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UGA, Atlanta Public Schools establish new partnership

By Janis Gleason jgleason@uga.edu

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Many UGA alumni, including former cheerleaders, will come back to Athens to celebrate with activities leading up to the football game against the University of Kentucky on Oct. 19.

Bulldog spirit

UGA alumni return for Homecoming Week

By Don Reagin

dreagin@uga.edu

University of Georgia Homecoming 2019 is scheduled for this week with activities and events for all members of the university community. Festivities culminate with the Oct. 19 football game against the University of Kentucky, when the Homecoming queen and king are crowned and the Spirit of Homecoming winners are announced.

Homecoming activities began on Oct. 5 at 8 a.m. with the inaugural Homecoming 5K. The annual Bulldog Bash is scheduled for Oct. 14 on Tate Student Center Plaza from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with games, free food and giveaways for students.

Celebrations will continue on Oct. 14 as members of registered student organizations paint Sanford Drive at the Tate bus stop. The street painting will be on display

throughout the week.

A lip sync competition is scheduled for Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall. Student organizations will prepare three-minute acts consisting of song, dance and lip syncing, and they will perform for a panel of judges. Admission is open to all UGA students.

Following the lip sync, Grand Hall will be transformed into a silent

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PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

UGA’s first Archway Partnership in Colquitt County continues to build on its successes

By Kelly Simmons

simmonsk@uga.edu

When they keep inviting you back, you must be doing something right.

Colquitt County leaders have continued to fund the Archway Partnership in their community, nine years beyond the original fiveyear commitment to the program.

“We just really believe in it,” said Chip Blalock, executive director of the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie and chair of the Colquitt County Archway Partnership. “Our funding partners invest in the program because they know we’ll get a good return on it.”

An impact study from March 2017 shows that in the 12 years between 2005, when the University of Georgia launched its Archway Partnership in Colquitt County, through 2017, the area realized an additional $226.9 million in economic activity, an average of

nearly $19 million a year.

And the program is going strong today, as the community continues to tap into UGA resources to help create businesses and jobs, develop leaders and address critical challenges, like public healthcare, infrastructure needs, education, housing, zoning and downtown design.

Since 2005, more than 169 UGA students and 18 faculty have worked on 134 projects in the south Georgia county.

In recent months UGA students completed a crime survey of the county, which resulted in the city hiring two additional police officers; produced a design for a Moultrie Welcome Center in a vacant storefront on the town square; and kicked off the second year of a leadership program designed to prepare African American males to be community leaders one day.

“Growing up in this community, a lot of the leaders I looked up to

are getting older, and we do not see the next group to take their place,” said Brian Knighton, principal of Stringfellow Elementary School in Moultrie. Knighton and Colquitt County native Ralph “RJ” Taylor brought the idea to the Colquitt Archway Partnership in 2017 and worked with faculty from the UGA J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development to create the program.

“I feel an obligation to give back and help develop that next generation of leaders.”

The relationship between the county and the university and the desire to “give back,” also influenced a group of Colquitt County natives to set up the UGA Moultrie-Colquitt County Alumni Scholarship Fund. Every year in perpetuity this fund will provide at least one academically talented student from Colquitt County High School with a scholarship See ARCHWAY on page 8

A new partnership between the University of Georgia and the Atlanta Public Schools will create connections with APS high school students who may not be considering UGA for their college education. The partnership also will provide opportunities for professional development for APS counselors.

For the partnership’s inaugural student-focused event, two groups of approximately 100 high school students from 13 Atlanta Public Schools each spent a day at UGA on Oct. 1 and 2. Visiting students

connected with administrators, staff, faculty members, campus partners and current UGA students who graduated from an APS high school to learn about the opportunities UGA has to offer and to experience firsthand what it’s like to be a student on campus.

APS worked directly with high school counselors and administrators from each school to select the students who visited UGA. APS also supplied transportation. UGA provided the daylong campus experience, including lunch and a tour.

Two more “APS Day @ UGA” will be held next spring.

“Our new partnership with the

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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK UGA now offers state’s first fully online Master of Social Work degree program The University of Georgia School of Social Work now offers the first fully online Master of Social Work degree in Georgia. All coursework, with the exception of a required field internship, can be taken online. Applications are being accepted for the inaugural cohort, scheduled to begin fall 2020.

The Master of Social Work online program extends program access to people interested in earning an advanced degree in direct social work practice while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. The program also addresses the growing demand for social workers in rural and medically underserved areas.

“This fully online program

should provide access and flexibility to earn an advanced degree in social work and eliminate barriers such as travel time to get to campus or not being able to access a campus because of distance,” said Javier F. Boyas, director of the social work master’s degree program.“The reality is that a lot of people in various parts of the state don’t currently have that option, and until now there was not a fully online program for social work at any public university in Georgia.”

A recent state of Georgia workforce report indicated that only 10% of social workers are practicing in medically underserved areas, or

See DEGREE on page 8

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Nominations being accepted for President’s Medal until Nov. 4 The University of Georgia will award the 2020 President’s Medal to recognize the longstanding, extraordinary contributions of individuals who have supported deserving students and meaningful academic programs, advanced research that creatively explored solutions for the challenges of our times and inspired community leaders to engage in enhancing the quality of life of Georgians through their support of the university.

The medal, conceived by the UGA Emeriti Scholars, will be presented during the annual Founders Day program on Jan. 15.

The celebration will begin with a luncheon and be followed by the annual lecture.

Nominations are now being accepted for the President’s Medal.

Nominees must have a connection to the university but cannot be a current UGA employee. Individuals currently serving as appointed and elected officials in local, state or federal positions also are ineligible.

The President’s Medal recipient must be willing to be present at the Founders Day celebrations to receive the award.

Nominations must be received by the UGA Office of the President no later than Nov. 4.

Submit a nomination letter, a résumé or biography of the nominee and at least two letters of support to the attention of Alton M. Standifer, Office of the President, Administration Building, 220 S. Jackson St., Athens, GA 30605.

Nominees not selected may be considered for the following two years.

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Commit to Georgia 2019

Name: Peter Bettinger Position: The Leon “Buddy” Hargreaves Jr. Distinguished Professor in Forest Management, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Peter Bettinger

At UGA: 17 years

Beneficiary of his gift to the university: The Center for Forest Business within the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Why he contributes: “In appreciation of a worldclass, and one-of-a-kind, Center for Forest Business and the opportunities that it provides young professionals to learn about the forestry business. Go Dawgs!”

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.

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Mason Lecture speaker and Amicus Therapeutics CEO urges humane approach to drug development

By Matt Weeks

mweeks@uga.edu

Biotechnology companies have a moral obligation to make life-saving medicines affordable and available, according to John Crowley, CEO of Amicus Therapeutics and inspiration for the movie Extraordinary Measures.

Crowley, who started a bioscience venture to save the lives of his children who were diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, delivered the Mason Public Leadership Lecture at the University of Georgia on Sept. 20.

Using examples of three child patients, Crowley explained how the public and private sectors work together to create revolutionary treatments.

“It almost always starts with a patient in need, oftentimes a child. When you think about making medicines, it starts with a parent coming to a researcher at a university, and they start with the same four words: ‘We have a problem.’ And a university researcher answers with another four words: ‘I have an idea,’ ” Crowley said.

Crowley spoke from experience.

After learning that his children had just months to live, he walked away from his job as marketing director at BristolMyers Squibb and sought to change the course of his children’s prognoses.

He fought against time, as well as the business, medical and scientific establishments that were wary of his hard-charging determination.

“At Amicus, I ask each of our John Crowley employees only one thing. For every decision you make, think about it as if you had that disease or were the parent of a child living with that disease,” he said. “The greatest skill I believe a leader can possess and develop is empathy, to feel the hope of another.”

Crowley said Amicus is guided by the principle of helping people first, while remaining financially viable.

“I tell anyone who’s thinking about investing in our company that our No. 1 mission is to deliver the highestquality medicines to people living with diseases,” he said. “Capital and being able to build a vibrant business is the lifeblood of our success, but patients are our primary stakeholders.These are not competing forces. I believe they’re quite complementary. If we make great medicines and get them to as many people as quickly as possible, we will not only advance shareholder interest,

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we will maximize shareholder return.”

The Amicus business model focuses on developing treatments for the kind of rare diseases often overlooked by other biotechnology companies.

“Just by going deep and touching one life, you can change the lives of many,” Crowley said.“When it’s in your power to change one life, maybe that’s the only life you ever touch with that act, but many times those ripple effects reach out and touch so many.”

Before Amicus Therapeutics was established, Crowley co-founded Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, a company that exclusively focused on developing a treatment for Pompe disease, the genetic disorder that afflicted his children. Within two years, his kids started an experimental enzyme therapy that saved their lives.

The Mason Public Leadership Lecture is supported by a gift from Keith Mason, an alumnus of UGA’s Terry College of Business and School of Law who serves as principal for KWM Capital Management in Atlanta. The lecture features prominent business leaders who have contributed significantly to their communities or spent time in a public service role.

The lecture is part of the Terry Leadership Speaker Series and part of the university’s Signature Lecture Series.

Former UNESCO director-general shares value Eighth annual State of Public’s Health Conference set for Oct. 22 of protecting heritage during Signature Lecture lbaggett@uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s College of Public Health will host the eighth annual State of the Public’s Health Conference on Oct. 22 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel.

For the past seven years, the Michael Cacciatore Karen Holbrook conference has brought together the public health workforce, policymakers, academia, community-based organizations and the business community to share expertise and work toward collaborative solutions to improve the health of all Georgians.

This year’s program will address issues such as Georgia’s response Glen Nowak to HIV, equal access to health care, Soroya McFarlane Commun ica strengthening academic and comtion in UGA’s munity partnerships, innovative Grady College solutions to improve physical and of Journalism mental health and more. and Mass ComMarsha Davis, dean of the Colmunication; lege of Public Health and conference • Michael Cacorganizer, said that the conference’s ciatore, associfocus on practice makes this event ate professor of unique among public health meetpublic relations ings.

“This conference was never Leslie Rodriguez at UGA’s Grady College; designed to be a traditional gathering,” she said. “Instead, we encour- • Leslie Rodriguez, lead health age anyone from any field who is communications specialist, National working to improve health in their Center for Immunization and Respicommunities to participate and share ratory Diseases, CDC; and their experiences—what works, what • Soroya McFarlane, assistant prodoesn’t and how can we do better? fessor of communication studies in It will take all perspectives to make UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and the improvements we want to see in Sciences.

Karen Holbrook, regional chanGeorgia.”

In addition to interactive break- cellor at the University of South out sessions and poster presentations, Florida-Manatee and former UGA the conference will feature a special provost, will give the closing prepanel on health misinformation, its sentation.

The health misinformation impact on the public’s health and best practices the public health workforce panel will begin at 10 a.m., and can adopt to address misinformation. Holbrook’s talk will begin at Panel participants include three 4:30 p.m. Open to the public, both faculty experts from UGA and one events will take place in Mahler Hall.

Register online for the conferUGA alumna: • Glen Nowak, director of the ence at hotel.uga.edu/events/annualCenter for Health & Risk state-of-public-health-conference.

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“Culture alone is not enough to build peace. But without culture, peace cannot be lasting.”

That’s the sentiment Irina Bokova, former directorgeneral of UNESCO, left the audience with at the 2019 HGOR Endowed Lecture, held Oct. 1 at the Chapel.

Bokova spoke about why heritage matters and her experiences with preservation as the first woman to lead UNESCO as director-general from 2009-2017.

She also served two terms in Bulgaria’s parliament as well as interim deputy minister for foreign affairs and as her country’s ambassador to France and Monaco.

“It is not about buildings,” she said. “It’s not about bricks and stones, but rather it is about human beings.

It concerns all of us, and it matters to all of us.”

According to Bokova, protecting heritage is an American idea. Specifically, she pointed to Russell E. Train and his founding of the World Wildlife Fund as a way to protect the culture and heritage of natural settings.

One way of ensuring the preservation of important areas is declaring it a World Heritage Site, which is a landmark or area that is chosen by UNESCO as having cultural, historical, scientific or another form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties. There are 1,121 World Heritage Sites from 167 countries across the globe. Some 24 are in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty,Yosemite National Park and the 20th-century architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

“I think it is justified to say that these sites are an open book of human history and of human diversity,” Bokova said.

Bokova said it’s important for the protection of heritage to be on the political agenda, and several resolutions toward that effort have been adopted by the United Nations Security Council.

One example is Resolution 2347, adopted unanimously in March 2017, which focused on the protection of heritage in times and Irina Bokova areas of conflict.

“In times of conflict, particularly, the protection and preservation of heritage and culture is a key security imperative,” she said.“We have seen in many cases—and I could give you thousands of examples—where culture heals. When everything else is broken, culture can give hope and revive ideas and communities.”

According to Bokova, other challenges to preservation in addition to conflicts, wars and other deliberate destruction include uncontrolled urbanization; unsustainable tourism; lack of capacity, knowledge and financial resources; illicit trafficking of antiquities; illicit poaching and logging; and natural disasters like earthquakes and inundations.

“Heritage is as much about the past as it is about the future,” Bokova said. “It embraces the diversity of humanity.”

Part of the yearlong observance of the College of Environment and Design’s 50th anniversary, the lecture is funded by the Atlanta design firm HGOR. It also is supported by the Office of Academic Programs, the School of Public and International Affairs, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the School of Law. The lecture was part of the university’s Signature Lecture Series.

Diversity Advisory Council holds annual retreat

Dorothy Kozlowski

The 2019-2020 Diversity Advisory Council Retreat on Sept. 18 provided this broad-based group an opportunity to discuss the ongoing implementation of strategies to increase the awareness and value of diversity and inclusion at UGA. DAC members for the 2019-2020 academic year are Dawn BennettAlexander, Hilda Kurtz, Diane Miller, Ernest Webster, Victoria David, Raye Rawls, Michael Gantt, Michele Howard, Cesar Escalante, Emily Renee Mouilso, Rosalyn Denise Campbell, Sam Fahmy, Thomas Chase Hagood and Usree Bhattacharya.

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Digest Soil and water expert to speak at College of Environment and Design

Wenxuan Zhong, professor of statistics and director of the UGA Big Data Analytics Lab, and her team are working to develop new computational tools to further understand and identify the complicated makeup of the microbiome.

New data tools

Researchers are solving the microbiome puzzle

By Katie Cowart

klcowart@uga.edu

Microbial ecosystems—the relationships between microorganisms and their environments including within the human body—play an important role in human health.

Through diagnostic testing and genetic analysis, researchers can track how disruptions of this ecosystem can cause problems ranging from asthma and allergies to obesity and diabetes.The processes currently used to analyze this data are labor intensive and often inefficient. The sheer volume of data can be difficult to manage. Some bacteria are fragile and die outside of the microbiome reducing the information researchers can obtain.

Now, a new project by University of Georgia researchers funded by the National Science Foundation could lead to new computational tools to further understand and identify the complicated makeup of the microbiome.

“Metagenomic data, material recovered directly from environmental samples, and metabolomic data, the unique chemical fingerprints that specific

cellular processes leave behind, are now typically analyzed separately, and each provides a different type of information on metabolites,” said Wenxuan Zhong, professor of statistics and director of the UGA Big Data Analytics Lab. “We want to develop computational methods to combine the data to study the link between microbial species and phenotype.

By linking this data, we can study how the microbial system affects human health.”

These new computational methods will utilize MetaGen, a tool developed

by Zhong’s research group that can simultaneously identify microbial species and estimate their abundance in multiple samples.

Zhong and her team will establish a set of novel statistical framework and computational strategies to effectively integrate metagenomic and metabolomic data.To explain the relationship between microbial ecosystems and some human diseases, they will develop a new statistical test to identify the disease-related microbial species strains related to certain diseases. The innovative joint-analytical method will detect interactions within microbial species and the microbiomehuman interaction.

“There are many potential fields where our new method can help improve both the biological and statistical analysis process,” said Zhong. “For example, we can help design new biomarkers for accurate disease diagnostics, provide potential opportunities for probiotic supplements and develop medical intervention strategies.”

The project represents a new direction in the field of big data with promising possibilities as well as new challenges.

“It is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. The difficulty is not solving one puzzle, but solving thousands of puzzles all mixed together at the same time. We have to pull the pieces apart and reassemble them in the right groups,” said Zhong.

“We must establish a solid foundation in order to benefit other researchers in the same field.

“The NSF support opens many opportunities for us. Specifically, for this project, our research process could lead to fundamental advances in statistics and machine learning research,” said Zhong.

“We plan to not only combine different data sciences tools, but also build new and innovative data science research processes.”

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Feeling depressed? Mahjong might be the answer

By Lauren Baggett lbaggett@uga.edu

When it comes to boosting mental health among older Chinese, it might be as simple as a game of mahjong, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.

Regularly playing the popular tilebased strategy game was one of several types of social participation linked to reduced rates of depression among middle-aged and older adults in China in the study appearing in Social Science & Medicine.

“Global economic and epidemiologic trends have led to significant increases in the burden of mental health among older adults, especially in the low- and middle-income countries,” said Adam Chen, an associate professor of health policy and management at UGA’s College of Public Health and study co-author.

Poor mental health is a major issue in China, which accounts for 17% of the global disease burden of mental disorders. On top of that, mental health issues

related to social isolation and loneliness are on the rise as China’s number of older adults—as in other nations—continues to increase.

The benefits of participating in social activities to mental health have been widely acknowledged, and some work has been done in developed nations, including the U.S. and Japan, to better understand this relationship.

But little is known about the role of social interaction and mental health outside of these settings.

“Social participation manifests itself in different formats within different cultural contexts,” said Chen.

“Our paper provides evidence on the association between social participation and mental health in the context of a developing country. We also examined the rural-urban difference, which has not been examined extensively in this line of literature.”

Chen and collaborators from China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology analyzed survey data from nearly 11,000 residents aged 45 years and older from the nationally

representative China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

They looked at symptoms of depression and compared it to the type and frequency of social participation, including visiting with friends, playing mahjong, participating in a sport or social club and volunteering in the community.

They found that, on the whole, participating in a variety of activities more frequently was associated with better mental health. Specifically, urban residents who played mahjong, a popular strategy game, were less likely to feel depressed.

That wasn’t too surprising for Chen, as this finding was in line with other studies, but he was surprised to find that rural Chinese overall tended to report poor mental health compared to their urban counterparts.

“Traditionally, rural China featured tight-knit communities of close kinship, often with a limited number of extended large families in a village,” he said. “We were expecting strong ties and communal bonds in rural China, but it appears that we were wrong.”

Barrett Kays, a soil scientist and landscape architect at Landis Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina, will visit UGA on Oct. 17 to discuss “Urban Soil Design and Climate Change in the Southeast” at the College of Environment and Design. Open to the public, his talk will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 123 of the Jackson Street Building.

Kays is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and holds an MLA and a Ph.D. in soil science from North Carolina State University.

His company offers technical services that deal with soil, hydrology and drainage issues in ecological restoration and construction projects. It is also involved in designing custom urban soils for urban landscape architectural projects. Kays is a licensed professional soil scientist and a registered landscape architect in North Carolina, Virginia and New York.

Kays was hired in the 1990s to bring back to life the Great Lawn of Central Park, which was suffering from compaction and overuse.

The lecture is sponsored by the UGA College of Environment and Design and the horticulture department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

EITS to host two-day Information Technology Fair Oct. 29-30

In an effort to ensure that students, faculty and staff at the University of Georgia are getting the most out of technology on campus, EITS will host a two-day I.T. Fair on Oct. 29 and 30.

The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days in the second-floor rotunda of the Miller Learning Center. The fair is open to all UGA students, faculty and staff.

During the fair, EITS volunteers will offer free technology help and educate users on simple self-service options, including enrolling backup devices in ArchPass, completing their MyID profile password reset service, changing their ArchPass authentication method, downloading Office 365 and more.

Attendees should expect to be at the fair for at least 10 minutes and should bring their personal laptops. Anyone who intends to enroll a backup device in ArchPass on this day should bring that device with them to the fair.

University-issued computers will not be worked on at this event.

Participants with more advanced technical issues that require access to back-end systems will be redirected to the EITS Help Desk at 706-542-3106 or helpdesk@uga.edu.

Parents Leadership Council accepting applications for grant program

The Parents Leadership Council Grants Program is looking for UGA organizations with a clear commitment to enhancing the undergraduate student experience to apply to receive funding for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Grant applications are due Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. Applications will be accepted from UGA schools, colleges, units, departments, divisions or student organizations registered with the Center for Student Activities and Involvement. Late applications will not be accepted.

Since 2002, the council has funded more than $2.5 million in grants to programs such as the Counseling and Psychiatric Services Center at the University Health Center, the Office of the Dean of Students, Designated Dawgs Safe Rides program and Campus Kitchen at UGA. To apply for a Parents Leadership Council Grant and for a complete list of guidelines, visit give.uga.edu/plcgrants. For more information, email Parent Giving at parents@uga.edu.

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EXHIBITIONS

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

Through Oct. 27. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-1817. hazbrown@uga.edu.

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

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

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

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

Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron.

Through Dec. 1. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldogs Football, 2017.

Through Feb. 28. Rotunda Gallery, Special Collections Libraries.

706-542-6170. hasty@uga.edu.

MONDAY, OCT. 14 COLUMBUS DAY Classes in session; offices open.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY WEEK Through Oct. 18. There will be various outreach events each day to educate students and faculty about the importance of academic honesty at UGA. 706-542-4336. honesty@uga.edu.

TAI CHI CLASS Also Oct. 21. This Tai Chi class is open to everyone at UGA. Start the week off with gentle movement to help focus and balance. Join the class at any point during the semester. 8 a.m.

North Tower (3rd floor), Miller Learning Center. 706-542-6169. kathleen.kern@uga.edu.

CTEGD RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: KISSINGER LAB Moderators: Alejandra Villegas and Andrew Boland. Advanced students, postdocs, technicians and PIs from CTEGD labs

Screening of ‘The English Patient’ held in advance of Ondaatje visit

By Dave Marr

davemarr@uga.edu

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will present a screening of the 1996 film The English Patient, based on the novel

by Michael Ondaatje, on Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Cine.

The screening is in advance of events the following week with Ondaatje, who was recently announced as the 2019-2020 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The film, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews and Kristen Scott Thomas, won nine Academy Awards.

Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient was awarded the “Golden Booker” prize in 2018 as the best English-language novel of the past 50 years.

Ondaatje will visit UGA and Athens Oct. 24-25 for a slate of public events and classroom conversations with college and high-school students.

More information is available at willson.uga.edu.

The Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, established by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, hosts outstanding global scholars, leading creative thinkers, artists and intellectuals who engage with audiences on and off the UGA campus through lectures, seminars, discussions and other community events. The Delta Chair program aims to foster conversations that engage with global perspectives through the humanities and arts.

present “in progress” work and discuss preliminary data and ideas for collaboration. Questions and discussion are highly encouraged. Refreshments are provided by CTEGD and the host lab. 8:30 a.m. 175 Coverdell Center.

LECTURE Juana Suárez, director of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program will deliver a lecture titled “The Visible and the Invisible: Documenting Latin American Moving Image Archives” on the place of audiovisual archives in shaping cultural histories in the region, comparing similarities and differences in their constituencies to analyze the administrative forces that currently shape archival practices. 12:20 p.m.

250 Miller Learning Center. 510-725-8733. rnavitsk@uga.edu.

INFORMATION SESSION Juana Suárez, NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Graduate Program director, will offer an overview of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at NYU. This presentation will highlight the different components of the program, rapid change within the profession and professional opportunities for media archivists. 4 p.m. 53 Fine Arts Building.

510-725-8733. rnavitsk@uga.edu.

RUSSELL HALL OPEN HOUSE Join an open house and reception to celebrate the recent renovation of Russell Hall on the Health Sciences Campus. 5 p.m.

Russell Hall HSC. 706-713-2183. shall@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, OCT. 15 CELLULAR BIOLOGY SEMINAR Featuring Jennifer Guler, University of Virginia. 11 a.m.

404A Biological Sciences Building.

GRADTEACH WORKSHOP Teaching statements, including teaching philosophy statements and academic diversity statements, are living documents that allow instructors to reflect on their teaching and share with others their values, beliefs and goals. In this workshop, participants will discuss the purpose of teaching statements, typical components to include and how teaching statements are situated within and align with the larger teaching portfolio. 12:30 p.m.

North Conference Room, Instructional Plaza. 706-542-1355. gradteach@uga.edu.

FACULTY PERSPECTIVES Elena Bianchelli, senior lecturer in the classics department of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will give a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR “What Doesn’t Bend: Responses to Environmental Heterogeneity in Two Marine Invertebrates,” Morgan Kelly, Louisiana State University. A reception follows the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the lobby. Host: John Wares. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, Ecology Building.

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

FALL INTERDISCIPLINARY QUALITATIVE SPEAKER SERIES “Reading the New and Old Materialisms and Empiricisms,” Elizabeth St. Pierre, educational theory and practice department.

In this seminar, St. Pierre will discuss both the old and new materialism and empiricism, their “origins” in epistemology and ontology, the conversations they respond to, and their possibilities and limits for social science and educational inquiry. 4 p.m.

139 River’s Crossing Annex. 706-542-4060. roulston@uga.edu.

JOHNSTONE LECTURE Join Jeff Rapp, chair of the bioscience program at Athens Technical College, and Brian Roth, Mark Mooney and Jon Doss of Southern Brewing Co. as they dive into the science behind domesticating wild yeast from plants growing in the State Botanical Garden. The reception will begin at 6 p.m., and the lecture will start at 7 p.m. The Johnstone Lecture, sponsored by Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, was named in honor of the State Botanical Garden’s first director, Francis E. Johnstone Jr. $15. Visitor Center, Great Room, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST CONTRACT CHEATING The International Day of Action against contract cheating is part of the Academic Integrity Week hosted by the Office of Academic Honesty. 706-542-4336. honesty@uga.edu.

CONSERVATION SEMINAR “Bat Conservation in Georgia,” Katrina Morris, wildlife biologist, Nongame Conservation, Wildlife Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. This seminar series exposes undergraduate and graduate students to multiple aspects of the field of conservation ecology and sustainable development through speakers from different scientific disciplines and careers. 1:25 p.m. Auditorium, Ecology Building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

BOOK DISCUSSION Join a discussion on Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha L. LeFlouria. There will be a docent-led tour of The New South and New Slavery: Convict Labor in Georgia from 5 p.m.; discussion follows at 6 p.m. 258 Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-6367. kdotson@uga.edu.

PH.D. STUDENT-FACULTY MIXER The theme for the fall 2019 Ph.D. student-faculty mixer is “Back to School: Transitioning into Academic Life.” 5:30 p.m. Starland Pizzeria.

THURSDAY, OCT. 17 ECONOMICS SEMINAR SERIES Featuring Joel Waldfogel, Carlson School of Management.

3:30 p.m. C006 Benson Hall. roozbeh@uga.edu.

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WORKSHOP Learn about free digital archives that can be integrated into research or instruction in “HathiTrust and Free Digital Archives.”

The workshop will focus especially on special functions in HathiTrust, ways to search it, building collections and introduce Hathi Analytics. Registration encouraged but not required. Part of the Graduate Research Workshop Series sponsored by the UGA Libraries. 4 p.m. Instruction Lab, Main Library.

706-542-6708. elliott.kuecker@uga.edu.

CED LECTURE SERIES Lecture by Barrett L. Kays, FASLA, senior landscape architect and scientist at Landis, PLLC. This lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

4:30 p.m. 123 Jackson Street Building. (See Digest, page 3.)

LECTURE In his talk “Cloudspotting for Beginners,” Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, gives an illustrated tour of the sky. He shows how to recognize many of the varied and beautiful cloud formations, including how various cloud types appear in works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

THIRD THURSDAY Seven of Athens’ established venues for visual art hold Third Thursday, an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month. The Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Lyndon House Arts Center, Glass Cube & Gallery@Hotel Indigo-Athens, Cine, the Classic Center and ATHICA will be open from 6-9 p.m. to showcase their visual-arts programming. Full schedules are posted at 3Thurs.org. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

YOGA IN THE GALLERIES Enjoy a yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries. Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, this program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m. Yoga mats provided. 6 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

FRIDAY, OCT. 18 LECTURE “(Un)silencing the Archive: Tracing the Intellectual Legacy of Camila Henríquez Ureña,” Sharina Maillo-Pozo, Spanish and Latinx studies. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m. 213 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846. tlhat@uga.edu.

LUNCH & LEARN: MONEY APOCALYPSE Join the Russell Library for a lunch and learn held in conjunction with the exhibit Now and Then: 1979. Sean Vanatta, a “Triple Dawg” and visiting assistant professor of history in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, will present on the Volcker Shock and the end of financial stability. Pizza will be provided. 12:30 p.m. 277 Special Collections Libraries.

706-542-5788. washnock@uga.edu.

TOUR Join curator Jason Hasty for a closer look at Beautiful and Brutal: Georgia Bulldog Football, 2017 on the Friday before each home football game this season. Visitors will have a chance to share their own memories from 2017 and get hands-on with a selection of historic materials from the UGA Athletic Association archives. 3 p.m. Rotunda Gallery, Special Collections Libraries.

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

FALL OPERA The Hugh Hodgson School of Music UGA Opera Theatre, in collaboration with the UGA Symphony Orchestra and Hodgson Singers conducted by Mark Cedel, will present Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Seven soloists will be featured in the leading roles with the Hodgson Singers. The title role of Lucia will be performed by Jaime Marie Webb on Oct. 18 and by Diana Thompson on Oct. 20. Streaming will be available for the Friday performance at music.uga.edu/live-streaming. $20 for adults, $3 for students. Performances are Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center.

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‘Macbeth’ coming to Athens from London’s Out of Chaos

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing a high-octane production of Macbeth to Athens on Oct. 16, courtesy of London’s Out of Chaos theater company. The 80-minute production features two actors who portray 20 characters with all of the intrigue and madness audiences expect from Shakespeare’s timeless story. Macbeth takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Morton Theatre in downtown Athens.

Out of Chaos is an award-winning touring company whose performers hail from around the world. The company produces original theater inspired by old stories, and their productions have won top prizes at festivals in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.

Their approach combines physical theater, original music and anarchic comedy to produce a style the Guardian described as “expertly performed and stupidly entertaining.”

Macbeth premiered in 2016 and has toured throughout the UK and the United States to rave reviews. The critic for the Oxford Culture Review called it “a force of nature ... one of the most virtuosic pieces of acting I’ve seen in a long time.”

The production showcases the talents of Paul O’Mahony, the artistic director of Out of Chaos whose credits include roles with the Royal Shakespeare ATHENS FLUTE CHOIR FALL CONCERT This concert includes classical music, folk songs from the British Isles, 14th century dance music and more. Sponsored

by Friends of the Garden. 2 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

CONCERT Students from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music will perform a program of music designed and conducted by David Stanley, master’s student in conducting at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Alongside Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” the program includes music by African American composers, exploring the intersection of rural regional identity and race.

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

MONDAY, OCT. 21 WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE For fall semester.

CTEGD RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: WOLSTENHOLME LAB Moderators: Stephen Vella and Nicole Solano. Advanced students, postdocs, technicians and PIs from CTEGD labs present “in progress” work and discuss preliminary data and ideas for collaboration. Questions and discussion are highly encouraged.

Refreshments are provided by CTEGD and the host lab.

8:30 a.m. 175, Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.

WORKSHOP Learn about free digital archives that can be integrated into research or instruction in “HathiTrust and Free Digital Archives.”

The workshop will focus especially on special functions in HathiTrust, ways to search it, building collections and introduce Hathi Analytics. Registration encouraged but not required. Part

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Out of Chaos brings its performance of Macbeth to the Morton Theatre on Oct. 16.

Company, and Troels Hagen Findsen, a Danish performer and musician who is a graduate of the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris.

Tickets for Macbeth start at $30 and can be purchased at the UGA Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student). The Morton Theatre is located at 195 W. Broad St. in Athens. of the Graduate Research Workshop Series sponsored by the UGA Libraries. Noon. DigiLab, Main Library. 706-542-6708. elliott.kuecker@uga.edu.

UGA I-CORPS FALL 2019 SHOWCASE UGA I-Corps is a NSF-funded program to give UGA teams (faculty, students and community) the training and funds needed to begin understanding the value they might provide to customers. These presentations represent the newest additions to the pipeline of more than 100 projects progressing toward commercialization. Registration is requested. 6 p.m. Jackson Street Building. tim.martin@uga.edu.

COMING UP STATE OF THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH CONFERENCE Oct. 22. Now in its eight year, the State of the Public’s Health Conference is a day-long annual gathering focused on fostered on meaningful, constructive dialogue and practical solutions for Georgia’s public health challenges. The SOPH brings together the public health workforce, elected officials, policymakers, academia, community-based health organizations, the business community and others passionate about improving the health of all Georgians. This event is organized and hosted by the UGA College of Public Health. Registration required. 8:30 a.m.

Georgia Center. lmoak@uga.edu. (See story, page 2.)

WORKSHOP Oct. 22. Cooperative learning focuses on the process of group learning as much as the product, differentiating it from traditional group work. When well designed, cooperative learning engages students. The “4 Principles of Cooperative Learning” interactive workshop is dedicated to the four principles of effective cooperative learning: agency, expectations, structure and community. 9:30 a.m. 372 Miller Learning Center.

706-542-1355. jamie.adair@uga.edu.

Lynnée Denise brings ‘DJ scholarship’ to Athens for conversation, performance

By Dave Marr

SATURDAY, OCT. 19

davemarr@uga.edu

FOOTBALL vs. Kentucky. Time to be announced. Sanford Stadium.

CLASS Prairies, meadows, savannas and woodlands were once an integral part of Georgia’s Piedmont and mountain ecoregions. These habitats have nearly disappeared but are now being restored and re-created by gardeners, ecologists and landscapers.

“Grow Your Own Prairie in North Georgia,” a Plants & Pollinators Course, will teach the basics of creating a prairie, including site analysis, species selection and habitat management. Class time will be divided between classroom lecture and a field trip to the prairie at the State Botanical Garden. $50. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, Classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6014. connicot@uga.edu.

PERFORMANCE SERIES The State Botanical Garden of Georgia invites guests to celebrate the opening year of the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden with family-friendly outdoor performances. Every third Saturday of the month enjoy a variety of engaging shows taking place on the Theater-in-the-Woods stage. All performances will take place at 9:30 a.m. with a second showing at 11 a.m. In case of rain, performances will be in the Callaway Administration Building Auditorium. Theater-in-the-Woods, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156. bwboone@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, OCT. 20 BASEBALL Exhibition vs. Columbus State University. 1 p.m. Foley Field.

Lynnée Denise is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer and academic who practices “DJ Scholarship,” which her official biography describes as a method “to re-position the role of the DJ from a party purveyor to an archivist, cultural custodian and information specialist of music with critical value.”

Denise will bring that unique brand of scholarship to the UGA and Athens communities with an evening of conversation and performance Oct. 17 at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. in downtown Athens.

The event will begin with “Let the Beat Hit ’Em: Case Studies in DJ Scholarship,” a conversation between Denise and Harold Pride, an Atlanta-based community-based lecturer and scholar of black music who has presented at conferences across the United States and internationally, often on the music of Prince, at 6 p.m. After a short break, a community reception and mixer will begin at 8 p.m., followed by a DJ set by Denise beginning at 9 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

The evening at Ciné with Denise is part of DJ Summits in the Global South, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Ed Pavlic, Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American studies at UGA, is the project’s director and programs the summits with support from the Willson Center.

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“Globally conversant, musically virtuosic and intellectually adept, Lynnée Denise is the perfect person to start off the series of DJ Summits,” Pavlic said. “In conversation and performance, these summits will explore how DJs ‘write’ searching and empowering stories in tone, texture and rhythm, narratives whose full life happens in the collective company of able dancers and vice versa.”

The second of three DJ Summits is scheduled for February 2020 with Val Jeanty and Ashon Crawley.

Denise is a lecturer in Pan African studies and Chicano studies at California State University, Los Angeles who has presented her DJ Scholarship at Stanford, Yale, Princeton, the Broad Museum, the Tate Modern and many other universities and institutions around the world. She has written for numerous publications and anthologies, and she has organized conferences in Los Angeles on Michael Jackson, Prince and Aretha Franklin.

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Mike Mengak, a professor and wildlife specialist in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, recently received the Berryman Institute Professional Award for his lifetime contributions in the field of human-wildlife conflict management.

The Berryman Institute is a national organization based in the wildland resources department at Utah State University.

According to the Berryman Institute, the Professional Mike Mengak Award recognizes an individual, employed by a federal, state or private partner, for career achievement in human-wildlife conflict management.

The award will be presented in October during the TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group meeting in Reno, Nevada, part of the TWS annual conference.

Mengak’s outreach work focuses on nuisance wildlife management and human-wildlife conflict resolution. He works with county extension agents, landowners and other clients to solve urban nuisance wildlife issues such as damage related to armadillos, small mammals and white-tailed deer.

AnnaMarie Conner, a faculty member in the College of Education, recently received the 2020 Excellence in Scholarship Award from the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators for her significant and lasting contributions to the field. An associate professor in the college’s mathematics and science education department, Conner also serves as an on-site instructor for the Professional Development School District.

Conner’s research examines AnnaMarie Conner how teachers learn to support collective argumentation in mathematic classrooms, as well as the development of their beliefs and professional identities as they progress through mathematics education coursework and their first few years of teaching.

In addition to leading a $535,000 grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Conner works with faculty in both UGA’s College of Education and College of Engineering to explore how elementary teachers can support argumentation in their teaching of mathematics, science and coding.

As a 2020 recipient of the AMTE scholarship award, Conner will be recognized at the association’s annual conference next year in Phoenix.

Merryl Alber, a professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of marine sciences, will receive the 2019 Margaret A. Davidson Award for Stewardship from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and stewardship of estuarine and coastal ecosystems.

The Davidson Award recognizes an individual who demonstrates extraordinary leadership, service, innovation and commitment to the management of estuarine and coastal systems.

Alber, who serves as director of the University of Georgia Marine Institute based on Sapelo Island, is a renowned coastal research scientist and leader.

She serves as principal investigator of the Georgia Coastal Long-Term Ecological Research program, a National Science Foundation-funded program now in its second decade of studying long-term change in coastal ecosystems such as the saltwater marshes that characterize Georgia’s coastline.

Alber will receive the award at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation conference in Mobile, Alabama, in November.

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Patti Zettek helps students in the Full-Time MBA/MSBA Career Management Center find their way along their career path.

‘Career matchmaker’ helps MBA students discover their next steps

By Krista Richmond krichmond@uga.edu

Patti Zettek admits that she made mistakes in her first managerial role— like arriving at the airport for her first national sales meeting trip wearing shorts and sandals. But she learned from those experiences.

“When I was a young manager, I was clueless on what I now know are the usual do’s and don’ts of corporate America,” she said. “Now it’s my job to make sure students know that kind of information before they enter the workplace.”

As the director of the Terry College of Business’ Full-Time MBA/MSBA Career Management Center, Zettek shares the knowledge she’s gained with the students she’s preparing for their new career.

“This is really why we’re all here— because of the students,” she said. “It makes a huge impact on the way you think about your work in higher education.”

Zettek worked in sales before starting her career at UGA in 2001 as a document conversion coordinator in the Disability Resource Center, where she managed a student workforce who provided alternative text such as books on tape or enlarged text. She also worked with faculty to provide testing accommodations.

She said she learned quite a bit from the students who use the DRC and their tenacious attitudes.

“It was eye-opening for me,” she said.

“They call them invisible disabilities, and I didn’t realize how many students are faced with them.”

Almost as soon as she started working at UGA, Zettek started classes toward her master’s degree through UGA’s Tuition Assistance Program. In fact, she learned

about her job at Terry College from a fellow student in her program. And now, she can share her own back-to-school experience with the students she works with who are taking time away from their careers to pursue an MBA. While Zettek agrees that coaching plays an important role in preparing students for the job market, she also knows the value in understanding the unwritten “rules” of an organization’s culture. Companies, she said, don’t always recognize the things business students are going to want to know about them.

The students who come through the MBA Career Management Center already have work experience, and Zettek acknowledges that it can be hard for them to get back into the mindset of being a student. Not only are they learning core competencies,but they also are embracing the challenge of changing career paths.

“They’ve got really strong ideas and goals, and sometimes they just need help making those explicit,” she said.

That shift can be their biggest challenge and the most exciting part, Zettek said. She sees the center as a partner with students to help them see where they are and prepare for where they’re going.

Some of the lessons Zettek hopes her students learn are to be flexible, to work with a variety of people and personalities, and to know when to lead, when to follow and when to get out of the way.

Every student’s path through the career center is a little bit different. They all start together with a set core curriculum of foundational classes. The staff at the center helps them write a new résumé and cover letter before working with the students on soft skills.

“Sometimes you have to help them

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Patti Zettek Director, FTMBA/MSBA Career Management Center Terry College of Business Ph.D., Human Resources & Organizational Development, UGA, 2016 M.Ed., Human Resources & Organizational Development, UGA, 2006 B.A., Broadcast Journalism, and B.A., Sociology, St. Mary’s University, 1982 At UGA: 18 years

flex muscles that they’ve never really worked on before, so we have a different approach based on where they are with those soft skills,” Zettek said.

To do that, there is a career course (taught by Zettek and her team), career coaching and leadership advising all meant to train those muscles. And through the process, they also learn perseverance and resilience.

“The role I play is to be a connector,” she said. “I consider myself a career matchmaker. We want to find the right cultural fit and make sure the students shine before sending them to new employers.”

Zettek’s work at UGA has been recognized by others. She earned the Dwight Douglas Award from UGA Student Affairs in 2006 and the Terry College Community Building Award in 2012, among others.

“I’m the one who really benefits from these students,” she said. “I’m blessed to work with people who make it very easy to build a community.”

GRADY COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

Wojdynski named Kennedy Professor of New Media

By Sarah Freeman freemans@uga.edu

Grady College has named Bartosz Wojdynski a Jim Kennedy Professor of New Media.

Wojdynski is an associate professor of journalism and director of the Digital Media Attention and Cognition Lab, which conducts eye-tracking research to evaluate effective message design and media consumption.

“Bart is known for his groundbreaking research on consumers’ understanding of sponsored news stories and the influence of news design on consumers’ visual attention,” said Charles N. Davis, dean of Grady College. “Bart came to Grady with the goal of establishing a leading eye-tracking research

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laboratory dedicated to the study of visual attention to digital media.

He has accomplished this, and his collaborative research has made significant contributions in health communication

and advertising.”

The professorship is supported and named for James C. Kennedy, the chairman of Cox Enterprises.

Wojdynski studies the effects of digital media design on attention and cognition, focusing on native advertising, online misinformation and the role of images in information processing.

He is particularly interested in the role that visual attention to message elements plays in shaping understanding, emotional reactions and persuasiveness of content.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in multimedia journalism, data visualization, experimental design and psychological effects of communication technology.

“To serve as a Kennedy Professor of New Media is a great honor,” Wojdynski said. “Jim Kennedy endowed these professorships in the spirit of supporting innovation, research and outreach related to the changing media landscape, and these same goals underlie my own research program as well as the work that my student lab members and I conduct in the DMAC.”

FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Tyler Burrell has extra help from her service dog, Scorpio. They’re shown in the Disability Resource Center.

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‘Invisible illness’

Student raises awareness about those with unseen challenges

By Sara Freeland freeland@uga.edu

Tyler Burrell is on a mission to teach others about “invisible illness”—that not all people who look normal are able-bodied and healthy.

“That person needing the elevator for one floor, the person with a handicap pass who looks totally healthy, might not be,” she said.

“You never know someone’s whole story.”

Burrell, a University of Georgia senior international affairs and communication studies major, is part of the Disability Resource Center’s Speaker’s Bureau. She has talked to a First-Year Odyssey class and new graduate teaching assistants about how to help students with accommodations for disabilities.

There, people are able ask questions in an open, comfortable environment and have a discussion about disabilities. “The goal is people gaining knowledge and increasing awareness, especially for invisible illness in general,” she said.

“We have people with so many disabilities, a huge variety: deaf, learning disabilities. I would encourage people to ask questions, to learn. This makes for a community that is more understanding and

compassionate,” she said.

Burrell, who has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, is very open about her disability. “A lot of people have so many questions and think it would be rude to ask,” she said. “I would rather you come up and ask a question than stare and wonder what’s wrong. I have no problem answering questions.”

Burrell’s condition is a genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue and collagen in her body. Her joints spontaneously dislocate, and she has chronic pain. She also has Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, which can cause fainting, and Gastroparesis, or partial stomach paralysis. Her body doesn’t regulate temperature correctly, and she has a higher heart rate and lower blood pressure.

So, she’s prone to fainting and has had a feeding tube in the past. Now, her symptoms are well controlled.

Her symptoms started around her 16th birthday. She was a competitive swimmer, and her joints would dislocate, and she’d tire easily. She gave up swimming, and in 2015 enrolled at UGA. “My first year of college was pretty good.

My second year, I dragged myself over the finish line and then had to take medical leave.”

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Initially, it was one semester off. That became one year in order to get her symptoms under control.

She came back to school in 2018 after medical leave. Her friend had a service dog, Rollo, and Burrell started researching whether a service dog could help her remain independent. She grew up with dogs and thought the idea had potential.

And after being on the wait list for a year, she got her service dog, Scorpio, in March.

He’s a mobility assistance dog that can help her with balance, can carry things for her and even throw out trash. He stays with her when she faints and he knows Deep Pressure Therapy to help reduce her pain. He’s a constant companion, devoted to helping to her.

Scorpio is also distractingly cute and fluffy.

Thankfully, with the amount of guidedogs-in-training on the UGA campus, most of the campus community knows service dog etiquette and not to pet or distract a working dog on duty.

Burrell is also a part-time wheelchair user, depending on the day. She uses a wheelchair for traveling longer distances. For shorter distances, she can use a walker. She also walks

with mobility support from Scorpio. She holds on to his harness, and he helps balance her. “He really has extended my walking and standing by a lot.”

She also uses ring splints, which look like trendy silver jewelry, on her fingers and thumbs that help her joints stay in the proper place.

Coming to UGA wasn’t always the plan for Burrell.

“I actually did not have any intention of attending UGA until I humored my mother with a campus tour and fell in love with the school,” she said. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to major in or what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew that UGA had the resources to support whatever I ended up choosing to do. At the end of the day, UGA is a big school with a ton of resources at its disposal, and I wanted to take advantage of those resources.”

Burrell uses the campus paratransit van service that drops her off close to her classes.

“The drivers are amazing, so nice. They can pull right up to the Miller Learning Center.

They can pull up almost to the door of Caldwell.”

She encourages anyone curious about accommodations to reach out to the Disability Resource Center. “So many students suffer needlessly,” she said. “They don’t think about the Disability Resource Center. They think they’re not disabled enough or are nervous to reach out and take that step. It can make a huge difference.”

The center can help with note takers, extra time on tests, recording lectures and large format print for exams.

For her, accommodations might mean a different desk that she can use a wheelchair with or having access to food and drink in class.

For essays, she can’t write for long periods of time because of her joints, so she types her essay tests.

“My professors have been so accommodating and kind. I talk to every professor at the beginning of the semester. I need to introduce myself, and we try to work out a plan. It varies a little class to class,” she said. “I’ve been so fortunate. Every single one of my professors have been accommodating and kind. SPIA and the communications department have been phenomenal and understanding.”

Burrell is considering graduate school after she graduates in December. Her longterm goal is to work in intelligence analysis or global security. She was inspired in part by her father.

“My dad has worked for the government for as long as I’ve been alive, so I got glimpses into the world of security while growing up.

When I came to UGA and took my first international affairs class, I knew I was hooked, and I’ve gravitated towards intelligence due to personal interest guided by the classes I’ve taken.”

For now, she takes things one day at time.

Her illness has taught her to “be more compassionate, more caring and understanding.”

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Book looks at contrasting voices in Psalms

We Have Heard, O Lord: An Introduction to the Theology of the Psalter Robert Foster Fortress Academic Hardcover: $99 eBook: $90

The book of Psalms includes some of the most impassioned language about God in the Old Testament. At the same time, the psalms as a collection constitute one of the most impassioned debates about the nature and activity of God on behalf of individuals, Israel and the created order.

In this learned yet accessible volume, Robert Foster, a lecturer in religion and New Testament at UGA, offers the first major introduction to this debate about the person and work of God as it unfolds in the book of Psalms.

If God is the just king, why does this king delay vindicating the oppressed and saving them from a wicked oppressor?

What happens when God turns in divine judgment against the people of Israel?

Does God keep the promises made to descendants of David and the covenant made with the people of Israel? Do the psalmists find God faithful and so worthy of the final commands in the Psalter to “Praise the Lord”?

These powerful questions drive the debate within the book of Psalms.

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Safe and Secure report available online

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The University of Georgia’s annual security report for 2019 is now available.

This report is required by federal law and contains policy statements and crime statistics for the school. The policy statements address the school’s policies, procedures and programs concerning safety and security, including

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policies for responding to emergency situations and sexual offenses.

The report includes statistics for the last three years for certain types of crimes that were reported to have occurred on campus, in or on off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the school, and on public property within or immediately adjacent to the campus.

Associate Editor Krista Richmond Art Director Jackie Baxter Roberts Photo Editor Dorothy Kozlowski Writer Leigh Beeson

The University of Georgia is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.

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disco where students can dance the night away to their own personal DJ. The Homecoming Committee will partner with ServeUGA to host Stop & Serve on Oct. 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tate Plaza.

The event will give students the opportunity to engage in several quick service-related projects benefiting the Athens community.

An Evening with Herschel Walker will be held in Tate Grand Hall on Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7 p.m. Attendees will have an opportunity to interact with Walker through a moderated question-and-answer session. Tickets are free for activity-fee-paid students on the UGA Athens campus with valid UGACards. General admission tickets will be sold for $5 beginning on Oct. 14, if available.

The Homecoming parade kicks off on Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. and winds through downtown Athens. Led by UGA President Jere W. Morehead, Army and Air Force ROTC members and the Redcoat Band, the parade will include floats, displays, spirit squads and appearances by university and Athens dignitaries.

Following the parade, the Homecoming Carnival, hosted by the University Union Student Programming Board, will be held at Legion Field from 7-11 p.m. with games, midway rides and free food.Admission is free for activity-fee-paid students at the UGA Athens campus with valid UGACards, and general admission is $5.

Voting for Homecoming king and queen will be open to students until Oct. 18 at 4 p.m.; the ballot can be accessed on the UGA Involvement Network at involve.uga.edu.

Homecoming Court members, all of whom are seniors, their majors, hometowns, and sponsoring organizations are Avni Ahuja, Alpharetta, sociology (Omicron

Delta Kappa); Wilkray Biboum, Norcross, nutritional sciences (Visitors Center); Chelsey Deranian, Grafton, Massachusetts, early childhood education (Alpha Gamma Delta); William Harper, Norcross, finance (New Student Orientation); Mahtab Heydari, Marietta, mechanical engineering (College of Engineering); Caroline Kraczon, Woodstock, AB economics/Master of Public Administration (Student Alumni Association); Lindsay McSwigan, Marietta, marketing with international business and entertainment and media studies (Arch Society); Evan Oliver, Lawrenceville, political science and health promotion (Arch Society); Navdeep Singh, Stone Mountain, pharmaceutical sciences (Student Government Association); and Jacob Williams, Dublin, biological sciences (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Student Ambassadors).

Victoria Clark, a fourth-year pharmaceutical science major whose family lives in Bonaire, serves as the student director of UGA Homecoming.

“Homecoming is a special time here at UGA that celebrates the past, present and future of our institution,” she said. “This year’s committee found ways to celebrate the longstanding traditions of the university, while also developing new ways to show our Bulldog spirit as a community. We want all of the Bulldog faithful to be welcomed on campus, whether traveling from near or far.”

The Homecoming Committee and the University Union Student Programming Board are registered student organizations within the Tate Student Center’s Center for Student Activities and Involvement.

For more information about Homecoming events, call 706-542-6396 or see http://homecoming.uga.edu.

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Michelle Cook, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and strategic university initiatives, greets students from Atlanta Public schools on their visit to UGA.

Atlanta Public Schools augments a robust set of programs already in place to identify and recruit strong students from diverse backgrounds,” said Patrick Winter, associate vice president of admissions and enrollment management. “This new partnership provides us with an opportunity to recruit highly qualified students who typically may not have considered attending the University of Georgia.”

The partnership will also provide an oncampus, daylong professional development seminar for APS counselors next spring that will foster meaningful, intentional networking

and engagement and provide UGA admissions counselors with more knowledge and a better understanding of the APS. Students from Atlanta Public Schools who attended Oct. 1: Carver STEAM, Carver Early College, South Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, Grady High School and Phoenix Academy.

Students from Atlanta Public Schools who attended Oct. 2: Washington High School, Douglass High School, BEST Academy, Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy, Mays High School, Therrell High School and North Atlanta High School.

ARCHWAY from page 1 to attend UGA. Using a dollar-for-dollar match from the UGA Foundation, the group so far has provided Georgia Commitment Scholarships for five students to attend the University of Georgia.

“With these scholarships, the community has launched a new partnership with the University of Georgia that will benefit our students from Colquitt County,” said Jimmy Jeter, a local businessman, who contributed to the endowment.

Colquitt County was the pilot community for the Archway Partnership, which was developed by faculty in UGA Public Service and Outreach and UGA Cooperative Extension. Based on the extension model, Archway placed a UGA employee—an Archway professional—in Moultrie to address economic development issues in the county.

Initial projects included helping the county find a cost-efficient way to pay for expansion of its wastewater system in order to accommodate a new chicken processing

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plant that would bring 1,500 jobs to the area.

UGA also facilitated meetings to adopt a zoning ordinance and land-use plan for the county, an effort that had failed in the past.

After a series of community meetings, the Archway Executive Committee identified the county’s most-pressing needs: Increasing the graduation rate for high school students and improving the health status of local residents.

Since then, 13 Georgia counties have been Archway Partnership communities. Six have graduated from the program. Seven, including Colquitt, are still active.

In 2009, when the YMCA in Moultrie received a grant to establish the Healthy Colquitt Coalition, UGA’s College of Public Health became involved. The county’s relationship with CPH led to additional grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Georgia Health Alliance.

Colquitt County officially graduated from Archway in 2011. But UGA continued its commitment to the community

with support that included a grant funded through CPH. When that grant ended, the original local funders—Colquitt County, the City of Moultrie, the Colquitt County Board of Education and Colquitt Regional Medical Center— agreed to continue with Archway, each giving $10,000 a year to pay for a part-time Archway professional and cover operations.

When the opportunity arose for each funder to contribute $5,000 more for the Archway professional to work full time, they all agreed, Blalock said.

The Leadership Legends program began with 13 African American eighth grade boys in fall of 2018. As ninth graders this school year, they will be assigned mentors from the community, whose interests are similar to the student’s aspirations. In 10th grade, the program will focus on community engagement in Colquitt County. When the students graduate from the program at the end of 10th grade, they will become mentors for

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MUAs. Of the 159 counties in Georgia, only 13 are not classified as MUAs. The growth in diverse and aging populations, particularly in rural communities and MUAs, has led to an increase in the demand for social workers.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 19.7% increase in social work jobs in Georgia through the year 2022, greater than the 11% growth in the social work profession nationally. Employment of healthcare social workers is projected to grow 17% nationally from 2018 to 2028, much faster than the average for all occupations.

Boyas recognizes the clear demand for those rural communities that lack mental health services and are impacted by various conditions outside of their control—areas where there are not a lot of outlets to address their everyday mental health concerns.

“We hope this program that trains behavioral health, in micro practice in particular, will attract applicants from those areas and will benefit these medically underserved rural communities,” said Boyas.

The degree also develops skills that are

transferable to any setting where relationshipbuilding and improving well-being are important.

“Educators have found it helps them prepare professionally to address the number of social stressors students come to school with and better serve their students,” said Boyas.

“Since it is a terminal practice degree in our field, it is a tough degree to outgrow professionally and can provide individuals with the upward mobility of an MBA.” The degree also can provide professional development opportunities for spouses of military personnel who may be interested in working within military units or with veterans. Sara Skinner, one of the eight faculty members in the program, will be teaching the Introduction to Military Social Work course online.

“It is very possible for military spouses to earn this degree as well as military service members in the National Guard or Reserves,” said Skinner. About one-fourth of veterans live in rural areas.

An important component of graduate

social work education involves field education, or internships, at approved sites such as hospitals or social service agencies. Field experiences blend coursework with real-world experiences and help maximize growth and competency development. Students enrolled in the online program don’t have to be Georgia residents but must be able to serve their field education practica in a Georgia agency.

The MSW faculty have been working closely with UGA’s Office of Online Learning to ensure that the methods they use for online delivery of content are high quality and engaging. The faculty will implement virtual office hours, similar to face-to-face office hours, to make sure they are available to their students for questions and support throughout the program.

The School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, the sole accrediting body for schools of social work in the U.S. The application deadline for admission is Feb. 15. For more information, call 706-452-7946 or email online@uga.edu.

participants in the next Leadership Legends class. The program already is showing positive results.

“When I first started, I didn’t want to speak in public, but now since I’ve been doing it for the last year, it’s going to help me a lot,” said Joseph Stokes, a ninth grader in his second year of Leadership Legends.

“Usually, I’d be scared to do something like this, but now I’m not.”

In addition, Colquitt school officials are considering adding a leadership program to the middle and high schools in the county.

The Youth in Action Leadership Program, created and implemented by the Fanning Institute, has been in the county’s elementary schools since 2015.

Developing a diverse group of leaders is vital to community sustainability, said Matt Bishop, director of the Fanning Institute.

“Today’s community leaders have a responsibility to develop the leaders of tomorrow,” Bishop said.

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Award nomination deadline

Nominations for the 2020 ServiceLearning Teaching Excellence and Service-Learning Research Excellence Awards are due Dec. 6.

The awards recognize faculty for impactful and innovative servicelearning course instruction as well as scholarship and research stemming from academic service-learning work.

Recipients receive a $2,500 faculty development award and are recognized at the faculty awards banquet.

Application packets and award guidelines, as well as a listing of previous winners, are available at https:// servicelearning.uga.edu/faculty-resources/ awards. For questions, contact Paul Matthews, associate director, Office of Service-Learning at 706-542-0892 or pmatthew@uga.edu.

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