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Career outcomes rate reaches 95% or more for fifth year in a row

By Emily Ann Munnell eamunnell@uga.edu

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From left, Mary Frances Early College of Education Dean Denise Spangler, Mary Frances Early, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Strategic University Initiatives Michelle Cook and President Jere W. Morehead stand in front of the new signage at Aderhold Hall.

Honoring a pioneer

College of Education named for Mary Frances Early

By Heather Skyler

heatherskyler@uga.edu

The University of Georgia held a ceremony Feb. 25 to celebrate the naming of its College of Education in honor of Mary Frances Early, UGA’s first African American graduate and a pioneering music educator.

The event, held in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, was attended by a near-capacity crowd.

“With her historic legacy at the University of Georgia, it is fitting that Ms. Early is making history once again as the first African American to have a college or school named in their honor at this institution,” President Jere W. Morehead said at the ceremony.

“I think about the poem by Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken,’ ” Early said in her remarks. “We all

have choices to make, and my choice was not the easy road or the wellknown road. … I chose to take ‘the road less traveled by’ because I saw the need to do something. When I chose to come to the University of Georgia, I wanted to open the doors for graduate students. I had to make a contribution to help make our state better, and the thing I knew I could do was go to school, so that’s what I did.”

The naming ceremony was held in conjunction with the 20th annual Mary Frances Early Lecture.

Albany State University President Marion Ross Fedrick delivered this year’s lecture. Fedrick earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Georgia and is currently pursuing a doctorate in UGA’s Institute of Higher Education.

Fedrick said that she was a direct beneficiary of Early’s actions and that

Early’s story served as a personal motivator for her.“She led like a hero as a servant leader with grace and persistence,” Fedrick said. Fedrick was moved by Early’s “willingness to place herself in the eye of the storm” to improve the lives of others. She encouraged audience members to likewise place the needs of others ahead of their own and to do what they can to help students overcome obstacles to their success.

Other speakers included Chancellor of the University System of Georgia Steve Wrigley, Mary Frances Early College of Education Dean Denise Spangler and Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Strategic University Initiatives Michelle Cook. Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp, both alumni of UGA, also were in attendance.

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COLLEGE OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES

University of Georgia Class of 2019 graduates are employed or attending graduate school within six months at a rate of 95%— 8% higher than the national average.

Regarding these 2019 UGA graduates: • 66% were employed full time; • 19% were attending graduate school; and • Approximately 10% were engaged in postgraduation internships, fellowships, residencies, postdoctoral research, part-time jobs or have reported their status as entrepreneurs.

“Students continue to excel in their postgraduate endeavors as

UGA’s career outcomes rate has been 95% or above over the past five years,” said Scott Williams, executive director of the UGA Career Center. “This extraordinary level of consistency demonstrates that our students’ strong academic performance is supported through career readiness skills development and complemented by experiential learning.”

UGA graduates are making an impact in positions across all sectors of the economy from business to government, nonprofit to education. More than 3,000 unique employers hired Class of 2019 UGA graduates. Top employers for the Class of 2019 include Emory Healthcare, Delta Air Lines, The

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DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

Dance Marathon raises $1.25M to support Children’s Healthcare

By Marilyn Primovic mjp82278@uga.edu

Hundreds of students danced nonstop for 25 hours from Feb. 22-23 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of UGA Miracle’s Dance Marathon, which raised $1,251,410.20 for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. “[Over the years], UGA Miracle has raised more than $9.8 million for Children’s,” said Lydia Stinson, senior program coordinator at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

“They have truly helped make miracles in our hospital by kids

being able to walk again or ring the bell from finishing their cancer treatment.”

The amount raised supports Children’s Rehab Services and the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. UGA Miracle helped fund the construction of Children’s new aquatic therapy pool, which is home to one of the only pediatric aquatic therapy pools in the Southeast.

When they first raised $1 million, the large gym on the inpatient rehab floor was named the UGA Miracle Gym. “Last year, we saw patients from

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

How to talk to your child about coronavirus Internationally known researcher

By Leigh Beeson your child is getting. Depending China, explain to your child that lbeeson@uga.edu

Disease outbreaks are scary, especially when it’s a new virus that’s infecting people on a large scale.

With stories about the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, plastering almost every news site, it can be more than a little daunting to sort through the information without freaking out. And if adults are worried, you can bet your kids probably are, too.

But COVID-19 doesn’t have to be a viral boogeyman. Honesty and directness are key to having a productive conversation with your child about this new disease, said Diane Bales, associate professor of human development and family science at the University of Georgia.

Here are a few tips on how to frame that chat to relieve your child’s fears about the virus: Monitor the information

on how old your kid is, a lot of what they’re seeing may be from social media, which is not always the most reliable source of information. You want to make sure to watch and contextualize what your child is reading or hearing. Answer their questions honestly without going into too much detail, if it’s not required.

Explain what’s going on at their developmental level. “Very young children who don’t have the basic ability to understand how germs are spread are just going to be scared by this information,” said Bales. You may need to explain that process on their level to help them understand that they’re not going to spontaneously get sick from the virus and that there are things they can do to stay healthy.

Put the outbreak in scope.

Wi t h o u t d i m i n i s h i n g t h e effect the outbreak is having on

COVID-19 isn’t widespread in the U.S. Help them understand that they aren’t likely to come into contact with the virus.

Give children a sense of agency. Teaching kids to wash their hands regularly and sneeze into their elbows instead of their hands gives them a sense of control over their bodies. “It gives them a feeling of ‘there’s this thing out there that’s scary but there are things I can do to prevent getting it,’ ” Bales said.

Use the opportunity to explain why it’s important to stay home if you feel sick. Sometimes parents don’t even realize the potential seriousness of sending their kids to school while they’re still contagious. This is a good opportunity to teach children (and remind yourself) how important it is to limit contact with people while sick to avoid spreading their bug to other people.

named Distinguished Professor

By Mike Wooten

mwooten@uga.edu

Jenna Jambeck, internationally recognized for her work to reduce plastic waste entering the ocean, has been named the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering.

A member of the University of Georgia faculty since 2009, Jambeck conducts research and teaches environmental engineering with a focus on solid waste management and marine debris. As associate director of UGA’s New Materials Institute and director of the Center for Circular Materials Management, Jambeck is shifting the paradigm of waste management to proactive materials management. This means thinking about how to create less waste and

managing materials before any “waste” is produced.

“Although this global issue takes me to far corners of the planet, my home is at Jenna Jambeck UGA working on campus with many students and collaborators across disciplines,” said Jambeck. “I am so grateful to the Georgia Athletic Association for this honor, and the professorship helps to continue our work to protect our environment and ocean, both locally and around the world.”

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STAFF COUNCIL, DIVISION OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Staff Resources Fair will take place on March 10 at Tate Student Center

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Alison Banks won first place in the graduate student category of the Capturing Science Contest.

Capturing Science Contest encourages students to put communication skills to work

By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu

When most people think of climate science, their only visual reference is a disaster movie. But Alison Banks knows that things are more complicated. As she modeled scenarios in her work as a master’s student in geography, Banks was inspired to create her own representation of the possibilities.

With an image in her head that draws from Dante’s journey in “Inferno” through the circles of hell, Banks set to work on an art project that combines the positives and the negatives that could occur based on various models developed through her research.

The finished project earned Banks $1,000 and first place in the graduate student category of the Capturing Science Contest, sponsored by the University of Georgia Libraries and Office of Research.

Creativity and clarity are the hallmarks of the Capturing Science Contest, which was created three years ago to encourage students to put their communication skills to work.

Students can submit a project in a variety of formats and genres, and among this year’s entries were music compositions, videos, creative writing, learning activities and more.

The 50 entries encompassed a range of fields from chemistry to math, and they ranged from a lesson plan to explain the link between tree rings and archaeology to a spoof of The Bachelorette to explain how animals choose a mate.

For Madison Smith, it seemed natural to teach people about engineering through a game. The fifth-year environmental engineering student is a self-proclaimed “huge nerd about board games,” and she loves getting together with friends to play a few rounds of “Catan” or “Terraforming Mars.”

The idea for her Capturing Science project came to her one restless night while she pondered a class lecture about how even the most complex machines begin with some simple engineering concepts.

As she edited the rules and created the game pieces using the Science Library’s Makerspace, Smith said she learned a lot about how to introduce the concepts to people who weren’t experts in engineering.

While her friends use social media and other means to talk about science, Banks isn’t comfortable communicating in that way. With her project, she says she found her niche.

In addition to Smith, the other undergraduate student winners of the 2019-2020 Capturing Science Contest are Madison Breda, David DiGioia, Eve Reiter and Hannan Potsma.

In addition to Banks, graduate student winners are Michael Francis, Sohyun Bang and Katharine Napora.

The third annual UGA Staff Resources Fair will be held March 10 from 1-4 p.m. in Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center. Free parking will be available at the Tate Center parking deck.

Open to the UGA community, the event again is being organized and presented by the UGA Staff Council and the Vice President for Finance & Administration’s Staff Representative Group. Based on feedback from attendees, last year’s fair was a huge accomplishment, according to Savannah Hembree, an event coorganizer and chair of the F&A Staff Representative Group.

“We are always amazed at the positive response of the UGA community toward the Staff Resources Fair,” said Hembree. “It is great to see the different groups on campus really take advantage of the free marketing at the Staff Resources Fair to help promote their resources and the benefit to UGA staff members.”

This year’s Staff Resources Fair will bring together various on-campus partners who will provide information about services available to UGA staff.

“The Staff Resources Fair is a great way for our staff and on-campus partners to connect and share the vast array of resources available to the university community. I look forward to seeing everyone at this year’s fair, as it will be bigger and better than ever,” said

Andrew Davis Tucker

Staff members get information at the University Health Center’s booth at the first Staff Resources Fair.

Marie Mize, president of the UGA Staff Council. “I especially want to thank those who help plan and prepare for such a wonderful community event.”

In addition to talking with oncampus partners, fair attendees will have the opportunity to be included in various drawings for prizes.

Last year, more than 60 UGA departments and close to 700 UGA staff participated in the fair. Organizers hope that this year’s event will be just as successful, as many on-campus partners have already signed on to attend the event.

Funding and co-sponsorship for the

Staff Resources Fair is made possible through various groups including the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice President for Finance & Administration, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Dean of Students, the Terry College of Business, UGA Dining Services, UGA Transportation & Parking Services, Equal Opportunity Office and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.

For more information, email UGASC@uga.edu or Hembree at shembree@uga.edu.

COMMUNITY CONNECTION

Atlanta community-based organization leaders ‘Learn and Connect’ with UGA

Andrew Davis Tucker

Michelle Cook, right, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and strategic university initiatives, greets Suzanne Diggs-Wilborn, vice president for college success of Achieve Atlanta, prior to the kickoff luncheon of a “Learn and Connect” event that brought representatives from 18 Atlanta Community Based Organizations to campus on Feb. 20-21. Representatives from College AIM, the Latin American Association and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Atlanta were also among the organizations that attended the event.

“Learn and Connect” is an initiative of the Office of the President to further the university’s reach and help underrepresented and underserved communities with college access and knowledge about UGA. The event was sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and included opportunities for community partners to learn about the university’s recruitment methods, support for students and how students foster community on campus.

COLLEGE OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES

Inaugural UGA Obesity Initiative research symposium to feature four national experts

By Cal Powell

jcpowell@uga.edu

The University of Georgia Obesity Initiative will host its inaugural research symposium on March 5 featuring four nationally known obesity experts and a student research competition. The event is free and open to the public.

“We’re excited to host this symposium and believe it will be a great opportunity for students and faculty to come together to discuss this pressing issue,”said Jamie Cooper,director of the UGA Obesity Initiative and associate professor in the College

of Family and Consumer Sciences.

“We’ve assembled an amazing panel of expert researchers from diverse fields, ranging from basic science to policy work, all with the focus of obesity prevention and treatment.”

Launched in 2012, the UGA Obesity Initiative seeks to promote multidisciplinary research that will inform effective and sustainable obesity prevention and treatment programs across the lifespan. Faculty members from several UGA colleges are involved in the initiative.

The four experts who will give presentations are: • Jeni Burnette, associate professor

of psychology at North Carolina State University. Burnette’s research focuses on how mindsets matter for dieting self-regulation and weightloss goal achievement.

• Rita Hamad, social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the family and community medicine department at the University of CaliforniaSan Francisco. Hamad’s research focuses on the pathways linking poverty and education with health disparities across the lifespan.

• Alyssa Hasty, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and

associate dean for faculty development of the basic sciences in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Hasty, who developed one of the first mouse models to study obesity-related hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis, also serves as a research health scientist with the TennesseeValley Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

• Corby Martin, director of the Ingestive Behavior Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Martin has extensive experience conducting interventions to improve food intake, exercise and

body weight. His research interests include the application of technology to change people’s behavior and improve their health through mobile health interventions.

The symposium will begin with the student research competition, featuring presentations from several UGA graduate students on a variety of topics.

The symposium begins at 9:30 a.m. at the UGA Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

For more information, visit https://obesity.uga.edu/annualresearch-symposium/.

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Digest Founding president of Volcker Alliance to give 2020 Getzen Lecture March 4

Andrew Davis Tucker

Shown from left, undergraduate students Danny Wang, Sarah-Jane Hanig, Aniyah Norman and Cameron Williams work together in a group in their Calculus I class inside a classroom in the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center.

‘Talent development’

Class redesign increases student success in math

By Janis Gleason jgleason@uga.edu

A significant redesign of two foundational mathematics courses at the University of Georgia has led to remarkable gains in student success, including an increase from 65% to 85% of students who pass precalculus.

While the DFW (grade of D, grade of F or Withdrawal) rate for students taking precalculus averages 27% nationally, according to the Mathematical Association of America, the DFW rate at UGA has dropped from 35% six years ago to approximately 15% last fall. Similarly, the DFW rate for students taking calculus has dropped from 29% to 21%.

“Increasing the number of students who succeed in passing these math classes opens the door for them to pursue majors and careers in the sciences, business and engineering,” said Rahul Shrivastav, vice president for instruction.“This talent development supports the state of Georgia’s industry and employment needs.”

In 2018, 40% of the student body at UGA had declared a major in science,

technology, engineering or mathematics, up 20% since 2013.

“About 300 more students are passing precalculus and about another 150 are passing calculus every year,” said Jason Cantarella, professor and associate head of mathematics. About 1,700 students take precalculus and roughly the same number enroll in calculus every year at UGA. “Now 450 more students who pass precalculus or calculus can pursue STEM majors, get into Terry business school or do not have to repeat a class,” he added.

Kelly Black, precalculus coordinator who has been involved in the transformation of the classes, expanded on Cantarella’s thoughts. “We want to be a pathway to student success,” he said.

“We want to help students meet their goals and dreams.”

Cantarella is quick to credit the increase in funding the department received three years ago as part of the Small Class Size Initiative that reduced class size to 19 or fewer students in each section (previously the average class size was 38).

With smaller classes in place, Cantarella said math faculty participated in the Active Learning Summer Institute to redesign the way the classes are taught from a lecture format to a studentcentered active learning format. The revised courses have three main parts: pre-class video assignments, pre-class problem sets and in-class group work.

The math faculty have also created workbooks and other materials for these classes and train graduate students to teach the classes in a more active way.

“When students come to class, they’re going to be active and work on problems,” said Jennifer Royal, calculus coordinator. “Before they come to class, they get an introduction to the concept on videos. Since they’re going to be working through the problems together, students feel more motivated to work to understand the concepts before they get to class because they don’t want to let their teams down.”

“We’re a research department in a research university, but we take our teaching mission very seriously,” added Cantarella. “These courses are an important part of our mission.”

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA BOARD OF REGENTS

College of Engineering institute wins teaching award

By Jessica Story

jessica.story25@uga.edu

The University System of Georgia has named the Engineering Education Transformations Institute in the UGA College of Engineering the winner of its 2020 Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program.The award showcases an outstanding department or program—selected from among all 28 institutions within the university system—that promotes, supports and recognizes excellence in teaching and service to students.

“The university congratulates the Engineering Education Transformations Institute on this high-level recognition,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “Its members’ commitment to student learning and success in engineering is inspiring, and their innovative work has the potential to benefit students and faculty across all STEM disciplines at UGA and beyond.”

The University System of Georgia

honored EETI last month at its annual Board of Regents’ Scholarship Gala.

The Engineering Education Transformations Institute is composed of faculty, staff, researchers and students from three schools and 15 degree programs in the College of Engineering. It seeks to transform engineering education by building social capital and shared capacity around the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering.

Through research, education forums, teaching and learning communities, and support for project development and travel, EETI is creating a community that is passionate about improving the educational experience of engineering students. The institute offers Georgia’s only doctoral program in engineering education, and it encourages undergraduate students to work alongside faculty on nationally funded engineering education projects.

The USG Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award is one of several honors EETI has earned for its pioneering work

in the past year. The institute won best overall paper at the 2019 Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference. Also in 2019, the Faculty Development Division at the American Society of Engineering Education annual conference awarded EETI its Best Paper Award for the description of the institute’s vision and impact on institutional change. The institute also received a $1 million National Science Foundation Education and Human Resources core award to increase capacity in STEM education research methods.

“The Engineering Education Transformations Institute has emerged as a powerful voice in efforts to strengthen our teaching and enhance our students’ educational experience,” said Donald Leo, dean of the College of Engineering. “This recognition from the board of regents is well deserved, and I’m certain EETI’s work will continue to have a positive impact on engineering education, not only at UGA but also at our peer institutions around the world.”

Shelley Metzenbaum, founding president of the Volcker Alliance, will deliver the annual Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability on March 4 at 1:30 p.m.

Metzenbaum will discuss “Accountability: What Does It Mean, Constructively Managing It and Avoiding the Blame and Claim Game” in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. Sponsored by UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs and the public administration and policy department, the lecture is open free to the public.

Metzenbaum has led federal efforts to improve government outcomes, productivity and accountability as associate director for performance and personnel management at the Office of Management and Budget and subsequently served as founding president of the Volcker Alliance.

The Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability is made possible by UGA alumni Katherine Getzen Willoughby and Dan Hall Willoughby Jr. in honor of her parents, Evangeline Sferes Getzen and Forrest William Getzen, lifelong advocates of public service and education.

EITS will conduct maintenance on university network on March 7

EITS will be conducting maintenance of the university network on March 7.

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

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

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

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

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

Circle of Honor adds four members

Two-time NCAA champion gymnast Jenni Beathard, record-setting placekicker Kevin Butler, All-American golfer Nick Cassini and basketball great Jarvis Hayes became the latest inductees into the University of Georgia’s Circle of Honor in a formal ceremony on Feb. 7 in the West End Zone area of Sanford Stadium.

In addition, Carla Williams received the Bill Hartman Award, one of the highest individual honors given to a former UGA student-athlete.

The Hartman Award recognizes those who have demonstrated excellence in their profession and/or in service to others by 20 or more years of superior performance after graduation. The current athletic director at the University of Virginia, Williams is a former All-SEC basketball player, assistant coach and administrator at UGA.

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

Rachel Whiteread. Through March 8. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

Hodgson Singers will perform timeless program for Thursday Scholarship Series

The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean.

Through March 29. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

Kevin Cole: Soul Ties. Through April 19. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

Reflecting on Rembrandt: 500 Years of Etching Through April 19.

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

The Strategies of Suffrage: Mobilizing a Nation for Women’s Rights. Through July 2. Hargrett Library Gallery, Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries. 706-583-0213. jhebbard@uga.edu.

Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome. Through Aug. 23.

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

Paving the Road to Progress: Georgia Interstate Highways.

Through Aug. 31. Russell Gallery, Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu.

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In Dialogue: Cecilia Beaux’s “Twilight Confidences”.

Through Nov. 15. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1817. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MONDAY, MARCH 2 PROJECT STATUS REPORT TRAINING This in-person training on the new Project Status Report is targeted at faculty and staff, particularly those who need help determining the balance on a sponsored project. This is interactive training held in a computer lab with time for questions, as well as demonstrations using projects familiar to the class attendees. The class will also cover subscribing to and customizing reports. Sign up at https://pep.uga.edu/. 3 p.m. Room K, Training and Development Center.

LECTURE “As It Lies: A Natural History of Untruth,” Henry M. Cowles, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the history and philosophy departments and the Scott and Heather Kleiner Lecture Series in Philosophy Fund. 3:30 p.m. 101 LeConte Hall.

UGA I-CORPS SPRING 2020 SHOWCASE UGA I-Corps is the NSF-funded program to give UGA teams (faculty, students and community) the training and funds needed to begin understanding the value they might provide to customers. Several teams in Cohort 8 will be ready to talk about their ventures. Registration is requested. 5:30 p.m. Room 130 (Critique Space), Jackson Street Building.

FILM SCREENING Screening of Iron Jawed Angels for Women’s History Month.

6:30 p.m. 271 Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 WORKSHOP This workshop features Mary Lynn Realff, who leads the Effective Team Dynamics initiative at Georgia Tech, and Ruth Poproski, associate director for teaching and learning. They’ll share new tools for preventing and managing barriers to effective teamwork, strategies and frameworks for inspiring honest and thoughtful feedback through peer evaluation and an array of evidence-based approaches to creating rich learning experiences for students through their participation in team-based projects. 9:30 a.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-1355. jamie.adair@uga.edu.

TOUR AT TWO Annelies Mondi, deputy director and curator of the installation, will give a talk on Rachel Whiteread’s work. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR Emma Rosi, senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, will speak. A reception follows the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecology Building lobby. Host: Ecology Graduate Student Organization. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, Ecology Building.

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

BASEBALL vs. Georgia Southern. $8. 5 p.m. Foley Field.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 STAFF COUNCIL MEETING 2:30 p.m. 348 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-0389. jenley11@uga.edu.

Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet to perform March 6 btyler@uga.edu

Material Georgia 1733-1900: Two Decades of Scholarship.

Through March 15. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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

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Hye Kyung Han. Through March 8. Visitor Center, Great Room, State Botanical Garden of Georgia. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection. Through May 10. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

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The Hodgson Singers, who recently performed with Andrea Bocelli at a concert in Atlanta, will take the stage for a Thursday Scholarship Series performance on March 5.

By Camille Hayes ceh822@uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s premier choral ensemble will perform in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Thursday Scholarship Series on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. The UGA Hodgson Singers feature the university’s best undergraduate singers.

“It’s a program that explores themes of life’s culminations and endings, while celebrating the constancy and nobility of the natural world and creation,” said Daniel Bara, the John D. Boyd UGA Foundation Professor of Choral Music and the director of choral activities.

The program is made up of texts that are both sacred and secular, with many pieces written recently.

The final piece by Benjamin Dawson, the UGA Hodgson Singers student composer-in-residence, will be premiered, as well as works by Howard Hanson and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The program features recently composed works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw as well as works by other notable living American composers Jake Runestad, Shawn Kirchner, Jocelyn Hagen and Matthew Hazzard. A particularly poignant part of the concert will feature choral transcriptions of three SEMINAR Innovation District Seminar: “Articulating Innovation.” Industry Panel will answer questions about how innovation is defined, how companies measure innovation and more. Each speaker will outline the ways in which innovation is articulated within their context and how innovative thinking is brought to bear on important organizational challenges. The event will be followed by a networking reception with refreshments and delicious food.

Registration via Eventbrite is requested. 5:30 p.m. Room 130 (Critique Space), Jackson Street Building.

LECTURE The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund presents Beverly Penn, Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork. Penn’s work explores the contradicting need to both idealize and modify the natural environment. She is a tenured professor in the School of Art & Design at Texas State University. 5:30 p.m. S150, Lamar Dodd School of Art. SOFTBALL vs. Georgia Tech. Includes jersey T-shirt giveaway. 6 p.m.

Jack Turner Stadium.

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH KEYNOTE “Women and the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished,” Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University. 6:30 p.m. 271 Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

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

EXHIBIT OPENING AND LECTURE CED alumnus Philip Juras will discuss understanding and preserving landscapes through art, coinciding with the opening of his exhibition in the Circle Gallery. A reception will follow. 5 p.m.

Jackson Street Building.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 INFORMATION SESSION This session will help attendees determine if they are at risk for pre-diabetes and will provide information on the free Diabetes Prevention Program Prevent T2 that will be offered at the university this spring. Noon. Room C, Training and Development Center. 706-542-7319. wellbeing@uga.edu. (See Bulletin Board, page 8.)

SEMINAR “Aerospace Prizes Inspire the Five I’s of Success” will be presented by Darryll J. Pines, Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering and dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. This seminar is part of the College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture: Provost’s Seminar Series and details three aerospace prizes that advanced technology in the aerospace field and spurred job growth and economic development in the U.S. 4 p.m. 175 Coverdell Center.

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iconic and profound post-romantic solo songs by Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler, arranged by Stanley Hoffman, and each featuring Carlos Varela, current DMA piano student.

“I’m excited about the program’s timeless textual themes—mankind’s understanding of life’s purpose and the mystery of life’s end—that are expressed in music from different time periods and styles,” said Bara.

The concert is one of only two solo concerts that the UGA Hodgson Singers give each year in Hodgson Hall.

“These singers’ commitment to choral artistry and to preparing programs that are characterized by their technical finesse, emotional poignancy and their desire to connect emotionally with the audience,” Bara said.

Much of the music on this concert will be recorded professionally for a commercial CD release next year on Gothic Records, the group’s second collaboration with them. The Hodgson Singers also recently performed with Andrea Bocelli in a concert in Atlanta.

Tickets for the concert are $20 for adults or $3 for UGA students and are available at pac.uga.edu.

Live streaming will be available at music.uga.edu/ live-streaming.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 LECTURE “The Cortical Organization of Syntax,” William Matchin, University of South Carolina. Hosted by the linguistics department.

10 a.m. 115 Peabody Hall. 706-542-2846. gordy@uga.edu.

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

BASEBALL vs. Massachusetts. $8. 6 p.m. Foley Field.

UGA Presents is bringing the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet to Athens on March 6 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The quartet’s program will include the Georgia debut of the Piano Quartet composed by four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman. The concert will also feature Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 and Frank Bridge’s Phantasy Quartet.

The Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet was established in 1985 as a chamber music ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker, one of the world’s leading orchestras. Today, the quartet consists of three members of the orchestra—violinist Luis Esnaola, violist Matthew Hunter and cellist Knut Weber—as well as the renowned pianist Markus Groh.

The four musicians devote themselves to the genre of the piano quartet, which has inspired nearly every great composer since the time of Viennese classicism. In addition to the more familiar quartets of classicism, romanticism and modernism, the repertoire of the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet also includes rediscovered masterpieces of the literature and new commissions from contemporary composers.

Elfman’s Piano Quartet was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet in 2017.

A native of Los Angeles, Elfman has scored more than 100 films including Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Milk (Oscar nominated), Good Will Hunting (Oscar nominated), Big Fish (Oscar nominated), Men in Black (Oscar nominated), Edward Scissorhands, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Spiderman. In addition to his film work, Elfman wrote the iconic theme

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

The construction of interstate highways transformed the landscape of the U.S. during the second half of the 20th century; the process also altered the economy, politics and culture of the country.

A new exhibition on display at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries explores the origins and impact of these roads in Georgia with a focus on the political compromises and fiscal policies that made them possible.

Paving the Road to Progress: Georgia Interstate Highways is now on display in the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies’ gallery.

It traverses the rocky path of the interstate system’s development, which cost far more and took much longer than predicted.

“Road politics is a central feature of modern Georgia government,” said Sheryl Vogt, director

BASEBALL vs. Massachusetts. $8. 2 p.m. Foley Field.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10

SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. Girl Power Day with post-game autographs.

2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 BASEBALL vs. Massachusetts. $8. 1 p.m. Foley Field.

SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. Dad and Daughter Day. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

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

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

MONDAY, MARCH 9

HOLI Hindu religious observance. All day.

STAFF RESOURCES FAIR 1 p.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center. 706-542-5845. shembree@uga.edu. (See story, page 2.)

TOUR AT TWO Tour, led by docents, of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 SOFTBALL vs. Furman. $1 hot dogs. 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. Florida. 4 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

2020 STUDENT SPRING BREAK Through March 13. No classes; offices open.

WORKSHOP Also on March 10. Introduction to Sponsored Projects provides insight and explains the underlying theories, federal rules and regulations governing sponsored projects. Instructors also discuss the lifecycle of sponsored projects. During this two-day offering, instructors identify these foundational theories and demonstrate how they pertain to the award lifecycle. Register via pep.uga.edu. 9 a.m. C127 Davison Life Sciences Complex.

GYMNASTICS vs. Missouri. $10. 4 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 CLASS In “Landscaping Through the Eyes of Pollinators,” participants will learn about the importance of pollinators, their interaction with native plants and how to provide space for these

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music for the television series The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives.

The Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet’s Athens concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music program in the U.S. A pre-performance talk will be given by Theresa Chafin, a graduate of UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. The talk begins at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

Tickets for the concert start at $35 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

Hodgson Concert Hall and Ramsey Concert Hall are located in the Performing Arts Center at 230 River Road in Athens.

Exhibition at Special Collections Libraries explores how interstates paved the future

FULL MOON HIKE See the garden come alive under the Worm Moon. Be prepared to hike up to 2 miles on wooded trails and in the garden. A backpack carrier is suggested for infants and young children.

Pre-registration is required. $5 per person; $15 per family.

8 p.m. Visitor Center Fountain, State Botanical Garden.

SOFTBALL vs. South Carolina. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium.

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Hear the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet perform at 7:30 p.m. March 6 at Hodgson Concert Hall.

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of the Russell Library. “This exhibit offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the often contentious process that took the Interstate Highway System from concept to reality here in Georgia.”

The exhibition examines the tension between motorists, landowners, politicians and the State Highway Department through artifacts, including historic maps, reports, correspondence and legislation. Political cartoons, pamphlets and posters reveal the cultural impact of interstate travel.

Paving the Road to Progress: Georgia Interstate Highways will remain on display through Aug. 21, and a family event centered on the exhibit is planned for May 16.

The Russell Special Collections Building is open free to the public weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. creatures through garden landscaping. This course will provide an overview of some basic insect biology and explain the ecology of why insects are critical to the environment and society.

Attendees will also learn about native plants that can be planted to attract local pollinators and how to keep those plants healthy and arrange them beautifully. $50. 1 p.m. Visitor Center, Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden.

WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. South Carolina. 1 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 FILM SCREENING Screening of Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice for Women’s History Month. 6:30 p.m. 271 Special Collections Libraries.

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

COMING UP TODDLER TUESDAY March 17. Enjoy a tour, story time in the galleries and an art activity just for little ones. Discover stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and create a colorful mosaic. This 40-minute program is designed for children ages 18 months to 3 years. Space is limited; call 706-542-4883 or email madison.hogan@uga.edu to reserve a spot. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. LECTURE March 17. Vincent Starai, UGA microbiology department.

Host: Cordula Schulz. 11 a.m. S175 Coverdell Center.

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT March 17. Music and Movement with Natalie is an energetic class of singing, dancing, yoga and rhythm games for children of all ages. Students learn to move to a beat, sing while performing simple hand movements and understand basic concepts of music theory while practicing important skills like listening, following directions and developing self-control, all in a fun and supportive environment. Children ages 1-3 must be accompanied by an adult. Children ages 4 and older may be dropped off or accompanied by an adult. $125 for 10-week session or $15 drop-in fee per class. 11:15 a.m. Theater-in-theWoods, State Botanical Garden.

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CAMPUS CLOSEUP

Discount decisions

Jerry Shannon, an assistant professor in the geography department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and an assistant professor in the financial planning, housing and consumer economics department of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, shared his research about food deserts and the spread of dollar stores in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article.

According to the article, Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar grew from 20,000 stores to nearly 30,000 stores in 2018, with thousands of future store openings planned.

Throughout Atlanta and across the country, areas are placing bans and restrictions on these “small box discount stores.”

However, experts fear that these decisions will disproportionately impact lower-income and predominantly black communities.

Shannon mentioned that dollar stores often have a negative stigma attached to them.

“They’re seen as being really detrimental both in terms of economic development and the types of goods they can offer the community,” said Shannon.

Flu fibs

Dr. Mark Ebell, epidemiology and biostatistics director and professor in the College of Public Health, was quoted in a Mercola article about the unsealed lawsuit against Tamiflu.

The lawsuit is filed against drugmaker Roche and alleges that the company knowingly made false claims about the effectiveness of the influenza drug. This led to the U.S. government to stockpile more than $1.5 billion of the drug in case of an outbreak.

Ebell called the lawsuit “far too late” and explained how the drug, which has been used since 1999 to lessen flu symptoms, was approved and then widely used in the U.S. and U.K. based on limited evidence.

“The manufacturer’s press release stated that the drug was studied in two randomized trials enrolling a total of 849 patients with influenza and reported a 1.3 day mean reduction in the duration of symptoms,” said Ebell. “On the basis of these limited (and ultimately revealed as incomplete) data, governments acted.”

Wallet woes

Lance Palmer, a professor in the financial planning, housing and consumer economics department of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, was quoted in a Thrive Global article about financial stress.

A study from Discover and Thrive Global revealed that 31% of people have felt the physical effects of money stress. These people admitted that they’ve seen an impact on their blood pressure, sleep or mental health.

Although it’s natural for people to think about how they’re doing relative to others, Palmer said that it’s not healthy to compare financial factors, budgets or debts.

“If you feel like the people you’re comparing yourself against are doing better than you, it creates a lot of stress,” he said.

Staying cool

Jackie E. Ogden, Cooperative Extension agent for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and president of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post about keeping food fresh.

Ogden said that an important step in getting food to keep longer is to check the temperature of storage areas. For cabinets and pantries, she recommends keeping the temperature between 50 and 70 degrees. For everything else, she advises setting the refrigerator to 37 degrees and the freezer to zero or below.

When it comes to lettuce, she said there’s not much that can be done to extend its life beyond a week, but spinach can last up to 10 months.

“You blanch it—plunge it into boiling water— to stop the enzymes that break it down, then cool it quickly to stop the cooking process, dry it thoroughly and then freeze it in an airtight container,” Ogden said.

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Ellen Pauloski works full time as an academic advisor in the School of Social Work and also practices therapy part time.

School of Social Work academic advisor embraces order, chaos in everything

By Victoria Vanhuss

victoria.vanhuss@uga.edu

Visitors to Ellen Pauloski’s office are greeted by a collection of stickers. Once hanging on the wall, the stickers—many of which are mementos from the places she’s lived or visited—are now displayed on a table near her desk. Despite being so well traveled, Pauloski will tell you that her favorite place in the world is still Burlington, Vermont, where she spent two summers during college with a campus ministry called The Navigators.

Pauloski took a job with that same campus ministry after college and was eventually placed here in Athens. When she decided to look for a new job, she was quickly hired by the University of Georgia as part of an initiative to increase the number of academic advisors on campus. She was onboarded and trained alongside 24 other advisors and then placed in the School of Social Work’s Bachelor of Social Work Program.

Pauloski knew that she eventually wanted to pursue a graduate degree, and when she realized that staff members can take classes through the University System of Georgia’s Tuition Assistance Program, she started looking for a part-time program. As luck would have it, there was one in her school that was based out of the Gwinnett campus.

“I met with my boss at the time to talk about the program and the possibility of juggling full-time work with the demanding social work curriculum.

She was so supportive and encouraging, and she sent me straight upstairs to ask the M.S.W. program director if I could

study remotely from Athens,” she said.

“The director basically said that higher education should be about making things work, so we made it work.”

Since graduating from the program in 2018, she practices therapy part time but remains in her full-time position as an advisor. Pauloski said she has noticed that the way she advises students has changed due to both her time as a student and her role as a therapist.

“The kinds of questions that I ask my students have been deeply informed by my education and fieldwork. We can share about our experiences, and it has been very sweet and fulfilling to connect in a deeper way,” she said.

When asked if she ever intends to pursue counseling as her singular profession, Pauloski laughed.

“That’s the million-dollar question,” she said. “At this point, I’m pretty on the fence about whether or not I would ever jump ship and do therapy full time. I am someone who really likes the stability of a salaried job with benefits.”

Pauloski said that she doesn’t really have a preference as long as she’s serving and helping people.

“I have a gift for bringing order out of chaos,” she said. “I love it, I’m passionate about it, and it allows me to make a unique and valuable contribution. If I can connect my job—whatever that job may be—to that vision of bringing order out of chaos and fostering peace and flourishing, then I am content.”

The themes of order and chaos extend beyond her professional work into all areas of her life. She enjoys organizing as well as weeding her yard, and she appreciates the metaphor of gardening as

FACTS Ellen Pauloski

Academic Advisor II, Bachelor of Social Work Program School of Social Work M.S.W., Social Work, University of Georgia, 2018 B.S., Family Science, University of Maryland, 2010 At UGA: 5½ years

an exercise for removing the unnecessary to make room for growth.

For someone who often deals with emotional and draining subjects, selfcare is deeply important, and she credits the School of Social Work with being a good advocate for the students and practitioners who may feel stressed or overwhelmed.

Pauloski’s self-care routine varies depending on the season of life she’s in but sometimes includes out-of-theordinary relaxation methods. During a few particularly tiring semesters of graduate school, she decided to audition and perform in musicals with Brightstone Productions, a community theater group in Watkinsville.

“It was so life-giving and enriching, and it was tremendously beneficial for me to make myself do it—especially during those high-stress seasons,” Pauloski said.

“It was a good source of exercise and social interaction when I really needed it. And besides, it’s important to dust off your tap shoes and sing at the top of your lungs every once in awhile.”

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Entomology professor tapped to lead UGA Tifton campus

By J. Faith Peppers pepper@uga.edu

Michael Toews has been named assistant dean of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to oversee the Tifton campus.

Toews, a UGA entomology professor, succeeds Joe West, who retired Feb. 29 after a 34-year career with the college.

The UGA Tifton campus has 60 faculty and more than 400 staff supporting teaching, research and Extension programs for the college. The campus includes the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, the National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory and the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.

“I look forward to building on the

tremendous balance, breadth and professional reputation that our faculty enjoy,” Toews said.

“One of my chief goals as the assistant dean will be to secure funding and resources that Michael Toews enable our campus to thrive for the next 100 years.”

The Tifton campus, which celebrated its centennial year in 2019, now has 150 buildings and 5,000 acres of farmland to support the land-grant mission of the college. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service is co-located at the campus with approximately 20 scientists working in

partnership with UGA scientists. The assistant dean also oversees the Tifton Campus Conference Center, a multi-use facility that brings in conferences and events from across the Southeast.

“We are excited about the future direction of the UGA Tifton campus.

Dr. Toews brings a wealth of experience and vision to his new role as assistant dean in Tifton,” said CAES Dean and Director Sam Pardue. “I look forward to working with him as he directs the college’s efforts in south Georgia.”

During his tenure at UGA,Toews has conducted extensive research to improve Georgia cotton production. He is most well-known for his work on thrips and stink bugs, as well as invasive insect pests including kudzu bug, brown marmorated stink bug and silverleaf whitefly.

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Expanded repertoire New director Peter Jutras discusses the next era for the Hugh Hodgson School of Music

By Alan Flurry

aflurry@uga.edu

Peter Jutras was appointed director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences in July 2019. Jutras, who is in his 14th year as a piano faculty member at UGA, talked with Columns about the next era for the Hodgson School, which is expanding its presence in the musical world.

Columns: What was the state of the art in the Hodgson School in your first semester as director?

Peter Jutras: I’ve seen tremendous growth since I arrived in 2006, both in quantity but also in quality: We’ve hired a number of remarkable faculty members in that time who are truly world-class performers, world-class artists and teachers. We’ve become one of the leading schools in the Southeast.

The world of music, and particularly classical music, is changing, and I want us to adapt so our students can be relevant and have the skills for a marketplace that is very different from, say, 30-40 years ago. Music is as important to the human condition as it always has been. There is no culture any place in the world, any time in human history that doesn’t make music. Classical music remains very popular; people still have a keen interest in it—even though they may not be attending concerts as frequently as traditional audience members did in decades past.

How are people experiencing it now, compared to the past?

There’s a lot more customizable consumption. People are finding music online, investigating different recordings, artists and genres. People in general are more eclectic in their musical tastes; you see more and more people who build playlists that have classical and pop, bluegrass and indie rock from maybe an Athens band, all that fits together. And our students are well-equipped to navigate those different styles. I want to help them enhance those skills and be musicians for all people and all occasions.

There really is no such thing as incoherent musical tastes anymore.

At the same time, the level of skill, virtuosity and artistry that our students have when they play classical repertoire at a

really high level is important to the world and valuable to people. We’re in a time where anyone can make music just by dropping beats on a computer, and that’s great. I love to see that participation. But we also need to hold a place for quality and artistry. That’s what our students and our faculty do, and I think that’s really valuable.

Training in classical music remains the focus of the school of music.

It remains one of our focuses, and it’s something we do very well. I don’t ever want it to be lost that we train teachers at an equally high level. We train music therapists, we train scholars and researchers in theory and musicology, we train composers.

Now having said all that, and understanding the value of classical music, we are talking a bit about expanding the repertoire in the building and getting more involved in a variety of musical styles. Within our composition faculty—an extremely talented group—you’ll see mixes of styles, genres and elements in some of the music they’re creating.

The “Charlottesville” faculty collaboration is at once very innovative but also sparked a lot of interest with the students. It’s a new and different thing we might not have seen at the school of music 20 years ago. Maybe even 10.

Yes. And I think what was particularly compelling about that project is that it showed the power of music to be a force for starting important conversations, in drawing attention to issues. And that’s one thing I’m interested in doing more of, and we’re already doing a lot of it—that is, using music to help people, to help the world, to go out and be a force for good.

Have the peer and aspirant institutions for the School of Music changed?

That’s definitely changed in the last 14 years, and we are playing in a much higher league, so to speak. When I came here, the school was excellent, but a lot of our students were applying to other schools in Georgia and in the region. In the last few years, we consistently get applicants who are also applying to schools such as Eastman, Indiana and the New England Conservatory, and we’re winning some of those battles. Some students are choosing UGA over those schools.

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Peter Jutras was named director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in July 2019.

And on the flip side, we’re now sending some of our undergrads to those places for graduate school. If you go to conferences with other music administrators, people are talking about Georgia, and they realize that it’s growing and things are happening here.

How does the school expand opportunities for UGA students outside the School of Music?

I want to involve as many people from outside the school as we can in our programs. I bet everybody would love to take a music class if they could—we don’t have the space for that. We get a lot of requests from nonmusic students about guitar, piano and voice classes. We have popular music and rock music classes that can count as part of the core for undergrads.

The Community Music School has really grown in the last 10-15 years, and there are all kinds of opportunities for UGA students to take lessons with our graduate students, who are really good teachers and accomplished performers. Any UGA student can take a lesson on any instrument. Piano and guitar are very popular, but if someone wants to come and take trumpet lessons, they can do

that. It’s a program we started several years ago, and they actually register for a class and get credit for the lessons.

Beyond that, and the more you dig into current trends in higher education, you realize how creativity, innovation, experiences are crucial parts of the process of learning. And those are things we’ve been doing all along, since the Hodgson School was started. Creativity is what we do every day. To be an excellent university, we need excellence in the arts.

You also see the growing interest around the country in STEM-specific programs acknowledging that we need to involve artists. We need to integrate the arts more holistically so that we can learn from that creative process, learn about the work that it takes to get good at an instrument and learn about that process of practicing.

Most of this is anecdotal. But you hear from people in the corporate world, and they are often interested in hiring musicians because they value people who can think independently, who have different ways of looking at challenges and who have the dedication, work ethic and passion you find in musicians.

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New funding opportunities page launches https://dar.uga.edu/2020/foundation-relations-funding-opportunities/ The Foundation Relations Funding Opportunities page was created to be a dynamic resource for University of Georgia faculty and staff looking to find new funding sources for their work.

Curated by the Foundation Relations team within UGA Development & Alumni Relations, this page will provide up-to-date information on funding opportunities

that span an array of fields, from aging to machine learning to economic inequality and beyond.

Each foundation with a listing on this page has a working relationship with the Foundation Relations team, so those interested in pursuing any of these opportunities can find basic info on the website and then reach out to Foundation Relations for more information.

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

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ocean wildlife and ecosystem health by reducing plastic waste generation and expanding waste management infrastructure to stem the tide of plastics entering the oceans.

She led a landmark study, published in Science in 2015, that estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enters the world’s ocean every year. A follow-up study published two years later revealed 90.5% of plastic has never been recycled. Prior to Jambeck’s research, it was unclear how much plastic was ending up in landfills or, even more problematic, in gutters and the ocean around the world.

“Jenna’s work to bring attention to and to find solutions for one of the world’s greatest challenges is truly inspirational,” said Donald Leo,dean of the UGA College of Engineering.

“In addition to being a world-class researcher, she is an amazing teacher and mentor to our undergraduate and graduate students. I’d like to thank the Georgia Athletic Association for recognizing Jenna’s impact on our college and our planet.”

Based on her pioneering research,Jambeck was named a National Geographic Fellow in 2018. She served as co-lead of an international, female-led National Geographic Expedition team in 2019 that studied plastic pollution in one of the world’s most iconic waterways—the Ganges River.The research team included two of Jambeck’s graduate students.

Along with fellow College of Engineering faculty member Kyle Johnsen,she is co-creator of the Marine Debris Tracker mobile app, now powered by Morgan Stanley. The open-data citizen-science tool allows users to track plastic and other pollution using their smartphones.

To date, Marine Debris Tracker users have logged more than 2 million items around the world. The data gathered helps scientists to create a more comprehensive picture of marine debris and plastic pollution, while informing and empowering community decision-making.

Jambeck conducts public environmental diplomacy for the U.S. State Department’s International Informational Speakers Program, which has sent her to 14 countries around the world to discuss and collaborate on addressing plastic pollution, including the Philippines, Indonesia, South Africa, Japan, China, India and South Korea. She has testified twice on this issue before the U.S. Congress.

Jambeck has received several awards for her teaching and research, including the UGA Creative Research Medal (2016), the UGA College of Engineering ResearchAward (2016) and the UGA College of Engineering Instruction Award (2015).

Jambeck received her doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in environmental engineering sciences from the University of Florida.

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27 states at the Aflac Cancer Center,” said Stinson. “Every dollar they raise truly makes a difference in a child’s life and helps our staff provide the best care.”

Crysie Grelecki, UGA Miracle family mom, started attending Dance Marathon 10 years ago with her husband and three Miracle kids. She remembers her first year when the students raised more than $300,000.

“My husband and I, both Auburn fans, left that weekend a decade ago with full hearts,” said Grelecki. “We could not believe what we just witnessed at UGA.” She said the event has grown all of her children’s confidence over the years from interactions with the UGA students. Her son, Parker, diagnosed with hydrocephalus, has been up on the Dance Marathon stage telling his story since he was 2 years old.

“He goes to Dance Marathon feeling like a rock star because he is celebrated, and the confidence he gains from this filters over into every aspect of his life,” she said.

Jaylen Spidell, UGA Miracle communications director, described how Parker always throws the biggest concert in the world while singing songs at Dance Marathon.

“He loves ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ and he serenaded us as we surrounded him in a circle with our phone flashlights,” Spidell said.

Grelecki explained how this connection with students goes beyond the usual 24 hours of dancing into everyday life.

“The students come to my kids’ sporting events, and we are still friends with family pals from previous years,” Grelecki said.

The theme this year, “Ignite the Light,” serves to remind participants to carry the torch from 25 years ago forward into the next 25 years, Spidell said.

Julie Mickle Wade (B.A. 1996, J.D. 2000), founding director of the first UGA Dance Marathon in 1996, reminisced on how amazed she was by the amount of work her committee members did that first year, including securing so much free food and entertainment for an unknown event.

“I will never forget getting home that night, being more tired than any other moment in my life, and realizing that this just happened,” Wade said.

She described how the impact made by UGA Miracle for Children’s has come full circle in both her and Hayes’ lives.

“This incredible event indirectly flows into the lives of the people we love the most, and it is amazing how this work started years ago impacts us today,” Wade said.

The forward impact begins immediately as next year’s Dance Marathon committee members met the following week to begin planning, Spidell said.

“You’ve changed many, many lives, and not many people can say that. In naming this college the Mary Frances Early College of Education, we attempt to honor all that you have done for this state,” said Wrigley.

“Ms. Early is a role model for everyone from President Fedrick to a little girl somewhere in Georgia who is learning to play an instrument.”

“Having her name on her college will remind us and all who follow us of the standards we uphold. I am honored that our college bears her name,” said Spangler.

One of the ceremony’s highlights was a Bach violin solo by Zoe Willingham, a fellow in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program, which Early helped found.

Early arrived at the University of Georgia in 1961 after transferring from a graduate program at the University of Michigan with the mission of helping Charlayne Hunter (now Hunter-Gault) and Hamilton Holmes integrate UGA. She became the first African American to earn a degree from the University of Georgia when she graduated on Aug. 16, 1962, with a master’s degree in music education. She later returned to UGA to earn a Specialist in Education degree.

Early was class valedictorian at Henry McNeal Turner High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1957, also as valedictorian. She later became a music teacher in Atlanta Public Schools and was eventually promoted to music director of the entire school system.

In 1981, she became the first African American elected president of the Georgia Music Educators Association. In that role, she crisscrossed the state to support music organizations in other cities and promote music education to leaders in the state Capitol.

As a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Early determined grants for musical organizations across the country for 11 years. She also helped write the Macmillan/ McGraw-Hill music textbook series, leaving a lasting imprint of her ideas in the classroom.

Early retired in 1994 after working for 37 years in public schools. She later taught at Morehouse College, Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University as head of the music department.

“We will always need good educators,” said Early. “And to have the College of Education named in my honor, I can’t even describe how wonderful that is. Even after I’m gone it will still be there. I want to thank all of the people who made this happen.”

For more information about Early’s life and accomplishments, visit https://news.uga. edu/mary-frances-early-georgia-groundbreaker/.

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Ninety-five percent of UGA’s Class of 2019 was employed or attending graduate school within six months.

Home Depot and NCR Corporation.

Of those full-time professionals, 60% were employed before graduation, and 98% were hired within six months of graduation.

“Internships that I secured through UGA’s job board, Handshake, provided me with hands-on experience to see that I actually enjoy sales,” said Erin Orem, a May 2019 graduate. “I was able to confidently speak about my internships at the UGA Career Fair, where I met my current employer, TTI. Using UGA Career Center resources, I began preparing for my job search in my freshman year, so I never stressed about finding a job.”

Seventy-one percent, nearly threequarters of the Class of 2019 graduates working full time, accepted employment within the state of Georgia. Graduates landed in all

Bulletin Board University Woman’s Club

The University Woman’s Club’s next general meeting will be held on March 10 in the Fellowship Hall of Alps Road Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road.

Guest speaker for the program, which will begin at 11:30 a.m., is Darrice Griffin, deputy athletic director for administration in the UGA athletic department. She will give a talk titled “Leveraging the Student Athlete Experience.”

Tickets for the spring lunch also will be available at the meeting. The deadline to purchase tickets is April 1.

OneUSG Connect unavailability

The OneUSG Connect system will be unavailable from March 13 at 6 p.m. through March 18 at 7 a.m., and from March 27 at 6 p.m. through March 31 at 7 a.m.

Employees will not be able to log in and access OneUSG Connect. Plan around these times for recording time, leave requests, manager self-service actions and approval of time and absences. Employee self-service will be unavailable to update direct deposit, tax information, addresses, view paystubs and download W-2s.

During and after the system unavailability, Web Clock employees should record punches on a paper timesheet. Managers will need to add these punches to the online timesheet.

Pay from schedule/manual time entry employees should track time worked and then record these hours online.

Kaba time clocks will remain available for regular use (punches will flow into OneUSG Connect once the system is back online).

OneUSG Connect benefits, Data Warehouse reporting and UGAJobs will remain available, but data flow to and from OneUSG Connect will be paused.

Columns publication break

Columns will not be published March 9 because of spring break.

Regular weekly publication will ­resume March 16.

50 states and in 43 countries in the six months after graduation, with top out-of-state destinations spanning the country and including major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. The 19% of graduates who are furthering their education have enrolled in top graduate or professional schools including Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, Emory University and the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

The UGA Career Center calculates the career outcomes rate each January by leveraging information from surveys, phone calls, employer reporting, UGA departmental collaboration, LinkedIn and the National Student Clearinghouse. The preceding data is based on the known career outcomes of 8,289 graduates from the Class of 2019.

Send announcements for that issue to columns@uga.edu by 5 p.m. on March 4.

TEDxUGA registration

Registration for TEDxUGA 2020: Next Level is now open.

The eighth annual celebration of ideas worth spreading will be held on March 27 at 7 p.m. at the Classic Center Theatre. Individuals may register for $20 or $30 with a T-shirt.

For more information, visit TEDxUGA.com/register.

Additional details will be shared with registrants via email.

Diabetes prevention program

UGA Well-being in partnership with UGA Extension will be offering a free diabetes prevention program, Prevent T2, on campus beginning March 17.

To learn more about diabetes prevention, attend an awareness program on March 5 at noon at the Training & Development Center. Register for the session through the Professional Education Portal, pep.uga.edu.

Participants in this program will work with a trained lifestyle coach to learn the skills they need to lose weight and make lasting changes.

To learn more, contact UGA Well-being at wellbeing@uga.edu or 706-542-7319 or Jackie Dallas, Clarke County Extension FACS agent, at jdallas@uga.edu or 706-613-3640.

WIP course proposals

The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program invites proposals from arts and sciences faculty in all disciplines for innovative courses that encourage writing.

Visit www.wip.uga.edu to find proposal forms and guidelines, as well as information about the program.

The deadline for proposal submissions is March 7. Direct questions to Lindsey Harding, WIP director, at lharding@uga.edu.

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