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UGA wins award for helping community sustain health care

By Kelly Simmons

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Peter Frey

Andi Broom is working toward a dual degree so that she can give back to the rehabilitation institute that helped her.

A new path

Devastating injury led this military veteran back to UGA

By Kristen Morales and Sara Freeland kmorales@uga.edu, freeland@uga.edu

When Andi Broom joined the U.S. Army, she was ready to leave her past behind—the old high school crowd, a few uninspiring semesters at UGA and even the contents of her apartment.

“I joined the military without my parents knowing; I called from basic training, and my dad had to come up to Athens and get all my stuff,” she said.

The change was what she needed. A star softball player in high school, Broom tore her rotator cuff during her senior year, changing her prospects for an athletic scholarship. In the U.S. Army, she regained her stride. She was stationed at Fort Campbell on the border of Tennessee and Ken-

tucky, home to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, where she had many friends. She wanted to join them.

There aren’t many roles for women in Special Operations, but she applied and, after one deployment with a Navy SEAL unit, was recruited for an elite Special Operations team. This was her calling, and for more than six years she experienced the rush of adrenaline every time she was sent on top-secret missions in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Much of her work involved parachuting, which fit her fearless nature. But one day, on perhaps the 10th jump of a day of training exercises, everything changed.

There was some bad weather coming in, but all was fine as her parachute deployed and she prepared for landing, following the swooping pattern paratroopers

follow as they return to Earth.

“At about 65 feet, I was coming in to my final turn and as soon as I turned a gust of wind hit me.”

She had turned deep, too, which meant her parachute was nearly collapsed in half as she navigated to land. When the wind caught it, it sucked the remaining air out of it.

There wasn’t enough time for it to catch more air, and Broom dropped roughly six stories to the ground.

The impact collapsed both of her lungs, tore her aorta, broke arm and leg bones and shattered her pelvis. She was taken to a nearby civilian hospital rather than a military one, where, as luck would have it, a heart doctor from the Cleveland Clinic happened to be on call. Yet, doctors told the dozens of friends gathered to say goodbye—they didn’t think Broom would survive the night.

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ETHICS AWARENESS WEEK

The University of Georgia has received a national Award of Excellence from the University Economic Development Association for its work in rural Georgia to save a local hospital from closing and to improve medical service for community residents.

The Archway Partnership, a unit of UGA’s Division of Public Service and Outreach, won the top award during the UEDA’s annual summit in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 21-23. Summit participants from across the U.S. cast votes to determine the winners after finalists

presented their award entries.

“It is truly an honor to be selected for this national award by a group of our peers,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “This is well-deserved recognition for our public service and outreach faculty and staff, who fulfill this university’s land-grant and sea-grant mission by addressing critical issues across the state.”

Taylor Regional Hospital in Pulaski County, about 50 miles south of Macon, was within days of shutting down in December 2015 because it did not have enough funds to complete a Community Needs Health Assessment of the

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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Keturah Orji named 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Keturah Orji continues to lead on and off the field.

The Georgia track and field standout was named the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Oct. 28 at an awards dinner in Indianapolis.

Orji is the first winner from Georgia’s track and field program and the fourth winner overall from the University of Georgia, the first school to have more than one winner.

UGA swimmers Lisa Coole, Kristy Kowal and Kim Black were NCAA Woman of the Year in 1997, 2000 and 2001, respectively.

“The University of Georgia is extremely proud of Keturah for receiving this remarkable honor,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead.

“With her record-breaking athletic accomplishments, numerous academic achievements and dedicated service and leadership both on and off campus,she has provided an inspiring

example for other studentathletes—and indeed all students at the university—to follow.”

For Orji, a native of Mount Olive, Keturah Orji New Jersey, being named NCAA Woman of the Year is the perfect ending to her collegiate athletic career.

“I feel like I always get recognized for my athletic accomplishments but with this one, it’s about how you are as an all-around person,” she said. “(This honor) definitely compares way above my other accomplishments or awards.”

She credits her on-field success to head track and field coach Petro See ATHLETE on page 8

CAES

‘Blind Spots’ author to deliver Ethics Week Lecture International development expert

By Abbey Miner grams. “Her ioral Ethics: Shaping an Emerging will give D.W. Brooks Lecture abbeym36@uga.edu lecture, ‘Why Field, Codes of Conduct: Behavioral Ann E. Tenbrunsel, whose research explores how people can act unethically without meaning to, will deliver the University of Georgia’s 2018 Ethics Week Lecture at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the Chapel.

Tenbrunsel is the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at Notre Dame University and the co-author of Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do About It. “Dr. Tenbrunsel’s work examines situations and circumstances that tempt good people to cross ethical lines,” said Meg Amstutz, associate provost for academic pro-

We Aren’t as Ethical as We T h i n k We Are,’ will address how we often perceive and respond to ethical dilemAnn Tenbrunsel mas.”

Tenbrunsel’s lecture at UGA is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Terry College of Business and the School of Law, and it coincides with the University System of Georgia’s Ethics Awareness Week.

In addition to Blind Spots, Tenbrunsel is the co-author of Behav-

Research into Business Ethics and more than 50 research articles and chapters. Her research has been featured in interviews airing on MSNBC and National Public Radio, and adaptations, excerpts and references to her work have appeared in a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times, ESPN, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Harvard Business Review.

The 2018 Ethics Awareness Week is Nov. 11-17, and its theme is Celebrating Our Ethical Culture.

Ethics Awareness Week is sponsored by the University System

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By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

Author and international development expert Robert Paarlberg has spent years dismantling the oversimplified narratives surrounding global hunger and its remedies.

It’s not enough to encourage more plant-based diets or bolster local markets, and it’s not enough to rely on modern agricultural technology to deliver evermore-productive grain crops.

The answer, Paarlberg asserts, is somewhere in the middle.

Paarlberg will bring his message

of evaluating ideas without labels to the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel N o v. 8 a t 3:30 p.m. as Robert Paarlberg part of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ annual D.W. Brooks Lecture and Awards.

The lecture is held each year in honor of college alumnus and Gold Kist Inc. founder D.W. Brooks and

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Commit to Georgia 2018

Why I Give

Name: David Eckles Position: Associate ­Professor in the Terry College of Business’ Risk Management and Insurance Program At UGA: 13 years

Beneficiary of his gift to the university: Georgia 4-H and the Department of Insurance and Risk Management David Eckles

Why he contributes: “Georgia has given so much to me, that it is the least I can do. As a faculty member, I have the added advantage of seeing how my contributions to our department are used in a way that directly supports our ­students through scholarships and travel.”

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.

FRANKLIN COLLEGE

Historian discusses ‘Shakespeare of the Sciences’ at Gregory Lecture

By Leigh Beeson lbeeson@uga.edu

The land was barren but for the crops planted in rows on the fields. All the topsoil washed away in the heavy rains. The lake and surrounding rivers were being drained for agricultural purposes. And Alexander von Humboldt was convinced mankind was destroying the very world it inhabited.

In his diary, he spoke of a future when humans might travel to other planets. “There were moments when he was incredibly pessimistic about our future,” said historian and writer Andrea Wulf. “… He said, ‘If that happens, we will take our lethal mix of greed, violence and ignorance with us. We will turn these planets as barren and as ravaged as we have already done with Earth.’ ” A prophetic statement that could just as easily been said by a modern-day scientist. But Humboldt, the founding father of environmentalism, was a 19th-century aristocrat who sacrificed his family fortune to explore South America for five years, returning to Europe with tens of thousands of astronomical, geological and meteorological observations and more than 60,000 plant specimens.

But for someone who was known as the Shakespeare of the Sciences and the inspiration behind Charles Darwin’s exploration on the Beagle and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, his name doesn’t ring many bells.

“When I told people over the last few years that I was writing a book about Alexander von Humboldt, the common reaction I got was a blank face,” said Wulf during the Gregory Distinguished History Lecture, part of the Signature Lecture series. Yet, “his name lingers everywhere. There are more plants, places and animals named after Humboldt than anyone else in this world.”

Humboldt’s view of nature—that Earth itself could be viewed as one living organism—laid the foundation for the environmental sciences. It was during his exploration of South America that he realized the negative impact agriculture, mining and other human activities were having on the environment.

“It was at Lake Valencia (in Venezuela) that he realized how humankind was destroying nature. … Seeing this destruction, Humboldt was the first to describe the fundamental functions of the forest ecosystem without using the word ‘ecosystem,’ which was not coined yet,” Wulf said.

Upon his return to Europe, Humboldt published multiple books, including the most successful multivolume series Cosmos. His findings made him famous during his time, but today, few in English-speaking cultures know his name.

In her book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Wulf argues for a return to Humboldt’s view of sciences as more than just empirical data. He believed “nature must be experienced through feelings,” that science should be “driven by a sense of wonder.”

At a time when scholars began specializing, focusing on individual areas of study, Humboldt was one of the last great polyglots with expertise and knowledge in countless disciplines. He married science with the arts and poetry, a view of the world Wulf thinks it is important to get back to.

“Humboldt is the bridge in between (disciplines),” she said. “I think in a way that science and the arts are the same thing. They’re both attempts to make sense of the world around us.”

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Three are named 2018-2019 Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellows

By Leah Moss

leahmoss@uga.edu

New Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellows for 2018-19 include faculty members from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Public Health and the College of Engineering. Each will conduct research with a unit of Public Service and Outreach over the course of the year.

The 2018-2019 Faculty Fellows are: • Sung-Hee Sonny Kim, a faculty member in the School of Environmental, Civil, Agriculture and Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, will work with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government to implement cutting-edge research that predicts future problems in road networks.

These methods have the potential to change the way local governments monitor road conditions by predicting and assessing needs in roadways before they become hazardous to drivers. Kim uses nondestructive testing methods, such as ground penetrating radar, to assess layers, debonding, presence of moisture and other factors that contribute to the distress of roads.

Using Athens-Clarke County as his model, Kim will publish his results in a database with help from the Institute of Government’s geographic information systems department. He will also develop a Georgia Department of Transportation forensic guide manual to help other counties implement his methods.

• Jennifer L. Gay, a faculty member in the health promotion and behavior department in the College of Public Health, will work with Marine Exten-

Photos courtesy of the Office of Public Service and Outreach

PSO’s 2018-2019 Faculty Fellows are (from left) Sung-Hee Sonny Kim, Jennifer Gay and James Anderson II.

sion and Georgia Sea Grant to study how human health and physical fitness can be used to promote healthy ecosystems.

She will identify ways to link physical fitness to activities such as citizen science, ecotourism and volunteer opportunities on Georgia’s coast. She will study how litter and debris influence physical activities in public areas, as well as quantify the type and amount of physical activity that individuals engage in during Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant programming.

She also will help develop educational materials linking physical activity to individual well-being and healthy ecosystems. This relationship between coastal conservation and human health is known as the “blue gym.”

• James C. Anderson II, a faculty member in the agricultural leadership, education and communication department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will work with the State Botanical Garden of

Georgia to help develop Learning by Leading at UGA. Learning by Leading is an inclusive and experiential learning community for students in science, technology, engineering and math majors. The program gives students the opportunity to intern at the garden, participate in leadership training, become mentors and rise through leadership ranks within the community. Anderson will design, implement and evaluate leadership curriculum and training for Learning by Leading. This program will provide leadership opportunities and a support network for STEM majors, specifically those studying biological and life sciences.

Launched in 2011, the Faculty Fellows program provides professors with an opportunity to connect their research and course curriculum to the needs of a specific PSO unit. The result of the program is a sustained relationship between the designated unit and the Faculty Fellows’ departments.

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

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Five longtime Terry College of Business faculty members were recently appointed to privately endowed chairs or professorships.

Christopher Cornwell, a professor and head of the economics department, was named to the Simon S. Selig Jr. Chair for Economic Growth. His scholarship falls into three areas: applied econometrics, labor economics and economics of education. Cornwell joined the department in 1988 and has served as its head since 2008. He also holds an adjunct appointment in UGA’s department of public administration and policy and is a senior fellow in the university’s Institute of Higher Education.

Stuart Gillan, at Terry since 2011, was named the Mercer W. Hull Professor in Finance. He has written and published extensively on corporate finance and corporate governance. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies and is on the editorial boards of Accounting and Finance and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His experience includes time as associate chief economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission and a research economist at TIAA-CREF. Scott Graffin, a professor in the management department since 2006, was named to the Synovus Chair in Servant Leadership. His research focuses on how CEOs, top management teams and corporate boards shape organizational actions. He recently served as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal, is a research fellow for the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation and was elected to the executive committee of the Strategic Management Society.

William Lastrapes, a member of the economics faculty since 1990, was named to the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise. An expert in monetary economics and time series econometrics, he is editor of the Journal of Macroeconomics and was head of the economics department from 2002 to 2008.

Tao Shu, who joined the finance department in 2007, was named the Bradford McFadden Professor of Personal Financial Management. He is an expert in empirical asset pricing, institutional and individual investors, behavioral finance, corporate finance and financial accounting.

By Krista Richmond

Five Terry professors named to endowed faculty chairs

Lecturer looks at impact and influence of art during WWI krichmond@uga.edu

Art is meant to inspire, especially when it comes to propaganda.

“In April 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. In the buildup, American artists and illustrators, and some filmmakers, sold the war to a public that initially remained reluctant to take up arms,” said David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University.

Lubin’s talk, “Oh, Say Can You See: American Art, Propaganda and the First World War,” was held Oct. 18 at the Georgia Museum of Art as part of the fall Signature Lecture series. The event was co-sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art and the College of Environment and Design.

Lubin believes it’s important to “squeeze paintings to understand what they meant to the people of the time politically, socially, economically.”

His lecture focused on Childe Hassam’s series of flag paintings, particularly Hassam’s 1917 painting “Early Morning on the Avenue in May,” which shows pedestrians, mostly women, on Fifth Avenue in New York City walking beneath Allied flags hanging from buildings.

“The red, white and blue color scheme of Hassam’s painting is no accident,” Lubin said. “Attesting to the fervor at that moment in history when the United States shrugged off its age-old policy of political isolation and jumped jubilantly onto the world stage, the painting uses flags, femininity, commercial culture and religious worship to remind viewers of the democratic values that they supposedly were going to war to defend.

“American art during the First World War was never monolithic, with artists, propagandists and commercial illustrators all riding the same express train in support of the nation’s war efforts. Far from it. During this period of political turbulence, artists moved in dramatically different directions from one another,” Lubin also said. “World War I was the first time in American history that artists and other makers of compelling visual imagery exerted formidable influence in the way their fellow Americans engaged with and thought about war.”

RESEARCH NEWS

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Digest Law school grads record highest state bar passage rate for fifth straight year

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Signed in September by UGA’s David Lee and BUCT’s Feng Wang, the agreement includes startup funding from BUCT for initial research collaborations and creates a mechanism by which UGA and BUCT can identify and cooperate in the pursuit of new research.

‘Exchange of ideas’

UGA agrees to establish joint research center with Beijing University of Chemical Technology

By Michael Terrazas

michael.terrazas@uga.edu

UGA has deepened its relationship with China’s Beijing University of Chemical Technology by signing an agreement that will establish a joint research center in biomaterials and bioengineering with the Chinese university.

Signed in September by Vice President for Research David Lee, the agreement allows for the two institutions to “develop new research and enhance existing research” through the creation of a joint center. In practical terms, the deal includes startup funding from BUCT for initial research collaborations and creates a mechanism by which UGA and BUCT can identify and cooperate in the pursuit of new research.

“Partnering with BUCT enhances our international reputation and helps increase our global visibility,” said James Warnock, professor and chair of the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering. “It also indicates how collaborative our faculty are and ­provides for both meaningful

collaboration with colleagues on the other side of the world as well as a constant exchange of ideas.This partnership is very much based on complementary expertise—each university brings different areas of strength to the table.”

BUCT, which celebrated its 60th anniversary this year, enrolls more than 21,000 students, including some 6,300 graduate students, across its 14 colleges. It offers 35 Ph.D. programs and more than 110 M.S. degrees.

The university recently has scaled up its research activities, and in 2016 it received nearly 727 million yuan (about $102 million) in STEM-related research funding.

“BUCT is highly thought of in China for its expertise in chemical engineering, advanced materials and biomanufacturing,” said Brian Watkins, director of international partnerships in the Office of International Education.

“These sorts of initiatives are critical for UGA to tell our story in a global context—we’re collaborating with the smartest people around the world.”

The relationship between the two universities was sparked by one of ­Warnock’s faculty members, ­associate

professor Yajun Yan, who earned both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biochemical engineering from BUCT. Since coming to UGA, Yan has added partnerships with BUCT to a research portfolio in metabolic engineering that helped make him UGA’s 2018 Academic Entrepreneur of the Year. Yan also helped establish a dual-degree program with BUCT in 2017. That program allows for undergraduates to spend their first three years in Beijing, followed by two more in Athens, and emerge with both a B.S. and M.S. in bioengineering from BUCT and UGA, respectively.

Currently four BUCT students are in Athens pursuing their dual degrees through the program.

“This partnership will further strengthen UGA’s study abroad programs and enrich the learning experiences of our students, will enhance the teaching materials and experiences of our faculty and will lead to more research opportunities for UGA,” Yan said. “The partnership will further enhance the student diversity at UGA and improve the international reputation and professional image of our College of Engineering.”

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Epidemiologist discusses role of service in science

By Lauren Baggett lbaggett@uga.edu

Public health is science with a moral compass, said Dr. William Foege to the crowd attending his keynote address at the seventh annual State of the Public’s Health conference in Athens on Oct. 18.

The conference, organized by the Office for Outreach and Engagement at the University of Georgia College of Public Health, brought together a diverse group of people who are working to improve the health of Georgia’s communities.

A renowned epidemiologist and global health leader, Foege knows how science can improve lives, but, he told an audience of public health professionals, policymakers and UGA students and faculty, “there is something better, science in the service of mankind.”

The role of service was at the heart of Foege’s talk and his career. As director of the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Foege is credited with developing the global strategy to eradicate smallpox. In 1984, he was among the health leaders who founded the Task Force for Global Health to improve childhood immunization in developing countries.

Foege later served as an executive director of The Carter Center, known for its work in eradicating guinea worm, and he was an early consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he is now a Senior Fellow.

His talk, sprinkled with personal anecdotes, observations and truisms, reflected on the purpose of public health.

“I see the philosophy of science as breaking down the walls of ignorance, to find truth. I see the philosophy of medicine as the ability to apply that truth to your patients. And I see the philosophy of public health is to apply that truth to everybody,” he said. “Therefore, social justice is the

base philosophy.”

During his presentation, Foege offered 10 lessons for people who do the vital work of public health: avoid certainty, find mentors, continue to learn, think long term and improve on history, to share a few.

Foege emphasized that public health successes often go unnoticed.

“No one will thank you for the disease they didn’t get,” he said.

And it’s not easy work, he admitted. Unlike health care delivery, public health gets the short end of the stick when it comes to funding and resources.

But, it can also be collaborative and innovative.

You won’t make much money, he said, and you won’t be thanked, but you can find satisfaction in working for the good of others.

“Public health might be the greatest measure of kindness,” said Foege, “the greatest measure of how to treat each other.”

For the fifth consecutive year, graduates of UGA’s School of Law had the highest bar examination passage rate for first-time takers in Georgia for the July sitting.

“We make a promise to all students who choose to attend our law school that we will provide a world-class educational experience that prepares them for successful careers,” said School of Law Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge.

“For five years now, our graduates have had the highest bar passage rate in our state for firsttime test takers, which sends a strong signal that we are indeed delivering on that promise.”

This achievement comes only weeks after the law school was recognized as the best value in legal education in the U.S. The ranking by National Jurist relies on outcome-driven factors such as average indebtedness, bar passage and employment.

School of Social Work professor to study respite care for caregivers

Tiffany Washington, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has been awarded a $149,980 grant from the Health Foundation of Western and Central New York.

The funds will support her research on family caregivers’ use of respite—short-term breaks for people who provide, on average, 24 hours of care per week of loved ones.

Partnering with aging-services providers, Washington and her research team will conduct telephone surveys with about 80 caregivers in western and central New York state to see how often they are using respite services and examine whether their social support networks, among other factors, relate to their access to and desire for respite care. Then Washington will conduct focus groups with caregivers who participated in the survey to delve deeper into caregivers’ experiences. The team includes Sheryl Zimmerman, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work, and Dr. Thomas Caprio, associate professor in the medicine, nursing and public health sciences departments at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

WUGA-FM wins broadcasting awards

WUGA-FM 91.7/94.5 FM, the University of Georgia’s public radio station, was honored by the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Oct. 20 at its annual convention in Savannah.

The GABBY Award for outstanding community service was presented to the radio station’s general manager Jimmy Sanders, former traffic director Abbie Thaxton and operations/ production manager Michael Cardin.

A merit award for best local program was presented to “Nothing Funny About Money,” which is hosted by Matt Goren and Michael Thomas from UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Program director for the show is Chris Shupe. A merit award for best sports feature, “Just an Old Scoreboard,” was presented to Shupe; Garrett Michael, Cox Institute intern; and intern Jed May, who are both students at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Shupe also received a merit award for best news feature for “Athens, Ga Birthplace of a Milkshake?”

WUGA-FM also was honored with the Best of Gabby for the most awards received by a station in the class A, or large market, category. WUGA competes with radio stations in the large-market category, including public and commercial stations in Atlanta, Savannah, ­Columbus and Macon.

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EXHIBITIONS

For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Blum Collection. Through Nov. 18. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann.

Through Nov. 18. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Berkeley Boone. Through Nov. 25. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

Nature Speaks: Artworks by Katherine Mitchell and Diane Kempler. Through Dec. 7. Jackson Street Building. mtufts@uga.edu.

Poppies: Women, War, Peace. Through Dec. 14. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123. jclevela@uga.edu.

War of Words: Propaganda of World War I. Through Dec. 14.

Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123. jclevela@uga.edu.

WE: American Thanksgiving Conflict and Communion.

Through Dec. 22. Special collections libraries. 706-542-5766. jsevern@uga.edu.

One Heart, One Way: The Journey of a Princely Art Collection.

Through Jan. 6. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

Fighting Spirit: Wally Butts and UGA Football, 1939-1950.

Through May 10. Rotunda, special collections libraries.

706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

Out of the Darkness: Light in the Depths of the Sea of Cortez.

Through Oct. 27, 2019. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

MONDAY, NOV. 5 4 MINUTES, 33 SECONDS: SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP* Through Nov. 7. The fifth annual competition features student research in the arts. Poster competition entries will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art, and prizes will be awarded in the poster and presentation categories. 706-583-0728. camiew@uga.edu.

GEORGIA WRITERS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION* The 2018 class of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame members Michael Bishop, Tayari Jones and Cynthia Shearer will be inducted at the ceremony; Furman Bisher and Frances Newman will be honored posthumously. 10 a.m. Auditorium, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

LECTURE The president of the American Society of Landscape Architects will give a lecture. 3 p.m. Jackson Street Building. gslaofficers@gmail.com.

ENSEMBLE CONCERT: UGA JAZZ BAND* This concert features both intro-level and advanced big bands playing jazz ensemble music. 5:30 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center.

LITERARY ARTS AT UGA: A SHOWCASE* The Georgia Review and the creative writing program are pleased to present a creative writing showcase. This event will feature readings by The Georgia Review editors, creative writing program faculty, creative writing program graduate students and English department undergraduate students affiliated with Stillpoint Literary Magazine. 7 p.m. Cine.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6 DIWALI Through Nov. 10. Hindu religious observance.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Considering Critical Transitions of Functional Extinction in Carnivore Systems,” Nyeema Harris, assistant professor, ecology and evolutionary biology department, University of Michigan. Host: Odum Graduate Student Association. Reception follows seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby.

3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-2968. bethgav@uga.edu.

UGA HORN STUDIO RECITAL* The graduates and undergraduates of the UGA Horn Studio will present a program of solos and ensemble works for horn. Audiences will hear works from all time periods and will have the opportunity to learn about the performers and the composers.

6 p.m. Edge Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

CONCERT Performance by the Southern Woodwind Quintet. 7:30 p.m.

Edge Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7 TA CAFE TA Cafes are opportunities to meet other graduate and professional students from across campus and find resources for teaching. These events are hosted monthly in departments across campus and are open free to all graduate students.

Refreshments provided. This month’s event is hosted by graduate students in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural

By Nieya Amezquita and Jessica Luton naa82227@uga.edu, jluton@uga.edu

The UGA dance department will present its 2018 Senior Exit and YCL Emerging Choreographers Concert Nov. 7-9 at 8 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre, located in the Dance Building on Sanford Drive.

The concert is one of several dance events featured in UGA's 2018 Spotlight on the Arts festival.

The Senior Exit Dance Concert is a compilation of knowledge and artistic decisions that each dance major has discovered for themselves in the last four years. From various music and styles of dance, the show encompasses a spectrum of creativity and developed works of art. This year’s concert showcases pieces choreographed by two senior dance majors.

BFA candidates Nieya Amezquita and Samantha Miller will present pieces that showcase their artistic voice and passion through the art of dance. Each has been given the opportunity to experiment with their creative process as choreographers to create works that demonstrate dynamic movement, choreographic devices and expressive concepts learned throughout their time as students in the UGA dance department.

Amezquita’s piece explores the integration of social psychological theories of attraction found in everyday life through contemporary movement. Miller’s piece explores the theatrical side of dance while utilizing movement as a narrative, storytelling device.

Additional works from emerging choreographers Madison Calderwood, Baylee Davenport, Kristin Jaspers, Claire Korfas, Claire Peoples and Amber Thompson, who are all working towards their undergraduate degree in dance, also will be presented.

Ticket prices are $12 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the Tate Student Center cashier’s window, the Performing Arts Center box office, by phone at 706-542-4400 or Resources. This event series is supported by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Graduate School. 9 a.m.

132 Forestry Resources Building 4. 706-542-1355. gradteach@uga.edu.

DISEASE ECOLOGY WORKSHOP “Social Living and Parasite Infection Revisited,” Vanessa Ezenwa. She will discuss a new framework for considering the links between social living and parasitsm that considers both costs and benefits, describe emerging evidence of sociallymediated tolerance to gastrointestinal parasites in a wild mammal and outline an approach for examining the causes and consequences of this potential tolerance response. RSVP for lunch. 12:20 p.m. Conference room, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. 706-542-1930. tross312@uga.edu.

TOUR AT TWO* Join Nelda Damiano, the Georgia Museum of Art’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, for a special tour of the exhibition For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Blum Collection. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

Hodgson Singers to present Nov. 6 concert

By Camille Hayes ceh822@uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s flagship choral ensemble, the Hodgson Singers, will present a concert reflecting on life’s “seasons and sentiments” in “The Passing of the Year.”

The performance will take place in Hodgson Hall Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. during UGA’s seventh annual Spotlight on the Arts festival, which is presented by the UGA Arts Council and features dozens of events and exhibitions in the visual, literary and performing arts.

“I am delighted that our university has begun this initiative to bring greater awareness of our ongoing artistic pursuits to the greater university and Athens communities. The singers and I are glad to be contributing this special concert to the festival,” said Daniel Bara, the John D. Boyd UGA Foundation Professor of Choral Music and the director of choral activities.

Joining Bara and the Hodgson Singers will be doctoral piano student Tsai-Wei Li. “ ‘The Passing of the Year’ requires a professional caliber pianist,” said Bara. “We are so delighted that Tsai-Wei has taken on this challenging and rewarding piece with us.”

The evening’s program reflects on the seasons of life as expressed in the writings of poets and thinkers, including Wordsworth, Dickinson, Blake, Tennyson, Whitman, Rabindranath Tagore and Rumi. The centerpieces of the program are works that have become

important contributions to the choral repertory in recent years: Jonathan Dove’s “The Passing of the Year” and Christopher Theofanidis’ “Messages to Myself.”

The second part of the program will explore the human experience through the lens of folk songs from the U.S., England, Ireland and South Africa. It closes with a “bedtime” story and lullaby, followed by a rousing African American spiritual.

“The diversity of styles will certainly be appreciated by all who come,” said Bara.

The intellectual gravity of the texts paired with the virtuosity of the writing make this program one of significance, according to Bara.

“In these times of heightened political rhetoric and apparent divisiveness, I hope that this program—one that intentionally explores the folk music of other cultures and writings of non-Western philosophers and poets—helps to remind all of us that we are more similar than different, and that we are stronger and better when we seek to see ourselves in others,” he said.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and children and can be purchased online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the Performing Arts Center box office at 706-542-4400. All proceeds go directly to supporting student scholarships. For those unable to attend the concert, live streaming will be available online at music.uga.edu/live-streaming.

For more information on the Spotlight on the Arts festival, which continues through Nov. 11, visit arts.uga.edu.

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Senior Exit Dance Concert set for Nov. 7-9

UGA INVENTOR’S GUIDE TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER This is the second event from Innovation Gateway’s Technology Transfer Educational Series “Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry.” This event will feature Michael Fisher, director of product development at the Global Center for Medical Innovation. He will present a case study on the transition of technology from discovery to product. Registration is encouraged. RSVP to Tyler Duggins at tduggins@uga.edu or 706-542-8969. 1:30 p.m. 201 Pharmacy South.

The Hodgson Singers’ Nov. 6 performance will reflect on the seasons of life.

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ETHICS WEEK LECTURE “Blind Spots: Why We Aren’t as Ethical as We Think We Are,” Ann E. Tenbrunsel, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the Office of the President, the Terry College of Business and the School of Law. 2:30 p.m. Chapel. (See story, page 1).

STAFF COUNCIL MEETING 2:30 p.m. 348 Miller Learning Center. 706-910-9230. ahannem9@uga.edu.

GUITAR ENSEMBLE CONCERT: DANIEL BOLSHOY* The School of Music guitar studio presents an ensemble and solo showcase featuring selections for solo guitar, small ensembles and the large (16 piece) guitar ensemble. 4:30 p.m.

Edge Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

CONCERT* Join the UGA Hodgson School of Music Saxophone Studio as it celebrates the birthday of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, who was born Nov. 6, 1814. The concert features an array of music, including the first piece ever written for saxophone quartet from 1858. Six different size saxophones from the sopranino down to the bass also will be featured.

5:30 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center.

ENSEMBLE CONCERT* Join the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music Symphonic Band for a concert featuring staples of wind band literature by composers including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Alford Reed, Clifton Williams and John Mackey. 7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center.

UNIVERSITY THEATRE* Through Nov. 11. The violent blinding of six horses is the incident that brings disillusioned psychiatrist Martin Dysart in contact with 17 year-old Alan Strang in Equus. Puzzled by what led the seemingly well-adjusted boy to commit such a horrifying crime, Dysart is forced to contend with his own beliefs leading to a disturbing confrontation. $16; $12 for students. Purchase

The 2018 Senior Exit and YCL Emerging Choreographers Concert, held Nov. 7-9 at 8 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre, features pieces choreographed by BFA candidates Samantha Miller, left, and Nieya Amezquita.

online at pac.uga.edu. Tickets may also be purchased at the door with cash, major credit card or personal check, however, advance purchase is recommended.

Free parking is available in lots adjacent to the Dance Building after 5 p.m., or at the South Campus tickets at ugatheatre.com/equus. Performances run at 8 p.m. on Nov. 7-9 and at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 11. Fine Arts Theatre (Room 200), Fine Arts Building.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8 D.W. BROOKS LECTURE AND AWARDS 3:30 p.m. Georgia Center. 706-543-0347. regina@uga.edu.

(See story, page 1).

WORKSHOP In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create release conditions and intelligent agents. 3:30 p.m. Model Active Learning Lab, Instructional Plaza. 706-542-2160. alampp@uga.edu.

McGILL LECTURE AND SYMPOSIUM The 40th McGill Lecture, “Trust, Technology and Teamwork Can Reveal a Global Truth,” will be given by Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an independent network of reporters headquartered in Washington, D.C. Also included is the McGill Symposium, now in its 11th year. 4 p.m. Studio 100, Journalism Building.

LECTURE* In “Seeing Appalachia,” writer and public historian Elizabeth Catte will take a critical look at representations of the region in contemporary writing, photography and reporting, underscoring how the visual archive of Appalachia often renders a diverse and complicated place into a series of problems that threaten the nation’s progress. Catte is author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, and is currently co-editing 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike. 5 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

CONCERT* VOCES8’s concerts celebrate versatility with a repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary commissions and arrangements. Tickets start at $30. 7:30 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu.

FRIDAY, NOV. 9 WOMEN’S STUDIES FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES “Playing for the Vote: Suffrage Games and the British Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Elise Robinson, theatre and performance studies. 12:20 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-0066. tlhat@uga.edu.

WOMEN IN IT: OPEN HOUSE SESSION The University of Georgia Women in Information Technology program is an avenue to increase communication and collaboration between all UGA IT professionals. The program proactively supports and fosters collaboration on best practices for the effective recruitment, retention and advancement of women in IT. All genders are welcome. Refreshments will be served. RSVP to Melanie Crawford. 3 p.m. 120 RC Wilson. 706-542-9621. mfarley@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. St. Bonaventure. $5. 6 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

MEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Savannah State. $15. 8:30 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

SATURDAY, NOV. 10 FOOTBALL vs. Auburn. Time to be announced. Sanford Stadium.

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Parking Deck next to the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel for a small fee.

For more information on the Spotlight on the Arts festival and other related dance events, visit arts.uga.edu.

SALAMANDER AND STREAM ECOLOGY RAMBLE Join Matt Elliott and Stacy Smith for a ramble along and in the streams and wet areas of the State Botanical Garden. Participants will learn about the salamanders found around Athens.

Insect repellents are discouraged when handling these fragile creatures. 10 a.m. Visitor Center Patio, State Botanical Garden.

706-542-6156. bwboone@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, NOV. 11 ETHICS AWARENESS WEEK Through Nov. 17. The University of Georgia is once again a proud participant of International Fraud Awareness Week. In support of this week, UGA observes Ethics Awareness Week to promote an ethical culture on campus and raise awareness about ethics resources available at UGA. VETERANS DAY FOURTH ANNUAL ‘I LOVE UKULELE’ FESTIVAL* Bring a friend and a ukulele to listen to or play and sing along with the Athens Ukulele Philharmonic and other ukulele groups and soloists. 1 p.m. State Botanical Garden.

SPOTLIGHT TOUR* Tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL vs. Winthrop. $5. 2 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

MONDAY, NOV. 12 J.W. FANNING LECTURE The 34th annual J.W. Fanning Lecture will feature Keith Coble, head of the agricultural economics department at Mississippi State University, presenting on “U.S. Farm Policy: Looking Where We Have Been and Some Thoughts on the Future.” 10:30 a.m.

Hilton Garden Inn. 706-542-0763.

LECTURE “Does the Conservative Movement Have a Future?,” George Hawley, University of Alabama. 4 p.m. 213 Miller Learning Center.

LECTURE In “Poppies: Women, War and Peace,” documentary photographer Lee Karen Stow will talk about her “Poppies” project, which records the personal narratives of women of war, conflict and genocide with a botanical series of the red “Flanders Fields” poppy. A reception will follow. 6 p.m. Auditorium, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

FACULTY CONCERT The theme of this faculty piano recital by Maria Thomas is “Music Old and New.” 7:30 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center.

COMING UP OPERATION SAFE DRIVE Nov. 15. All UGA students, faculty and staff are invited to Operation Safe Drive. Mechanics from UGA Transportation and Parking Services will perform free vehicle inspections. Mechanics will top off fluids, check belts and wiper blades, pressurize tires and do a visual inspection. The UGA Office of Sustainability will be offering free bicycle safety inspections and tune-ups. 10 a.m.

Tate Center Parking Deck. fsevents@uga.edu. *Part of UGA’s 2018 Spotlight on the Arts festival.

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FACULTY PROFILE

COLLEGE OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES

Three FACS faculty members named to professorships

By Cal Powell

jcpowell@uga.edu

Three faculty members in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences have been named to endowed professorships. Lynn Bailey, head of the foods and nutrition department, has been named the Flatt Professor in Foods and Nutrition. Sheri Worthy, head of the financial planning, housing and consumer economics department, has been appointed the first recipient of the Samuel A. and Sharon Y. Nickols Professorship in the college; and Brenda Cude, a professor in the financial planning, housing and consumer economics department, has been named a Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Family and Consumer Sciences.

“To be named an endowed professor is one of the greatest accomplishments to which any faculty member can aspire,” said FACS Dean Linda Kirk Fox. “We are fortunate to have so many highly regarded researchers in our college who have earned this distinction. All three recipients exemplify leadership, scholarship and service and are excellent choices for this recognition.”

The Flatt Professorship was established by William “Bill” Flatt, the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Emeritus who served as dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from 1981-94 and later joined the FACS faculty. Flatt’s contributions to FACS have exceeded $1 million, earning him membership in the 1785 Society at UGA. Over the course of her 40-year career, Bailey’s human metabolic studies generated more than 100 publications with key data on which current intake recommendations for folic acid are based. Her research findings were instrumental in establishing how best to assess optimal folate status to maintain health and reduce disease and birth defect risk.

“The greatest honor of my ­professional career is my appointment as the Flatt Professor in Foods and NuLynn Bailey trition,” Bailey said. “I have the highest regard for Dr. Flatt’s research accomplishments in the area of energy metabolism, earning him international acclaim as well as for his outstanding achievements as an administrator. As the Flatt Professor in Foods and Nutrition, I will strive to ensure that my scholarly work and leadership roles in the area of foods and nutrition reflect positively on Dr. Flatt and on his family.”

Worthy, whose research interests include consumer vulnerability, savings and financial risk-taking behavior, has served as department head since 2013.

She is part of a multi-state research group studying behavioral economics and the intersection of health care and financial decision making across the lifespan.

Nickols served as dean of the college from 1991-2006, a time of tremendous growth and accomplishments.

“During her career, Dr. Nickols Sheri Worthy made major contributions to our discipline through her ecosystems research, and the Nickols family has continuously supported the profession,” Worthy said. “I hope to continue in that tradition and promote family and consumer sciences by integrating my teaching, research and service to the profession. This professorship will help me do that.”

Cude, who serves as director of the UGA Center for Economic Education, researches consumer decisionmaking with an emphasis on the personal financial literacy of college students. She has been widely published and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Affairs. She is a FACS 100 Centennial Honoree and was named the FACS Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2007. In addition, Cude received the Educator of the Year Award from the Direct Selling Brenda Cude Education Foundation last year and was inducted into the UGA Teaching Academy in 2008.

The Georgia Athletic Association Professorship II is awarded for a term of four years to a faculty member in FACS with an “outstanding national reputation” and one who is a leading scholar in the field.

“Being named a Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Family and Consumer Sciences is very meaningful to me,” Cude said. “My relationships with the mentors who have been major influences in my personal and professional life began when I was an undergraduate student and an athlete and have continued to this day. This professorship will provide support that will allow me to continue to mentor others.”

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Before this summer’s simulation of repaired brain functions in his lab in the Regenerative Bioscience Center, Lohitash Karumbaiah was part of a team that developed a substance called “brain glue.”

Faculty member’s ‘holistic curiosity’ fuels interest in healing brain injuries

By J. Merritt Melancon jmerritt@uga.edu

Lohitash Karumbaiah ended his summer by making history, as a member of the first research team to ever simulate recovery from a traumatic brain injury in a petri dish.

For Karumbaiah, the breakthrough to help heal brain injuries was the result of years of working to understand nervous system injuries.

With his diverse influences from having worked in industry and academia, Karumbaiah approaches research with a holistic curiosity that has allowed him to bridge many disciplines and learn from a diverse set of mentors.

Since 2013, Karumbaiah has served as an assistant professor in the animal and dairy science department of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the university’s Regenerative Bioscience Center.

He wants the students and younger scientists he works with to know the importance of an open mind and the ability to chart one’s own path, even in the sometimes-siloed halls of academia.

“Sometimes it takes students a long time to find their passion—just like it did for me,” Karumbaiah said. “But if you enjoy what you do, it’s really a good place to start. And if you do that and are continuously pushing the envelope then eventually you find your passion, I think. That’s been my experience.”

Although he’s always worked in biochemistry in some form or fashion, Karumbaiah set his sights on neuroscience and neural tissue engineering upon completing his doctoral thesis under the direction of Michael J. Adang, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and entomology at UGA. He spent his postdoc years

as senior research scientist with Ravi V. Bellamkonda in the Neurological Biomaterials and Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory in the biomedical engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

“My worldview kind of evolved after I finished my Ph.D.,” Karumbaiah said.

“I enjoyed my Ph.D. work but wanted to conduct postdoctoral research in the biomedical sciences where my work could have a greater impact.”

With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics stating that 30 percent of all injury-related deaths in the U.S. are caused by traumatic brain injuries and thousands more surviving with physical and mental impairments or emotional changes, working on brain repair seemed like a good place to make an impact.

Before this summer’s simulation of repaired brain functions in his lab in the RBC, Karumbaiah was part of a team that developed a substance called “brain glue.”

The gel medium was created using what researchers have learned about the role of carbohydrates in the brain and the way their composition changes around damaged areas of the brain.

The “glue” was able to act as a substrate to safely transplant neural stem cells and provide the chemistry and conditions needed to protect the brain and improve neuronal function.

That second part came closer to fruition in the famed petri dish late this summer. The next step is to work with animal models to integrate these two approaches, and if successful, to use this to help repair brain injuries in an actual patient.

Even for Karumbaiah, who has been working in neuroscience for the last decade, the pace of progress surrounding

FACTS Lohitash Karumbaiah

Assistant Professor College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Regenerative Bioscience Center Ph.D., Entomology, University of Georgia, 2007 M.S., Biotechnology, Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), 1998 B.S., Microbiology, Bangalore University (Bangalore, India), 1996 At UGA: Five years

brain regeneration has been amazing.

“This is the cutting edge of biomedical science,” he said of the ­ entire field of brain research. “I think the focus on the brain is a lot more now than it has ever been. President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and a number of programs that have been set up to fund this type of research are a testament to this.”

The other factor that has contributed to advances is a new sense of collaboration. The Regenerative Bioscience Center, where Karumbaiah’s research is housed, was created to promote cross-discipline and multi-institutional biomedical research within the Georgia Research Alliance with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia and Emory University.

“This is a great place to be. It’s a good combination of basic ­ science, excellent engineering and a top notch medical school within 60 or 70 miles of each other,” he said. “It is just fabulous … this combination of things just worked out for me organically.”

OBITUARY

Rebecca Sharitz, Savannah River Ecology Lab Rebecca R. “Becky” Sharitz, former professor of plant biology and senior research ecologist at UGA’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, died Oct. 20 at her home in Aiken, South Carolina.

A native of Virginia, Sharitz joined the UGA faculty at SREL in 1972 and later served as acting director of the laboratory. She was also an adjunct faculty member in the Odum School of Ecology until 2017. Her faculty affiliation with the ecology school dates back to its previous history when it was known as the Institute of Ecology.

She was recognized internationally for her research in wetlands ecology and was author of a dozen books, including textbooks on freshwater and estuarine wetlands.

Becky Sharitz She received the National Wetlands Award in Science Research from the Environmental Law Institute and was elected a Fellow of

the Society of Wetland Scientists and the Ecological Society of America, for which she served as national vice president. She was president of the Association of Southeastern Biologists and vice president and member of the executive board of the International Association for Ecology.

As major professor and mentor to numerous graduate students during her career, Sharitz was considered to be the quintessential role model in the field of ecology, both professionally and personally.

DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

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Dorothy Kozlowski

Scholarship recipients had a chance to talk about their personal experiences at the Disability Resource Center’s annual reception held. Oct. 18.

Disability Resource Center honors 29 students, one faculty member

By Emily Webb

sew30274@uga.edu

When Tyler Farmer started his freshman year at the University of Georgia, he was intimidated by the transition from high school to college. Farmer has cerebral palsy, a disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that affects fine motor skills and makes everyday tasks a challenge.

Now four years later, Farmer said college has helped him become more independent and more comfortable in his own skin.

“I would consider myself to be a normal college kid who just has to do things a little bit differently than most people,” he said.

“My disability won’t stop me from achieving my dreams.”

Farmer was one of 29 UGA students recognized along with faculty member James Monogan at the Disability Resource Center’s annual reception on Oct. 18 in the Grand Hall of Tate Student Center. The DRC is part of the Division of Student Affairs.

Along with Thang Lieu and Natalie Staffieri, Farmer, a fourth-year sport management and marketing major, was one of three recipients of the Gregory Charles Johnson Scholarship.

After graduation, Farmer plans to manage social media for a professional sports franchise, and he thanked the Johnson family and their friends for the scholarship that helped him in his final year at UGA. “A common question people ask me is what’s the biggest piece of advice you’d give to a younger child who also has C.P.?” Farmer said. “Find out who the people who love you for who you are and the people who see you instead of a wheelchair. And for that, I can thank many people.”

The ceremony also recognized Monogan, an associate professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs, who received the student-nominated Outstanding Faculty Award. The student who nominated Monogan described him as

committed to accessibility by his availability and willingness to help.

The DRC assists more than 1,900 UGA students a year, providing them with help navigating campus, extra time on tests, note-takers or anything else students might need to succeed.

Other students who were recognized and the scholarships they received are Nathaniel Lawrence Dominique, the Janis Family Scholarship; Karlie Hanson, the Margaret C. Totty Memorial Scholarship; Vanessa Shaw, Peter “Costa” Zachos and Megan Brosnan, the Michael E. Merriman Memorial Scholarship; Zachary Thorman, the Radcliff Scholarship; Simini Savini, the Elizabeth and J.C. Faulkner Scholarship; Krista Smith, the Orkin Family Scholarship; Lillian Hester, the Matthew Peddicord Memorial Scholarship; Jordan Tildon, the Dale Gibson Memorial Scholarship; Emily Starnes, Juliette Mossman and Adrianna Westbrook, the Lupuloff Family Scholarship; Shelby Brand, the John and Frances Mangan Family Scholarship; Rachel Wellington, the Margaret Ann Towson Scholarship; Luke Bundrum, Brandon Kim and Grason Shakelford, the Weldon H. Johnson Access Abroad Award; Charles Lee Shaw, the Carey Louis Davis Scholarship; Lillian Byces and Josiah Byler, the Hamilton Family Scholarship; Jocelyn Jimenez-Ruiz and Tyquavious Kelley, the Choate Family Scholarship; Emily Bell, the Betty and Joe Satterthwaite Memorial Scholarship; Kehl Mackesey, the Lauren Melissa Kelly Scholarship; and Shreya Visvanathan, the Joe Coile Memorial Scholarship.

“You have exhibited your strength and your resilience, your commitment,” Dean of Students Bill McDonald said to the students.

“You have defined who you are, not by what has happened to you, but how you have reacted daily to what has happened to you and how you will use that to learn, to grow, to teach, to help others overcome whatever obstacles that they are facing.”

WEEKLY READER

UGA student Zhongyuan Liu interviews a farmer from the Wujin district of Jiangsu Province about China’s land-titling program.

Land reform in China funding allows student to enhance research

By Denise H. Horton

denisehorton@gmail.com

Zhongyuan Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural economics, knows that analyzing huge data sets are not enough to understand the impact of rural land reforms in China.

You have to talk to the farmers.

With that in mind, Liu used funding provided by the Office of Global Programs Graduate International Travel Award to interview farmers, village leaders and officers in a land reform office in the Wujin district, Jiangsu Province of China.

For generations farms have been the lifeline of rural Chinese, providing a place to grow the rice and vegetables essential to feeding their families, even though the average size is much smaller than what’s found in the U.S., Liu said. In 2016, for example, the average farm was slightly less than an acre.

Agricultural production, however, doesn’t provide enough employment. As a result, beginning in the late 1980s, migration to urban areas became more common.

By 2017, more than 172 million people had moved to the cities and factory jobs, a figure that accounts for between 16 and 22 percent of China’s growth in its gross domestic product, according to Liu. “Although the labor market is well developed and restrictions on migration have been removed, the number of people moving for jobs in urban areas hasn’t increased as much as is needed,” Liu said. “Rural land reform, however, could further release the potential of the rural labor stock.”

In China, like many other developing countries, property rights require demonstrating that the land is being farmed by those who live there.With a focus on increasing the efficiency of land use, land certification and titling programs that remove constraints on

land and labor use have been widely implemented worldwide in recent years, Liu said.

To remove the obstacles caused by insecure property rights, the Chinese Central Government implemented a land-titling program in 2008 with a series of pilot projects in several provinces. The program is scheduled to finish by the end of this year, and each farm household is entitled to a land certification.

“Land certification is not a new thing in China,” Liu said. “Many rural households had the land certification after the new contract period around 1997, but the certifications did not have precise information of geographic position and the information archives management was in disorder. The new program evolved to include GPS surveys that better document the property lines that have been observed by the farmers.”

For the case study portion of his research, Liu interviewed officers in a land reform office in the Wujin district of Jiangsu Province, one of the most developed areas in China.

He also interviewed a village leader, farmers who work in nearby factories in addition to farming and a representative of a large-scale family farm.

The pilot phase of the land-titling program in Wujin district was first carried out in 2014. In 2015, the project was extended to the whole district, and now about 95 percent of farmers in this district have signed the contracts and are receiving their land certificates, Liu learned.

“Overall, I learned a lot during the summer trip,” Liu said. “On the one hand, I learned a lot of information which I did not find from the literature review and I am more comfortable about my research now. On the other hand, I developed my skill and knowledge in organizing a case study.”

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Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist. The thrust of the book, published by the University of Georgia Press, consists not in learning “about” Thoreau from an intermediary but, as the title suggests, in learning “from” Thoreau along with the author—whose lifelong engagement with this “genius of the natural world” leads him to examine the process of learning from an admired model.

Using both images and text, Andrew Menard offers a personal meditation on Thoreau’s thought, its originality and its influence on the modern environmental movement. He places Thoreau in dialogue with contemporary artists and thinkers and associates him with a rich variety of places: Walden Pond, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in upstate New York, Mormon Mesa northeast of Las Vegas and the old town of Konigsberg, Prussia. Each place, each experience, each writer and each work of art provides a different line of approach.

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8 Nov. 5, 2018 columns.uga.edu LECTURE from page 1 is accompanied by the D.W. Brooks Awards for Excellence. The awards recognize college faculty and staff who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the college’s missions of research, instruction and extension.

Paarlberg’s talk, “Foodies vs. Aggies: Compromise for a New Food System,” will challenge the dichotomy between “sustainable” and “intensive” food systems. We need a food system that is both, he insists.

“No one group has the monopoly on good ideas, and we’re not going to solve the world’s looming food crisis unless we consider multiple perspectives,” said Sam Pardue, CAES dean and director. “Robert Paarlberg has studied agricultural policies and their ramifications around the world for the last 30 years. He’s witnessed the ways the different narratives built around agriculture have hindered efforts to build a more resilient food supply.

“We don’t have the luxury of siloed thinking anymore,” he added.

Paarlberg is an adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a visiting professor at Harvard College and an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. From 1976 until 2015, he was a professor of political science at Wellesley College.

He is the author of three books on the promise and peril of the modern food system, including Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism and Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa.

In addition’s to Paarlberg’s talk, which is open free to the public, CAES will be presenting its D.W. Brooks Awards of Excellence at a ceremony after the lecture. This year’s

awards honor some of the college’s most dedicated and creative researchers, teachers and Extension leaders.

The 2018 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Research will be presented to Qingguo “Jack” Huang, a professor in the crop and soil sciences department, whose research into the remediation of organic compounds in polluted soil and water has gained international attention.

The 2018 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching will be presented to Kari Turner, an associate professor in the animal and dairy science department, whose focus on inspiring undergraduates has helped to earn the department its excellent reputation for student-centered instruction.

The 2018 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Global Programs will be presented to Yen-Con Hung, a professor in the food science and technology department whose commitment to international outreach and collaboration has helped to build safer food systems around the world.

The 2018 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Extension will be presented to Dan Suiter, a professor in the entomology department, who has developed training programs for structural and urban pest management professionals that have been used across the Southeast and around the world.

The 2018 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Public Service Extension will be presented to Lisa Jordan, the Family and Consumer Sciences program development coordinator for UGA Cooperative Extension’s Southeast District. Before being appointed PDC, she spent almost two decades working to expand the reach and reputation of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in Chatham County.

VETERAN from page 1 “My friends were like, ‘No, you don’t know her. She’s stubborn as hell.’ ” Dozens of surgeries later, Broom made a commitment to deploy again. This required relearning how to talk, walk and use her right arm. But she knew her body couldn’t handle the rigors of the job over the long term. After rehabilitating at EXOS Athletes Performance Institute in Florida, she realized the effect exercise can have on a body’s ability to heal. It also helped her find her way back to UGA in January 2017.

Now she’s taking classes toward a dual degree in athletic training and exercise and sport science in the College of Education’s kinesiology department.

That means taking classes again at age 34—with 19- and 20-year-olds.

“I feel like an aunt to these kids,” she said.

“I’ve had conversations with them about finances—even about boys.”

And school is different this time around.

Broom had three traumatic brain injuries and finds it harder to learn. She reads more slowly than she used to.

“I have to study triple time,” she said.

At first, she was stubborn and tried to tough it out. A friend had to talk her into using the Disability Resource Center to take her tests.

“Like my dad said, ‘When you get your degree, it’s not going to be on there that you took your tests at the DRC.’ ” She’ll apply to her major officially in January and even has an internship at EXOS lined up. That’s her goal—to go back to EXOS and help others like the EXOS staff helped her.

“I shouldn’t have survived—who survives that?” she said. “So, I want to give back in a different way than when I was in the military, and this is what I can do now.”

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The University Woman’s Club will hold its general monthly meeting Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Alps Road Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road.

Guest speaker Noelle Joy Fuller, a UGA alumna who manages the herb program at UGArden, will give a talk titled “UGArden: Cultivating Students and Medicinal Herbs.”

Tickets for the Dec. 11 holiday luncheon also will be available for purchase.

For additional information, contact Shirley Jaeger, publicity chair, at s­ hirley.jaeger1961@gmail.com.

Holiday pottery sale

The UGA Ceramic Student Organization will hold its annual holiday pottery sale Nov. 28-29 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the first-floor lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, 270 River Road.

Work on sale will include handbuilt sculpture for home and garden as well as functional pottery: mugs, plates, vases, lidded boxes and bowls. All work was made by ceramic students or faculty. Prices will range from $8 and up.

Proceeds from the pottery sale will be used to support student educational field trips to ceramic conferences and to bring in visiting ceramic artists.

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of Georgia and features activities to bring awareness to the importance of an ethical culture and to recognize and promote the shared core values of integrity, excellence, accountability and respect.

Tenbrunsel’s lecture also is part of UGA’s Signature Lectures series, which features speakers noted for their broad, multidisciplinary appeal and compelling bodies of work.

Kyprianou and Heather LaBarbera, director of student services for the UGA Athletic Association.

“I didn’t know much about my event when I came to school here, but Coach Kyprianou really taught me everything about it. He trained me up and was patient with me,” she said. “Heather worked with me so much on (skills) like public speaking and other things I was uncomfortable with and pushing me out of my comfort zone.”

Orji was selected from a field of finalists that included Chicago’s Ade Ayoola (track and field), Claflin’s Trisana Fairweather (cross country/track and field), Newman’s Delaney Hiegert (softball), Whitworth’s Kayla Leland (cross country/track and field/basketball), Angelo State’s Kami Norton (track and field), Minnesota’s Sidney Peters (ice hockey), Oklahoma State’s Vanessa Shippy (softball) and Bates College’s Amelia Wilhelm (rowing).

All finalists, including three from each NCAA division, demonstrated excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.

Orji, a former Bulldog team captain, served for three years on the UGAAA StudentAthlete Advisory Committee, including as vice president during her senior year. A four-year attendee of the Student-Athlete Leadership Academy, she founded Amara’s Pride in 2017, an after-school mentoring program for middle school girls that focuses on self-worth, the importance of education, social media influences and the power of perseverance.

Orji also worked with an income tax assistance program, spent time with children whose parents were incarcerated during the holiday season and served as a United Team leader, through which she mentored other student-athletes in weekly small groups and Bible studies.

A 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar, Orji was a member of Georgia’s Sphinx Club honor society, the oldest honorary society in Georgia history, and the Blue Key Honor Society, whose members are committed to scholarship, leadership and service. She was named the 2018 Southeastern Conference Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year, her third honor of this kind, and the university’s Joel Eaves Scholar-Athlete of the Year presented to the female student-athlete who has the highest GPA going into their senior year.

Orji received the SEC’s H. Boyd McWhorter Postgraduate Scholarship, presented to the conference’s top male and female scholar-athletes.She was recognized by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as the 2017 Indoor and Outdoor National Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year, also giving her three of those honors in her career.

Orji, who was fourth by only three centimeters in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is a 15-time First Team All-American and eight-time NCAA individual national champion (four times in the outdoor triple jump, three times in the indoor triple jump and once in the outdoor long jump). Her outstanding performance in those events helped Georgia win a team NCAA championship in indoor track and field in 2018 and finish as the national runner-up three more times.

Orji holds the American and collegiate records for the indoor triple jump and the collegiate record for the outdoor triple jump.

Orji was a four-time USTFCCCA National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, and she is the only woman in history to be a three-time Bowerman Award finalist. She completed her collegiate career 31-1 overall in the triple jump and currently owns the top eight indoor marks in NCAA history and the top six performances outdoors.

She received her bachelor’s degree in financial planning from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at UGA in 2018 and is now pursuing a master’s degree in kinesiology in the College of Education. She also is a volunteer assistant with the Bulldog track and field program.

Orji said this honor is more than a personal accomplishment.

“I think it puts UGA track on the map,” she said. “We have been trying to lift up the track and field program since I got here. This year we won the national championship, so I feel like we’re just elevating the track and field team and hoping to leave a legacy that other people can follow.”

AWARD from page 1 hospital, as required by the Affordable Care Act. Without the assessment, the hospital would lose its nonprofit status and be forced to close.

The Archway Partnership and the UGA College of Public Health partnered with Taylor Regional Hospital to complete the assessment, with then-CPH doctoral students Ayanna Robinson and Sabrina Tyndal Cherry, helping to define the community and service area, create a community profile, conduct focus groups and administer a survey to residents of the area.

The results showed a significant need for the facility and for the addition of a walk-in clinic for non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries.

Since Taylor Express, a walk-in clinic next to the hospital, opened in June 2016, traffic in the emergency room has declined by 10 percent, saving the hospital money.

“The work of the Archway Partnership in Pulaski County truly stands out as exceptional,” said Dr. E.R. “Skip” McDannald, who retired as Taylor Regional administrator on Oct. 1 and accompanied Archway Partnership faculty and staff to the UEDA summit. “Our hospital benefited and the outlook improved as a direct result of this partnership with the university and our local stakeholders through the Archway Partnership.”

Archway Partnership Director Rob Gordon said that, following the success in Pulaski County, UGA faculty and students are working in other Archway communities to address health care concerns.

“This is a great example of how UGA’s commitment to rural Georgia through the Archway Partnership is directly helping Georgia’s communities,” Gordon said. “We appreciate the long-standing partnership that we have with the leaders of Hawkinsville and Pulaski County and are proud that our work has made a real and positive impact on their ability to keep Taylor Regional open and to continue providing quality health care for their citizens.”

Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Libby V. Morris said the project exemplifies how the university’s public service and outreach programs connect students and faculty with communities across Georgia.

“Participation in the Archway Partnership and service-learning courses challenge students to apply their knowledge to addressing the critical needs of our state,” Morris said.

Hourly parking is available at the Performing Arts Parking Deck, which is next to the Performing Arts Center on River Road.

For further information, contact Ted Saupe, tsaupe@uga.edu.

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