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October 12, 2015
Vol. 43, No. 12
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Health expert named first Patel Professor in Public Health By Rebecca Ayer alea@uga.edu
A group of students, taught by ecology professor Jim Porter, participate in a butterfly diversity lab at the UGA Costa Rica campus. The students gathered butterflies with their nets to see how many species they could find.
UGA Costa Rica marks decade of taking students ‘off the beaten path’ This fall, UGA Costa Rica is celebrating 10 years of offering academic programs through the Office of International Education and the UGA Costa Rica residential center. Between summer 2005 and May 2015, 1,849 students have participated in UGA Costa Rica education abroad programs. “If you’re looking for nightclubs, hotels, beaches and the quintessential tourist experience, this may not be the place for you,” said Alex Wright, a former resident naturalist at the center. “If you’re willing to get off the beaten path and immerse yourself into a community, head down to UGA Costa Rica and experience the beauty of the San Luis Valley and its people.” UGA Costa Rica programs now serve over 200 students annually with courses spanning more than 30 academic disciplines and 20 program offerings. UGA Costa Rica programs are focused on providing small-group, experiential learning opportunities that immerse students in the culture and natural history of Costa Rica. Service-learning programs may find students teaching local schoolchildren, planting and monitoring trees as part of the UGA Costa Rica carbon offset program or learning about nutrition in a local hospital. Undergraduates in the physical and natural sciences have the opportunity to carry out their own field research studies. Spanish language students become part of the community through participation in homestays, soccer games and more.
The UGA College of Public Health has named one of its newest faculty members, Dr. Jose F. Cordero, as the first Gordhan L. and Virginia B. “Jinx” Patel Distinguished Professor in Public Health. Cordero joined the college in August as a professor and head of its epidemiology and biostatistics department. “As the state of Georgia continues to struggle with poor ratings in infant and maternal mortality, we are very pleased to have one of the leading experts in child and maternal health join us at the College of Public Health,” said Phillip Williams, dean of the college. “Under Dr. Cordero’s guidance, the college and UGA will be able to expand its expertise in this area of critical need.”
An internationally recognized researcher and public health leader, Cordero has dedicated his career to addressing maternal and Jose Cordero child health, minority health and health disparities. For 27 years, he served in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During his time at the CDC, he was the first Hispanic to attain the rank of assistant surgeon general and held a number of leadership positions focused on improving the health of mothers, children and adults in programs such as immunizations,
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Harvard professor to give Peabody-Smithgall Lecture By Noel Holston Conservation medicine students conduct an annual exam on an ocelot at a zoo/rehabilitation facility in Costa Rica.
Geomorphology students examine coastal reef structures in Costa Rica. Physical and natural sciences majors have the opportunity to carry out their own field research studies.
nholston@uga.edu
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peabody-winning historian, TV personality and Harvard University professor, will present the sixth Peabody-Smithgall Lecture Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. at the historic Morton Theatre in downtown Athens. The event is presented by UGA’s Peabody Awards. Gates’ lecture, “Genealogy, Genetics and Race,” is open free to the public. Seating is limited to the first 500 attendees. Doors will open at 2:30 p.m. Guests are advised to park in the Washington Street parking deck. “Henry Louis Gates is a rare
combination, an intellectual and historian who is also an entertainer,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, director of the Peabody Awards. “The Henry Louis Gates television programs he produces and hosts have popular immediacy and lasting scholarly value. He’s an ideal choice to deliver our sixth Peabody-Smithgall Lecture.” Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at
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SCHOOL OF LAW, COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOOL OF LAW Faculty publish recommendations for Alzheimer’s registry Georgia By Erica Hensley
erica.hensley25@uga.edu
UGA faculty recently published recommendations on the ethical and legal application of a populationbased, statewide Alzheimer’s registry. They argue that with a more developed data-collection tool, Georgia’s public policy creators will be better informed to serve the impacted population and battle the disease. Established by Georgia General Assembly House Bill 966 and signed into law in 2014, the registry is a means to collect and record Alzheimer’s diagnosis statistics in response to
a fast-growing number of cases in Georgia.The disease, which destroys brain cells and causes dementia, affects nearly 130,000 Georgians, a disproportionate number of whom are ethnic minorities, according to the report. The registry aims to lessen the increasing economic and health care burden caused by Alzheimer’s by collecting widespread data for the purpose of medical research and economic and health care policy planning. UGA School of Law professor Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, with support from Dr. Toni Miles, an
epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, authored the report that is available online and will be published in print by the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology next year. The report laid out several recommendations for the registry’s continued rollout, and noted potentially problematic concerns such as constitutionality challenges, patient privacy complications and the scope and dissemination of collected data. Regulation methods, ways to incentivize registry reporting and public awareness campaigns were also recommended.
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Court of Appeals to hear arguments at UGA By Lona Panter lonap@uga.edu
The UGA School of Law will host the Georgia Court of Appeals Oct. 14 in its Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. The court will hear oral arguments on three cases involving medical negligence, sovereign immunity and aggravated assault. The proceedings will begin at 10:30 a.m. A question-and-answer session with Court of Appeals judges will follow the arguments.
The event is open free to the public. The bench will be comprised of Presiding Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes, Judge William M. Ray II and Judge Carla Wong McMillian. All three are graduates of Georgia Law. The last time the Court of Appeals held oral arguments at Georgia Law was in 2007. Georgia Law Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge said having the court hear arguments at the law school benefits students greatly. “This unique opportunity to
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Around academe
USC offers full-time employment to doctoral degree recipients
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles has created an alternative for recent doctoral graduates in the humanities and social sciences by offering a select number of them full-time employment for up to two years after graduating. In exchange, the recent grads teach class discussion sections under a faculty member’s supervision, and they also teach a course of their own choosing. USC administrators say the program offers additional courses for the university taught by strong graduates of their choosing and gives recent graduates the opportunity to strengthen teaching experiences.
Coalition formed to reverse old college application processes
Eighty colleges and universities are rebooting their application process for incoming high school students to allow them to make a portfolio, share information and use a new application system. The group of 80 schools, called the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, are reversing previous application processes and creating a platform for new online portfolios for high school students applicants. The coalition consists of Ivy League universities, liberal arts colleges as well as public institutions, and they are encouraging other schools to join.
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Plant new trees in fall landscape
The transition of leaf color symbolizes an end to the growing season, but it is also the best time of year to start planting trees. A fall-planted tree will establish roots before the warm summer temperatures draw moisture from the tree, causing stress. Before planting trees, consider following these steps: • Select trees that are well adapted to the individual planting site. To ensure proper soil drainage, dig a test hole and fill it with water. If the hole drains at a rate of less than 1 inch per hour, choose a different species of plant or raise the planting site. • Dig a planting hole at least two times as wide as the root ball. Do not dig a hole deeper than the root balls or put loose soil beneath the roots because the soil will compact and the tree will be too deep. • In heavy clay soils, score the edges of the hole so roots can penetrate out of the planting hole. Backfill the hole with native soil as organic matter can cause differences in pore size and create water and drainage issues. • Remove all wrapping and closely inspect the root ball for girdling roots. If roots are circling around the exterior, cut through the roots in a few places. Remove tags and labels to prevent girdling of branches. Source: College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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Black Faculty and Staff Organization luncheon sees record-breaking crowd By Matt Chambers mattdc@uga.edu
More than 400 people filled the Tate Student Center Grand Hall for the 13th annual Black Faculty and Staff Organization Founders’ Award Scholarship Luncheon Sept. 29. The Rev. Francys Johnson, state president of the Georgia NAACP, gave the keynote address to the crowd, telling them that more work on social justice is needed. “Those of us who believe in freedom know that it is a constant struggle,” Johnson said. “Those of us who believe in America must know that its best days are ahead.” Proceeds from the luncheon benefited the BFSO Scholarship fund and programming. During the luncheon, three scholarship awards were presented to UGA students. Elizabeth Louis, Darren Anglin and Na’Tasha Webb-Prather received the Founders’ Award. Faisal Gedi received the Myron G. Burney Service Award, and Zari Wilson was recognized with the inaugural Mark Dawkins Leadership Award. UGA President Jere W. Morehead welcomed the crowd, saying how the record-setting turnout spoke well to the
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The Rev. Francys Johnson gave the keynote address at the Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s Scholarship Luncheon Sept. 29.
BFSO’s efforts in diversity and inclusion. “As you look back now over the last 13 years, this scholarship luncheon, sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Organization, has made a difference in the lives of our students,” he said. “I think all of you can take great pride in being a part today of something that’s very important and very significant at
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this institution.” Johnson, who graduated from the UGA School of Law in 2004, said that everyone is where they are now because of the work of others. He shared that he had a pastor who “insisted” he go to college despite Johnson not even thinking about higher education at the time. Johnson thanked the BFSO founders, who were in attendance, telling them he understood the challenges they went through to form the group back in the early 1980s. “We can look now years removed and fill up a ballroom, but it was downright dangerous what you did,” he said. “I know that.” During his speech, Johnson told the crowd that they cannot rest on their accomplishments and must keep pushing forward. “Your agenda cannot be to herald what you’ve already done,” he said. “So my question to the Black Faculty and Staff Organization is, ‘What is your agenda? Will you be satisfied to pass out awards and congratulate yourselves, or will you realize these are no ordinary times, these call for men and women to again pick up the work, focus on an agenda, to know you are only here because someone came before?’ ”
ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY
Symposium to mark anniversary of CESD graduate program By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu
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One hundred UGA faculty and staff members were recognized Sept. 24 for their completion of UGA’s Diversity and Inclusion Certificate program. The list of 2015 certificate recipients is at columns.uga.edu.
100 faculty, staff complete Diversity and Inclusion Certificate program By Erica Hensley
erica.hensley25@uga.edu
Over 100 people gathered in the Chapel Sept. 24 for the annual Embracing Diversity ceremony, which recognizes faculty and staff who recently graduated from the Diversity and Inclusion Certificate program. The certificate program is a partnership of the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Training and Career Development Center and other diversity-related offices and programs at UGA. “Including access is an important value at our university—so we need to embody it, we need to give voice to it and, on occasions like today, we need to take a breath and celebrate our diversity,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, who gave opening remarks at the program. UGA has an ongoing commitment to growing diversity in admissions,Whitten said, citing that minority enrollment has grown from 22 percent to 30 percent in the last decade. Keynote speaker Han Park, a professor in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, spoke about the importance of incorporating and fostering peace. Peace, he said, is not the absence of war, but the existence of harmony. “Diversity is a necessary condition
for harmony, and without which, peace is impossible,” said Park, the founding director of UGA’s Center for the Study of Global Issues.“Each of us must transform ourselves so cultural diversity becomes part of our identity.” Park, who will retire in December, championed UGA’s new experiential learning approach, which he said would enable students to expand and enrich harmonious experience and embrace diversity in and out of the classroom. Diversity and inclusion certificates were awarded to 100 faculty and staff, who joined 233 previous graduates from the program. The certificate recognizes participants’ completion of six courses designed not only to explore strategic areas around diversity but also to improve their ability to contribute to the enhancement of the university’s welcoming and inclusive environment. Enrollment in the certificate program is free to all faculty and staff and is offered quarterly throughout the year in partnership between the Office of Institutional Diversity and the Human Resources Training and Development Center. The ceremony also recognized four first-year students—April Davis, Khadar Haroun, Jerel Harris and Chynna Moore—who were awarded the Black Alumni Association Scholarship and the Diversity Scholarship.
UGA’s Odum School of Ecology will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development graduate program with a two-day symposium. “Looking Toward the Future of Conservation” will be held Oct. 23-24 in the ecology building. It is open to anyone interested in conservation and sustainable development. Registration is $15 per person. Panel discussions will feature CESD alumni discussing conservation challenges and the future of conservation education from the perspectives of state and federal agencies, academia, private enterprise and nongovernmental organizations. UGA alumna Anne Dix, deputy director of development programs in East Asia for USAID who received her doctorate in ecology in 1997, and Professor Emeritus Ron Carroll, founder of the CESD program, will deliver keynote talks Oct. 23. The symposium also will include a “Conservation Careers Speed Dating” session on Oct. 23. During the session, students can learn about job opportunities with agencies, NGOs and the private sector in an informal setting. The complete schedule and information on how to register is at t.uga.edu/1xG. The Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development graduate program was established to meet the growing need for researchers and decision makers prepared to address the world’s increasingly complex environmental challenges. It combines interdisciplinary coursework with hands-on experience and thesis research. To date, more than 125 graduate students have received master’s degrees and another 120 have received CESD certificates. The program is supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the gifts of the University of Georgia Partners, by the Odum School of Ecology and by the UGA Parents and Families Association.
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Digest Concert on the Lawn will be held Oct. 16
The Grady Sports Media program is run by Welch Suggs, an associate professor of journalism and associate director of Grady Sports Media, left, and Vicki Michaelis, the John Huland Carmical Distinguished Professor in Sports Journalism and the director of the sports media program.
Beyond box scores Grady Sports Media certificate offers experiential learning in a competitive field
By Sarah Freeman freemans@uga.edu
Educating students who have gone on to great success in sports media is nothing new for UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. What’s different today is that there is a formal Grady Sports Media certificate program beginning its second official year of classes, offering experiential learning opportunities and teaching the skills needed to enter this competitive market. “Our goal is to train the next generation of storytellers in sports,” said Welch Suggs, an associate professor of journalism and associate director of Grady Sports Media. “Whether you are going into communications or journalism or event broadcast or marketing, you have to be able to tell the compelling stories you find every day in sports.” In addition to taking core sports media courses, sports media majors choose courses related to sports journalism, relations and multimedia production as well as special topics courses about the role of sports in society and other issues. But the experiential learning that weaves through the program is the heart of Grady Sports Media.
“You cannot learn how to be a sports journalist by sitting in the classroom. You just can’t,” said Vicki Michaelis, the John Huland Carmical Distinguished Professor in Sports Journalism and the director of the sports media program. This experiential learning takes several forms. Many of the students work with the extracurricular Grady Sports Bureau, which covers high school and UGA sports for the Athens Banner-Herald and produces livestream broadcasts of area high school sports events. The Multiplatform Storytelling class this fall is covering UGA sports beats as well as area high schools. “This community craves sports coverage at every level, and there are gaps where our students can be there learning and also filling those gaps, which has been fantastic,” Michaelis said. The Sports Broadcast and Production class this fall, taught by Georgia Association of Broadcasters President Bob Houghton, is doing livestream broadcasts at eight high school football games and is producing a weekly studio show, Grady Sportsource: Athens High School Football, airing every Friday during the season at 5 p.m. Veteran sports broadcaster Bob Neal is helping students produce the show, which can be
viewed on Charter Cable channel 181 in Athens or online at gradynewsource.com. Some Grady Sports Media students are gaining real-world experience outside the classroom this fall by working with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Macon Telegraph, UGA Sports Communications, the Athens Banner-Herald, the SEC Network and IMG, which produces content for georgiadogs.com. Two Grady Sports students will accompany Michaelis on a trip to Rio de Janeiro next summer to cover the Summer Olympics for the U.S. Olympic Committee, and more than a dozen students practiced their skills writing preview stories about the Pan Am Games for the USOC’s website, teamusa.org, this summer. In addition to experiential learning, sports media students are required to complete their certificate through a capstone project. Recent capstone projects include internships with MLB.com, the Super Bowl and ESPN. The Grady Sports Media certificate, the first of its kind in the Southeastern Conference, officially was approved by UGA in February 2014, and the program graduated its first class in May. The certificate program accepts between 35 and 40 students a year from an application pool of up to 90 students.
FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Studies: Rate of narcissism lower than national perception By Alan Flurry
aflurry@uga.edu
Americans consistently reported a perception of the typical U.S. citizen as highly narcissistic, even meeting diagnostic criteria for the psychiatric disorder, according to studies conducted by UGA psychologists in collaboration with colleagues from around the world. The reality is that fewer than one in 100 individuals meets the diagnostic criteria for the narcissistic personality disorder in most epidemiological surveys, marking it as a relatively rare disorder. The study, “Narcissism and United States’ Culture: The View from Home and Around the World,” was published in the early online edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The published research represents six studies that include surveys of American college students, American adults and
participants from around the world about their perception of Americans. Two of the studies include data from citizens of other world regions who were asked to rate citizens of their own regions as well as those from the U.S. Data from international samples indicated some tendency to rate the citizens of one’s country or region as more narcissistic than acquaintances or oneself—that is, these finding were not specific to the U.S. However, the differences in these ratings (self versus citizens in general) were smaller in other countries than they were in the U.S., meaning these perceptions are elevated in the U.S. Although non-Americans from many other parts of the world viewed the typical American as highly narcissistic, they did not cast U.S. citizens in a purely negative light. “They also said Americans are less neurotic, as well as more extroverted and
conscientious, so it wasn’t just an indiscriminate criticism of Americans,” said study co-author Joshua Miller, a professor and director of the clinical training program in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of psychology. “It was a specific profile of traits that just happens to be very consistent with what we call grandiose narcissism—these sort of hyper-confident, aggressive, assertive individuals.” Evidence indicates the perception of American narcissism is worse than the actual incidence—and skewed by the fact that, in the survey, respondents considered a limited array of people. “People likely don’t think of their 320 million fellow citizens who live in this country when completing these ratings but of particularly salient examples who may well be narcissistic—and they are extroverted, perhaps over-exposed, and that is reflected in these perceptions,”Miller said.
The School of Music’s Hodgson Wind Ensemble will present its seventh annual Concert on the Lawn Oct. 16 at 12:30 p.m. on North Campus. The approximate 90-minute program will include “Schwanda, the Bagpiper, Polka and Fugue” by Jaromir Weinberger, “America, The Beautiful,” “The Melody Shop” by Karl King, “The Pathfinder of Panama” by John Phillip Sousa, The Barber of Seville overture by Rossini, “Broadway Spectacular” by John Higgins and much more. The Hodgson Wind Ensemble, conducted by Director of Bands Cynthia Johnston Turner, has earned an international reputation for its artistry, precision, sensitivity and musicianship. Membership, determined each semester by blind audition, includes the most accomplished graduate and undergraduate UGA music majors.
EITS to offer free computer security checks, troubleshooting Oct. 21-22
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, EITS will offer free computer security checks and troubleshooting Oct. 21-22 at the Computer Health and Security Fair. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days in the second floor rotunda of the Miller Learning Center. It is open free to all UGA students, faculty and staff. During the fair, technical volunteers will conduct security checkups of personal PC and Mac laptops of UGA students, faculty and staff. The technical volunteers will remove malware, install the latest software and security updates, ensure that firewalls are enabled and update antivirus and operating systems. Volunteers also will examine other software problems, such as slow performance and unknown error messages. Hardware repairs will not be offered. This fall, the fair will have a separate line for faculty and staff seeking help for their personal computers, to move them through the checkup process faster. At the fair, technical volunteers will handle requests on a first-come, first-served basis. Comprehensive health and security checkups can take between 30-60 minutes, and at times, there may be a short wait prior to visiting with a technician. For issues that will take more than an hour to resolve, technical volunteers will give fair attendees instructions on how to fix those issues. University-issued computers will not be checked at the event. October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and students, faculty and staff are encouraged to take steps to keep their computers secure and safe from malware, viruses and phishing attacks throughout the year. More tips on staying secure are available on the Office of Information Security’s website, infosec.uga.edu.
CED graduate student wins virtual internship with US State Department
Matthew Nahrstedt, a graduate student in the environmental planning and design program at UGA’s College of Environment and Design, was accepted into the Virtual Student Foreign Service eInternship program. He will be working with the U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Buildings Operations Bureau, which directs worldwide overseas diplomatic building programs. The internship, while virtual, will be in the Master Planning Division researching foreign cities. The division manages the master planning of diplomatic facilities throughout their lifecycles. Its activities include site acquisition planning, expansion of existing compounds, redevelopment and relocation planning. Nahrstedt grew up in St. Peters, Missouri, and attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he studied architecture and environmental studies. He spent three years in Peru as an environmental management volunteer with the Peace Corps before coming to UGA.
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Georgia Museum of Art showcasing band memorabilia By Callie Ward
prints, illustrated sheet music, vintage instruments and photographs related to the history of American bands for many years, and the exhibition comes entirely from his collection. Sarah Kate Gillespie, the museum’s curator of American art, selected the objects with Foreman’s help to tell the story of these bands. “This exhibition offers a rich opportunity to trace the development of an important piece of American history through its material and visual culture,” Gillespie said. “Together these objects help bring to life the popular phenomenon of the American band during the 19th century in a way that will hopefully resonate with today’s viewers.” Events associated with the exhibition include: • Concerts by students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music on Oct. 14, Oct. 21 and Nov. 18 at noon. • A tour led by Gillespie on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. • A screening of the film The Music Man on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. • A Make It an Evening event, with a gallery tour by Foreman on Oct. 22 at 5 p.m. • The museum’s quarterly reception, 90 Carlton: Autumn, on Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. (Admission is $5 for the public and free for members of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.) • A Family Day on Oct. 24 from 10 a.m. to noon, with an instrument petting zoo and a performance by students from the Hodgson School of Music. • A tour led by Foreman on Dec. 9 at 2 p.m.
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to perform Baroque concert By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu
The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall in a program titled “Baroque Collection.” The concert will feature works by such familiar Baroque composers as Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann as well as the lesser-known Heinrich von Biber and Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Tickets for the concert are $40 and are discounted for UGA students. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music. The artists performing on the “Baroque Collection” program will include violinists Daniel Phillips, Arnaud Sussman and Danbi Um; violist Yura Lee; cellist Daniel McDonough; double bassist David Grossman; and harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss. The concert will be recorded for national broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, heard by 1.4 million listeners around the country.
Performing Arts Center to present Metropolitan Opera Orchestra flutist The UGA Performing Arts Center will present flutist Stefan Hoskuldsson Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. Tickets are $30, free for UGA students with a valid ID. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. Hoskuldsson holds the principal flute position with New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His Athens engagement is part of the 2015-2016 Recitals in Ramsey series, which showcases leading instrumentalists from some of America’s foremost classical music institutions. A native of Iceland, Hoskuldsson has performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. He regularly performs at Carnegie Hall with the Metropolitan Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble. As a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, he received two Grammy Awards in the best opera recording category for Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Thomas Ades’ The Tempest. Hoskuldsson’s Athens program will include works by Franz Schubert, Lowell Liebermann and Gabriel Faure. He will be accompanied by Michael McHale, one of Ireland’s leading pianists. The concert will be recorded for national broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today.
LUNCHTIME TIME MACHINE “How Did Ancient Love Spells Work?” 12:30 p.m. 221 LeConte Hall. 706-583-8180, jhrobert@uga.edu. BLOOD DRIVE 1 p.m. Conner Hall.
Set Off for Georgia… Through Dec. 23. Hargrett Library Gallery, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu.
TUESDAY TOUR 2 p.m. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu.
Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands. Through Jan. 3. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1817, hazbrown@uga. edu. (See story, above right). Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the Modern South. Through July 30. Special collections libraries. 706-542-5788, jhebbard@uga.edu.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 COLUMBUS DAY Classes in session; offices open. WORKSHOP “Show Me the Learning: How High-Impact Practices Influence Student Success,” Terry Rhodes, Association of American Colleges and Universities. 10 a.m. 271 special collections libraries. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu. HOMECOMING: BULLDOG BASH To include games, free food and giveaways. 10 a.m. Tate Student Center Atrium. WORKSHOP “From Concept to Reality: Designing and Implementing Experiential, High-Impact Practices,” Terry Rhodes, Association of American Colleges and Universities. 1 p.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu. FILM AND WORKSHOP Dream Share Project. See how different people across the U.S. achieve and define success in their respective careers. 3:30 p.m. 102 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-3375. RECITAL Bassoon professor Amy Pollard. $10; $5 with a UGACard. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. Part of the Hugh Hodgson Faculty Series. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu.
ECOLOGY SEMINAR “Courtship Negotiations in Sage-grouse: Experiments Using Robotic Females,” Gail Patricelli, University of California, Davis. Reception precedes seminar. 4 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu. GUEST LECTURE “Begging to Differ With Similarity Accounts of Counterfactuals,” Alan Hajek, Australian National University. Part of the Philosophy Department Colloquia Series. 5 p.m. 205 Peabody Hall. UNIVERSITY THEATRE Mrs. Packard. Also Oct. 14-16, 18 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 18 at 2:30 p.m. $16; $12 for students. 8 p.m. Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building. 706-542-4400.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 CLASS “Plants We Love to Hate: Identifying and Controlling Exotic Pest Plants.” This class is an introduction to invasive, non-native pest plants in the Georgia Piedmont. Limited to 20 people. $50. 9 a.m. Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu. NOONTIME CONCERT Students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will perform in conjunction with the exhibition Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands. Noon. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, above right). ONE HEALTH SEMINAR “Sustainable Food System Initiative: Feeding the World Without Eating the World,” Liz Kramer, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. 1 p.m. 175 Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. 706-542-5922, lbalkcom@uga.edu. GUEST LECTURE “Standing in Georgia, Writing to the World,” Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding Lecture. Part of the Signature Lecture series. 3:30 p.m. Chapel.
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By Drema Nicole Montgomery drema@uga.edu
The Lamar Dodd School of Art will present a lecture by artist George Scheer Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Room S151 of the art school. Open free to the public, the lecture is part of the Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Series. Scheer is a writer, scholar and artist who establishes and nurtures communal art spaces where social change and aesthetics combine. Scheer’s artistic and critical curiosity has led to his creation of multiple curatorial and collaborative public projects including Elsewhere and South Elm Projects in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Kulturpark in the Treptower Park forest in eastern Berlin. In both Greensboro and Berlin, Scheer repurposed existing spaces into forums where art and community could overlap and exchange. Elsewhere, once a three-story thrift store, exists as an ever-evolving museum in which artists, through residencies, can engage and contribute to the collection inside. Scheer’s talk will discuss the works of art generated through these projects as well his experience with the social and organizational infrastructures necessary to sustain these spaces. Scheer holds a master’s degree in critical theory and visual culture from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree in political communications from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Circle Gallery in the College of Environment and Design will feature new works by ceramicist Ron Meyers. The exhibition Roads, Rivers and Red Clay: Ceramics by Ron Meyers will be on display Oct. 15 through Dec. 18. Since his childhood in Buffalo, New York, where he grew up around landscapes shaped by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Meyers has been deeply influenced by his physical environment. This influence is reflected in this show of new work, created in his 80th year. Meyers’ ceramics are recognized nationally and internationally for their wit, functionality and originality. Using clay dug from the rivers of the Southeast, he celebrates the world in playful ways that challenge and inspire viewers to connect to a place throughout their entire lives. Meyers, who taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art for 20 years, has led workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. His work is featured in numerous galleries and private collections. Meyers has agreed to donate 30 percent of all sales of his artwork in this show to the Circle Gallery. An opening reception will be held Oct. 15 from 4:30-6 p.m.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
Infiltro: In-Vitro. Through Nov. 30. Gilbert Hall. bkaplan@uga.edu.
Unbeaten, Untied, Undisputed: Georgia’s 1980 National Championship Season. Through Dec. 23. Special collections libraries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu.
Circle Gallery to feature new works by Ron Meyers
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Travels on the Bartram Trail: Beth Thompson’s Possible Perceptions. Through Nov. 29. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014, connicot@uga.edu.
Writer, scholar, artist to give talk at art school
By Melissa Tufts
By Bobby Tyler
EXHIBITIONS
The Georgia Museum of Art is presenting Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands, a collection of items that trace the history of early American concert bands from their inception in the 1830s until their decline at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition is on display at the museum through Jan. 3. Before the March King takes its name from the nickname of bandleader John Philip Sousa. Known as “the March King,” Sousa composed “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” Although many people believe Sousa is the story of 19th-century American band music, he had both predecessors and followers. The “Golden Age” of American bands began after the American Civil War and continued until the turn of the century. The bands of this era provided one of the most popular forms of entertainment, often touring the country and drawing great crowds wherever they stopped. The World’s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival of 1872, for example, which took place in Boston, was held in a venue with a seating capacity of 100,000, erected specifically for the event. George Foreman, the director of UGA’s Performing Arts Center, has worked to amass paintings,
CLIMATE SEMINAR “Riding the Rising Tide: Protecting Georgia’s Coast in Times of Change.” 3:30 p.m. 268 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2151, varlamof@uga.edu.
GALLERY TOUR A tour of the S307 Gallery with curator and director Katie Geha. 6:30 p.m. S307 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 773-965-1689, kgeha@uga.edu.
WOMEN’S SOCCER vs. Alabama. 7 p.m. Turner Soccer Complex. 706-542-1621.
VOLLEYBALL vs. South Carolina. 8 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621.
FILM The Music Man. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Before the March King: 19th-Century American Bands and with an introduction by George Foreman, director of UGA’s Performing Arts Center. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, above).
SALAMANDER AND STREAM ECOLOGY RAMBLE Participants will join Matt Elliot, co-author of Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia, and Stacy Smith, an environmental educator, for a ramble along and in the streams and wet areas of the botanical garden. 10 a.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.
CONCERT The Hodgson Singers, UGA’s international award-winning flagship choir, will raise their voices in a concert led by Daniel Bara, director of choral activities. $10; $5 with a UGACard. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu.
HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME vs. Missouri. To be televised on the SEC Network. 7:30 p.m. Sanford Stadium. 706-542-1231.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 AL-HIJRA Islamic religious observance. CTL WORKSHOP “Taking an Evidence-based Approach to Screening for Disease,” Dr. Mark Ebell, UGA College of Public Health. Noon. 235 Russell Hall (HSC). 706-542-1355, edwatson@uga.edu. GREGORY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE “Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the Civil War,” Martha Hodes, New York University. 4 p.m. Chapel. berry@uga.edu. EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION This event celebrates the opening of two new student exhibitions: Alex Hodge: Unsung Muses and Forms of Adornment: Flesh and the Erotic. 4 p.m. Third floor, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 773-965-1689, katiegeha@gmail.com. EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION A reception for Roads, Rivers and Red Clay: Ceramics by Ron Meyers, which will be on display through Dec. 18. 4:30 p.m. Circle Gallery. (See story, above). THURSDAY TWILIGHT TOUR Led by docents. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. SCREENING Screening and discussion of the series Latino Americans, episode 6: “Peril and Promise (1980-2000).” The discussion will be led by Edward Delgado-Romero, a professor of counseling psychology in UGA’s College of Education. 6 p.m. Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter St. 706-542-0679, shedenhe@uga.edu. UGA COSTA RICA 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY UGA Costa Rica will turn 10 years old this fall. To celebrate, a fiesta in its honor will be held. Students, faculty and alumni, will come together and remember their times in cloud forests of San Luis de Monteverde. 6 p.m. Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave. 706-542-6203, ugacr@uga.edu. (See photos, page 1).
FILM Breakfast at Tiffany’s. 8 p.m. Tate Student Center Theatre.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR 11:30 a.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. 706-542-7911, cheeia@uga.edu. LECTURE “Women as the Barometers of Newlyweds’ Relationship Outcomes,” Justin Lavner, UGA psychology department. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m. 150 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu. CONCERT ON THE LAWN The School of Music’s Hodgson Wind Ensemble will perform. 12:30 p.m. North Campus. (See Digest, page 3). FOOTBALL FRIDAY TOUR A guided tour of an exhibit of materials from the UGA Athletic Association Archives. 3:30 p.m. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123, hasty@uga.edu. HOMECOMING PARADE 6 p.m. Downtown Athens. FILM Ant-Man. Also Oct. 18 at 6 and 9 p.m. $3 for nonstudents. 6 p.m. Tate Student Center Theatre. HOMECOMING CARNIVAL To include games, midway rides and free food. 7 p.m. $5; free for students. Legion Field.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 VOLLEYBALL vs. Missouri. 1:30 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621. PERFORMANCE Stefan Ragnar Hoskuldsson, a native of Iceland who joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2004 and won the principal flute chair in 2008, will perform. $30. 3 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, above left).
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 WORKSHOP “Authentic Assignment Design and Information Literacy.” Presenters: Caroline Barratt, Nadine Cohen and Diana Hartle of the UGA Libraries. 12:30 p.m. Center for Teaching and Learning Classroom. 706-542-1355, ehoran@uga.edu.
COMING UP VISITING ARTIST/SCHOLAR LECTURE Oct. 20 George Scheer is the co-founder and director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116, michelleegas@uga.edu. (See story, above). WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE FOR FALL SEMESTER Oct. 22. PERFORMANCE Oct. 22. “Baroque Collection.” $40. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, above left).
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Casimir C. Akoh, a Distinguished Research Professor of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received two awards. The World Academy of Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology named him a Fellow/WABAB Academician, Casimir Akoh with his election by the International Society of Biocatalysis and Biotechnology. Akoh was recognized Sept. 14 for his outstanding and innovative contributions to lipid biotechnology, structured lipids, functional and healthful lipids research at the 11th International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Akoh also received the Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Nigeria Alumni and Friends Association, USA, Sept. 19 in recognition of his scholarly contributions in the fields of food chemistry and food biochemistry at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago. The award honors UNN alumni who have made significant contributions to their profession. Geert-Jan Boons, a Franklin Professor in the chemistry department, will receive the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society at the organization’s fall meeting in Denver. The Cope Scholar Award recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry. The award consists of $5,000, a certificate and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant to be assigned by the recipient to any university or nonprofit institution. The recipient is required to deliver an awards address at the Arthur C. Cope Symposium. Head volleyball coach Lizzy Fitzgerald Stemke was honored by her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, Sept. 11 as one of seven inductees into the Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame. One of the most decorated volleyball players in Wisconsin history, Stemke was a two-time AllAmerican and the 2001 Big Ten Conference Player of the Year and the 2001-2002 Wisconsin Female Athlete of the Year. As a setter, Stemke guided the Badgers to the 2000 and 2001 Big Ten championships and four straight NCAA appearances, including a national runner-up finish in 2000. Stemke played with Team USA for two years, winning a silver medal at the 2002 world championship and a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. Matthew Winston Jr., an assistant to UGA President Jere W. Morehead, will receive the 2016 District III Distinguished Service Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The award honors people with exemplary professional serMatthew Winston vice to CASE and District III, including active involvement in the advancement profession for a minimum of 10 years; professional employment with CASE District III member institutions for at least eight years; regular attendance at CASE District III meetings; volunteer service to CASE-sponsored conferences, programs and activities; and outstanding achievement in the total spectrum of endeavors represented by CASE’s objectives for the advancement profession. Winston, who will leave UGA to become an administrator at Virginia Tech in November, will receive the award Feb. 14 at the CASE District III conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Kudos recognizes special contributions of staff, faculty and administrators in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election into office of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes; and similarly notable accomplishments.
FACULTY PROFILE
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Dr. Laurel Murrow, an assistant professor of medicine for the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership, greets Marta Flores in an exam room at the Mercy Health Center in Athens. Murrow serves as medical director for the center and helped develop the community health curriculum that all medical students participate in during their first year.
Medical partnership professor helps community, trains students By Alison McCullick amccull@uga.edu
When it comes to health, context matters—which is why Dr. Laurel Murrow emphasizes community health both as a physician and an instructor. “Effective doctors know that friends, families, neighborhoods and life circumstances can have a strong influence on health,” said Murrow, an assistant professor of medicine at the Georgia Regents University/UGA Medical Partnership. In 2010, Murrow and her colleagues developed the community health curriculum that all medical students participate in during their first year. Each fall semester, students work with community agencies to address high priority health problems for the clients they serve. “Our partners choose the problem the students will focus on, and the students then conduct a literature review, interview patients and collect data about that problem,” Murrow said. By December, each team submits a proposal and budget for how they plan to address their issue. During the spring semester, the teams carry out the strategy that they designed. “In some cases, the student projects have begun as a pilot program in an agency, and then the program grows over time to have a much greater impact on our community,” Murrow said. In addition to leading the Medical Partnership Community Health program, Murrow serves as the medical director for Mercy Health Center, a nonprofit, free clinic just down
Oglethorpe Avenue from the UGA Health Sciences Campus. Along with an army of volunteers—over 40 primary care physicians, 20 specialists and more than 700 other health professionals and lay volunteers—she provides care to uninsured, low-income patients who otherwise lack access to health care. “The first class of medical students to arrive in Athens was very interested in giving back to the community and in developing a student-led free clinic,” Murrow said. Since that time in 2010, medical partnership students and faculty have been seeing patients at Mercy on most Wednesday nights. They work alongside students and faculty from the UGA College of Pharmacy. Mercy provides learning opportunities for a variety of UGA students. The clinic enjoys strong relationships not only with the medical partnership and College of Pharmacy, but also with other colleges and schools, including the College of Public Health, the School of Law, the School of Social Work, the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and the College of Education. “These students learn so much from our patients and get to see the realities of their lives up close,” Murrow said. “We hope their experience inspires them to try and make a difference.” Murrow also mentors medical partnership student research projects. This summer, three students who were interested in health care quality improvement pursued projects at Mercy. One student focused on the appropriateness of radiology studies ordered for low back pain imaging; another examined
FACTS Laurel Boykin Murrow Assistant Professor of Medicine GRU/UGA Medical Partnership Internal Medicine Residency, Emory University School of Medicine, 2009 M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2006 M.Sc., Control of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1999 B.A., Religion, Wellesley College, 1997 At GRU/UGA Medical Partnership: 6 years
treatment and referral practices for patients with skin conditions; and the third studied health literacy levels in diabetic patients and evaluated Mercy’s diabetes education program. “Student research like this helps Mercy see where we are now and helps us set priorities for improving care,” Murrow said. Murrow, who grew up in Watkinsville, is glad to have the chance to return home and be close to family and friends. When she completed her residency training at Emory University School of Medicine, the medical partnership was just beginning to hire faculty members. “I feel so fortunate to be able to combine my work at the medical partnership and at Mercy,” Murrow said. “With the new residency programs beginning, this is such an exciting time to practice medicine in Athens. I’m hoping that we can inspire as many medical students as possible to choose primary care.”
RETIREES
October Fourteen UGA employees retired Oct. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Jay Scott Angle, dean and director, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 10 years, 1 month; Steven David Cox, piano technician, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 17 years, 2 months; Calvin Dumas, utility worker II, Facilities Management Division-Support Services, 10 years; J. Michael Fitzpatrick, carpenter, Facilities Management Division-Campus
Zone Shop, 22 years, 4 months; Randall Owen Gay, facilities manager I, Tifton Diagnostic Lab, 10 years, 3 months; Johnny R. Gresham, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division-Building Services, South Campus, 29 years, 2 months; Joseph M. Haslett, agricultural specialist, animal and dairy science, 27 years, 2 months; Harry Haynes, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division-Building Services, North Campus, 27 years, 11 months; Elizabeth Gresham Hill, bus operator, Campus Transit System, 19 years; Carol S. Ireland,
administrative associate I, Office of the Assistant Dean (Tifton campus), 32 years, 8 months; Sharon P. Paul, laboratory technician II, small animal medicine/surgery, 10 years, 8 months; Amy T. Savelle, research professional II, plant pathology research, 27 years, 2 months; Michael W. Sims, administrative specialist II, College of Environment and Design, 24 years, 11 months; and Kathy L. Strickland, county secretary, Cooperative Extension-Southeast District, 11 years, 10 months. Source: Human Resources
DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
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International Student Life director focuses on offering global experience to everyone on campus
By Aaron Hale
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Whether it’s helping make international UGA students feel at home or helping U.S. students learn more about other cultures on campus, the International Student Life department works to offer a global experience at UGA. “The overall mission is to ‘internationalize the campus,’ ” said Justin S. Jeffery, director of ISL. “That’s a loaded statement—I get that—but we do a lot.” Jeffery took over as the director of the department, which is located on the second floor of Memorial Hall and is part of the Division of Student Affairs, last year after serving as assistant student activities director at Georgia Southern University and campus life director at the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. And while International Student Life runs many programs on campus, including a weekly coffee hour, International Education Week events and an orientation for international students, there are two main components to ISL’s mission: to promote international experiences on campus by supporting student groups and hosting multicultural events and to support the roughly 2,000 international students who study at UGA. That international student support, Jeffery said, begins with orientation and carries through until students get their degrees. Jeffery knows what it’s like to be a foreigner in another country. After graduating from Kent State University, he got the opportunity to work overseas in Qatar. There he got to know people from cultures with world views that were different from his own. He discovered that his passion for student service, which he became interested in at Kent State, could have an international component. “I really fell in love with the opportunity to connect with people who were not only from different backgrounds and cultures but who viewed the world from a different standpoint,” he said. Now, Jeffery interacts with this kind of diverse group every day, especially in August when ISL hosts International Student Orientation. This year, 344 students from 45 countries attended the orientation—many of them taking in their first experiences in the U.S. Orientation for international students is more complicated than it is for other students.
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Justin Jeffery, director of International Student Life at UGA, greets students at an international orientation session in August. Jeffery said one of his goals is to “engage and challenge domestic students to broaden their perspectives about what it means to be a global citizens.”
These scholars are not only learning the ropes of UGA, they’re also learning how to make a home in a new country—even if only for a few years. Like your typical student orientation, there are social activities and tours of campus, but students also attend sessions on immigration and tax matters, they start to grapple with the differences in academic honesty between the U.S. and their home country, and most are learning how to do this in a non-native language—English. “Our number one approach is to help them establish a network,” Jeffery said. At orientation, seasoned UGA students called “world leaders,” who are trained by ISL staff, interact with new international students to answer questions and serve as a foundation to their UGA social network. While students may not find the transition easy, many international students are optimistic about starting at UGA. On her first day at orientation, Likhita
WEEKLY READER
Book club to feature Georgia classic
Swamp Water By Vereen Bell University of Georgia Press Paper: $29.95
The Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries’ Rest of the Story book club will feature Swamp Water, written by Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Vereen Bell, at its Oct. 27 meeting. The first novel by the south Georgia native, Swamp Water was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee Swamp. Movie versions were made in 1941 and in 1951. The book club meeting will take place from 5:30-7 p.m. in the special collections libraries. Discussion will be led by Jan Hebbard, lead curator of Russell Library’s exhibit Seeing Georgia: Changing Visions of Tourism in the Modern South. The Rest of the Story focuses on works connected to upcoming/ongoing exhibitions at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The book club is open free to the public.
Kode, a master’s student in computer science from India, said coming to UGA’s campus was “intimidating” but not overwhelming. “Like all things, it will take some time getting used to it,” she said. ISL hopes to make that adjustment period quicker and easier. Amanda Moller, a first-year undergraduate food sciences major from Guatemala, said she doubts she has it any tougher than other first-year students. “We’re all in the same boat,” she said. “We all left home whether you left (with)in the state or you came from a different country.” While ISL tries to make international students feel at home in the U.S., it also is trying to help U.S. students better understand the world around them. Jeffery said one of his goals is to “engage and challenge domestic students to broaden their perspectives about what it means to be a global citizens.” Jeffery estimated that most of his
day-to-day interaction is with domestic students. There are 23 student organizations housed within the department, many of which are comprised of American students who identify with these international experiences—either from study abroad or as second-generation immigrants. ISL helps these students organize activities and events around campus. As International Student Life works to increase its presence on campus, Jeffery said he plans to build relationships with those in departments and units that serve international students. Moving forward, Jeffery hopes to better help faculty and staff with their interaction with international students. “At the end of the day, we want our international students to feel comfortable and feel like it’s a worthwhile journey for them,” he said. “And we want to help faculty and staff make it an international experience for domestic students.”
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http://eits.uga.edu/access_and_security/infosec/phish_tank/ http://eits.uga.edu/access_and_security/infosec/fresh_phish/ Enterprise Information Technology Services has launched some Web pages with the latest information about how to spot phishing emails. These emails are getting more clever, and the problem isn’t unique to UGA. The “Phish Tank” provides an overview of how to spot a phish.
The “Fresh Phish” page includes actual recent phishing emails targeting UGA students, faculty and staff. EITS also updated the UGAMail login page to include a warning about phishing under the login button. The link takes visitors to the Phish Tank page.
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PROFESSOR from page 1
PROTECT AND LEARN—Steve Harris, director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, presents Heather Perry, a corporal in the UGA Police Department, a certificate honoring her as the recipient of the 2015 Edward T. and Sarah Laurent Kassinger Scholarship, which is provided to students who complete degrees while employed full time as a UGA police officer or a working student in the criminal justice studies program at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
REGISTRY from page 1 The law does not require patients or health care providers to disclose diagnosis data, but for the registry to be an effective, low-cost tool to map the disease, accurate and detailed reporting is imperative, according to the report. The recommendations Leonard presented provide a legal and ethical means to cast a wide net for reliable and valid data collection. “UGA got in at the ground floor,” Leonard said. She explained that the recommendations advised in the paper are a nexus of gerontology research and public policy implementation, and balance often-competing state interests and patient privacy concerns. According to Miles, the registry serves Georgia’s elderly population by collecting data that allows public safety officials and health care providers to assess the broad impact of the disease and subsequently allocate resources. Disease registries are not a new concept in Georgia, but the Alzheimer’s registry is unique
in that it does not track an infectious disease. Tracking contagious diseases tends to galvanize data collection and sees fewer challenges, but according to Leonard, registries involving medical data collection have a longstanding and deep connection to public policy law. She said legal precedents support the registry, even considering the Georgia Constitution’s strict interpretation of personal privacy. “More important than a constitutional challenge is implementation going forward,” Leonard said. Her recommendations advised that Georgia’s Alzheimer’s registry, which contains confidentiality compliances, be consistent with established medical regulations and legal standards that protect patient privacy but also provide secure, de-identified data aggregated for Alzheimer’s research purposes, public policy planning and patient services improvement. Paper co-authors were Rui Bu and Amanda Brown, both of the UGA School of Law.
Bulletin Board IHE open house
The Institute of Higher Education will hold an open house Oct. 19 in Meigs Hall at 11 a.m. for students interested in the study of higher education. The IHE offers both master’s and doctoral degree programs. The open house will allow students to learn more about IHE programs, and attendants will have the opportunity to sit in on a class. Interested individuals should RSVP to Megan Waters at watersme@ uga.edu by Oct. 12.
University Woman’s Club
The University Woman’s Club will meet Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Central Presbyterian Church, 380 Alps Road. Guest speaker Darrell Huckaby, who is president of Huck’s Tours, will discuss “Exploring Our World One Step at a Time.” Tickets for the Dec. 8 holiday luncheon also will be available for purchase. For more information, email Kim Argo, UWC publicity chair, at argo1230@att.net.
New PAC card
The Performing Arts Center has introduced a new PAC VIP Card exclusively for UGA faculty and staff members. The VIP Card entitles faculty and staff to receive a 20 percent discount off regular ticket prices.
The VIP Card has a $250 credit that can be used to purchase tickets for all Performing Arts Center-sponsored performances. Cardholders may select one or more tickets to any PAC performances throughout the 2015-2016 season, and they automatically will receive a 20 percent discount on all tickets purchased with the card. For more information, stop by the Performing Arts Center box office or call 706-542-4400.
Dream Award nominations
Nominations are being accepted until Oct. 30 for the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award. The award recognizes individuals in the UGA and Athens-Clarke County communities who have worked to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality and justice a reality. Award recipients will be recognized at the annual MLK Freedom Breakfast, which will be held Jan. 22 at UGA. The breakfast, sponsored by UGA, the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government and the Clarke County School District, commemorates King’s life and legacy. Tickets for the breakfast are available through Nov. 20 on the Office of Institutional Diversity website at diversity.uga.edu or by contacting the office at 706-583-8195. The award highlights the work of local community members and UGA faculty, staff and students who have made significant contributions to social
birth defects and disabilities. The most prominent of these roles included deputy director of the National Immunization program and founding director of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Cordero currently co-directs the PROTECT Center—the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats— a consortium with Northeastern University, the University of Michigan, the University of Puerto Rico and now, UGA. Since its founding in 2010, PROTECT has received two grants totaling $23.5 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Superfund Research Program to conduct an interdisciplinary investigation into the complex relationship between groundwater contamination and the island’s extremely high preterm birth rate. The program is expanding to examine the effects of prenatal exposures in the neurodevelopment of children born to mothers who participate in the PROTECT program. This new effort will develop the Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico, and UGA will be a key partner. Most recently, Cordero served as dean and a professor of the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health. He also serves on the board of trustees of the
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March of Dimes, a charitable organization dedicated to preventing childhood disease, birth defects and premature births and reducing infant mortality. A native of Puerto Rico, Cordero obtained his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico. He completed his residency training in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital, followed by a fellowship in medical genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. The Patel Professorship was established with support from the UGA Research Foundation, Patel family members and UGA colleagues to honor Gordhan Patel and his wife, Jinx. Patel, a long-time UGA faculty member, dean of the Graduate School and former vice president for research, retired from the university in 2005, but he and his wife remain actively involved in the university and Athens communities. His research focused on the molecular biology of chromosomal proteins. “The endowment provided by the Patel Distinguished Professorship in Public Health will be instrumental in expanding research and service opportunities in maternal and child health and will lead to healthier babies and mothers in Georgia and throughout the world,” Cordero said.
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Harvard. He is the author of 17 books and has created 14 television programs, among them the documentary Wonders of the African World and the series Finding Your Roots. His 2013 six-part documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, won an Emmy, a duPont-Columbia University Award and an NAACP Image Award as well as a Peabody. Gates has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Time. He is editor-inchief of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine, and oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field. The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reader, a collection of his writings, was published in 2012. His latest book, Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series, was released by the University of North Carolina Press
in 2014. The lecture is sponsored in part by the Morton Theatre Corp., UGA’s Institute for African American Studies and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. It is featured as part of UGA’s Signature Lecture series. The Peabody-Smithgall Lecture is named in honor of Lessie Bailey Smithgall and her late husband, Charles Smithgall. In the late 1930s, Lessie Smithgall introduced Lambdin Kay, general manager of Atlanta’s WSB Radio, and John Drewry, dean of UGA’s School of Journalism. Their efforts led to the establishment of the George Foster Peabody Awards at the university. In 2003, the Smithgalls endowed the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys, now held by Jones. The Peabody-Smithgall Lecture is supported with funds from the Lambdin Kay Chair.
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witness firsthand Court of Appeals proceedings will offer our students a front-and-center view into the legal system that will assist them as they move forward with their education and careers,” he said. “It is also a tremendous opportunity for the public at large to see the Georgia Court of Appeals in action.” The following cases will be heard: R. Robles, Individually and as surviving spouse and Administrator of Estate of Iselda Moreno v. P. Yugueros, M.D. and Artisan Plastic Surgery, LLC (medical negligence); Raw Properties, Inc. v. C. Lawson, Tax Commissioner and exofficio Sheriff of DeKalb County, and DeKalb County, Georgia (sovereign immunity); and M. Williams v. State (aggravated assault). In Robles, Rudy Robles is appealing a court decision that found a surgeon not responsible for the death of his wife after a “tummy tuck” surgery. The case argues that a surgeon failed to recognize that the patient had an acute abdominal process, which the appellant asserts led to her death. In Raw, the real estate company is appealing a court decision that found a tax commissioner was entitled to sovereign immunity against damage claims stemming from a sale of RPI’s real property, which the company alleges was wrongfully sold for taxes after statutory procedures were not followed. In Williams, the appellant is appealing a court decision that refused Williams a new trial after he was found guilty of aggravated assault. In the case, the victims of the assault initially identified Williams as a shooter but later recanted at trial. The state claims the recantations resulted from threats against the witnesses. Written briefs of each case are at http:// libguides.law.uga.edu/GaCtofApp.