UGA Columns Oct. 15, 2018

Periodicals Postage is PAID in Athens, Georgia

Division of Marketing & Communications University of Georgia 286 Oconee Street Suite 200 North Athens, GA 30602-1999

Terry College researcher shows complaining can make workers less hopeful RESEARCH NEWS

3

UGA Opera Theatre performance features highlights from 10 operas Vol. 46, No. 12

October 15, 2018

www.columns.uga.edu

UGA GUIDE

4&5

‘Vibrant hub’: Dundee Cafe on UGA’s Griffin campus dedicated

By Sharon Dowdy sharono@uga.edu

Peter Frey

UGA professor Ted Ross, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Infectious Diseases, has been working on a universal flu vaccine for more than a decade. Clinical trials for one of the vaccines developed by his lab at UGA are planned to begin in 2019.

Fighting the flu UGA researchers developing new class of influenza vaccines

By Eric Rangus

Eric.Rangus@uga.edu

On May 7, 1867, John Hale, the 10th child of Joseph and Elizabeth Hale, was born in Elgin, Georgia, about 20 miles east of Griffin.

John grew up working in the fields and listening to his oldest brother William tell stories of serving in the Civil War. As he grew older, John’s heart was set on attending the University of Georgia, where his second-oldest brother Samuel had earned a law degree.

By 1887, he was at UGA, making the most of his opportunity.

He was elected president of the Demosthenian Literary Society.

He was class poet. And when he graduated with a major in metaphysics and ethics in 1890, he received “the highest honor UGA could bestow.” His was a life brimming with potential.

After a stint teaching, Hale went to medical school and opened a practice in Atlanta. Mixed with professional success, unfortunately, was personal loss. He was twice widowed; his first wife died while giving birth to their fourth child.

But by 1918, joy had returned to his family. He had married Annie Schoeller, and they were expecting their first child together.

In the spring of that year, Hale began seeing patients suffering from a particularly devastating type of influenza. The flu came in waves. The second, most severe, hit Georgia in the autumn of 1918. By that time, the fast-spreading, highly contagious disease had acquired a name—Spanish flu.

Despite the dangers, Hale continued to treat patients. On Oct. 7, he mentioned to his wife that he felt tired. Soon, he had difficulty breathing and dark spots

appeared on his face, telltale symptoms of Spanish flu. Hale knew he was gravely ill, so he quarantined himself, making sure Annie was never in the same room. Instead, his mother-in-law sat with him and made him as comfortable as she could. On Oct. 17, John Hale died. He was 51.

On Oct. 27, Annie gave birth to a healthy baby boy she named Dan. “We weren’t prepared for the pandemic in 1918, and I don’t think we are as prepared for the next one that comes along as we could be, and it will happen,” said Ted Ross, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Infectious Diseases.

One of the country’s leading infectious disease researchers, Ross came to UGA in 2015 to lead its newly established Center for Vaccines and Immunology.

See FLU on page 7

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Campus Kitchen expands service to seniors with boost from systems analysis, design classes

By Leah Moss

leahmoss@uga.edu

When her daughter passed away nearly a decade ago, Rebecca Richardson became the primary caretaker for her three young grandchildren.

The additional mouths to feed strained her already-tight budget. Thankfully for her, Campus Kitchen at UGA was able to help.

“They provide,” Richardson said. “They help out those in need so they can focus on other problems. People have many worries, and Campus Kitchen takes one of

those off our minds.”

The program, established in 2012 by the Office of Service-Learning, serves more than 800 individuals. With the help of students across UGA in servicelearning courses, CKUGA has doubled deliveries: clients receive a grocery bag of food and a familysize meal once a week, rather than every two weeks.

“The issue of hunger among seniors is not going away,” said Shannon Wilder, director of the Office of Service-Learning. “Seniors are a silent majority facing great needs. This is how UGA can address those needs and fill in

the gaps.”

Out of the clients receiving weekly deliveries, 75 percent are grandparents raising grandchildren.

“Grandparents live on limited incomes, and they don’t expect to raise kids at this stage of their life,” said Paige Powell, who directs the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program at the Athens Community Council on Aging.

More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are being raised by grandparents, older siblings and extended family, many who aren’t their legal guardians and therefore See KITCHEN on page 8

Renovation of a 1913 mule barn on the University of Georgia Griffin campus is complete, with a ceremonial ribbon cutting Oct. 4 signifying its new purpose as the Dundee Cafe.

Made possible by a $1 million gift from the Dundee Community Association, the cafe will serve students, employees and visitors as well as keep the memory of Dundee Mills and the historic mule barn alive through historical photos and exhibits.

“The University of Georgia is tremendously grateful to the

Dundee Mills Community Association for this generous gift, which has allowed us to create a vibrant hub on the Griffin campus and further strengthen the connections between UGA-Griffin and the surrounding community,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead.

The mule barn was constructed in 1913 after the previous structure burned to the ground following a lightning strike. The replacement barn was constructed using the slip form concrete method to demonstrate what was then a new construction technique.

During the same time period, across the street from the campus,

See GRIFFIN on page 8

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

U.S. News ranks risk management and insurance program at No. 1

By David Dodson ddodson@uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business is ranked No. 1 for Risk Management and Insurance by U.S. News & World Report and its familiar Best Colleges guide.

U.S. News has ranked specialized fields in business every year since the 1990s, and the Terry College’s Risk Management and Insurance program is perennially ranked as a Top 5 program nationally. The new ranking marked the second time in five years that the Terry College of Business claimed the top spot.

“Our top-ranked program started in 1965, so we have the advantage of a long history, and we are the largest undergraduate program by enrollment in the

U.S.,” said Robert Hoyt, a risk management professor and head of the department of insurance, legal studies and real estate. “But quantity doesn’t mean much without quality. The employers who hire our graduates tell us that they are more advanced in their education and better prepared to do the work that is asked of them and to be leaders within their organizations.

That’s our reputation.”

The U.S. News ranking is the latest among several honors UGA’s Risk Management and Insurance program received this year, Hoyt said.

A.M. Best Co. named UGA a “Top Performer” in Risk Management and Insurance based on a survey of hiring managers and industry professionals. Only three other universities received See RANKING on page 8

HONORS PROGRAM

UGA recognizes 11 undergrads as new CURO Honors Scholars

By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu

The University of Georgia awarded 11 undergraduates from the incoming class of 2018-2019 with its CURO Honors Scholarship, the university’s top undergraduate research scholarship.

UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities promotes faculty-mentored research opportunities for UGA’s undergraduates. Working closely with UGA faculty members, CURO Honors Scholars are able to conduct research in any field of study at the university.

CURO Honors Scholars receive $3,000 in annual funding renewable for up to four years; mentoring and community support; and special seminars, workshops, events and activities.

In addition to the CURO Honors Scholarship, the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities offers a variety of research opportunities to all UGA undergraduate students without regard to major, discipline, GPA or Honors status. These offerings include the CURO Research Assistantship and the CURO Summer Fellowship as well as CURO research courses.

See CURO on page 8

2 Oct. 15, 2018 columns.uga.edu

Commit to Georgia 2018

Why I Give

Name: Joe Broder Position: University ­Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences At UGA: 40 years

Joe Broder

Beneficiary of his gift to the university: Students and Global Programs in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Why he contributes: “To honor my parents by giving back to the university for the ­educational opportunities and extension programs provided to my family. Seven of the eight children in my parent’s family are proud graduates of UGA.”

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.

GRADY COLLEGE

Peabody Media Center will screen Maya Angelou documentary

By Margaret Blanchard mblanch@uga.edu

The Peabody Media Center will host a screening of Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave. Rita Coburn, co-director of the American Masters documentary, will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience immediately after the showing. The event is free and open to the public.

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise was honored with a 2017 Peabody Award.

Coburn, who co-directed the film with Bob Hercules, is an award-winning multimedia writer, director and producer.

Her television work earned three Emmys for the documentaries Curators of Culture, Remembering 47th Street and African Roots American Soil. Her work has also been featured on C-SPAN and The History Channel. She is the owner of RCW Media Productions Inc., a multimedia production company.

In addition to screening her film, Coburn will also meet with media and film students and participate in a Peabody Roundtable Discussion, “The Documentary Renaissance,” at 2:30 p.m. in the Peyton Anderson Forum in the journalism building. This discussion is also free and open to the public.

ODUM SCHOOL OF ECOLOGY ‘Chasing Coral,’ film with UGA ties, wins Emmy Award

By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu

When Chasing Coral was named outstanding nature documentary at the 39th annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards on Oct. 1, UGA ecologist James Porter was among the film’s cast and crew on stage to accept the award. The film, which documents the global decline of coral reefs, features a series of underwater photographs taken by Porter that provide a “before” and “after” glimpse of the coral reefs of Discovery Bay, Jamaica.

The film focuses on the spread of coral bleaching, a phenomenon caused by rising ocean temperatures. When the water becomes too warm for them to tolerate, the symbiotic algae that normally inhabit coral die off, revealing the coral’s bone-white limestone skeletons underneath.

Because corals can’t survive for long without their symbiotic algae, bleaching often leads to coral death.

And although coral reefs make up only 1 percent of the world’s oceans, they are critically important ecologically and economically, according to Porter, an emeritus professor in the UGA Odum School of Ecology.

Porter said he sees his participation in this awardwinning documentary as a logical extension of his devotion to teaching and hopes the documentary’s Emmy win will bring it to the attention of a wider audience.

“Teach students, teach the world,” he said. “We must address and solve environmental problems.”

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

President visits Griffin-Spalding County Archway Partnership

By Baker Owens

baker.owens@uga.edu

University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead learned firsthand recently about the work being done through the UGA Archway Partnership in Griffin-Spalding County, including student-driven design and engineering projects.

UGA Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Jennifer Frum and Vice President for Government Relations Griffin Doyle accompanied Morehead to the meeting with Griffin-Spalding Archway Partnership ­Executive Committee Co-chairs Chuck Copeland and Stephanie ­Windham and UGA Archway ­ Professional Kristen Miller.

Dr. Thomas Hopkins, a member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, also attended the meeting, which highlighted work done by UGA students in the College of Environment and Design and the College of Engineering to address priorities identified by the community.

CED students helped design a 12-mile master trail, created new signage for an industrial park and drafted landscaping plans for the city of Griffin. Students in the College of Engineering followed the CED students, completing the site work for the trail, which has been incorporated into the city’s comprehensive plan. Engineering students also evaluated two potential sites for an aquatic center and developed plans for the center.

Archway Partnership communities often are ideal sites for UGA students’ service projects because those communities already have a strong connection with UGA. During the current

Photo courtesy of the Office of Public Service and Outreach

Pictured from left are Kristen Miller, UGA Archway Partnership professional in GriffinSpalding County; Stephanie Windham, co-chair, Griffin-Spalding County Archway Partnership executive committee; UGA President Jere W. Morehead; Thomas Hopkins, member, University System of Georgia Board of Regents; Chuck Copeland, co-chair, Griffin-Spalding County Archway Partnership executive committee; Rob Gordon, director, UGA Archway Partnership; Griffin Doyle, UGA vice president for government relations; and Jennifer Frum, UGA vice president for public service and outreach.

academic year, 10 percent of UGA engineering students’ capstone projects are situated in Archway Partnership communities.

“These students are a tremendous value to Georgia,” Morehead said during the meeting in Griffin. “I keep hearing that over and over. All of these projects that our students work on tend to be community-based, which is great.”

In addition to projects, community leaders say intergovernmental relations in Spalding County have improved since the partnership began.

Archway-facilitated retreats and leadership training have helped improve cooperation between the county government, development authority, school system and the five cities in Spalding County.

“I feel so proud every time we meet, to see the way the elected officials work together,” said Windham, an attorney in Griffin. “That’s been the high point for me, watching that group together.”

“I don’t think any of this would have happened without Archway,” added Copeland, president of First National Bank in Griffin.

The Archway Partnership is a unit of Public Service and Outreach at UGA. It connects Georgia communities to the full range of higher education resources available at the university to address critical community-identified needs. Griffin-Spalding is one of 13 communities selected for the Archway Partnership since the program began in 2005.

PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Lefty, the loggerhead sea turtle, released back to wild; UGA Aquarium gets new ambassador

By Emily Woodward ewoodward@uga.edu

After spending his first three years at the UGA Aquarium, Lefty the loggerhead sea turtle was released earlier this month into the Wassaw Sound from the shore of the Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge on Skidaway Island, near Savannah.

Lefty hatched on Ossabaw Island in September 2015. The turtle was discovered as a straggler in the nest and given by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to serve as an ambassador sea turtle until he was big and strong enough to return to the wild.

“When we first got Lefty, we ­immediately noticed that he was having trouble using his left front flipper,” said Devin Dumont, head curator at the UGA Aquarium on Skidaway Island.

That, and the fact that the hatchling was left behind in the nest, inspired his name.

For three years, the charismatic sea turtle helped educate thousands of visitors to the UGA Aquarium about the importance of the Georgia coast to nesting sea turtles.

“Looking at a photo of a sea turtle or listening to someone talk about them doesn’t have the same impact as watching a live animal swim in the tank,” said Lisa Olenderski, aquarium curator and educator at UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant.

“People are always amazed by how graceful they are in the water or how

Photo courtesy of the Office of Public Service and Outreach

Lisa Olenderski, aquarium curator and educator at UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, and Devin Dumont, head curator at the UGA Aquarium on Skidaway Island, prepare to release Lefty, the loggerhead sea turtle, into the Wassaw Sound.

agile they are when going after blue crabs. Seeing them in person helps establish that connection and leaves a lasting impression.”

Lefty also helped advance scientific research by serving as a study subject in a project by researchers at Savannah State University that focused on improving environmental enrichment for loggerheads in captivity.

Undergraduate students at Savannah State University assisted with the study, conducting behavior analysis experiments designed to test whether sea turtles showed color preference among blue, green, orange and yellow objects.

While preparing Lefty for release, the aquarium staff fed him live food, such as blue crabs and mussels, so he could practice active foraging and hunting. With DNR’s approval, the director of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on J­ekyll Island attached

number coded tags and a passive integrated t­ ransmitter to Lefty before the release. Both can be used to identify Lefty in the future.

On Wassaw, Dumont and Olenderski carried Lefty to the surf and gave him some gentle nudges before he swam into the water and disappeared.

Back at the aquarium, Neptune, a new straggler hatchling discovered by DNR in August, made its public debut on Sept. 22 at Estuary Extravaganza, an event celebrating National Estuaries Week at the UGA Aquarium.

Four species of sea turtles nest along the Georgia coast. While loggerheads are the most common, they are listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Georgia DNR. After almost 40 years of conservation efforts at the federal and state level, DNR reports nesting numbers on the Georgia coast have been increasing dramatically over the last several years.

RESEARCH NEWS

columns.uga.edu Oct. 15, 2018

3

Digest School of Law to present ‘Hidden Legal Figures’ panel discussion on Oct. 16

Andrew Davis Tucker

Jessica Rodell, an associate professor of management in UGA’s Terry College of Business, and her co-authors found that moving past an unfair incident is ultimately about managing an emotional response.

Workplace anger

Terry College of Business research shows complaining can make workers less hopeful

By Matt Weeks

mweeks@uga.edu

Venting about unfair situations at work may do more harm than good, according to a new University of Georgia study.

The research, co-authored by Jessica Rodell and published in the Academy of Management Journal, found that water cooler chitchat about a supervisor’s unfair treatment leaves workers feeling angrier and less hopeful. They also become less likely to forgive supervisors and move past the incident.

“We normally think of listening as a good thing—and it usually is. But simply listening can reinforce a negative view of an event and cause people to ruminate longer on a bad experience,” said Rodell, an associate professor of management in UGA’s Terry College of Business. “So instead of moving past it, the experience becomes something that people relive again and again.”

A better solution is for listening

c­o-workers to reframe the unfair incident, which can defuse emotional reactions, Rodell said. The researchers found that, by seeing the perceived unfairness in a new light, workers reported feeling calmer about the incident and more hopeful about the future.

Importantly, whether or not the incident was unfair doesn’t matter as much as the workers’ perception that they were treated that way. Moving past an unfair incident is ultimately about managing an emotional response, Rodell said.

First, the researchers surveyed bus drivers, asking them about unfair experiences, talking with co-workers and their attitudes about the job. Results from the surveys revealed how drivers who talked about unfair incidents tended to be angrier about their jobs and their prospects for a better future.

The researchers also studied unfair incidents in a lab setting, where pairs of friends were invited to participate in a study with potential for a reward.

The friends were split up, with one being subjected to tests with deliberately unfair conditions, such as the tester stopping the exercise early and marking right answers as incorrect.

The other friend was trained to either help reframe their friend’s situation (or purposefully not reframe the situation).

Friends whose unfair experience had been reframed reported fewer negative feelings toward the testers and were much more likely to help clean the area.

“When people talk about emotional experiences, those emotions come to the forefront,” Rodell said. “What the results show is that this uncontrolled venting can really be harmful not only for our sense of the past, but it can dim our hope for the future as well.”

Research co-authors include Michael Baer of Arizona State University, Rashpal Dhensa-Kahlon of the University of Surrey, Ryan Outlaw of Indiana University, and Jason Colquitt, Kate Zipay and Rachell Burgess of UGA.

COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Researchers developing vaccine for ‘traveler’s diarrhea’

By Lauren Baggett lbaggett@uga.edu

Every year, millions of people have vacations and business trips ruined when they succumb to “traveler’s diarrhea” during their journeys.

A major cause of traveler’s diarrhea is bacteria called Enterotoxigenic E. coli, or ETEC. A joint effort between the University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Austin has discovered how ETEC works to cause disease. They are using this information in an effort to develop a preventive vaccine for travelers.

The researchers, led by UGA’s Dr. Stephen Trent, a professor in the infectious diseases department, teamed up with the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health to study samples taken directly from citizens who volunteered to become infected with ETEC. “If we can understand how ETEC causes disease, we can develop new

v­ accines to prevent infections,” Trent said.

Ingesting contaminated food or water can lead to ETEC infection, which can cause diarrhea for up to a week. Considering the fact that up to 200 million people become infected annually, an estimated 1 billion days of human productivity are lost every year due to ETEC infections.

Visiting the doctor to get vaccinated before a trip can prevent travelers from catching a disease. Unfortunately, there are no available vaccines to prevent ETEC infections, so travelers must constantly be concerned about what they eat and drink while on vacation.

The group examined how ETEC behaved inside humans during infection compared to how it behaved in the laboratory. They were surprised to find that ETEC produced more toxins when grown in the laboratory than it did in human infection samples. Bewildered, the researchers sought to figure out why. They discovered that ETEC could sense oxygen in the atmosphere, and

that controlled the amount of toxins produced by ETEC. This explained their surprising data: There is more oxygen in the atmosphere than there is in the digestive tract, which resulted in the differing levels of toxin expression.

This breakthrough gives researchers hope that they have identified the “cue” that ETEC uses to determine when to make toxins that cause disease.

How ETEC causes disease via toxins has been studied exhaustively for decades. Previous groups have identified numerous factors that contribute to toxin production in ETEC, but this is the first time oxygen has been identified as a major player in ETEC virulence.

“We think ETEC can sense the oxygen given off by our own cells as a cue to produce toxins,” said Alex Crofts, lead author and University of Texas graduate student.

The group now hopes to use this oxygen-sensitive ETEC response against the bacteria to prevent ­infections.

The UGA School of Law will present the latest installment of its “Hidden Legal Figures: Conversations with the Unsung” series Oct. 16 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Open to all members of the law school community and the general public, the program will be held in the law school’s rotunda and Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom.

According to the program’s organizers, Northeast Georgia is home to several people who, each in their own way, were pioneers in the civil rights movement. The Oct. 16 program will be a panel discussion with groundbreaking attorneys Ken Dious, Barbara Geter, John Mell Clark and Willie Woodruff.

The program will be moderated by AthensClarke County Chief Magistrate Judge Patricia Barron and DeShon Dixon, UGA law student leader and vice chair of the Davenport-Benham Black Law Student Association. Together they will conduct a focused conversation on “Memories, Milestones and Mentorship” with the panelists.

The program is part of the State Bar of Georgia Arc of Justice Project, which seeks to recognize the historic role of the legal profession in the civil and human rights movement.

Saturday Morning Club to open Oct. 20

UGA Presents will offer four Saturday Morning Club events during the 2018-2019 season.

Designed for children ages 4-12, the Saturday Morning Club features performances

by UGA student ensembles and other young performers. Open free to the public, all performances begin at 10 a.m.

The Saturday Morning Club kicks off the season with a Harry Potter-themed performance Oct. 20. The UGA Wind Symphony, under the direction of Jaclyn Hartenberger, will perform music from the films in the Harry Potter series.

As part of the university’s Spotlight on the Arts festival, the UGA Theatre will perform Nov. 3.

On Feb. 9, the UGA Core Contemporary and Aerial Dance will perform in the New Dance Theatre, which is at 262 W. Green St. The season will conclude March 23 with a performance of music from Star Wars by the UGA Wind Symphony.

For more information, call the Performing Arts Center at 706-542-4400 or visit pac.uga.edu.

New PSO regional partnerships to help address rural health care needs

The Carl Vinson Institute of Government, a public service and outreach unit, has launched two regional partnerships in south Georgia to address the growing need for health care workers in rural communities.

WorkSource Southern Georgia, which includes 18 counties, and WorkSource Southwest Georgia, with 14 counties, bring employers, educators, government agencies and potential employees together in a targeted approach to meeting the human capital needs of the communities. The two regional sector partnerships are funded by the Governors High Demand Career Initiative grants through the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Workforce Division. Counties in WorkSource Southern Georgia include Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Tift, Turner and Ware. Counties in WorkSource Southwest Georgia include Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas and Worth.

PERIODICALS POSTAGE STATEMENT Columns (USPS 020-024) is published weekly during the academic year and

biweekly during the summer for the faculty and staff of the University of Georgia by the Division of Marketing & Communications. Periodicals postage is paid in Athens, Georgia. Postmaster: Send off-campus address changes to Columns, UGA Marketing & Communications, 286 Oconee Street, Suite 200 North, Athens, GA 30602-1999.

For a complete listing of events at the University of Georgia, check the Master Calendar on the web (calendar.uga.edu/­).

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

Dates, times and locations may change without advance notice.

EXHIBITIONS

UGAGUIDE

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

Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Through May 10. Rotunda, special collections libraries.

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

TUESDAY, OCT. 16 ECOLOGY SEMINAR Patricia Yager, professor, School of Marine Programs. Host: Jackie Mohan. Reception follows seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building.

706-542-2968. bethgav@uga.edu.

READING The doctoral students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia will present a reading by poet Ronaldo Wilson. This event is made possible with support from The Georgia Review. Wilson is the author of the cross-genre collection Farther Traveler (Counterpath Press, 2015); Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Wilson is an associate professor in the literature department and creative writing program at UC Santa Cruz. 7 p.m. Cine. 706-542-2659. cwp@uga.edu.

FILM SCREENING The Peabody Media Center will host a screening of Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Rita Coburn, co-director of the American Masters documentary, will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience immediately after the showing.

Additional UGA sponsors include the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the theatre and film studies department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the entertainment and media studies department in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 7:30 p.m. Cine. 706-542-2902. mblanch@uga.edu. (See story, page 2.)

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17 WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE For fall semester.

TERRY LEADERSHIP SPEAKER SERIES Speaker Maria Taylor is in her sixth season as an analyst, host and reporter for ESPN. The Terry Leadership Speaker Series presented by the Institute for Leadership Advancement brings well-known leaders from a variety of organizations to share their unique leadership styles and experiences with students.

10:10 a.m. Chapel. 706-542-7990. leadership@terry.uga.edu.

TOUR AT TWO Join Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art and the exhibition, for a special tour of the exhibition Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

RESEARCH ORIENTATION FOR FACULTY The Office of Research invites faculty to the annual research orientation, an opportunity to learn about research resources, programs and facilities, and to meet with Office of Research staff. This information session will be immediately followed by refreshments and the annual “Core Crawl” in the adjacent Coverdell lobby. Faculty may attend in person at 175 Coverdell (check-in desk will open at 2:15 p.m.) or via remote connection at GoTo Meeting (connection details to be sent directly to participants registered for this option). Refreshments will be served. 2:30 p.m. 706-542-4582. alexaspley1@uga.edu.

CORE CRAWL 2018 Faculty, postdocs and graduate students are invited to learn about state-of-the-art equipment and services, from NMR spectrometers to genome assembly, available to university and industry researchers. Free food and drink. 3 p.m. Lobby, Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.

706-542-5927. christy5@uga.edu.

Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir to perform in Hodgson Concert Hall Oct. 23

By Camille Hayes ceh822@uga.edu

The University of Georgia Opera Theatre will present a gala concert of highlights from 10 different operas by the greatest composers of Bel Canto era music, including Donizetti, Rossini and Bellini.

The performances will take place Oct. 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The era of Bel Canto, which translates to “beautiful singing,” was a style of singing and composing from the early decades of the 19th century. This style of singing and music is still a primary focus of opera companies worldwide.

The concert will be a major collaboration of three large School of Music organizations: the UGA Opera Theatre, the UGA Symphony Orchestra and the Hodgson Singers. There will be 12 soloists singing arias, duets, quartets, quintets and ensembles of some of the era’s music. The decision to choose this program, according to Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor in the Arts, was to offer “our student singers the opportunity to learn and perform these great operas and the style of singing and to bring to our audiences this ‘sample platter’ of operas that our limited resources and facilities prevents us from offering as complete operas.

“The Opera Theatre wishes to bring to Athens the widest variety of music to inspire the listener to learn more about this era as we did last year with the Viva Verdi Gala, where nine different

Verdi operas were presented,” said Burchinal.

The opera department, which includes international opera coach Kathryn Wright, decided on the Bel Canto era of music for the October opera because of its focus on the singers’ skills and technical prowess above all. The singers of the time were able to “show off” their abilities with long dramatic cadenzas, an abundance of upper range notes, long legato phrases, rapid fire runs, extended trills and embellishments and extreme dynamic contrasts.

Burchinal came to UGA in 2006 while continuing his international career, along with continuing performances with the Metropolitan Opera as a leading baritone.

“I came to UGA to pass on the legacy, skills and love of opera to all the hopeful singers who wish to have the same amazing experiences that I enjoyed during my career,” he said.

He has succeeded in building an opera program at UGA that assists students in obtaining the skills needed to pursue their own careers.

The UGA Opera Theatre program continues to provide opportunities for the Athens community to enjoy opera performances.

Tickets for the performance are $20 for adults and $6 for students and can be purchased by calling 706-542-4400, online by visiting pac.uga.edu or by visiting the Performing Arts Center box office.

For those unable to attend, the opera performance will be streamed on the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s website at music.uga. UGA Opera Theatre’s next concert features highlights from edu/live-streaming. composers of the Bel Canto era.

PANEL DISCUSSION Panel discussion on affordable housing issues sponsored by HGOR. 4 p.m. 123 Jackson Street Building.

THURSDAY, OCT. 18 MEN’S TENNIS Through Oct. 22. ITA Regionals. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

CONFERENCE The State of the Public’s Health Conference focuses on meaningful, constructive dialogue and practical solutions for Georgia’s public health challenges. Registration required. $50.

8:30 a.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. lmoak@uga.edu.

PHARMTOBERFEST Pharmtoberfest is an annual event hosted by APhA-ASP through the College of Pharmacy in recognition of October as American Pharmacists Month. Free screenings for blood pressure, blood sugar and BMI will be available to students and faculty. Flu shots will be available through the University Health Center.

Noon. D.W. Brooks Mall. cls51408@uga.edu.

BOOK SIGNING AND TALK Public health luminary Dr. William Foege will give a special keynote address at the 2018 State of the Public’s Health Conference. Foege’s talk will trace the history of modern public health and his contributions to the field to deliver the “essentials for good public health programs.” 3:30 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel. lbaggett@uga.edu.

GREGORY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Speaker: Andrea Wulf, New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World.

4 p.m. Chapel. 706 542-2053. history@uga.edu.

LECTURE “Oh Say Can You See: American Art, Propaganda and the First World War,” David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University and Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Collection of Murray and Ann Blum. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir to Athens Oct. 23 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The world-renowned ensemble is touring the U.S. at the request of the Czech embassy in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czech state.

The Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir was created in 1932 by Jan Kuhn, a distinguished singer, director and choirmaster. Originally founded for the needs of the Czech Radio in Prague, the choir gained popularity and, in 1952, became part of the Czech Philharmonic, remaining so for 40 years.

During its 86-year history, the choir has toured extensively, performing throughout Europe, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Among the choir’s greatest achievements are appearances at

La Scala in Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria.

The Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir has won numerous international awards, most notably the European Grand Prix in 1998 and a world record three wins at the Tolosa Choral Competition in Spain.

Tickets for the concert, which start at $20, can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $6 to $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

A pre-performance talk will be given by Theresa Chafin, a graduate music student at the University of Georgia. The talk begins at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

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

Calendar items are taken from Columns files and from the university’s Master Calendar, maintained by Marketing & Communications. Notices are published here as space permits, with priority given to items of multidisciplinary interest. The Master Calendar is available at calendar.uga.edu/.

4&5

UGA Opera Theatre to present October concert

RECEPTION The Disability Resource Center’s annual Faculty and Student Recognition Reception honors a faculty member and recipients of DRC scholarships. 3 p.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center.

The Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir takes the Hodgson Concert Hall stage at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23.

columns.uga.edu Oct. 15, 2018

YOGA 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.

300 DigiLab, Main Library. digi@uga.edu.

CONVERSATION Join artist Richard Hunt for a public conversation about his work with Shawnya Harris, the art museum’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art. 4:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. hazbrown@uga.edu.

LECTURE “Rome: Engineering an Empire,” Jordan Pickett, UGA classics department. Reception to follow. 5 p.m. 125 Jackson Street Building. 706-542-8392. ebianche@uga.edu.

90 CARLTON: AUTUMN 2018 The Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art present a reception featuring the autumn exhibitions. Enjoy light refreshments, gallery activities, door prizes and “Ask the Experts” from 7-8 p.m. Event partners include Athens Printing Company, Barron’s Rental Center, Epting Events and Guide2Athens. RSVP to gmoarsvp@uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4199. $5; free for members. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20 INTERDISCIPLINARY OPIOID EPIDEMIC SYMPOSIUM UGA will come together as an interdisciplinary group to share research and scholarship by UGA faculty, staff and students that will help address critical issues relating to opioid abuse and addiction. It is intended that the Interdisciplinary Opioid Epidemic Symposium discussions will become the basis for policy briefs, white papers and scholarly articles intended for use by policymakers at the state and federal levels, health care providers and other key stakeholders in addressing this national issue. Miller Learning Center. jessica.atkinson@uga.edu.

CLASS “Grow Your Own Prairie in North Georgia” will teach participants the basics of creating a prairie on their property, including site analysis, species selection and habitat management. $50, general admission; $45, Friends of the Garden. 9 a.m. Visitor Center, classroom 2, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156. cscamero@uga.edu.

SUNDAY, OCT. 21 ATHHALF HALF MARATHON The half-marathon will be run through downtown Athens and UGA Greek Life facilities and end at Sanford Stadium. 7:30 a.m.

706-548-1973. director@athfesteducates.org.

CONCERT The Athens Flute Choir performs. 2 p.m. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6138. lpbryant@uga.edu.

SOCCER vs. Alabama. 2 p.m. Turner Soccer Complex.

COMING UP

FRIDAY, OCT. 19 LECTURE “What is Southern Futurism: Reimagine Automation through DIY Hacktivism and Open-sourced Distribution Methods,” Xin Xin, women’s studies and art. Part of the Women’s Studies Friday Speaker Series. 12:20 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center.

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

DIGILAB COLLOQUIUM Scott Reynolds Nelson will talk about using Word files and digital folders to manage document workflow for large research projects. Topics will include the flow-documents, place-keepers and writing diaries that help a writer maintain focus. He also will discuss using machine-learning tools to improve scholarly serendipity. Nelson has written four prize-winning books, including Steel-Driving Man and Nation of Deadbeats. 4 p.m.

ISSUES IN INFORMATION SEMINAR Oct. 22. “The Rise of the Gig Economy: How Technology is Influencing Work,” Andrew J. Herod, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Herod also has an adjunct professorship in international affairs and anthropology and serves as a county commissioner for Athens-Clarke County. 5:30 p.m. 214 Miller Learning Center.

706-542-0703. ithomas@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR Oct. 23. “Why Bite the Hand That Feeds You? The Evolution of Virulence in a Songbird Disease System,” Dana Hawley, associate professor, biological sciences department, Virginia Tech.

Host: Odum Graduate Student Association. Reception follows at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-2968. bethgav@uga.edu.

TO SUBMIT A LISTING FOR THE MASTER CALENDAR AND COLUMNS Post event information first to the Master Calendar website (calendar.uga.edu/). Listings for Columns are taken from the Master Calendar 12 days before the publication date.

Events not posted by then may not be printed in Columns.

Any additional information about the event may be sent directly to Columns. Email is preferred (columns@uga.edu), but materials can be mailed to Columns, Marketing & Communications, 286 Oconee Street, Suite 200 North, Campus Mail 1999.

The Emerson String Quartet will join Shai Wosner and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for a 7:30 p.m. concert Oct. 22 at Hodgson Concert Hall.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play works by Mozart, Dvorak

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center back to Athens Oct. 22 for a 7:30 p.m. performance in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The concert will feature the Emerson String Quartet and pianist Shai Wosner performing Mozart’s Quartet in E-flat Major for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello and William Bolcom’s Quintet No. 1 for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello. The program concludes with Dvorak’s final quartet, the Quartet in G Major for Strings.

The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its stature as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for more than four decades.

The quartet’s extensive discography of more than 30 recordings has been honored with nine Grammy Awards, including two for best classical album, and three Gramophone Awards. Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the quartet takes its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Wosner was born in Israel and studied piano at the Juilliard School with Emanuel Ax. He is a recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Wosner has appeared with leading orchestras around the world including the Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Barcelona, Bournemouth, Frankfurt Radio and Gothenburg symphonies and the Staatskapelle Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic.

The Athens concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today.

A pre-performance talk will be given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Patrick Castillo. The talk begins at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

Tickets for the concert, which start at $35, can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of tickets are available to current UGA students for $6 to $10 with a valid UGA ID (one ticket per student).

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

NEXT COLUMNS DEADLINES Oct. 17 (for Oct. 29 issue) Oct. 24 (for Nov. 5 issue) Oct. 31 (for Nov. 12 issue)

6 Oct. 15, 2018 columns.uga.edu

FACULTY PROFILE

Backseat sensors

Castle Williams, a doctoral student in the geography department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted on a Weather Channel program about children dying in hot cars in 2018.

According to the website No Heat Stroke, 48 children have died after being locked in hot cars so far in 2018. Since 1998, 791 vehicular heat stroke deaths have occurred in the U.S. Since 1998, this tragedy has happened an average of 37 times per year, and while some are working to prevent this tragedy, the trend in deaths has not decreased.

Williams, who has studied these tragedies, has found that some backseat sensors are too sensitive, causing the driver to ignore them more and more over time.

“Luckily, there are some other devices that stand alone that you can purchase that help remind that your child is in the back seat, but a lot of people... were not interested in purchasing those because they felt like they would be too difficult to set up and handle,” he said.

Plastic waste

Jenna Jambeck, an associate professor in UGA’s College of Engineering, was quoted in USA Today about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Almost all of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from countries around the Pacific Rim. The Ocean Cleanup Project is sending out a giant floating trash collector to try and scoop it up, and the first of its cleanup systems launched Sept. 8 near San Francisco. The patch includes about 1.8 trillion pieces of trash and weighs 88,000 tons.

According to a 2015 study, the top six countries ocean garbage were from were China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with the U.S. contributing 242 million pounds of plastic trash to the ocean per year. China recently banned the import of most plastic waste, and nearly 4,000 shipping containers full of plastic recyclables had been shipped to Chinese recycling plants from the U.S. “It’s hard to predict what will happen to the plastic waste that was once destined for Chinese processing facilities,” said Jambeck, who conducts research and teaches environmental engineering with a focus on solid waste. “Some of it could be diverted to other countries, but most of them lack the infrastructure to manage their own waste let alone the waste produced by the rest of the world. Most plastics don’t biodegrade in any meaningful sense, so the plastic waste humans have generated could be with us for hundreds or even thousands of years.”

Chicken supplement

Todd Applegate, head of the poultry science department at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was quoted in The Atlantic about chicken without antibiotics.

For decades, farmers have used low doses of human antibiotics to fatten their chickens. In the past few years—with evidence linking antibiotics on animal farms to drug resistance in humans—poultry producers and restaurant chains have pledged to limit antibiotics in their chickens. The shift has farmers scrambling to break their reliance on antibiotics and find new ways to help their birds grow. Scientists at the Danish company Novozymes recently found that an enzyme in pigsty fungus helps clear dead cells in chickens’ guts. The enzyme, which the company and its animal-nutrition partner DSM are calling Balancius, allows the birds to absorb more nutrition from food. Balancius is the latest in a category of products that have gained popularity since the phasing out of antibiotics.

“It is tough,” said Applegate, whose areas of expertise are poultry nutrition and intestinal physiology. For farmers, antibiotics were a wonder supplement, and the new products just “don’t have the same range of functions that the antibiotics convey.”

Dorothy Kozlowski

Susan Fagan has worked with her students to develop a model of the progressive memory loss that occurs following a stroke.

Assistant dean continues to pursue treatment of stroke through research

By Mickey Y. Montevideo mickeym@uga.edu

Susan Fagan has dedicated her life’s work to the treatment of stroke. Her commitment to scholarship, teaching and research of this significant health concern has earned her such prestigious titles as Distinguished Research Professor, the Albert W. Jowdy Professor and assistant dean at UGA’s College of Pharmacy’s campus in Augusta.

Sharing her enthusiasm for her research with students and colleagues is much more important than titles for this faculty member, however, who has been at UGA since 1999.

To appreciate Fagan’s passion for stroke, which is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S., it is important to understand the causes and consequences of this disease. A stroke is a brain attack that occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is cut off. When this happens, brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die. When brain cells die during a stroke, abilities controlled by that area of the brain, such as memory and muscle control, are lost. People who experience a stroke may only have minor problems, such as temporary weakness of an arm or leg, but others may be permanently paralyzed on one side of their body, lose their ability to speak or suffer memory loss and dementia.While some people may recover from a stroke, more

than two-thirds of survivors will have some type of disability. In fact, stroke is the leading cause of adult disability in the U.S., according to the National Stroke Association, which also reports that almost 800,000 people in the U.S. experience a new or recurrent stroke each year.

“Research has helped us to discover acute treatment modalities that allow us to reduce the disability due to stroke,” said Fagan. “In my lab, I work with graduate students, professional pharmacy students and residents to develop pharmacotherapies that will improve stroke outcomes, by regeneration of blood vessels for improved blood flow and protecting the vascular system following strokes.”

It is her most recent research for which she currently is most excited.

Working with students in her research laboratory, Fagan has developed a model of the progressive memory loss that occurs following a stroke. Using C21, a drug compound from Sweden, the team has been successful in preventing cognitive impairment following stroke in laboratory rats without the harmful side effects of low blood pressure found in other similar drugs. Fagan hopes that her work can be translated to human models in the near future.

She has published three new studies this year related to this work, and she just received a five-year, $2 million

FACTS

Susan Fagan Assistant Dean, Augusta University Program College of Pharmacy Fellowship, Neuropharmacy, Dent Neurologic Institute, 1986 Pharm.D., Pharmacy, State University of New York, 1984 BSc, Pharmacy, Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, 1980 At UGA: 19 years

National Institutes of Health grant in collaboration with her colleague Adviye Ergul in Augusta University’s physiology department, to continue this work.

A staunch advocate for graduate and undergraduate students alike, Fagan has received numerous awards and accolades for her research expertise, and she has more than 200 professional publications. Along with her research, Fagan is committed to teaching tomorrow’s pharmacists with a valuable philosophy.

“I encourage my students to practice as a valued member of the interprofessional team, which will ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes,” Fagan said.

UGA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Bauerle, head swimming and diving coach, nominated for Golden Goggle National Coach of Year Award

Jack Bauerle, the Tom Cousins Swimming and Diving Head Coach at UGA, has been nominated for a Golden Goggle National Coach of the Year Award by USA Swimming.

Bauerle guided five swimmers to the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships: Hali Flickinger, Chase Kalisz, Jay Litherland, Melanie Margalis and Olivia Smoliga. He also coached the group to four victories at the 2018 Phillips 66 Nationals, where Flickinger shattered a 37-year record in the 200-meter butterfly.

Eleven current and former athletes coached by Bauerle at Georgia were also named to the U.S. National Team.

Bauerle’s resume also includes

coaching appointments for various Olympics— highlighted by the head coaching position for the 2008 Games World Championships, Pan Pacific Championships, Jack Bauerle U. S . N a t i o n a l Team Camps and several other international events.

In the Coach of the Year category alongside Bauerle are Cal’s Dave Durden (men), UC San Diego’s David Marsh, Cal’s Teri McKeever (women) and Stanford’s Greg Meehan.

Former UGA swimmer Chase

Kalisz is also nominated for Male Athlete of the Year and Male Race of the Year for his 200-meter individual medley victory at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, where he swam the fastest time in the world this year. The race was just one part of his pair of IM sweeps in Tokyo and in Irvine at the Phillips 66 Nationals.

The award nominations are based on the year’s top accomplishments by U.S. swimmers, focusing primarily on August’s 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, where the U.S. team topped the medal count with 45 total.

The final Golden Goggle Award will rely on a percentage of the fan vote, which is open online through Nov. 9 at http://www.gado.gs/f.3.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

‘Disability Wellness’

Class benefits students and disabled community members

By Kristen Morales kmorales@uga.edu

Matthew Dooley is not a fan of his wheelchair. It’s where he starts his days and ends them. It’s how he gets to his job, where he plays video games and even works out.

Except on Wednesday afternoons, when Dooley, 24, gets to straighten his legs, strap on a purple harness and go for a walk.

“It’s incredible,” said Dooley of the experience, which is part of a class taught by the University of Georgia College of Education. In it, community members with disabilities are paired with students who work with them to achieve physical goals.

For some, this means gaining upper or lower body strength.

For others, like Dooley, it’s losing some weight.

The class is also an opportunity for pre-health students to gain hands-on experience working with clients, said Kevin McCully, professor in the department of kinesiology who started the class six years ago with eight students and five community members. This fall, the class has its highest numbers yet— 43 UGA students and 33 community members.

A model for other programs

The class has been so successful that McCully now wants to use it as a model that can be replicated at other colleges and universities around Georgia. It’s a mutually beneficial opportunity, he said.

“There are hundreds of universities, and each one has dedicated pre-health students who want to learn, and every community has people with unmet physical needs—there is a demand everywhere,” he said. “Every university in the country should be serving this population.”

At the start of each semester, small groups of students are paired with a client to discuss his or her goals. Then, working with McCully, the students devise a set of exercises to help them on that path. Throughout the semester they are supervised and McCully checks in to troubleshoot, but along the way students learn leadership skills and gain exercise and physical therapy experience.

While UGA students have access to a pool, modified exercise equipment and a special treadmill attachment that supports a person’s weight—which allows clients like Dooley to walk—all a college or department really needs to start a similar class is some community outreach and a space to do exercises.

For students like Rosemary Peters, 19, a junior psychology major, the class underlines what she wants out of her career.

It also satisfies one of the requirements toward her disability studies certificate.

“I want to be an occupational therapist, so this is pretty much what I want to do with the rest of my life,” she said during a recent afternoon workout with Dooley.This is her first semester taking the class, but she and Dooley already have developed a rapport—she levies challenges (and occasional friendly bets) to push him a little harder in his workouts.

On that day, for example, Peters and other students encouraged Dooley with an incentive: If he met his workout goal, Peters agreed to shave off some of her long hair. Workouts for Dooley, who has cerebal palsy, take on an extra degree of intensity; every movement requires extra concentration and spurs other involuntary movements throughout his body. But as he finished his 100th lap pull-down, Peters admitted defeat. She

Matthew Dooley works with UGA students during a weekly therapy session.

sectioned off part of her long hair to show Dooley what he won and made plans to FaceTime him from the salon.

Incorporating Destination Dawgs

This year, the class took on another dimension by incorporating members of the Destination Dawgs program. This inclusive program takes students with intellectual disabilities through a series of classes that develop leadership, independence and career-readiness.

Because many Destination Dawgs students want to work in fields related to occupational or physical therapy, said McCully, the class is a natural fit for their career experience.

“They can take the class and assist someone leading a group,” he added. “So, they get some leadership experience—and it’s also fun.”

Justin Mejias is one of four Destination Dawgs in this semester’s class. After just a few weeks of classes, he’s now assisting clients as they move through exercises. “I thought it would be a new experience. I am studying music therapy, and I’m going to get certified in sign language,” said Mejias. “Here, I learn about different disabilities through the different clients who come in.”

Peters came to know Mejias last semester when she served as his mentor, and they decided to take the class together and both learn skills they can use beyond graduation.

Another member of the student team working with Dooley is Megan Leith, a second-year human development and family science major. Her goal is to be a nurse, and the Disability Wellness class gives her invaluable real-world experience.While she said she had other options for experiential learning—for example, working in area care facilities or nursing homes—this class offers a range of ages, genders and disabilities.

“Future nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants and physical therapists gain a lot of patient care experience with this class,” she said. “And social interaction is huge in regard to helping them develop more.”

This semester she’s learning more about patient care and gaining hands-on experience in a class that excites her about her future career. “I did this second semester last year, and it was probably the best class I have ever taken.”

WEEKLY READER

columns.uga.edu Oct. 15, 2018

FLU

from page 1

For more than a decade, Ross has fought influenza. The virus, however, is a particularly tricky adversary.

Polio and smallpox—diseases that vaccines effectively eradicated—have limited or no variety of strains. Influenza has many, and they are constantly evolving.

Often, by the time a vaccine is manufactured to tackle a particular strain, it has already mutated, dramatically decreasing the effectiveness of the treatment. That’s what happened in the 2017-18 flu season, a particularly vicious one that saw more than 25,000 flu-related hospitalizations in the U.S. “What we need to do is target the major subtypes of influenza and come up with a vaccine that recognizes multiple versions,” Ross said. “It may take more than one type of vaccine, but at least we would be broadly protected against the viruses that have shown pandemic potential.”

A century later, historians still don’t know how many people died from Spanish flu. Even the best estimate is so large that it lacks context: at least 50 million. The only comparable pandemic is the Black Death of the Middle Ages.

Spanish flu was worse.

The dreadful conditions faced by soldiers fighting World War I surely added to the death toll, but the front lines in Europe were not where most died from flu. Some rural areas in less-developed nations and colonies lost so many people to the flu they became impossible to count.

So they never were. That underestimation has only recently been explored, leading some researchers to raise the number of flu casualties to an almost incomprehensible 100 million.

Even though there is compelling evidence that the flu started on an army base in Kansas, the U.S. wasn’t hit as hard as other parts of the world. Still, 675,000 Americans died from the flu. In places like Russia and China, that figure was likely 20 times higher. Maybe more.

Some 30,000 Georgians died from the flu, but that was less than other areas of the country. The autumn 1918 wave of Spanish flu began in early October at Camp Hancock near Augusta. Military trains brought the virus to camps near Atlanta, Macon and Columbus before it spread to the cities themselves. At least 800 Atlantans died during the ensuing pandemic, which didn’t fully subside until early 1919. During its worst days, the city did what it could to stop the spread of the disease, and the local government’s bold action surely saved thousands of lives.

Atlanta banned public gatherings, including church services. UGA did its part, too, canceling classes for three weeks until the worst of the wave had passed.

For more than a decade, Ross has been working on what’s been termed a “universal vaccine” for flu. That makes for easy shorthand, but Ross is quick to clarify that even if a vaccine can be discovered to wipe out influenza, it wouldn’t be a single compound that’s injected into everyone.

Instead, a future flu vaccine likely would be a collection of vaccines. The specific type would be given to patients based on a variety of factors including geography, age, medical history and other criteria. That’s why, instead of “universal,” Ross prefers the term “broadly protected.”

He’s had some success, and he’s aiming for more.

Editor’s note: This is a portion of a story that appears in the fall 2018 issue of Georgia Magazine. For a full version of this story, visit news.uga.edu.

CYBERSIGHTS

ABOUT COLUMNS

Book explores North American villages

The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America Edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson University Press of Florida Hardcover: $80

The emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations in every part of the world where such communities formed.

Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America explores the development of villages in eastern North America from the Late Archaic period to the 18th century. The volume is edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor Thompson, faculty members in the anthropology department of UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

Sites analyzed here include the Kolomoki village in Georgia, Mississippian communities in Tennessee, palisaded villages in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia and Iroquoian settlements in New York and Ontario.

Highlighting the similarities and differences in the histories of village formation in the region, these essays trace the processes of negotiation, cooperation and competition that arose as part of village life and changed societies.

Columns is available to the community by ­subscription for an annual fee of $20 (second-class delivery) or $40 (first-class delivery). Faculty and staff members with a disability may call 706-542-8017 for assistance in obtaining this publication in an alternate format.

Columns staff can be reached at 706-542-8017 or columns@uga.edu

Editor Juliett Dinkins

Updated annual security report now online

safeandsecure.uga.edu

The University of Georgia’s annual security report is now available. Required by federal law, the report contains policy statements and crime statistics for the university. The policy statements address UGA’s policies, procedures and programs concerning safety and security, including policies for responding to emergency

7

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.

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

The University of Georgia is a unit of the University System of Georgia.

8 Oct. 15, 2018 columns.uga.edu KITCHEN

GRIFFIN

from page 1

from page 1

Peter Frey

Shannah Montgomery

Eunice Lee, VISTA for Trader Joe’s, and Grant Beecher and Wes York, Trader Joe’s employees, help prepare meals for CKUGA deliveries at the Talmage Terrace kitchen.

can’t access social service programs for children in need.

The risk of food insecurity for grandparents supporting grandchildren is 50 percent higher compared to seniors in Athens not raising grandchildren, according to the ACCA. Students involved in CKUGA collect food from UGA’s student-run UGArden, as well as from area businesses, and repurpose it into meals that they distribute to seniors in need.

“I like that Campus Kitchen works specifically with senior citizens,” said Trisha Dalapati, a UGA senior studying anthropology and biochemistry. “You always hear about kids with food insecurity, but seniors are an overlooked part of the food insecure population.”

CKUGA is also an example of experiential learning. As a program that started as a service-learning course, CKUGA was involved in 12 service-learning courses in the 2017-18 school year.

“It’s a great vehicle to connect faculty with service-learning,” said Wilder. “This is one of the few programs that reaches seniors as a population, and the demand for jobs relating to seniors is growing.”

A Terry College of Business systems analysis and design class created a cloudbased data bank to make tracking food donations and deliveries more efficient.

The system served as a capstone project and provided real-world experience on how to develop a technology solution to solve a client’s problem.

“This was an opportunity to work with a real client who had specific needs,” said Elena Karahanna, the Terry College of Business L. Edmund Rast Professor of Business and UGA Distinguished Research Professor. “We wanted to be sure this was not just a class project, but something that was sustainable and could actually be used

by Campus Kitchen and the community.”

A new class of students continues to work with CKUGA, now designing a system to keep track of food donations, types of food being donated and how food is distributed.

While CKUGA is addressing the problem, there are still families in the Athens area that need food, said Brad Turner, who directs CKUGA in the Office of Service-Learning.

“There’s still a great need in terms of senior hunger,” Turner said. “The amount of resources out there is not proportionate to the need.”

CURO from page 1

UGA officials cut the ribbon to dedicate the renovation of the Dundee Cafe on the UGA-Griffin campus on Oct. 4.

Dundee Mills produced towels and other textiles. It was the area’s largest employer for nearly a century, when Griffin was known as a textile town.

Today, the interior walls of the 105-yearold mule barn still contain memories of that time: the names of the mules written above the pegs that held their bridles, crop weight calculations written by those long since gone and animal tracks left in the concrete floors.

Historical photos and other items from the campus and Dundee Mills will be on display to educate cafe visitors and preserve history.

“As the oldest structure on campus, the mule barn represents a part of Georgia Experiment Station and University of Georgia history that will be preserved and cherished, thanks to the generosity of the Dundee Community Association,” said Lew Hunnicutt, assistant provost and UGA-Griffin campus director.

The Dundee Community Association

RANKING

was founded in the 1940s by Dundee Mills to benefit its employees and the local community. Through the years, the association has provided scholarships and benevolence to Dundee Mills and Springs Industries employees and made significant annual contributions to many Spalding County charitable organizations.

“The Dundee Community Association has been known for its dedication to supporting and enhancing the quality of life of the mill’s employees, their families and the greater Spalding County community,” said Tom Gardner, chairman of the Dundee Community Association. “The naming of the Dundee Cafe accomplishes another goal of the association, which is to ensure that Dundee Mills and the textile industry in general will be recognized in perpetuity for the many benefits that they provided to the communities in which they operated facilities.”

from page 1

the “Top Performer” rating in 2018 from Best’s Review.

Twenty universities worldwide were designated as “Global Centers of Insurance Excellence” by the International Insurance Society in the program’s inaugural year.

The certification program recognizes outstanding risk management and insurance programs based on an analysis of their course offerings, graduation rates, employment success and professional involvement.

The Terry College’s RMI program is the largest in terms of current enrollment

and graduates, according to the most recent survey conducted by Business Insurance magazine. More than 600 UGA students currently major as undergraduates in risk management and insurance, and more than 200 are graduating from the program every year. Hoyt said new graduates are well-equipped to take a variety of positions in the industry, such as insurance adjusters and underwriters, insurance brokers and agents, actuaries, personal financial planners, as well as analysts in corporate risk management.

Bulletin Board Shared sick leave pool

The 11 undergraduates named CURO Honors Scholars will have a variety of research opportunities.

All CURO students have the opportunity to present their research findings at the annual CURO Symposium.

Since the inception of CURO in the late 1990s, every UGA recipient of a nationally competitive major scholarship—such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Udall and Goldwater—has participated in CURO in some fashion.

The 11 new CURO Honors Scholars, listed below with their high school, hometown and majors, bring the current number on campus to 36: • Ayah Abdelwahab; Georgia Cyber Academy; Bogart; international affairs.

• Mennah Abdelwahab; Georgia Cyber Academy; Bogart; international affairs and journalism.

• HaeYeun “Rachel” Byun; Duluth High School; Lawrenceville; biochemistry and molecular biology.

• Amber Combs; Chamblee Charter High School; Atlanta; film studies and computer science.

• Anthony Elengickal; Alpharetta High School; Alpharetta; biochemistry and molecular biology.

• Mary Kitchens; North Springs Charter High School; Atlanta; economics and international business.

• Megh Mehta; Oconee County High School; Bishop; genetics.

• Bianca Patel; Northview High School; Duluth; economics and psychology.

• Sydney Phillips; Chapel Hill High School; Douglasville; public relations and political science.

• Vanessa Sachs; Centennial High School; Roswell; biology and psychology.

• Olivia Silva; Woodward Academy; Peachtree City; cognitive science and music.

The CURO Honors Scholars are enrolled in the UGA Honors Program, which welcomed 745 new students this fall.

Overall, these new Honors students had an average high school GPA of 4.11, an average SAT of 1510 and an average ACT of 33.7.

UGA faculty and staff who meet certain eligibility requirements may voluntarily donate unused sick leave to a shared leave pool.

The upcoming benefits open enrollment from Oct. 29-Nov. 9 is the only opportunity to enroll in or make donations to the shared sick leave pool for 2019.

For more information about the program, visit https://bit.ly/2y1dNhK. Direct questions about the shared sick leave pool to Human Resources at 706-542-2222 or hrweb@uga.edu.

Staff Resources Fair

Mark your calendar. The second annual Staff Resources Fair will be held March 11, 2019, from 2-6 p.m. in the Tate Center Grand Hall.

More details to come soon.

Capturing Science contest

The University of Georgia Libraries and the Office of Research are sponsoring the 2018 Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. The entry deadline is 5 p.m. on Nov. 26.

Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $1,700 in prizes.

Contestants will explain a science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, concept to a broader audience using any media.

Examples include essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, music, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction and exhibits.

The top three undergraduate and graduate submissions each receive prizes of $500, $250 and $100.

All currently enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.

Submissions will be evaluated on clarity of expression, creativity and appeal to a broad audience.

More information is available at guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience.

Contact Chandler Christoffel, instruction and research librarian, with ­questions at christof@uga.edu or 706-542-0696.

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