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Eighth annual ­Spotlight on the Arts festival to be held at UGA from Nov. 6-17 Vol. 47, No. 15

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First-Generation College Celebration to be held Nov. 6-8 across campus

By Marilyn Primovic mjp82278@uga.edu

Graphic illustration by Andrea Piazza

A number of ongoing initiatives have been instituted at the University of Georgia to enhance the academic environment and student support.

Record-setting rates UGA achieves best-ever completion rates

By Khristina Gallagher kgallagher@uga.edu

Completion rates at the ­ niversity of Georgia continue U to set records, thanks to a number of ongoing initiatives to enhance the academic environment and student support.

The latest data shows the sixyear completion rate at UGA has increased to a record 87%, and the four-year completion rate has increased to a record 69%.

In addition, the first-year retention rate, another important measure of student success, has matched the university’s all-time high of 96%.

For comparison, the average six-year completion rate for UGA’s peer institutions is 79%, while the average four-year completion rate is 56%. UGA also far exceeds the completion rates for Southeastern Conference institutions.

“These outstanding completion and retention rates ­demonstrate

the University of Georgia’s commitment to our students and their success,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “I am grateful to our faculty and staff for their efforts to support our students across all aspects of their academic experience.

With their engagement, UGA is reaching new heights of excellence in undergraduate education.”

A number of faculty hiring initiatives have added instructors in high-demand courses and ensured a low student-to-faculty ratio of 17-to-1. Investments in academic advising have enabled greater access to academic support and a more personalized experience for students as they navigate coursework and choose their majors.

To foster active learning on campus, the university renovated 12 traditional classrooms this year to create spaces that accommodate innovative teaching methods.

Fifty-five faculty members have completed the Active Learning Summer Institute at UGA since

it was created in 2018, and their efforts have transformed a range of courses benefiting more than 24,000 students annually.

“We constantly evaluate what students need to be successful and, in turn, implement programs that help them achieve their goals,” said Vice President for Instruction Rahul Shrivastav. “These programs succeed only because we have had great support and collaboration from many offices across UGA.” The university has developed programs in the Division of Academic Enhancement, where students have access to tutoring as well as academic coaches who help them create personalized strategic learning plans. Enhanced resources such as the Peer Learning Assistants program, in which students support the learning of their peers in a course they have previously completed with a high level of success, and a variety of student engagement programs

See RATES on page 8

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

University’s first Global Food Security Summit will examine next steps for doubling food supply

By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

For the past decade, ­ emographers have predicted that d the world would have to double its food supply by 2050 to feed the growing population.

Progress is being made, but scientists, farmers and policymakers still have a lot to do to meet the goal of ensuring food security for the projected 9 billion people.

“Perhaps the single greatest challenge that these students will face is feeding a global population that is expected to exceed 9 billion people in a relatively short period

of time,” said Sam Pardue, dean and director of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “It’s a goal that drives everything we do at CAES—from the plant breeders looking for more productive varieties to entomologists working on sustainable ways to protect crops—because it’s a goal we have to meet.”

CAES is convening leaders from academia, agriculture, global development nonprofits and government to discuss the next steps in meeting this goal and the roles UGA and the state of Georgia will play. The college’s inaugural Global Food Security Summit

will be held on Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Georgia Museum of Art. Rep. Sanford Bishop; Rep. Austin Scott; Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Scott Angle, director of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture; UGAbased USAID Feed the Future researchers Soroya Bertioli and Dave Hoisington; as well as many others will discuss the importance of U.S. leadership in the fight against global hunger, highlighting advances in nutrition and agriculture made possible by UGA researchers.

Carson Kuck, a first-generation student from middle Georgia who currently attends the University of Georgia, vividly remembers gathering his family into the car and praying on the drive to a parking lot with Wi-Fi to check his email after getting word that UGA had released its admissions decisions.

After seeing the fireworks in the acceptance email and feeling emotions he said he could not begin to describe, he was proud his hard work in high school had paid off. In that moment, he knew his life had changed.

“Now and forever, my family, my brothers, my future spouse and children’s lives are going to be changed,” he said. “My family’s entire life has been doing what it takes to get me what I need.”

UGA’s First-Generation College Celebration takes place from Nov. 6-8 to bring faculty, staff and students together in unity as both “first-gens” and first-gen advocates across campus.

The event aligns with National First-Generation Celebration day on Nov. 8, which commemorates the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965. This act ushered in programs, including federal See FIRST-GEN on page 8

OFFICE OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Great Promise Partnership offers ‘REAL skills’ to high school students

By Hayley Major

hayleyrm@uga.edu

Kamerian Moses learned about the Great Promise Partnership this past April, a critical time in her high school career as a rising senior at Cedar Shoals High School.

“As soon as I got the email, I got right on the application process. I was so excited to be accepted into the program,” she said.

Now, Moses is gaining experience through an ongoing internship with East Athens Educational Dance Center that began in the summer—an opportunity she

otherwise wouldn’t have access to.

The Great Promise Partnership serves communities across the state, including Athens-Clarke County, by providing educational and occupational resources to help local high school students succeed.

Moses was one of 24 students who came to the University of Georgia for a GPP Regional Employability And Life, or REAL, Skills Day on Oct. 9.

REAL Skills Day engaged participants through goal-setting activities and a Q&A with UGA student leaders. Students also See PARTNERSHIP on page 8

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Former U.N. executive director will give D.W. Brooks Lecture

By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

Ertharin Cousin, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, has spent her career working to build more robust and sustainable food systems in food insecure countries around the world.

That experience has given her insight into the challenges that tomorrow’s leaders will have to tackle to feed a growing world population while protecting the environment.

She’ll share those insights at the 2019 D.W. Brooks Lecture on Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel’s Mahler Auditorium.

Her talk, “Achieving Food Security and Planetary Health: A Solvable Enigma,” is being

sponsored by the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “ We a r e excited to bring Ambassador Cousin Ertharin Cousin to campus as this year’s D.W. Brooks lecturer,” said CAES Dean and Director Sam Pardue. “Her long history of working tirelessly to solve the world’s food insecurity issues is an inspiration to our students, faculty and staff. We look forward to engaging with her on this global challenge.”

Cousin currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow of the See LECTURE on page 8

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Commit to Georgia 2019

Name: Melissa Hunter Position: Senior Director of Finance and Administration, UGA College of Pharmacy At UGA: Approximately three years Melissa Hunter

Beneficiary of her gift to the university: College of Pharmacy students through the Hunter Family Scholarship Why she contributes: “Within the first year of my employment at the College of Pharmacy, my husband and I both experienced significant health crises. I sincerely don’t know how we would have gotten through these traumas without the support and compassion of my colleagues. Establishing the Hunter Family Scholarship for pharmacy students allows us to not only give back to the college that sustained us during our difficult journey but also to give forward as well.”

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

Source: Office of Development

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES

Georgia Writers Hall of Fame to celebrate inductees with dinner and poetry reading The University of Georgia Libraries will celebrate three new inductees to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame with author discussions and a special dinner this November. The festivities honor food writer John T. Edge and poet A.E. Stallings, as well as pioneering journalist Julia Collier Harris, who is being inducted posthumously.

The weekend-long celebration is part of the University of Georgia’s Spotlight on the Arts festival and takes place at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. It begins Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. with a poetry reading featuring Stallings, a UGA alumna who serves as the director of the Poetry Center in Athens, Greece. Stallings’ most recent collection of poetry, her book Like, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2018, and she is a recipient of prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.

On Nov. 16, a special dinner event will honor Edge, the author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, which was named a best book of the year by NPR in 2017. Edge currently serves as director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and hosts the television show TrueSouth on the SECNetwork.

The dinner features local chefs Mimi Maumus of home.made, Mike and

The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on Nov. 17. This year’s honorees include from left: the late journalist Julia Collier Harris, food writer John T. Edge and poet A.E. Stallings.

Shyretha Sheats of The Plate Sale and Pablo Rivadeneyra, Homero Elizaldo and Jerry and Krista Slater of The Expat. Tickets are $60, and $10 of the ticket price will support the Libraries Excellence Fund and is tax deductible.

On Nov. 17, Edge and Stallings will engage in an author discussion with Virginia Prescott of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s On Second Thought. This event, scheduled for 4 p.m., is part of UGA’s Signature Lecture Series. Requests for accommodations for those with disabilities should be made as soon as possible but at least seven days prior to the scheduled lecture. Contact Katie

Fite in the Office of Academic Programs at 706-542-0383 or at kcfite@uga.edu to request accommodations.

The weekend will culminate in the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which will be held on Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. It will include a tribute to Harris, author, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who published the Columbus Enquirer-Sun alongside her husband Julian, the son of author Joel Chandler Harris.

While the dinner is ticketed, all other events are open free to the public.

Register for each of these events at gail.uga.edu/2019GWHOF.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

International conference on Africa, its Diaspora to be held Nov. 13-16

By Alan Flurry

aflurry@uga.edu

Startup mentor urges purpose-driven businesses

Peter Frey

David Salyers, UGA’s startup mentor in residence, delivered the Signature Lecture “Startup Your Future!” on Oct. 24. The message from Salyers, a co-founder and board member of several startup companies and a former marketing executive at Chick-fil-A, was that remarkable startups focus on creating value for customers and building a strong workplace culture.

“Every business exists to make money—no exceptions—but great businesses have a mission beyond just a need to exist,” Salyers said. “They are doing something valuable that the world needs.”

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, FRANKLIN COLLEGE

Grant funds study of fungus that affects humans

By Sharon Dowdy and J. Merritt Melancon

sharono@uga.edu, jmerritt@uga.edu

UGA mycologist Marin Brewer has been awarded close to $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to search for ways to detect antifungal resistance in a naturally occurring fungus and identify the factors that contribute to its resistance in agricultural environments.

Throughout the three-year study, Brewer and her collaborator Michelle Momany, a professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences plant biology department, will focus on Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungus that is abundant in soil, compost and other organic debris.This fungus can cause serious lung infections

in ­immunocompromised people.

“Antifungal treatments are used to treat both plants and people with fungal diseases, but fungal resistance to these treatments is developing in both the clinical and agricultural environments,” said Brewer, an associate professor in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences plant pathology department.

For people with compromised immune systems, fungal infections can be deadly, and medicines containing azole antifungal compounds are essential life-saving drugs. Without treatment with medicine containing azole antifungal compounds, or when the fungus resists treatment, the mortality rate is more than 85%, she said.

These azole compounds also are used to protect crops from

fungi that cause plant diseases or produce deadly and carcinogenic fungal toxins in food and feed. In agricultural production, fungal diseases destroy about one-third of the world’s harvest of staple crops, like rice, wheat and corn.

Preliminary studies by Brewer and her UGA colleagues have shown that azole-resistant strains of A. fumigatus can be found in agricultural environments in the U.S. where azole fungicides are used.

“We need to improve ­molecular detection methods and identify problematic agricultural applications of azole in order to formulate strategies to slow the development of azole resistance and to identify if azole-resistant strains are in food items produced where resistance is prevalent,” Brewer said.

The African Studies Institute in conjunction with the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia present the sixth International Conference on Africa and Its Diaspora Nov. 13-16 at the Tate Center on the UGA campus.

The theme for the conference is “Afrocentrism, Africanity and Emergence of the Global Africa Agenda.”

Featured speakers for the four-day conference include Alma BillingsleaBrown, professor emerita, founding faculty and former director of the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College, and Ademola Dasylva, professor of African literature, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Participants from North America, Europe and Africa are scheduled to present more than 90 papers during the conference.

The theme of the conference is part of the commemoration of “400 years of the Introduction of Slavery into the Americas.”

“The 2019 conference will build upon the previous engagement with issues related to voluntary and forced migration of Africans across the world,” said Akinloye Ojo, associate professor of comparative literature and intercultural studies and director of the African Studies Institute. “The focus hitherto has been on the journey and the complicated issues of African identity negotiation in the berthing nations.

“Our goal is to bring scholars together to explore aspects of Afrocentrism (the ­emphasizing of African culture and contributions of Africans to the development of Western civilization) and Africanity (the certain learned way in which African peoples relate to one another, to the

environment and to the universe) on the continent and within Africa’s near and distant Diasporas,” Ojo also said.

BillingsleaBrown will deliver the keyAlma Billingslea-Brown note address on Nov. 14 at 8 a.m. in the UGA Chapel.

A veteran of the Southern civil rights movement, Billingslea-Brown was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the major American civil rights movement organizations of the 1960s.

She has taught at the University of La Salle in Bogota, Colombia, conducted research at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana at Legon and has been the recipient of Fulbright and Ford Foundation fellowships.

Dasylva will deliver the plenary lecture on Nov. 15 at 8:30 a.m. in the UGA Chapel. The title of his lecture is “The African and the African Diaspora: Afrocentrism, Afropolitanism and the Challenge of Africanity.”

Conference presentations are free and open to UGA faculty and students.

The 2019 biannual International Conference on Africa and Its Diaspora is made possible by support from various UGA units including the Provost Office’s State of the Art Conference grant,the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the UGA Graduate School, the School of Social Work, the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, the Office of Global Engagement, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the department of history, the department of philosophy and the department of religion.

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Digest College of Environment and Design to host landscape architecture lecture

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The jury meets with the judge—all of them teenage students—to vote on the verdict after a peer court session in the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse.

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New York Times deputy general counsel to give 41st McGill Lecture

Student-run juvenile court judges cases of first-time offenders

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

It feels like a real court proceeding.

There’s a judge and a bailiff. ­Attorneys consult with their clients, first-time offenders who’ve committed minor crimes like shoplifting or fighting. Jurors determine how respondents will make restitution for their crimes.

But there’s one distinct difference between this court and others: All the participants are teenagers.

Created by Emily Boness, a public service associate at the University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, and AthensClarke County Juvenile Court Judge Robin Shearer, Athens’ peer court has tried more than 580 cases. A partnership between the Fanning Institute, a UGA public service and outreach unit, and the Athens-Clarke County Juvenile Court System, the peer court is in its seventh year.

Although such courts are relatively common throughout the U.S., there aren’t many in Georgia. The goal is to hold juvenile offenders accountable while also giving them an opportunity to perform community service that can expunge their records rather than having them serve jail time for

minor offenses.

Cases are also heard and decided much sooner than they would be in county court, and the recidivism rate for peer court participants is much lower than the rate for statewide youth offenders.

For Boness and other Fanning faculty who work on the program, it was important that the Athens court was totally led by the middle and high school students. That means continually training new student volunteers from local middle and high schools to serve as attorneys, bailiffs, judges and jury members. The training focuses on teaching students how to interview a respondent (or defendants in traditional court settings), how to craft opening and closing statements and how to identify aggravating and mitigating factors in a case.

UGA law students provide guidance and help volunteers prepare for their cases.

The jury determines how much community service, within baseline sentencing guidelines for the crime, the respondent will need to complete and whether a written and/or oral apology is warranted. After completing their assigned community service, many of the respondents return to serve on peer

court themselves.

“We hope they feel a sense of ‘I got to tell what happened. I saw my peers serving in a community leadership role.

I was positively influenced by them,’ ” Boness said.

“They see other teenagers in leadership roles, and therefore can see themselves there too,” said Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute. “Peer court would be a great addition to any community’s efforts to develop leadership skills in youth.

The process is positive and that helps to positively influence the offenders to stay involved—on the right side of the law next time.”

In total, more than 300 middle and high school students have served on the Athens peer court.

One of those students is Maya Cornish. A junior at Clarke Central High School, Cornish has served on peer court for four years. In addition to being a leadership opportunity, she views peer court as an opportunity to effect change.

“These are peers doing something for each other and just trying to help improve the community,” she said.

“We’re trying to teach other kids that they can be so much more. They can actually grow from this experience.”

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Georgia Farm Bureau awards grants to UGA scientists

By Clay Talton

cstalton@gfb.org

The Georgia Farm Bureau has awarded $94,000 in research grants to seven Georgia scientists and their research teams who are addressing production issues affecting Georgia farmers. GFB President Gerald Long announced the recipients of the organization’s Harvest 20 Research Grants during the 2019 GFB Commodity Conference held at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Conference Center.

A review committee selected the following research projects from 32 proposals to receive GFB grants: • “Can Common Nutritional Strategies Have a Negative Impact on Beef Production?” principal investigator

animal scientist Lawton Stewart; • “The Etiology & Epidemiology of Cotton Blue Disease in Georgia,” principal investigator plant pathologist Sudeep Bag; • “Surveying and Monitoring WoodBoring Ambrosia Beetles in Tree Nurseries, Tree Fruit and Pecan Orchards,” principal investigator entomologist Angelita Acebes; • “Assessing Potential Impacts of a New Strain of the bacterieum Xylella Fastidiosa on Blueberry Bushes,” principal investigator plant pathologist Jonathan Oliver; • “Antimicrobial Waxes for Produce Application,” principal investigator food scientist Govindaraj Dev Kumar; • “Evaluating Snap Bean Cultivars and Germplasms for Resistance/Tolerance Against Cucurbit Leaf Crumple Virus,”

Jack Carman, FASLA and founder/president of Design for Generations LLC, will lecture at the College of Environment and Design on Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Jackson Street Building.

Open free to the public, the lecture is part of the college’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Carman will give a lecture titled “Landscape and Urban Design for People of All Ages and Abilities.”

Carman has more than 20 years of experience as a landscape architect and is nationally recognized for his design of therapeutic gardens.

His specialty is outdoor environments for senior care, particularly Alzheimer’s care facilities. He is a registered landscape architect in five states; Design for Generations LLC is in Medford, New Jersey.

principal investigator plant pathologist Bhabesh Dutta; and • “Evaluation of the Effect of F ­ oliar Fertilizer in the Early Soybean ­Production System,” principal investigator agronomist Mark Freeman.

The grant recipients, all of whom have faculty appointments in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, have been invited to present their research results in a poster session at the 2019 GFB Annual Convention in December.

This is the second year GFB has awarded grants to Georgia researchers who are tackling production issues. Last year, GFB awarded nearly $42,000 in research grants to five Georgia scientists and their research teams working to help beef, poultry, vegetable and row crop producers.

The New York Times top newsroom lawyer, David McCraw, will give the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s 41st McGill Lecture.

McCraw will discuss “Fake, Fake News: The Press, the President and the Future of the First Amendment,” on Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 150 of the Miller Learning Center. The lecture is open free to the public.

Earlier in the day, McCraw will take part in the McGill Symposium, which brings together students, faculty and leading journalists to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors.

Since 2002, McCraw has advised The New York Times while it was breaking stories about WikiLeaks, Harvey Weinstein and more. In addition, he is known for his work bringing Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the federal government.

McCraw’s book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts, was released earlier this year and focuses on the legal hurdles he and The Times have overcome while reporting on the Trump administration.

The McGill Lecture and Symposium are part of Grady College’s McGill program, which honors the memory of Ralph McGill and his courage as editor of The Atlanta Constitution in the 1950s and 1960s.

Cook’s Holiday tickets now on sale

Tickets for UGA Dining Services’ 33rd annual Cook’s Holiday are on sale now.

Cook’s Holiday features an array of campus favorite meals, decorations and musical accompaniments.

Cook’s Holiday will be held Dec. 13 (lunch and dinner) and Dec. 14 (brunch) at Bolton Dining Commons. General seating will be available for every meal, and reserved seating will be available for the lunch and brunch service times. Standard parking rates apply. Attendees are encouraged to carpool or use campus transit.

Tickets, which are nonrefundable, can be purchased online or in person at the box office of the Tate Student Center weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch and brunch tickets are $17.95 for adults and $9.50 for children ages 6-12. Dinner tickets are $20.95 for adults and $11 for children ages 6-12. Tickets are free for children younger than age 5. All e-tickets will need to be printed and presented early for entry into the event. Questions about departmental charges should be directed to 706-583-0892 prior to ticket purchases. Visit dining.uga.edu/ about/cooks-holiday for menus, updates and for information about purchasing tickets.

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The following events are open to the public, unless otherwise specified.

Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.

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EXHIBITIONS

Immortal Beloved. Through Nov. 8. Bridge Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0069. kgeha@uga.edu.

Baci from Cortona. Through Nov. 16. Margie E. West Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0069. kgeha@uga.edu.

Codified Color. Through Nov. 16. Suite Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0069. kgeha@uga.edu.

Kiki Kogelnik, Julia Scher, Erika Vogt, Lisa Williamson. Through Nov. 16. Lupin Foundation Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0069. kgeha@uga.edu.

Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron. Through Dec. 1. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Beth Thompson, Photography. Through Dec. 1. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

The New South and The New Slavery: Convict Labor in Georgia.

Through Dec. 13. Hargrett Library Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-6367. kdotson@uga.edu.

Creatures of the Night. Through Dec. 20. Atrium, Ecology Building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

Growing Through Art: Athens Art Association Artists Celebrate Their Centennial Year. Through Dec. 22. Gardenside Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

Moon Rocks! Through Dec. 24. Russell Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu.

Now and Then: 1979. Through Dec. 24. Russell Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu.

Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories. Through Dec. 29.

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

Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica. Through Jan. 5. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldogs Football, 2017. Through Feb. 28. Rotunda Gallery, Special Collections Libraries. ­706-542-6170. hasty@uga.edu.

MONDAY, NOV. 4 TAI CHI CLASS 8 a.m. North Tower (third floor), Miller Learning Center. ­706-542-6169. kathleen.kern@uga.edu.

CTEGD RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: MURALIDHARAN LAB Moderators: Amanda-Natasha Iyam-Perumal and Edwin Pierre Louis. 8:30 a.m. 175 Coverdell Center.

ETHICS WEEK LECTURE Speaker: Ashley Watson, UGA alumna and chief compliance officer for Johnson & Johnson. 1:25 p.m. Chapel. 706-542-0383. kcfite@uga.edu.

READING Pat Mitchell, a pioneering journalist and media executive, will read from her new book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman, and will then converse with Tom Johnson, chairman emeritus of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees. There will be a Q & A and reception following the event. Tickets are $25 and will include a copy of the book. The event will also be simulcast to overflow seating in the Special Collections Libraries Grand Hall. 6 p.m. Auditorium, Special Collections Libraries. ­706-542-6367. kdotson@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, NOV. 5 DIGI COLLOQUIUM Deborah Thomas, program manager for the National Digital Newspaper Program at the Library of Congress, will discuss Chronicling America, an online newspaper collection available through the Library of Congress and their efforts to digitize and preserve America’s vast newspaper history. 10 a.m. DigiLab (Room 300), Main Library. digi@uga.edu.

TODDLER TUESDAY Enjoy a tour, storytime in the galleries and an art activity just for little ones. Inspired by the exhibition Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories, the program will explore how shapes and patterns create quilts. This free, 40-minute program is designed for families with children ages 18 months to 3 years. Space is limited; email madison.hogan@uga.edu or call 706-542-4883 to reserve a spot. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. CELLULAR BIOLOGY SEMINAR Pengpeng Bi, genetics department. 11 a.m. 404A Biological Sciences Building.

DEI SPEAKER SERIES Cedric Glenn Sanders and Marques R. Dexter share their research exploring the experiences of black men in education.

Dorothy White facilitates a discussion of their research and immediate action steps faculty and staff can take based on their empirical work. RSVP to the College of Education’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at coedei@uga.edu. Noon.

119 Aderhold Hall.

SOCIAL JUSTICE SYMPOSIUM BAKE SALE Noon. Second floor reception area, School of Social Work. ­706-207-5168. sailing@uga.edu.

TOUR AT TWO Shawnya Harris, the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, will lead a tour of the exhibition Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories. 2 p.m.

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

TUESDAY TOUR AT 2 Join a spotlight 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. 2 p.m. Rotunda, second floor, Special Collections Libraries. ­706-583-0213. jhebbard@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Wildlife Responses to Urbanization and Resource Provisioning: White Ibis in South Florida as a Case Study,” Sonia Hernandez, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. A reception follows the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the lobby. Host: Sonia Altizer. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, Ecology Building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

LECTURE “ ‘for dead weight’: Sugar, Literature and Anti-Slavery Material Culture,” a lecture by a 2019 Franklin Visiting Fellow ­Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English, Montclair State ­University. A reception in the Robert West Library, 261 Park Hall, will follow Matthew’s talk. 4:30 p.m. 265 Park Hall. eberle@uga.edu.

TUESDAY TUNES This student music series features new groups each month.

5:30 p.m. Atrium/Lobby areas, Georgia Center. 706-542-6749. sarah.sorvas@georgiacenter.uga.edu.

CLASS “Night Photography.” $169. Class meets Tuesdays at 6 p.m. through Dec. 10 except Nov. 26. Georgia Center. 706-542-3537. questions@georgiacenter.uga.edu.

SWING DANCE NIGHT IN THE GARDEN Choose between an East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop lesson from 7-8 p.m., followed by an open dance from 8-10 p.m. No previous dance experience or partner necessary. $6, general admission; $4, students. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

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

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 SPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTS FESTIVAL* Presented by the UGA Arts Council, the eighth annual Spotlight on the Arts festival features dozens of events and exhibitions in the visual, literary and performing arts. The 12-day festival, scheduled for Nov. 6-17, includes concerts, museum tours, discussions with writers, dance and dramatic performances. For the complete schedule, go to www.arts.uga.edu.

LAMAR DODD FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE “From Urban Design to Student Hazing, the Georgia Colonists to the State Seal: The Entangled, Global Histories of Freemasonry and the Visual Arts,” Alisa Luxenberg, professor of 18th- and 19th-century European art. 12:20 p.m. S150 Lamar Dodd School of Art. kking22@uga.edu.

TA CAFÉ Join teaching assistants from across campus to discuss how to gather and present a portfolio of teaching experiences that will help when applying for jobs and awards. Lunch ­provided. ­Registration is helpful, but drop-ins are welcome.

12:20 p.m. 204 Boyd Graduate Research Center. ­706-542-1355. gradteach@uga.edu.

CONSERVATION SEMINAR “One Minnow, One Darter and One Sucker: Conservation of Georgia’s Freshwater Fish Fauna,” Brett Albanese, program manager, Georgia Nongame Conservation Section, Georgia ­Department of Natural Resources. 1:25 p.m. Auditorium, ­Ecology Building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

STAFF COUNCIL MEETING 2:30 p.m. 348 Miller Learning Center.

ART CART (AFTER CLASS)* Drop in and explore the museum’s Renaissance and Baroque galleries. Art Cart (After Class) is a program that the entire family can enjoy at its own pace. 3 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

The Zurich Chamber Orchestra concert will include Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and concertos by Bach and Mendelssohn.

Zurich Chamber Orchestra, violinist Daniel Hope to perform on Nov. 14

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing the Zurich Chamber Orchestra to Athens on Nov. 14 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Led by Daniel Hope, music director and violinist, the orchestra will perform Vivaldi’s masterwork, The Four Seasons. The program also will include concertos by Bach and Mendelssohn along with Bechara El-Khoury’s Unfinished Journey, which was commissioned by Hope for the tenth anniversary of violinist Yehudi Menuhin’s death.

Founded in 1945, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra is now considered one of the world’s leading ensembles of its kind. The orchestra is regularly invited to perform at international music festivals, and its recordings have been honored with numerous awards, including two

2017 Echo Klassik Awards in the classics without borders category.

Hope, who has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for 25 years, is celebrated for his musical versatility as well as his dedication to humanitarian causes. He was named music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in 2016, and he served as associate artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival for 16 seasons.

Tickets for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra concert start at $50 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A l­ imited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

Patrons are invited to make it an evening with a tour and free dessert at the Georgia Museum of Arts at 5:30 p.m. Hodgson Concert Hall is located in the UGA Performing Arts Center at 230 River Road in Athens.

UGA INNOVATION DISTRICT FIRESIDE CHAT WITH INVESTORS The second event in the University of Georgia Innovation District Seminar Series, “Fireside Chat with Investors” will feature a diverse panel of investors including venture capitalists, family offices and angels. Tim Martin from Innovation Gateway will moderate the chat with panelists representing Anzu Partners, BrightEdge Ventures, GRA Venture Fund and Loeb.atl. The speakers will cover differences between these investment opportunities, strategies to find and engage potential investors, and will be available to answer questions. The program and Q&A will be followed by a networking reception with refreshments and food. Registration through Eventbrite is requested.

5:30 p.m. Jackson Street Building.

THURSDAY, NOV. 7 NATURE RAMBLERS Sessions will start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer. 9 a.m. Visitor Center & Conservatory, Front Fountain, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

GARDEN EARTH EXPLORERS Also Nov. 9. Families enjoy a morning of adventure discovering Garden Earth through songs, puppets, stories, hikes, activities or games. Thursday mornings will be geared towards ages 3-6, and Saturday­­mornings will capture the interest of more advanced learners ages 7-10. This event will not take place during inclement weather or a scheduled festival. 10:15 a.m.

Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden, State Botanical Garden. ­706-542-6156. cscamero@uga.edu.

MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR “Strategies to Develop Durable Bacteriophage Cocktails as New

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London’s Tenebrae choir to perform in Hodgson Hall

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

As part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival, UGA Presents is bringing the award-winning British choir Tenebrae to Athens on Nov. 10 for a 3 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Tenebrae’s program will feature Joby Talbot’s modern masterpiece, Path of Miracles, and Owain Park’s newly commissioned Footsteps, which will be performed with UGA’s Hodgson Singers.

Based in London, Tenebrae was founded 15 years ago by Nigel Short, a former member of the King’s Singers, who also serves as the choir’s music director. The ensemble is regularly engaged with the world’s finest orchestras and has performed at major festivals and venues including the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, Germany’s Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Melbourne Festival in Australia.

In 2012, Tenebrae was the first ensemble ever to receive multiple nominations in the same category for the BBC Music Magazine Awards, winning the best choral performance honor for the album Requiem Mass, 1605. Tenebrae received its second BBC Music Magazine Award in 2016 for Brahms and Bruckner Motets, the profits from which benefit the U.K.’s Macmillan Cancer Support.

Tickets for the Tenebrae concert start at $45 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).

The British choir Tenebrae will take the Hodgson Concert Hall stage at 3 p.m. on Nov. 10.

A pre-performance talk will be given by Theresa Chafin, a graduate of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Open free to the public, the talk will begin at 2:15 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

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

Antibacterial Therapeutics to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Infections,” Dr. Mikeljon Nikolich, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. 11 a.m. 404D Biological Sciences Building. khbrown@uga.edu.

TOUR* Tour the exhibit B ­ eautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldog Football, 2017. 3 p.m. Rotunda Gallery, Special Collections Libraries.

706-542-7123. hasty@uga.edu.

SOTL WRITING POWER HOUR Join UGA scholars on Thursdays from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Center for Teaching and Learning to work on your SoTL writing project. North M.A.L.L., Instructional Plaza. 706-542-1713. ckuus@uga.edu.

SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES “When Do Armed Groups Refuse to Carry Out Electoral Violence?” Megan Turnbull, School of Public and International Affairs. 3:30 p.m. 213 Miller Learning Center.

ECONOMICS SEMINAR SERIES Speaker: Joseph Hotz, Duke University. 3:30 p.m. C006 Benson Hall. roozbeh@uga.edu.

BOOK RELEASE RECEPTION For Ground Crew: The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State, the latest book by Maurice C. Daniels, dean emeritus and professor emeritus at the UGA School of Social Work. Copies of the book, published by the University of Georgia Press, will be available for sale. 4 p.m. 277 Special Collections Libraries. ­706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu.

HOLBROOK LECTURE* Speaker: Alvia J. Wardlaw, a director/curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University and professor of art history. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

RECEPTION* A public reception for the Baci from Cortona photography exhibition. 5:30 p.m. Margie E. West Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. kgeha@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Kennesaw State. $5. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

MUSIC PERFORMANCE* Works by the Roman School of Composers alongside the composers who influenced them, performed by student musicians at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music with commentary by Peter Van Zandt Lane. 4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. ­7­­06-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

VOLLEYBALL vs. Kentucky. Bitmoji Night. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE PERFORMANCE*

By Our Hands is a cross-institutional theatrical experience between Spelman College, UGA, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals and community partners.

The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate the relationship between incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. Performances, open free to the public, are at 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 and 16 and 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 and 17. Fine Arts Theatre, Fine Arts Building. 770-542-4247. wclay87@uga.edu.

SATURDAY, NOV. 9 FOOTBALL vs. Missouri. 7 p.m. Televised by ESPN. Sanford Stadium.

FRIDAY, NOV. 8

SUNDAY, NOV. 10

WORKSHOP Join Karen DeMeester and other faculty from the Survey Research and Evaluation Unit at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government for an introductory session on evaluating research programs. RSVP to Stephanie Tucker at st@uga.edu. 9 a.m.

S175 Coverdell Center.

VOLLEYBALL vs. Missouri. Dad and Daughter Day. 2 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

MORNING MINDFULNESS* Participate in free, guided mindfulness meditation sessions.

S­essions include a variety of instructor-led meditation, movement and mindfulness techniques. No experience or special clothing is necessary. Meditation pillows and stools are provided. Reservations are encouraged; call 706-542-4883 or email madison.hogan@uga.edu to reserve a spot. 9:30 a.m.

Georgia Museum of Art. INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR 11 a.m. Ballroom, Memorial Hall. 706-542-5867. isl@uga.edu.

BOOK DISCUSSION In celebration of Callaway Chair Beth Burch’s recently published book, Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation. 11:45 a.m. Classroom B, Hirsch Hall. nikko.terry@uga.edu. (See Weekly Reader, page 7.)

LECTURE “The Athena Co-Learning Collective: Radical Feminist Parxis at UGA,” Jennifer Rice and Amy Trauger, geography department.

Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m.

213 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

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MONDAY, NOV. 11 VETERANS DAY Classes in session; offices open.

CTEGD RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: ETHERIDGE LAB Moderators: Logan Crowe and Yiran Li. 8:30 a.m. 175 Coverdell Centers.

LECTURE “The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: Global Political Trends and Their Impact on Security, Privacy and Human Rights,” Sebastian Kaempf, Australia’s University of Queensland. 3:30 p.m.

502 Caldwell Hall. rstahl@uga.edu.

COMING UP TOUR AT TWO* Nov. 12. Join Nelda Damiano, the Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, for a tour of the exhibition Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Nov. 12. vs. The Citadel. $15. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. *Part of UGA’s 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival.

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Wayne Hanna, a scientist in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Plant Breeders.

He accepted the award at the NAPB annual meeting.

Hanna has served as a parttime professor in the crop and soil sciences department on the UGA Tifton campus since 2003. This followed a successful Wayne Hanna 32-year career as a research geneticist and research leader with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in Tifton.

Hanna, whose specialty is crop genetics and plant breeding, has authored or co-authored more than 670 scientific papers. He’s developed and released 31 cultivars and 35 parental lines, inbreds and improved germplasms of turf, ornamental and forage genera; this includes 27 plant patents and four plant patents in final review. His cultivars are planted across the world as forage for summer grazing and on landscapes, golf courses and athletic fields, including those staging the World Cup and Olympics.

John Mativo, an associate professor in the career and information studies department of the College of Education, was recognized as the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Outstanding Faculty Advisor at the International Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress Experience in Detroit, Michigan, earlier this year.

The award, presented to one faculty advisor each year in John Mativo April, requires advisors have a minimum of three years of experience advising a collegiate chapter, have made significant contributions to the advancement of the chapter and be nominated by students.

In fall 2014, four students and Mativo organized the UGA chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers, later renamed UGA Motorsports. The club had a humble beginning, with each of the four members serving as officers. Mativo and the student members raised awareness through activities including food sales, game nights and taking advantage of any opportunity to spread the mission and goals of the organization across campus. UGA Motorsports now has more than 100 members.

A research paper by Terry College of Business management professor Scott Graffin received the 2019 Award for Scholarly ­Contribution from Administrative Science Quarterly, a top five journal in the field of ­management.

The paper, “Falls from Grace and the Hazards of High Status: The 2009 British MP Expense Scandal and Its Impact on Parliamentary Elites,” won Scott Graffin the award, which is annually presented to the paper judged to have the greatest scholarly impact during the past five years.

The paper explores the political fallout of a scandal involving several members of the British Parliament whose expense claims abuses were exposed. Graffin’s co-authors on the British MP study were Terry College Ph.D. graduate Jonathan Bundy, Arizona State University; Joseph Porac, New York University; James B. Wade, George Washington University; and Dennis P. Quinn, Georgetown University.

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Llewellyn Cornelius now produces a podcast series for the School of Social Work’s Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights.

Social work faculty member promotes inclusion through scholarship, service

By Laurie Anderson laurie @uga.edu

At age 14, Llewellyn Cornelius was unwittingly exposed to his future career.

Raised in a slum tenement in East Harlem, he earned money one summer assisting his father in the mailroom of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers. The nonprofit addressed social problems, poverty, health care and housing.

“I did not know at the time that I was working for a renowned national social work organization,” Cornelius said.

A couple years later, a high school teacher sparked Cornelius’ interest in human behavior. The first member of his family to attend college, he majored in psychology and sociology at Syracuse University, then earned a master’s in organizational psychology and both a master’s and a doctorate in social service administration at the University of Chicago.

As a researcher, Cornelius analyzed large data sets to reveal health care inequities, starting with the first large survey to measure the differences in health insurance coverage between African Americans, Latinos and whites. The study called attention to disparities, and other researchers soon pursued similar topics.

After a stint with the federal government, in 1992 Cornelius joined the social work faculty at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. During his tenure, he wrote an influential book, Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide. It has been cited more than 1,700 times since it was published in 2006.

“I could’ve stayed there, retired in my corner office,” Cornelius said. “But I promised myself that if I took another position, I would do more.”

The opportunity came in 2015, when Cornelius was invited to join the UGA School of Social Work as the Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies and to direct the Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights.

Cornelius now produces a podcast series for the center, supports the annual Donald L. Hollowell Lecture and student-led Social Justice Symposium, and presents public discussions on social justice-related topics. He also advises the nonprofit organizations Chess & Community and the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and is involved with the St. Simon’s Island African American Heritage Coalition, which seeks to preserve Gullah culture.

In February 2020, he will co-host the 10th annual Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium, in collaboration with UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. His current research explores culturally sensitive ways to improve access to health care for persons who are HIVpositive. He still teaches, with a focus on inclusion. To better expose students to issues they will face at work, he has taken his classes to a police station, a mosque and city hall, among others.

He also enjoys teaching doctoral students how to design and conduct their own research studies. Students not only own the resulting data, said Cornelius, “They learn how to design and conduct a good study on a small budget. Not many social work

FACTS Llewellyn Cornelius

Donald Lee Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies Director, Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights School of Social Work Ph.D., Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 1988 A.M., Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, 1985 A.M., Social Science, University of Chicago, 1983 B.A., Psychology/Sociology, Syracuse University, 1982 At UGA: Four years

­programs do that.”

In recognition of his activities, this fall the Council on Social Work Education invited Cornelius to deliver the Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecture, whose namesake fostered social and economic justice in social work education. Cornelius’ talk is titled “Social Work Education and Our Role as Social Justice Liberators.” For Cornelius, transformation is key. He’s certain it occurs, just as it occurred for him sometime after his first exposure to empowering communities at age 14.

“I have no idea what will sink in, today or 10 years from now,” he said of the more than 2,500 students he’s taught over the years, “but if I retired tomorrow, that would be fine. What I’ve shared with them will influence their lives as professionals.”

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Two new faculty members join College of Pharmacy Two faculty members recently joined the College of Pharmacy.

Diego Huet joined the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences department as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the UGA Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. Duo Zhang joined the clinical and administrative pharmacy department as an assistant professor at the college’s extended campus in Augusta.

Huet received his doctorate in molecular parasitology at the Pasteur Institute and Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France, in 2013.

He served as postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research under the mentorship of Sebastian Lourido and was a teaching assistant in the biology department

at the Massachusetts Institute of ­Technology.

Huet’s research is focused on molecular parasitology with an emphasis on apicomplexan parasites.

Members of the Diego Huet apicomplexans include the causative agents of malaria, cryptosporidiosis and toxoplasmosis.

Currently, he is combining genetic, biochemical and cellular approaches with metabolomics and proteomics to study the unique aspects of apicomplexan endosymbiotic organelles. His office is located in the Coverdell Center.

Zhang received his doctorate in

biochemistry and molecular biology from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, in 2014.

Before joining Duo Zhang the UGA faculty, Zhang was a research instructor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Along with his professorship at UGA, Zhang is an associate member of the Vascular Biology Center at Augusta University. His area of specialty is ­immunology.

BLUE KEY HONOR SOCIETY

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Waters has received many awards for his service to the state and his professions, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah chapter of the NAACP, the Distinguished Service Scroll from the UGA School of Law and induction into the Savannah Business Hall of Fame. He received a bachelor’s degree from Armstrong State College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law.

Libby Morris

Griff Doyle

Key recognition Don Waters

Chloe Kelley

Libby Morris

Four UGA alumni will be honored on Nov. 8 for civic service, leadership, scholarship Four University of Georgia alumni will be honored at the university’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Awards Banquet.

The banquet will be held Nov. 8 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. The 6:30 p.m. reception will be followed by dinner at 7:15 p.m.

The Blue Key Service Award will be presented to J. Griffin Doyle, who served as vice president for government relations at UGA from 2011 to 2019, and Regent Don L. Waters, the chair of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Libby V. Morris, the Zell B. Miller Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and director of UGA’s Institute of Higher Education, will receive the Faculty Blue Key Service Award.

Chloe R. Kelley, a former member of the Terry College Young Alumni Board and past UGA Alumni Association 40 Under 40 honoree, will receive the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award.

Recipients of the AT&T Student Leadership Award, the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Award and the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship will be announced during the banquet. The 2019–2020 Blue Key initiates also will be recognized.

The Blue Key Honor Society is a national organization whose members are committed to leadership in student life, high scholastic achievement, service to others and citizenship. Established in 1924 at the

University of Florida, the organization’s second chapter was established at the University of Georgia in 1926.

Banquet tickets are $30 for individuals.

Sponsored eight-seat silver tables are $300, and eight-seat gold tables are $500.

To reserve tickets, contact Janet Lance at 706-542-0017.

The award recipients are:

Griff Doyle

Doyle served as vice president for government relations at the University of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. In this position, he oversaw UGA’s relationships with the state of Georgia, the Athens-Clarke Unified Government, the federal government and other external constituencies. He worked closely with administrators and faculty to address issues and opportunities important to the institution and to familiarize internal stakeholders with the external dynamics affecting the university and higher education generally.

In his prior role as director of federal relations, Doyle was the principal liaison with Congress, federal departments and agencies as well as higher education associations and advocacy groups. He assisted UGA’s Washington, D.C.-based internship programs with placements and activities on Capitol Hill. He also served UGA as associate vice president for economic development and associate director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, a public service

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and outreach unit.

Doyle previously served as president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, assistant commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, public affairs manager for the Fort Howard Paper Co., senior adviser to Gov. George Busbee and assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. He received his bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia.

Don Waters

Waters is the CEO of Waters Capital Partners LLC. From 1993 to 2016, he was the chairman, president and CEO of Brasseler USA Inc. Prior to that, he practiced as a CPA and partner with Price Waterhouse & Co. and as an attorney and partner at the law firm of Hunter Maclean.

Waters has served on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia since 2013. He also serves on the University System of Georgia Foundation. He is a trustee emeritus of the University of Georgia Foundation.

He co-founded the Savannah Classical Academy, a public charter school serving primarily low-income students, and serves on the boards of the REACH Georgia Foundation, the Chatham County Hospital Authority, the Chatham County Hospital Authority Trust, the Augusta University Health System and the Georgia Historical Society.

A member of the UGA Teaching Academy since 2004, Morris also has served as editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Innovative Higher Education for more than 15 years.

Throughout her career, she has addressed educational and economic challenges of the Black Belt South, issues of postsecondary access and persistence, and faculty and leadership development. In 2009, she launched the Georgia College Advising Corps, which has served more than 28,000 first-generation college and underrepresented students statewide.

As vice provost for academic affairs from 2010 to 2013, she convened UGA’s first Arts Council and led the task force for the establishment of the Office of Online Learning. She has twice served as interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

Most recently, Morris is the recipient of the inaugural Spirit of Public Service and Outreach Award in recognition of her advocacy for UGA’s public service mission and the Institute for Women’s Studies Faculty Award. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chloe Kelley

Kelley is a senior vice president and account manager at PIMCO, focusing on institutional client services. She previously managed fixed income portfolios at EARNEST Partners and began her career as a credit research analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Kelley serves on the PIMCO Foundation Grant Committee and the genLOVE board of God’s Love We Deliver, a New York-based nonprofit that provides free, nutritious meals to individuals debilitated by illness. She has provided pro bono consulting in Accra, Ghana, through Global Health Corporate Champions and has volunteered with local organizations through PIMCO’s pro bono consulting program.

While at UGA, she was a Foundation Fellow and received the Lisa Ann Coole Award.

She also was named a Leonard Leadership Scholar and a member of Blue Key, Palladia and Sphinx. She was the undergraduate student Commencement speaker in 2006.

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Discussion set for Burch’s ‘Mass Tort Deals’

Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation Elizabeth Chamblee Burch Cambridge University Press Hardback: $73.05 Paperback: $31.96 eBook: $21.49

The University of Georgia School of Law will host a discussion of the recently published book Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation, which was written by Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, the holder of the law school’s Fuller E. Callaway Chair.

The discussion will be held Nov. 8 from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Classroom B of Hirsch Hall. The event is open free to the public. Speakers will include Burch, Georgetown University Law Center’s Maria Glover and the University of Houston Law Center’s Teddy Rave.

Mass Tort Deals identifies a “systematic lack of checks and balances” in U.S. federal courts that “may benefit everyone but the plaintiffs—the very people who are often unable to stand up for themselves”—in mass tort lawsuits over products like opioids that have caused millions of Americans harm. In her book, Burch raises concerns over the current multidistrict litigation process and suggests reforms that may benefit more victims as they seek justice.

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New website for research news now online

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The University of Georgia has a new destination for people who want to keep up with the latest UGA research news. @UGAResearch, launched in October, offers the same great storytelling and eye-popping images that characterized the former UGA Research Magazine.

The site segments its content into primarily editorial (Read), still

imagery (Look) and video (Watch), all blended together in a visually pleasing design that works equally well on desktop or mobile.

Also redesigned is the Research Communications monthly digital newsletter, which mirrors the new site and complements a portfolio of social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn).

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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UGA student Tori Ector interacts with local high-school students during the Great Promise Partnership Training.

participated in sessions on overcoming a d v e r s i t y, r é s u m é b u i l d i n g , t i m e ­ management and lessons in leadership.

“UGA continues to bring in real, relevant and radically motivational students to engage with these GPP students,” said Hilda Garrison, regional director for the Great

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Promise Partnership. “There’s nothing better or more effective than that.”

Forums like REAL Skills Day offer students additional support to complete high school while equipping them with marketable skills for success in higher education and the workforce. These opportunities

connect students like Moses with mentors and worksite supervisors to guide and ­empower them in pursuing their goals.

Since 2017, the university has facilitated opportunities for GPP students, from leadership and skill-training seminars to internships and part-time jobs. Units across campus have participated in the effort, ­including the College of Education, the Office of Institutional Research and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, among others. This is the first year UGA has hosted a REAL Skills Day event.

When faced with financial or other obstacles, internships and part-time jobs offer students a sense of accomplishment in addition to a paycheck. Courtney Smith, a junior at Clarke Central High School and participant in REAL Skills Day, accepted an internship at the Classic Center through GPP. “My experience has definitely driven me,” she said. “I have been able to work my way up and take on more responsibilities.

I’m very proud of myself.”

Those interested in hiring GPP students should contact Garrison at 706-362-7078 or email hilda@gppartnership.org.

from page 1 through the Division of Student Affairs also contribute to an environment that promotes student achievement.

The university’s Georgia Commitment Scholarship Program has created 470 endowed scholarships for low-income students, and resources have been directed to support other students with unique needs.

Examples of such programs include the ALL Georgia Program for students from rural areas, the Student Veterans Resource Center for student veterans and the RISE Scholars program for underrepresented students.

Additional initiatives to lower costs for students, such as eliminating laboratory and supplementary course material fees beginning in spring 2020 and expanding access to free online textbooks and other open educational resources, exemplify UGA’s commitment to removing financial barriers to student success.

“The University of Georgia has distinguished itself as one of America’s leading public universities, and we continue to innovate for the benefit our students,” said S. Jack Hu, the university’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

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TRiO programs, aimed at increasing postsecondary access, retention and completion for low-income, potential first-generation college students. While it is the second year of this organized celebration at UGA, it is the inaugural year of bringing a number of departments and student groups together for a campus-wide series of events.

“I’m excited for more first-generation students to be connected and involved as a result of the expanded programming and new campus collaborations for this celebration,” said Lindsay Coco, assistant director for initiatives in the Division of Academic Enhancement and celebration committee leader.

Organizers include the ­Division of Academic Enhancement, the Graduate School, the Office of Academic Advising Services, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Office of Transfer Services, the Division of Student Affairs and student representatives from TRiO Student Support Services and #FirstGenDocs.

“From a first-gen supporter perspective, it is amazing to see the talent, experiences and strengths that these students bring with them to UGA,” said Coco. “They are charting the way to college for their families, and this means they have to figure out many things without the same knowledge of college that continuing generation students bring.”

Kuck said that he cannot wait to graduate, get a job and give back to his family for all they have done for him. He said coming to UGA sets a precedent in his hometown of Cochran because it shows high school students that this is something they can achieve if they work hard in their classes.

“When I first came here, I did not know that my parents not going to college put me in a place to use resources for guidance on how to navigate the university,” he said. “After meeting so many incoming first-gens as an orientation leader this summer, I decided to create a first-gen organization to gather them together.”

Still in the founding stages, the organization will serve as a supportive community aimed at professional development, he said.

Both Kuck and student members of the First-Gen Celebration planning committee, like Olamide Ogunjobi, make strides to bring the first-gen community together and equip advocates. Ogunjobi said her family moved from Nigeria with educational opportunities on the forefront of their minds.

“I always knew I was going to go to college, and I applied to UGA,” said Ogunjobi.

“It was not until I stepped on campus that I realized what I signed up for. First-gens are hit with the transition a lot harder because we do not have someone in our family to refer to for specific advice and guidance.”

She said she looks forward to the Nov. 7 roundtable session “First-Gen in Graduate School: A Chat with First-Gen Scholars”

UGA First-Gen College Celebration Schedule Wednesday, Nov. 6 “The First-Generation College Student: Inclusion, Empowerment and Academic Success” 9-11 a.m.

Tate Student Center, Room 141 Target audience: Faculty and staff Presenter: Amy Stich, Institute of Higher Education

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Carson Kuck and student members of UGA’s First-Gen Celebration planning committee, like Olamide Ogunjobi, are helping to bring the university’s first-gen community together and equip advocates.

because each first-gen student has a story.

“These stories are all different, but they have the same rhythm, and I am excited to see how we are connected and how differences can connect people too,” said Ogunjobi.

“Together, we can all build our community.”

Beate Brunow, director of academic partnerships and initiatives for the Division of Student Affairs, celebration committee member and a first-gen student herself, said it has been great to see the number of faculty and administrators who were first-gen students participate in UGA’s First-Generation College Celebration.

“We have begun to recognize that firstgen students often do not know what they do not know, and any support we can provide through programs, mentors and dialogue can go a long way in making a difference in the success of these students,” said Brunow, who added that it is important to avoid approaching this population of students ­

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from a deficit perspective because first-gen students have so much to offer.

“I hope we can raise awareness about the experiences of first-gen students to both encourage these students to take advantage of the opportunities to connect with m ­ entors and engage in programs that can help them navigate academic expectations and resources,” she said.

The celebrations also are open to continuing generation undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, faculty and staff. On Nov. 6, Amy Stich, assistant professor of higher education, will lead the workshop “The First-Generation College Student: Inclusion, Empowerment and Academic Success” for UGA employees working to earn a certificate of diversity and inclusion from the university. Lisa Sperling, senior director of recruitment and diversity initiatives at the Graduate School, wants UGA’s

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Chicago Council on Global Affairs and visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment.

A University of Georgia alumna, Cousin received a Juris Doctor from the School of Law in 1982.

During her tenure as the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 until 2017, she guided the world’s largest humanitarian organization with 14,000 staff meeting ­urgent food needs for 80 million beneficiaries in 75 countries.

Cousin is a respected leader, visionary thinker and practical problem solver, with more than 30 years of national and international nonprofit, government and corporate leadership experience.

A champion and global advocate for

longer-term solutions to food insecurity and hunger, Cousin has published numerous articles regarding agriculture development, food security and nutrition.

In addition to Cousin’s talk, which is free and open the public, the College of ­Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will present its D.W. Brooks Awards of Excellence at a ceremony after the lecture.

This year’s honorees are Marc van Iersel, the Vincent J. Dooley Professor of ­Horticulture; Patricia J. Moore, professor and senior teaching fellow in the entomology department; Alfredo Martinez-Espinoza, a professor in the plant pathology department; and Lori Purcell Bledsoe, Northwest ­District 4-H and youth program ­ development ­coordinator.

Thursday, Nov. 7 “First-Gen in Graduate School: A Chat with First-Gen Scholars ” 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (lunch provided to those who RSVP at http://bit.ly/FirstGenDawgs) Location: Intersection in Tate Target audience: Graduate/professional students, postdocs, undergraduates Friday, Nov. 8 National First-Generation College Celebration Day Celebrate #FirstGenDawgs, to celebrate first-gen students and provide ­informational resources 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Location: Tate Atrium Target audience: Campus community, undergraduate and graduate students First-Gen resources https://advising.uga.edu/studentresources/first/

First-Generation College Celebration to make first-gen students feel appreciated for their achievements, as well as identify advocates and promote existing resources. “We are all in this together,” she said. “We are all Dawgs.

Bulletin Board

Columns publication break

Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, Columns will not be published Nov. 25.

The final issue of Columns for fall semester will be published on Dec. 2.

Submit any news items to­ columns@uga.edu by noon on Nov. 13.

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

SPOTLIGHT ARTS

CELEBRATING VISUAL, LITERARY & PERFORMING A RT S AT UGA

ON THE

NOVEMBER 6-17

DOZENS OF EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS The University of Georgia will celebrate the visual, literary and performing arts on campus this November during the eighth annual Spotlight on the Arts festival, which features dozens of events and exhibitions Nov. 6-17.

Music, exhibitions and events at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and performances from the department of dance’s Young Choreographers Series.

The creative work presented over the 12-day festival highlights the breadth of arts offerings on campus, and it includes performances and exhibitions by UGA faculty and students, as well as visiting artists from around the world.

Many of the events are free or discounted for UGA students.

On Nov. 16, the fourth annual Spotlight on the Arts Family Day will include performances, activities, demonstrations and workshops in art, dance, theater, music and writing that are designed specifically for children and families to enjoy.

Free activities will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center quad and surrounding buildings.

“Spotlight on the Arts provides students, faculty, staff and community members with dozens of opportunities to become more engaged with the outstanding arts programs the University of Georgia offers,” said S. Jack Hu, the university’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “The creativity and dedication of the members of the UGA Arts Council, faculty and performing artists will be on display throughout the festival.”

The 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival also includes a discussion with authors John T. Edge and A.E. Stallings as part of induction events for the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. The Georgia Museum of Art will feature exhibitions on artists Mary Lee Bendolph and Rachel Whiteread. In addition, the Performing Arts Center will host performances from the British vocal choir Tenebrae and South African-born violinist Daniel Hope with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.

Highlights of this year’s festival include “By Our Hands,” a cross-institutional theatrical experience presented by the department of theatre and film studies that explores issues of incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. The 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival also extends to New York City, where former Lamar Dodd Chair of Art Paul Pfeiffer will present his first live performance in collaboration with the UGA Redcoat Band in Harlem’s world-famous Apollo Theater on Nov. 11.

“I appreciate the immense amount of preparation that members of the UGA Arts Council put into creating the 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival,” said Marisa Pagnattaro, vice provost for academic affairs and chair of the UGA Arts Council. “This 12-day festival in November plays a vital role in promoting engagement with the arts throughout the year.”

This year’s festival also includes the annual 4 minutes and 33 seconds competition for talented undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research in the arts.

Singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kishi Bashi will help judge this year’s competition, which is named in recognition of John Cage’s landmark composition 4’33.”

Other highlights include concerts from numerous student and faculty groups from the Hugh Hodgson School of

More information on the 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts. uga.edu as well as on the Arts Council Facebook page (facebook.com/UGAarts), Twitter feed (@UGA_arts) or Instagram (instagram.com/uga_arts).

Many of the performances are free or discounted for students. Tickets for events presented by the Performing Arts Center, dance department, Hugh Hodgson School of Music and University Theatre are available for purchase online at pac.uga.edu or at the PAC box office.

Full calendar at arts.uga.edu

will feature performances of works by the Roman School of Composers alongside the composers who influenced them, performed by student musicians from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music with commentary by Dr. Peter Van Zandt Lane.

The GA Incarceration Performance Project presents: By Our Hands WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6

Dodd Faculty Research Lecture: Alisa Luxenberg 12:20 p.m., Lamar Dodd School of Art, S150, FREE

“From urban design to student hazing, the Georgia colonists to the State Seal: The Entangled, Global Histories of Freemasonry and the Visual Arts.”

Dr. Alisa Luxenberg, Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art at UGA, will speak on her recent research concerning the mutual significance of the social organization known as freemasonry to the visual arts, and vice versa.

Art Cart 3 – 4:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

Drop in and explore the museum’s Renaissance and Baroque galleries.

This free after-school program offers “choose your own adventure”–style gallery activities, art projects and games that explore a different gallery each month. Art Cart (After Class) is a program that the entire family can enjoy at their own pace.

Concert: UGA Trombone Choir 5:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Ramsey Concert Hall, FREE THURSDAY, NOV. 7

Holbrook Lecture: Alvia Wardlaw 5:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, M. Smith Griffith Auditorium, FREE

Alvia J. Wardlaw is a director/curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University and professor of art history. She has mentored countless students of color to pursue careers ranging from curatorial to conservation positions in the museum field. As curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for 22 years, Wardlaw organized over 75 exhibitions on African and African American art, ranging from retrospectives of John Biggers and Kermit Oliver to the creative designs of the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, to contemporary African art and the self-taught genius Thornton Dial. The first African American to receive the Ph.D. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, Wardlaw currently serves on the boards of the Orange Show Foundation and the Emancipation Park Conservancy in Houston and was recently appointed as honorary trustee

by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She

continues to serve on the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and is a trustee of Wellesley College. This lecture is part of the Signature Lecture Series.

Ensemble Concert: Hodgson Singers 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, $3 - $12

Join the Hodgson Singers, UGA’s flagship choir, for an evening of choral music exploring many styles, moods, languages and cultures.

FRIDAY, NOV. 8

Morning Mindfulness 9:30 – 10:30 a.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

The Georgia Museum of Art invites you into the galleries to participate in free guided mindfulness meditation sessions, held every other Friday during the school year. Sessions include a variety of instructor-led meditation, movement and mindfulness techniques.

No experience or special clothing is necessary. Meditation pillows and stools are provided. Reservations are encouraged; please call 706-542-4883 or email madison.hogan@uga.edu to reserve a spot.

Special Collections Libraries Tour: “Beautiful and Brutal” 3 – 4 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, FREE

Join curator Jason Hasty for a closer look at the new exhibit, “Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldog Football, 2017” on the Friday before each home football game this season. Visitors will have a chance to share their own memories from 2017 and get handson with a selection of historic materials from the UGA Athletic Association archives. Meet in the second floor rotunda of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

For more information, call 706-5427123 or email hasty@uga.edu.

Music Performance: “Color and Contrast: Music of the Roman School of Composers” 4 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

What did the music of Caravaggio’s Rome sound like? How might we connect his audacious use of light and shadow to the music of the time? Often neglected as a “transition period” between the Renaissance and Baroque, the 17th century in Italy was a time of rich and varied musical ideas and often brazen experimentation. This program

8 p.m., Fine Arts Building Theatre, FREE

A first-of-its-kind endeavor, “By Our Hands” is a cross-institutional theatrical experience presented by the Department of Theatre and Film studies with collaboration from Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners.

The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate the relationship between incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. This unique experience will be limited to four shows only.

SATURDAY, NOV. 9

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SUNDAY, NOV. 10

The GA Incarceration Performance Project presents: By Our Hands 2:30 p.m., Fine Arts Building Theatre, FREE

A first-of-its-kind endeavor, “By Our Hands” is a cross-institutional theatrical experience presented by the Department of Theatre and Film studies with collaboration from Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals and community partners.

The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate the relationship between incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. This unique experience will be limited to four shows only.

Tenebrae: Path of Miracles 3 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Tickets starting at $45, $10 for students

This “phenomenal” (Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone) British choir has developed an unparalleled reputation as one of the world’s leading vocal chamber ensembles with its passion and precision. Founded and directed

by Nigel Short, former member of The King’s Singers, the choir is renowned for its highly-acclaimed interpretations of choral repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary masterpieces. Tenebrae makes its Athens debut with Owain Park’s “Footsteps,” in performance with Hodgson Singers, and Joby Talbot’s powerful “Path of Miracles.”

MONDAY, NOV. 11

Paul Pfeiffer and the Redcoat Marching Band

5:30 p.m., The Apollo Theater, 253 W 125th St., New York, New York $35, Tickets available at performa19.org

Former Lamar Dodd Chair of Art Paul Pfeiffer will present his first live performance in collaboration with the Redcoat Marching Band in Harlem’s world-famous Apollo Theater. Fifty Redcoat members will perform live in this legendary music venue, recreating a two-and-a-half-hour musical score from a typical Georgia football game, using both front and back of house of the theatre as their performance space. Simultaneously, the rest of the 400-strong band will perform the same musical score inside the empty Sanford Stadium in Athens, and their performance will be live-streamed into the Apollo, contrasting the architectures of stadium and theater. University of Georgia Redcoat Band: Live At The Apollo is the first part of a two-part project, which will result in a video, sound and sculpture installation to be presented in 2020.

Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. Guides will highlight some favorite items on display and provide overview information about the Special Collections Building.

Lecture: “Literature, Culture, and Activism in the African American Freedom Struggle,” by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely 5 p.m., Park Hall, Room 265, FREE

Peggy Preacely participated in the historic 1960s Freedom Rides with Georgia activists Julian Bond and Rep. John Lewis. Throughout the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, Maryland, and other southern states, she registered voters in rural communities as a member of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). In the North, she worked to desegregate schools in Boston. She has published original poetry about her civil rights experiences and is composing a collection of short stories about her formative years in Harlem.

Her talk focuses on the intersection of literature with her own and others’ civil rights and social justice activism.

UGA Jazz Ensemble 5:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Ramsey Concert Hall, FREE

Horn Studio Recital 7:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Hall, FREE

An evening of solo and ensemble music performed by the undergraduate and graduate students of the UGA Horn Studio.

TUESDAY, NOV. 12

Tour at Two: “Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome” 2 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

Join Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, for a tour.

Tour: Convict Labor in Georgia 2 – 3 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Hargrett Library Gallery, FREE

Get a closer look at the exhibit “The New South and the New Slavery: Convict Labor in Georgia,” now on display in the Hargrett Library Gallery of the Special Collections Building.

Participants should meet in the rotunda on the second floor of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. This tour is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information email jhebbard@uga.edu or call 706-5830213.

Tuesday Tour at 2 2 – 3 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Rotunda, Second Floor, FREE

Join a spotlight 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.

4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship

7 – 8:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

This competition highlights scholarly research by UGA students about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to) visual art, music, theater, dance, film, literature, media arts or performance art. Focusing on historical, theoretical and critical research in the arts, the competition provides an opportunity for students to present their research to the university community. Singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kishi Bashi will help judge this year’s competition, which is named in recognition of John Cage’s landmark composition 4’33.”

Concert: UGA African American Choral Ensemble 7:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Ramsey Concert Hall, FREE WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13

Middle East Film Series: Paradise Now 7 p.m., LeConte Hall, Room 101, FREE

Concert: UGA Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band 7:30 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Ramsey Concert Hall, FREE

Young Choreographers Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Series: Senior Exit Council. and Emerging Daniel Hope and Zurich Choreographers Chamber Orchestra Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building, $12, $8 for students/seniors

Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors completing their senior projects and by second- and third-year dance majors.

These student choreographic works display a variety of different dance techniques and styles, expressing their own uniqueness and flair, and are performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. A reception will follow the Friday evening performance.

THURSDAY, NOV. 14

Student Spotlight 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tate Plaza, FREE

Student performers from a variety of groups will showcase their talents on Tate Plaza. Performances include stand-up comedy, Improv Athens, the Black Theatrical Ensemble Troupe and many others.

Concert: UGA Jazz Combos 2 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Recital Hall, FREE

Make It an Evening 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

Enjoy free coffee from Jittery Joe’s Coffee, dessert from Cecilia Villaveces’ cakes and a gallery tour at the museum prior to the performance in Hodgson Hall by Daniel Hope and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Purchase tickets for the concert at pac.uga.edu.

Teen Studio: “My Way” Quilts 5:30 – 8 p.m., Georgia Musuem of Art, FREE

Teens ages 13 – 18 are invited to this studio-based workshop led by local artist and educator Kristen Bach. Teens will explore the innovative and abstract quilts by Mary Lee Bendolph, a quiltmaker from Gee’s Bend, Alabama.

Teens will then adapt and expand what they have learned to create their own work of art in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom. Includes a pizza dinner. This program is free, but space is limited. Please email madison. hogan@uga.edu or call 706-5424883 to reserve a spot.

Concert: Woodswinds Chamber Music Ensemble 6 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Recital Hall, FREE

Student Night 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for a night of music, food, fun and themed activities to celebrate the latest exhibitions.

7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Tickets starting at $50, $10 for students

One of the world’s stellar violin virtuosos comes to Athens to play Vivaldi’s masterwork, “The Four Seasons.” South African-born violinist Daniel Hope has toured internationally for 25 years and is celebrated for his musical versatility as well as his dedication to humanitarian causes.

In 2016, Hope was named music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, which was founded shortly after the Second World War, and recently concluded a 16-season stint as Associate Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival.

Young Choreographers Series: Senior Exit and Emerging Choreographers Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building, $12, $8 for students/seniors

Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors completing their senior projects and by second- and third-year dance majors.

These student choreographic works display a variety of different dance techniques and styles, expressing their own uniqueness and flair, and are performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. A reception will follow the Friday evening performance.

FRIDAY, NOV. 15

Department of Dance Performance Sampler 12:15 – 12:45 p.m., New Dance Theatre, FREE

UGA dance students will perform a variety of dance styles in classical and contemporary ballet, contemporary modern and aerial dance with mixed media featuring faculty created choreographic works by CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance and Spring Dance Concert.

This will showcase a sample of works to be presented in the Spring 2020 Department of Dance concert productions.

A.E. Stallings Poetry Reading 7 – 8 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 285, FREE

Enjoy an evening of poetry with 2019 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee A.E. Stallings. A reception will follow.

Young Choreographers Series: Senior Exit and Emerging Choreographers Concert 8 p.m., New Dance Theatre, Dance Building, $12, $8 for students/seniors

Choreography and production by graduating senior dance majors

completing their senior projects and by second- and third-year dance majors.

These student choreographic works display a variety of different dance techniques and styles, expressing their own uniqueness and flair, and are performed by dance majors and minors selected by audition. A reception will follow the performance.

SATURDAY, NOV. 16

Spotlight on the Arts Family Day

10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Performing Arts Quad and surrounding buildings, FREE

Family-friendly activities and performances showcasing UGA’s arts units, including theater, dance and literary workshops, art projects, a musical instrument petting zoo, performances and more.

Children’s Theatre Troupe 10 – 11 a.m., Performing Arts Center

Family Day: Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories 10 a.m. – noon, Georgia Museum of Art

Learn about the rich history and artistry of Mary Lee Bendolph, a quiltmaker from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, in an exhibition of her work. Join in fun gallery activities, make your own modern “quilted” collage inspired by Bendolph’s quilts in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom, and check out a quilting demonstration and quilting activities led by Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild of Atlanta.

Sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Community Music School Performances Gamelan Player 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Georgia Children’s Chorus Performance 12:15 – 12:45 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Lobby

New Horizons Band 1 – 1:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center courtyard, weather permitting

Community Music School Instrument Petting Zoo 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Go on a treasure hunt to discover the different instrument families.

Wind, brass, percussion and string instruments will be on display for guests to touch, hear and even try.

Open to guests of all ages.

Creative Writing for Kids and Teens 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Café

Writing and craft workshop for kids of all ages.

12:45 – 1:15 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art Education Center

Writing and craft workshop for kids of all ages.

The 2019 Spotlight on the Arts festival is scheduled for Nov. 6-17 and will include dozens of events and exhibitions. Any updates to the calendar will be posted at arts.uga.edu.

Dance

Tap Along in the Courtyard

Natural Dyeing: From Compost to Dye Pot

11 a.m. – 12 p.m., Performing Arts Center Courtyard, weather permitting

2 – 4 p.m., State Botanical Garden of Georgia, $40

Creative Hip Hop Dance

Heritage Days Fall Festival

In this workshop led by Beatrice Brown of Butterscotch Designs, participants will learn how to source non-toxic, environmentally safe and sustainable dyes from fruits, vegetables, and flowers that produce vibrant color for clothing, home accessories, yarns and more.

Each participant will dye and take home a pair of 100% organic cotton napkins in fall colors for personal use or as gifts. Additional napkin sets will be available for purchase.

Preregistration is required.

10 a.m. – 2 p.m., State Botanical Garden of Georgia, $2/person, $10/family

Open Studios at the Dodd

11:30 a.m., Hugh Hodgson School of Music Choral Suite

Taqueria 1785 Food Truck 11a.m. – 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center Drive Up

Food and beverages for purchase provided by UGA’s food truck.

This event celebrates local horticultural and agricultural history with art, crafts, stories, music and hands-on education classes. Be prepared to win a cake walk; learn how to dance a reel or a square dance to the music of local musicians; learn how plants have been used for centuries to make cloth, containers, art, food and medicine; and color and learn about some of the insects and animals that support a diverse and healthy ecosystem. Visit vendors and demonstrations of natural dyes, seed saving, wood carving, lace making, heritage animals, beekeeping, herbal cider, herbal teas and more.

Bring a picnic or sample a few food trucks. Workshops will be held throughout the day.

Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden Performance Series 9:30 a.m., State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Theater-in-the-Woods, FREE

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia invites guests to celebrate the opening year of the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden with family-friendly outdoor performances. Every third Saturday of the month, enjoy a variety of engaging shows taking place on the Theater-in-the-Woods stage.

Experience music, laughter and connection in nature as artists perform. All performances will take place at 9:30 a.m. with a second showing at 11 a.m. In case of rain, performances will be in the Callaway Administration Building Auditorium.

2 – 9 p.m., Main Art Building, Ceramics Building, and Thomas Street Art Complex, FREE

Open Studios at the Dodd allows for an inside look at the School of Art at UGA. Learn about the work of students and faculty and see the spaces where their research is conducted. There will be food, drinks and music at Thomas Street.

A Celebration Of 21st Century Georgia: Dinner With John T. Edge 6 – 8 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 285, $60

Featuring local chefs Mimi Maumus of home.made; Mike and Shyretha Sheats of The Plate Sale; and Pablo Rivadeneyra, Homero Elizaldo, and Jerry and Krista Slater of The Expat. The menu will include a drink created by Jerry and Krista Slater of the Expat, appetizers by Mimi Maumus, Ceviche de Pescado y Papa de Huancaina by Pablo Rivadeneyra, Tuskeegee Soup by The Plate Sale, Carnitas Rice and Beans by Homero Elizaldo, and a Green Tomato Crisp dessert by home.made.

The GA Incarceration Performance Project presents: By Our Hands 8 p.m., Fine Arts Building Theatre, FREE A first-of-its-kind endeavor, “By Our Hands” is a cross-institutional theatrical experience presented by the Department of Theatre and

Film studies with collaboration from Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners. The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate the relationship between incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. This unique experience will be limited to four shows only.

SUNDAY, NOV. 17

The GA Incarceration Performance Project presents: By Our Hands 2:30 p.m., Fine Arts Building Theatre, FREE

A first-of-its-kind endeavor, “By Our Hands” is a cross-institutional theatrical experience presented by the Department of Theatre and Film studies with collaboration from Spelman College, librarians, archivists, students, professionals, incarcerated individuals, and community partners. The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project incorporates scenes directly from Georgia history to negotiate the relationship between incarceration, race and the impact of forced labor through dance, media and dramatic performance. This unique experience will be limited to four shows only.

Hodgson Wind Ensemble with guest artist Joseph Alessi 3 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Hall, Tickets $12, $3 for students

Sunday Spotlight Tour: Highlights from the Permanent Collection 3 – 4 p.m., Georgia Museum of Art, FREE

Tour of highlights from the permanent collection led by docents.

The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Author Discussion 4 – 6 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271, FREE

The UGA Accidentals, an a cappella group on campus, performed at the 2018 Student Spotlight at Tate Plaza

This panel discussion will feature 2019 inductees John T. Edge and A.E. Stallings and will be moderated

by Virginia Prescott of GPB’s “On Second Thought.” This event is part of the University of Georgia Signature Lecture Series. Requests for accommodations for those with disabilities should be made as soon as possible but at least 7 days prior to the scheduled lecture. Please contact Katie Fite in the Office of Academic Programs at 706-5420383 or at kcfite@uga.edu to request accommodations.

Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Reception and Induction Ceremony 6 – 8 p.m., Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 285, FREE

Enjoy a reception and the induction of 2019 honorees John T. Edge, A.E. Stallings, and posthumous inductee Julia Collier Harris.

EXHIBITIONS Georgia Museum of Art Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica Rachel Whiteread Drama and Devotion in Baroque Rome

Lamar Dodd School of Art Margie E. West Gallery: Baci from Cortona Suite Gallery: Codified Color Bridge Gallery: Immortal Beloved Lupin Foundation Gallery: Kiki Kogelnik, Julia Scher, Erika Vogt, Lisa Williamson

Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Hargrett Gallery: The New South and The New Slavery: Convict Labor in Georgia Hargrett Gallery: “The Cortona Experience: Celebrating 50 Years Abroad” Rotunda Gallery: “Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldogs Football 2017” Russell Gallery: Now and Then: 1979 Russell Gallery: “Moon Rocks” Brown Media Gallery: Steele Vintage Broadcast Microphone Collection Brown Media Gallery: “Peabody Spotlight: Excellence in Children’s Programming”

State Botanical Garden of Georgia Beth Thompson, Photography Growing Through Art - Athens Art Association Artists Celebrate Their Centennial Year

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