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February 26, 2018

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UGA students raise more than $1M for Children’s Healthcare

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This behind-the-scenes shot from the seventh season of The Walking Dead shows Khary Payton as Ezekiel, Kerry Cahill as Dianne and Carlos Navarro as Alvaro. The show is filmed in Senoia and occasionally on UGA’s Griffin campus.

Hollywood South

Entertainment industry brings $9.5 billion to Georgia

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Still thinking about which films to check off on the Oscar ballot before awards season wraps up March 4 with the 90th Academy Awards? Consider Baby Driver; I, Tonya; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2; and DeKalb Elementary.

They all were filmed in Georgia and contributed to the $9.5 billion the film industry brought to the state last year.

“It’s an exciting time,” said Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. “It’s amazing what has happened here. It’s so much bigger than anyone thought it would be.”

The state’s burgeoning foray into movie-making will be the focus of this year’s Charter ­Lecture,

“Hollywood South: The New $9.5 Billion Georgia Industry,” on Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. at the Chapel.

The event is part of the Signature Lecture series and is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Office of Academic Programs. In addition to Thomas, panelists include Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of The Walking Dead, and Will Packer, executive producer of Straight Outta Compton. It will be moderated by Jeffrey Stepakoff, executive director of the Georgia Film Academy.

The industry has grown in the last decade from $240 million in 2007 to its current $9.5 billion.

Now, there are an average of 3040 productions ongoing at any given time across the state.

That growth benefits not only the people working on the productions, but also the towns where they’re being filmed. Thanks to The Walking Dead, downtown

Senoia has seen a revitalization.

When production started, only six storefronts were occupied, according to Thomas. Today, all 50 are occupied, including Nic and Norman’s, started by one of the show’s stars, Norman Reedus, and special effects make-up artist Greg Nicotero. Tourism is a big draw for Senoia and other filming locations across the state.

More than 92,000 people in Georgia work in jobs with ties to the entertainment industry. The Walking Dead, which occasionally films on UGA’s Griffin campus, boasts a crew in which Georgians make up more than 90 percent of the crew. The first Marvel Studios movie to film in Georgia was only about 55 percent local, but with each movie they have been able to find more and more trained crew locally, so they bring fewer people from outside the state.

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NEW MATERIALS INSTITUTE

More than 3,000 students representing more than 50 student organizations gathered in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall on the morning of Feb. 18 to celebrate raising $1,261,077.18 for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

This is the third year in a row that UGA Miracle, the University of Georgia’s largest student-run philanthropy, has achieved a sevenfigure fundraising total.

Beginning at 10 a.m. on Feb. 17 and lasting 24 hours, the entire student center was filled with students, faculty and staff for UGA

Miracle’s annual Dance Marathon.

Throughout the night, participants danced, listened to live music and took photos with Hairy Dawg.

Nearly 50 “Miracle children,” the Children’s Healthcare patients who interact with UGA Miracle’s student members during the year, and their families attended the event, and 24 of them took the stage one at a time throughout the night to share their inspirational stories.

Activities for the children and their families included making arts and crafts, sharing of personal stories, participating in a scavenger hunt and a lot of dancing.

The event also featured a

See DANCE on page 8

UGA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Indoor Athletic Facility named for alumni Billy and Porter Payne The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the naming of the University of Georgia’s Indoor Athletic Facility in honor of former UGA all-star football player Billy Payne and his father, the late Porter Payne.

The official name of the facility is the William Porter Payne and Porter Otis Payne Indoor Athletic Facility. The naming opportunity is the result of gifts totaling $10 million secured from friends of Billy and Porter Payne.

“Billy Payne and his late father Porter hold a very special place in the storied history and tradition of the University of Georgia,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “It is a great honor to have their names forever tied to one of the most prominent athletic programs in the country.”

Former CEO of the Atlanta Olympic Games and chairman of Augusta National, Payne graduated from UGA in 1969 with a Billy Payne degree in political science, and he earned his law degree from Georgia Law in 1973. Both he and his father lettered in football at UGA, Billy from 1966-68 and Porter from 1946-49.

“It is a great day for the University of Georgia to honor Billy Payne and his father, Porter,” said Greg McGarity, UGA’s J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics. “We are exceptionally proud to have the Payne family name honored See FACILITY on page 2

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

NMI hosts planning workshop for UGA to become Leaders gain critical knowledge third site for Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites through partnership with UGA

By Kat Gilmore

kygilmor@uga.edu

Demonstrating UGA’s broad expertise in polymer science, biochemical engineering, textiles and plant science, faculty members representing the New Materials Institute recently presented a range of project ideas as part of the NMI’s pitch to become a site for the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites, known as CB2.

If approved this fall, the NMI will become the center’s third site, joining Iowa State University and Washington State University, which formed CB2 three years

ago as an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, a program run by the National Science Foundation. The 10 project pitches were presented at a site planning meeting attended by industry representatives from 20 companies, the NSF and CB2.

“At Georgia, we are firm believers that it’s important for us to collaborate with industry partners, who are critically important to ensuring the widespread adoption of faculty inventions,” said Provost Pamela Whitten in her welcome address.

The NMI team will use the feedback from this planning

­ eeting to shape its full NSF m proposal, which will also require letters of commitment from industry partners.

The IUCRC program benefits industry and academia in several key ways. Industry members gain access to cutting-edge research, shared intellectual property, ongoing training and continuing education, and the ability to leverage investment opportunities.

Universities benefit from knowing exactly what industry expects from a project through direct mentorship, which leads to long-term relationships with industry partners, See CENTER on page 8

By Roger Nielsen nielsen@uga.edu

Terry Crawford was a new city councilman in Ringgold when he attended UGA’s training for newly elected officials a decade ago. He still uses the principles he learned from that training.

“I came away with a good, strong understanding about how I can work best with the people I represent,” said Crawford, now Ringgold’s mayor pro tem. “I learned immediately that you have to work together to be effective.

Working as a team, we have done a tremendous amount. We worked

together to get a new pedestrian bridge over U.S. Highway 411, for example.”

More than 250 first-time mayors and city council members from Georgia cities gathered in Athens recently for the two-day Newly Elected Officials Institute, held every February to teach new leaders the basics of effective governance. Instructed by faculty from the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government and instructors from the Georgia Municipal Association, new officeholders gain a practical understanding of municipal government administration

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Commit to Georgia 2018

Why I Give

Name: Michael Lewis Position: IT Support Coordinator, Geology Department, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; UGA Staff Council President At UGA: 12 years

Michael Lewis

Beneficiary of his gift to the university: Geology Fund and the Georgia Fund, both unrestricted accounts Why he contributes: “Tuition, grants and state funds only cover part of the costs of our missions. The rest has to come from gifts. I had been giving to a number of charities when I became a Foundation trustee. I saw how hard both the Foundation’s employees and volunteers work for this cause.

With this experience, seeing what the Foundation does with gifts (both growing by investment and disbursing, not to mention soliciting), I decided to divert all of my charitable giving to UGA. It is the cause I know best. Most importantly, I get to see the people my gifts benefit every day.”

To make your contribution to the Commit to Georgia Campaign, please contact the Office of Annual Giving at 706-542-8119 or visit give.uga.edu.

Around academe

UGA alumna becomes interim president of Albany State University

University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley has named Marion Fedrick interim president of Albany State University.

Fedrick assumed her new position Feb. 1. She succeeds President Art Dunning, who retired Jan. 31.

Prior to Fedrick’s current role, she served as vice chancellor for human resources at the University System of Georgia, overseeing administration of all systemwide human resources initiatives, employee benefits programs and organizational and leadership development initiatives.

Fedrick received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UGA and is a certified senior human resources professional.

System unites in transfer pathways

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system recently introduced four student transfer pathways, which will ease the hardship of students transferring from one school to another. The four pathways are in biology, business, theater and psychology.

After a Minnesota state mandate in 2015, the system began working on the transfer pathway system. The system plans to establish 27 total pathways for its 375,000 students.

Small changes to eating habits can lead to a healthier heart

News to Use

There are many changes people can make to their eating to support heart health, according to the American Heart Association.

Eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables in addition to plenty of whole grains such as whole wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice, whole grain pasta and popcorn. They are full of fiber, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, or plant chemicals, many of which are known for their antioxidant capabilities.

In addition, low-fat or fat-free dairy products, lean cuts of meat and poultry, fish and vegetarian sources of protein, including beans, peas and tofu, are supportive of heart health.

Looking for a place to begin?

Use creative ways to add in more vegetables that will work for even for the most reluctant eaters. Try adding fresh or frozen vegetables into your favorite pasta or Asian stir fry dish or top a pizza with extra mushrooms and spinach.

Keep sliced veggies and hummus in a visible location in the refrigerator or add them to a smoothie.

For certain vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower or Brussels sprouts that can be bitter when steamed, try roasting for a sweeter flavor, which occurs with the caramelization process as the vegetables cook.

Source: University Health Center

2018 HOLMES-HUNTER LECTURE

Hunter-Gault brings past to present

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Charlayne Hunter-Gault passed the proverbial baton to the next generation during the annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture held Feb. 15 at the Chapel.

“It’s truly time for every citizen, no matter your age, to get woke,” she said. “And that means helping keep our democracy safe, and it means doing the hard work of digging for good information with a variety of sources.”

Hunter-Gault spoke to the standingroom-only crowd, which included students from Cedar Shoals High School, Clarke Central High School, Classic City High School, Barrow Elementary, and KIPP Atlanta Collegiate High School and Peachtree Ridge High School in Gwinnett County (see story at right), about lessons she learned from her past.

“I want to share a little of my life with you today in the hope that you will be inspired, or further inspired, to make sure that your armor is fitted and polished so that you can help bind wounds and defeat the kind of divisions that are tearing at the fabric of our nation,” she said.

The lecture is named for HunterGault and her classmate, Hamilton Holmes, who were the first AfricanAmerican students to attend UGA. They arrived on campus in 1961 after civil rights leaders in Atlanta successfully challenged the segregation policy at the state’s public universities. In 2001, the academic building where Hunter-Gault and Holmes registered was renamed the Holmes-Hunter Academic ­Building in their honor, marking the 40th anniversary of the desegregation of UGA. “I come today, of course, as the remaining member of the team—and we were a team—for whom this lecture is named,” she said. “And while my classmate, Hamilton Holmes, is now an ancestor, I knew him well enough to know that he is here with us.”

Hunter-Gault recognized others who “helped pave the way for the diversity and inclusion we see in today’s Bulldogs.” Two people in attendance Hunter-Gault specifically called attention to were Carolyn Long, who helped form the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights that led the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960, and Connie Curry, who was involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Freedom Movement.

“These are the people who made it possible for all of us to enjoy life as we do here in the South and in America,” she said.

Hunter-Gault challenged the students in attendance to imagine themselves going through the same experiences as Long and Curry at their age and said that those history lessons are still relevant today.

“You are in a position to determine whether or not we keep the values of our moral universe—a universe where people are respected by the content of their character,” she said.

Hunter-Gault graduated from the

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault met with students from several area high schools before she delivered this year’s Holmes-Hunter Lecture at the Chapel.

COMMUNITY CONNECTION

High schoolers also hear from journalist

By Kellyn Amodeo

kwamodeo@uga.edu

More than 100 students from the Clarke County School District and metro-Atlanta area attended the Holmes-Hunter Lecture.

“Having the opportunity to hear an influential speaker discuss issues that are important to today’s society is part of what makes a college town special, and these young people were able to spend part of their day being inspired and encouraged by a living legend,” said Alison McCullick, director of community relations in the UGA Office of Government Relations. “Experiences like this are important for young people, especially high school students who are open to learning more about the world we live in and how they can make a difference.”

High schoolers from the metro-Atlanta area spent the day with current undergraduate students, who introduced them to life at UGA. Students from Clarke Central, Cedar Shoals and Classic City high schools spent time at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries learning about Hunter-Gault’s historic admission into the university as one of the first African-American students, as well as her storied career as a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist.

Before the lecture, students sifted through artifacts, some donated by Hunter-Gault herself, that followed her from college through her professional life. The group also watched footage of the 1961 integration. After the presentation, conversations continued as students discussed the mementos of her time at UGA, such as letters, yearbooks and documents from the president’s office. The group also got an inside look at the Peabody Awards.

Margaret Blanchard of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, alongside Grady student Ben Goren, discussed with students the history of the Peabody Awards and how UGA students can get involved through student panels.

Students were then escorted to the Chapel where they briefly met HunterGault and had a close-up view as she spoke on current events and her Bulldog pride. Arthur Tripp of the president’s office introduced the group who was met with loud cheers throughout the crowded Chapel.

“This is truly a wonderful opportunity for our prospective students to come to campus and learn more about the University of Georgia,” said Tripp.

“It is my hope that the students enjoyed their time on campus learning more about the life and legacy of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes while engaging with our current undergraduate students to learn about our exciting student experience.”

Students and chaperones alike expressed their enjoyment with the visit.

“Events like this makes the students feel valued,” said Marc Ginsberg, a teacher in the English department of Cedar Shoals High School. “Having a unique opportunity to come to campus and experience this is priceless.”

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1963, going on to work for media outlets like The New Yorker, The New York Times, PBS, CNN and NPR. She and her husband, Ronald Gault, recently established a new endowment, Giving Voice to the Voiceless, to provide

grants to UGA students promoting justice and global understanding.

Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Holmes-Hunter Lecture, also designated as a Signature Lecture, focuses on race relations, civil rights and education and has been held annually since 1985.

company in Atlanta, Payne became chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters Tournament, in 2006. He retired from that position following the annual tournament in 2017.

Twice named Georgian of the Year, Payne was recognized in 1997 with the NCAA’s Theodore Roosevelt Award.

The National Football Foundation named him as the 2009 recipient of the NFF Distinguished American Award, which is presented only on special occasions to honor an individual who has applied character-building a­ ttributes

learned from amateur football in their business and personal life. He was inducted into the UGA Circle of Honor in 2012.

Porter Payne was an All-SEC offensive lineman in the late 1940s and was elected captain of the 1949 team.

While he was at UGA, the Bulldogs won two SEC championships (1946 and 1948) and played in three bowl games: the 1947 Sugar Bowl, the 1948 Gator Bowl and the 1949 Orange Bowl.

Payne was also an All-City, All-State and team captain as a fullback at Boys High in Atlanta.

FACILITY from page 1 by placement on one of our most significant athletic facilities.”

Payne launched a successful bid to bring the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta and was named president and CEO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games in 1991. He continued in his leadership role and became the first person in modern history to land an Olympic bid and then to remain as president and CEO during the games.

A founding member and chairman of Centennial Holding Company, a privately held real estate investment

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Digest Memorial service to be held March 8 for Appel, late law school professor

A memorial service for the School of Law’s Smith Professor Peter Appel will be March 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel on UGA’s North Campus.

The service will be open to all members of the law school and university communities and will celebrate Appel’s life.

Rutgers professor will give lecture about landscape designer James Rose

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Ted Ross’ research focuses on creating an influenza vaccination that will be ready to use no matter what strain incubates.

Broadly protecting populations Research at UGA could lead to flu vaccine for all

By Eric Rangus

Eric.Rangus@uga.edu

Every year, flu season comes around.

And every year new vaccines are developed to combat it.

Creating an annual flu vaccine involves a combination of researching current strains, identifying the disease’s historical patterns and predicting the worldwide movement of viruses. Educated guesswork plays a big role as well.

It’s an imperfect process.

The variables can be maddening to overcome, and the logistics surrounding vaccine manufacturing can be unforgiving. Choose wisely, and the flu vaccine can be quite effective. Choose poorly, and a disease with the potential to kill tens of thousands in the U.S. alone could run rampant.

There has to be a better way. Ted Ross is committed to finding it.

“How do you deal with a vaccine if you are constantly playing catch up?” asked Ross, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Infectious Diseases in the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine. One of the country’s leading infectious disease researchers, Ross came to UGA in 2015 to lead its newly established Center for Vaccines and Immunology.

“We need to come up with a strategy where we will always have a vaccine on the shelf, ready to use, no matter what version of the flu comes along,” he said.

“But how do we make vaccines against future, variant strains that don’t yet exist?”

The diseases—polio, smallpox and the like—defeated through vaccines have one thing in common: a lack of variety in their strains. That’s why they can be eliminated with a single inoculation.

Influenza is different. It has many strains, and those strains are constantly evolving. Sometimes they evolve so quickly that a vaccine developed in February is obsolete by the time flu season starts in October.

“What we need to do is target the major subtypes of influenza and come up with a vaccine that recognizes multiple versions,” Ross said. “It may take more than one type of vaccine, but at least we would be broadly protected against the viruses that have shown pandemic potential.”

For more than a decade, Ross has been working on what’s been termed a “universal vaccine” for flu. That makes for easy shorthand, but Ross is quick to clarify that even if a vaccine can be discovered to wipe out influenza, it wouldn’t be a single compound that’s

injected into everyone.

Instead, an eventual flu vaccine would be collection of vaccines. The specific type would be given to patients based on a variety of factors including geography, age, medical history and other factors. Rather than a “universal” vaccine, Ross prefers the term “broadly protective.”

The development of a broadly protective vaccine is taking a big step forward, and Ross is at the forefront of the effort. In partnership with Duluthbased Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of influenza vaccines, Ross has developed a vaccine that protected animal models from every currently circulating strain of the H3N2 flu virus.

Clinical trials in humans, a major step toward a broadly protective vaccine, are scheduled to begin in 2019.

“The clinical trials will be important because we have to see how these vaccines work,” Ross said. “The better you understand how a vaccine operates in a human, the better you can use that knowledge to other pathogens.”

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

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

PSO program helps students find purpose, careers

By Christopher James chtjames@uga.edu

Giving back can be a way to make a living, not just an opportunity to volunteer, UGA’s Public Service and Outreach Student Scholars learn.

Senior Eli Scott was an intern with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government as a 2014-15 Public Service and Outreach Student Scholar. He later interned with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. Both institutes are units of Public Service and Outreach.

He spent some time last year in Kenya with an organization that helps death row inmates understand the legal system and in Washington, D.C., as an intern in Georgetown University Law School’s Criminal Justice Clinic, writing intake reports for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in Atlanta.

Those are experiences he never

would have pursued if he had not participated in the PSO Student Scholars program, Scott said.

“It was the single most formative experience that I had in my college career,” he said. “It really started me on this trend of public service.”

As he prepares to graduate with degrees in international affairs and economics, he’s looking at opportunities to work overseas in legal clinics for indigent people or with a post-conflict nonprofit organization in Myanmar, as well as yearlong public service fellowships with other universities.

Since its inception, the student scholars program has introduced more than 100 UGA undergraduates to the public service mission of Georgia’s land-grant and sea-grant university.

Participants learn about and visit each of UGA’s eight PSO units during the fall semester before completing a 150-hour internship with one of those units in the spring. Many have gone on to do paid

internships in the summer and/or the following year.

“Students who participate in this program have an in-depth experiential learning opportunity that sets them apart from their academic peers,” said Jennifer L. Frum, vice president for UGA Public Service and Outreach. “They have a greater understanding of the state and the university’s role in helping Georgia’s communities and people prosper. Many of our student scholars stay engaged in public service in the communities where they settle after graduation.”

The idea to engage undergraduate students grew out of the 2010 PSO strategic plan and was the brainchild of then-Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Steve Wrigley, who is now chancellor of the University System of Georgia.

Applications for the 2018-19 Student Scholars program are available now at http://bit.ly/1LcrlnC. The deadline to apply is March 20.

The UGA College of Environment and ­ esign will sponsor a lecture by Rutgers D ­University’s Dean Cardasis March 7 at 5 p.m. in Room 123 of the Jackson Street Building. Open free to the public, the lecture is sponsored by the Eleanor Ferguson Vincent fund at the College of Environment and Design. An opening reception at the Circle Gallery will accompany the lecture.

A landscape architect and director of the James Rose Center in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Cardasis is the author of the new book James Rose: A Voice Offstage. Published in 2017 by the University of Georgia Press and the Library of American Landscape History, the book recently was awarded the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

James Rose, who practiced landscape design during much of the middle of the last century, was expelled from Harvard in 1937 for refusing to design in the Beaux-Arts style. The lecture accompanies an exhibit about Rose and his work in the Circle Gallery, also in the Jackson Street Building.

Along with two other design rebels of the era, Dan Kiley and Garrett Eckbo, Rose wrote a series of essays that would become a manifesto for developing modernist landscape architecture.

Goldberg, former UGA football player, to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame

Bill Goldberg, a two-time All-SEC defensive lineman at the University of Georgia in the 1980s, later earned worldwide distinction for his career in professional wrestling. On April 6, he will take his place in sportsentertainment history when he is inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame during WrestleMania 34 week in New Orleans.

Goldberg earned fame in the late 1990s as the brightest star at World Championship ­Wrestling events. He became known for his good guy persona, beastly scowl, trademark moves that he called the Spear and the Jackhammer, and a winning streak that, according to some, reached 173 matches. He is the only person to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, WWE’s World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Universal ­Championship A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Goldberg arrived at UGA in 1985 and saw action in 10 games in the 1986 season. He earned AllSEC honors in each of his final two seasons (1988-89). In 1987, Goldberg became a member of the Junkyard Dog Club, an exclusive honor reserved for only the most outstanding defensive players. His 348 career tackles still rank ninth on the all-time UGA career tackle list. He led the 1989 football team in tackles with 121.

After Goldberg left UGA, he was with the Los Angeles Rams in 1990 and spent time in the World League of American Football before signing on with the Atlanta Falcons in 1991. Goldberg retired from football in 1995 after s­ uffering a season-ending injury in 1994.

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EXHIBITIONS

Clinton Hill. Through March 18. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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

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

Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.

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

MONDAY, FEB. 26

the eyes of National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg, who has photographed and studied wolves in the field for 45 years. Discussion will be led by Ron Carroll, professor emeritus of ecology at UGA’s Odum School of Ecology, who was involved in the successful reintroduction and release of the Mexican wolf in Arizona and New Mexico. Part of the Animal Voices Film Festival. 7 p.m. 148 Miller Learning Center.

706-224-3796. sos@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, FEB. 27 WORKSHOP “Increasing Student Critical Thinking about Research Sources” will provide ideas to faculty for in-class learning activities and out-of-class assignments that engage students in critically thinking about information. 9:30 a.m. Center for Teaching and Learning Mall, Instructional Plaza. 706-542-8802. megan.mittelstadt@uga.edu.

MIDTERM For spring semester.

MEN’S TENNIS vs. Mercer. 2:30 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

THREE MINUTE THESIS INFORMATION SESSION Information session for the campus-wide graduate student Three Minute Thesis competition with former Three Minute Thesis winners. This competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to nonspecialist audiences in three minutes. At the information session, participants will receive indepth information about the competition and have the chance to ask former winners and a competition organizer questions.

Register at http://bit.ly/2n18IQd. Learn more at http://bit. ly/2BE77J5. 11:15 a.m. 200B geography-geology building.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Thinking Inside the Box: Ecological Consequences of Developmental Change,” Volker Rudolf, Rice University. A reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

PAYROLL INFORMATION SESSIONS As UGA transitions to the University System of Georgia’s OneUSG Connect as its new human resources and payroll system in December 2018, several important payroll changes will occur in December 2018. Because all UGA employees will experience some level of change when this transition occurs, UGA’s OneSource Project is conducting information sessions to share information about these changes. 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Mahler Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. 706-542-0202. onesource@uga.edu.

CHARTER LECTURE “Hollywood South: The New $9.5 Billion Georgia Industry.”

Presented by a panel of film industry experts. 2 p.m. Chapel.

706-542-0383. kcfite@uga.edu. (See stories, pages 1 and 8).

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Medicine of the Wolf goes deep into the northern Minnesota landscape to investigate the intrinsic value of the wolf through

BASEBALL vs. Wofford. $5-$8. 5 p.m. Foley Field.

WORKSHOP Celebrate Chinese cuisine, as inspired by Yu Hua’s famous novel To Live, by learning how to make Chinese dumplings in the pleated crescent. Participants will learn how to make their own dough as well as prepare and taste classic pork and vegetarian fillings. With the guidance of two Chinese international students from the UGA College of Education, learn this time-honored process while engaging in literary and cultural discussion. Participants also go home with Hua’s novel. Limited to 30 people. $30. 6 p.m. Visitor Center, Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden.

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

SWING DANCE NIGHT Learn new dance steps, dance under the palms or watch talented and enthusiastic dancers from seating beside the dance floor. Choose between an East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop lesson from 7-8 p.m., then everyone is welcome for an open dance from 8-10 p.m. No previous dance experience or partner needed. $6, general admission; $4, students. 7 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28 WORKSHOP Flower Arranging Unit 3: Design for Dining Table is the third in a series of five units taught by a National Garden Club Master Flower Show Judge and will focus on dining table arrangements. Participants will be provided with a list of materials to bring to class. Limited to 20. Priority will be given to those participants who have completed Units 1-2. Bring a bag lunch. $50. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6158. ckeber@uga.edu.

The Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra’s March 4 concert will feature performances on instruments including the bayan, domra and balalaika.

Performing Arts Center to present Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra March 4 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The program will feature popular selections as well as Russian folk music performed on traditional instruments including the bayan, domra and balalaika.

The Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra is composed of professional soloists and students from Moscow’s Gnessin Academy of Music, one of Russia’s most prestigious conservatories. The orchestra is conducted by Boris Voron, an Honored Artist of Russia.

During the orchestra’s visit to Athens, the Performing Arts Center will present a concert for local elementary school students as part of the Performances for Young People series, and members of the orchestra will work with students from UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

Tickets for the March 4 concert are $25 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400.

The Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra performance is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

WORKSHOP Diversity statements are living documents that allow instructors to reflect on their conceptualization of and contributions to diversity and inclusion in the context of their teaching, service and research. In this first of the two-part workshop, participants will discuss the purpose of a diversity statement and typical components to include. Participants also will engage in activities to help them start writing diversity statements. All participants are encouraged to sign up for the second Diversity Statement Workshop on March 5. 2:30 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center.

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

LECTURE “Disability and Divergent Readers: The History of the Book

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

Award-winning Celtic fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy are returning to Athens March 5 for an 8 p.m. concert at the UGA Performing Arts Center. The popular husband-and-wife duo will be joined by their band and other talented family members for a rousing program they’re calling “Visions of Cape Breton and Beyond.”

Hailing from Cape Breton Island, MacMaster received her first fiddle at age 9, launching a career that has lasted more than 30 years. Leahy was inspired by a fiddle-playing father from Ontario and a step-dancing mother from Cape Breton.

When MacMaster and Leahy married in 2002, the proverbial mantelpiece was instantly crammed with Juno (Canada’s Grammy) and East Coast Music Awards.

Their first recorded collaboration, 2015’s album One, was followed by 2016’s A Celtic Family Christmas and confirmed that MacMaster and Leahy were as dynamic working together as they were working apart. Their combined album sales exceed 1 million, and their past collaborators have included classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bluegrass star Alison Krauss and banjo ace Bela Fleck.

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

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

Celtic fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy will take the Performing Arts Center stage for a March 5 performance.

through Other(ed) Senses,” Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, and founding co-director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute. This talk considers how disability-oriented cultural studies can transform how people think about material texts and the phenomenology of reading. Hsy’s visit and presentation is part of the Symposium on the Book, sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the English department and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 4:30 p.m.

Auditorium, special collections libraries. acme@uga.edu.

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

PERFORMANCE Acclaimed Broadway veterans Franc D’Ambrosio and Glory Crampton celebrate the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in a salute to the composer’s beloved musicals. D’Ambrosio and Crampton perform selections from hits such as The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. $44. 8 p.m.

Feb. 28 and March 1. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, below).

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Texas A&M. $15. 8:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

by William Tierney, who will discusses 40 years of innovation in health information science and its successes, failures and opportunities for saving American medicine. Part of the Provost Notable Lecture Series. Presented by UGA’s Health Informatics Institute and College of Public Health. 11:30 a.m. 241 Russell Hall HSC. ahandel@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH KEYNOTE ADDRESS “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” Andrea J. Ritchie, Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization, Barnard Center for Research on Women. Hosted by the Institute for Women’s Studies and co-sponsored by the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law. Celebrating the national recognition of Women’s History Month, “Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” 6:30 p.m. 271 special collections libraries.

706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

PERFORMANCE Using a combination of magic and common sense, a nanny must teach family members how to value each other again in Mary Poppins. All proceeds support summer missions. $10. 7 p.m. March 1 and 5. Baptist Collegiate Ministries, 450 S. Lumpkin St. 706-549-2747.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

HOLI Hindu religious observance. Through March 2.

LECTURE “Information, The Life Blood of Population Health,” presented

FRIENDS FIRST FRIDAY Delve into the world of container gardening with information on plant selection, types of containers, potting media and more.

Sheldon Jones, curator of seasonal color, will share information on the pleasantries of container gardening as well as the challenging side of growing in containers. Includes a full breakfast. Make reservations at www.botgarden.uga.edu or 706-542-6138. $12. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6138. lpbryant@uga.edu.

LECTURE “Sexual Health Intervention Opportunities: Tailoring Avatars in a Digital Game for HPV Vaccine Uptake,” Gabrielle Darville, UGA College of Public Health. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center.

706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

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Celtic fiddlers take the stage for March 5 concert

‘Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber’ starts Feb. 28 “Angel of Music: A Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber” is coming to the UGA Performing Arts Center Feb. 28 and March 1 at 8 p.m. The show features Broadway veterans Franc D’Ambrosio and Glory Crampton performing selections from Andrew Lloyd Webber hits such as The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

D’Ambrosio is best known for his role as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. With more than 2,300 performances of the lead role, he held the title of “World’s Longest Running Phantom” for nearly a decade. He also played the role of the opera singing son of Al Pacino in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III. Crampton is a Broadway leading lady known for her critically acclaimed roles in Camelot, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Nine and The Fantasticks. She is also an accomplished soprano who has sung with tenor Jose Carreras (of the Three Tenors) before a soldout audience in Radio City Music Hall. Her most recent TV appearance was on the CBS TV show The Good Wife.

Tickets for “Angel of Music: A Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber” are $44 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student.

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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM “Body and Mind in China and Greece: Perspectives from Philosophy and Medicine,” Lisa Raphals, University of California, Riverside. Supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Reception will follow lecture. 3:30 p.m.

115 Peabody Hall. 706-542-2823. nhines@uga.edu.

SOFTBALL vs. Radford. 3:30 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

SOFTBALL vs. Jacksonville State. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

HODGSON WIND ENSEMBLE 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center.

706-542-4752.

“Angel of Music: A Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber,” starring Franc D’Ambrosio and Glory Crampton, features some of the composer’s most famous songs.

Prior to the March 1 show, patrons are invited to make it an evening with a tour and free dessert at the Georgia Museum of Art at 6 p.m.

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

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 GALLERY TALK: ART + FEMINISM Join Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art, and Nell Andrew, UGA associate professor of art history, for a special gallery talk focusing on modernity and spaces of femininity in the art world. After the talk, head over to the Lamar Dodd School of Art Library for the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon.

12:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

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SOFTBALL vs. UNCG. 1 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

SOFTBALL vs. Jacksonville State. 3:30 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 SOFTBALL vs. UNCG. 1 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

CONCERT Folk instrument orchestras have been popular in Russia for more than 150 years. Under the leadership of conductor Boris Voron, the orchestra features professional soloists and students from Moscow’s Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. $25. 3 p.m.

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

(See story, far left).

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

MONDAY, MARCH 5 WORKSHOP “Active Learning on the Fly” will help participants implement active learning activities with little advance preparation.

Open to all faculty, post docs and graduate students.

1:25 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-8802. megan.mittelstadt@uga.edu.

WORKSHOP Diversity statements are living documents that allow instructors to reflect on their conceptualization of and contributions to diversity and inclusion in the context of their teaching, service and research. In this second of the two-part workshop, participants will bring drafts of their diversity statement to receive feedback from facilitator and peers. The group also will discuss how the statement is situated within and aligns with the larger teaching portfolio. Please note that all participants must bring a draft of their diversity statement. During the second workshop, participants will receive peer-feedback on their diversity statement and discuss how the statement is situated within the larger teaching portfolio. It is not required to have attended to the first workshop. 2:30 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center.

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

LECTURE “West Meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia,” Sethuraman Suresh, India Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage. 5:30 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-1475. egarriso@uga.edu.

PERFORMANCE Celtic fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy. $39-$46. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center.

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

COMING UP WORKSHOP March 6. “Assessing for Growth: Alternative Grading Scales and Strategies.” 2 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067. megan.mittelstadt@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR March 6. George Matsumoto, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. A reception will follow at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building.

706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

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Brian Bledsoe, the University of Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Resilient Infrastructure, has been named the 2017 Georgia Engineer of the Year in Education by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers.

Bledsoe’s teaching and research is focused on water quality, stormwater and flood hazards, infrastructure and ecosystem restoration. He is the inaugural director of UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, a cross-disciplinary research team that empowers communities and businesses to transform Brian Bledsoe and adapt their infrastructure for environmental change, extreme weather and climate-related events such as floods.

The Engineer of the Year Awards, presented annually by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, honor licensed engineers who have made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and the public good. Judging criteria include professional registration, education, continuing education and technical development, involvement in professional and technical societies, civic and humanitarian activities, and engineering achievements.

GSPE honored Bledsoe and other award recipients at the Georgia Engineering Awards ceremony Feb. 24 at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead.

Jia-Sheng Wang, Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Public Health, received the 2018 Translational Impact Award from the Society of Toxicology.

Founded in 1961, the Society of Toxicology is the pre-eminent professional organization for scientists who practice toxicology around the globe.

The Translational Impact Award is “presented to a scientist whose recent outstanding clinical, environmental health or translational research has improved human and/or public health in an area of toxicological Jia-Sheng Wang concern.” Also known as benchto-bedside science, translational research aims to “translate” the discoveries of scientific study into the treatment or prevention of disease.

Wang is head of the environmental health science department in UGA’s College of Public Health.

He has 35 years of research and teaching experience in toxicology, chemical carcinogenesis, molecular epidemiology and cancer chemoprevention. His research investigates the impact of environmental toxin exposure on the formation of liver and esophageal cancers. He also explores the role that natural products and dietary supplements may play in preventing cancer.

Yiping Zhao, Distinguished Research Professor in the physics and astronomy department in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society “for seminal contributions to the study of surface morphology and groundbreaking studies of the growth and application of nanostructures.”

AVS is an international community of scientists, engineers and instrument manufacturers, which strives to promote research and communicate knowledge in the important areas of surface, interface, vacuum and thin film science/technology for the advancement of humankind. Fellow status recognizes members who have made sustained and outstanding technical contributions in areas of interest to AVS. Zhao conducts his research at the intersection of physics, materials and biotechnology. He is an expert in nanofabrication and nanotechnology.

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FACULTY PROFILE

Claire de La Serre received the College of Family and Consumer Sciences’ Early Career Research Award last year.

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Assistant professor’s research looks at mechanisms triggering overeating

By Cal Powell

jcpowell@uga.edu

Claire de La Serre’s first lab was a dirt- and grass-filled box in her backyard in southwest France.

There, she raised snails by the dozens, testing different diets on them, weighing them periodically and recording the data.

“I was a giant nerd,” she said, laughing. “I’ve just always wanted to know how things work.”

She eventually freed the snails, but her early experiments foreshadowed a promising career in science.

De La Serre is now an assistant professor in the University of Georgia’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Based out of the college’s foods and nutrition department, de La Serre investigates ingestive behavior, specifically how the gut communicates with the brain and the mechanisms that trigger overeating.

“We have signals coming from the gut that tell you to stop eating, and we’re finding that those are not working very well anymore when you consume junk food regularly,” de La Serre said.

“My research looks at how this could be triggered by inflammation in special (gut) bacteria.”

De La Serre has received funding from both the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for her work and received the college’s Early Career Research Award last year.

In addition to her research, de La Serre manages a lab with five graduate students and teaches a basic human nutrition course, an upper level class on metabolism and a seminar course to graduate students.

“I really enjoy teaching the undergraduate/graduate course on the physiology of obesity because this is my area of research and expertise, and it is usually fairly new to our students,” she said. “I like explaining to them how the brain rewires with weight gain and weight loss and going beyond the idea of the ‘eat less and exercise’ solution for obesity.”

De La Serre’s passion for mentorship and discovery was shaped by her own graduate school experience in Paris in 2006.

A visiting speaker, Helen Raybould, gave a talk that ended up being de La Serre’s “a-ha” moment, convincing her to pursue a career in academics.

De La Serre approached Raybould after the talk and asked if she could work as an intern in Raybould’s lab at the University of California-Davis.

“My first experiments didn’t work right away, but I was getting to something and that was exciting,” de La Serre said.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, de La Serre was initially hired as a lecturer in FACS in 2012.

“She is brilliant,” said Carolina Cawthon, a doctoral candidate working in de La Serre’s lab. “You can look at the body of work that she has produced

FACTS Claire de La Serre

Assistant Professor College of Family and Consumer Sciences M.S., Life Sciences Engineering, AgroParisTech, France, 2008 M.S., Physiology and Nutrition, AgroParisTech, France, 2008 Ph.D., Physiology and Nutrition, AgroParisTech, France, 2011 At UGA: Since 2012

in a relatively short period of time and see that. But there are plenty of brilliant people who don’t have any ability to help others join their ranks. She really can do that.”

Among the most exciting recent developments in de La Serre’s lab was the arrival on Thanksgiving day of a cohort of “germ free” rats from Europe, which will allow for more advanced research into pathways of overeating.

“We’ll be able to do a lot more controlled experiments and pinpointing closer relationships,” de La Serre said.

“We’re going to have animals with no microbiota, and we can inoculate them with specific microbes and see how their brains react to that. It’s very exciting.”

While de La Serre said she still finds the research fascinating, just as she did as a young girl in France and as a young graduate student in California, she has since discovered that working alongside students is especially gratifying.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Stougaard named CAES assistant dean of research

By J. Faith Peppers pepper@uga.edu

Beginning March 1, Robert N. Stougaard will be the assistant dean of research for the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He will be responsible for the overall supervision of the college’s seven research centers and farms and three major agricultural experiment stations located across the state.

“We are fortunate to have someone with Bob Stougaard’s depth of experience to manage our extensive network of research stations and farms throughout Georgia,” said Allen Moore, UGA CAES associate dean of research. “Our research network is vital to Georgia

agriculture and allows us to conduct research that is climate- and soilspecific to the numerous growing conditions in a state this size.”

The field and l a b o r a t o r y r eRobert Stougaard search conducted at the college’s experiment stations and research and education centers is used by UGA Cooperative Extension specialists to educate and train Georgia agriculturists.

Stougaard received a bachelor’s degree in soil science from the University of Wisconsin in 1978 and earned a

master’s degree in weed science from Southern Illinois University in 1983. He earned his doctorate in weed science in 1987 from the University of Nebraska, where he also minored in microbiology.

He joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska in 1987, and his primary duties focused on weed science Extension efforts in agronomic crops.

In 1991, Stougaard moved to Montana State University, located at the Northwestern Agricultural Research Center near Kalispell, Montana, where he rose to the position of professor with tenure.

“We look forward to the wealth of knowledge and fresh perspective Bob will bring to our research program and how he will help us best serve Georgia in the future,” Moore said.

2018 PRESIDENT’S FULFILLING THE DREAM AWARD

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‘Voice of hope’

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Institute of Higher Education thought leader discusses equity during McBee Lecture

Minister fulfills Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision by encouraging youth

By Saleen Martin

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By Saleen Martin

saleen.martin25@uga.edu

With a last name like his, the Rev. Winfred Hope strives to instill hope, dedication and hard work into the Athens community by investing in young people’s success.

Hope has pastored at Ebenezer Baptist Church West in Athens for nearly 40 years and has turned the church into a sanctuary for its members and those in need.

Born in Mobile, Alabama, he is one of 11 children, and his father and brother were ministers as well. He received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Fort Valley State College, a Master of Divinity from the Morehouse School of Religion and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

In January, he received the 2018 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award at the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast. His work within the church and the community focuses on enriching the lives of young people, much like King’s vision of equality, justice and human rights.

Hope has felt a deep connection to King for quite some time. His first-born daughter was born April 4, 1968, the night that King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee, and photos of King and Barack Obama hang on the wall across from his desk at the church.

His first pastoral opportunity was at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in the small Georgia town of Cairo, where he pastored for seven years while studying at Morehouse and working with the Georgia Mental Health Institute in Atlanta.

He and his wife, Betty, a former school teacher in Fulton County at that time, shared a car, and he sometimes fought his way through Atlanta traffic on a bicycle.

Hope also served on the Clarke County Board of Education for two years where he reviewed student achievements, unexcused absences and grades and encouraged students who weren’t living up to their full potential.

“We were a voice for some of them, a voice of correction for some of them and a voice of hope for others,” he said.

Hope helps students reach their goals by matching them with internships and summer jobs, writing school references

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The Rev. Winfred Hope’s work in the church and community focuses on enriching the lives of young people. Shown with Hope are Ashley Austin, left, a pharmacy student from Dublin, and Timothy Pritchett, right, an early childhood education student from Hampton.

and admission letters and running a Foster Student/Parent Program that matches students with church members who can help them on the road to success.

Hope’s sermons are laced with funny stories and visual elements that appeal to all members of his congregation, like an interactive activity that teaches young people to focus on the goals they set for themselves using only himself, a plate of Ritz crackers and a few dollar bills.

“I am the prize. Keep your eyes on the prize,” Hope told the congregation as he ran up and down the sanctuary’s aisles. He dropped coins on the floor, causing some of the adolescents to stop watching him and pick them up. Some were so preoccupied that they didn’t notice when he started to drop dollar bills instead.

“You could’ve had everything I have because I’m the prize,” Hope told them as he returned to the pulpit.“You stopped to get something of less value.”

He said they understood that message.

Hope also does outreach within the Athens community and collaborated with another local church and Habitat for Humanity to build three homes for local families.The Ebenezer family found land for one of the houses and sent volunteers

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with handiwork and carpentry skills to help build the houses.

Hope’s work extends much farther than Athens, and in 2014, Ebenezer sent its first large group of volunteers to Kisii, Kenya. Sixteen church members went on the trip where they partnered with the St. Carl Home of the Champions School and Orphanage.

Their mission work since 2014 allowed them to add windows, doors, bunk beds, blankets, mosquito nets to the orphanage; buy uniforms and shoes for the children; and provide them with toothbrushes, toothpaste, medicines, hygiene kits for the teen girls and other essential toiletry items.

Hope and his church members also served ice cream cups to the children, some of whom had never had ice cream before. He saw hope in the children he met there, and it’s an experience he will never forget.

Ebenezer sends a financial donation to St. Carl Orphanage every month to buy food, and they are planning a third trip to Kenya in September. Hope plans to go.

More than anything else, he loves to help others.

“I try to live up to my name because for a number of people, at every age, hope is about all they have left,” he said.

“Nothing is hopeless, just believe.”

Michelle Asha Cooper is a protector.

She protects students, she protects fairness, and she protects the right to higher education access regardless of the neighborhood people live in or how much money they make.

Cooper delivered the 2018 Louise McBee Lecture, sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education, Feb. 12 in the Chapel.

The lecture honors the vice president for academic affairs emerita of the University of Georgia whose leadership at the university spanned 25 years. Now in its 29th year, the McBee Lecture is one of the few annual lecture series in the U.S. that focuses solely on higher education.

Cooper believes that by reforming student financial aid policies, more students can have access to postsecondary education and be successful.

She is “one of the nation’s most effective voices in championing access to success,” said Erik Ness, associate professor and graduate coordinator at the Institute of Higher Education.

Cooper previously was the deputy director for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education, where she advised Congress and the secretary of education on student financial aid policy issues. Today, she is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, an organization in Washington, D.C. It conducts research to improve national, state and local institutional policies by providing policymakers with nonpartisan, fact-based evidence about completion rates, student success in the workforce and how college access, affordability and completion vary by race, ethnicity and income.

“We need to be armed with better data to answer these very basic questions,” Cooper said. “Data that counts all outcomes and counts all students.”

IHEP plans to strengthen need-based financial aid and positive outcomes for students, increase degree completion and give incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students second chances at receiving an education.

“Significant numbers of our students today are adults, people of color and students from low-income and working-class backgrounds,” Cooper said. “The most effective policy proposals will promote college affordability, will drive college completion and will include often-forgotten populations such as the incarcerated.”

Cooper has worked on many college campuses, and helping students to break through financial barriers is a driving force in the work she does.

“College is a pathway out of poverty,” she said. “In this country, luck and ZIP codes should not be the determinants of access.”

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Offering a dialogue about Latino demographic change in the U.S. and its intersections with P–20 education, US Latinization provides discussions that help move beyond the idea that Mexican and Spanish (language) are synonyms. This nativist logic has caused “Mexican rooms” to re-emerge in the form of English to Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, transitional programs, tagging Latinos as “Limited English Proficient” in ways that contribute to persisting educational gaps.

Spencer Salas and Pedro R. Portes bring together voices that address the social and geographical nature of achievement and that serve as a resource for educational leaders and policy makers.

Salas is associate professor of middle, secondary and K–12 education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Website sharing economic vitality launches

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The “It Starts With Georgia” website was created to showcase the university’s resources for businesses, community leaders and researchers.

UGA is committed to improving every county in the state by providing training courses, community resources, degree paths, facilities and more.

The site also features an interactive map showing the university’s reach across the state.

Additionally, employers are linked to UGA’s Career Center where they can post jobs or find their next top talent, and all visitors are connected to the Corporate Foundations and Relations team for potential partnerships.

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

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future intellectual property and the direct exposure of students to potential employers.

In his comments to the group, NSF Program Manager Prakash Balan said that 30 percent of students who work on IUCRC projects are hired by an industry partner directly involved in their work. Industry partners pay annual membership fees to the center, 100 percent of which are used to fund projects. CB2 currently has more than 30 industry partners including Ford, Hyundai, John Deere, 3M, Myriant and ADM. “Along with all of the great ideas and projects that come from our talented faculty, the NMI will also add value to CB2 by broadening the research focus to include sustainable packaging and bring industry partners that represent the Southeast region,” said Jason Locklin, director of the NMI and an associate professor of chemistry and biochemical engineering.

The planning meeting presentations were made by faculty from the Franklin College, the colleges of engineering and family

and consumer sciences and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. Students also attended the meeting and presented 20 posters on related research work, further illustrating the scope of knowledge that UGA can add to CB2.

In his send-off message to the attendees, Vice President for Research David Lee pointed out that UGA already is a member of the IUCRC’s Center for Advanced Forestry Systems and that the university welcomes a future with CB2.

“Collaborating with industry is key to our land-grant mission of performing research that ultimately improves the lives of people everywhere, from Georgia and across the globe,” said Lee. “Having NMI as a site in CB2 will facilitate our interactions with industry, accelerate our innovations in the critical area of sustainable and green materials and encourage economic development and job growth.”

The CB2 planning meeting was supported by NSF grant #1738734.

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from page 1 and policy-making—critical knowledge to help them become more effective public servants.

“This practical training, specifically designed for newly elected officials, helps municipal leaders understand and effectively address the kinds of issues they face every day,” said Laura Meadows, director of the Institute of Government. “By partnering with GMA, which brings in-depth knowledge of all Georgia’s municipalities, we can tailor the information to each community the officials represent.”

Mandated by state law in 1990, the Georgia General Assembly directed the Institute of Government and GMA to introduce new officeholders to the legal, financial and ethical responsibilities of city officials.

“Training local leaders is one of the many efforts the University of Georgia is undertaking to strengthen communities across the state,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “I am pleased that our public service faculty are sharing their expertise with the citizens of Georgia in this important way.”

The curriculum for the new officials provides an important bridge between campaigning and becoming an effective public servant, said Larry Hanson, GMA executive director.

“The knowledge these leaders gain is invaluable,” he said. “It helps newly elected officials understand the nuts and bolts of local government, its complexities and the need for collaboration and teamwork.”

TEDxUGA registration

“Standing Challenge,” where participants did not sit for the entirety of the event to honor the many children who cannot stand and may never be able to stand again.

Every dollar raised up to $1 million supports the Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit at Children’s Healthcare to fund state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, including the UGA Miracle Gym. Beginning last year, every dollar raised above $1 million supports the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center to fund groundbreaking pediatric research.

Davis Haines, UGA Miracle’s communications director, participates as a way to honor his older brother, Carter, who was diagnosed with brain cancer and treated at Children’s Healthcare.

“After being sick for a little under a year he passed away,” Haines said. “[Being involved] also helped me along my grieving process and opened the door for something I truly had a heart for.”

UGA Miracle offered several events throughout the past year, including the annual Doughnut Dare 5K, Miracle at Midnight and the 23rd Annual Classic City Tour of Homes, which raised a combined $24,000. The group set a record during its $100 Day, raising approximately $353,000 in a single day.

“There is never a day where I do not feel connected to this cause and this organization,” Haines said. “I am certain that this organization hosts the most hardworking, impressive and loving people on this campus.”

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Registration for TEDxUGA 2018: Connect is now open. The sixth annual celebration of ideas worth spreading will be held March 22 at the Classic Center.

Individuals may register for $20 or $30 with a T-shirt.

Organizers note that at TED events, there is no audience—only participants. For this reason, it is required that all individuals plan to attend the entire event, which will run from 7-10 p.m.

For more information, visit TEDxUGA.com/register. Additional details will be shared with registrants via email.

‘Major decisions’ graphic

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from page 1 These local crews include everyone from caterers to camera people. Not only are productions purchasing local items, such as carpet from manufacturers in Dalton, but cast and crew also are spending money locally while living in the state.

Because tax credits create significant cost savings, they are an important part of why production companies choose to come to Georgia. According to georgia.org, the state’s Entertainment Industry Investment Act provides a 20 percent tax credit for companies that spend $500,000 or more on production and post-production in Georgia, either in a single production or on multiple projects.

The state grants an additional 10 percent tax credit if the finished project includes a promotional logo provided by the state.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is another draw. The many direct flights to and from Los Angeles and other locations make it easy to get the cast, crew and other goods to filming locations in Georgia.

The state’s temperate climate and varied terrain also make filming here easy for production companies. They can find everything from coastal areas to mountainous peaks and metropolitan cities to small towns, all within a few hours’ drive. The quality of life in Georgia is another factor drawing productions to the state.

In fact, the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office’s Camera Ready Communities program has liaisons in all 159 counties to answer questions about that specific area. The office was started in 1973 by then-Gov. Jimmy Carter when interest in filming in Georgia was piqued after the release and success of Deliverance.

“All the stuff you need to make a $300 million movie is here,” Stepakoff said, “as well as all the stuff you need to make a 10-episode Netflix streaming series.”

The Georgia Film Academy began in 2015 to help meet the demand and create a permanent and sustainable industry and works with 18 partner institutions across the state. It’s primary focus is working with leadership in film and television production training, creating jobs for Georgians and developing a permanent and sustainable entertainment industry.

“We want to make sure that we have the economic engine of the entire entertainment industry here in Georgia—indeed a full ecosystem,” Stepakoff said.

Approximately 2,000 Georgians have taken courses through the academy, and 562 people have been placed in internships. Many of those are in below-the-line positions in areas such as grip, electric and lighting, but the academy is adding courses in abovethe-line trades such as screenwriting and filmmaking.

“We believe Georgia will be a pre-­ eminent destination for the film and television industry for many years to come,” Stepakoff said. “It will be a legacy for our state.”

The informational graphic, “Major decisions,” in the Feb. 12 Columns incorrectly included law as the one top

10 degree majors for UGA students in the fall of 2017.

The seventh most popular degree major is political science, which was the declared major of 759 students.

Learning technologies grants

The Center for Teaching and Learning is accepting proposals until April 13 for its 2018-2019 Learning Technologies Grants Program.

Projects must focus on the innovative use of technology to assist students in meeting the educational objectives of their academic programs.

This year, projects must employ the use of active learning and/or open educational resources. Grant award recipients will be announced by late June.

Funds will be available after July 1.

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

Send questions about the program

to Sherry Clouser, CTL assistant ­director of learning technologies, at sac@uga.edu.

WIP course proposals

The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program is accepting proposals until March 10 from arts and sciences faculty in all disciplines for innovative courses that encourage writing.

Faculty who teach WIP courses are supported by a ­Writing Intensive Program teaching assistant, who is specially trained in writing-in-the-disciplines pedagogy.

Visit www.wip.uga.edu for proposal forms and guidelines as well as information about the program. Direct questions to Lindsey Harding, WIP director, at lharding@uga.edu.

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‘Hollywood South’: Panel of entertainment industry leaders to deliver UGA Charter Lecture

By Kristina Griffith

kristina.griffith17@uga.edu

A panel of renowned writers, producers and entertainment industry insiders will visit the University of Georgia to deliver the spring 2018 Charter Lecture.

The discussion, “Hollywood South: The New $9.5 Billion Georgia Industry,” will be held Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

The event is free and open to the public, and audience members are encouraged to ask questions to the panelists through the Twitter hashtag #HollywoodSouth.

Panelists include Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of The Walking Dead; Will Packer, executive producer of Straight Outta Compton; and Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office of the Georgia Department of Economic Development. The panel will be moderated by Jeffrey Stepakoff, executive director of the Georgia Film Academy.

“The University of Georgia is delighted to welcome such an outstanding panel of industry leaders to campus,” said Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Pamela Whitten.

“In what promises to be an exciting discussion, they’ll be sharing their vision for how industry, the state and its institutions of higher education can work together to cement Georgia’s role as ‘Hollywood South.’ The establishment of a thriving entertainment industry is one of our state’s great success stories, and I’m confident that the best is yet to come.”

Stepakoff has more than 30 years of experience in writing, producing and content creation for the film and television industry. Some of his most notable works include The Wonder Years and Dawson’s Creek. The Georgia Film Academy is a collaborative effort of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia to support workforce needs of the film and digital entertainment industry.

Hurd has produced and co-written numerous works of film, including The Walking Dead, The Terminator and Aliens.

Her many Academy Award-winning films have resulted in several honors, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hurd’s crowd-sourced third Native American documentary, Mankiller, will air on PBS in March.

Packer has established himself as one of Hollywood’s blockbuster hit-makers, with eight of his films opening No. 1 at the box office. His work includes the films Girls Trip, Straight Outta Compton and Ride Along. He also was nominated for an Emmy as executive producer of the Roots remake.

Thomas is a UGA alumna who began her career with the Georgia Department of Economic Development as a project manager and then served as a location specialist for 12 years. She was promoted to director of film, music and digital entertainment in 2011.

After the panel discussion, a Q&A will be moderated by Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Charles N. Davis.

The lecture, which is part of the university’s Signature Lecture Series, is sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication assisted in planning the event.

The Charter Lecture Series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that made UGA the birthplace of public higher education in America. Past Charter Lectures have featured Pulitzer prize-winning author Edward Larson; former Sen. Sam Nunn, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry; as well as poet laureates, scientists, medical experts, leading attorneys and religious leaders.