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UGA-Tifton kicks off yearlong celebration of its first 100 years

By Clint Thompson cbthomps@uga.edu

Photo courtesy of Division of Development and Alumni Relations

UGA faculty and staff donors celebrate at the disco-themed Faculty, Staff, Retiree Donor Appreciation Event on Aug. 21.

Disco Dawgs

Reception celebrates faculty and staff donors’ role in record-breaking UGA fundraising A disco-themed reception on Aug. 21—dubbed Studio 1785— celebrated the thousands of current and retired faculty and staff members who donated to the University of Georgia in fiscal year 2018.

These donors collectively contributed more than $6 million to the Commit to Georgia Campaign’s record-breaking fundraising year.

President Jere W. Morehead spoke to the group of donors at the reception, thanking them for their dedication to the university.

He also noted the projects and

priorities that benefit from their giving, including the 270 needbased scholarships that have been created to date as part of the Georgia Commitment Scholarship program.

“I have two degrees from UGA, and I have worked here for 15 years. I have experienced the value of a UGA education from both sides, and I am happy that I can contribute to the university’s programs and mission,” said Ellen Ritchey, clinical coordinator for the music therapy program at UGA’s

Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

The goal of the Commit to Georgia Campaign is to raise $1.2 billion by 2020 to increase scholarship support, to enhance the learning environment and to solve the grand challenges facing society.

Since the campaign began in 2012, private donations have created 70 endowed chair and professorship positions.

Also, more than $131 million has been raised to support research at the university.

TERRY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Triple Dawg Dan Geller presses vinyl in Athens

By Heather Skyler

heatherskyler@uga.edu

Dan Geller moved to Atlanta from Waukesha, Wisconsin, to attend Georgia Tech. He made it as far as orientation and decided it just didn’t feel right. He didn’t really want to be in the middle of a big city.

“I wanted more of a college experience, like you see in the movies,” recalled Geller.

A trip up to Athens changed his life. His girlfriend’s stepmother drove him to see the University of Georgia. Geller recalled, “I stepped out and put my foot on the ground, and it was electric. I remember it so vividly. I looked around and said, ‘This is it. I’m going here.’ ” He received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UGA in 1996, then his master’s degree in biological engineering in 1999, but then waited 18 years before getting his Ph.D. After years in successful bands,

For the past 100 years, research from the University of Georgia Tifton campus has had an impact on international agriculture, from the world’s food supply to its fields of play.

UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean Sam Pardue and UGA-Tifton Assistant Dean Joe West shared the campus’ history with the Tifton, Georgia, community on Aug. 21 during a kickoff event commemorating UGA-Tifton’s centennial celebration.

CAES alumni, current and

retired UGA-Tifton faculty and staff, students and local dignitaries attended the festivities, which were held on the campus’s front lawn.

“This is a great day in the history of the UGA-Tifton campus. We are here to celebrate 100 years of research, Cooperative Extension and teaching that has truly impacted the world,” Pardue said. “Agriculture is our state’s top industry, and much of that success is due to the scientists who have worked here for decades.”

The city of Tifton was awarded the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, now UGA-Tifton, on

See TIFTON on page 8

DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS

Nearly 500 students take part in annual Dawg Day of Service

By Emily Webb

sew30274@uga.edu

On Aug. 25, about 500 University of Georgia students participated in Dawg Day of Service, an annual event that allows students to serve the Athens-Clarke County community.

One of those service sites was Books for Keeps, an organization that has donated 450,000 books to children in kindergarten through 12th grade since 2009. A group of students helped with the Books for Keeps book sale by organizing books and helping customers.

For Marie Luz, a fourth-year early childhood education major, this was her second time volunteering at Books for Keeps, and her fourth time participating in DDOS. Luz chose Books for Keeps

because she liked its mission, and she has been to one of its distribution events and seen its work in action.

“It’s fun,” she said about DDOS. “Once you graduate, it’s harder to get out there and volunteer. This gives you real-life experience that you can enjoy.”

Third-year biotechnology and pre-dental student Travia Clemons organized and sorted through book donations. This year was her first time participating in DDOS. “Volunteering has a major impact on the community,” she said.

“I want to be a citizen of Athens, not be here only for the university.”

Books for Keeps has a staff of three people. The organization focuses on preventive measures, helping students in the See SERVICE on page 8

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Notable thought leaders will give fall 2018 Signature Lectures

By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu

Dorothy Kozlowski

Dan Geller, chief technical officer and bioengineer at Kindercore Vinyl and public service associate in UGA’s College of Engineering, tests the sound quality of a record.

after starting an indie record label called Kindercore, after traveling the world to play music, after 9/11 and the demise of his band called I Am the World Trade Center (which he started in 1999), he returned to Athens. In 2017, he

earned his Ph.D. in engineering, making Geller a “Triple Dawg.”

Geller started the record label Kindercore with his friend and bandmate Ryan Lewis in the 1990s. The name was a play on See KINDERCORE on page 8

Renowned authors, scholars, artists and leaders from a wide range of fields will visit the University of Georgia this fall as part of the Signature Lecture series.

“This fall’s Signature Lectures bring us national and international expertise in history, science, business ethics, art history, journalism, and food security, among other topics,” said Meg Amstutz, associate provost for academic programs. “Through this lecture series, students and members of the community can explore important

topics of our time, both familiar and new.”

Signature Lectures are designated at the beginning of each semester by the Office of Academic Programs to highlight campus talks by speakers noted for their broad, multidisciplinary appeal and compelling bodies of work. Many of the lectures are supported by endowments, while others honor notable figures and milestones in the university’s history.

All Signature Lectures are free and open to the public. More information and updates on Signature Lectures are available

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AU/UGA MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP

Medical students provide free sports physicals to high school athletes

IN MEMORIAM

By Mary Kathryn Rogers mk.rogers@uga.edu

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Former Vice President for Public Service Eugene Younts poses for a photo during the dedication and unveiling of the R. Chappelle Matthews bust in 2011.

Gene Younts, former PSO vice president, dies at 87

By Kelly Simmons

simmonsk@uga.edu

University of Georgia Public Service and Outreach became the most extensive campus-based outreach p ­ rogram in the nation during Gene Younts’ 22-year tenure as vice president, and his legacy continues through the $416 million annual impact that UGA public service units have on communities across the state.

Sanford Eugene “Gene” Younts died on Aug. 21. He was 87.

“The University of Georgia joins the family, friends and colleagues of Gene Younts in mourning the loss of such a dedicated public servant and extraordinary leader,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “Gene’s positive impact on UGA and the state of Georgia has been profound.”

Younts joined UGA in 1969 as associate dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Rural Development Center in Tifton. In 1972, Younts moved to Athens and succeeded J.W. Fanning to become the second person to hold the position of vice president for public service at UGA. When Younts took over the division, it included only six units: the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, the Institute of Community and Area Development, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the Cooperative Extension Service, the Marine Extension Service and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education.

Under Younts’ leadership, the division grew to include seven additional units: the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Business Outreach Services, the Fanning Leadership Center, the Office of International Development, the Information Technology Outreach Service, the Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education. By the end of the 1990s, UGA’s public service faculty and staff provided more than 6 million hours of service each year to the citizens of Georgia in addition to their interactions with those in other states and countries.

“Gene recognized the University of Georgia was in a unique position to help communities across the state address significant challenges,” said Jennifer Frum, the current vice president for public service and outreach. “We would not have the reach we have today, working with communities in each of Georgia’s 159 counties, without his vision.”

Younts was instrumental in the planning that led to an $8.4 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to be used for expansion of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. He also played a key role in obtaining funds for the renovation of the Lucy Cobb Institute, home to the Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

Additionally, Younts planned for and led the popular New Faculty Tour that, for many new academic and service faculty, provided an introduction to the state and its residents. The tour began in 1977 and has been held every year since, except for six years during which a poor economy led the university to suspend the tour. Morehead reinstated the tour when he became president in 2013.

Younts also started the Walter Barnard Hill Awards in 1999 to recognize academic and service faculty for excellence in outreach. Hill was the University System of Georgia chancellor who served from 1899 to 1905 and first articulated the university’s modern public service and outreach mission.

Helen Hudson Mills received a Walter B. Hill Award in 1995 and was named a Walter B. Hill Fellow in 2000, UGA’s highest award in public service and outreach. She worked at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education when Younts was vice president. At his request, she chaired a committee that reclassified about 450 cooperative extension agents as faculty. “He was passionate about the university’s outreach programs. He was equally passionate about all of them, equally supportive,” said Mills, who became an associate vice president for public service and outreach in the years after Younts retired. “He was passionate about the university because it had a land-grant mission. That’s what’s made UGA so important to the state, and he kept that mission in front of everyone.”

Volunteers from the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership gathered Aug. 18 at Clarke Middle School to provide free sports physicals to Clarke County School District athletes who otherwise may not be able to receive one. Without this exam, students are ineligible to participate in team sports.

It is not uncommon for many student-athletes across Athens to be uninsured, underinsured or unable to afford a physical exam. More than 90 percent of the 720 students attending Clarke Middle School receive either free or reduced lunch.

Dr. Suzanne Lester, assistant professor at the AU/UGA Medical Partnership, and Kelli Bivins, a teacher at Coile Middle School, became aware of this problem five years ago and brainstormed a way they could help. At the time, the Medical Partnership was in its infancy and the medical students were looking for ways to become involved in the Athens community.

“Students put in a ton of effort to get their grades up so they can play sports, and then they often cannot get a sports physical because they are uninsured,” said Lester. “Not only are these physicals a benefit to the middle school students, but they also give our medical students early experiences in delivering patient care and a way to learn about the areas they are serving.”

Lester works with the medical students and the athletic directors at local schools to plan a day for free sports physicals for both the fall and

Photo courtesy of AU/UGA Medical Partnership

AU/UGA Medical Partnership students Shub Agrawal and Nick Schoenmann take the medical histories of Clarke County student-athletes as part of their sports physical.

spring semesters. Medical students set up stations for height and weight checks, blood pressure monitoring and vision screenings, then work with Medical Partnership faculty members and volunteer residents from Piedmont Athens Regional and the AU/ UGA Medical Partnership Residency Program at St. Mary’s to provide the exam. On Aug. 18, volunteers saw 39 students, but they have seen up to 90 at one event.

Not only does this program allow middle school students to meet the requirements for a sports physical, but it also demonstrates potential career paths.

“This event serves as an o ­ pportunity

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

for the middle school students to see a diverse group of young doctors and realize that they also have the opportunity to be a physician or work in a health care related field one day,” Lester said.

When speaking about her experience, second-year medical student Kendall Flanigan said, “Medical school can be consuming at times, and often as students, I think we forget the reason we’re studying as hard as we do—to one day serve people in our communities.

I truly believe that children who are encouraged to genuinely enjoy sports and other kinds of physical activity can grow up to be healthier, happier adults, and from that, everyone wins.”

EITS

Virtual Vet, science education SendFiles will require game, wins Serious Play Award ArchPass for access

By Kathryn Kao kathk1@uga.edu

After helping Cookies, the virtual cat, regain his energy with a diet of healthy foods and exercise, fourth- and fifth-grade “veterinarians” have a new virtual patient on their hands— Crumbles.

By applying what they’ve learned from Cookies’ case, more than 500 students across Georgia are using their knowledge of the body’s organ systems to help treat Crumbles, who has Type 2 diabetes.

It’s been four years since assistant research scientist Georgia Hodges developed the concept for Virtual Vet, an interactive digital learning game for elementary students.

Funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the game aims to improve students’ knowledge of science by engaging them in a virtual world where they can practice solving real-world problems.

“We have a couple of main goals, but we want kids to have the knowledge to make healthy choices,” said Hodges, who leads a team of researchers in the College of Education’s mathematics and science education department. “We have them do the things that scientists do—they analyze and interpret data.”

Virtual Vet, which was designed and animated by digital specialists Alex Turbyfield and

Dave Nix, received the 2018 Bronze Medal from the International Serious Play Award Program for promoting higher-level thinking in elementary students.

Hodges’ game places elementary students right on UGA’s campus. After creating their own in-game characters, students, who play as vet assistants, are presented with the virtual cat’s symptoms in a treatment room modeled after UGA’s vet teaching hospital.

Since its creation in 2014, the game has undergone several iterations to refine and adjust not only software and gameplay elements, but also the way questions are presented to students.

Based on pre- and post-test results, the team can determine which questions and concepts students are struggling with and if these issues have been successfully addressed by the end of their journey with the virtual cats. As a result of these improvements and a focused storyline, students who play the game often outperform those who engage in hands-on learning.

In the future, the team hopes to get Virtual Vet into the science curriculum in classrooms beyond the Clarke County and other Georgia classrooms testing the product. The goal is for more underserved students to see themselves in the science field, while simultaneously learning about healthy behaviors, Type 2 diabetes and other obesity-related illnesses.

By Sara Pauff

spauff@uga.edu

Effective Sept. 7, anyone with a MyID will need ArchPass, UGA’s two-step login solution, powered

by Duo, to log in to SendFiles.

SendFiles is an encrypted file service that allows you to securely share sensitive documents. This change to the login process is being implemented to protect sensitive university data.

The login process for SendFiles will be slightly different from other systems protected by ArchPass. There are several options.

• When you enter your MyID and password, you will receive an automatic push or phone call based on the type of device you have enrolled in Duo. You will not see a second screen or have the option to select your method of authentication.

• If you want to use a passcode or use your backup device instead to authenticate, you can add a comma (“,”) to the end of your password, followed by a Duo passcode (“123456”) or a Duo option (“push,” “phone,” or “sms”). You can also specify a device number if you have multiple devices enrolled (“phone2” or “phone3”).

For example, if you want to use a passcode, you would type the following to log in: MyID: ugamyid Password: password123,123456 More information about SendFiles is available on the Help Desk page at https://bit. ly/2odjB2g.

ArchPass will not be required for non-MyID users of SendFiles.

Remember that SendFiles is only to be used to transmit sensitive data, such as UGA ID numbers, law enforcement records or critical infrastructure information.

You should not use it for restricted data, such as SSNs, health information or financial records.

You can find more information on sensitive vs. restricted data at https://bit.ly/2wksL1n.

RESEARCH NEWS

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Andrew Paterson and his team are working with international consortia to examine the genome of grain sorghum, looking for specific traits that affect how the plants interact with climate, how their seeds mature and how much the plant produces.

Maple syrup of the South How sorghum and soil conservation are helping our ecosystem

Our physical world is facing a host of challenges. Rising food insecurity across the globe. A looming worldwide water crisis. Changes to our ecosystem.

But Andrew Paterson believes we can address these issues through a better understanding of our crop’s genetic capacity. By harnessing the properties that produce better crops—varieties that are more nutritious, offer higher yields and require less resources like water—we’re taking proactive steps toward a more sustainable future and food security.

At the University of Georgia’s Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Paterson and his team are working with international consortia to examine the genome of grain sorghum, looking for specific traits that affect how the plants interact with climate, how their seeds mature and how much the plant produces.

For example, the researchers compared tropical and temperate varieties of sorghum. Tropical sorghums only flower during days with 12 or fewer hours of sunlight; in the U.S., these plants mature too late in the year

to ­produce a high yielding crop. In temperate species, on the other hand, flowering is triggered by temperature, not day length. Working jointly with a consortium of leading sorghum scientists, Paterson and his team located a gene that differentiates the two sorghum types and affects when they flower.

The team also discovered a gene that determines the durability of the seed head after it matures. This part of wild sorghum often disintegrates on touch, and cultivated forms have to be selected for heads that remain intact.

Finding a gene that controls whether the head shatters when it’s disturbed holds promise for existing or new crops to allow harvesters to capture all seeds.

Paterson’s research is also critical for preserving soil health, something that has a great impact on Georgia’s agriculture economy. Regenerating the soil lost after one year of conventional tillage has been estimated to take as long as 380 years, something Paterson’s team is trying to combat by developing crops that produce multiple harvests from single plantings.

“By having living material in the soil year-round, we substantially reduce the damage that is done by traditional rowcrop agriculture,” he said. “Moreover, we’re developing crops that will have a much deeper root system and be more efficient at finding water compared to traditional plants.”

Identifying sustainable food practices isn’t an issue Paterson takes lightly.

For him, it’s a critical problem that requires immediate attention.

“We’re still dependent on agriculture, and there is growing concern about unsustainable agriculture practices for good reason,” he said. “We need to be aware of all the elements of our food chain and how we’re converting raw materials into the things we need. Our research is impacting the critical ecosystem services provided by agriculture to society, which we’ll need indefinitely.”

Editor’s note: This story is part of the Great Commitments series, which focuses on cutting-edge research happening on UGA campuses. Read more about UGA’s commitment to research that changes lives at greatcommitments.uga.edu.

NEW MATERIALS INSTITUTE

Researchers to test first fully biodegradable plastic straw

By Kat Gilmore

kygilmor@uga.edu

A research team that includes partners from the University of Georgia New Materials Institute and the RWDC Environmental Stewardship Foundation will develop a fully biodegradable plastic straw thanks to an award from Singapore’s Temasek Foundation Ecosperity.

The $719,000 award represents the top prize in Ecosperity’s inaugural Liveability Challenge and was presented to RWDC Industries in July in Singapore. UGA researchers, graduate students and a UGA alumnus, working with RWDC Foundation funding, synthesized a food contact polymer that they will now attempt to develop into a commercially viable straw, which RWDC would then bring to market.

The next step is for RWDC and the New Materials Institute to create prototypes.

Then they must prove the straws can be manufactured consistently, produced at a scale to meet global demand

and are fully biodegradable in soil, fresh water and marine water. Testing largely will be conducted in a New Materials Institute laboratory built with RWDC grant funding.

Currently, there are few nonplastic straw alternatives available to consumers. Many plastics branded as “biodegradable” are made from plant-based material called polylactic acid, or PLA. PLA-based plastics are compostable in limited environments, but they do not fully degrade outside of these settings.

“Plastics made from PLA only degrade in industrial compostable settings under high temperature and humidity conditions,” said Jason Locklin, director of the New Materials Institute and a professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences chemistry department and the College of Engineering, who worked on the project. “Other types of plastic, which are petroleumbased, last forever. Less than 10 percent of these plastics are recycled. The 90 percent that aren’t recycled will ultimately fragment over time, and as micronized plastic, can end up in our

soil, rivers and oceans—forever.”

The team’s biodegradable straws are based on a proprietary, bio-based resin in the class of polymers called polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. For the PHA-straw to be a viable product in the marketplace, it will have to perform as well as the plastic straws currently in use. It must also be costeffective over its entire life cycle, including disposal, said Branson Ritchie, director of technology development and implementation for the New Materials Institute and a Distinguished Research Professor at UGA. “The PHA-straw is an initial step toward our shared goal, with RWDC, of replacing single-use, petroleum-based plastics with plastics made from our biodegradable resins,” Ritchie said. “We can tweak our formulas and expand our technology on a product-by-product basis. This keeps a manufacturer’s costs down because they don’t have to reinvent their processes, and this facilitates their ability to quickly produce environmentally friendly plastic products.”

UGA is participating in the University ­ ystem of Georgia’s Comprehensive AdminisS trative Review, an effort to look for ways that administrative functions can become more efficient and effective to enhance support for delivering the global, statewide and local mission of the USG. USG Vice Chancellor John Fuchko will lead a virtual Town Hall meeting to share more information and to field questions from UGA’s employees. The virtual Town Hall meeting will take place Sept. 6 from 1-2 p.m. To access the Town Hall, participants can visit http://bit.ly/ USG-CAR. A dedicated email address has been set up to allow the UGA community to pose questions during the Town Hall and throughout the CAR process: UGA-CAR@uga.edu.

The CAR initiative will only look at nonteaching activities and roles within the institution, so faculty will generally not be involved in the process unless they have been assigned administrative functions. Learn more about this system-wide project at the USG Comprehensive Administrative Review website: https://www.usg.edu/adminreview/.

2018 Insect-ival will be held Sept. 15

The 27th annual Insect-ival will be held Sept. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the State Botanical Garden, a public service and outreach unit located at 2450 S. Milledge Ave. Admission to the event is $5 per person or $20 per family. Children age 2 and younger will be admitted free. Preregistration is not required.

The event will include discovery stations, roach and beetle races, an insect cafe, puppet shows and, of course, a lot of live insects. The annual butterfly release will be held at 11 a.m. on the lawn of the International Garden.

Insect-ival is sponsored by the State ­Botanical Garden, the UGA Lund Club, the entomology department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Georgia Museum of Natural History.

Miller Learning Center will observe its 15th anniversary on Sept. 20

Cupcakes and music on the Colonnade will herald the party celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Zell B. Miller Learning Center Sept. 20.

The informal, student-focused event will begin at 2 p.m. In addition to an exhibit of architect’s drawings and construction photos, there will be the launch of a “visual story” contest for students to use photo, video or drawing to share how they see the MLC. The winners and some of the other submissions will be displayed in the spring. Submission information and contest details are at https://mlc.uga.edu/about/15th.

A Steve Penley portrait of Zell Miller will be installed at the MLC as part of the observance.

The portrait is from the collections of the UGA Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

A UGA alumnus, Miller served as Georgia lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, Georgia governor from 1991 to 1999 and as U.S. senator from 2000 to 2005. As governor, Miller was a staunch promoter of public education and helped found the HOPE Scholarship, which has benefited millions of students across the state and beyond.

A partnership of the UGA Libraries, EITS and the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Miller Learning Center opened as the Student Learning Center. It combined classrooms, learning commons, technology lending and computing space. With more than 200,000 square feet, the MLC is dedicated to supporting the various ways that students learn.

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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

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Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to ­Control Alcohol in Georgia.

Through Sept. 21. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123. alexis.morgan@uga.edu.

Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Through Sept. 23. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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.

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, SEPT. 4 ECOLOGY SEMINAR “What Determines Ecosystem Stability in Theory and in Nature?” Andrew Tredennick, postdoctoral associate in the UGA Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. A reception follows the seminar at 4:30 p.m. in the ecology building lobby. 3:30 p.m. Auditorium, ecology building. 706-542-7247. bethgav@uga.edu.

SWING DANCE NIGHT Choose between an East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop lesson from 7-8 p.m., followed by an open dance from 8-10 p.m.

No previous dance experience or a partner necessary. $6 general admission; $4 students. Visitor Center, State Botanical Garden.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5

TOUR AT TWO Join Sarah Kate Gillespie, curator of American art, for a tour of Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

UGA STAFF COUNCIL MEETING President Jere Morehead will be the guest speaker. 2:30 p.m.

N106 Instructional Plaza. 706-542-1923. mmize@uga.edu.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 6 NATURE RAMBLERS Also Sept. 13. Join Nature Ramblers and learn more about the natural areas, flora and fauna of the Garden. Sessions will start with an inspirational reading by a nature writer such as Annie Dillard, John Muir or Janisse Ray. This is a ramble not a hike; participants will stop to view interesting plants, insects, butterflies, mushrooms, etc., along the way. 8:30 a.m. Visitor Center & Conservatory front fountain, State Botanical Garden.

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

ECONOMICS SEMINAR Hector Chade, Arizona State University. 3:30 p.m.

C115 Benson Hall. roozbeh@uga.edu.

EMBRACING DIVERSITY Embracing Diversity is UGA’s campus-wide celebration of strides toward inclusive excellence. During the event, the faculty and staff graduates of the Certificate in Diversity & Inclusion and the recipients of the Diversity and Black Alumni Scholarships will be recognized. This year’s distinguished keynote speaker is Dr. K. Paige Carmichael, professor of veterinary pathology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Light refreshments will be served after the event. 3:30 p.m. Chapel. 706-583-8195. diverse@uga.edu.

STUDIO WORKSHOP: PRINTMAKING Brian Hitselberger, Athens-based artist and Piedmont College professor, will lead a series of studio-based courses exploring various printmaking methods and assorted materials. Artists from all backgrounds are encouraged to attend, as these sessions are designed to be equally engaging for enthusiastic beginners as well as more seasoned practitioners. The sessions will draw inspiration from the museum’s collection, including works from the archives and many not currently on display.

Space is limited; call 706-543-0111 or email callan@uga.edu to register. The $15 materials fee will cover all necessary supplies

UGA Symphony Orchestra to perform for Thursday Scholarship Series season opener

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is coming back to Athens to perform the Payne Memorial Concert on Sept. 12.

Named for William Jackson Payne, the dean who founded the Franklin College Chamber Music Series, the concert is free and begins at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The program will include trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saens and Felix Mendelssohn. Wu Han, pianist and Chamber Music Society co-artistic director, will perform along with violinist Arnaud Sussmann and cellist David Requiro.

A pre-performance talk will be given

by Teresa Chafin, a graduate music student at the University of Georgia. The talk begins at 6:45 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

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

The concert will be recorded for broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the most popular classical music program in the U.S. The concert is sponsored by Thomas P. and M. Jean Lauth, John A. Maltese and Murray and Dorris Tillman.

Hodgson Concert Hall and Ramsey Concert Hall are located in the Performing Arts Center Wu Han, pianist and co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, will perform during the Payne Memorial Concert on Sept. 12. at 230 River Road in Athens.

WORLD WAR I FILM SERIES Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory stars Kirk Douglas as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Blum Collection. Sponsored by UGA Parents Leadership Council. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 7 MEN’S TENNIS Through Sept. 10. Southern Intercollegiates. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

SOCCER vs. Georgia State. 7 p.m. Turner Soccer Complex.

CONCERT Performance by Renee Elise Goldsberry, winner of the 2016 Tony Award for her performance as Angelica Schuyler in the musical phenomenon Hamilton. Goldsberry’s performance will include songs of diverse musical styles—from jazz to show tunes and inspirational to folk. $20-$85. 7:30 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu.

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music will open its 2018-2019 Thursday Scholarship Series with a concert by the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

The UGASO is one of the school’s premier ensembles. Performing under the baton of Mark Cedel, the UGASO is dedicated to the study and performance of significant orchestral music.

“It’s a rather unique program in that there seems to be no relation among the selections. It is not what I would choose from a menu to make a perfect meal.

But each work is an absolute masterwork in its own right,” Cedel said.

The evening’s program will pull musical selections from Maurice Ravel, Leonard Bernstein and Ludwig van Beethoven. The UGASO will perform Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Cedel said that “the difference, contrast, I think only sharpens each work’s individual genius.”

Ravel (1875-1937) originally wrote his Mother Goose Suite as a duet for piano, but this performance will include the entire orchestra. More than

96 students will take the stage for the performance of Symphonic Dances. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 will end the evening’s program.

“At the end of the evening, we will all be musically sated,” Cedel said.

The concert is scheduled for Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center next door to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

Tickets for the event are $20 for adults and $6 for students and can be found online at ugapresents.org.

For more information about the School of Music, visit music.uga.edu. To receive information about concerts and other events, subscribe to the weekly email list. Those unable to make it to the concert can watch the live stream at music.uga.edu/live-streaming.

The UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music sponsors more than 350 performances each year and continues the legacy started by its namesake.

From 1941-1950, Hodgson directed the University of Georgia Little Symphony Orchestra, a forerunner of today’s UGASO. The Thursday Scholarship Series began in 1980 and continues the tradition of “Music Appreciation Programs” that Hodgson started. Proceeds from these concerts are the primary source of funds for School of Music general student scholarships.

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AL-HIJRA Sept. 11 through Oct. 9. Islamic religious observance.

TUESDAY TOUR AT TWO Sept. 11. Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibit galleries of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. 2 p.m.

Rotunda, special collections libraries. 706-542-8079. jclevela@uga.edu.

ECOLOGY SEMINAR Sept. 11. “Diversity and Evolution of Malaria Parasites,” Susan Perkins, curator of molecular systematics, principal investigator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics; professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History. Host: Sonia Altizer. 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.

CLASS: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE Sept. 11. Earn basic and advanced certificates in American Sign Language in classroom courses. Classes are held on Tuesday or Thursday evenings in Athens and Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays in Gwinnett County. $199. 5:30 p.m. Georgia Center.

706-542-3537. questions@georgiacenter.uga.edu.

READING Sept. 11. The Creative Writing Program will present author Selah Saterstrom for a reading. Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Meat and Spirit Plan, The Pink Institution and most recently Slab, which was also produced as an award-winning play, performed by Square Product Theatre. Her book of essays on Divinatory Poetics, Ideal Suggestions, was published by Essay Press in fall 2016. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional performance series. She teaches and lectures across the U.S. and is the director of creative writing at the University of Denver. 7 p.m.

Cine. 706-542-2659. cwp@uga.edu.

TOUR AT TWO Sept. 12. Docent-led tour of highlights from the permanent collection. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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for the four sessions. 6:30 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art.

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM “Ontological Collectivism,” Raul Saucedo, University of Colorado.

3:30 p.m. 115 Peabody Hall. 706-816-6948. nhines@uga.edu.

By Camille Hayes

4&5

Payne Memorial Concert scheduled for Sept. 12

INTERNATIONAL COFFEE HOUR International Coffee Hour at the University of Georgia is a weekly program that brings UGA students, faculty, staff and community members together over coffee and international cuisine. 11:30 a.m. Memorial Hall ballroom. 706-542-5867. bgcecil@uga.edu.

The University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra’s Sept. 6 concert will feature music by Ravel, Bernstein and Beethoven.

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CROSS COUNTRY Bulldog Invitational.

FAMILY DAY Explore black-and-white photography and make a photograph. Inspired by Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann and her iconic images of rural craftsmen and women of Appalachia, this program will include gallery activities and an art project in the Michael and Mary Erlanger Studio Classroom. Sponsored by Heyward Allen Motor Co., Inc., Heyward Allen Toyota and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art. 10 a.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

EXPOSE: A NIGHT OF SOUL This event is dedicated to connecting all classes of UGA students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members through different mediums of art, fashion, entrepreneurial endeavors and networking. Students and organizations at UGA and surrounding universities are able to showcase their talents and publicize personal businesses while giving alumni and community members a chance to connect in an informal setting.

7 p.m. Memorial Hall ballroom.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 ROSH HASHANAH Jewish religious observance. Through Sept. 10.

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOUR Docent-led tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

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

CONCERT Sept. 12. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center opens the 2018-2019 Franklin College Chamber Music Series with the Payne Memorial Concert. Co-artistic director and pianist Wu Han, violinist Arnaud Sussmann and cellist David Requiro return to Hodgson Concert Hall with a program of works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Mendelssohn. 7:30 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. ugaarts@uga.edu. (See story, above.)

ECONOMICS SEMINAR SERIES Sept. 13. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College. Sponsored by the James C. Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation.

3:30 p.m. C115 Benson Hall. roozbeh@uga.edu.

WORLD WAR I FILM SERIES Sept. 13. The African Queen is a tale of two companions with mismatched, “opposites attract” personalities who develop an implausible love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. This film, by director John Huston based on the 1935 novel of the same name by C.S. Forester, is one of the classics of Hollywood adventure filmmaking, along with comedy and romance. Starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, who won the Oscar for best actor for his role. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition For Home and Country: World War I Posters from the Collection of Murray and Ann Blum. Sponsored by UGA Parents Leadership Council. 7 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662. gmoa@uga.edu.

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Jake Shimabukuro will perform a variety of works from his newest album The Greatest Day.

Ukulele virtuoso slated to perform Sept. 14 show

By Bobby Tyler btyler@uga.edu

UGA Presents is bringing ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to Athens on Sept. 14 for a 7:30 p.m. show in Hodgson Concert Hall.

Born and raised in Honolulu, where he still makes his home, Shimabukuro has gained an international fan base for his impressive fretwork and ambitious repertoire.

Shimabukuro first achieved local fame as a member of the group Pure Heart, and from there his celebrity spread to Japan. He was signed to Epic Records (Sony/Japan) in 2001 as a solo artist.

In 2005, Shimabukuro became an international phenomenon when a video of him performing the George Harrison song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube.

“At the time, I didn’t even know what YouTube was,” he said. “Nobody did, especially in Hawai’i.

But I had some friends who were going to college on the mainland and they sent me a link to the video. By the time I saw it, it already had millions of views. My name wasn’t even on it then. All it said was ‘Asian guy shreds on ukulele.’ That’s what opened up the doors to touring in North America, Europe, Asia and beyond. It was a big turning point for me.”

Today, Shimabukuro’s busy touring schedule takes him to venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House. He has even performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Along with his own original compositions, he has become noted for his solo uke arrangements of such varied pieces as Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” His Athens concert will feature selections from his newest release, The Greatest Day. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling 706-542-4400. A limited number of discounted tickets are available to current UGA students for $10 with a valid UGA ID (limit one ticket per student).

The concert is sponsored by Kay and Stu Fors and Janet Rodekohr.

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

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Jennifer Elkins, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, and Emma Hetherington, an assistant clinical professor in the School of Law and director of the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation, or CEASE, Clinic, received the 2018 SAGE/CSWE Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education for their design of a model for teaching trauma-informed courtroom practices to social work and law students.

The award is given annually by the Council on Social Work Education.

From left: Emma Hetherington and Elkins and Jennifer Elkins Hetherington developed a model for a course that integrates classroom lessons with a mock trial simulation.

The course aims to demonstrate how to more effectively advocate for and represent child welfareinvolved children and families within the juvenile court system.

The course is the first in Georgia to give social work graduate students and law students exposure to a juvenile court case simulation that incorporates interprofessional practices designed to recognize and prevent trauma.

In addition to classroom reading material, Elkins and Hetherington also arranged for legal and social work professionals to present guest lectures. The course is part of the Wilbanks CEASE Clinic, which provides direct representation to survivors of child sexual abuse in juvenile court and also serves as a teaching center at the School of Law. Anneliese Singh, a professor and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Education, was recently elected to a leadership position within the American Psychological Association.

Singh, who teaches in the counseling and human development services department, was elected president of the Society of Counseling Psychology, which is Division 17 of the American Psychological Association.

The society has more than 2,000 members and affiliates, and also has 13 sections and 10 special interest groups.

Singh will serve as president for the 2019 year; her term will begin in January.

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Scott Messer, director of historic preservation, starts his 18th year at the University of Georgia in November.

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Historic preservation director’s work creates unified feel to UGA campuses

By Emily Webb

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Historic preservation conserves and manages historic resources in both natural and human-made environments.

But historic preservation comes with its own concerns in a university setting.

“Universities are a little different from other places in that we use buildings very hard compared to the private sector or the residential sector,” said Scott Messer, the director of historic preservation at the University of Georgia. “At this level, historic preservation is about trying to assess what is and is not important to telling our story at UGA and making sure that our actions on those historic resources don’t impact their ability to tell that story.”

Old College, constructed in 1806, is UGA’s oldest remaining structure on North Campus. The Terry College of Business Learning Community project will be completed in fall 2019 and is one of the newer projects to be constructed.

There are more than 30 active projects listed on the website of the Office of University Architects for Facilities Planning. The office manages projects on all of the university’s facilities statewide.

For the most part, Messer works on rehabilitation projects. Currently, he is the primary project manager on three active projects: the Agricultural and Research Building restoration on the Tifton campus, rehabilitation of

the FACS House B and the Cattle Barn Bio Lab renovations at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

“First and foremost, my job encompasses project management, so I’ve probably managed 50 to 70 design and construction projects that were specifically related to historic preservation,” Messer said. “Occasionally, I’ll do new construction in buildings or areas where the new construction needs to be compatible with historic environments.

“The other part of my job is that I am the cultural resource manager for the university with regard to both historic preservation and archaeology,” he said. “I’m responsible for checking for compliance standards in the work that this office does but also with Facilities Management, Housing and all of our extended campuses and research stations—UGA-Tifton, UGA-Griffin, among others. We work statewide with all those units.”

To identify the character and materials on any of UGA’s facilities, Messer and his interns begin with an archival research process to learn what they can about a building and how it evolved as its uses changed. This helps them determine what history is associated with the building, and then, they look at a specific historical period from which to interpret. Selective demolition shows how the building was put together and what has been covered up by years of rehabilitations and adjustments.

“Once we have an idea of what the

FACTS Scott Messer

Director of Historic Preservation Office of University Architects for Facility Planning B.A., Political Science, and B.A., History, University of Georgia, 1991 M.H.P., Historic Preservation, University of Georgia, 1996 At UGA: 17 years

history of a building is and how it evolved and what material is there to support it, we take those pieces of information and weave them together with the users’ needs and get their program to fit into the building in a method that celebrates its historic character, rather than detracts from it,” Messer said about the process.

Messer is inspired by history rather than the architects or historic preservationists who have preceded him.

“I was the kid who really liked field trips because I understood that you learned at an increased level when you’re in the presence of history. I understood that there was a lot of value in how we maintained and preserved historic resources,” he said.

In November, Messer will mark his 18-year anniversary at UGA. He worked in private practice before becoming the campus preservation planner.

“I love UGA,” he said. “I love Athens.

It’s a great place to live.”

RETIREES June

Editor’s note: The retirees list published in the Aug. 20 Columns was mistakenly identified as the June 2018 list. However, it was the list of UGA employees who retired in July 2018. The list below is the list of June 2018 retirees.

Thirty-nine UGA employees retired May 31. Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are: Patsy J. Adams, administrative manager I, College of Engineering, 34 years, 9 months; Jennifer Hardigree Allen, alumni officer III, Terry College of Business-Dean’s Office, 12 years, 4 months; Judith W. Ashley, district director, UGA Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 33 years, 2 months; Janet A. Beckley, assistant director of print and digital design, Division of Marketing & Communications, 20 years, 1 month; Lisa Cheryl

Bradshaw, associate accountant, dining services administration, 31 years, 10 months; Delphine E. Burton, administrative specialist I, School of Ecology, 29 years, 6 months; Carolyn Carter, building services worker II, Facilities Management Division-ServicesBuilding Services-North Campus, 20 years, 6 months; Denise Rice Collins, administrative assistant II, lifelong education, administration and policy department, 27 years, 1 month; Diane D. Costyn, academic advisor II, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, 12 years; Diane Courtier, instructor, English department, 16 years, 9 months; Evelyn J. Dotson, administrative associate I, horticulture department, 20 years, 9 months; Gary D. Fitzgerald, IT senior manager, EITS administrative information systems, 10 years, 3 months; Ian D. Flitcroft, public service assistant,

crop and soil sciences, 28 years, 10 months; Eric H. Gattiker, deputy chief of police, UGA Police Services, 28 years, 10 months; Darrell M. Gay, electrician, Facilities Management DivisionOperations and Maintenance, Electrical Shop, 22 years, 3 months; Claiborne Van C. Glover III, professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, 34 years, 11 months; Michael J. Holosko, professor, School of Social Work, 12 years, 4 months; Judith Iakovou, director, Office of Advising Services, 12 years; Wesley John Kolar, assistant safety and compliance officer, Office of the Vice President for Research, 21 years, 5 months; Stephen A. Kowalewski, professor, anthropology, 39 years, 8 months; Charles J. Lancaster, public service assistant, UGA Cooperative Extension-Northwest District, 33 years, 10 months; Margie

D. Lee, professor, population health, 25 years, 10 months; Darlyne C. Llewellyn, administrative associate I, large animal medicine, 15 years, 7 months; Deborah J. Massey, training specialist, Facilities Management DivisionServices-Building Services-South Campus, 19 years, 8 months; R. Baxter Miller, professor, English department, 25 years, 10 months; Denise A. Pesti, research professional II, small animal medicine/ surgery, 28 years, 7 months; Gene W. Phillips, custodial supervisor, Physical Plant, Georgia Experiment Station, 31 years, 7 months; Alan E. Przybyla, professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, 40 years, 10 months; Rebecca S. Rogers, county secretary, UGA Cooperative Extension-Northeast District, 10 years; Margaret V. Sachs, professor, School of Law, 27 years, 9 months; Mary

Elizabeth Schaller, part-time instructor, communication studies, 14 years, 9 months; Arvin Scott, lecturer, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 26 years, 8 months; Nancy Smallwood, media specialist, Center for Teaching and Learning, 32 years, 9 months; Timothy J. Smith, police lieutenant, UGA Police Services, 6 years, 4 months; Cheryl S. Stansky, academic advisor II, finance, 28 years, 8 months; Michael A. Thomas, application analyst specialist, libraries-general operations, 25 years, 4 months; Scott I. Utley, public service associate, UGA Cooperative Extension-Southwest District, 30 years, 11 months; Patricia Anne Wilson, associate professor, textiles, merchandising and interiors, 30 years, 4 months; and Jennifer E. Wolf, public relations specialist II, School of Law Library, 10 years, 2 months.

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Six will be recognized for service to UGA, state, nation Four University of Georgia alumni, one UGA administrator and one UGA faculty member will be honored at the university’s annual Tucker Dorsey Blue Key Alumni Awards Banquet.

The event is Sept. 14 in the Magnolia Ballroom of the UGA Center for Continuing Education and Hotel.The 6:30 p.m. reception will be followed by dinner at 7:15 p.m.

The Blue Key Service Award will be presented to Michelle Cook, UGA’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion and strategic university initiatives; business executive Joe Frierson and his wife, Ann; and attorney Neal Quirk Sr. Alan Darvill, Regents Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and director of the university’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, will receive the Faculty Blue Key Service Award.

Latham Saddler, a former Navy SEAL officer, will receive the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award.

Recipients of the AT&T Student Leadership Award, the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Award and the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship will be announced during the banquet. The 2018-2019 Blue Key initiates also will be recognized.

The Blue Key Honor Society is a national organization whose members are committed to leadership in student life, high scholastic achievement, service to others and citizenship. Established in 1924 at the University of Florida, the organization’s second chapter was established at UGA in 1926.

Banquet tickets are $30 for individuals.

Sponsored eight-seat silver tables are $300, and eight-seat gold tables are $500. To reserve tickets, contact Janet Lance at 706-542-0017.

The RSVP deadline is Sept. 7.

The award recipients are:

Michelle Cook

As vice provost for diversity and inclusion and strategic university initiatives at UGA, Cook plans and implements programs that span units across campus while leading the Office of Institutional Diversity.

Prior to being appointed vice provost, she served as associate provost for institutional diversity for six years.

During this time, UGA received national recMichelle Cook ognition for its work in diversity, and the Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion, which is administered by her office,

has been commended as a model to emulate.

Cook has played a vital role in elevating the recruitment, retention and success of underrepresented minority students on campus. She is the co-principal investigator on the NSF-funded Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program, which has helped quadruple the number of degrees conferred to underrepresented minorities in STEM fields at UGA. She also serves as co-principal investigator for the NSF-funded Bridge to the Doctorate and as principal investigator for a University System of Georgia grant to support the recruitment and academic success of African American male students.

Cook holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton, a master’s in African American studies from Yale and a doctorate in history from Duke.

Joe and Ann Frierson

Joe and Ann Frierson

Longtime supporters of the University of Georgia, the Friersons will be the first couple to receive a joint Blue Key Award.

Joe is the managing partner for private wealth management at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., where he has worked for 52 years. He served as a trustee of the UGA Foundation from 1998 to 2014 and chaired the Foundation’s Investment Committee from 2004 to 2014, during which time the endowment investment portfolio expanded from $375 million to $785 million. Joe was a longtime member of the Foundation Fellows Committee and has served as a member of the interview team for Foundation Fellows Interview Weekend for the past decade. In addition, he chaired the Lamar Dodd School of Art Board of Visitors from 2001 to 2011.

Ann is a charter member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Environment and Design and has been a member of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Board of Advisors for nearly 30 years. She is a member and former president of the Junior Ladies Garden Club and was involved with the Garden Club of America at the national

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level from 1984 to 2013, serving as president from 2001 to 2003.

The Friersons are members of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art and are loyal supporters of UGA’s study abroad program in Cortona, Italy. In 2015, they received the Jere W. Morehead Award for distinguished service and support of the UGA Honors Program. In 2016, they were named State Botanical Garden of Georgia Giving Tree Tribute Distinguished Honorees.

The Friersons are UGA alumni. Ann earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology, and Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in political science.

Neal Quirk

As a partner at the law firm of Quirk & Quirk LLC, Quirk has a general law practice serving businesses and families throughout Georgia.

His practice focuses on commercial litigation, real estateand landlord/ tenant-related disputes; corporate formation and business transaction matters; loan workout and restructuring for financial institutions; and representation of individuals Neal Quirk and privately held businesses. He also is a registered mediator and serves as a special master on case appointments from the court. Based on peer review, Quirk holds an AV Preeminent Rating, the highest level of professional excellence, from the Martindale-Hubbell Rating Service for both legal ability and ethical standards.

Quirk is the past chair of the Board of Trustees for Schenck School, which serves dyslexic students in Atlanta and north Georgia, and he currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the UGA Foundation as the chairman of the Nominating and Trusteeship Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. He is the 2008 recipient of the Jere W. Morehead Award for outstanding service to the UGA Honors Program, having served on the Advisory Board from 2000 through 2012.

Quirk earned his bachelor’s degree in finance with honors in 1982 from UGA and his Juris Doctor with honors in 1987 from the UGA School of Law.

Alan Darvill

Darvill co-founded the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center with Peter Albersheim in 1985. The CCRC houses UGA’s Cancer Center as well as four federally designated centers for carbohydrate research.

It garners an average of $15 million annually in research funds from federal, state, industrial and foundation sources.

At the CCRC, Darvill also directs the U.S. Department of Energyfunded Center for Plant and Microbial Complex Alan Darvill Carbohydrates and was the UGA lead in the DOE-funded BioEnergy Science Center (2007-2018). He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010.

Darvill was the recipient of UGA’s Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award in 2012. In addition, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award of the UGA chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society in 1995.

Darvill earned his bachelor’s degree in plant biology in 1973 from Wolverhampton University and his Ph.D. in plant physiology in 1976 from Aberystwyth University.

Latham Saddler

After nearly eight years of service as a Navy SEAL officer, Saddler is transitioning this fall from active duty to the Navy Reserve. His most recent assignment was director of intelligence programs on the National Security Council, where he managed the development, approval and oversight of the nation’s special missions and sensitive activities.

Prior to joining the Latham Saddler Navy, Saddler earned graduate degrees in international affairs and Persian studies and worked for the FBI at the National Counterterrorism Center under the FBI Scholastic Honors Internship Program.

He is a recipient of the NSEP Boren Fellowship, which sent him to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, to study Persian-Farsi for an academic year.

Before his graduate studies, Saddler worked for IBM Corp. in New York City.

While at UGA, Saddler was a Leonard Leadership Scholar in the Terry College of Business, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics. He served as Student Government Association president, Interfraternity Council president and was Homecoming king.

He is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was inducted into Blue Key Honor Society, Gridiron, Sphinx and the Order of the Greek Horsemen.

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Book looks at clay science in ‘Critical Zone’

Clays in the Critical Zone

By Paul Schroeder Cambridge University Press Hardcover: $64.99 ebook: $52

Clays and clay minerals are the most abundant natural reactive solids on the Earth’s surface.

Written by UGA faculty member Paul Schroeder, Clays in the Critical Zone considers clay science in the context of the Critical Zone, the Earth’s permeable near-surface layer.

The book starts with an introduction to clays and clay minerals, their historic background and a review of how clay science impacts the Critical Zone. Examples and applications demonstrate how clays regulate habitats and determine the availability of other resources. These examples are supported by quantitative field data, including numerical and graphical depictions of clay and clay mineral occurrences. The book concludes by covering Critical Zone clay geochemistry and clay sequences, including the industrial, synthetic medical and extra-terrestrial world of clay science.

Schroeder is a professor in the geology department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

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4-H launches new mobile-friendly website

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Georgia 4-H recently launched a new website for students, parents, staff and prospective members in addition to its 4-H centers.

Faculty and staff completely reorganized the vast programs, activities and competitions offered.

The new format will allow viewers to find information more easily, especially on mobile devices.

As the youth development program for University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, 4-H is the

largest youth leadership program in the state with 170,000 members enrolled.

Georgia 4-H provides experiences for young people to learn by doing. 4-H’ers complete hands-on projects in agriculture and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), healthy living and citizenship in a positive environment where they receive guidance from adult mentors and are encouraged to take on proactive leadership roles.

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­ thens-Clarke County school system have A access to educational materials that will keep them from getting behind in school.

“Without volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do,” said Justin Bray, the program manager for Books for Keeps.

“Their work is incredibly important. We wouldn’t have this location or have books organized if it weren’t for them.”

In addition to Books for Keeps, 18 other service points were a part of DDOS this year.

Students removed overgrowth at the historic Brooklyn Cemetery, helped with outdoor projects at Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela and improved elderly citizens’ homes with Senior Home Assistance and Repair, along with many others.

DDOS is part of ServeUGA, a group that promotes a culture of service at UGA and is under the Division of Students Affairs’ Center for Leadership and Service.

Sarayfah Bolling, the senior coordinator for community engagement, has been part of the support staff for two years.

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“DDOS is unique, as it is the largest day of service offered at the University of Georgia designed to engage UGA students with the Athens-Clarke County community,” Bolling said. “We have more than 500 people each year engage in service to support community organizations addressing issues of hunger, poverty, disabilities and environmental issues, just to name a few.”

Jen Rentschler, the director of the Center for Leadership and Service, has been involved with DDOS since fall 2013.

It is one of the first big events for students to participate in, and members of student organizations join to bond as a team. But faculty, staff and alumni also join in the event to further the service mission of UGA. “While earning a degree from UGA may be the reason why students are in Athens, connecting with the community and finding ways to contribute are often what make a student’s time at UGA more meaningful,” she said.

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online at https://bit.ly/2ok9kRY. The fall 2018 fall Signature Lectures will begin Sept. 17. Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, will give the Constitution Day Lecture, “Born in Crisis: The Emergence in the 1790s of an American Identity” at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

On Oct. 12, Sushil Prasad, professor at Georgia State University and program director at the National Science Foundation, will discuss “Innovations in NSF Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research Workforce Development and Education Programs.”The lecture will be held in Room 328 of the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center at 3:30 p.m.

Maria Taylor, analyst, host and reporter for ESPN, will give a talk Oct. 17 at 10:10 a.m. in the Chapel as part of the Terry Leadership Speaker Series.

Andrea Wulf, New York Times bestselling author, will give the Gregory Distinguished History Lecture. This year’s lecture, “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World,” will take place Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel.

Also on Oct. 18, David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, will give a lecture titled “Oh Say Can You See: American Art, Propaganda and the First World War” at 5:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. Artist Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha Joye, UGA’s Athletic Association Professor of Arts and Sciences, will discuss “Expeditions, Experiments and the Ocean: Arts and Sciences at Sea” Nov. 2 at 9 a.m. in Mahler Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Sharon Deem, director of the Institute for Conservation Medicine at the St. Louis Zoo, will discuss “One Health in the Age of the Anthropocene” in Room 100 of Building 2 of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

The Ethics Week Lecture will be held Nov. 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Ann E. Tenbrunsel, the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss “Blind Spots: Why We Aren’t as Ethical as We Think We Are.” It is sponsored by the Office of the President, the Terry College of Business and the School of Law. The D.W. Brooks Lecture will be given

by Robert Paarlberg. An adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Paarlberg will discuss “Foodies vs. Aggies: Compromise for a New Food System” Nov. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in Mahler Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

The McGill Lecture, sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, will be held Nov. 8. Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, will deliver a lecture titled “Trust, Technology and Teamwork Can Reveal a Global Truth” at 4 p.m. in Studio 100 of the Journalism Building.

Nirav Merchant, director of the University of Arizona Data Science Institute, will give the Georgia Informatics Institutes Lecture on Nov. 30. His talk, “Learning (for All of Us) in the Machine Learning Era,” will be held at 1 p.m. in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Bulletin Board University Woman’s Club

The University Woman’s Club will host its annual fall coffee Sept. 11 from 10-11:30 a.m. at the President’s House, 570 Prince Ave. A social/service organization, the University Woman’s Club is open to anyone who, through their own or their family’s affiliation, past or present, is associated with the University of Georgia community. Members are a diverse group of UGA graduates, professionals, faculty, retirees and their spouses. The annual fall coffee marks the start of yearly activities for the University Woman’s Club.

Anyone interested in joining should visit womansclub.uga.edu and download the membership form.

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

‘Columns’ corrections

Two articles in the Aug. 27 issue of Columns contained factual errors.

The first name of Demond Means, superintendent of the Clarke County School District, was misspelled in the story about the launch of the Georgia Possible program. The acronym for the HOPE Scholarship in the Zell Miller story should have been Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally.

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

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“hardcore” punk and all of the other “cores” that followed, such as emocore and grindcore, said Geller. At the time, the label was signing a bunch of pop bands reminiscent of the Beatles. “We joked that we were making punk for kids, so I made up the name Kindercore,” Geller said with a laugh.

Fast forward to 2016 when Lewis came to him with the idea to start a record pressing company. “Ryan had this great idea of developing a renewable substitute for vinyl, and he came to me because he wanted to use the name Kindercore from the record label,” said Geller.

For two years, Geller, Lewis and their two other partners—Bill Fortenberry and Cash Carter—tried to get funding. “We had no assets,” said Geller. “Just an idea.” They networked extensively, met with investors and near the end of the second year decided Kindercore Vinyl probably wasn’t going to happen. Then they heard that one more potential Athens-based investor wanted a meeting. They convened at a coffee shop in Five Points, and at meeting’s end, the investor said, “We’re going to make this happen.” This investor wishes to remain anonymous, but his group got the company off the ground.

UGA involvement

The Music Business Program at UGA’s Terry College of Business has been a fount of talent for Kindercore. Several former interns are now full-time employees. “We couldn’t have found employees like this through an open search,” said Geller.

Before the company had enough funds to hire some of its interns, the students kept working for free, after their internships were finished. “They basically said we’re just going to stay here until you hire us,” said Geller.

Kindercore also recently submitted a project to UGA’s Engineering Capstone Senior Design Course to design an automated punch to remove the labels from rejected records so the company can recycle the vinyl.

Now the company is waiting to see if any of the capstone teams select their project. “But who wouldn’t want to work with a record company?” said Geller.

The record pressing industry as a whole is growing like crazy. According to online statistics, market research and business intelligence group Statista, 14 million LPs were sold in the U.S. in 2017, up more than 1,000 percent from 10 years earlier.

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Geller has a few ideas why his industry is doing so well, citing Gen Xers with nostalgia, the superior sound quality and the tactile experience of records in general.

But Geller said Kindercore’s bread and butter is young bands pressing 500 records then selling to millennials. “Records are a brand new thing for them. They grew up with every song they ever wanted in their pocket. So how do they show someone that they are a bigger fan than anyone else? They spend $20 on a record. That’s my theory,” said Geller.

A greener vinyl

The petroleum-based vinyl that has been used for more than 100 years needs an upgrade, and Kindercore hopes to be the first company to replace it with something that can be grown on a farm. Geller, who works as a research engineer at UGA developing plant-based alternatives to fuels and other products, wants to revolutionize the materials of the records themselves. While this involves several disciplines in addition to Geller’s, he is working with other engineers, chemists and Georgia industry to develop a new kind of polymer so that Kindercore can become the first pressing plant to offer petroleum-free records.

The company is using new record pressing machines too, which they purchased from an innovative Canadian company called Viryl. Before Viryl created a modernized record press, the machines making records hadn’t been updated since the 1950s. On top of being old, they were difficult to find.

These new machines are much less likely to produce a bad record. The company also employs microscopes and audio testing to ensure the sound of every record is just right, but their secret weapon is Priscilla Lewis, who is in charge of Kindercore’s quality control. “She can simply look at a record and tell if the sound will be off. She has an amazing talent for that,” said Geller.

Geller currently works full time in UGA’s College of Engineering and acts as the chief technical officer at Kindercore Vinyl. He’s one of the DJs in the popular local group the Booty Boyz and just joined another band called Vision Video, even though he vowed never to be in another band again.

“My life has been very weird,” Geller said with a laugh. “I thought I would become a professor. But then all this music business got in the way.”

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May 3, 1919. Since then, scientists have focused their research projects on row crops like cotton, peanuts, tobacco, small grains and soybeans in addition to livestock, pecans, fruits, vegetables and turfgrass. Today, the campus is also a leader in irrigation research, precision agriculture and its accompanying technologies, like GPS. “This is one of those days for people who work here, who study here, who graduated from here and who retired from here after many years of service to be proud of what today represents,” West said.

One of the special guests in attendance at the kickoff was Catherine Tift Porter, a descendant of Captain H.H. Tift, who established Tifton. Tift was also part of the Georgia Landowners Association that successfully lobbied the state legislature to create an agricultural experiment station in the Coastal Plain region.

Porter helped to blow the ceremonial whistle to cap off the afternoon’s festivities.

A steam whistle was used 100 years ago to announce to downtown Tifton that the city was selected as the home of the experiment station.

Following the centennial kickoff, a special reception was held in the Tift and Agricultural Research buildings. The first two structures on campus, both buildings were recently renovated, the Tift Building in 2016 and ARB in 2018.

UGA-Tifton’s faculty roster includes world-renowned scientists who have made far-reaching impacts over the past century.

Research geneticist and plant breeder Glenn Burton, who worked at UGA-Tifton

from 1936 to 1997, helped to save millions of people from starvation in India and Africa through his pearl millet research. One of his greatest accomplishments involved transforming Bermuda grass into a top forage grass.

James Shepherd, who worked at UGA from 1946 to 1974, was an agricultural engineering department head. He developed and tested the first peanut combine harvester in 1949. Current combines use the same concepts that Shepherd developed.

Current UGA-Tifton researcher Peggy Ozias-Akins is a molecular geneticist who studies peanuts. She helped to sequence the peanut genome in 2014, which helps researchers and plant breeders across the world breed more productive, resilient peanut varieties.

UGA-Tifton has also been a leader in internationally recognized technological developments. Scientist George Vellidis has been on the forefront of precision agriculture, a subject he teaches to UGA-Tifton’s undergraduate students.

Turfgrass varieties bred at UGA-Tifton have been planted on World Cup soccer fields and Super Bowl football fields.

UGA-Tifton researchers from different disciplines collaborated to help thwart pest infestations, like the boll weevil in cotton and kudzu bug in soybeans.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re here in Tifton or halfway around the world, our campus is recognized as a leader in the agricultural industry,” West said. “To be a small part of that impact that spans 100 years, that’s truly an amazing feeling.”