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Artist Martin Johnson Heade remembered as genius in new exhibition

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NYT College Access Index ranks UGA 10th among public universities

By Sam Fahmy

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Auriel Callaway, a Vandiver Hall employee, rides the bulldog during the Staff Appreciation Day event.

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‘Thank you’

Approximately 4,000 employees gather for Staff Appreciation Day activities

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Markize Christian savored the food and had fun playing games, but what the groundskeeper with the Facilities Management Division enjoyed most about Staff Appreciation Day was the opportunity to be with other staff members.

“I used to work in Parking Services, so I saw some of my old co-workers,” he said. “It shows us that we’re appreciated. It shows us how big the university is. We really don’t see this every day. It shows us how many people work here, and it opens our eyes to a bigger campus than we think.”

Rachel Bartlett, a budget specialist in the budget division, agreed.

“It’s just nice to get out of the office and mingle with people on

campus,” she said. “I feel like you don’t really get to interact with people as much, especially in a central office like we are, so it’s nice to see some of the people who are in the units we talk to on a daily basis.”

Approximately 4,000 staff members gathered at the intramural fields for the event—the largest to date—held May 11. Activities for the third annual gathering included food, live music by Back in Time and Tropical Breeze, and a variety of inflatables and lawn games, as well as shaded areas to socialize.

Staff Appreciation Day is hosted by the Office of the President as a sign of gratitude for staff members’ hard work.

“I want to begin today by just saying thank you to all of our staff,” UGA President Jere W. Morehead said at the event. “We appreciate all that you do to support our great

university.”

Ella Stroud, who works in Dining Services at Bolton Dining Commons, enjoyed having “a few hours to relax a little bit” and took part in several games.

Auriel Callaway, a utility worker in Vandiver Hall, said she enjoyed the mechanical bulldog, in particular, as well as the food and treats like cotton candy.

“I’m enjoying everything about today,” she said.

Staff Appreciation Day is coordinated by a committee of representatives from across campus, led by the President’s Office.

“This is truly an exciting way for the University of Georgia to say thank you to our outstanding staff members,” said Arthur Tripp Jr., assistant to the president. “Our planning committee was excited See STAFF on page 4

OFFICE OF INSTRUCTION

The New York Times has once again ranked the University of Georgia 10th among the nation’s top public universities based on its commitment to economic diversity.

The New York Times College Access Index ranks institutions based on the share of incoming first-year students who receive Pell Grants, the graduation rate of those students and the average cost of attendance for low- and middleincome students. Only institutions with an overall five-year graduation rate of 75 percent or higher are examined for the index. UGA is

ranked 27th among all universities.

“The University of Georgia has made tremendous strides in expanding need-based aid for our students, and gifts from alumni, foundations and other supporters will enable us to do even more,” said President Jere W. Morehead.

“Scholarships open doors of opportunity for individuals and help create a better educated population that helps our state and nation thrive.”

UGA has made needbased aid a central pillar of its Commit to Georgia comprehensive capital campaign. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

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OFFICE OF RESEARCH

University announces next steps for research about Baldwin Hall site The University of Georgia will sponsor additional research to learn more about the lives of the individuals whose gravesites were discovered during the construction of the Baldwin Hall expansion. The work is two-pronged, consisting of further DNA analysis of the remains and a historical mapping study to learn more about the physical environment in which the individuals likely lived and worked.

Following the discovery of the remains in November 2015, the university immediately consulted with the State Archaeologist’s Office for guidance. The university then commissioned a team of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students in the anthropology department to explore ancestry, age, sex and other characteristics of the individuals. About one-third of the 105 gravesites

yielded samples suitable for DNA analysis, and the researchers found that the vast majority of these individuals were of maternal African descent.

UGA Vice President for Research David Lee solicited further faculty input following the reinterment of the remains earlier this spring. He also consulted with leaders of the local AfricanAmerican community.

“The university is committed to building upon the preliminary research and learning more about the lives of the men, women and children—who were likely slaves or former slaves, given the time period—whose remains were found adjacent to the Old Athens Cemetery on the Baldwin Hall site,” said Lee. “These additional research efforts will help us in that pursuit.”

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INNOVATION GATEWAY

Big impact: Small Class Size Initiative changes Foundation awards university Innovation Corps Site status how faculty, students interact in classrooms

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

A smaller class size helped Alice Guzman succeed in her Math 1113 class.

“It’s great because you can ask questions. You feel comfortable.

You know your classmates and feel fine studying with them afterwards because you’ve built this relationship with them,” she said. “I enjoyed learning in that class.”

Math 1113 was just one of the courses impacted by the university’s Small Class Size Initiative.

The smaller class size allowed

Guzman’s lecturer, Hee Jung Kim, to incorporate more group activities to help students understand the material and use some written tests in place of electronic tests.

The university invested $4.4 million in 2015-16 to reduce class sizes by hiring 56 faculty members, including Kim, and creating 319 new course sections in 81 majors by the fall 2016 semester.

In fall 2016, 545 additional seats were available as a result of the Small Class Size Initiative, ultimately helping students stay on track to graduate.

The initiative aimed to expand accessibility to high-demand classes and enhance student outcomes for classes with Jason Cantarella high drop or failure rates.

Vice President for Instruction Rahul Shrivastav noted that the new course sections were chosen based on enrollment trends and with an eye toward challenging See CLASS on page 4

By Allyson Mann tiny@uga.edu

The University of Georgia has been named an Innovation Corps Site by the National Science Foundation, enhancing UGA’s ability to turn ideas and research discoveries into commercially viable products or services by providing early evaluation of projects through a customer discovery process.

The I-Corps award will enable UGA to serve up to 30 new startup projects a year, adding to the university’s rapidly growing entrepreneurial ecosystem and assisting the campus-wide collaboration focused

on helping all entrepreneurial projects move to the marketplace.

Innovation Gateway, the university’s arm for translating reIan Biggs search discoveries into products and companies, will serve as the hub for I-Corps UGA. But collaborators will include UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program, College of Engineering, and numerous faculty and staff

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Name: Stefan Schulze

Georgia Fund 2017

Position: Associate Director, Innovation Gateway Startup Incubator At UGA: 17 years

Stefan Schulze

Beneficiary of his gift to the university: UGA Sailing Club

Why he contributes: “The undergraduate college experience is enhanced through access and exposure to recreational and athletic activities that extend beyond formal course work. I support the UGA Sailing Club because it provides an introduction to a co-educational sport that uniquely incorporates elements of physics, geometry, math, psychology and physical fitness.

My contribution is intended to offset the cost of travel to intercollegiate events and the purchase of equipment and supplies.”

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

Digest Chancellor shares implementation guidelines for ‘campus carry’ legislation University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley recently shared implementation guidelines for House Bill 280, commonly known as the “campus carry” legislation, which takes effect July 1, 2017. The implementation guidelines must be followed on all university system campuses, including the University of Georgia, beginning July 1.

House Bill 280 will allow anyone who is properly licensed in the state of Georgia to carry a handgun in a concealed manner on property owned or leased by public colleges and universities, with some exceptions.

Other types of weapons continue to be prohibited on university property, with certain exceptions.

It is the responsibility of license-holders who wish to carry a concealed handgun to familiarize themselves with the law’s requirements. Additional information, including answers to some frequently asked questions, is available at www.usg.edu/hb280.

Grady College alumnus Steve Oney to sign new book of collected profiles June 16

Steve Oney, a 1979 graduate of UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, will be at the University of Georgia Bookstore June 16 from 3-5 p.m. to sign his new book, A Man’s World: Portraits— A Gallery of Fighters, Creators, Actors, and Desperadoes.

Released May 2, A Man’s World is a collection of 20 profiles of men Oney has written about for several magazines over the past 40 years. Oney has focused on capturing the personality, accomplishments, struggles and life journeys of each man profiled. Several of the articles are award winners.

The fighters profiled are Herschel Walker, Chris Leon, Hubie Brown, Aaron Cohen and Jake Jacoby.

The creators are Robert Penn Warren, John Portman, Herb Alpert, Brandon Tartikoff and Mark Lisanti.

The actors are Harrison Ford, Dennis Franz, Nick Nolte, Harry Dean Stanton and Bryan Brown, and the desperadoes are Bo Belinsky, Gregg Allman, Andrew Breitbart, Craig Raywood and Harry Crews.

Oney is also the author of And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, which won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for History.

Oney, a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, was a staff writer for many years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. He has contributed articles to many national publications including Esquire, Playboy, Premiere, GQ and the New York Times Magazine.

Oney, a Grady College Fellow, lives in Los Angeles.

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PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Fanning Institute hosts first Embark Georgia Leadership Conference

By Charlie Bauder

Instead of just hearing about the barriers to college admission that face youths who are homeless or in foster care, about 150 people at UGA for the Embark Georgia Leadership Conference got to experience the obstacles and the frustration.

For about an hour, participants played the roles of students in a simulation of the steps required to graduate from high school and enroll in a university.

Some moved quickly from the state Department of Family and Children Services caseworker through university financial aid, registration and residence hall assignments.

Others were stalled along the way by the Luck Fairy, played by Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, former UGA gymnastics head coach who led the Gymdogs to 10 NCAA championships.

“I’m sorry,” said Yoculan Leebern, as she hugged one student she had bestowed with bad luck.

The student did not have the information required to access federal education funding. As a result, she would not receive financial aid. Without that she would not be able to attend college.

Other students saw their dreams of higher education snuffed out by missing deadlines for tuition payment or registering for classes. Some had the HOPE Scholarship and a federal Pell Grant but still couldn’t afford housing or food.

“There are so many different challenges that students (without a family support system) face that it’s difficult to manage,” said Yoculan Leebern, who gives time and financial support to the program.

Participants came from across Georgia for the two-day inaugural conference, hosted by UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a public service and outreach unit that oversees the Embark program. Embark is a statewide network of higher education professionals who provide support for youths who have experienced foster care or homelessness and are enrolled in or interested in attending any postsecondary educational institution in Georgia.

In addition to the simulation, conference participants heard former foster and homeless students now enrolled in Georgia colleges and universities talk about the challenges they faced after high school when they had no family or other support system to turn to for help.

They also attended breakout sessions to learn about scholarship opportunities, mentoring and fundraising. The conference closed with a luncheon address

by Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University who also founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation’s only translational research laboratory seeking ways to make college more affordable.

“We are excited to bring together the statewide network of Embark leaders who support young people at our institutions of higher education across the state who have experienced foster care or homelessness,” said Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute. “This inaugural Embark Georgia Leadership Conference provides a unique professional development opportunity for Embark leadership to share best practices and learn from each other. We hope to continue this annual conference for years to come.”

Embark Georgia’s statewide network

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Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, former UGA gymnastics head coach, is a supporter of the Embark program.

includes professionals from University System of Georgia and Technical College System of Georgia institutions, and state and private agencies that provide technical assistance, leadership training and financial support to help these youths pursue their educational goals.

As of November 2016, 13,070 young people were in foster care in Georgia, according to state statistics. According to research by Casey Family Programs, 84 percent of youths with foster care experience want to go to college. About 20 percent actually enroll and far fewer complete a degree. Foster youths are three times more likely to persist in college if they participate in a campus support program.

“Having this statewide network in place provides cohesiveness around the state, which will in turn improve outcomes for the young people involved,” said David Meyers, a public service associate at the Fanning Institute.

Self-service guest wireless network pilot now available A pilot of a new WiFi network that allows visitors at the University of Georgia to access a dedicated guest wireless network is now available.

Once on campus, visitors may use their valid personal email address to set up an account that gives them access to the new UGA-Visitors WiFi network.

A username and temporary password will be emailed to the visitor, who will then change the password to their choice.

The pilot is available until Aug. 1.

A survey seeking feedback from users of the new guest wireless network is at https://tinyurl.com/y8fczmso.

This new guest wireless network is intended to allow visitors to onboard themselves to a dedicated guest wireless network without having to contact the EITS Help Desk for a username and password.

Guest accounts on the UGA-Visitors WiFi network will be valid for five days.

After that time, visitors can register again.

Details and instructions are available at wifi.uga.edu.

The existing guest wireless network, Welcome to UGA, is also available.

Visitors must call the EITS Help Desk at 706-542-3106 to get a username and password to access the Welcome to UGA guest wireless network.

UGA students, faculty and staff with a valid MyID should use the PAWSSecure or eduroam wireless networks.

Guest wireless networks provide basic Internet access and limit access to certain UGA-provided resources.

First-place poster winner Madelaine Wendzik shares her work.

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RBC students present research on variety of topics at annual symposium

By Charlene Betourney cbetourney@uga.edu

Thirty-eight presentations on topics ranging from brain disease and stroke to stem cell regeneration and equine muscle damage were addressed at the annual Regenerative Bioscience Center’s Fellows symposium.

The symposium began in 2014 under the leadership of Franklin West, an associate professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, to give students an opportunity to share their research findings and network with peers across research disciplines.

“This year’s symposium is the culmination of a year marked by extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic students,” said West. “I’m very confident that the future scientific enterprise is in really great hands.”

Puliyur MohanKumar, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, opened the symposium with his story of living and sleeping on a dirt floor to becoming a professor and the founder of the Georgia Research Opportunities in Women’s Health (GROWH), a program designed to help engage young scientists with local communities for a lasting positive impact.

“All you have to do is work really hard and always believe that you alone have the choice to be someone better—no matter what the odds,” said MohanKumar.

Students who participated in the symposium as presenters were eligible for awards. A panel of six RBC faculty served as judges.

Awards for best oral presentation went to Maria Naskou, a graduate from the Peroni lab, for “Platelet Lysate as a Novel Serum Free Media Supplement for the Culture of Equine Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells” and to Meghan Logun, a graduate from the Karumbaiah lab, for “Small Molecule GAG-Antagonist Surfen Decreases Glioma Cell Infiltration In Vitro and Attenuates Tumor Growth in Rat Model of Glioma.” The awards for best poster presentation went to Madelaine Wendzik, a graduate from the West lab for “Characterization of a Piglet Model of Traumatic Brain Injury Utilizing Non-Invasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Histological Assessment” and to Adir Mohaban, an undergraduate from the Mortensen lab, for “Small Molecule-Stimulated MSC Adhesion to Enhance Atopic Dermatitis Therapy in Companion Animals.”

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

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

EXHIBITIONS

On the Stump—What Does it Take to Get Elected in Georgia? Through Aug. 18. Special collections libraries.

706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu

The Genius of Martin Johnson Heade.

Through Sept. 10. G ­ eorgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu (See story, right.)

Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan. June 17-Sept. 10. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the 20thCentury Aesthetics of Design. Through Sept. 17. ­Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu Gold-digging in Georgia: America’s First Gold Rush? Through Dec. 5. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu

TUESDAY, JUNE 13 BALDWIN HALL EXPANSION AND RENOVATION DEDICATION CEREMONY 10 a.m. Pinnacle Room, Baldwin Hall.

INNOVATION GATEWAY LUNCH & LEARN The Innovation Gateway Lunch & Learn series provides training and presentation sessions that occur once a month during the lunch hour. The goal is to inform and inspire individuals working with startup companies as well as those interested in issues facing university startups. Topics range from employment issues and tax credits to grant programs and intellectual property.

The Innovation Gateway Lunch & Learn in June will feature Julie Collins, VentureLab principal with the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, who will present on customer discovery and I-Corps. Noon. Conference Room 128/130, CAGTECH. 706-542-8969. tduggins@uga.edu 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 special collections libraries. 2 p.m. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu

will stop to view interesting plants, insects, butterflies, mushrooms, etc., along the way. 8:30 a.m. Meet at Shade Garden Arbor, State Botanical Garden.

THIRD THURSDAY Seven of Athens’ established venues for visual art hold “Third Thursday,” an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Cine, the Classic Center and ATHICA will be open from 6-9 p.m. to showcase their visualarts programming. Full schedules are posted at 3Thurs.org.

THURSDAY TWILIGHT TOUR Tour of highlights from the permanent collection led by docents. 7 p.m.

Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

FRIDAY, JUNE 16 MIDTERM, WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE For Extended Summer Session and Short Session I. BOOK SIGNING Steve Oney will sign copies of his new book, A Man’s World: Portraits—A Galley of Fighters, Creators, Actors, and Desperadoes. 3 p.m. Second floor, bookstore. 706-542-3171. 0095mgr@ follett.com (See Digest, page 2).

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 EXHIBITION OPENING Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan is the first to focus entirely on the artist since his death and includes about 40 prints of sailboats (one of his favorite subjects), architecture and natural beauty.

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

FAMILY DAY: ROCKS, MINERALS, GOLD COINS Family Day, a family-friendly event, includes a tour of the galleries, craft activities and scavenger hunts. This event accompanies the Gold-digging in Georgia: America’s First Gold Rush exhibit. 1 p.m. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079.

MONDAY, JUNE 19

ARTFUL CONVERSATION Join Callan Steinmann, associate curator of education, for a conversation about George Segal’s “Young Woman in Doorway” (1983). 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

UGA SUMMER INTENSIVE COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS UGA summer intensive communication programs for children and adults provide evidence-based intervention and enrichment in early literacy, speech and language production, and social communication for children in a creative, interactive atmosphere. $500 plus $75 supply fee. 9 a.m. 593 Aderhold Hall.

706-542-4598. alacy0@uga.edu

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

TUESDAY, JUNE 20

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14

NATURE RAMBLE Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the Garden. Sessions start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer.

This is a ramble not a hike; the group

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

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ARTIST MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE REMEMBERED AS A GENIUS

Library for Political Research and studies. Participants should meet in the rotunda on the second floor of the special collections libraries. 2 p.m.

706-542-8079. jclevela@ uga.edu

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 TOUR AT TWO Tour of highlights from the permanent collection led by docents. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

THURSDAY, JUNE 22 WORKSHOP Required for departments that are receiving Graduate School funding for a TA to co-teach GRSC 7770 in the 2017-2018 academic year, faculty members and designated graduate teaching assistants attending the threehour “Teaching GRSC 7770: A Course Development Workshop” will work on developing or revising departmental pedagogy courses using a proposed set of guidelines for the course as well as using the best practices of others attending the workshop. 9 a.m.

Conference room, North Plaza. ckuus@uga.edu NATURE RAMBLE Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the Garden. Sessions start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer. This is a ramble not a hike; the group will stop to view interesting plants, insects, butterflies, mushrooms, etc., along the way.

8:30 a.m. Meet at Shade Garden Arbor, State Botanical Garden.

CONVERSATIONS IN FILM Conversations in Film: Reap the Wild Wind is held in conjunction with Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan. Join the Georgia Museum of Art for films discussed by scholars, filmmakers and students. Each film will include a 15-minute introduction by a guest speaker and short conversations about the film following the screening.

7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

MONDAY, JUNE 26 EID AL-FITR Islamic religious observance.

COMING UP J. PHIL CAMPBELL CENTER CORN BOIL June 27. UGA researchers will run down their latest work in sustainable agriculture practices at UGA’s J. Phil Campbell Sr. Research and Education Center. The day will include tours of research plots and conclude with a lunch starring corn grown using a living mulch system.

9:30 a.m. 1420 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. 706-310-2253. eelsner@uga.edu REST OF THE STORY BOOK CLUB MEETING June 27. Monthly book club with light refreshments and discussion on works connected to exhibitions, programs and collections at the special collections

Works by Martin Johnson Heade, such as “Magnolia Grandiflora,” will be on exhibit at the Georgia Museum of Art through Sept. 10.

By Alexandra Kenneweg akenn@uga.edu

Dramatic landscapes, exotic subjects and vibrant colors all characterize the work of the once forgotten artist Martin Johnson Heade. Now recognized as one of the most important painters of the 19th century, Heade devoted equal time to landscape, marine and still-life subjects but is best known for his studies of tropical birds and flowers.

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition The Genius of Martin Johnson Heade through Sept. 10.

Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition shows Heade’s creative range of work, from an early folk portrait to a late magnolia still life. The Georgia Museum of Art does not have any works by Heade in its permanent collection.

Born in 1819 in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, Heade first studied art with folk artist Edward Hicks. From his rural beginnings in a town where his family ran the general store, he traveled to Rome, Chicago, New York City, Brazil, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Colombia and Panama. His close friend, artist Frederick Edwin Church, inspired his trips to South and Central America, but Heade’s close-up views of tropical flora and fauna differed from Church’s dramatic landscapes painted there. When Heade painted landscapes, he often focused on New England’s salt marshes and seascapes.

Late in his life, he wrote of his travels south, “A few years after my first appearance in this breathtaking world [1863], I was attacked by the all-absorbing hummingbird craze, and it has never left me since.” His goal was to document the birds in an illustrated publication, much like John James Audubon’s Birds of America, but he never managed to do so, although he painted more than 40 images for the project.

“This exhibition offers the museum the opportunity to closely examine Heade’s lush use of color and his meticulous attention to detail from his New England beaches to his South American hummingbirds and orchids,” said Sarah Kate Gillespie, the museum’s curator of American art.

“This exhibition also contextualizes Heade’s work amongst that of his contemporaries, allowing us to exhibit important artists we don’t have represented in our permanent collection, such as Asher B. Durand and Fitz Henry Lane,” she also said. “The conversations among these works and artists highlight Heade’s skill and accomplishment.”

Unlike many of these contemporaries, Heade was marginalized by the New York art world. For example, he was never offered membership in the National Academy of Design.

The museum has many programs related to the exhibition, including a public tour on July 19 at 2 p.m.; 90 Carlton: Summer, the museum’s quarterly reception ($5, free for members of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art) on July 28 at 5:30 p.m.; and a Toddler Tuesday on Aug. 8 at 10 a.m. (space is limited; email sagekincaid@uga.edu or call 706-542-0448 after July 1 to reserve a spot). All events are open free to the public unless otherwise indicated. libraries. June’s selection: Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride. 5:30 p.m. 258 special collections libraries. 706-542-5788. jhebbard@uga.edu TOUR AT TWO June 28. Join docents for a special tour of Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the 20th-Century Aesthetics of Design.

2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662.

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CLASSES END June 29. For Short Session I. NATURE RAMBLE June 29. Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the Garden. The group will stop to view interesting plants, insects, etc. 8:30 a.m. Meet at Shade Garden Arbor, State Botanical Garden.

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across campus.

“The hardest steps in creating a startup are at the beginning,” said Ian Biggs, senior associate director of UGA’s Innovation Gateway and the program’s lead. “Becoming an I-Corps Site will allow us to provide more robust services, including financial resources. We’ll be able to help anyone with an entrepreneurial idea that needs testing in the marketplace. This also builds on the recent $500,000 award from the Department of Commerce to create a prototyping center focused on engineering and materials science.”

UGA is one of 50-plus I-Corps Sites, programs that are based at academic institutions to catalyze the engagement of multiple local teams in technology transition and innovation. Ideas or projects supported by I-Corps Sites must be focused in an area of science, technology, engineering or mathematics but can originate from faculty research, student work, industrial projects or ideas from the community.

The award provides funding that will help teams—of faculty, students, staff and others—better evaluate their ideas, improve risk assessment and define success earlier.

Having access to NSF resources will allow the teams to conduct in-depth analyses, leading to more reliable outcomes and will be particularly helpful to projects from the College of Engineering and the New Materials Institute.

The award provides up to $100,000 annually for five years, enabling support for 30 teams working on commercialization projects that show potential for transition to the marketplace.

I-Corps Sites provide resources to individuals and teams in the form of space, seed funding, entrepreneurial mentoring, curriculum or other needed assets. For three months, the program contributes up to $3,000 total per team that can be used to create a prototype or minimum viable product, travel to consult with potential clients or experts, and to seek training or education.

“The I-Corps award adds to the tools in UGA’s expanding entrepreneurial

landscape, which includes collaborations across campus and the region,” said UGA Vice President for Research David Lee. “Teams of faculty and students will be able to explore their ideas from product development through customer discovery, learning about entrepreneurship and how to transition their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace.”

Since 1978, more than 600 products and 150 startup companies have originated from UGA faculty and students. These entrepreneurial efforts, ranging from smart coatings to pharmaceuticals to peanuts, reflect the diversity of UGA’s research engine. In the last year, Innovation Gateway has increased the number of startup projects in its pipeline by 40 percent.

According to the most recent data from the Association of University Technology Managers, UGA ranks among the top five U.S. universities for new products reaching the market for the third consecutive year; among the top 10 U.S. universities for total licenses, option agreements executed and active licenses for the ninth consecutive year; and among the top 20 U.S. public universities in licensing revenue for the 12th consecutive year.

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to put together such an incredible event.”

Michael Lewis, an IT support coordinator in the geology department and chair of UGA’s Staff Council, thought the event went well.

“The staff really enjoyed today—the music, food, fun and especially the appreciation expressed by President Morehead and the administration for all the work we do all year,” he said.

The event is supported by private funds and by corporate sponsors such as Georgia United Credit Union, Kaiser Permanente, Valic, BB&T, Athens First Bank and Trust, AT&T, TIAA-CREF, Optum, WastePro, M&M Rentals and Piedmont Health.

Bulletin Board Parking permit registration

Parking permit registration continues for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Use your online account to log in and register at www.parking.uga.edu before 5 p.m. on June 30 to be considered in the first and largest round of permit assignments. After June 30, fewer permit assignments will be available, and you may be placed on the waiting list for a parking permit. If you are waitlisted, you can upgrade your lot assignment throughout the year as assignments are based on space availability during weekly assignments.

If you do not register, no lot guarantee or “grandfathering” will occur.

When registering, you may make up to five lot selections. For best chances of success, make selections where your priority group has precedence on the parking priority chart.

For additional information about the priority system or to view an updated map, visit www.parking.uga.edu.

Assistance with parking registration is available in the Parking Services Office weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Lodging exemption

To ensure UGA is able to provide the safest and most cost effective experience for its students and faculty abroad, university officials requested an exemption to the Statewide Travel Policy that prohibited the use of AirBNB, VRBO and/or other similar services for international lodging.

The State Accounting Office, in partnership with the Office of Planning and Budget, reviewed the request and an exemption was granted for the use of AirBNB, VRBO and/or similar services for international travel lodging needs only. This exemption does not apply to domestic lodging needs.

Contact Andre Simmons in the Accounts Payable Department at asimmons@uga.edu with questions about the exemption.

Minors policy

The University of Georgia is committed to providing a safe environment for all minors participating in programs and activities on campus or otherwise affiliated with the university.

In accordance with this commitment and with board of regents policy 12.9, the University Cabinet adopted a Policy for Programs and Activities Serving Minors at its April 26 meeting. Effective May 1, the policy was extended to all university-sponsored programs/activities, as well as any third-party organizations that use university facilities for programs and activities serving minors (defined as persons under the age of 18 years) who are not UGA students.

The policy may be found at programsforminors.uga.edu/policy.

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contributed $30 million—the largest single gift received by the university to date—to expand need-based aid for students, and Morehead announced the Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program in his 2017 State of the University address. Through the Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program, the UGA Foundation will match any gift to establish an endowed need-based scholarship in the amount of $50,000, $75,000 or $100,000. The initiative is expected to create as many as 400 to 600 new annual scholarships, and more than 90 have been created to date.

The top 10 public universities on the

College Access Index also include several institutions in the University of California system, the University of Florida, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Texas A&M University. Among both public and private universities, Georgia Tech is ranked 64th while Emory University is ranked 76th.

UGA is consistently ranked among the nation’s very best public universities. It is ranked 18th among public universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking, for example, and is ranked 10th in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance list of 100 best values among public colleges and universities.

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courses in STEM and business where students would benefit from more personalized attention.

“Once they’re in the job market, today’s students will be required to use even more analytical skills to keep up with the pace of technology,” said Shrivastav. “The question is, how do we prepare them to be ready for these advances? There is a lot of conversation around how we improve learning outcomes overall, and this was just one piece of many different things.”

The initiative is making a difference after just one semester. The drop/fail/withdraw rate in precalculus was 33 percent last year, above the national average of 27 percent. For the fall 2016 semester, the DFW rate was cut by more than half to 14 percent. In addition to DFW rates, other data being tracked includes student evaluations, test scores and course grades, as well as the impact on time to graduation and retention rates.

“When you’re in a large class, it’s easy for someone to get lost,” Shrivastav said.

“When you’re in a smaller class, you have that personal attention that has a lot of impact.”

The initiative not only impacts the way students learn, but it also changes the way faculty approach teaching the material.

“The benefits, in my opinion, include greater interaction with individual students, better understanding of students, more individual student attention and a greater level of student participation from those who wouldn’t otherwise feel comfortable contributing in a larger group setting,” said Andrea Swartzendruber, an assistant professor in the College of Public Health hired as part of the initiative to teach Intermediate Biostatistics and Fundamentals of Epidemiology. “I love getting to know what my students care about, what inspires them and what they plan on doing in their careers. I then try to use that information to incorporate relevant examples and real-world scenarios.”

William Graham, head of the math department, said having a smaller class size allowed him to incorporate more group work into his Math 1113 lessons. Kim mentioned that she added more activities, including a review session based on the TV-game show Jeopardy!

“Active learning, in general, is something that seems very valuable,” Graham said. “The next time I teach this class, I’ll probably try to do even more of it.”

From a student perspective, Guzman said that a smaller class size helped her feel more comfortable asking questions and working with her classmates.

“It’s given me room to be more adaptable,” said Jason Cantarella, associate head of the math department. “With such a small number of people, there is a lot more flexibility in the schedule. If someone is not getting it, I can say, ‘OK, we’re just going to stop here and talk to you—that one person—and have a conversation until that person is good with the material.’ ” “The mathematics department deserves a lot of credit for its efforts in making this initiative successful,” Shrivastav said. “The faculty have set a great example of how to teach a complex subject matter while maintaining a rigorous curriculum. The small class initiative allowed them to make impactful pedagogical changes, which, in turn, resulted in successful learning outcomes for their students.”

The Office of Research will coordinate the next steps as follows: 1. The university will commission further DNA analysis to be conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin who specialize in the analysis of ancient DNA. These researchers already have been engaged with UGA assistant professor Laurie Reitsema in the first phase of research, which provided information only about maternal ancestry. The additional analysis will provide information about paternal ancestry and, thus, paint a comprehensive picture of ancestral origin.

It also will confirm the sex of the individuals and determine whether any of those buried on the site were related to one another.

This detailed analysis should be completed within the coming year.

2. The supplemental DNA information gained through Step 1 could provide the reference materials needed to determine if any living community members are related to the individuals whose remains were found at the Baldwin Hall site.

The Office of Research is exploring the means by which to make this option available, as economically as possible, to local citizens wishing to pursue a possible DNA linkage.

3. Professor Marguerite Madden, director of UGA’s Center for Geospatial Research, will lead a team to create a dynamic timeseries visualization of the cultural and natural landscape surrounding Baldwin Hall from the 1800s to the present. This project will incorporate historic maps, aerial photographs, satellite images and drone video to reveal more about the environment in which the individuals buried on the Baldwin Hall site lived and worked.

In addition, the research will document the evolution of the cemetery and campus to present day. Most of this research will be done over the next several months.

Madden’s efforts will complement those of Southeastern Archaeological Services Inc., which will be conducting archival research and mapping services using groundpenetrating radar to identify, to the extent possible via this technology, the boundaries of the Old Athens Cemetery. Southeastern’s mapping data will be included in the final report on the Baldwin Hall site that is required for submittal by the Office of University Architects to the State Archaeologist’s Office.

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