and faculty to improve teaching.”

Prior to receiving her doctorate in research, evaluation, measurement and statistical methods from the educational psychology department, NasserAbu Alhija taught high school math for 13 years.

In 1993, she decided to continue her education in mathematics at the College of Education and apply her passion for evaluation methodology to education.

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Novel tells coming-of-age tale during WWII

Girl in a Foxhole

By Donna McGinty CreateSpace Independent Publishing Paperback: $17

UGA alumna Donna McGinty has published a historical coming-of-age story about a young girl in the last days of World War II. “It’s a war that is, unfortunately, slipping out of America’s collective memory,” said McGinty, who graduated from UGA in 1973 with a master’s degree in art education.

Girl in a Foxhole recounts the life of Zoe Rivers, an imaginative 12-year-old girl who lives in east Texas in the last days of World War II. With the invasion of Japan looming, Zoe juggles a demanding grandmother, an emotionally fragile mother and a disengaged father who is stationed in Washington, D.C. Distraught over the impending divorce of her parents, Zoe acts alone to change things. With little time, she must evict a certain man from her mother’s life, restore her father’s belief in family and shock her mother out of wildly swinging moods with a plan that endangers Zoe’s life.

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Carl Vinson Institute launches new site

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UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government kicked off its 90th anniversary year with a fresh face and better functionality with the launch of its new website on Feb. 3.

With more than just a redesign and a new look and feel, the website uses the Omni Update platform and is the result of a complete rebuild with a focus on organization

and ease of navigation.

The Institute of Government, a UGA Public Service and Outreach unit, wanted to improve accessibility to information about its technical assistance, training and technology solutions for public officials in Georgia’s state and local governments and around the world.

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.

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of the Year. She is a member of Warnell’s Teaching Effectiveness Committee, which hosts a seminar series dedicated to improving teaching and mentoring, and has participated in UGA’s Teaching Academy Fellows and Writing Fellows programs.

Mativo, who joined the UGA faculty in 2007, prepares future teachers for the increased emphasis in schools on the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He has helped develop STEM curriculum using robotics for middle school education. Mativo also teaches several courses in the College of Engineering that help future engineers learn complex dynamics systems and apply the knowledge to inspired industry problems.

He has been co-advisor for a student chapter of the American Society for Mechanical

Engineers and is founding faculty advisor for the Society of Automotive Engineers. Mativo has twice garnered the Faculty Senate D. Keith Osborn Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Education, an honor that came in 2012 from nomination by engineering students and in 2015 from nomination by education students.

Nominations for the Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching are submitted by deans and considered by a committee of senior faculty members and undergraduate students. To be eligible for the award, a faculty member must have worked at UGA for at least three years and no more than 10 years in a tenure-track position.

To learn more about the Russell Awards and for a list of past winners, see https://t.uga.edu/2Zp.

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From left, finance major Thomas Paris of Gainesville shares a laugh and conversation with political science major Cameron Keen of Dublin, UGA President Jere W. Morehead and journalism major Marli Collier of Albany on Feb. 1 at the Dawgs at the Dome reception at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta.

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and fostering positive change in the areas of diversity and global economic prosperity,” said Tom R. Robinson, president and chief executive officer of AACSB International.

“The Terry Women’s Initiative was created to inform our students and empower them to realize their incredible potential,” said Terry College Dean Benjamin C. Ayers.

“This initiative represents a key part of our broader efforts to prepare students for success and for service as leaders in their businesses and communities.”

The women’s initiative relies on the involvement of fellow students, alumni, faculty, staff and recruiters who assist students by identifying their best-fit major, arranging corporate site visits, finding internships, mentoring to build confidence and succeeding academically. The initiative is funded by a donation from alumna Betsy Camp.

“The women’s initiative has influenced hundreds of students since its launch, and we continue to look at new ways to better serve students,” said Marisa Pagnattaro, Terry’s associate dean for research and graduate programs.

The AACSB recognition underscores the important role that innovation plays in achieving the association’s industrywide vision for business education that the AACSB unveiled in 2016.

“We are honored to highlight the Terry College’s innovation as a pioneer in the business education landscape and use them as an example for how AACSB’s schools are facilitators for innovation and leadership,” Robinson said.

The Terry Women’s Initiative complements the broader, campuswide Women’s Leadership Initiative launched in 2015 by President Jere W. Morehead and Provost Pamela Whitten. The ongoing UGA Women’s Leadership Initiative has created new leadership development programs and is fostering the use of best practices in areas such as recruitment, hiring and work-life balance.

“The Terry Women’s Initiative is an exemplar of student-focused and outcomesoriented programming at the University of Georgia,” Whitten said. “I am delighted that it is now receiving national and international attention as well.”

Bulletin Board Columns publication break

Columns will not be published March 6 because of spring break.

Regular weekly publication resumes March 13. Send announcements for that issue to columns@uga.edu by 5 p.m. on March 1.

Flu vaccine study subjects

The UGA Clinical & Translational Research Unit is looking for individuals ages 65-90 who have not yet received a flu shot this season to take part in a study evaluating the flu vaccine. Participants will receive a free flu shot as well as $90 for completing the study. For more information, call 706-713-2721 or email ctru@uga.edu.

CTL Fellows deadlines

The Center for Teaching and Learning announces deadlines for the Lilly Teaching Fellows, Senior Teaching Fellows and Writing Fellows programs.

Each spring semester, 10 tenuretrack assistant professors who are recent recipients of a doctorate or terminal degree in their discipline or profession and who are in their first, second or third year at UGA are selected for the Lilly Teaching Fellows Program. Deadline is March 10.

Eight senior faculty members are

selected each spring for the Senior Teaching Fellows Program to be provided with an opportunity to focus on undergraduate instruction as well as professional and personal renewal in honor and recognition of their dedication as teaching scholars. Deadline is April 10.

Up to 12 faculty selected as CTL Writing Fellows meet regularly to discuss the most effective ways to teach and respond to student writing.

Deadline is April 18.

Winter golf special

The UGA Golf Course is offering UGA students, faculty and staff an opportunity to experience the range of service and amenities for a discounted price with its Winter Golf Special.

Partnering with UGA Dining Services, the Winter Golf Special includes an 18-hole green fee, an 18-hole cart fee and a hot dog, bag of chips and 20 ounce beverage from the Champion’s Cafe for $35 plus tax. This offer is valid Monday–Thursday in February.

Open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the general public, the UGA Golf Course welcomes both experienced and beginner golfers alike with six sets of tees to help golfers of all abilities enjoy their round on the course.

attending the contest, email the Willson Center at wcha@uga.edu.

A related event will be held Feb. 23 in partnership with the department of history and Dirty History, an interdisciplinary workshop in agriculture, environment and capitalism. Marcia Chatelain, associate professor of history at Georgetown University, will speak on “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: How Civil Rights and Fast Food Changed America After 1968” at 5 p.m. in Room 101 of LeConte Hall.

“Seed Life Skills works to provide teachers and students with resources to enhance science learning, practice functional finance skills, and we provide hands-on support to classrooms through community collaborations—all as a means to advocate for the profession of family and consumer sciences,” Tulloss said.

The symposium is presented in partnership with Five & Ten, Creature Comforts Brewing, The Bitter Southerner, the Clarke County School District, Family ConnectionCommunities in Schools, the University of Georgia Press, the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.

The Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context 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.

To take advantage of this offer, call the UGA Golf Course ahead of time for tee time availability. For more information, visit golfcourse.uga.edu or call the UGA Golf Course at 706-369-5739.

WIP course proposals

The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program invites proposals from Arts and Sciences faculty in all disciplines for innovative courses that encourage writing.

The WIP aims to enhance undergraduate education by emphasizing the importance of writing in the disciplines by offering “writing-intensive” courses from classics to chemistry, from music to microbiology throughout the college.

Faculty who teach WIP courses are supported by a teaching assistant specially trained in writing-in-thedisciplines pedagogy.

Visit www.wip.uga.edu to find proposal forms and guidelines, as well as information about the program. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 14. Email questions to Lindsey Harding, program director, at lharding@uga.edu.

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

The first installment, “Baltimore: Then & Now,” uses archival content to show how the city has been a case study of race relations in America since the mid-1950s and how the city’s conversation about race has evolved over the years.

Future installments will look at the role of African-Americans from behind the lens, featuring conversations with documentarian Stanley Nelson and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the co-founder and chairman of The Root.

Peabody continually recognizes stories and storytellers that address the issue of race in innovative, unexpected ways and will also examine a few examples of voices that are changing and continuing the conversation, including Key & Peele.

LECTURE from page 1 embassies of Botswana, Burkina Faso and South Africa; and faculty from UGA’s College of Public Health. The discussion will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the special collections libraries.

Wright’s specialty is malaria control in East Africa with a focus on field research and malaria laboratory. She has worked as a field-based clinical survey manager in a remote part of northwest Tanzania periodically during each rainy season for the last six years. Her new assignment is a Gates Foundation-funded initiative to improve malaria and vector control laboratories in East and West Africa, specifically Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Benin and Cote d’Ivore.

Wright graduated from UGA in 2008 with a degree in health promotion and behavior from the College of Public Health and a certificate in African studies from the Institute for African Studies. She earned a master’s degree in control of infectious disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Wright was then hired to work for LSHTM in Tanzania in 2009 and has been based as an overseas staff member there for the last eight years.

She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, focusing on capacity strengthening in resource-limited tropical disease laboratories in East and West Africa.

“Alex is one of our success stories, and her passion for public and international service is a true mark of what the Snyder foundation legacy embodies,” said Lioba Moshi, a University Professor, head of the comparative literature department at UGA and chair of the Darl Snyder Lecture committee. “Her success will definitely inspire many of our students, especially seniors who are considering a focus in public health in general but particularly those who want to branch off to the study of tropical medicine.”

The Darl Snyder Lecture Series was established in 1992 in recognition of Snyder’s dedication, research and service-learning programs in and about Africa. Snyder’s affiliation with UGA began in 1969 as a program specialist at the Rural Development Center in Tifton. He became director of the Office of International Development in 1989.

Although he retired from UGA in 1992, Snyder and his family continue to support African studies and UGA endeavors in Africa.