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The University of Georgia Watercolor illustrations by John Abbot on display at special collections libraries

Vol. 44, No. 1

July 11, 2016

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J. Merritt Melancon

Lyndon Waller, left, a DeKalb Mobile Farmers Market program assistant, and Rickeia Stewart, a UGA Cooperative Extension administrative assistant in DeKalb County, are part of the team helping to bring fresh vegetables to underserved communities in DeKalb County.

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Rolling farmers markets help residents in metro Atlanta stock up on fresh food jmerritt@uga.edu

Summer isn’t quite the same without fresh corn, beans, okra and tomatoes, but many Georgians don’t have easy access to the state’s bounty of produce.

This summer, the UGA Cooperative Extension is working in DeKalb and Fulton counties to build a network of food oases to help serve residents who have a difficult time finding fresh vegetables because of limited mobility, lack of transportation or lack of wellstocked stores or markets. UGA Extension in Clayton County will launch a similar mobile market this month.

“Our mobile markets are helping to address the critical issue of

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Skidaway researcher receives funding for glider network

By Mike Sullivan

By J. Merritt Melancon

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food access in the Atlanta area,” said Jeff Miller, urban UGA Extension coordinator. “Working together, UGA Extension agricultural and natural resources agents, family and consumer sciences and 4-H agents teach patrons about where their food comes from, how to prepare their meals for optimal health and the value of a varied non-processed diet.

“Mobile markets in Fulton, DeKalb and Clayton counties are excellent examples of how UGA Extension is helping to meet the needs of communities across Georgia,” he also said.

For the second year, UGA Extension in DeKalb County has partnered with the DeKalb County Board of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to

bring the DeKalb Mobile Farmers Market to neighborhoods across the county.

Traveling from site to site in a converted mint green school bus, UGA Extension personnel meet with people across the county and offer them farm-fresh produce at market prices.

The mobile market also features weekly cooking demonstrations and healthy recipe ideas.

Cooking and nutrition information are provided by DeKalb County Extension agents through the USDA-funded Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, or EFNEP, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education, or SNAP-Ed. Last year, the mobile market See MARKETS on page 4

UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Catherine Edwards is leading a team that has received a five-year, $750,000 grant from the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association, or SECOORA, to establish a regional glider network.

Also known as autonomous underwater vehicles, the gliders are torpedo-shaped crafts that can be packed with sensors and sent on underwater missions to collect oceanographic data. Equipped with satellite phones, the gliders surface periodically to transmit their recorded data and to receive new instructions during missions that can last from weeks to months.

The team will work collaboratively to operate regular glider missions on the continental shelf in an area from North Carolina to Florida known as the South Atlantic

Bight. Regular coordinated experiments will involve simultaneous deployment of gliders at multiple locations off Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. Sensors on the gliders will allow the team to map temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen and other scientific data over the entire South Atlantic Bight. The data will help scientists understand ocean processes and how the ocean physics may affect fisheries—for example, the location of fronts or areas of increased productivity where fish often congregate.

“This glider observatory is the first time regular glider efforts have been funded in the South Atlantic Bight and is complementary to larger SECOORA efforts in observing and modeling,” Edwards said. “The work is highly leveraged by contributions from each of the team members and partnerships with fisheries and observing groups

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UGA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

UGA head swimming and diving coach named to US Olympic staff UGA head coach Jack Bauerle has been chosen as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic team.

Bauerle will serve on the men’s staff at the Rio Games, where the swimming portion will take place Aug. 6-13. This will be Bauerle’s third appointment with the U.S. Olympic team. He served as the women’s head coach in 2008 and as a women’s assistant coach in 2000.

Bauerle attended the 2004 and 2012 Games as a personal coach.

“Any time I get to represent the USA and UGA at the Olympics, it’s a real honor,” Bauerle said.

“I am absolutely elated to be chosen. I’m very thankful, and

I’m excited. It will be a busy time for all of us, but we’re going to make a lot of special memories.”

During the U.S. Olympic Jack Bauerle trials, which ended July 3, eight swimmers with ties to Bauerle’s program qualified for the Games. Hali Flickinger, Melanie Margalis, Allison Schmitt, Olivia Smoliga and Amanda Weir made it for the women, while Gunnar

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GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Summer forum raises $250,000 New training program gives Georgia communities edge in attracting business for Chambliss Fellows program

By Christopher James chtjames@uga.edu

Kyle Fletcher is the one sitting in the classroom, but the new Georgia Certified Economic Developer Program offered by UGA is benefiting her entire community.

The executive director of the Thomaston-Upson Industrial Development Authority is using what she learns from instructors at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, a unit of UGA Public

Service and Outreach, to create a portfolio or handbook to take back to her office.

“Having that readily available is vital in what we do,” Fletcher said. “The most important thing you want to do is be prepared. As an economic developer, you need to have information on infrastructure, water, sewer lines. You need to know all of that.

“You don’t want to get asked a question and say, ‘Let me get back with you next week,’ ” she also said.

Fletcher is only two classes

into the three-year program, but she said she’s already learning about resources she didn’t know were available. The portfolio project will allow Fletcher to share her newfound knowledge with colleagues back in Thomaston.

It’s one of the ways the new program, announced in January, is trying to make an immediate impact in Georgia. The Vinson Institute worked with an advisory committee of Georgia economic development experts, including See PROGRAM on page 4

By Leanna Brown lkbrown@uga.edu

Colleagues and friends of former U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss raised $250,000 in support of the UGA Chambliss Fellows program at an event held in Washington, D.C. Joining Chambliss and his wife, Julianne, were UGA President Jere W. Morehead, current UGA students interning in Washington and members of the U.S. Congress.

Funds raised for the Chambliss Fellows program will allow

five UGA students each fall and spring semester to live, work and advance their education in the nation’s capital.

“The University of Georgia is immensely grateful to Sen. and Mrs. Chambliss for their support of our students,” Morehead said.

“An internship in Washington, D.C., is an exceptional learning opportunity. With the generosity of our sponsors and the support of several members of Congress, we are helping to prepare our students

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Digest Small Business Development Center on magazine’s best places to work list

The UGA Small Business Development Center, a public service and outreach unit, is one of Georgia Trend magazine’s 2016 “Best Places to Work in Georgia.”

The evaluation, conducted by the Best Companies Group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, looks at employees’ views on leadership and planning, corporate culture and communications, role satisfaction, work environment and overall engagement.

The SBDC program has 17 locations across Georgia and works with about 4,000 individual business owners and prospective entrepreneurs each year. In the past five years, SBDC-assisted firms have created more than 11,000 jobs, acquired more than $600 million in expansion and start-up capital, created more than 1,500 new businesses and are responsible for $8.9 billion in total sales. The most recent economic impact studies indicate that SBDC clients experience annual sales growth of 19.7 percent and employment growth of 19.6 percent.

Coordinated statewide by UGA, six of the SBDC’s 17 regional offices are located on the campuses of other University System of Georgia schools: Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Clayton State University and the University of West Georgia.

AUXILIARY SERVICES

Bulldog Bucks now offers payroll deduction to faculty, staff members

By Lauren Corcino lcorcino@uga.edu

UGA faculty and staff are now able to use payroll deduction to make automatic deposits into their Bulldog Bucks account. This convenient, new service offers customers full control on how money is added to their Bulldog Bucks account automatically from their paycheck each month.

Paying with a Bulldog Bucks account offers many advantages over paying for services with traditional debit and credit cards. Bulldog Bucks is the cheapest way to pay for on-campus services such as printing and copying with no transaction, convenience or maintenance fees associated with the transaction. Bulldog Bucks also is ac-

cepted at over 150 Coke and snack machines on campus. The funds loaded on the card will roll over from year to year with the account remaining active as long as it is used at least one time within a 12-month period.

Payroll deductions can be started or stopped at any time and the amount deducted can be changed by visiting the Bulldog Bucks account management website. After signing up for payroll deduction, the deduction will be taken out of the next month’s paycheck.

“We are excited to offer this new and convenient service to faculty and staff here at UGA,” said Virginia Hamilton, business manager for Bulldog Bucks.

“The automatic deductions make it easy to always have funds available for vending, print and copy jobs as well as

DIVISION OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Two from UGA receive US Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

A UGA student and a recent graduate have been selected to study the Arabic language while abroad this summer through the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship program.

Cassidy Lyon is traveling to Tangier, Morocco, and Alice Naghshineh is studying in Madaba, ­Jordan. The participants are joining approximately 560 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who are spending eight to 10 weeks in intensive language ­institutes across the globe.

Lyon is a 2016 graduate who majored in international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs and hails from Newnan. This fall she begins her master’s program in Washington, D.C., at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Naghshineh is a senior Honors student from Marietta, majoring in Arabic and mathematics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and economics in the Terry College of Business. Last summer she studied the Persian language in Tajikistan, where she was placed with a local family for two months through the Critical Language Scholarship program. Her experiences earned her a Fulbright grant to return to Tajikistan, where she will perform economic development research this fall.

The Critical Language Scholarship program is part of a U.S. government effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages, such as Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish or Urdu.

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SCHOOL OF LAW

Scherr named associate dean at law school

By Lona Panter

UGA Foundation Board welcomes four elected trustees, two advisory trustees

The UGA Foundation elected four new trustees during its annual meeting in St. Simons: Larry D. Thompson, a faculty member in the School of Law, and alumni Allison Ausband, James “Jim” Whidden Childs and Frank Foley III. Two advisory trustees, Betsy Camp and John Reid Parker Jr., also were chosen to assist the foundation’s committees in defining and achieving strategic goals.

The meeting concluded with the accordance of emeritus status to four trustees: Darren DeVore, Keith Mason, Mary Lou Swift and Brenda Thompson, whose terms concluded July 1.

dining and merchandise purchases.”

Along with campus locations, Bulldog Bucks has partnered with businesses in the Athens area including restaurants, gas stations, pharmacies and fitness clubs. These locations offer discounts to Bulldog Bucks account holders that can be activated when paying with Bulldog Bucks along with a printout of the coupon. A complete list of off-campus partners and merchant coupons is at www.bulldogbucks.uga.edu.

For more information about payroll deduction, call the Bulldog Bucks office at 706-542-8257.

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Award-winning fish story UGA’s Division of Marketing & Communications won two national awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Photographer Andrew Davis Tucker won a bronze award for his photographs in the “Ga. Fishes Field Course Series,” which documented the coastal portion of a 2015 Maymester course at the UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island. The division also won a bronze award for its spring 2015 Commencement social media campaign. The multifaceted approach to celebrating graduation focused on informational posts, telling the stories of graduating students and sharing alumni advice with the graduating class.

RETIREES May

Ten UGA employees retired May 1.

Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Daniel A. Colquitt, maintenance worker, Facilities Management Division-Zone Maintenance Shop, East Campus, 16 years, 8 months; Harry A. Dailey Jr., professor, microbiology, 35 years, 8 months; Brendia ­Dianne Fields, administrative assistant II, language and literacy education department, 24 years, 10 months; Sarah A. Gresham, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division-Building Services (second shift), 22 years, 10 months; Charles O. Johnson, graphics designer, D ­ ivision

of Marketing & Communications, 42 years, 10 months; Danny R. Langston, structural maintenance foreman, Facilities Management Division-Zone Maintenance Shop, Health Sciences Campus, 27 years, 7 months; Bennie M. McKinley, building services worker I, Facilities Management DivisionBuilding Services, North Campus, 10 years, 1 month; Inell Middlebrooks, food service worker I, Bolton Dining Commons, 25 years, 7 months; Robert Joseph Murphy, locksmith, residence hall facilities administration, 10 years; and Anne Asbell Pettis, county extension program assistant, UGA Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, Source: Human Resources 16 years, 1 month.

Alexander W. Scherr has been named the School of Law’s new associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning. In this role, he will work to enhance and advance the school’s experiential learning offerings, which currently include 15 clinical courses and a range of simulation classes.

“Alex is a longstanding leader in the clinical legal education community,” said Georgia Law Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge.

Alexander Scherr “I know he will build on the good work that his predecessor Erica J. Hashimoto has done.

His appointment aligns with the university’s mission to emphasize experiential learning, and this position is critically important at the law school as we pride ourselves on providing first-class training to the next generation of legal leaders. By ensuring our students have multiple opportunities for hands-on learning, we can ensure that they will be practice-ready and meet the needs of employers when they graduate.”

Scherr will continue former Associate Dean Hashimoto’s work to create new clinical opportunities and to increase support for clinical faculty and students. His new initiatives will include fostering collaboration with the university’s graduate and undergraduate programs, meeting new American Bar Association requirements for experiential courses and assessing the impact of Georgia Law’s clinics on local and state communities.

Scherr is the co-editor of the leading text for externship clinics, Learning from Practice: A Text for Experiential Legal Education, third edition (West Academic, 2016) for which he authored several chapters. He has served as president of the Clinical Legal Education Association, chair of the American Association of Law Schools’ Clinical Advisory Committee and as a member of the AALS Clinical Section’s executive committee.

He chaired the planning committee for the 2015 AALS Clinical Conference that had more than 700 participants and over 200 presenters. He has helped to plan numerous other national and regional conferences.

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.

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Watercolor illustrations by Englishman John Abbot on display at special collections libraries

By Jean Cleveland jclevela@uga.edu

Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the ­Modern South. Through July 30. Special collections libraries. ­706-542-5788, jhebbard@uga.edu Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason. Through Aug. 7. Georgia Museum of Art. Tom Polk. Through Aug. 13. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014, connicot@uga.edu Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Grafica Mexicana. Through Aug. 21. Georgia Museum of Art. John Abbot, Early Georgia’s Naturalist Artist.

Through Aug. 31. Special collections libraries. ­706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu (See story, above).

MONDAY, JULY 11 SHORT SESSION I GRADES DUE Due by 5 p.m.

‘Recent: Acquisitions’ to open July 16 mt03295@uga.edu

The exhibit includes watercolor illustrations from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript collections as well as art from other museums.

W. Porter, Meigs Professor of Ecology, will discuss the global phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change in the context of conservation in Georgia and Athens-Clarke County. He will announce a major new discovery of the presence of three closely related species of Pearly Eye butterflies within the Tallassee Forest. Using paintings by Abbot, Porter will show more than 100 years before the scientific description of these species, the artist was clearly aware of the slight variations that exist

for Continuing Education. 706-542-9841, betty. booker@georgiacenter.uga.edu SUNFLOWER MUSIC SERIES CONCERT Randall Bramblett, a noted singer-songwriter with 13 albums of his own original music, will perform. $15; $5 children ages 6-12. 7 p.m. Flower Garden Lawn. State Botanical Garden. ­706-542-6014, connicot@uga.edu

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 STAFF COUNCIL MEETING 2:30 p.m. 153 Miller Learning Center.

THURSDAY, JULY 14 UGA ORGANIC FARM TWILIGHT TOUR Open house for farmers and gardeners to learn about some of the newest research being ­conducted on the 90-acre farm, where the ­college’s organic research plots are located. This open house is free, and no registration is required.

6 p.m. College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Durham Horticulture Farm Georgia, 1221 Hog Mountain Road, Watkinsville. ­706-542-8084, sustainag@uga.edu

TUESDAY, JULY 12 LSAT PREPARATION CLASS Held Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 11.

The LSAT preparation program covers each aspect of the test in complete detail, offering concrete techniques for solving even the most challenging items on the test. $899. 6 p.m. Georgia Center

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By Morgan Tickerhoof

The exhibit John Abbot, Early Georgia’s Naturalist Artist is on display until Aug. 31 at the special collections libraries.

The exhibit includes watercolor illustrations from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript collections, along with drawings on loan from other museums.

The exhibit celebrates the 20th anniversary of the James W. Woodruff Sr. Center for the Natural History of Georgia.

Of the thousands of drawings Abbot made, less than 200 of his butterfly and moth illustrations and none of his bird drawings were published, according to curator Beth Fowkes Tobin, professor of English and women’s studies at UGA. Abbot’s original watercolor drawings of insects and birds along with the engravings of his drawings that were published in 1797 in The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia are included.

“This book was praised as one of the ‘most beautiful and valuable’ natural history publications of his era,” Tobin said.

Emory University, the University of South Carolina and the Morris Museum have loaned drawings for the exhibit.

An Englishman, Abbot (1751-1840) arrived in Georgia in 1776, planning to stay only a few years. He planned to use his time in Georgia to jump-start a career as a natural history illustrator, supporting himself by collecting insect and bird specimens for London’s natural history collectors and dealers.

Abbot intended to return to London after he made enough drawings to establish his career. But he never left the South, living the rest of his long life in rural Georgia, where he continued to collect and draw insects and birds into his 80s, producing more than 7,000 watercolor drawings.

Two events will be held at the special collections libraries in conjunction with the exhibit. During Family Day July 16 at 1 p.m., participants can learn about Abbot and scientific illustration and then design their own butterfly.

The lecture “Climate Change and Biological Conservation in Georgia: John Abbot and the Pearly Eye Butterflies of Athens-Clarke County” will be held Aug. 25 at 5:30 p.m. James

EXHIBITIONS

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SATURDAY, JULY 16 EXHIBITION OPENING Recent: Acquisitions. Through Oct. 19. Georgia Museum of Art. (See story, above right).

FAMILY DAY: BUGS AND BUTTERFLIES Participants will learn about John Abbot and

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s­ cientific illustration, then design their own ­butterflies. 1 p.m. Special collections libraries.

706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu (See story, above).

TUESDAY, JULY 19 FULL MOON HIKE $5; $15 per family. 8 p.m. State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE FOR SHORT SESSION II SHORT SESSION II MIDTERM TOUR AT TWO Turned and Sculpted: Wood Art from the Collection of Arthur and Jane Mason. Led by docents.

2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu

THURSDAY, JULY 21 THURSDAY TWILIGHT TOUR Led by docents. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu

FRIDAY, JULY 22 GALLERY TALK Attendees will join Shaye Remba, son of Mixografia founder Luis Remba and current head of

The Georgia Museum of Art at UGA will present an exhibition of recent additions to its collection from July 16 to Oct. 9.

Recent: Acquisitions will include more than two dozen works of art in a variety of media: works on paper, decorative arts, works on canvas and a neon light sculpture by Nils Folke Anderson. The museum’s curators of fine art (Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art; Dale Couch, curator of decorative arts; Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art; and Shawnya Harris, the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art) selected them from works that have entered the collection since 2013, the last time the museum presented this kind of exhibition.

Highlights include six mixed-media pieces on gessoed paper by AfricanAmerican artist Freddie Styles, Jean Dufy’s painting “Moulin Rouge” and a double-headed rooster stoneware piece

by Edwin “Nub” Meaders.

Exhibition visitors are invited to choose the subject of a special tour Aug. 10 at 2 p.m. that will focus on a single object. They can vote in the gallery or in a Facebook album on the museum’s page by “liking” a specific work.

The curator who selected the work that wins the most votes will lead the tour.

the workshop, for a question-and-answer session moderated by Lynn Boland, curator of the exhibition Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Grafica Mexicana. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu 90 CARLTON: SUMMER The Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art present this reception featuring the summer exhibitions.

Attendees will enjoy light refreshments, gallery activities, door prizes and “Ask the Experts.” RSVP to gmoarsvp@uga.edu or 706-542-4199. $5; free for members. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. ­706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu

SATURDAY, JULY 23 MIXOGRAFIA Children and adults are invited to learn about the work of international contemporary artists in the exhibition Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Grafica Mexicana, then experiment with papermaking and collage techniques to create their own work of art. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu

COMING UP CLASS ON SUMMER PERENNIALS July 26. A class focusing on plants that thrive ­during the longest and hottest days of the year.

This class will highlight perennials that bloom in late summer. These include, but are not limited to, tall phlox, echinacea and rudbeckia. $20.

3:30 p.m. Visitor Center’s Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu

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MARKETS from page 1 served nearly 1,600 people and sold 9,800 pounds of fresh produce. The 2016 season started the week of June 6 and served 450 residents during its first 10-stop circuit.

The market sold twice the amount of produce its first week of the 2016 season than it did during the first week of 2015.

“I think this is a great idea,” said Roger Hopkins, who met up with the mobile market at the Lou Walker Senior Center on June 9.

“It keeps us from having to drive too far to the farmers market, and any time you can find fresh vegetables like this it’s a good thing.”

Hopkins, who is an active 67-year-old, sometimes doesn’t want to make the drive to his local farmers market and wants to avoid the crowds. For him the mobile market is convenient, but for some of the older members of his community, it’s a lifeline to a healthier diet, he said.

The success of last year’s market was due in large part to buy-in from community members like Hopkins and in part to cooperation

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The Vinson Institute worked with an advisory committee of Georgia economic development experts to develop the 60 hours of coursework required for certification. potential participants, to develop the 60 hours of coursework required for ­certification.

Participants select either the Industry Knowledge or Leadership track, and gain expertise in areas of key competency—professionalism and initiative; technical and industry knowledge; analyzing, assessing and problem solving; relationship building; and leadership and influence.

The program expands on an annual economic development course series that the Vinson Institute created to help economic development professionals enhance their effectiveness. The first two courses were heavily attended, and course participants provided overwhelmingly positive feedback.

Before UGA launched the certification program, the closest one was in Oklahoma, and it didn’t offer the Georgia-specific information that economic developers had been asking for.

“There are incredibly talented professionals in our state working in this area, and they’re hungry for more knowledge,” said Stacy Jones, the Vinson Institute’s associate director of governmental training, education and development. “They’re choosing to invest in themselves, which ultimately leads to improved outcomes in their communities.”

The training, said Kevin Shea, president of the Georgia Economic Developers Association, is critical to retaining talent in Georgia.

“In the local community it makes a big difference because the individuals are more aware of the issues they face on a day-to-day

basis,” Shea said. “Communities can be more confident in people they have working on the front line.”

Greg Sellars has traveled to Macon, Cartersville and Athens for the first three Georgia Certified Economic Developer courses. For Sellars, executive director of the Jefferson County Development Authority, getting certified was a priority even before the new UGA program was announced.

One of the biggest benefits is hearing from his peers about how they’ve tackled challenges he might face. Sellars said the knowledge he picks up in the classroom is like “concrete that hasn’t cured,” until he is able to do something hands-on in his own community.

In the first course, the Economic Development Landscape, he learned about the importance of having a map of a community’s assets. He returned to Louisville and began taking stock of the community assets in Jefferson County. He can now recite by memory the infrastructure capacity of the county’s three industrial parks.

It is knowledge Sellars can share with prospects when they need it, keeping Jefferson County in contention for new development. That scenario—played out in communities across Georgia—leads to a brighter future, Shea said.

“We’re very glad to have been a partner in developing this program,” Shea said.

“We hope to be able to put it to good use and have the state benefit in terms of jobs and investment for future generations of Georgians.”

Bulletin Board New MyID process

The process for requesting a MyID for new UGA employees has changed.

The change does not affect MyIDs for current faculty and staff.

The new process will assign MyIDs that include the new employee’s initials and five random digits (example: gwb12345).

As part of the new process, the form to request a MyID has changed, and now requires authentication through UGA’s Central Authentication Service.

New employees and those without MyIDs are no longer be able to request a MyID for themselves. Instead they should contact their manager or HR representative to have that person complete the MyID request form at myid.uga.edu.

Once the MyID request has been successfully completed, the new employee will be informed by an email from accounts@uga.edu . The email will be sent to the email address of the MyID recipient provided during the MyID request process.

Visit the EITS Helpdesk website at https://confluence.eits.uga.edu/display/ HDSH/MyID+FAQ for information about this change along with ­frequently asked questions.

Email questions about the new process to Keith Martin at keith.martin@uga.edu.

Season basketball tickets

Tickets for the women’s basketball team’s 2016-2017 season are now on sale.

Orders can be placed by calling the UGA Athletic Association ticket office at 1-877-542-1231 or online at http://tinyurl.com/gwox9fj .

General admission season tickets are $40 each.

The priority order deadline for buying season tickets ends Sept. 1. ­Beginning in August, paper applications will be mailed to current season ticket holders who have not renewed.

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

between departments in DeKalb County’s governments and inside the UGA Extension office, according to Von Baker, DeKalb County Family and Consumer Sciences and EFNEP UGA Extension agent.

A team at DeKalb County Public Works’ fleet maintenance department retrofitted the mobile market bus, a hand-me-down prisoner transport bus from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. A bus driver for the county’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs drives the bus, and the DeKalb County Board of Health helps get the word out.

The entire staff from the UGA Extension office in DeKalb County—from administrative assistants to agriculture and natural resources agents, 4-H agents and family and consumer science agents—take turns keeping the mobile market rolling while maintaining their usual workloads.

The market will run 16 weeks through the summer.

NETWORK from page 1 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.” Edwards and her team have designed the deployments with input from fisheries management partners and interests of commercial and recreational fisheries. Gliders also will be outfitted with passive and active acoustic receivers that will record sound and measure signals from tagged fish. Fisheries managers at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, state Department of Natural Resources offices, the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council and others will be able use this information to better understand the ocean “soundscape,” fish migrations and key species use of their habitat.

“The glider missions will contribute important information related to research underway at Gray’s Reef,” said Sarah Fangman, superintendent of Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary. “We have been studying fish movement patterns inside the sanctuary, and the gliders’ acoustic receivers will provide a valuable new tool to expand where we can observe fish movements.”

In addition to regular coordinated experiments with multiple gliders and maximum regional coverage, the project will leverage opportunities to develop regular transects in areas where glider data may be of interest, for example near marine protected areas like

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Bentz, Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland punched their tickets for the men.

Eight American swimmers at the Games is the high-water mark for the UGA program, eclipsing the seven who qualified in 2000 and 2012.

Counting Canadians Brittany MacLean, Chantal Van Landeghem and Javier Acevedo and Finland’s Matias Koski, UGA will have 12 swimmers in Rio. Schmitt and Weir will be making their third Olympic appearances, while ­MacLean

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Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary and other critical habitat zones designated by the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council.

The glider data will provide valuable information about ocean models—regional models of ocean circulation funded by SECOORA as well as the larger modeling community. Further, the data will be packaged and used to improve ocean model forecasts.

“We’re sending all of the glider data to the National Glider Data Assembly Center as it comes in so that it can be assimilated into the U.S. Navy’s operational models,” Edwards said. “The gliders will improve Navy forecasts on the fly with real-time data.”

The remainder of the research team includes Chad Lembke from the University of South Florida, Ruoying He from North Carolina State University, Harvey Seim from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Fumin Zhang from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Data and maps from the project will be shared freely and made available to the research community, fisheries managers and other stakeholders and the general public in near-real time through SECOORA at http://secoora.org and the National Data Buoy Center.

and Koski each will be going for the ­second time. Flickinger, Margalis, Smoliga, Van Landeghem, Bentz, Kalisz, Litherland and Acevedo will be making their Olympic debuts.

The U.S. team will hold training camps in San Antonio July 12-20 and in Atlanta July 22-31.

The opening ceremony in Rio will be Aug. 5. The July 30 session at Georgia Tech will be open to the public from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

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to meet the many challenges facing our nation.”

In attendance were Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Several Georgia members of the House of Representatives also were present.

The event was hosted by Altria Group Inc., and presenting sponsors were General Dynamics, Home Depot and Northrop Grumman. The event also was supported

by The Coca-Cola Company, Lockheed Martin and Southern Company.

“I am truly excited about the future of this program and the students who will become Chambliss Fellows,” Chambliss said. “It is an honor to give back to my alma mater and ensure opportunities like this one endure.”

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