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2018 STATE of the UNIVERSITY President Jere W. Morehead will deliver the 2018 State of the University address to the campus community Jan. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. The speech will streamed live at president.uga.edu/progress.

UGA helps address health care needs in rural communities

By Christopher James chtjames@uga.edu

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Student volunteers with ServeUGA and staff from the Center for Leadership and Service worked at 17 sites across Athens for the 2018 MLK Day of Service.

‘Greater good’

ServeUGA and community volunteers join forces on Martin Luther King Day of Service

By Kellyn Amodeo

kwamodeo@uga.edu

On Jan. 15, people across the nation celebrated the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in the MLK Day of Service, the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service. Organized by a committee within Athens-Clarke County, the local effort brought more than 800 volunteers out on a chilly Monday morning to serve the community.

“One of Dr. King’s messages was to get out and be neighborly—to meet people, help people and do

things for the greater good,” said Stacee Farrell, executive director of Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful. “Our community isn’t that large, and service days like this are a great way for people to learn more about Athens and understand the challenges we face.”

Volunteers served at 17 sites across Athens, from local cemeteries to shelters to food banks.

Among those volunteers was Emily Stone, a third-year UGA political science and international affairs major who is also working toward a Master in Public Administration. Stone volunteered on behalf of ServeUGA, a student

organization focused on promoting a culture of service to students.

Stone, the director of outreach for the organization, had always wanted to give back.

“Growing up, I always wanted to help others, but I never felt I had the capacity to make a real impact in my community,” she said.

“ServeUGA was the perfect opportunity to discover myself through service and to connect others with a service-oriented lifestyle.”

Housed in the Division of Student Affairs Center for Leadership and Service, ServeUGA is a small organization with a large impact See SERVICE on page 8

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES

This is part of a series of stories about UGA and economic development in rural Georgia.

When Pulaski County became part of UGA’s Archway Partnership program, a public service and outreach unit, in 2009, it faced the same challenges as many rural communities: jobs, workforce development, infrastructure and health care.

In Pulaski County, residents identified health care as a top priority. Access to urgent care was one specific need; helping health care leaders identify and begin address-

ing community health challenges, like readmissions and opioid abuse, was another need.

A Community Health Needs Assessment, or CHNA, facilitated by faculty and students at UGA, showed that the county needed an alternative to visiting the emergency room at Taylor Regional Healthcare, the local hospital. Taylor Express Care, which has extended hours compared to a typical doctor’s office, was the answer.

Today, the clinic averages about 15 patients a day and emergency room visits are down almost 23 percent, from nearly See RURAL on page 8

DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS

UGA celebrates 233rd year with weeklong series of events

By Kelundra Smith kelundra@uga.edu

The University of Georgia will observe its anniversary as the birthplace of public higher education in America Jan. 22-26, and the UGA Alumni Association will celebrate the occasion by hosting a weeklong series of events, including the 16th annual Founders Day Lecture Jan. 22 at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences, will present

the lecture, “Partly Sunny or Partly Cloudy? The Challenges of Communicating Science to Non-Scientists.”

Shepherd is the director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program and full professor in the geography department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, where he is associate department head.

He chairs the NASA Earth Sciences Advisory Committee and is a former member of the Earth Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council.

See FOUNDERS on page 8

Five authors selected for induction CAES, REGENERATIVE BIOSCIENCE CENTER into Georgia Writers Hall of Fame UGA professor named to most recent class of NAI Fellows

By Jean Cleveland jclevela@uga.edu

Five authors comprise the 2018 class of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductees.

Michael Bishop, Tayari Jones and Furman Bisher Cynthia Shearer will be admitted at the November ceremony; Furman Bisher and Frances Newman will be honored posthumously.

The University of Georgia

By Allyson Mann tiny@uga.edu

Michael Bishop

Tayari Jones

Libraries began the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000 to honor Georgia writers and to introduce the public to the library’s collections for research into Georgia

Frances Newman

Cynthia Shearer

literature and cultural history.

• Furman Bisher, a prolific and highly regarded sportswriter and editor became sports editor at the See WRITERS on page 8

The National Academy of Inventors has named a University of Georgia faculty member who is a leading researcher in regenerative medicine to the 2017 class of NAI Fellows.

Steven Stice, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and director of the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center, joins an elite group of 912 innovators

representing more than 250 prestigious research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutions.

Election to Steven Stice NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction accorded to academic inventors

See FELLOW on page 8

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Commit to Georgia 2018

Name: Jenny Dutton Ramsey Position: Financial and human resource director for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences At UGA: 12 years Jenny Dutton Ramsey

Beneficiary of her gift to the university: Terry College MBA Program and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences Why she contributes: “I’m a first-generation college graduate. I would not have had this opportunity without the generosity of alumni and friends of UGA. I feel privileged and blessed to pass along this generosity. Small parts add up to big results.”

Source: Office of Development

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

International students now majority in STEM graduate programs in US

The National Foundation for American Policy, a nonprofit organization focusing on issues relating to immigration, the economy and international trade, released a report in October 2017 about the number of international students enrolled in STEM graduate programs at American universities.

The report looked at full-time enrollment in graduate programs between 1995 and 2015.

In programs such as electrical engineering, computer science and civil engineering, international students make up the vast majority. In 2015, for example, 81 percent of the 40,519 graduate students enrolled in electrical engineering master’s and doctoral programs were foreign students. In computer science programs, 79 percent of the 58,329 students are international.

The report argues that foreign students are vital to keeping these programs in American universities, even as American students flock to other disciplines. Additionally, they are critical to continued research and research support at U.S. institutions.

Take steps to protect your personally identifiable information from phishers

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The University of Georgia is committed to protecting the personally identifiable information of its students, faculty and staff as its first and foremost business requirement for all IT systems. ...Avoid, if at all possible, the receipt, transmission or storage of sensitive or restricted information, such as Social Security numbers or credit card numbers. If handling this information is required for business purposes, the university has made tools available to all units, discussed at http://infosec.uga. edu, that will reduce the risks associated with handling this information.

Compromised computer passwords obtained through phishing or other fraudulent means pose significant risks for UGA. Malware-based computer infections through casual Web browsing (or email) are also growing at an alarming rate. The best defense is aggressive adoption of ArchPass two-step login for accessing all UGA technology platforms. Mandatory ArchPassbased logins for eLC, Athena and the Employee Self-Service site will be required later this semester. More communications about this rollout will be forthcoming. Anyone who has not signed up for ArchPass should visit archpass. uga.edu and enroll today.

UGA has other tools available to mitigate malware-based information security risks. For more information on these resources, visit http://infosec.uga.edu and click on Tools, or contact Ben Myers, UGA’s chief information security officer, by email at bmyers@uga.edu.

Source: UGA ArchNews email

2018 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FREEDOM BREAKFAST

Speaker: Education is essential to realizing King’s dream of equality

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

It’s been over 50 years since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech “I Have a Dream,” in which he foretold a nation united in the belief that all are created equal.

But his is a dream that has not yet been achieved, said Cheryl Davenport Dozier, president of Savannah State University and the keynote speaker of the 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast Jan. 12.

“On April 3 (1968), he gave that other speech, that prophetic dream he had, that dream that he had been to the mountaintop. ... He said something on that day that I think permeates where we are today,” Dozier said. “He said, ‘There are difficult days ahead, but as a people we will get to the promised land.’ ” Dozier challenged those attending the breakfast that commemorates King’s life and legacy to determine what role they wish to play in getting the nation to that mountaintop, saying that “liberty and justice for all” cannot simply be something that is said but rather something for which everyone must fight.

“The greatest injustice is that every young person in this world does not receive a quality education,” she said.

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Pictured, from left, are keynote speaker Cheryl Davenport Dozier, award recipient Gregory Roseboro, award recipient Natalie Morean, award recipient the Rev. Winfred Martin Hope and UGA President Jere W. Morehead.

“Because, you see, I believe that education is the great equalizer. I believe that it is what makes a difference.”

As the 13th president of Savannah State, Dozier’s mission has been to see her students from “matriculation to graduation,” establishing a program that provides financial support to students to ensure they successfully graduate and performing research that helps find ways to promote health in underserved communities.

At the breakfast, the university also recognized three individuals for their

dedication to making King’s dream of equality and justice a reality.

Natalie Morean, a third-year student in human development and family sciences; Gregory Roseboro, executive director of admissions and diversity programs for UGA’s School of Law; and the Rev. Dr. Winfred Martin Hope, who currently serves as pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church West in Athens, were awarded the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award for their work in advancing issues of human rights and race relations.

SCHOOL OF LAW

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

By Heidi Murphy

By Matt Weeks

New scholars program to UGA will host Artists’ enhance legal education Rights Symposium hmurphy@uga.edu

The University of Georgia School of Law has created a Benham Scholars Program, which will focus on helping to maintain and increase diversity in the legal profession.

The program is named in honor of Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham, who was a first-year law student 50 years ago and became the law school’s second African-American graduate in 1970.

“Throughout our state and nation, there are young people who work hard and dream about success but have difficulty overcoming certain obstacles, financial or otherwise,” Benham said. “If this program can help even a fraction of them attend law school and have the chance for a successful legal career, we will have made an impact. I am of course honored by this incredible recognition and look forward to watching this new program change young lives.”

The Benham Scholars Program is funded as part of the New Approaches in Diversity and Inclusion initiative announced

by UGA President Jere W. Morehead last semester. Private donations received from the Office of the President will be matched by private law school funding to support the program, which will focus on four key areas: recruitment, preparation for law school, academic support and career planning.

“One of our goals as an institution of legal education is to ensure our student body, and ultimately the new lawyers who enter the profession, is reflective of today’s society,” law school Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge said. “We know that for some academically qualified students, barriers still exist to entering law school.

“Some of these are financial, and others are tied to access to information and support,” he also said. “Through the Benham Scholars Program, we hope to give these young men and women the opportunity to thrive both in law school and in their careers.”

The first Benham Scholars will be admitted to the law school for the 2018-19 academic year.

In addition to the Benham Scholars Program, the law school has announced the appointment of a new associate dean for strategic initiatives—Mehrsa Baradaran, who will serve as the faculty liaison on diversity and inclusion issues.

Baradaran recently achieved international acclaim for her books How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy and The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. “We are thrilled Mehrsa has agreed to assume these new responsibilities. Her background, experience and research afford her a unique perspective on our diversity and inclusion efforts as we strive to build upon the progress we have made in recent years,” Rutledge said.

mweeks@uga.edu

A symposium on artists’ rights in the music industry will be held at UGA from Jan. 22-23, featuring musicians, producers, filmmakers, law enforcement and elected officials.

Sponsored by the Music Business Program at UGA’s Terry College of Business, “Who You Gonna Call? Artists’ Rights Symposium” is open free to the public.

Panel discussions covering four main themes will include artists’ rights advocacy, whether the status quo is harming artists, the soft power of cultural diplomacy and copyright law enforcement.

“I wanted this conference to do something different,” said conference organizer David Lowery, a musician and UGA faculty member. “I’ve been to a number of these symposia on music business and copyright law, but they tend to be held by law schools and the framework is more about public policy versus public welfare, so the artists’ rights perspective isn’t considered as much.”

To draw a broad perspective of the music industry and artists’ rights in the digital era, the symposium will feature noted creative professionals, elected officials and law enforcement representatives. Confirmed panelists include producer T Bone Burnett, songwriter Amanda Williams, U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, state Rep. Spencer Frye, Peter Ratcliffe of the economic crime unit of the City of London Police and FBI supervisory agent Kevin Phelan.

Jonathan Taplin, author, film producer and director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, will deliver the keynote address at 11:45 a.m.

“Our goal is to get more people involved in the discussion, including people who play a very big role in the way that artists’ rights are handled,” Lowery said.

The event is free; however, registration is encouraged by RSVPing to the conference organizers. More information is available on the symposium’s website.

The symposium begins with an evening reception Jan. 22 at the 40 Watt Club in downtown Athens. Panel discussions and the luncheon program will take place in Room A220 of Moore-Rooker Hall on the UGA campus.

The symposium is supported by a state-of-the-art conference grant from UGA’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. These grants provide faculty the opportunity to organize a conference on the UGA campus that facilitates new interaction among national and international scholars with UGA faculty and students.

RESEARCH NEWS

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Digest Creative Writing Program to present Jan. 30 reading by author John Keene

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The Peanut Genome Consortium has mapped the genetic code of the peanut. The consortium, a group of scientists from the U.S., China, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, India, Israel and several countries in Africa, is led by UGA professor Scott Jackson.

Peanut better

UGA scientists help map genetic code of peanuts

By J. Faith Peppers pepper@uga.edu

An international group of agricultural scientists, including University of Georgia and USDA scientists based in Georgia, have mapped the genetic code of the peanut. Results of the five-year research project give scientists around the world a map with which to unlock some of the genetic potential of the peanut plant.

“Mapping the genetic code of the peanut proved to be an especially difficult task, but the final product is one of the best ever generated,” said Steve Brown, executive director of The Peanut Foundation. “We now have a map that will help breeders incorporate desirable traits that benefit growers, processors, and most importantly, the consumers who enjoy delicious and nutritious peanut products all over the world.”

This discovery by the Peanut Genome Consortium, a group of scientists from the U.S., China, Japan, Brazil,

Argentina, Australia, India, Israel and several countries in Africa, gives scientists the capability to find beneficial genes in cultivated and wild peanuts to use in breeding new peanut varieties.

These traits can lead to greater yields, lower production costs, lower losses to disease, improved processing traits, improved nutrition, improved safety, better flavor and virtually anything that is genetically determined by the peanut plant.

“Study of peanut genome structure and order makes a great detective story, where many clues are found and linked together to unlock mysteries of genetics and gene regulation. This is exciting work,” said UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Scott Jackson, co-chair of the consortium.

The U.S. team also included scientists from Auburn University; North Carolina State University; Texas A&M University; the University of California-Davis; the University of

Florida; USDA-ARS on the UGA campus in Tifton and on the UGA campus in Griffin; Stillwater, Oklahoma; Ames, Iowa; and Stoneville, Mississippi; and National Center for Genome Resources at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Researchers with The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology coordinated the assembly of the final peanut genome.

In 2012, the U.S. peanut industry urged The Peanut Foundation to initiate a research program to map the genetic code of the peanut plant. The resulting International Peanut Genome Initiative is the largest research project ever funded by the industry, with the $6 million cost shared equally among growers, shellers and manufacturers.

Peanuts are a staple in diets across the globe, from the Americas to Africa and Asia. They are also a key ingredient in Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods that treat severe acute malnutrition and a crop that farmers in developing countries rely on for personal and community economic well being.

WARNELL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

UGA to take part in five-year study about long-term economic sustainability of Upper Floridian Aquifer

By Sandi Martin

smartin@warnell.uga.edu

As concerns grow over the ability of the Upper Floridan Aquifer to keep up with demands for water from residents, farms and forests, four universities are teaming up to look at the economic sustainability of agriculture and forestry in north Florida and south Georgia that rely on this water supply.

The Upper Floridan Aquifer supports agricultural activities worth more than $7.5 billion and provides drinking water to 10 million people, said Puneet Dwivedi, assistant professor of sustainability sciences at UGA. “But it is facing significant threats to water quality and quantity, which could potentially harm food security, fiber production and vital ecosystem services,” he said.

The researchers will focus on developing new best management practices and increasing farmers’ adoption of existing best practices, leading to ­reduced water use and improved water quality in the aquifer.

UGA researchers are ­collaborating with scientists from three other universities on the five-year, $5 million project. Led by the University of Florida Water Institute, UGA will partner with Auburn University and Albany State University on the study, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. UGA will receive $1.2 million of the total grant funding.

Dwivedi is leading the UGA team, which includes researchers from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: George Vellidis, professor of crop and soil sciences; Wes Porter, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences; Amanda Smith, public service associate in agricultural and applied economics; and Carrie Furman, anthropologist and assistant research scientist of crop and soil sciences.

Researchers from all four universities will conduct experiments to develop farming practices that reduce water use and fertilizer loss while still resulting in a profitable crop yield. Researchers

from Florida and Auburn University will then create computer models that can predict the impacts of various land and water uses.

At UGA, Dwivedi will develop a model for understanding how the adoption of best management practices will change the current land use in the study area and the consequences of such changes on water quality and quantity.

Vellidis will develop best management practices that will optimize the use of water and fertilizers for the region’s major crops.

Porter will work with farmers to promote advanced irrigation scheduling methods for improving water use efficiency of crops, including the development of an irrigation app.

Smith will be responsible for the creation and revision of new and existing farm-level budgets to address how changes to best management practices affect costs at the farm level within the region. Furman will research and document learning and communication between farmers and project members.

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program will present writer John Keene for a reading Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Museum of Art. Keene is the author of the novel Annotations; the poetry collection Seismosis, a collaboration with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and the short fiction collection Counternarratives, which received the inaugural 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses in the United Kingdom, as well as a 2016 American Book Award and a 2016 Lannan Literary Award for fiction.

Counternarratives was one of two finalists for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction Writing. Keene’s other published work includes GRIND, an art-text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner, and the poetry chapbook Playland.

He has published his fiction, poetry, essays and translations in an array of journals, and his honors include a 2003 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry and a 2008 Fellowship for Distinguished First Poetry Collection from the inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum.

Keene chairs the Department of African American and African Studies and is professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He also teaches in the Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program.

Law school to host one-day conference on gerrymandering and redistricting The University of Georgia School of Law will hold a conference titled “Walking the Line: Modern Gerrymandering & Partisanship” on Feb. 2 in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall, located on UGA’s North Campus. The event is open to the public.

Organized by law students who are members of the Georgia Law Review, the conference will explore the current and future state of redistricting. The event will feature a diverse set of voices on topics at the intersection of election law, political science and politics, according to the conference organizer, third-year law student John E. Farmer Jr. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s pending docket is the driving force behind this year’s conference theme, which will allow for important and timely dialogue on gerrymandering practices and redistricting,” he said.

Panel topics will include the Voting Rights Act of 1965, deriving a constitutional test for partisan gerrymandering and redistricting ­implications in Georgia. Legal and political ­science scholars as well as practitioners will serve as panelists.

The keynote speaker will be Nicholas Stephanopoulos, the Fried Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School.

S­tephanopoulos is a plaintiff’s attorney on the case Gill v. Whitford, which had oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during October 2017.

All attendees are requested to register at http://georgialawreview.org/. Attendance for UGA faculty, staff and students is free. The cost for non-attorneys is $12, and the cost for attorneys seeking continuing legal education credit for 4.5 hours, including 1.5 trial hours and one professionalism hour, is $80.

Frequently cited, the Georgia Law Review publishes insightful legal scholarship and commentary from faculty members, educators, members of the judiciary and legal practitioners.

This student-edited journal, established in 1966, is published quarterly.

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EXHIBITIONS

Figure Settings: Sculpture by Jean Wilkins Westmacott. Through Feb. 22. Circle Gallery, Jackson Street Building. 706-542-8292.

Artful Instruments: Georgia Gunsmiths and Their Craft.

Through Feb. 25. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Clinton Hill. Through March 18. 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. (See story, right.)

Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgia.

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

MONDAY, JAN. 22 AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR AND HANDS-ONLY CPR DEMONSTRATION Don’t wait until an emergency to learn what to do. Hands-only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse in an out-of-hospital setting such as at home, at work or on campus. It consists of two easy steps: Call 9-1-1 (or send someone to do that) and push hard and fast in the center of the chest. Stop by and learn how to do hands-only CPR and how to use an AED. Classes are Jan. 22 at 9-11 a.m. in the main lobby of the Science Learning Center, Jan. 23 from 4-6 p.m. at Ramsey Student Center, Jan. 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the first floor lobby of Bolton Dining Commons and Jan. 25 from 9-11 a.m. in the third floor concourse of Tate Student Center.

706-542-5845. prepare@uga.edu.

FOUNDERS DAY LECTURE “Partly Sunny or Partly Cloudy?: The Challenge of Communicating Science to Non-Scientists,” J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program. The Founders Day Lecture recognizes the university’s anniversary as the nation’s first state-chartered institution of higher education. The lecture has become a Founders Day tradition, drawing alumni, students, faculty, esteemed guests and members of the community. The lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President, UGA Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars, a group of retired faculty members known for their teaching abilities, who continue to be involved in the university’s academic life through part-time teaching, research and service assignments. 1:30 p.m. Chapel.

706-542-0383. kcfite@uga.edu. (See story, page 1.)

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert will showcase Beethoven and Bernstein

By Bobby Tyler

WORKSHOP The best way to counter student resistance to active learning is to create a culture of engaged learning in classrooms during the first few weeks. In “Creating a Culture of Engaged Learning in Your Classroom,” participants will learn about recent literature on countering student resistance to active learning and brainstorm how psychological principles can inform creation of norms and procedures in classrooms that create an environment naturally inclined towards engaged learning. Open to all faculty, post docs and graduate students. 2:30 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067. megan.mittelstadt@uga.edu.

CLASS Also Jan. 29. “Fundamentals of Photography” focuses on digital single lens reflex cameras, but the majority of subject matter applies to photography with any camera, including smart phones and point-and-shoot cameras. Topics covered include qualities of light, composition, creative use of camera controls, flash and portraiture. Includes field trip (to be scheduled), class project and evaluation of project photographs with introduction to digital image editing basics. Participants can receive camera selection advice from the instructor at the first session. $219. 6:30 p.m. Georgia Center. 706-542-3537. questions@georgiacenter.uga.edu.

TUESDAY, JAN. 23 TUESDAY TOUR AT TWO Guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Participants should meet in the rotunda on the second floor of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. 2 p.m. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Psychology of Animal Groups: When and How Collective Intelligence Emerges from Individual Cognition,” Takao Sasaki, University of Oxford. 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.

CLASS Also Jan. 30. “Night Photography” builds on photography skills so that participants learn how to create images of all types of fascinating nighttime scenes—from lighting and stars to cityscapes and portraits. In five two-hour sessions, including field trips, participants experience the most common challenges of night photography and discover creative ways to solve them.

Participants will learn how to evaluate scenes, models and equipment; tips on lighting sources and flash techniques; how to select the proper technique to use during a night photo shoot; and how to use advanced settings on the digital camera for night photography. $169. 6 p.m. Georgia Center. 706-542-3537. questions@georgiacenter.uga.edu.

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Arkansas. $15. 6:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

CONCERT The King’s Singers are synonymous with the best in vocal ensemble performance and acclaimed worldwide for their virtuosity, life-affirming energy and charm. In celebration of the ensemble’s 50th anniversary, UGA’s own Hodgson Singers join the King’s Singers in the premiere of a newly commissioned work by Nico Muhly, one of this generation’s most acclaimed composers. $30-$56. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400.

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The UGA Performing Arts Center will ­present the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Music director Robert Spano will conduct a program that includes Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, and Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Emperor.

Composed in 1942, the Jeremiah Symphony was Bernstein’s first major symphonic work.

The symphony follows the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah Guest pianist Jorge Osorio will with texts from the Book of Lamjoin the Atlanta Symphony for a performance of a Beethoven entations. Metropolitan Opera concerto during a Jan. 28 mezzo-soprano concert in Hodgson Concert Jennifer Johnson Hall.

Cano will be the featured soloist.

Guest pianist Jorge Osorio will join the Atlanta Symphony for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto.

Tickets for the concert are $30-$76 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.

A pre-concert lecture will be given by Ken Meltzer, author of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s program notes and host of the weekly radio show Meet the Classics on Atlanta’s AM-1690. The lecture begins at 2:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24 TOUR AT TWO Sam Thomas, curator of the T.R.R. Cobb House and guest curator of Artful Instruments: Georgia Gunsmiths and Their Crafts, will give a special tour. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS President Jere W. Morehead will deliver the annual report to the faculty and community. 3:30 p.m. Chapel.

THURSDAY, JAN. 25 LUNCH & LEARN This lunch and learn will a focus on using Automated External Defibrillators. Lisa Wilson from the Fireball40 organization will share her story about her son, Cory Joseph Wilson. He was a student at Georgia Southern when he suffered a fatal heart arrhythmia in a classroom. The Fireball40 organization, which was created in his honor, raises money to purchase AEDs and donate them to various communities. Ron Courson is the director of sports medicine with the UGA Athletic Association, which has approximately 20 AEDs. Courson and his staff provide medical support for a large number of sports involving UGA athletes and the various camps hosted by the UGA Athletic Association.

Courson will explain their program, why AEDs are important to their program and how AEDs fit into their overall emergency operations. 11:30 a.m. Room 473, Tate Student Center.

706-542-5845. prepare@uga.edu.

STUDIO WORKSHOP Join Athens-based artist and educator Brian Hitselberger for the last of a three-part studio-based course examining abstraction and nonrepresentational art through various techniques and materials. This workshop is open to artists of all levels and experience, from enthusiastic beginners to more seasoned practitioners. The sessions will draw inspiration from the museum’s collection, including works from the archives and many not currently on display. The cost of the course is a $15 materials fee, which will cover all necessary supplies for the three sessions.

Call 706-542-8863 or email callan@uga.edu to register. Limited to 15 participants. 6:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Missouri. $5. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

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Exhibition looks at history of UGA’s craft programs

By Hillary Brown

hazbrown@uga.edu

When most people hear the word “agriculture,” they think cows, chickens and crops, not fine handmade jewelry or beautifully crafted ceramics. But, believe it or not, the University of Georgia’s art school got its start in the College of Agriculture, back in 1927. This unusual beginning for what was then the art department likely led to the strength of its craft programs, which are the subject of a new exhibition opening Feb. 1 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia.

Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia runs through April 29 at the museum. It is the first attempt to document the full scope and story of the university’s craft program. As its three curators dug deeper into their research, they kept expanding the size of the project. The result was not only an exhibition that covers craft at the university from the 1920s to the present, but also a 372-page, nine-chapter book published by the museum that documents their findings more permanently.

Ashley Callahan, independent scholar and former curator of decorative arts at the museum; Annelies Mondi, the museum’s deputy director and a UGA graduate in art; and Mary Hallam Pearse, associate professor and area chair of jewelry and metalwork in UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, worked together throughout the process, gathering information wherever they could. They used the university’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library extensively, reading through old annual reports, letters and scrapbooks; they tracked down surviving craft faculty (or, in some cases, their family members) and conducted lengthy interviews; they even crowd-sourced information on Facebook. They used every means they could think

of to piece together a story that needed to be told.

Both the College of Agriculture and the State Normal School (which trained teachers and occupied the land that is now the university’s Health Sciences Campus) offered classes in craft even before 1927, with noted Athens architect Frederick J. Orr serving as director of “manual arts” at the latter. By 1914, the College of Agriculture offered classes in basketry, to enable students to earn money for college expenses through the skills they gained. When UGA began admitting women in 1918, it also established the division of home economics, within the ag school. Now the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, it featured classes in pottery, dyeing, weaving and metalwork, many of which were taught by Mildred Pierce Ledford, the first head of the new art department.

The 1933-34 school year led to the reorganization of UGA, to incorporate the Normal School and the semiautonomous College of Agriculture, and the art department moved to UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Lamar Dodd, the artist and administrator for whom the art school would later be named, joined the faculty in 1937 and put a significant stamp on it.

Although Dodd came from a fine art background, he continued to highlight the craft programs whenever possible, as in the small relief murals that remain over the east and west entrances to UGA’s Fine Arts Building, which were created by Dodd’s students and show pottery and weaving alongside painting and sculpture.

As the art school continued to grow, especially following the GI Bill, which greatly expanded the number of college students, it occupied more and more buildings on campus. As with its earliest years, women continued to play an important role in the craft program; Frances Stewart Higgins (who would become a famed studio glass artist) ran the program

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert to feature music of Brahms, Dvorak

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The concert will celebrate the musical and personal friendship between Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak.

The program will include Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances for Piano, Four Hands and his Quintet in A Major for Piano, Two Violins and Cello. The concert will also feature the Trio in C Minor for Piano, Violin and Cello and Selected Hungarian Dances for Piano, Four Hands by Brahms.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music with a rotating roster of award-winning instrumentalists.

The musicians performing on the Jan. 25 program will be pianists Michael Brown and Wu Han, violinists Chad Hoopes and Paul Huang, violist Matthew Lipman and cellist Dmitri Atapine.

Tickets for the concert are $42 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 concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music program in the country.

A pre-concert lecture will be given by Patrick Castillo from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall in the Performing Arts Center, which is located at 230 River Road.

CONCERT The musical and personal friendship between Brahms and Dvorak is legendary. This pairing brings to life the creative energy that reverberated between the German neo-classicist and the champion of Czech folk music and produced a ­glowing array of musical masterpieces. Enjoy a performance by ­members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a pre-concert lecture by Patrick Castillo from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The lecture begins at 7:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. $42. 8 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, above.)

FRIDAY, JAN. 26 MORNING MINDFULNESS Enjoy free, guided mindfulness meditation sessions in the Georgia Museum of Art’s galleries every other Friday during the school year. Sessions include a variety of instructor-led meditation, movement and mindfulness techniques. No experience or special clothing is necessary. Meditation pillows or yoga mats are provided. Reservations are encouraged; email ­sagekincaid@uga.edu or 706-542-0448. Funded in part by the Hemera Foundation. 9:30 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. ­706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATIVE CONSERVATION The fifth Symposium on Integrative Conservation will feature keynote speaker Rebecca Lave, a faculty member in the department of geography at Indiana University. As in previous

by herself during World War II. Craft faculty at UGA became well known and influential nationwide.

The exhibition features work from many of the artists and all of the faculty members who made up UGA’s craft programs, filling six galleries with textiles, ceramics, glass, jewelry and metalwork from the 1920s to the present. Programs related to the exhibition include 90 Carlton: Winter, the museum’s quarterly reception on Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m.; the ninth Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts (Feb. 1-3 at the Classic Center; registration and prices at http:// bit.ly/green2018-brochure); a Toddler Tuesday Feb. 6 at 10 a.m.; a Teen Studio program Feb. 22 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.; a screening of Craft in America: Memory Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.; a public tour March 7 at 2 p.m. focusing on women artists; a Family Day March 10 from 10 a.m. to noon; a talk by craft scholar Namita Wiggers March 21 at noon; and a panel discussion March 22 at 5:30 p.m. The book will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop, from Avid Bookshop or online from Amazon.com for $40.

sexual abuse lawsuits in addition to panels exploring mandated reporting laws and how agency partners can work together to better identify cases of child sexual abuse, and best practices in providing legal and therapeutic services for children who have experienced commercial and sexual exploitation. Additionally, a trauma-informed termination of parental rights mock trial will be part of the programming. For more information on the conference, visit https://sites.google.com/ugacease.org/conference2018/home. All attendees are asked to register. Attendance for UGA faculty, staff and students is free. The cost for nonattorneys is $20, and the cost for attorneys seeking Continuing Legal Education credit for 7.5 hours, including 3 trial hours, is $40. 3 p.m. School of Law. 706-369-5720. ehether@uga.edu.

SATURDAY, JAN. 27 CLASS Join professional storyteller Tommy Tye for an introduction to the art of story. Participants in “‘Fun’damentals of Storytelling” will learn how to get started, explore some tips for telling richer stories, discuss perspectives of storytelling, illumine pitfalls and learn next steps. Don’t forget a notebook and pencil. $75.

9 a.m. Visitor Center, Classroom 1, State Botanical Garden.

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

ORCHID MADNESS OPENING RECEPTION Be among the first to see this year’s Orchid Madness display filling the conservatory. Enjoy live music and heavy hors d’oeuvres along with a one-night-only display of rare orchids from local collectors. Every attendee will receive a blooming orchid plant to take home. $50. 6 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-369-6091. sprescot@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, JAN. 28 Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, including pianist Michael Brown, will perform music by Brahms and Dvorak during a Jan. 25 concert.

symposia, this event intends to showcase the works of the ICON graduate students. SIC is intended to enhance the interdisciplinary aspects of the ICON doctoral program by providing a space for the exchange of ideas between students and faculty interested in integrative research and practice. Find out more about SIC 2018 at http://bit.ly/2COVooP. 10:30 a.m. Building 2, Room 100, Warnell School of Forestry. 706-201-2635. maribaf@uga.edu.

MRI SAFETY TRAINING The Bio-Imaging Research Center provides MRI safety training for individual researchers and their teams who are directly using BIRC resources. Sign up for this course at least 48 hours prior to the preferred time/date. Register at https://birc.uga.edu.

2:30 p.m. 339 Coverdell Center. 706-583-5548. kmason@uga. edu.

WILBANKS CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION CLINIC CONFERENCE Through Jan. 27. The University of Georgia School of Law’s Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic will host the conference focusing on interdisciplinary advocacy for survivors of child sexual abuse. Event discussions will focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and holistic, trauma-informed services for survivors of child sexual abuse and feature a keynote address by state of Maryland Delegate C.T. Wilson, who is known for his strong advocacy in the areas of child sexual abuse and statute of limitations reform. The conference will also include a panel examining the intersection between journalism and legal advocacy in the USA Gymnastics child

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Crafts like the glass bowl above by early UGA craft instructor Frances Stewart Higgins can be seen in Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the Georgia Museum of Art through April 29.

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CLASS Gareth Crosby, curator of the Heritage Garden, will teach participants in “Orchard Fruit Production: Pruning” the best ways to expand fruit production in a home orchard or vineyard with apples, pears, peaches, plums, cane fruit, hardy kiwi, muscadines and more, as well as discuss the challenges of keeping fruiting plants healthy and productive. She will demonstrate proper pruning techniques, and participants will have hands-on experience. This session will cover the basics of pruning and various pruning techniques, and Session 2 (Feb. 18, $30) will focus on pest and disease management, along with seasonal maintenance. $30. 1 p.m. Visitor Center, Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6158. ckeber@uga.edu.

CONCERT Robert Spano leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in two powerful works by Beethoven and Bernstein. Known for its forceful melodies and heroic spirit, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto is the most frequently performed of the composer’s five piano concertos. The Los Angeles Times called piano soloist Jorge Osorio “one of the more elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet.” Leonard Bernstein composed his first major symphonic work, the Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah, in 1942.

The symphony follows the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah with texts from the Book of Lamentations sung by Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. $66-$76. 3 p.m.

Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, left.)

COMING UP ECOLOGY SEMINAR Jan. 30. “An Integrative Approach to the Study of Sexually Selected Weapons,” Erin McCullough, University of Western Australia. 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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Money management

Robert Hoyt, who holds the Dudley L. Moore Jr. Chair in UGA’s Terry College of Business, was quoted in a GoErie article about money habits everyone should have.

There are five lessons everyone should know: know how to budget, have an emergency fund, save for retirement, credit is a tool, and invest in insurance, according to Hoyt, who is a professor of risk management and insurance.

“Many people tend to purchase coverage with low deductibles, which can be costly,” said Hoyt, who teaches corporate risk management and enterprise risk management. “Because states have low liability limits, people think they should start there. But for most individuals, those limits are woefully inadequate, so they end up paying a lot for insurance that doesn’t cover enough.”

Corporate responsibility

Archie B. Carroll, a professor emeritus in the Terry College of Business, was quoted in a New York Times article about corporate profits and doing good.

Howard Schultz, the executive chairman of Starbucks spoke at the annual DealBook conference about the importance of enhancing employees’ lives. The notion that companies had some ­obligation to social good started before Starbucks. In America, early examples of corporate social responsibility date to the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

From the 1960s through the 1990s, in response to social movements and ethics scandals, “we witnessed a broadening in the social contract between business and society,” said Carroll, who co-authored the book Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience.

Climate personality

Alan Stewart, a professor in the College of Education, was quoted in a Washington Post article about a new study that reveals that our personalities are shaped by the climate in people grew up.

The study reveals that two people could have the same upbringing, but that the one who grew up in a warmer climate is more likely to be agreeable, open and emotionally stable.

“Does climate determine personality? I am not sure,” said Stewart, who is a faculty member in the education college’s counseling and human development services department and was not involved in the study. “But from my own research, I do know that weather and climate affect mood, and this may be reflected in some of the authors’ assessments.”

Evacuation effects

Katie Ehrlich, an assistant professor of ­ sychology in UGA’s Franklin College of Art and p Sciences, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about a new study that looks at the long-term ­effects on a family after a wartime evacuation.

More than 70 years ago, more than 70,000 Finnish children were separated from their parents and taken to institutions and foster families in Sweden and Denmark. As Finland had become a battleground for Soviet and German forces, the children were sent away to shield them from harm. A study by an international group of child ­development experts have found that its effect was not wholly protective. Now ranging in age from 71 to 82, the female evacuees were hospitalized or a mood disorder at higher rates than their peers who had stayed at home with their families, and this shadow of depression has fallen on their daughters.

“When we study children’s experience of early adversity, we often refer to it as the long arm of childhood,” said Ehrlich, who was not involved in the study. “These experiences affect mental and physical health across the lifespan and across the course of development.”

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Katelyn Kivett advises first- and second-year students who are prospective majors in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Leap of faith leads to new career for coordinator at Warnell School

By Emily Webb

sew30274@uga.edu

A winding road led Katelyn Kivett to UGA. As the student and career services coordinator at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Kivett uses her experiences and her interests to help her connect with students.

“My past led me to my present and helps me inform students,” she said.

As an undergraduate, Kivett started as a communications major because she wanted to be a news broadcaster.

She took a communications class and found it wasn’t for her. At the advice of her academic advisor, she took random classes that interested her before deciding to major in psychology.

She wanted to be a psychologist, but after taking an internship in psychology, she realized that the field also wasn’t for her.

“In my internship, I realized that I wanted to be the person who was interacting with individuals, so I decided to go into counseling so that I could be the person who was building relationships and helping people,” she said.

After graduating, she worked in bereavement counseling before applying to UGA. Her best friend worked at UGA’s Career Center and loved it, convincing Kivett to apply for a job in the center

when a position opened. She decided to take a leap of faith and try something different. She worked in the Career Center for a year and a half before getting her position at Warnell.

As Warnell is a professional program, Kivett advises first- and secondyear students who are intended majors.

“Warnell is a perfect fit for me, really,” she said. “I never imagined myself working in career services, although I certainly have my past experiences of why professional development and internships are so important to help you find your career. My initial attraction to Warnell was what the majors are: forestry, fisheries, wildlife, sustainability, outdoor recreation…they are all these ‘outdoorsy majors’ which fit with who I am as a person.”

Kivett is also a part-time instructor and co-teaches the course “Professional Development for Natural Resource Students,” which teaches students professional skills. She loves teaching, and the job has made her want to pursue her doctorate so she can become a full-time instructor.

In her spare time, Kivett enjoys outdoor activities, including ­ hiking, camping, kayaking and running and spending time outside with her two dogs.

“Anytime that I can be outside is huge to me. That’s what feeds my soul,” she said. “That’s one of the things that

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Katelyn Kivett Student and Career Services Coordinator Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources B.S., Psychology, Appalachian State University, 2009 M.A., Counseling, East Tennessee State University, 2011 At UGA: Three years

I feel really helps me connect with the students in Warnell, is that those are the things that feed them too.”

Kivett is part of Warnell’s faculty and staff band called Chainsaw Pedicure. The band plays folk and blues covers and recently performed at the Warnell Homecoming dinner.

Warnell is one of the smallest schools on campus with around 600 students. She advises approximately 200 of those students, but all of the undergraduate and graduate students come to her for career services. Her door is always open to talk with them.

“The students are what make UGA special for me. I’m constantly amazed by our students and by their intelligence,” she said. “They’re doing work as undergraduate students that is far beyond my expectations of a young person.”

HONORS PROGRAM CAES professor named associate director of Honors program

By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu

A competitive internal search for a new associate director of the Honors Program ended recently with the appointment of Maria Navarro, professor of interdisciplinary education in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Since 2005, Navarro has served on the faculty of the Department of ­Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication, where she teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students and conducts academic outreach across the state and nation.

Her academic focus spans food, agricultural and environmental sciences,with an emphasis on global food security and international agriculture, development

and technology change. She has worked in the U.S., Europe, Latin America,Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia and has garnered a total of $3,455,902 in collaborative grant Maria Navarro funding.

“All of us in the Honors Program are excited to work with Dr. Navarro, who is very well known to us already given her extensive interactions with our students and programming,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program.

“She is ideally suited to serve as associate director—her commitment to students is exemplary, and faculty members across

the campus know her to be an effective collaborator and leader.”

In her new role with the Honors Program, Navarro oversees Honors academic advising and the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, or CURO. She is also responsible for representing Honors and CURO regionally and nationally, coordinating Honors curricular offerings, supervising several staff members and working closely with Williams on future Honors initiatives. She will continue teaching “Reflections on Fighting Hunger,” a course she initially developed for the Honors Program, which is now one of her most requested classes.

“I am looking forward to working with an extraordinary team and to having new opportunities to impact the education of UGA students,” Navarro said.

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Executive director of University Health Center will retire Jan. 31 after 30 years at UGA

Taylor Miller named academic director of Peabody Media Center

By Margaret Blanchard mblanch@uga.edu

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

When Jean Chin’s father moved his family of six to Athens for a job at UGA, he never could’ve predicted the role the university would play in not only his but also his children’s lives as well.

Edward Chin Sr. founded what is now the Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant at the university, and all of his children can call UGA their alma mater. But Jean Chin, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1978, has perhaps the strongest ties to the university. She’s spent the last 30 years working at UGA, starting as a staff physician and ultimately working her way up to medical director of the health center and finally its executive director, a position from which she will retire at the end of the month.

But when she first returned to the university in 1988, she wasn’t expecting to stay long.

“When I came here, I thought I would only be here for three years while my husband, Randal Walker, earned his doctorate and then go back into private practice,” Chin said.

“It’s not like I aspired to be the executive director of the University Health Center when I first came here.”

Chin had graduated with her medical degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts and spent her internship and residency at Westchester County Medical Center in New York. Up until joining the health center’s staff, she had been in private practice. Chin assumed she’d spend a few years working as a staff physician at UGA and move back to New York or some other similarly large city to practice her specialty, internal medicine.

“When you go through medical school, an internship and residency, you don’t do that to sit behind a desk and push papers around,” she said. “You go into the profession because you want to serve patients.”

At the time of her arrival, the health center was located in what is now Gilbert Hall. The Gilbert Infirmary was the health center’s second home after moving from its previous location on Lumpkin Street.

“When I started there, we had one room, which was our office and our exam room,” Chin said.

The move to the now-111,000-square-foot building on East Campus is one of Chin’s most memorable moments from her time at UGA. “When we shut down old Gilbert, we basically relocated the health center over the weekend,” she said. “At the end of the day Friday, we packed up medical records and paper charts, moved everything into the new building and reopened on Monday.”

A handful of years after the opening of the new building, Chin was named medical director of the health center, a position she held until assuming the role of executive director in 2005.

“As the medical director, you’re the operations guy,” she said. “You run the building, the clinics, the schedule, and you

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Jean Chin, executive director of the University Health Center, retires at the end of the month after 30 years at UGA.

make sure patients are being seen. I thought I knew everything about this building, but this position was completely different.”

In fact, Chin didn’t even apply for the executive director position when the university began looking for someone.

When the first round of searching turned up empty, she thought that it was “maybe a sign” that she should apply, like people had been urging her to do. As executive director, Chin oversaw additions of roughly 30,000 square feet to the health center’s building, including the one that brought the vision clinic to the building, increased the size of the women’s clinic and incorporated electronic health records.

She also continued to have the health center accredited

by Joint Commission, making the university one of only 17 college health care centers nationwide that has Joint Commission accreditation.

Despite increased administrative duties, Chin was determined to continue seeing patients, though her time in the exam room isn’t what it used to be. She also continued to serve as an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and as a board member for St. Mary’s HealthCare System.

Spending 30 years at one institution isn’t common these days, and Chin’s work life wasn’t strictly separated from her home life.

“The health center has been not only my workplace but my social life too,” she said. “I’ll miss the camaraderie.”

WEEKLY READER

The Peabody Media Center has appointed Taylor Cole Miller as academic director, where he will administer the scholarly initiatives of the center’s work along with Nate Kohn, professor and fellow academic director. Miller is an assistant professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with joint appointments in the entertainment & media studies department and the New Media Institute. His position with the Media Center begins immediately.

“Taylor brings fresh energy and insight into the scholarly outreach arm of Peabody,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of Peabody. “His research areas align with where we need to go and want to be in the future.”

Miller teaches courses in media studies, broadcast histories and digital/docu-series production.

Taylor Cole Miller His research uses a cultural studies ­approach to analyze the TV industry, media distribution and production cultures especially at their intersections with issues of gender and sexuality.

“As a broadcast historian who is also training a new generation of media makers to be critical thinkers, I am right where I’m supposed to be here at Peabody,” Miller said. “I think success in history is better marked by significance than popularity, and Peabody’s interest in recognizing stories that matter—even in the ­smallest of markets—directly connects to my interest in how television serves various publics.”

In his new role, Miller will serve as co-coordinator and liaison with the Media Center’s seven Fellows, will work with the Peabody Student Honor Board and the Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award, and assist in the Peabody Digital Network and Peabody Archive.

Miller will also handle Media Center programming and production, including serving as primary interface with the Peabody Archive, housed in the University of Georgia’s special collections libraries. With the director and the communications team, he will help strategize, plan, and execute programming for the Peabody Digital Network, utilizing archival content as appropriate.

Miller received bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Spanish from the University of Kansas; a master’s degree in radio/TV/film from the University of Texas-Austin; and his doctorate in media and cultural studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining Grady College, he taught courses in television criticism, critical internet studies and new media production at the University of Wisconsin, served as an editor for Mother Earth News, and worked as a jack-of-all-trades at an independent cable TV station.

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UGA prof co-edits book about nanomaterials Anisotropic and Shape-Selective Nanomaterials: Structure-Property Relationships reviews recent advances in the synthesis, characterization and physico-chemical properties of anisotropic nanomaterials.

The book is co-edited by Simona Hunyadi Murph, an adjunct professor in UGA’s physics and astronomy department and a principal scientist in the National and Homeland Security Directorate at Savannah River National Laboratory.

The other two co-editors of the book are George K. Larsen and Kaitlin J. Coopersmith, both senior scientists at the SRNL. Anisotropic and Shape-Selective Nanomaterials highlights various emerging applications of nanomaterials, includAnisotropic and Shapeing sensing and imaging, (bio)medical Selective Nanomaterials: applications, environmental protection, Structure-Property plasmonics, catalysis and energy.

Relationships It provides an excellent and comBy Simona E. Hunyadi Murph, George K. Larsen, prehensive overview of the effect that Kaitlin J. Coopersmith morphology and nanometric dimension Springer International Publishing has on the physico-chemical properties Hardcover: $249 of various materials and how this leads ebook: $189 to novel applications.

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Website celebrates FACS 100th anniversary

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UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences launched a new website celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The centennial website features a timeline charting the school’s important milestones and Honor Hall of Recognition and FACS 100 Centennial Honorees pages

Art Director Jackie Baxter Roberts Photo Editor Dorothy Kozlowski

honoring past and current faculty and staff members who advanced the college.

Additionally, users can access interviews with key figures in the college’s history, back issues of FACS Magazine and a list of events celebrating the anniversary throughout the year.

Writers Kellyn Amodeo Leigh Beeson The University of Georgia is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.

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

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6,000 annually before Taylor Express Care opened to just over 4,600 in the past year.

“It was greatly needed,” said Bailey Lanier, a nurse practitioner on duty during a recent chilly morning. “Before you just had the ER, and that was it. We’ve opened doors to people who didn’t have health care, who just didn’t know who to go to.”

Helping with the CHNA, required of all hospitals to receive federal funding, is just one of the many ways that the University of Georgia has helped Pulaski County address critical health care issues.

Dr. Skip McDannald Jr., CEO of Taylor Regional Healthcare, is enthusiastic about what UGA’s support through the Archway Partnership has meant for a community hospital trying to expand services.

“We’d be in a mess without them,” ­McDannald said. “We could never muster the resources ourselves.”

Henry Young, the Kroger Associate Professor in Community Pharmacy in the UGA College of Pharmacy, began working with administrators at Taylor Regional Hospital in 2016 to reduce the number of patients readmitted too soon after they were treated for COPD, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began reducing Medicare payments for hospitals with excess patient readmissions. After studying the issue, Young identified factors that may help the hospital minimize readmissions.

Young was back in Hawkinsville in 2017 trying to discover what health care professionals could do to battle the latest public health crisis: opioid abuse. He held focus groups there and across the state, bringing together physicians and pharmacists to discuss the issue.

Young’s goal is to develop best practices for health care professionals to use to educate patients and help prevent opioid misuse and addiction in the first place, as well as foster collaboration across disciplines.

The project has attracted the attention of Lawrence Bryant, a senior program manager with the Georgia Department of Public Health.

“Community-based participatory research is absolutely essential in combating this,” Bryant said. “One of the things I think is important that may not be practiced now is consistency. This is an opportunity to develop a protocol for how information should be transferred and what kind of follow-up needs to happen.”

Young has held or scheduled focus groups in Pulaski, Spalding, Washington, Hart and Candler counties, all Archway communities. He’s also exploring a second hospital readmissions study in Spalding County. His research is trying to shine a light on rural health issues that haven’t been adequately studied.

“What we know from the literature is that in rural areas there are some health care challenges like access to care and services,” he said. “We need to dive in and get a better understanding of those challenges.

We want to see what issues physicians and pharmacists are confronted with daily and get a sense of how we can perhaps prevent problems from happening.”

It’s another way, as McDannald said, UGA helps bring communities together to build a healthier state.

“We’ve now joined together as a force,” he said. “We’re functioning the way we should as a community.”

For an expanded version of this story, visit news.uga.edu.

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Following on the heels of a successful biweekly event focused on mindfulness meditation, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is expanding its programming to add yoga in the galleries.

This monthly program will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday evenings, February 15 and March 15, with more dates to be added later.

Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, the program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis.

Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis, with tickets available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m. The museum will provide yoga mats.

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.

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

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

Student employee recognition The UGA Career Center is

accepting online nominations until Feb. 6 for the Student Employee of the Year Award.

The top 100 student employees will be invited, along with their nominating faculty/staff member, to an awards luncheon on April 11 at the Tate Student Center. One student will be honored as the UGA Student Employee of the Year.

To nominate a student employee, visit http://career.uga.edu/hireuga/seoty.

PLC grant applications

The University of Georgia Parents Leadership Council Grants Program is seeking undergraduate student groups that demonstrate a positive impact on the university to apply to receive funding for the 20182019 academic year.

Grant applications are due Jan. 23 by 5 p.m. Grants will be accepted from only UGA schools, colleges, units, departments, divisions or student organizations registered with the Center for Student Activities and Involvement.

Eligible groups and programs show a clear commitment to enhancing the student experience at UGA. Since 2002, the council has funded $1.7 million in grants to various programs and organizations on campus, including the Counseling and Psychiatric Services Center at the University Health Center, the Office of the Dean of Students, Designated Dawgs Safe Rides program, Campus Kitchen at UGA and more.

To apply for a Parents Leadership Council Grant, and for a complete list of guidelines and requirements, visit give.uga.edu/plcgrants.

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across campus and the Athens community.

Participants, called service ambassadors, coordinate campus-wide days of service and social awareness events and also volunteer in community events, including the MLK Day of Service.

The organization also acts as a parent organization for 40 advocacy-based groups on campus by providing monetary support, advising, networking opportunities and professional development.

On Jan. 15, Stone worked alongside volunteers of all ages removing trash, cleaning gardens at the West Broad Market Garden, all while recordings of King played on the loudspeakers. Service days are a way for UGA students to immerse themselves in the local community, not only as UGA students but as Athens-Clarke County residents.

“This day is a chance to connect with

the Athens community and bridge the gap between UGA’s students and Athens residents,” Stone said. “Instead of approaching MLK Day of Service as a group of UGA students going out to serve the surrounding community, we go with community members to serve our own city.”

The main goal of ServeUGA is to establish more than just a one-time chance to serve, rather instilling a culture of volunteering into all participants. For Farrell, the MLK Day of Service reinforces that goal.

“Once you participate in a day of service and see the opportunities and/or challenges firsthand, you are more likely to engage in the future development of our community,” she said. “Ultimately, we hope this experience will have a profound impact on the students so that they will become lifelong volunteers and active citizens.”

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who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Six UGA faculty members have been named NAI Fellows since the honor was established in 2013, and an additional Fellow joined the faculty last year.

“The election of Steven Stice as an NAI Fellow highlights the innovative research conducted at UGA,” said Vice President for Research David Lee. “We join NAI in celebrating his contributions to science and society.”

Stice, the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has led industry and academic research teams in the area of pluripotent stem cells for over 25 years. At UGA he has conducted pioneering work in developmental biology and genetics to advance animal and human medicine. His group derived some of the original human pluripotent stem cell lines placed on the first National Institutes of Health human embryonic stem cell registry. Stice was a key member of the team that produced the first cloned rabbit in 1989 and the first cloned transgenic calves in 1998 (George and Charlie), for which he was granted the first U.S. patent in cloning animals. He has produced the first genetically modified pluripotent stem cells derived from pigs and cattle and, more recently, in avian species.

His research has led to 16 U.S. patents in stem cells, cloning and regenerative medicine, including the first U.S. patent on animal cloning and therapeutic cloning from adult animal cells. Multiple startup companies have been based on his technologies. ArunA Biomedical, the first company to commercialize a product derived from human pluripotent stem cells, is now using this original stem cell technology as a basis for preclinical human therapeutics and drug delivery.

Currently, the Stice lab is collaborating with ArunA Biomedical to develop proprietary exosomes for the treatment of central nervous system injury and neurodegenerative disorders, with an initial focus in stroke. Exosomes—tiny structures shed from cells—are cargo carriers that independently or, when packaged with therapeutics, change the behavior, improve the survival and repair of injured cells, reduce inflammation and attack tumor cells while remaining invisible to the body’s own defenses. Their proprietary manufacturing process will have the ability to noninvasively reach the site of injury without adverse responses while reducing inflammation of the brain and improving neural function.

“Steve’s innovative research and entrepreneurial spirit exemplify UGA’s emphasis on translating research discoveries into products that benefit the public,” said Derek Eberhart, director of UGA’s Innovation Gateway. “He has been an integral contributor to the university’s innovation ecosystem, which has generated more than 675 products and 160 companies based on UGA research.”

The university’s innovation programs rank highly, placing top five among all U.S. universities for new products reaching the marketplace for the fourth consecutive year.

from page 1 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 UGA as the first institution of public higher education in America.

The lecture is sponsored by the Office of the President, UGA 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.

UGA will bestow President’s Medals to Mary Frances Early and Delmer “Del” Dunn, during Founders Day activities on Jan. 22.

In conjunction with the lecture, the Office of the President will host an invitationonly luncheon on Jan. 22 during which the President’s Medal will be presented to Early and Dunn. The President’s Medal recognizes extraordinary contributions from individuals who have supported students and academic programs, advanced research and inspired community leaders to enhance Georgians’ quality of life.

The Student Alumni Council will sponsor a series of events for students in the days surrounding the lecture. The schedule of those events is as follows, although more activities could be planned and will be posted online.

• Jan. 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Founders Week T-shirt giveaway on Tate north lawn.

• Jan. 23, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tradition Tuesday at the statue of Abraham Baldwin and 100 Days ’til Graduation Celebration in Memorial Hall Ballroom, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Jan. 24, 3:30 p.m., State of the University Address in the Chapel and 100 Days ’til Graduation Celebration in Memorial Hall Ballroom, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Jan. 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Founders Week banner contest.

• Jan. 26, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Founders Day Celebration in Tate Plaza.

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Atlanta Constitution in 1950 and continued with the paper until his retirement in 2009.

Bisher also wrote for such national periodicals as Sports Illustrated and the Sporting News, in addition to publishing several books.

• Michael Bishop, best known for science fiction writing, earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Georgia, where he returned to teach English from 1968 until 1972.

• Tayari Jones is the author of three novels including Leaving Atlanta, her critically acclaimed debut in which she explored the tragedy of the Atlanta child murders through the eyes of three children.

• Frances Newman was a novelist, translator, critic, book reviewer and librarian, according to her entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. Newman’s premature death in 1928 at the height of her literary powers precluded the writing of several planned novels.

• Cynthia Shearer grew up in Alapaha and has written two works of fiction, The Wonder Book of the Air and The Celestial Jukebox. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Oxford American, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review and Virginia Quarterly Review.