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UGA held a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 26 for the state-of-the-art Science Learning Center. Among those taking part in the program were, from left, State Sen. Bill Cowsert, University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, UGA President Jere W. Morehead, UGA student Lydia “Meg” Babcock-Adams, State Sen. Frank Ginn and State Rep. Chuck Williams.
Building up science UGA breaks ground on state-of-the-art Science Learning Center
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In a ceremony that included remarks by state and university leaders, UGA broke ground on its newest state-of-the-art learning facility, the 122,500-square-foot Science Learning Center. The public event was the ceremonial start to work on the learning facility, which will be located at the southwest corner of the D.W. Brooks Mall, adjacent to Pharmacy South and across from the Miller Plant Sciences Building. UGA President Jere W. Morehead said the Science Learning Center will transform the way faculty members teach and the way students learn in the basic sciences. “We say on this campus that
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every decision we make should be for the benefit of our students, that the students should come first,” Morehead said. “The Science Learning Center is certainly emblematic of that philosophy.” Morehead said that more than 40 percent of this year’s first-year students have announced an intended major in the sciences. “This high interest in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering and math—is a very positive development and bodes well for the future of our state and our nation,” he said. The Science Learning Center’s 33 instructional labs will be designed specifically for interactive learning in core undergraduate science courses. Funded by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia
General Assembly, the center will cost $44.7 million and feature design elements that promote active learning. The facility will contain two 280-seat lecture halls and two 72-seat SCALE-UP classrooms. SCALE-UP stands for StudentCentered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs, a learning model that focuses heavily on group-work class participation and technology—making student-to-student and student-to-teacher interaction easier in a larger class setting. Deal and University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby also lauded the many benefits of the Science Learning Center in their remarks during the ceremony. See GROUNDBREAKING on page 8
Richard Ingersoll, a national expert on the profession of teaching, will be the keynote speaker at the UGA College of Education’s seventh annual State of Education Conference on Sept. 18 at the Georgia Center. The nominees for state school superintendent, Democrat Valerie Wilson and Republican Richard Woods, will be the luncheon speakers. The two will make brief presentations and answer questions. Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will talk about his latest research on teacher preparation, teacher retention and the transformation of the teaching workforce. Ingersoll was a UGA faculty member in the sociology department from 1995-2000.
The theme of the one-day conference is “Improving Student Achievement through Educator Preparation and Richard Ingersoll PreK-16 Partnerships.” It will include concurrent sessions presented by UGA faculty and other education experts on: • student learning through a professional development-school collaboration; • measuring teacher impact on student achievement; • performance-based measures of teacher readiness; • a collaborative approach to teacher induction; and • strategies for retaining highly
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Als, author and ‘New Yorker’ drama critic, will give reading By Jordana Rich jerich@uga.edu
Hilton Als, staff writer and drama critic at The NewYorker, will read from his work on Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art. The reading, part of the Institute for African American Studies’ fall lecture series, is free and open to the public. Als began work as a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and became its theatre critic in 2002. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice and The Nation. He served as an editorat-large at Vibe and collaborated on film scripts for Swoon and Looking for Langston. In 1997,the NewYorkAssociation
of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both magazine critique/ review and magazine arts and entertainment. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-2003. In 2009, Als worked with performer Justin Bond on Cold Water, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery. In 2010, he co-curated Self-Consciousness at the Veneklasen Werner Gallery in Berlin and published Justin Bond/ Jackie Curtis, his second book. Als’ most recent book, White Girls, received the LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBT nonfiction and
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IHE to mark 50th anniversary From peaches to ports: New faculty learn about with yearlong observance economic development in Georgia during tour By Margaret Blanchard special anniversary of sustaining By Kelly Simmons
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Before Ben Davis ever stepped in front of a class, he found ways to engage his students. The new assistant professor of mechanical engineering was on the 2014 New Faculty Tour of the state. During a stop at the Kia Motors Manufacturing plant in West Point, he spotted an opportunity to show his students the kind of jobs they could look forward to
after graduation. “It is hard to find something more connected to mechanical engineering than an automobile, and the Kia factory was the most impressive manufacturing facility I have ever seen,” Davis said. “Their use of robotics and just-in-time manufacturing techniques is like something out of a science fiction novel, and I look forward to taking my students to the facility to expose them to what a truly state-of-the-art manufacturing facility looks like.”
Davis, who was an engineer at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, before joining the UGA faculty this summer, was one of about 40 academic and service faculty on this year’s tour, which was coordinated by the UGA Office of Public Service and Outreach and made possible by support from the Office of the President, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost See TOUR on page 8
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The Institute of Higher Education launched its 50th anniversary with a celebratory reception Aug. 27 at Meigs Hall. The celebration included the reading of a proclamation issued by Gov. Nathan Deal noting the date as “Institute of Higher Education Day,” in honor of the institute providing 50 years of “extraordinary educational service for Georgians.” “We are excited to celebrate this
excellence within the field of higher education,” said Libby Morris, director of the Institute of Higher Education. “We’re proud of the institute’s legacy and the reputation of our faculty, graduate programs, alumni and public service efforts. The 50th anniversary provides the opportunity to reflect on past successes and envision new goals for the future.” Scheduled events throughout the year include an academic roundtable
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Class of 2018 ‘mindset list’ released
Beloit College released its annual “mindset list” that provides insight into the experiences of the first-year students enrolling this fall. Some selections from this year’s list: • When they see wire-rimmed glasses, they think Harry Potter, not John Lennon. • The water cooler is no longer the workplace social center; it’s the place to fill your water bottle. • During their initial weeks of kindergarten, they were upset by endlessly repeated images of planes blasting into the World Trade Center.
Adjuncts would qualify for loan forgiveness under proposed bill
A bill introduced by Sen. Richard A. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, would make adjunct professors eligible for a federal studentloan-forgiveness plan available to public servants, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program allows employees of nonprofit organizations—including full-time professors at public universities—to have their federal student loans forgiven after making 120 payments while working in that capacity. The bill would extend eligibility for the program to adjunct professors, regardless of course loads.
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Help UGA reduce electricity usage during last few weeks of summer
As a result of the high summer temperatures, UGA’s energy costs are projected to increase until cooler weather arrives. The Office of Sustainability, which coordinates, communicates and advances sustainability initiatives, suggests taking the following steps to help the university conserve energy and save money: • Keep thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit during warm weather. For better circulation, bring in a fan, which will allow for a higher temperature setting on the thermostat. • Raise the blinds to let in natural light. Make a habit of using drapes and blinds for natural heating and cooling. • If you must use lights, turn them off before leaving a room. This includes offices, classrooms and restrooms. • Turn off all monitors when leaving your desk. Shut down your computer before you go home at the end of the day. • Unplug any equipment, appliances or chargers that are not in use. Power strips also help conserve energy. To learn more energy conservation tips, visit sustainability.uga.edu.
By Aaron Hale
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Storytelling, video games and large classroom settings are some of the topics that will be addressed as the Center for Teaching and Learning continues to lead a campus-wide dialogue about higher education instruction this fall. The speaker series will feature national figures and distinguished UGA faculty. Three award-winning faculty members will speak about their teaching experiences and strategies in the classroom. In addition, Mary Taylor Huber, a consulting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will talk about faculty research centered on learning and instruction. The Center for Teaching and Learning, a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, is devoted to the advancement of instructional excellence at UGA. Eddie Watson, director of CTL, said the speaker series, now in its fourth semester, is an opportunity for faculty to hear what research and experience say about effective instruction. Each event is free. Registration is at http://ctl.uga.edu/events. Huber, an experienced researcher
in higher education instruction, will speak about academic careers devoted to excellence in education. According to Watson, an increasing number of faculty members are dedicated to what is called the scholarship of teaching and learning. “Part of their job description is to perform research about teaching in their own discipline,” Watson said. Huber will address the scholarship of teaching and learning in two seminars Sept. 25. Huber originally was scheduled to speak in the spring, but inclement weather postponed her visit. Huber will lead a lecture titled “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Academic Careers” from 9:30-11 a.m. in Room 271 of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. She will lead another workshop titled “Balancing Acts: Designing Careers Around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” from 2-4 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Miller Learning Center. As part of the award-winning faculty speaker series, Jeff Berejikian, a Meigs Professor of International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, will lead a workshop titled “Learning to Play: Building an
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UGA is home to a large number of students from Georgia; it also is home to many students from across the U.S. The top 10 states of origin for enrolled students in 2013 include:
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ImmersiveClassroomwithVideoGames” Sept. 11 from 1-3 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Miller Learning Center. Berejikian, an associate professor of international affairs and a senior Fellow in the Center for International Trade and Security, has used the computer strategy game series “Civilizations” as a way to explore how nations interact with each other on the global stage. James F. Hamilton, a Meigs Professor of Advertising in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, will lead a lecture titled “Large Classes, Big Challenges” Oct. 9 from 3-4 p.m. in Room 271 of the Russell Special Collections Building. In this talk, Hamilton will share key details and results of 20 years of personal experience in experimenting with how to teach large lecture classes effectively. Maria Navarro, Richard B. Russell Award-winning associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sci ences, will share how storytelling, group work and graphic organizers can be used for effective instruction in “The Castaway, the Message and the Bottle.” This lecture will be held Nov. 12 from 1-3 p.m. in the Four Towers Building.
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Alumni awarded Fulbright grants By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu
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2014 KASSINGER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT—Karen Kassinger presents
UGA Police Lt. Adam Fouche with the 2014 Kassinger Scholarship, which is awarded to students who complete academic degrees while employed full time as a UGA police officer or a working student in the criminal justice studies program. Fouche received his master’s degree in public safety administration from Columbus State University in May. The scholarship is named for former UGA public safety director Edward Kassinger and his late wife, Sarah.
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UGA community mourns passing of Magill
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Daniel Hamilton Magill Jr., former UGA head tennis coach and sports information director, died Aug. 24 at the age of 93. An Athens native, Magill began his 60-year association with UGA athletics as a baseball batboy in the 1930s and continued in numerous roles until his retirement in 1995. “Dan Magill was the consummate champion of the Georgia athletic program and had a positive impact on the lives of many individuals,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. “I join all Bulldogs in mourning his passing.” Magill retired as tennis coach following the 1988 season after leading the tennis program for 34 years and becoming one of the most influential men in the history of collegiate tennis. During his long tenure with UGA, Magill also served 27 years as sports information director and 25 years as secretary of the Georgia Bulldog Club, which he founded in 1953. In 1996, Magill was inducted into the UGA Circle of Honor, the highest honor for former coaches and athletes at the university, and was a recipient of
the 1994 Bill Hartman Award, which goes annually to a former athlete or coach who has made a significant impact in his chosen career. He also was a member of the National Collegiate Tennis Dan Magill Hall of Fame, the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. During his career as tennis coach, Magill compiled a record of 706 wins and 183 losses, making him the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I history at the time. His teams won a record 13 Southeastern Conference outdoor championships and eight indoor league titles. He won two NCAA national championships in 1985 and 1987. The family asks that those wishing to honor Magill’s memory do so with a gift to the UGA tennis program, the ITA Hall of Fame or the Dan Magill Sports Journalism Chair at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication all in care of the University of Georgia Foundation, 394 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA 30602.
Twelve UGA students were awarded international travel-study grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2014-2015 academic year. This is UGA’s second highest total of Fulbright recipients. Eight of the students accepted the scholarships. Recipients of the U.S. Student Full Grants, which cover research, study and creative opportunities, include: 2013 graduate Christian Conroy of Roswell; 2011 graduate Winn Davis of Savannah; and 2009 graduate Brett Heimlich of Alpharetta. Two students who recently earned master’s degrees at UGA also received Full Grants: Sara Hobe of Fresno, California; and Lauren Satterfield of Atlanta. English Teaching Assistantship Grants, which place recipients in K-12 schools and universities to serve as language-learning assistants, were given to three recent graduates : Tiffany Brown of Warner Robbins, DeAnne Cantrell of Douglasville, and Christine Pardue of Cleveland. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards approximately 1,900 grants annually to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. For the past 68 years, the program has provided students, scholars and professionals an opportunity to pursue advanced research projects, graduate study and teaching assistantships in more than 140 countries worldwide. “It has been a joy to work with all of these recipients, who represent a diversity of backgrounds and fields of study, and include undergraduates, both within and outside the Honors Program, as well as graduate students,” said Maria de Rocher, campus Fulbright U.S. Student Program adviser and assistant director of the Honors Program. “In addition to their stellar academic achievements, they all have been selected for their ability to serve as cultural ambassadors, and as such are poised to make lasting and meaningful connections within their host countries.”
Instructional news
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Digest Regents approve additional funding for Baldwin Hall expansion, renovation
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved a $1 million increase for the budget to renovate and expand UGA’s Baldwin Hall at its Aug. 20 meeting in Atlanta. Baldwin Hall is located on the Athens campus at the northeast corner of South Jackson and Baldwin streets. A total of $8.75 million now will go toward the expansion of the building. The amended budget will provide for Americans with Disabilities Act accessible restrooms, additional class space, a higher capacity elevator and additional offices. Funding of this cost increase of $1 million will be from UGA institutional fund reserves. Paul Efland
William Said, a senior lecturer and Distinguished Honors Professor in Franklin College’s cellular biology department, teaches in a SCALE-UP classroom in the biology building.
‘Evolutionary process’ Biological Sciences Division experiments with active-learning classroom
By Aaron Hale
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Sometimes it takes new tools to achieve the ends of an old idea. The Biological Sciences Division, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has retrofitted a classroom in the biology building with active-learning instructional tools. Modeled off a SCALE-UP class, which stands for Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for Undergraduate Programs, the classroom positions the instructor literally in the center of the classroom among students. Dozens of large-screen computers for students, a video camera and projection screens at two ends of the classroom are just some of the tools that promote instructor-to-student and student-tostudent interaction. A similar classroom was set up in the physics building in 2012. The Science Learning Center, which is scheduled to open in 2016, will have two SCALE-UP classrooms. (See story, page 1). While the gadgets and classroom layout are new, the concept behind the pedagogical philosophy has been around for a while. William Said, a senior lecturer and Distinguished Honors Professor in Franklin College’s cellular
biology department, alluded to this wellestablished concept during an advanced level Maymester biology and cellular biology class, the first class taught in the SCALE-UP classroom. Said stood at an instructor’s podium with an old-fashioned pencil and paper. He trained the video camera on the piece of paper as students watched the projector screens. Said wrote down a version of an old proverb about education: “Lecture me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will learn.” That involvement between instructor and students is the point of the SCALEUP classroom. The classroom can seat up to 45 students, with a computer for groups of three to share. Each computer’s screen can be shown on the projectors for the entire class to see. Whereas students get the opportunity for hands-on experience with experimentation in labs, SCALE-UP classrooms offer the chance for students to better grasp concepts about understanding research results, said Mark Farmer, a professor and chair of the Division of Biological Sciences. In practice, Farmer said, working scientists use data to analyze what they are studying. “That’s how real science works,” Farmer said. In an active learning environment,
students get the opportunity to work with data sets and figure out how to use them. Farmer said exercises in the SCALEUP classroom can make learning “much more realistic, much more meaningful and much closer to learning by doing rather than learning by memorizing.” If the first class, Said’s Maymester course, was any indication of how students like the classroom, then there are promising signs. “It’s user friendly,” said Katie Rowlett, a biology and psychology major. “Having a computer right in front of my face is nice because I can pull things up and show the class what I’m looking at.” The SCALE-UP renovation was funded jointly by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and the Franklin College. Farmer also credits staff in the Facilities Management Division with helping to prepare the class for renovation. Farmer views the new SCALE-UP classroom as “an incubator” for biological sciences faculty to try out active learning teaching methods. By the time the Science Learning Center is complete, biology faculty already will have gotten a chance to hone effective teaching methods. “I’m a biologist,” Farmer said, “so I know it’ll be an evolutionary process.”
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Study explains why human-provided food affects animals By Beth Gavrilles bethgav@uga.edu
Scientists have long known that providing supplemental food for wildlife, or resource provisioning, can sometimes cause more harm than good. UGA ecologists have developed a new mathematical model to tease apart the processes that help explain why. Their research, which has implications for public health and wildlife conservation, was published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Animals of many kinds increasingly are finding their meals in human environments, gathering at places like backyard bird feeders, landfills or farms that offer an easily accessible year-round source of food.As with people, however, when large numbers of animals congregate they can face a higher risk of contracting disease.
A desire to understand a disparity in disease outcomes motivated the study by Daniel Becker, a doctoral student in the Odum School of Ecology, and co-author Richard Hall, an assistant research scientist in the Odum School and the College of Veterinary Medicine’s infectious diseases department. Providing food for wildlife—whether intentionally, as with bird feeders or feeding stations for feral cat colonies, or unintentionally as in the case of garbage dumps—can cause changes to an animal’s breeding success, foraging behavior and body condition that, in turn, influence its risk of acquiring harmful infections. For their model, Becker and Hall used data from studies of feral cats with feline leukemia virus that visited supplemental feeding stations. The model revealed that a key factor in predicting disease
outbreaks in wildlife that access supplemental food was how that additional food influenced the strength and speed of the immune response. And more food wasn’t necessarily better. Under some scenarios, even low levels of supplemental food could increase the risk of outbreaks compared with wildfeeding populations. In other cases, a small amount of supplemental food initially drove down infection levels, but too much led to the population size growing so large that the increased opportunities for infection to spread overcame the animals’ immune defenses, with large outbreaks possible. The authors said that their results point to the urgent need for more studies to explore the relationship between resource provisioning, immune defense and disease.
Institute for Women’s Studies honors Giles, associate professor emerita
Freda Scott Giles, an associate professor emerita of theatre and film studies and African-American studies, was honored with the Women’s Studies Faculty Award during the 2014 Women Faculty Reception Aug. 22. Hosted by the Institute for Women’s Studies, the reception was an opportunity for new and returning faculty members to meet and network. Dawn Bennett-Alexander, an associate professor in the Terry College of Business, who introduced Giles, said she is “somebody who makes significant contributions not only to the Institute for Women’s Studies but also across the university and this community.” Giles said she was “blessed, humbled and grateful,” for the honor. She said that working with the IWS had provided a great sense of community, one that nurtures and helps develop scholarship. “This is a time when the missions of the institute are more vital and important than ever,” she said. “What all of you do is more important today and is going to make an even bigger difference.”
College of Education to host workshop
The Office of School Engagement in the College of Education will host a brown bag workshop for faculty. “Building and Sustaining School District and University Partnerships” will be held Sept. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. in Room G-23 on the ground floor of Aderhold Hall. Faculty from all colleges, schools and departments at UGA are invited to bring lunch and learn more about the College of Education and Clarke County School Professional Development School District Partnership. The workshop will include conversations with current PDSD Professors-in-Residence and on-site instructors as well as a discussion about opportunities for involvement in the partnership. For more information, contact Erica Gilbertson, project manager, at ericag@uga.edu or 650-315-4165.
‘Vet School for a Day’ to be held Sept. 24
The College of Veterinary Medicine will hold its “Vet School for a Day” Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the college’s campus. The program teaches high school juniors and seniors about the variety of careers in veterinary medicine. Registration, which is required, closes Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. Students from Georgia and South Carolina are encouraged to attend. “Vet School for a Day” includes a tour of the teaching hospital, a panel discussion by faculty veterinarians in a variety of specialties and the opportunity for the high school students to meet veterinary student leaders. Students also will learn about the high standards for admission to the veterinary medicine college. All students must be accompanied by an adult chaperone—a parent, counselor or teacher. Students attend for free; there is a $15 per-person fee for each chaperone, payable on the day of the event. Visit http://t.uga.edu/RD for more information or to register.
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2nd Thursday Concert to feature works by Gershwin, Beethoven By Joshua Cutchin jcutchin@uga.edu
Pianist Damon Denton will appear as featured soloist with the UGA Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 11 in Hodgson Concert Hall. The performance, which opens the 2014-2015 Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series, will be the first to feature the new 7:30 p.m. start time for the series. The UGA Symphony Orchestra will be directed by Mark Cedel. Tickets are $18, $5 for students, and are available at the UGA Performing Arts Center box office or by calling 706-542-4400 or going to pac.uga.edu. In addition to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major Eroica, the UGA Symphony Orchestra will showcase Denton during its performance of
George Gershwin’s Concerto in F. “One of the reasons I love this composition is because it highlights the piano and orchestra in equal measure,” said Denton, faculty accompanist at the Hodgson School. “It gives the entire orchestra—not just the piano, but all the wonderful musicians onstage—a chance to shine.” As one of the country’s most celebrated composers, Gershwin had an affinity for combining distinctly American idioms, including jazz, the blues and ragtime, into his compositions. Concerto in F, while more closely tied to classical concerto tradition than Rhapsody in Blue, nonetheless incorporates many of the sounds, textures and harmonies for which Gershwin is known. “The concerto is all about real life,” Denton said. “It mirrors the street—cars honking, crowds cheering, dirty streets
and bright lights. Gershwin’s work is distinctly American music that joyously reflects American life as opposed to abstract melody.” A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Denton graduated from Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and completed his postgraduate work at The Juilliard School of Music. Denton has performed in recital with members of the New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco and Atlanta symphony orchestras, as well as musicians of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and New York’s “Winds of New Amsterdam.” Subscriptions to the 2014-2015 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series can be purchased by calling 706-542-4400. More information on the 2nd Thursday Series or the Hodgson School of Music is at music.uga.edu.
The Georgia Museum of Art will host the exhibition An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab Sept. 13 through Dec. 7. Schwab’s drawings help explain the most badly damaged relief sculptures of the Parthenon, the temple often considered the greatest work of ancient Greek art and architecture. In 2005, Schwab, who is professor of art history at Fairfield University, began experimenting with graphite and pastel on paper to develop a new method of recording her observations of the monumental sculpted reliefs on the east and north metopes on the Parthenon.
A metope is a rectangular panel of the decorative frieze that extends above the columns of Greek temples. The monumental panels (1.5 x 1.2 meters) preserve complex and barely legible damaged surfaces, due to Christians’ deliberate damage of the sculptures of ancient gods and heroes in the sixth century A.D. “Katherine Schwab’s new drawings of the Parthenon metopes are an epiphany,” said Mark Abbe, guest curator of the exhibition and assistant professor of ancient art at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art.“The product of new close and prolonged scrutiny, they reveal the once fresh and dramatic narrative of the most badly damaged and overlooked sculptures of the Parthenon. These
drawings bring us intimately close to the sculptures and allow us to see anew the dramatic narrative immediacy that defined much of the best Greek art of the High Classical period.” The exhibition is divided into three sections.The first includes 16 pastel and graphite drawings of the east metopes, which focus on the Olympian gods fighting the Earth-born giants. The second section shows the sacking of Troy, and the third section includes a monumental, full-scale plaster cast of one of the metopes, provided by the Acropolis Restoration Service. This exhibition is organized by the Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University, Creighton University and the Timken Museum of Art.
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Los Angeles sculptor Ry Rocklen will present a lecture Sept. 9 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Series. The lecture, which will be held in Room S151 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, is open free to the public Rocklen arrived at UGA at the start of the semester as a visiting artist at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries. During his monthlong residency, Rocklen is working with students to create a new installation of porcelain sculptures. The galleries will host an exhibition opening party for the show Ry Rocklen: Local Color on Sept. 12 from 6-8 p.m. Rocklen began his career studying with Charles Ray at the University of California, Los Angeles, and continued at the University of Southern California where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree. Rocklen has exhibited his
work nationally and internationally, most recently holding solo exhibitions at Praz-Delavallade in Paris, France, and UNTITLED in New York. His work is in the collections of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the MoCA Library at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Throughout his residency at the LDSOA galleries, Rocklen will create a series of castings from the stuff of Athens and Los Angeles. Treating himself as a found object, Rocklen will exhibit a series of porcelain tiles made from molds of his old clothes. Rocklen has long worked with the found object, choosing items from everyday life and recasting them in a new material. “I am attracted to objects that are anachronistic despite their commonality,” Rocklen said. “The objects used in my work are unavoidable.”
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By Angel Jackson arh1016@uga.edu
The annual Archway Partnership/ CED Summer Internship Exhibit is on display through Sept. 26 in the main hall of the Jackson Street Building, located at 285 S. Jackson St. A collaboration of UGA’s Archway Partnership and the College of Environment and Design, the exhibit showcases the work and design recommendations of 18 CED graduate and undergraduate students who worked with Archway Partnership communities in Candler, Habersham, Hart, Sumter, Pulaski and Washington counties this summer. The students worked on landscape designs, planting plans, building renovations, trail design, streetscape design, neighborhood and regional revitalization and master plans for government
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XL. Through Nov. 16. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, left). An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab. Through Dec. 7. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. (See story, below left). Vince Dooley: A Retrospective, 1954-1988. Through Dec. 15. Special collections libraries. 706-542-7123, hasty@uga.edu. Terra Verte. Through May 31, 2015. Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Tuesday Tour at Two A 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. Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. 706-542-8079, jclevela@uga.edu. New Multicultural Faculty/Staff Reception 3:30 p.m. Magnolia Ballroom, Georgia Center.
Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Zoe Strauss will be residing as the Lamar Dodd Chair during the 2014-2015 school year. Part of the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist/ Scholar Series, sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab features a freshly made, full-size monumental plaster cast of a metope that depicts Helen fleeing to a statue of Athena during the Greek sacking of the Trojan citadel.
agencies, civic leaders and community members. Specifically, some examples of projects included signage for entryways, walking trails around downtowns, way finding signage for communities and playgrounds for neighborhoods. “Because the College of Environment and Design is completely committed to the university’s land-grant mission to serve Georgia and its citizens, we are indeed grateful to the Archway Partnership for providing our students with several outstanding design and planning projects in partnership communities,” said Dan Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design. “While those communities certainly benefit from the plans and designs created by our students, the students themselves are the real beneficiaries of important realworld experiences and skills guaranteed to give them an essential advantage in
the job market.” Through this partnership, Archway and the environment and design college have worked to extend the university’s knowledge and expertise to counties facing significant issues related to economic and community development. To date, approximately 215 projects have been completed by more than 150 students. “Archway’s relationship with CED exemplifies our mission to enhance teaching, research and service at the University of Georgia,” said Mel Garber, director of the Archway Partnership. “The students who work in Archway communities bring the best of what UGA has to offer to the citizens of Georgia—a key part of our responsibility as the landgrant university of the state. The experiential learning acquired by the students and the value of the work done for the communities are truly immeasurable.”
Tour at Two “Highlights from the Permanent Collection.” Led by docents. 2 p.m. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu. Staff Council meeting 2:30 p.m. 207 Miller Learning Center.
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop “Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Doing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” For those who are fairly new to the scholarship of teaching and learning, there are a number of considerations that can make a difference as to whether or not research is suitable to be published. 1 p.m. Instructional Plaza. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu. Embracing Diversity Program Hosted by the Office of Institutional Diversity, this event celebrates individuals who have completed the Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion Program. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Athletic Association Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences, will speak. 3 p.m. Chapel. 706-583-8195, sreyes@uga.edu.
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Faculty/Staff Donors Reception 3:30 p.m. Grand Hall, Tate Student Center. Book Reading Award-winning author Philip Lee Williams will read from his autobiography, It Is Written: My Life in Letters. Presented by UGA Libraries. 5 p.m. 285 special collections libraries. 706-542-3879, lnessel@uga.edu.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 10th Annual Diversity Conference Concurrent sessions focusing on overlooked areas of diversity and developing scholarly paths to engage in critical dialogues will be led by faculty in the College of Education and from across campus. Keynote speaker: Patricia Edwards, Distinguished Professor of Language and Literacy, Michigan State University. 8:30 a.m. Georgia Center. 706-542-8799, bmassey@uga.edu. Friends First Friday Hear stories about how Insect-ival started and learn more about it. This monthly event includes a full breakfast and an opportunity to meet new people while learning about the garden and its history. RSVP by Sept. 3. $12. 9 a.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-9353, mmccoy1@uga.edu. Volleyball vs. Chattanooga. Part of the Bulldog Invitational. 7 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621. Soccer vs. Houston. 7 p.m. Turner Soccer Complex. 706-542-1621.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Cross Country: UGA Invitational Equestrian Complex. Volleyball vs. Belmont. Part of the Bulldog Invitational. 1 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621. Volleyball vs. College of Charleston. Part of the Bulldog Invitational. 7 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 706-542-1621.
Soccer vs. University of Central Florida. 1 p.m. Turner Soccer Complex. 706-542-1621. Grandparents Day Grandparents and grandchildren can attend an afternoon of creativity and wonder in the garden. Participants will spend the first part of the afternoon exploring the purple trail for materials and spaces to create a fairy habitat. Then they will have an enchanted fairy tea party in the Children’s Classroom. $25. 2 p.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Workshop “Encouraging Collaboration with Blogs.” In this workshop, participants will discuss blogging as a way to facilitate student collaboration and group work. 2 p.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu. Full Moon Hike Participants should be prepared to hike up to 2 miles. $5; $15 per family. 7 p.m. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.
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Ecology Seminar “Larval Development and Its Consequences for Marine Biogeography,” Paula Pappalardo, postdoctoral associate in the Odum School of Ecology. Reception precedes seminar at 3:30 p.m. in lobby. Hosted by Jeb Byers. 4 p.m. Ecology Building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu.
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Shapes That Talk to Me. Through Oct. 19. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.
The Georgia Museum of Art will turn its focus to large-scale works in the exhibition XL on view Sept. 13 through Nov. 16 in the Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries. New curator of American art Sarah Kate Gillespie has selected works that date from the 1950s to the 21st century, a period marked by a concern with scale. This trend toward works that gain much of their impact from filling a viewer’s visual field continues, with spaces like the Tate Gallery’s Turbine Hall designed to feature large-scale art and provide an immersive experience. It also may result from an attempt to reprioritize the in-person
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The Prints of Mary Wallace Kirk. Through Oct. 12. Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.
encounter with a work of art, as large scale is less comprehensible when reproduced in a book or on a smartphone screen. The works in XL come from both the museum’s permanent collection and long-term loans. Artists include Sandro Chia, Gregory Gillespie, Terry Winters and Jack Youngerman. Saul Baizerman’s sculpture “Day,” the companion to “Night,” which is on display at the Getty Center, in Los Angeles, will be on view, as will a work by Beverly Pepper, whose sculpture “Ascension” graces the quad in front of the museum. The museum’s quarterly reception, 90 Carlton: Autumn, will be Oct. 10 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. and is associated with this exhibition. The event is free for museum members and $5 for others.
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Works by Ginny McLaren. Through Oct. 5. State Botanical Garden. 706-542-6156, ckeber@uga.edu.
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Introducing Hubert Bond Owens: Pioneer of American Landscape Education. Through Oct. 1. Jackson Street Building.
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Bernd Oppl: Inhabited Interiors. Through Sept. 16. Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery, Georgia Museum of Art. 706-542-4662, hazbrown@uga.edu.
Gregory Gillespie’s “Wheel of Life” will be on display through Nov. 16 as part of the exhibition XL.
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The UGA Symphony Orchestra will perform with pianist Damon Denton during a Sept. 11 concert in Hodgson Concert Hall. The performance will open the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series for 2014-2015.
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Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture Sept. 9. Ry Rocklen is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture. Part of the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist/Scholar Series, sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116. (See story, left). 2nd Thursday Concert Sept. 11. A performance from the UGA Symphony Orchestra and Mark Cedel, director of orchestral activities. $18; $5 with a UGA student ID. 7:30 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu. (See story, above left). brown bag workshop Sept. 12. “Building and Sustaining School District and University Partnerships.” Noon. G-23 Aderhold Hall. 650-315-4165, ericag@uga.edu.
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Nathaniel Grow, an assistant professor of legal studies in the Terry College of Business, was honored with the Association of Legal Studies in Business 2014 Distinguished Junior Faculty Award. The annual award recognizes faculty members whose careers show exceptional promise based Nathaniel Grow upon their early accomplishments. Grow received the honor at the ALSB’s national meeting in August. Grow, whose research interests include antitrust, intellectual property, sports law and legal history, is the author of Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption. James I. Richardson, an instructor and undergraduate coordinator in the Odum School of Ecology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sea Turtle Society at its 34th annual symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation in New Orleans. Because of Richardson’s James Richardson work, “the way we manage sea turtles on a global basis has evolved and become more effective,” said Sally Murphy, the society’s awards committee chair. The ISTS is a global organization dedicated to ensuring healthy sea turtle populations worldwide. The lifetime achievement award, established in 2008, recognizes individuals who have had a significant impact on sea turtle biology and conservation throughout the course of their careers. Richardson has been working with threatened and endangered sea turtles since 1964, when he started studying nesting loggerhead sea turtles on Little Cumberland Island. In 1986, he began a study of nesting hawksbill sea turtles in Jumby Bay Island, Antigua, West Indies. He also has advised national and international government agencies and conservation organizations about sea turtle conservation. He was the first director of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network and has served as endangered species specialist with the state of Georgia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. National Park Service and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service and as a scientific adviser for the Republic of Palau’s Division of Marine Resources. Kristin Sayeski, an assistant professor of communication sciences and special education in the College of Education, was named editor of TEACHING Exceptional Children, the peer-reviewed, practitioner-focused journal of the Council for Exceptional Children. As editor, Sayeski is responsible for articulating a vision for the journal and implementing plans to realize that vision, selecting professional content for six issues every year, selecting associate editors and field reviewers and managing the peer review process, working with authors to refine and improve manuscripts, adhering to rigorous production deadlines and working collaboratively with publications staff. Sunkoo Yuh, an associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, placed second in the 2014 Virginia A. Groot Foundation competition. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation was established in 1988 so that artists working in three dimensions could have the opportunity to devote additional time and resources to the development of their work. Kudos recognizes special contributions of staff, faculty and administrators in teaching, research and service. News items are limited to election into office of state, regional, national and international societies; major awards and prizes; and similarly notable accomplishments.
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Through the use of anecdotal experiences and tangible tools, Stephan Durham, an associate professor of civil engineering in the College of Engineering, connects the theories and academic applications of the information he teaches in the classroom to the professional world.
Professor prepares students to be engineers, community leaders By Mickey Montevideo mickeym@uga.edu
When Stephan Durham teaches his students about civil engineering, he hopes they take away not just classroom instruction but life lessons as well. An associate civil engineering professor in the College of Engineering, Durham aspires to challenge his students to reach their full potential and apply the concepts learned in class to real-life situations. Through the use of anecdotal personal experiences and tangible educational tools, Durham connects the theories and academic applications of the information he teaches in the classroom to the professional world. “Although it may not be written on the syllabus, Dr. Durham teaches his students passion and curiosity within their fields of interest,” said Scotty Smith, a civil engineering student from Duluth and president of the UGA student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. “His apparent love for what he does, whether it be teaching introductory freshman courses or directing his graduate students’ research, inspires students to take action and invest in their education.” Within the civil engineering program, Durham specializes in structural materials and concrete sciences. His research emphasis within these fields has primarily focused on how to make concrete—the
most used man-made material in the world—more sustainable and less deleterious to the environment. Durham came to UGA in 2012 to develop the civil engineering program with fellow faculty members Sidney Thompson, Mi Guem Chorzepa, Brock Woodson and Siddharth Savadatti. Durham graduated with his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Arkansas. He had not aspired to be a teacher until he taught a laboratory course while working on his master’s degree. The experience inspired him to earn his doctorate and pursue a teaching career. In 2005, Durham joined the civil engineering department at the University of Colorado in Denver, where he developed a concrete materials research program. Now, Durham teaches many classes in the engineering college.Throughout the courses, Durham continuously connects the technical and fundamental concepts to the practical application of engineering. The first students will graduate from the program in spring 2015, which will make the program eligible for ABET accreditation. ABET is an accrediting organization for academic programs in applied science, computing, engineering and engineering technology Along with teaching and his role as a program coordinator, Durham helped lead the effort for a structural
Facts Stephan Durham Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Program Coordinator College of Engineering Ph.D., Engineering (Structural Engineering Emphasis), University of Arkansas, 2005 M.S., Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering Emphasis), University of Arkansas, 2003 B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2001 At UGA: Two years and eight months
engineering lab called STRENGTH Laboratory at the Engineering Research and Education Center. With a strong 26-foot-high wall and 6-foot-thick concrete floor, the laboratory can be used for experimenting with everything from earthquakes to bridge beam testing. Durham said he hopes his teaching will leave students with the ability to apply their technical knowledge and practical know-how to solve engineering problems and that they will continue their desire to learn, openly listen to others and their ideas and understand the importance of being kind and respectful to others. “If students leave our program with these attributes, they are well on their way to being successful engineers and community leaders,” he said.
Division of Student Affairs
Former Georgia Southern administrator named director of International Student Life at UGA By Stan Jackson ugastan@uga.edu
Justin S. Jeffery is the new director of International Student Life in the Division of Student Affairs. Before joining UGA, Jeffery was the assistant director of the Office of Student Activities at Georgia Southern University. “Justin brings impressive experience and talent to the position,” said Victor K. Wilson, vice president for student affairs.“His international work experience combined with his knowledge gained from service at one of Georgia’s larger public institutions makes him uniquely qualified to lead the Office of International Student Life at UGA.”
In addition to supervising the ISL staff, Jeffery is responsible for developing the vision for programming and services and managing resources. He also will facilitate a variety Justin Jeffery of cross-cultural and international programs that ensure developmental and academic growth, promote the success and retention of UGA’s international and multinational students, and educate the university community. International Student Life, a department within the Division of Student
Affairs, produces campus-wide programs including the International Street Festival, which draws crowds of around 15,000 people to downtown Athens for interactive cultural displays and musical and dance performances, and International Coffee Hour, an event held weekly for more than 40 years that brings students, faculty and staff together for international cuisine and coffee. “I’m excited about UGA’s focus on both supporting and celebrating the diversity of its international student population,” Jeffery said. “I look forward to enhancing ISL’s roles in enriching the experiences of international students and serving as the conduit for educating campus about the contributions of these dynamic students.”
Questions&Answers
‘Opening the doors of Dodd’
School of Art welcomes new director, Chris Garvin, to campus
The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes its new director to campus this fall. Chris Garvin comes to UGA from The University for the Arts in Philadelphia, where he served as program director. An interactive designer and creative director in the private sector for many years, Garvin has written and spoken extensively on the complexity of contemporary design and business practice, and its implications on the future of design and education. He spoke with Columns upon his arrival to UGA this summer.
Columns: You come to UGA from a big city setting. How is that related to your vision for the school of art? Garvin: So I grew up in a formerly big city, Buffalo. I went to grad
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Columns: That takes a lot of confidence, but also a lot of humility—it can seem like a contradiction. Garvin: It can, and I have often said, “I have just enough ego to try this, but not so much ego that I need to own it.” And it’s helped me a lot in building things. Many times in academia, the ownership is what can kill interesting projects and keep them from getting off the ground.
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Columns: You are a professor and an artist. How do those two fit together? Garvin: There are parts of my life that I act as a designer, as an artist, an educator, an entrepreneur, and I embrace them all. I’m never scared to be a hybrid, to have “and” be in there. Part of my experience is writing curriculum and programs at universities and getting them off the ground, building coalitions and curriculums so that things can happen. I’ve done that looking at those projects as a designer, and I’ve used those designer skills to help me become a better educator. The thing that makes them part of me is that I use the same thinking processes in all of them. I think about the audience differently in each, and I think about the group and the collaborations differently.
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Chris Garvin, new director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, comes to UGA from The University for the Arts in Philadelphia. Garvin said building connections across disciplines will help graduate and undergraduate students excel in whatever they do.
school at Ohio State, then I lived in New York City for 10 years—and that’s an education in itself—then in Philadelphia. And those are two very different American metropolises, and they work very differently. I moved to New York to be a designer, with a painting degree, so some of my vision comes out of my own experience. I was trained in a great art school in a large research university, where I gained the confidence to use those skills in a variety of different ways. For example: I could talk to computer scientists; I borrowed projectors for my thesis exhibit from the football team; I had an office in a center shared between the art school and the computer science school, all very formative experiences. Being a painter and working in those areas, I learned the idea of abstracting things, moving across disciplines, across mediums, and in a contemporary business world that would be called “knowledge transfer.” It’s
incredibly marketable. So I like to say I was accidentally marketable because of my education, but it wasn’t so much an accident as that academic environment. For me, the most exciting thing about UGA is that the pieces of that same ecosystem are here. Helping to build those connections where our graduate and undergraduate students can excel in whatever they want to do, that their vision of success is not just the gallery show, not just working at a design firm, but it’s a variety of different things that they choose. We have the ability to do that here. Few places in the world have the academic ecosystem available to make those kind of malleable, exciting graduates who can go out into the world and do whatever they want. Columns: That’s a great advantage for a big art school in a large university, but can also be a struggle, culturally maybe, because we separate things, and so that’s part
of your challenge, is it not? Garvin: Connecting them is clear to those who are interested in that and who see the arts as a powerful, indispensable part of our society. I think too often the arts have cloistered themselves. We think we’re something special that needs to be protected—that we need to be nurtured like a garden. And I’ve always thought of the arts as a forest; you just let us go and we’re going to pop up anywhere. The arts are that strong. The creative impulse is such an important part of our culture that, I think opening up the doors of Dodd, letting what we do get out into UGA, letting more of UGA in, will infect the place. You see that protectionist mentality in a lot of art schools right now, but I don’t think we need to protect the arts. We don’t have enemies. We have the support of the people who want to know more about us, and that’s going to be a great place for Dodd to grow into in this university.
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Professor co-authors Education college unveils redesigned site book about Harlem’s http://coe.uga.edu/ The new website features a The College of Education has Rattlers combat unit launched a revamped website that fully functional directory, calendar In 1918, when a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: “I’m an American, and I never retreat.” The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of World War I’s 369th, the African-American combat unit—nicknamed Harlem’s Rattlers—who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken. Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War, written by Jeffrey T. Sammons, a history professor at New York University, and John H. Morrow Jr., Franklin Professor of History at UGA, details the origins, evolution, combat exploits and post-war struggles of the 369th Regiment.
includes completely overhauled information and a new design. The site, which is built in a “flat-file” content management system called Statamic, has been consolidated from 6,000 pages to less than 700 in a period of seven months.
Yana Cornish is the new director of education abroad for the Office of International Education. Prior to joining UGA, Cornish was the director of study abroad p rograms at the University of Northern Iowa. During her more than 10 years at Yana Cornish UNI, student participation in study abroad nearly quadrupled. The Institute for International Education’s Open Doors report now ranks UNI as one of the nation’s top 40 master’s institutions for study abroad participation. She also helped to expand short-term faculty-led programs, add 50 new student exchange partnerships, spearhead the curricular integration of study abroad and develop an international travel registry for UNI. Cornish has conducted research and co-authored publications on cross-cultural studies, teacher preparation and foreign language study. As director of education abroad, Cornish is responsible for articulating a strategic vision of UGA’s education abroad efforts, developing and implementing effective education abroad policies and procedures, and working with academic units on curriculum integration and curriculum internationalization. The education abroad director will define strategies to increase student access to study abroad including scholarships. “I am delighted that Yana Cornish has joined the senior team in the Office of International Education,” said Kavita Pandit, associate provost for international education. “International education at UGA is continuing to grow and expand in exciting ways, and Dr. Cornish has the experience and leadership to take our study abroad programming to the next level.”
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and user-friendly experience. The project was completed internally by the college’s Web team, Daniel Fowler and Dave Wynne, with assistance from Kristen Morales, a new addition to the news writing team at the college.
Editor Juliett Dinkins Art Director Kris Barratt Photo Editor Paul Efland Senior Reporter Aaron Hale Reporter Matt Chambers 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. I
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UNDER-WATER CHALLENGE—Left: UGA President Jere W. Morehead, center, participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Aug. 22 along with
Student Government Association President Drew Jacoby, left, and Graduate Student Government Association President Peyton Bell. The president then challenged Steve Stice, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar who conducts neuroscience research. Right: Stice accepted the challenge.
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tour from page 1 and the UGA Alumni Association. Over five days, the group traveled through 14 cities and 48 counties learning about the culture, geography, economy and people of Georgia. From Jaemor Farms in Alto, where tour participants received an overview of the role agritourism plays in the North Georgia economy, to the Warner Robins Air Force Base, the economic engine for Warner Robins, to the Georgia Port in Savannah, the second largest container exporter in the Southeast with 13.3 millions tons shipped out a year, faculty saw the diversity of the economy as they moved from one region to another. At the state Capitol in Atlanta, they heard UGA President Jere W. Morehead, University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby and Georgia Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Corbin talk about the relationship between education and the economic health of the state. “A strong state of Georgia is good for UGA,” Morehead said. “A strong UGA is good for the state. Our goals are aligned; they support each other.” The tour, which was revived last summer after a five-year absence due to state budget cuts, is intended to help faculty members who have been at UGA less than two years identify ways to connect with a program or
community in Georgia. “We encourage all of our faculty, whether from academics or service, to find ways to use their expertise to help us create jobs, develop leaders and address critical challenges in our communities,” said Jennifer Frum, vice president for public service and outreach. At each stop, faculty members identified ways their expertise could benefit a Georgia business or community. Henry Young, the Kroger Professor of Community Pharmacy, saw the link between an educated and healthy workforce and a strong economy. “My work deals with the prevention and management of chronic medical conditions and outcomes,” Young said. “The work that I do could be used to help individuals prevent health problems or manage current conditions. In turn, these efforts may help improve work productivity, for example reduce sick days and reduce organizations’ health care expenditures.” “The New Faculty Tour is a reminder that each of us, in one way or another, plays a role in enhancing the economy and quality of life in Georgia,” said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.“It also demonstrates to communities that while our main campus is in Athens, our reach extends across the state.”
Bulletin Board Emergency preparedness training class
As part of National Preparedness Month at UGA, the Office of Emergency Preparedness will offer its “Storm Spotter Class” Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. in the Tate Student Center. Kent Rantz of the National Weather Service will train volunteers how to identify and report severe weather. On Sept. 23 at 2:30 p.m., OEP will hold the first session in its “Fall 2014 CERT Class.” The UGA CERT program educates the campus community about disaster preparedness with training in basic disaster response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization and disaster medical operations. The class will meet on Tuesdays through Nov. 11 in Room C of the Training and Development Building. For more information, contact Pete Golden, emergency operations coordinator, at pgolden@uga.edu.
Phone directory verification
All regular, benefits-eligible faculty and staff are encouraged to review their work and home addresses as well as telephone number information prior to the
Sept. 11-12 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The event will bring invited scholars from universities across the nation to discuss issues facing the field and challenges for the future. This program is supported in part by the President’s Venture Fund through the gifts of the UGA partners. On Dec. 2, the institute continues an annual tradition with the Louise McBee Lecture at 11 a.m. in the Chapel. Mary Sue Coleman, president emerita of the University of Michigan, will deliver the lecture, which focuses on higher education. One of IHE’s long-standing outreach programs, the Governor’s Teaching Fellows, will celebrate its 20th year of programming this academic year. An anniversary celebration around teaching and learning is scheduled for Jan. 23, with more than 500 former GTF participants invited. The program is open to the public. The anniversary year will conclude with the 50th Anniversary Conference and Celebration scheduled for March 30-31 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. In addition to bringing alumni back to campus, the conference will explore the latest trends and best practices in higher education. A full listing of events and more information about the institute are at ihe.uga.edu.
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annual publication of the printed phone directory. A special Web page on Human Resource’s self-service website is available until Sept. 10 for directory information verification. To begin the verification process, go to http://www.hr.uga.edu. Under the “HR News” heading, select “Faculty/ staff directory verification” and follow the instructions. Questions about the phone directory verification process may be directed to Dan Baker in Human Resources at dbaker@uga.edu.
Student art competition
The State Botanical Garden is conducting a statewide art competition sponsored by the J.A. and H.G. Woodruff Jr. Charitable Trust to recognize student talent in Georgia and create items for the garden’s gift shop. The winning artist will receive $1,000. Additional awards of $500, $250 and certificates of merit are also available. Artwork awarded cash prizes will become the property of the State Botanical Garden and used to create signature items only sold in the garden’s gift shop. The competition, in its 10th year, is
open to Georgia students in ninth grade through college. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. Artwork must be two-dimensional and no larger than 24 x 36 inches. Acceptable media include pencil, pen and ink, paint, photography, collage and computerenhanced graphics. One-color designs are welcome and needed to create affordable gift shop products. The artwork does not need to be framed, but it should be signed. Entrants should keep in mind that the goal is to create items such as totebags, stationery, T-shirts, journals, scarves and more for the State Botanical Garden gift shop. Previous winning entrants have included high school and home-schooled students as well as college students studying art, graphic design, illustration and photography and other subjects not related to art or horticulture. Submissions may be dropped off in the lower level of the Callaway Building at the botanical garden or mailed to Connie Cottingham, 2450 S. Milledge Ave., Athens, GA, 30605. For more information, call 706-542-6014 or see the complete guidelines and entry form at botgarden.uga.edu.
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was a 2013 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. “By its title, White Girls both does and doesn’t refer to actual girls, or women, who are white,” said Ed Pavlic, a professor of English and creative writing in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. “In essays that touch on the worlds of literature, film, fashion and popular culture, Als creates a daring pastiche, a portrait where all the supposed-to-be sacrosanct, would-be-airtight containers (racial, sexual, psychological, formal) in the American Tupperware Party of Apartheid lose themselves in each other in order to find themselves in themselves.” Als has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan University and Smith College. He lives in New York City. Als’ reading at UGA is co-sponsored by the President’s Venture Fund, the Institute for African American Studies, the English department’s Lanier Speaker Series and the Creative Writing Program in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
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effective teachers. The conference will conclude with TEDstyle talks by Georgia educators, including Georgia’s 2015 Teacher of the Year, Amanda Miliner, a fourth-grade teacher at Miller Elementary in Houston County. The State of Education Conference provides a professional learning experience for educational leaders, school board members, higher education faculty, community leaders and anyone who is interested in education in Georgia. Conference registration is $95, which includes workshop materials, refreshment breaks, lunch and a parking pass. More conference and registration information is at www.coe.uga.edu/events.
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“What’s going to be done in these 33 laboratories is a complement to what Gov. Deal’s been talking about his entire term, and that is STEM education,” Huckaby said. “It’s critical to the economic vitality of our state; it’s critical to the future of so many students who come to study at the University of Georgia.” Deal said the faculty who teach in the Science Learning Center will be training some of the best minds not only in the state, but also in the world. “As we continue to see jobs created in the STEM areas, the ability to train college students in the sciences—like this building will allow us to do—is going to be even more important,” he said. “It is a great day for beginning the construction of a facility that will mean a lot to increasing the prestige of this university,” Deal also said. “This is providing the kind of facility that great young minds need to be great young professionals, and that’s what it takes to keep Georgia moving in the right direction, and it’s going to be something we can all look back on and be proud of.” Lydia “Meg” Babcock-Adams, who is completing her bachelor’s degree in chemistry and marine sciences and her master’s degree in marine sciences as part of UGA’s combined bachelor’s/master’s degree program, said the new facility’s focus on a deeper, more personal learning experience will benefit all students. “For nonscience majors, it provides an exciting environment for them to learn about scientific and technological advances; for science majors, it provides a gateway to more advanced scientific work,” she said. “It gives me great pleasure to see the construction of the Science Learning Center, which will make an already excellent education, exceptional,” she also said. The Science Learning Center is scheduled to open in fall 2016. Building floor plans are available at t.uga.edu/Tb.
ON THE WEB
A video of the groundbreaking ceremony is available at http://vimeo.com/104434946.