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UGA establishes Master of Fine Arts in Film program

By Sarah Freeman freemans@uga.edu

A total of 3,062 students met requirements to walk in UGA’s fall Commencement ceremonies, held Dec. 13.

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Time of transition Commencement speakers reflect on the importance of the journey

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Higher education is marked by times of transition—from stepping foot on campus as a freshman through receiving a degree at a Commencement ceremony—and those changes are an important part of the journey.

“Change never ends,” said Regent Kessel D. Stelling Jr., member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, who delivered the University of Georgia’s fall 2019 undergraduate Commencement address. “What it means to be part of a real community never changes. This university has prepared you thoroughly to be a member of your community and an intelligent, contributing citizen.”

Stelling, who is chairman and CEO of Synovus Financial

Corporation and spent more than 40 years in banking, told graduates that their UGA degrees are “a major asset on your personal balance sheet” and reminded them to be thankful for all of those who made an investment in their future by helping them along the way.

Stelling said the most important investment the graduates made during their time at UGA was the “sweat equity”—the hard work they put in to getting their degrees.

“You’ve reached a goal you’ve set out to accomplish,” he said.

“Now you’ll move on. You’ll set new expectations and new goals, and I have no doubt you’ll continue to succeed.”

Stelling encouraged graduates to get their foot in the door but not be afraid to try new paths.

“I strongly believe that success is not the key to happiness, rather

happiness is the key to success,” he said. “If you love what you’re doing you’ll be successful.”

Taylor Maggiore, who received a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a certificate in sports media, served as the student speaker for the undergraduate ceremony and shared how their individual journeys might be different but led them to the same goal.

“All our experiences at UGA will make us better professionals in the adult world … ideal, knowledgeable members of society,” she said. “I believe we’re ready for anything.”

Maggiore also shared how her fellow graduates can help others along their own journeys. In particular, she said that being an orientation leader was one of the most significant experiences she

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OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Grant projects highlight interdisciplinary research

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

What can computer science tell researchers about the transmission of tuberculosis? The comprehensive data collected about TB transmission and infection can be aggregated and analyzed to help predict how the lung disease will spread.

That’s just one of the projects researchers are taking on thanks to funding from a second round of Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants.

“I am pleased to provide this additional opportunity for UGA faculty to learn from one another and inspire new ways to approach complex problems,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “The

Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants program is proving to be an effective means to strengthen our university’s research enterprise and greatly expand our faculty’s impact.”

Seven faculty teams were awarded funds for projects that span 15 colleges, schools and other units at the University of Georgia.

When the first Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grants were awarded in 2017, 12 faculty teams received funds totaling some $1.37 million.

The work enabled by those seed grants supported subsequent applications for external funding that have brought nearly $13 million in new grants to UGA to date, a 10-to-1 return on investment.

A total of 72 proposals were

submitted for the second round of grants, which is part of the Great Commitments Initiative launched by the president in 2019. They were reviewed by a team of faculty and administrators led by Vice President for Research David Lee and Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Jennifer Frum.

Researchers were asked to frame proposals around one or more of UGA’s Great Commitments— Healthier People, A More Secure Future and Stronger Communities—and the projects could include original research, strong public service and outreach components, or both.

Fred Quinn is seeking to learn more about how TB is transmitted See GRANTS on page 8

Georgia’s burgeoning film and television industry stands ready to benefit from an expanded workforce, thanks to an innovative new partnership between the University of Georgia, the Georgia Film Academy and Pinewood Forest, the new community in Fayetteville, Georgia, located adjacent to Pinewood Atlanta Studios.

The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and Franklin College of Arts and Sciences have aligned with Pinewood Forest

and the Georgia Film Academy to create a Master of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media program. The program is the first of its kind in Georgia, with students taking classes in an academic setting during the first year and producing projects in a major studio setting during the second year.

“The University of Georgia is uniquely positioned to house this interdisciplinary program that will make a lasting economic and educational impact on one of our state’s leading industries,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “We See FILM on page 7

2020 FOUNDERS WEEK

Founding SPIA dean to receive President’s Medal at luncheon The University of Georgia will bestow one of its highest honors to Thomas P. Lauth, the founding dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, during Founders Day activities on Jan. 15.

The President’s Medal recognizes extraordinary contributions of individuals who are not current employees of UGA and who have supported students and academic programs, advanced research and inspired community leaders to enhance the quality of life of citizens in Georgia.

“Dr. Lauth provided wise counsel to me and to many others at the institutional level and helped build

the reputation of the School of Public and International Affairs at UGA. He guided a new school exceptionally well and provided Tom Lauth many years of outstanding service as a dean and faculty member,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “I look forward to honoring him for his service to UGA, the Athens community and our state and nation.”

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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

UGA to buy 13 more electric buses with federal grant funds

By Allison Brannen abrannen@uga.edu

The University of Georgia has been awarded $7.46 million under the Federal Transit Administration’s Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program to purchase an additional 13 electric buses.

The funding, along with UGA’s 30% matching share, will grow the university’s fleet to 33 electric buses, representing a tremendous step forward in reducing emissions and increasing opportunities for experiential learning and research.

Twenty electric buses were purchased in April 2019 through a competitive grant from the Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority and were produced at the Proterra Inc. plant in Greenville, South Carolina. These buses began arriving on campus last month and are

anticipated to go into service this academic year, giving UGA one of the largest electric bus fleets of any university in North America.

“The University of Georgia is continually seeking ways to increase the efficiency and sustainability of our campus operations,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “The purchase of additional electric buses with funds from the Federal Transit Administration will help us achieve these important institutional objectives.”

Last year, the university built an expandable state-of-the-art charging facility on Riverbend Road to prepare for the electric buses already scheduled to arrive on campus. With this infrastructure in place, the FTA grant funding will be used to purchase electric buses without the need for additional

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INNOVATION DISTRICT

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Robert Benham to deliver the Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 3

By Hayley Major

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Justice Robert Benham, the longest serving and first African American member of the Supreme Court of Georgia, will present the 2020 Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel.

Named in honor of Charlayne HunterGault and Hamilton Holmes, the first African American students to attend the University of Georgia, the lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President and focuses on race relations, Robert Benham civil rights and education. It has been held annually since 1985.

After earning his Bachelor of Science from Tuskegee University in 1967, Benham became the second African American to graduate from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1970. In 1984, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. Joe Frank Harris where he served for five years before being appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1989. That same year, he earned his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia. In April, Benham announced he will be retiring from the bench at the end of his current term.

“Justice Benham represents one of the greatest leaders in the legal profession,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “We are honored to welcome him back to campus for this important lecture.”

A lifelong resident of Georgia, Benham holds memberships in multiple organizations state-wide and nationally, including the Lawyers’ Club of Atlanta, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects and the National Criminal Justice Association. He serves as president for the Society for Alternative Dispute Resolution, as a trustee of the Georgia Legal History Foundation and as chairman of the Judicial Council and the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.

Faculty group advising Innovation District initiative focuses on resources, support

By Aaron Hale

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Twenty-one faculty members across UGA’s schools and colleges met to discuss the development of UGA’s Innovation District on Dec. 3 in the Peabody Board Room of the Administration Building. The Innovation District Faculty Advisory Council will meet throughout the year to provide input on the Innovation District initiative, with particular focus on programming, resources and support for research commercialization and universityindustry engagement.

The council will be led by the Innovation District leadership team: Kyle Tschepikow, special assistant to the president and director for strategy and innovation; David Lee, vice president for research; and Rahul Shrivastav, vice president for instruction.

The members of the council are Jenay Beer, Insitute of Gerontology; Karen Burg, College of Veterinary Medicine; Justin Conrad, School of Public and International Affairs; Andrew Crain, Graduate School; Joseph Dahlen, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Naola Ferguson-Noel, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center; Chris Garvin, Lamar Dodd

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From left, Christine Szymanski, Naola Ferguson-Noel, Kevin McCully and Amitabh Verma take part in the first Faculty Advisory Council meeting.

School of Art; Chris Gerlach, New Media Institute; Kristina Jaskyte, Institute for Nonprofit Organizations; Kirk Kealey, Food Product Innovation and Commercialization Center; Eileen Kennedy, College of Pharmacy; William Kisaalita, College of Engineering; Kevin McCully, College of Education; Sergiy Minko, College of Family and Consumer Sciences; Michael Myers,

Small Business Development Center; Jonathan Murrow, AU/UGA Medical Partnership; Usha Rodrigues, School of Law; Pejman Rohani, Odum School of Ecology; Christine Szymanski, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; Amitabh Verma, College of Environment and Design; and Dee Warmath, College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART

Calling All Monsters: Cartoonist’s work on display at Georgia Museum of Art

By Keyonna Brannam

Keyonna.Brannam@uga.edu

If you lived in Athens between 1997 and 2006, you saw the cartoonist Patrick Dean’s work weekly in Flagpole magazine, whether on a cover, in his weekly strip or in illustrations inside. Influenced by Jack Davis, George Grosz, Tomi Ungerer and early Mad Magazine, he populates his scenes with a variety of characters interacting with one another, capturing a broad range of Athens’ population.

Jokes abound, and monsters are humanized as much as people are monsterfied.

Born in Rome, Georgia, Dean relocated to Athens to attend the University of Georgia, from which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts

degree in graphic design in 1998.

In 2018, Dean was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neurone disease or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Dean continues to draw, even as it become much harder for him to do so, and posts his drawings on social media regularly. An exhibition of his works, The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean, is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through March 29 and showcases 19 original drawings and prints as well as several of Dean’s sketchbooks.

Dean believes that comics convey ideas rather than stories and that they can be as simple or as complicated as the conveyer wants them to be. As a kid growing up in the 1980s, he would copy

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HOLIDAY STAFF APPRECIATION BRINGS UNIVERSITY TOGETHER–Lights and laughter filled Tate Grand Hall for a Holiday

Staff Appreciation event, held Dec. 20. Hosted by the Office of the President, the celebratory brunch recognized UGA staff members for their dedicated work that helped make 2019 another record-breaking year. More than 1,000 UGA staff members attended. Additionally, UGA Athletics provided 1,100 complimentary tickets to the men’s basketball game against SMU that night. Pictured above from left: Career Center staff members Camille Liverpool, Toria Carter, Marla Ebert, Markeicha Dickens, Destiny Lloyd and Kyle Poe pose in the photo booth at the event.

newspaper strips in notebooks and replace the figures with his own characters; although he compares this method to doing a bad cover of a classic song, he still believes that one can learn from looking at the work of favorite comic artists.

He also thinks it is important to move on from mistakes. He gives this advice when asked about how people view comics’ artists versus painters and illustrators: “Just because in the past most comics were on disposable newsprint, a lot found them to be slumming it.

By this time, I’ve quit caring what anyone thinks of comics making.”

Comics artists are fully capable of going toe-to-toe with other artists; for those looking to make their own art, Dean advises keeping a sketchbook and drawing every day, despite his own increasing difficulties doing so.

Using expensive paper, brushes and inks makes quickness and simplicity harder to achieve, so even though Dean has upgraded from copy paper and a ballpoint pen to do his work, he still doesn’t shell out much money on art supplies.

To him, any kind of story can be told through that simple form, “from a slice-of-life tale to some crazy sci-fi fantasy,” which is exactly what he does. Some of his stories are humorous; others, as with a recent mini-comic addressing his diagnosis, are more serious.

The exhibition’s curator, Hillary Brown, is the director of communications at the museum as well as a writer for the Comics Journal. As she planned the exhibition, Brown worked with an undergraduate graphic design class at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, taught

by Julie Spivey, professor of graphic design. Looking through Dean’s works and visiting the exhibition space, students worked in groups to make proposals for signage, publications, promotional ephemera and more. One group designed

Artwork by Patrick Dean will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art through March 29.

a font based on Dean’s handwriting. Brown and Spivey originally intended the collaboration as more of an exercise for the students, a way to give them a concrete project on which to practice working with a client and creating deliverables.

But many of their proposals were good enough to incorporate into the exhibition, and the museum may use some of their other ideas in the future.

In addition to Flagpole, Dean’s comics and illustrations have been published in Legal Action Comics, Typhon, the Comic Eye, Vice Magazine and the Oxford American Magazine as well as UGA’s alumni magazine.

Related events include

90 Carlton: Winter, the museum’s quarterly reception, on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. (free for current members, $10 for Friends of the Museum and Supporters, $15 for Not Yet Friends); Art Cart (After Class), a drop-in after-school program with hands-on activities on Feb. 5 from 3-4:30 p.m.; a Teen Studio on March 19 from 5:308:30 p.m. (call 706-542-4883 or email madison.hogan@uga.edu to reserve a spot); and a screening of the film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, on March 19 at 7 p.m.

All programs are open free to the public unless otherwise noted.

RESEARCH NEWS

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Megan Ford, left, director of the ASPIRE Clinic, discusses a case with student Paige Garrison.

Financial therapy

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UGA researchers try to grow this specialized type of counseling, which can aid well-being, stability Financial therapy—a relatively new field that combines the emotional support of a marriage counselor with the money mindset of a financial planner—could help couples navigate disagreements, money concerns and financial conflicts before these issues tear relationships apart.

“Money is a big thing, and ignoring it is impeding satisfaction in relationships,” said Megan Ford, a couples and financial therapist at the University of Georgia who studies money and relationship satisfaction. “Therapists need to work together to solve problems that occur around financial behaviors of couples and learn how to connect to all of their emotions.”

Ford, the clinical director of the ASPIRE Clinic at UGA that provides counseling and educational services, including financial therapy, is collaborating with John Grable, Athletic Association Endowed Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences. The two are exploring what influence financial therapy can have on relationship outcomes and how gaining a better understanding of these issues might affect a couple’s decision to seek help from a financial planner and a family therapist.

The duo has been studying the issue for the past decade and believes that financial therapy improves a couple’s overall well-being and financial stability if they understand that many

financial behaviors are tied to feelings and beliefs.

Grable, a financial planner, was involved in starting the Financial Therapy Association in 2008, and Ford, a graduate John Grable student at the time, worked as a financial therapist at the country’s first financial therapy clinic, started at Kansas State University with help from Grable.

In their most recent study at UGA, published in Contemporary Family Therapy, Ford and Grable worked with six couples, ranging in age from 21-76, who shared their financial goals with a family therapist and financial planner and discussed how their money history related to their current situation.

In three, 30-50-minute sessions over five weeks, the couples were encouraged to talk about their feelings regarding money in a nonjudgmental space. Afterward, nearly all of those who participated said they wanted to learn more about their financial behaviors, realized they needed to communicate better and would consider seeking the help of a financial planner.

“One woman was close to tears listening to her husband explain an early memory in their relationship about money that she didn’t understand

at the time,” Grable said. “The story helped explain his odd behavior that she always thought of as just being mean.

They left clearly closer emotionally and financially feeling more powerful.”

The two researchers said there is a lot of anecdotal information about how the inability of couples to talk about their financial goals, money history or past experiences causes serious relationship problems but not much concrete evidence-based research to back it up.

Although there are more than 80,000 certified financial planners and 50,000 family therapists in the United States, the FTA—which just began a certification program in 2019—lists less than 50 certified financial therapists throughout the country, a figure the two UGA researchers think needs to increase.

Since money can be such an emotional trigger, they believe that financial therapy—even just a few sessions—needs to be incorporated into a family therapist’s practice because financial planners, like Grable, are not traditionally trained to deal with the psychological issues that surrounds money.

“I’m a financial planner; I love money,” said Grable. “But the last thing I want to happen is a couple coming in crying or yelling. I’m uncomfortable with that; it makes me nervous.

That’s why we need therapists trained in this area.”

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Researchers to study improving safety of self-driving cars

By Mike Wooten

mwooten@uga.edu

Researchers in the University of Georgia College of Engineering will use a Cyber-Physical Systems grant from the National Science Foundation to develop systems that help autonomous vehicles safely navigate the nation’s streets and highways.

While the emerging technology of self-driving vehicles is expected to improve both the safety and the efficiency of transportation, the researchers say these goals are not possible if automated vehicles can’t coordinate with other vehicles on the road. The challenge is even greater when a large network of autonomous vehicles shares the highway with human-driven cars and trucks.

“One of the biggest questions surrounding the mass deployment of

autonomous vehicles is how are these vehicles going to interact with the environment around them and make informed decisions,” said Javad Mohammadpour Velni, an associate professor in UGA’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the project’s principal investigator. “Somehow, the autonomous vehicles will need to understand the potential impact of humans, who might not make the most logical decisions while driving.”

The scientists will develop predictive algorithms that allow connected and automated vehicle systems to operate in environments full of uncertainty— including human drivers. Using the $733,000 NSF grant, they will also explore ways to improve communications between autonomous vehicles.

To accomplish their goal, the researchers will employ artificial

intelligence and machine learning techniques—the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions with minimal human interaction. They will analyze massive amounts of data to build probabilistic models of the driving environment and the behavior of other vehicles, then feed those models and data into the vehicles’ control systems.

The UGA team is collaborating with researchers at the University of Central Florida on the project. The UCF scientists will build environment perception models and strategies for more efficient communications between autonomous vehicles.

“By making the communications and control decisions smarter, the team is aiming for orders of magnitude improvement in safety and efficiency of autonomous vehicle platoons,” said Velni.

UGA Presents has announced that Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will replace Patti LuPone for an April 24 concert at the Performing Arts Center.

Mitchell won a Tony Award for his leading role in the 2000 Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. He also received Tony Award nominations for his performance in the original Broadway cast of Ragtime as well as the 2003 revival of Man of La Mancha.

Mitchell will make his UGA Presents debut with Plays With Music, a one-man show celebrating his long career as Broadway’s “last leading man” (New York Times). Backed by a trio of musicians, he will showcase his signature baritone in a concert featuring musical theater classics and American songbook standards. Mitchell will perform Plays With Music at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. All tickets previously purchased for LuPone’s performance will be honored at the same date and time. Tickets for Mitchell’s performance can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling ­706-542-4400.

EITS will conduct maintenance on university network in January, March

On Jan. 25 and March 7, EITS will be conducting maintenance of the university network.

This Saturday-scheduled maintenance is necessary to support an expansion and upgrade of network services that will allow EITS to continue to provide ample bandwidth and capacity for the university. The maintenance will begin at 6 a.m. and end at 11:59 p.m.

As a result, there will be intermittent outages of campus internet access and campus information systems on Jan. 25 and March 7. Because these outages will be unpredictable, the community should assume that network services will be unavailable on both days during maintenance.

Systems that use services in the UGA Boyd Data Center will experience outages. This also includes UGA websites hosted in the Boyd Data Center. The university’s primary web site at www.uga.edu is hosted off-campus and will remain available.

UGA’s Central Authentication System and Single Sign-On will also experience outages.

This will mean individuals will not be able to login to many UGA-provided information systems such as Athena, Banner Administrative System, Degree Works and eLearning Commons. Individuals off campus during the maintenance window will experience outages accessing UGAMail, websites hosted by UGA, the Virtual Private Network, ArchPass Duo and information systems hosted by EITS. Additional details and progress reports will be posted at status.uga.edu and on the EITS Twitter feed at @uga_eits.

Franklin College doctoral student wins 2019 Thesis of Year Award

Elizabeth Ashley Clayborn, a doctoral student in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the 2019 Thesis of the Year Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association.

Her thesis, “The Myth of Southern Atonement: Constructed Forgiveness in Public Spaces,” examines the visual, narratological and other elements of what shapes Southern atonement as a post-political move in Arkansas.

The Thesis of the Year Award is one of the highest honors bestowed by the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association. Through these awards, educators and scholars are recognized for their skill in speaking to the discipline of communication and the study of cultures.

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OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES

HONORS PROGRAM

Alumnus named university’s fifth Schwarzman Scholar

By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu

University of Georgia alumnus Shaun Kleber was one of 148 candidates selected internationally as a Schwarzman Scholar, a graduate fellowship designed to prepare the next generation of leaders with an understanding of China’s role in global trends.

Kleber is UGA’s fifth Schwarzman Scholar. The incoming Class of 2021 was narrowed down from a pool of more than 4,700 candidates from China, the U.S. and around the world.

It includes students from 41 countries and 108 universities.

Five classes of Schwarzman Scholars have been named since the program opened to applicants in 2015. The fully Shaun Kleber funded, yearlong master’s program in global affairs is offered at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Students live and learn on the Schwarzman College campus and focus their studies on public policy, economics and business, or international studies.

“I am delighted that Shaun has received this prestigious recognition,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “The University of Georgia’s record of success in this international competition is evidence of the outstanding education we provide to our students and how well we prepare them for success beyond graduation.”

Kleber graduated from UGA in 2016 with bachelor’s degrees in international affairs, political science and economics. A Foundation Fellow and Honors Program alumnus, he spent two years with McKinsey & Company as a business analyst before transitioning to work with City Year, an AmeriCorps program, through which he served as a student success coach in Detroit. He is now a team leader with City Year in Boston and supervises student success coaches at UP Academy Boston, developing tailored strategies for student achievement.

After he completes his year as a Schwarzman Scholar, Kleber will attend Harvard Law School. He plans to pursue a career in education policy and public education administration.

“I met Shaun when he was in high school, and I enjoyed getting the chance to work closely with him while he was a student at UGA,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program. “It has been clear all along that he is destined to make a positive impact on society.”

Kleber’s focus is on education, leadership and policy, with the goal of becoming a national leader in public education. In his time with City Year and in his internship while in college with the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, he confronted issues such as intergenerational poverty, segregated neighborhoods and insufficient access to basic resources.

Currently, he is working to unlock the potential of individuals through education, he said, before ultimately working to unlock the potential of the American South through both public education and public policy.

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Members of the Women’s Staff Leadership Institute’s third cohort celebrated their graduation with a reception on Nov. 19.

Applications for fourth cohort of Women’s Staff Leadership Institute being accepted

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Applications are being accepted through Jan. 31 for the fourth cohort of the Women’s Staff Leadership Institute.

The WSLI, which began in 2017, is an annual program aligned with the Women’s Leadership Initiative launched in 2015 by President Jere W. Morehead and the Office of the Provost. The program is administered through the Office of Human Resources’ Training and Development Department.

“One thing that makes this program unique and special is that it really is a campus-wide effort,” said Allie Cox, director of training and development and coordinator of the institute.

The program will run from April through November, and participants will meet monthly for leadership development sessions and discussions with senior administrators at UGA. The institute provides participants the chance to explore leadership opportunities, reflect upon key leadership traits and skills, and support one another in issues that women leaders face in higher education administration.

To learn more or apply, visit https:// hr.uga.edu/employees/training/WSLI/.

The third cohort of the Women’s Staff Leadership Institute celebrated its graduation with a reception on Nov. 19.

“I hope you all will look back on

this program as a milestone in your professional development,” said Jennifer Frum, vice president for public service and outreach and WSLI executive sponsor. “My challenge to you is to take what you’ve learned and empower and engage the women you work with across campus.”

For Rebecca Scarbro, associate director for student conduct in the Division of Student Affairs, the biggest takeaway was that leadership isn’t a lonely endeavor—leaning on other people is a sign of strength, not weakness.

“It was absolutely what I needed,” she said. “I learned a lot from the speakers, but I think I learned just as much, if not more, from the other members of the cohort.”

In addition to Scarbro, the 2019 cohort included Siara Abdulla, senior regional director of development in the Division of Development & Alumni Relations; Cheri Bliss, director of graduate student services in the Graduate School; Victoria David, director of diversity affairs in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; Jenna Jackson, associate director of admissions and diversity programs for the School of Law; Heather Jordan, director of student services for the UGA Athletic Association; Toni Rogers, director of instruction fiscal affairs in the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost; Amanda

Sale, senior associate director of admissions for marketing and recruitment in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions; Sarah Sorvas, special projects manager for the Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel; Jen Williams, senior communications director in the College of Education; Beth Woods, executive director for the Office of Information Technology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; and Arzu Yilmaz, senior project manager and team leader in the Office of University Architects.

“I pride myself on trying to have it all together most of the time, but what I didn’t realize is that there were a couple of missing pieces,” said Abdulla. “I am incredibly grateful and humbled to be part of this program and have the tools I need to be even better at what I do and better serve the university.”

The 2019 cohort members were welcomed as alumnae at the reception by members of the 2017 and 2018 cohorts.

“You’re joining the ranks of some pretty phenomenal leaders on campus, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome you into our fold,” said Nakia Wade, human resources senior manager for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and 2018 WSLI graduate. “Our hope is that you will continue bonding, developing and stretching yourself and each other as you move forward in your career.”

DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

SGA Professional Clothing Closet open for students, accepting donations

By Marilyn Primovic mjp82278@uga.edu

After two years of student-led planning, shiny scissors cut bright red ribbon late last semester to celebrate the grand opening of the Student Government Association Professional Clothing Closet in Milledge Hall.

The SGA Professional Clothing Closet provides professional attire to students at no cost and on short notice. Students may keep the clothing for future use.

Students Sabina Ashurova and Matthew McDaniel recognized the need for access to professional clothing after giving out their personal dress clothes to their colleagues.

“If colleagues in our spheres need this, then I bet there are a ton of students out there that need this, too,” McDaniel said.“We started our research phase, and with 1,200 responses, 75% showed overwhelming

support that they need professional clothing.”

While McDaniel said he expected the need for professional clothes to be greater with business majors, the research showed the need across all majors.

“At the beginning of each year, students need professional clothing for student organization executive board interviews, then career fairs and networking events come soon after,” he said. “They may learn on Monday that there is a potential employer coming on Thursday and need the attire on short notice. We saw this closet as the missing puzzle piece for students to have professional success.”

SGA also directs students to the Career Center for résumé critiquing, mock interviews and professional advice, he said.

Alumni, staff and community partners donated more than 2,000 articles of clothing to

jumpstart the closet.

“This initiative is expansive and requires ongoing support,” said Patrick Femia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication SGA senator.

“They understand the need and are willing to forfeit some of their clothing to donate, and it shows they do whatever they can to give back,” said McDaniel. “Everyone is committed because it is more than a suit…it is the first resource you have as you walk into an interview.”

Hannah Payne, SGA Senate communications director, said it also comes down to providing students with confidence.

“When you walk into a room in a good suit, it changes how you feel about talking to the person across the table,” said Payne.

SGA represents all UGA students, and this is a way alumni can partner in making an impact, she said.

“Everyone needs a champion

… someone who says, ‘I believe in you,’ and we believe in you at UGA,” said Payne.

Donors and UGA administrators showed their support at the Nov. 21 ribbon cutting ceremony on Reed Quad, which featured speakers, a professional clothing fashion show and a tour of the new closet in Room 101 of Milledge Hall.

“We are always looking for opportunities to remove barriers for students,” said Victor K.Wilson, vice president for student affairs. “With this initiative, students can focus on being their typical best—and not how they’re dressed.”

Christina Thomas modeled an outfit at the event featuring a blazer and skirt through the student modeling organization, the Agency.

She said she felt confident walking across the quad in front of everyone because of the clothes. She wanted her walk to communicate regardless of where a student is

financially or academically, they can feel confident because of this closet.

“When I wear something like this, I feel like I can kill any interview,” she said.

Reminiscing on the closet planning process, McDaniel shared the impact he saw during the closet’s trial period. He saw one student at the Career Fair who was able attend because of the closet.

“The student got an interview from the Career Fair and is interning with the company this summer,” he said. “If it made a difference even for that one student, this project paid off.”

“I am very proud of the way our SGA is meeting an important need for our students, and I congratulate them on what they have done,” said University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead.

For more information visit, https://sga.uga.edu/content_page/ clothing_closet.

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For a complete listing of events, check the Master Calendar on the Web (calendar.uga.edu/­).

The following events are open to the public, unless otherwise specified. Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.

EXHIBITIONS

Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldogs Football, 2017. Through Feb. 28.

Rotunda Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-6170. hasty@uga.edu.

Hye Kyung Han. Through March 8.

Visitor Center, Great Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18thCentury Italian Works on Paper. Through March 8. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

Rachel Whiteread. Through March 8.

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

Material Georgia 1733-1900: Two Decades of Scholarship. Through March 15. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean. Through March 29.

Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, page 2.)

Experiencing Cortona: Celebrating 50 Years of UGA Study Abroad. Through May 29. Hargrett Library Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. 706-583-0213. jhebbard@uga.edu.

Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome. Through Aug. 23. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MONDAY, JAN. 13

DROP/ADD DEADLINE For spring semester undergraduateand graduate-level courses.

WORKSHOP “Faculty Search Committee Training” is geared to those who are chairing or serving on a faculty search committee this year. Attendees will learn about best practices and policies that align with UGA’s mission in recruitment and about standardized faculty search procedures and garner helpful resources for the process. Attendees will develop strategies for attracting an array of highlyqualified candidates to enrich UGA’s diverse and inclusive work environment.

Register via the T&D Professional Education Portal. 9 a.m. Room L, Training and Development Center. mary.carney@uga.edu.

TURTLE POND TALK Suzie Birch will speak at the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History monthly informal talks by local scientists who work with or benefit from interactions with the Georgia Museum of Natural History. In inclement weather, meet in the nearby River Basin Center building. The Friends will provide coffee.

10 a.m. Mary Kahrs Warnell Memorial Garden and Pond. 706-542-7720. jpwares@uga.edu.

BRAND TRAINING An overview of the University of Georgia brand for external agencies and vendors who want to work with campus units.

3:30 p.m. Suite 200N, Marketing & Communications Conference Room,

YEAR OPENS WITH A COLLABORATIVE FACULTY ARTIST SERIES FEATURING JOSH BYNUM

By Camille Hayes ceh822@uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music will open the new year by continuing its Faculty Artist Series on Jan. 14 with Josh Bynum, associate professor of trombone. The concert will take place in Ramsey Hall at 7:30 p.m. with a program that The first Faculty Artist Series concert of will take a detour from Bynum’s 2020 will feature Josh Bynum, associate recent solo SEC recital tour to professor of trombone. a program of chamber music.

Bynum wanted to shift gears with this recital to have the opportunity to play with his “amazing faculty colleagues” in the Georgia Brass Quintet. The program will feature Brandon Craswell, James Naigus, David Zerkel and Philip Smith, the William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts.

“Chamber music is such a wonderful part of what we do, and being able to just enjoy making music with inspirational colleagues and friends is one of the very best things about life at the HHSOM,” said Bynum.

Wrapping up his tenth year of teaching at the School of Music, Bynum decided to revisit his first Faculty Artist Series program, aptly named “Getting by with a Little Help from my Friends,” which is how he said he still feels about working at UGA. “I am honored and feel blessed beyond all measure to share the stage with each of them, along with our world-class collaborative pianist (and dear friend) Anatoly Sheludyakov,” said Bynum.

Tickets for the performance are $12 for adults and $3 for students and children, and are available online at pac.uga.edu, by calling 706-542-4400 or in person at the box office. For those unable to attend, live streaming will be available at music.uga.edu/live-streaming.

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Hodgson Oil Building. 706-542-8051. michele.horn@uga.edu.

AWARD-WINNING PIANIST DASOL KIM TO PERFORM AT UGA ON JAN. 15

TUESDAY, JAN. 14 TOUR AT TWO Join Nelda Damiano, the Pierre Daura Curator of European Art and co-curator of the exhibition, for a special tour of Master, Pupil, Follower. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4883. madison.hogan@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15 FOUNDERS DAY LECTURE William Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, will speak on “Colonization and its Discontents.” Each January, the University of Georgia proudly celebrates its place in history as the birthplace of public higher education in America. A weeklong series of events, including the annual Founders Day Lecture, is held for the Athens and campus communities. 1:30 p.m. Chapel.

706-542-0415. pagnatta@uga.edu.

(See story, page 1.)

LECTURE “The Sustainable University Campus: Experiences from Honduras,” Jack Crowley, professor and MEPD program founder. 4:30 p.m. 123 Jackson Street Building.

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Tennessee. $15. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

THURSDAY, JAN. 16 WORKSHOP Also Jan. 17 at 9 a.m. “Introduction to Sponsored Projects” provides insight and explains the underlying theories, federal rules and regulations governing sponsored projects. Instructors also discuss the lifecycle of sponsored projects. During this two-day offering, instructors identify these foundational theories and demonstrate how they pertain to the entire award lifecycle.

Register via http://pep.uga.edu. 9 a.m.

H203, College of Veterinary Medicine. cathya15@uga.edu.

THIRD THURSDAY Eight of Athens’s established venues for visual art hold Third Thursday, an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel IndigoAthens, Ciné, the Classic Center, ATHICA and CCBC Gallery at Creature Comforts Brewing Company will be open from 6-9 p.m. to showcase their visual-arts programming. Details at 3Thurs.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 17 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FREEDOM BREAKFAST Steve C. Jones, a U.S. district judge of the Northern District of Georgia, will deliver the keynote address at the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast. It is hosted by the University of Georgia in collaboration with AthensClarke County and the Clarke County School District. The event honors the

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing award-winning pianist Dasol Kim to Athens on Jan. 15 for a 7:30 p.m. recital in Ramsey Concert Hall. He will perform a program of works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Chopin.

A native of Busan, South Korea, Kim moved to Germany to study at age 15. He has won the top prize at competitions around the world, including the 2015 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, the 2011 Epinal International Piano Competition in France and the 2010 Young Dasol Kim Concerts Artists European Auditions in Leipzig.

In 2017, he won the John Giordano Jury Chairman Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Among Kim’s musical endeavors are all 24 Chopin preludes on a single program and the complete cycle of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in Switzerland and Korea over a four-year period. As a concerto soloist, he has given performances with the New York Philharmonic in Seoul, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony and Belgium National Orchestra, among others.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

Ramsey Concert Hall is located in the UGA Performing Arts Center at 230 River Road in Athens. legacy of the late civil rights leader, recognizing individuals in the community whose work has made significant contributions regarding race relations, justice and human rights with the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award. This year’s event is sold out. 8 a.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center.

WEBINAR “Faculty Search Committee Training” is geared to those who are chairing or serving on a faculty search committee this year. Attendees will learn about best practices and policies that align with UGA’s mission in recruitment. Attendees will learn about standardized faculty search procedures and garner helpful resources for the process. Attendees will develop strategies for attracting an array of highly-qualified candidates.

Limited to 12 participants. Zoom link provided once registered via the Professional Education Portal. Noon. mary.carney@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, JAN. 19 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Auburn. $5. 2 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

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, JAN. 20 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HOLIDAY No classes; offices closed.

GYMNASTICS vs. Iowa State. $10. 2 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

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MEN’S TENNIS vs. Kennesaw State University. 2 p.m.

Magill Tennis Complex.

TUESDAY, JAN. 21 TOUR AT TWO Tour, led by docents, of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m.

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

ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPEAKER SERIES Speaker: David Tann, founder and creative director for Tantrum Agency.

5:30 p.m. Studio 225. 706-247-5311. megan.henning@uga.edu.

CONCERT Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will perform works by French composers. $35-$55; $10 for students. 7:30 p.m.

Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu.

COMING UP FILM SERIES: ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN COLOR Jan. 23. This series features three films in which Hitchcock uses color to further the meaning and ideas of his films. Each screening will be introduced by Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Rope is one of Hitchcock’s greatest technical achievements, using innovative recording and editing techniques.

1948, 81 min. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

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Lynn Sanders-Bustle, chair and associate professor of art education in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, was named Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Georgia Art Education Association. She received her award at the fall 2019 Georgia Art Education Association State Conference, held Nov. 14-17 at Young Harris College.

The Georgia Art Education Association is a professional organization of art educators Lynn in Georgia affiliated with the Sanders-Bustle National Art Education Association. The mission of the Georgia Art Education Association is to advocate for the highest quality visual arts education and provide for the advancement of knowledge through service, leadership and research.

Sanders-Bustle holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in art education from East Carolina and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. She has taught art at all levels of the PK-12 public school spectrum. Prior to coming to UGA, she was director of programs at Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art where she oversaw curatorial and education programs.

The Association for Career and Technical Education has named Elizabeth Andress, professor and Cooperative Extension specialist in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, its 2019 Region II Postsecondary Teacher of the Year.

This award recognizes the finest career and technical teachers at the postsecondary level who have demonstrated innovation in the classroom, commitment to their students and dedication Elizabeth Andress to the improvement of career and technical education in their institution and communities. Andress was one of five finalists for the 2020 national title.

ACTE is the nation’s largest not-for-profit association committed to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for successful careers. ACTE represents the community of CTE professionals, including educators, administrators, researchers, school counselors, guidance and career development professionals and others at all levels of education.

Andress has been a food safety specialist with UGA Cooperative Extension since 1994 and is a professor in the foods and nutrition department.

Dr. Fred Reifsteck, longtime team physician for the UGA Athletic Association, was recently named the Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year. The award is voted on by the sports medicine staffs of the league’s member institutions.

Prior to joining the staff at the University Health Center in 2003, Reifsteck received his medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board certified in family medicine with a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine.

Along with his role as team physician for the UGA Athletic Association, Reifsteck also currently serves as the lead physician for Medical Clinic Red/ Sports Medicine at the University Health Center.

Reifsteck will present at this year’s SEC Sports Medicine Meeting in April as the keynote speaker and will additionally present and be recognized at the Southern Orthopaedic Association SEC Sports Medicine Meeting in May. Kudos recognizes special contributions of staff, faculty and administrators in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election into office of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes; and similarly notable accomplishments.

FACULTY PROFILE

Dorothy Kozlowski

Sandra Mayson’s research focuses on bail reform, pretrial detention, algorithmic risk assessment tools and more.

School of Law faculty member explores intersections between law and theory

By Heidi Murphy

hmurphy@uga.edu

“I loved representing people charged with crime. … I found that sitting face to face with a human being who was in a bad situation and being a zealous advocate for that person was thrilling, gratifying and challenging,” Sandra G. “Sandy” Mayson said of her time as an attorney with Orleans Public Defenders in New Orleans.“It was work that I loved.”

It was also a job that allowed her to see the “injustices and unfairness” of our country’s criminal justice system, which serves as the basis for her research.

“I would like for the criminal justice system not to perpetrate profound injustice every day in the way it has been doing, and I want to play a role in making the system more coherent and just,” she said.

Mayson believes there needs to be more clarity about what the criminal justice system needs to achieve and the best ways to do it and considers the theme of her scholarship as “examining preventive interference with liberty and preventive restraint.”

A frequent question she asks is: When is the government justified in incarcerating someone to prevent a future crime or otherwise restricting someone’s liberty to prevent a future crime?

“Criminalization and punishment have some preventative effect, but it is not the best public safety tool in every situation,” she said.

Her world-class scholarship addresses bail reform, pretrial detention, algorithmic risk assessment tools used

to determine bail and empirical studies about misdemeanor crime rates across our country. Mayson’s work has been published in premier law journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review and the Notre Dame Law Review. Last year, this thought leader was presented with the Association of American Law Schools Section on Criminal Justice Junior Scholar Award for her Yale Law Journal article “Bias In, Bias Out.” In the award-winning piece, Mayson acknowledged that algorithmic risk assessment is increasingly used in the criminal justice system to estimate the likelihood that a person will commit future crime and that these assessments tend to have disparate racial impact. She argued that the problem is not algorithmic methodology, however, but rather the nature of prediction: “All prediction looks to the past to make guesses about future events. In a racially stratified world, any method of prediction will project the inequalities of the past into the future. This is as true of the subjective prediction that has long pervaded criminal justice as of the algorithmic tools now replacing it. Algorithmic risk assessment has revealed the inequality inherent in all prediction, forcing us to confront a problem much larger than the challenges of a new technology.”

Relatedly, Mayson serves as an associate reporter for the national Uniform Law Commission on a “model bail” act—officially called the Alternatives to Bail Act—with the goal of creating a uniform law addressing pretrial release and detention to be implemented across our nation. She is currently coauthoring a paper evaluating bail practices in

FACTS Sandra G. Mayson

Assistant Professor of Law School of Law J.D., New York University, 2009 B.A., Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2003 At UGA: 2½ years

Georgia in the wake of recent statewide reforms. She is also playing an instrumental role in connecting fellow criminal justice colleagues across the UGA campus via a newly established listserv and the creation of a brown bag series.

After holding fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the New York University School of Law, Mayson sought the opportunity to come to UGA and the School of Law due to its “genuine” and “dynamic” atmosphere. When she visited campus, she “could tell the entire school felt like a community.”

Mayson said her conversations with her criminal law and evidence students reflect that sentiment and that they also help to “illuminate” questions in the law and aid her in better understanding “where the law is clear and where the areas of ambiguity are.”

Her goal is to “empower” her students to learn the law and to equip them to have the same relationship with the law that she does—where they will appreciate it, engage with it and deploy it as experts and practitioners.

“That is a gift I would love to be able to give them,” she said.

OBITUARY Ivery Clifton

Ivery Dwight Clifton, a former senior administrator and professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Georgia, died Jan. 1. He was 76.

During his 27 years at UGA, Clifton served the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as a professor, department head and division chair of agricultural economics; interim dean and coordinator; and senior associate dean.

He also served at the university level as associate vice president for academic affairs. Upon his retirement in 2003, Clifton was granted professor emeritus status in agricultural economics.

“Dr. Clifton provided extraordinary leadership and service in many important roles at the University of Georgia,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “He will forever be remembered for his valuable contributions.”

Clifton, a native Georgian, was the first African American to serve at the dean level in the University of Georgia, holding the position of interim dean and coordinator from Ivery Clifton 1994 to 1995 in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. During his time as interim dean, he emphasized the value and need for strategic planning and for diversity among the college’s faculty and clients.

He supported the Young Scholars Program, which took flight under the enthusiastic, insightful leadership of his wife, Pat. Last year, the program celebrated 30 years of successfully

attracting minority students to the college and to agricultural science careers.

Clifton’s career was rooted in the fields of agricultural economics and university administration. He served in positions spanning the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and the University of Georgia.

He joined UGA’s department of agricultural economics in 1976 as an assistant professor after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.

He went on to earn a certificate in higher education management from the Harvard Business School Executive Education program in 1982.

Prior to his UGA career, Clifton earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Tuskegee University and spent six years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.

—Faith Peppers

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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From left: D.W. Brooks Award of Excellence recipients Marc van Iersel, the Vincent J. Dooley Professor of Horticulture; Lori Purcell Bledsoe, Georgia 4-H program development coordinator for Northwest Georgia and Alfredo Martinez-Espinoza, professor of plant pathology, are congratulated by CAES Dean and Director Sam Pardue.

CAES celebrates leaders behind solutions for feeding the planet at awards ceremony

By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

The students and faculty of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences recently celebrated the progress that agriculture has made in the past 50 years and the promise of innovations to come.

As part of the annual D.W. Brooks Lecture and Awards on Nov. 12, the college recognized four of its most innovative and dedicated faculty members with a 2019 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence.

“These winners have been nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of judges, and they represent some of the most noteworthy scientists and Extension professionals in the college,” said CAES Dean and Director Sam Pardue.

Marc van Iersel, the Vincent J. Dooley Professor of Horticulture, received the Brooks Award for Excellence in Research for his work in the area of energy efficiency and water-efficient irrigation in greenhouses and nurseries.

Patricia J. Moore, professor and senior teaching fellow in the entomology department, received the Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her innovative instruction employs a laser focus on including and encouraging all students, especially those underrepresented in STEM fields, to pursue scientific careers.

Alfredo Martinez-Espinoza, a professor in the plant pathology department, received the Brooks Award for Excellence in Extension. He was recognized for his development of a dynamic Extension and applied research program that focuses on the management of new and

recurring diseases of turfgrass, small grains and non-legume forages. The program also delivers relevant information to stakeholders and fellow Extension professionals.

Lori Purcell Bledsoe, Northwest District 4-H program development coordinator, received the Brooks Award in Public Service Extension. She was honored for her work leading youth development efforts on the national level and her success expanding the number of young people served by Georgia 4-H across northeast Georgia.

Presented since 1983, the D.W. Brooks Faculty Awards for Excellence include a framed certificate and a $5,000 cash award. This year’s awards were presented at a luncheon proceeding the D.W. Brooks Lecture. In addition to celebrating this year’s awards recipients, CAES students and faculty were challenged in the D.W. Brooks Lecture by Ambassador Ertharin Cousin to tackle the necessary but hard work of helping to double the world’s food supply by 2050.

“There is nothing shameful, unrealistic or naïve about wanting a better world,” Cousin said. “Creating a global food system that fuels our human health and supports our planetary health is possible and achievable. (If) you still say it’s impossible; Nelson Mandela said, ‘It always seems impossible until it is done.’

“Getting it done requires acting collectively and universally at every level,” she also said. “But it must begin with each one of us overcoming our personal fears, our own personal xenophobia and our own personal resistance to change.”

For a video of Cousin’s full address, visit youtu.be/DYtGCUnJhwk. More information is at dwbrooks.caes.uga.edu.

WEEKLY READER

Book examines cause of ‘Great Contraction’ The gold standard is often blamed for causing “the Great Contraction”— the unprecedented collapse of the U.S. money stock that began after the 1929 stock market crash and led to the Great Depression.

In Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed, pre-eminent monetary historians Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard H. Timberlake thoroughly refute that claim. Instead, they identify the culprit as a now relatively unknown, but once highly influential, theory: the Real Bills Doctrine.

The Fed’s failure to stem the Great Contraction was due, not to any shortage of gold, but to Fed officials’ devotion Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, to a doctrine that made them unwilling and the Fed: Sources of to make full use of the U.S’s ample gold Monetary Disorder, 1922–1938 reserves.

Thomas M. Humphrey and According to the publisher, it is the Richard H. Timberlake only book in the economic literature devoted to the Real Bills Doctrine and Cato Institute its logic, history, strengths, weaknesses Hardback: $21.21 and role in policy debates.

Paperback: $14.13 Timberlake is a emeritus professor of Ebook: $12.99 economics at Terry College.

are grateful for the support of Dan Cathy and Pinewood Forest, the Georgia Film Academy and the University System of Georgia Board of Regents in helping us to establish it.”

There are nearly 45,800 direct motion picture and television industry jobs in Georgia, according to the Motion Picture Association. In the 2019 fiscal year, which ended June 30, Georgia hosted 391 projects that had a direct in-state spend of $2.9 billion, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

“As Georgia continues to grow as a world leader in film and TV production, UGA will help to meet our state’s critical need for world-class writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors and other key personnel for years to come,” said Charles N. Davis, dean of Grady College.

The new MFA Film program is a significant addition to the university’s already strong educational offerings related to the film and television industry, including Grady College’s entertainment and media studies major and Franklin College’s film studies major.

“This program is an important step in the evolution of film studies at UGA as we continue to broaden our students’ creative abilities,” said Alan Dorsey, dean of Franklin College. “The collaboration between Franklin College and Grady College will produce many new imaginative projects and prepare a new generation of graduate students for exciting careers in global media.”

The MFA Film program will matriculate its cohort in fall 2020. Applications will be accepted until Feb. 15, 2020, and can be viewed at mfafilm.uga.edu.

UGA’s MFA Film program is the only master of fine arts program in film production at a public university in Georgia. It will be offered to students at a tuition rate comparable to that of other graduate programs at the university, making it one of the most financially accessible programs of its caliber in the country.

Students are expected to range from recent graduates to those who have worked in the industry for a few years and are looking for a new challenge.

The MFA Film program will be a two-year (six-semester), 62-credithour program culminating in capstone experiences and professional internships.

During the first year of the program, students will study on the University

of Georgia campus in Athens and take courses focused on writing for the screen, producing, directing, film history, audio production and lighting, among others.

During the second year, students will work on capstone projects and internships while living at Pinewood Forest, a 235-acre master-planned residential and mixed-use development. Second-year courses are expected to include advanced writing, advanced production, advanced directing, computer animation and thesis films.

“The vision for Pinewood has always been to create an extraordinary environment for the next generation of creators, storytellers and entrepreneurs,” said Dan Cathy, Pinewood Atlanta Studios owner, who has helped make the MFA program possible through personal financial support and accommodation at Pinewood Forest.

“We are thrilled to partner with Jeffrey Stepakoff, President Morehead, Dean Davis and everyone involved by hosting these inspiring students and faculty at Pinewood.”

The MFA Film program will feature student-created films and television projects produced in collaboration with industry professionals each year.

Fundamentals and advanced courses in film and television production will be taught in partnership with the Georgia Film Academy, efficiently utilizing existing resources in the state’s acclaimed workforce program.

“Along with providing affordable, accessible, high quality training, this critical new professional degree program will help ensure that Georgia has its own complete and sustainable entertainment industry,” said Jeffrey Stepakoff, executive director of the Georgia Film Academy.

Industry-related workshops and lectures also will be sponsored by the program. As the program grows, partnerships will be established with additional professional production sites in Georgia.

The MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media is added to a stable of existing MFA programs at the university. An MFA in narrative nonfiction, which includes a screenwriting track, was launched in Grady College in 2015.

Within Franklin College, the Lamar Dodd School of Art offers a studio art MFA, and the department of theatre and film studies offers a pre-professional MFA with concentrations in acting; scenic, lighting and costume design; and dramatic media.

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One Stop Shop centralizes customer service

tps.uga.edu/one-stop-shop-centralization UGA Auxiliary Services is centralizing all customer service functions for its units at the One Stop Shop at Tate Plaza. The move will provide a more streamlined customer service experience in a central campus location.

The location’s proximity to the Tate bus stop also makes it easy for customers to access via UGA Campus Transit.

On Dec. 16, customer service representatives located in the Transportation and Parking Services office at Joe Frank Harris joined this centralized team.

The Auxiliary Services One Stop Shop’s centralized staff will be able to assist with matters related to the UGA Bookstore, Dining Services, Golf Course, Transportation & Parking Services and Vending Services.

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

The University of Georgia is a unit of the University System of Georgia.

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with his project, “Establishing a New Animal Model to Assess Influenza-Tuberculosis CoInfection and Vaccination.”

“These are complicated questions,” said Quinn, UGA Athletic Association Professor of Infectious Diseases, head of the infectious diseases department in the College of Veterinary Medicine and adjunct professor in the microbiology department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. “Because we are not making sufficient progress in our efforts to control TB transmission, you’ve got to look at it from a much broader perspective.

The only way to make this work is to have hands in the mix from different disciplines.”

To do that, researchers are looking at the newly identified connection between influenza and the transmission of TB with the hope that the research could lead to a vaccine geared toward stopping the spread of TB. The project will take approximately a year, and the researchers are getting ready to start testing in February.

Quinn will be working with his son, Shannon, an assistant professor of computer science in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, to analyze ciliary motion in respiratory tracts.

The research team also includes Steve Divers, Ankita Garg,Tuhina Gupta, Russ Karls, Balazs Rada, Ted Ross and Kaori Sakamoto (College of Veterinary Medicine); Steve Harvey (Office of Research); Christopher Whalen (College of Public Health) and external collaborators.

Brian Bledsoe’s project, “Building a National Center of Excellence for Nature-Based Infrastructure Solutions,” is an expansion of the already interdisciplinary work of the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems.The goal of the project is to advance the science of using “natural infrastructure” to protect communities and ecosystems. Examples include marshes that protect coastlines from storms, river floodplains that reduce damage to downstream communities during floods, and forests that purify drinking water. The researchers are hosting three workshops that they hope will lead to partnerships with municipalities and industry and then to policies and protocols for effective implementation of nature-based solutions to floods, droughts and other disruptions.

“We are trying to bring together the scattered pieces of information about natural infrastructure and turn them into knowledge,” said Bledsoe, UGA Athletic Association Professor in Resilient Infrastructure in the College of Engineering.

Bledsoe is working with Jon Calabria and Brian Orland (College of Environment and Design), Susana Ferreira and Craig Landry (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences), Rhett Jackson and Nathan Nibbelink (Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources), Shana Jones and Scott Pippin (Carl Vinson Institute of Government, a Public Service and Outreach unit), Don Nelson and Marshall Shepherd (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences), Mark Risse (Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, a Public Service and Outreach unit), Amy Rosemond (Odum School of Ecology) and Meredith Welch-Divine (Graduate School).

The research team aims to further establish UGA as a national leader in this area by creating a Center of Excellence for Nature-Based Infrastructure Solutions and is pursuing grants in cooperative research, coastal resilience and water infrastructure.

“Mitigating Emerging Disease Impacts in Fisheries: Adaptive Strategies to Ensure a Safe, Healthy Seafood Supply,” led by Jeb Byers, is bringing researchers together to organize a series of workshops to synthesize the existing literature on fisheries diseases, develop flexible modeling approaches for predicting and managing disease outbreaks in fisheries and then use the data and theories collected as a prompt for additional research. The second phase of their work aims to develop a predictive model to provide a new tool for studying black gill disease in shrimp.

“It’s been very valuable to pull on the outside expertise of the others in the group and broaden the way we’re thinking about things,” said Byers, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Odum School of Ecology.

The research team also includes Thomas Bliss (Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, a Public Service and Outreach unit), Al Camus (College of Veterinary Medicine), Marc Frischer (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences), Richard Hall and Pej Rohani (College of Veterinary Medicine and Odum School of Ecology), Brian Irwin (Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources), Erin Lipp (College of Public Health), Craig Osenberg (Odum School of Ecology), John Wares (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and Odum School of Ecology) and graduate student Megan Tomamichel (Odum School of Ecology).

The project already has led to a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The team plans to submit another grant application to NOAA and two more to the National Science Foundation, one of which is already in review with the NSF. Additional proposals that received Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant funding include: • “Overcoming Physical Distances with the Virtual Family Room: Virtual and Augmented Reality Communication Platforms for Deployed Military Families” Sun Joo “Grace” Ahn (primary investigator, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication), Kyle Johnson (College of Engineering), Catherine O’Neal (College of Family and Consumer Sciences) and Dawn Robinson (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences).

• “Creating a Healthier Georgia through Diabetes Prevention” Alison Berg (primary investigator) and Joan Koonce (College of Family and Consumer Sciences) and Ellen Evans (College of Education).

• “Anticipating the Regional and Global Impacts of Next-Generation Vehicle Engine Technologies” Rawad Saleh (primary investigator) and Brandon Rotavera (College of Engineering); Amanda Frossard, Gabriel Kooperman and Geoffrey Smith (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences).

• “Impact of the School and Surrounding Environment on Implementation of Georgia’s Statewide Childhood Obesity Policy” Janani Thapa (primary investigator), Marsha Davis, Jennifer Gay, Justin Ingles and Donglan “Stacy” Zhang (College of Public Health); Lan Mu (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences); Michael Schmidt (College of Education); Chen Zhen (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) and external collaborators.

BUSES

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A fleet of 33 electric buses will significantly lower life-cycle costs for the university. The expected useful life of electric buses far exceeds the 12-year standard for diesel buses.

Fuel costs will decrease by approximately 90%, and with no internal combustion engine or transmission, maintenance costs will be drastically reduced as well.

Having a large fleet of electric buses on campus also creates opportunities for faculty and students to use field assets in their research and studies. UGA Auxiliary Services has partnered with the College of Engineering to work with four student teams as they complete capstone projects related to electric bus technology. Auxiliary Services also has

partnered with the college on proposals for two transportation-related National Science Foundation grants. These projects have the potential to advance electric bus technology and improve lives through better transportation worldwide.

“The positive benefits that come from receiving this grant are remarkable,” said Robert Holden, associate vice president for Auxiliary Services. “In addition to reducing costs and contributing to research, advancing electric bus technology on our campus will allow us to provide better, cleaner transportation for the community by significantly reducing the university’s greenhouse gas emissions.”

The additional buses are anticipated to be purchased within the year.

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had at UGA because she learned so much from the incoming students.

“We know that as Bulldogs, we will be productive and educated members of society,” she said. “We will shatter glass ceilings and be kind to one another. We will give others an opportunity because someone took a chance on us.”

Libby V. Morris, who delivered the address to the 327 doctoral candidates and 936 students receiving their master’s or specialist degrees, is no stranger to transition at UGA. The Zell B. Miller Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and director of UGA’s Institute of Higher Education has twice served as interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019.

She left the graduates with four pieces of advice as they start the next phase of their lives: show gratitude, embrace opportunities, appreciate the people who walk the path with you and commit to taking action.

“I hope your pathway forward is filled with a sense of gratitude, valued colleagues, meaningful opportunities and responsible action,” she said. “By following your passion, you will write your life’s best story.”

UGA President Jere W. Morehead welcomed the university’s newest alumni and shared how their degrees have prepared

them to make a difference in all they do.

“Whatever your field, your UGA education has prepared you to use your knowledge to improve lives, strengthen communities, and, indeed, change the world. That is how you carry on the land-grant tradition of this great university,” Morehead said. “While the degree you have earned and the opportunities you have experienced here will certainly help you achieve your personal goals, you are now equipped to become part of something larger than yourselves, to make a positive impact.”

A total of 3,062 undergraduate and graduate students met requirements to walk in the university’s fall Commencement ceremonies, held Dec. 13. Thirteen students were recognized as First Honor Graduates during the undergraduate exercises for maintaining a 4.0 cumulative GPA in all work completed at UGA as well as all college-level transfer work prior to or following enrollment at the university.

Additionally, Sanford H. Orkin received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from UGA during the undergraduate ceremony. Orkin and his late wife, Barbara, both attended UGA. The university also awarded a posthumous degree to Kayon Joy Lindsay, a Specialist in Education degree in Educational Administration and Policy.

MEDAL

from page 1 A professor emeritus of public administration and policy, Lauth retired from UGA in 2013. He was a faculty member at UGA from 1981 to 2013, serving as head of the department of political science from 1988 to 2001 before becoming dean.

Under Lauth’s leadership, SPIA quickly gained a reputation for excellence with world-renowned faculty, two research centers, multiple study abroad programs and highly successful students and alumni. Its public affairs graduate program was ranked third in the nation and first among public universities.

An outstanding scholar and educator, Lauth taught courses, delivered lectures and presented papers in China, Korea, Taiwan and Ukraine. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and invited book chapters.

During his years as an active faculty member, he directed 30 Ph.D. dissertations. In 2010, he delivered the 100th anniversary graduate Commencement Address at UGA. Lauth is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and the recipient of a lifetime scholarly achievement award from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management. He was elected president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and was appointed to the U.S. Comptroller General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel, advising the comptroller general on the top fiscal challenges facing the nation.

Since his retirement, Lauth has continued to contribute to the academic culture of UGA as an Emeriti Scholar. He also served as president of the UGA Retirees Association and as UGA’s representative to the University System of Georgia Retiree Council.

Among his contributions to the local community, Lauth represented District 7 on the Athens-Clarke County Citizens Advisory Committee that reviewed all Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax 2020 projects.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Notre Dame and his doctorate in political science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Founders Week

The President’s Medal ceremony is part of Founders Week, when UGA observes its anniversary as the birthplace of public higher education in America.

The Founders Day Lecture will be held Jan. 15 at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel. William Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, will speak on “Colonization and Its Discontents.”

The Founders Day Lecture is traditionally held on or near the date the university was established: Jan. 27. On this day in 1785, the Georgia General Assembly adopted a charter establishing the University of Georgia as the first institution of public higher education in America.

The lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars, a group of retired faculty members known for their teaching abilities who continue to enhance the university’s academic endeavors through part-time teaching, research and service assignments.

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Active Learning Summer Institute applications

Hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Active Learning Summer Institute is an intensive course (re)design experience for full-time faculty from across campus.

This year’s Institute will run May 18-June 4 with a single cohort of 24 faculty. During these three weeks, faculty will engage in face-to-face sessions focused on successful integration of active learning strategies into specific courses.

Following the Institute, participants will continue to receive support from the CTL through one-on-one consultations and a mid-semester formative evaluation.

Faculty selected for the institute will receive $7,500. Applications are due on Jan. 31. The full call for applications and a link to the ALSI 2020 application form is at http://bit.ly/UGA2020ALSI.

MS study participants

The kinesiology department in the College of Education is recruiting participants for a study of people with multiple sclerosis.

Contact Megan Ware at mew77577@uga.edu for more information.

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