8 April 17, 2017 columns.uga.edu
HONORS
LEADERSHIP from page 1 s tudents and director of the Tate Student Center in the Division of Student Affairs. At UGA since 2004, Barham oversees management of the Campus Reservations, Events & Technical Services, the Center for Student Activities and Involvement, Print & Copy Services, UGA Card Office, Legion Pool & Field, and Tate Operations. She serves as a member of the Dean of Students administrative team and on committees such as the Behavior Assessment Response Council, Sexual Assault Response Team and UGA Women’s Coordinating Council. She is also part of the advising team for the Student Government Association. • Sadie Brown, director of fiscal affairs for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Brown, who has worked at UGA since 2002, is responsible for core finance and administrative support to the one of the university’s largest organizations. She manages the college budget of approximately $225 million including budget development, position management, preparation of fiscal and personnel documents, studies and reports for use in management decisions, external accountability and advising CAES administration. • Julie Cheney, senior director of alumni operations in the Division of Development and Alumni Relations. Cheney, who started at the Institute of Higher Education in 1999, left to work at UNC-Chapel Hill and returned to UGA in 2007. She currently leads a full spectrum of finance and administration obligations for the Office of Alumni Relations, oversees analytic solutions for measuring alumni engagement, manages personnel processes from hiring to employee engagement and works in collaboration and consultation with UGA’s school, college and unit alumni directors. • Carla Dennis, director of administrative services and communications in University Housing, has been employed at UGA since 2000. In addition to providing leadership for the administrative services and communications operations for University Housing, she oversees marketing and public relations, information technology, business and human resources, and assignments and occupancy management aspects for Housing. • Anjali Dougherty, associate director of Internal Auditing, joined UGA in 2006. As a university auditor, she works with an array of constituents at all levels of the organization to help them develop better financial and operational processes and think more critically about their approach to problem solving and also is involved in the risk assessment process for the university, the development of the annual audit plan, and the training of audit staff. • Melanie Ford, director of construction in the Office of University Architects, began working at UGA in 2007. Her main
responsibilities include overseeing the construction of all capital construction projects and major renovations. She is involved with the day-to-day interface with the construction managers hired on campus. She also provides guidance to construction managers and University Architect project managers for compliance of construction with applicable codes and UGA’s design guidelines. • Heather McCormick, regional director of development in the Division of Development and Alumni Relations.With UGA since 2012, McCormick builds and maintains relationships with alumni and friends in an effort to raise leadership and major gifts for the university. She also represents UGA’s Development and Alumni Relations Office in a major gift capacity representing all of the university’s schools, colleges and units over an expansive territory of the U.S. • Emily Saunders, director of alumni relations for the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, has been at UGA since 2007. She connects Warnell alumni with current students, faculty and employers and encourages their engagement with the university. She also manages Warnell’s regional events, homecoming activities, annual giving campaigns, mentor program, professional communications with alumni and other creative programs aimed at keeping the school’s constituents engaged. • Megan Ward, administrative director of the New Media Institute in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been employed at UGA since 2013 and oversees the operations of the New Media Institute. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate New Media and Emerging Media courses,Ward also serves as licensee for TEDxUGA, leading all curation and organizing efforts for the annual event. • Cara Winston Simmons, director of the Student Success and Advising Center in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has worked at UGA since 2003. She is responsible for directing the center’s activities around recruitment, orientation, advising, career development, student involvement and leadership, experiential learning and student programming. She also provides oversight and secures funding for The Bridge, a four-part transition series for new FACS students, and the UGA Hygiene Closet. “The growth of the Women’s Leadership Initiative to include a range of programming for faculty, staff and students underscores this institution’s commitment to helping individuals reach their full potential,” Whitten said. “An extraordinary group of professionals has been selected for the inaugural cohort of the Women’s Staff Leadership Institute, and they are poised to make an even greater impact on the University of Georgia.”
Bulletin Board Bulldog Bucks changes
Bulldog Bucks is returning to an on-campus program this summer and will no longer be available off campus. Bulldog Bucks will continue to operate on campus with restructuring to limit future losses. The last day to make off-campus purchases with Bulldog Bucks will be May 31. Customers may continue to use Bulldog Bucks as a payment method at participating on-campus locations. Customers still will be able to deposit money into their Bulldog Bucks account and monitor activity via the Bulldog Bucks website and through kiosks located at select locations on campus. A full list of participating on-campus merchants will be available after May 31 at https://bulldogbucks.uga.edu/campus-vendors. Contact Bulldog Bucks at bbucks@uga.edu or 706-542-8257 with account questions.
Fulbright application workshop
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers U.S. faculty, administrators and professionals grants to lecture or conduct international research in a variety of academic and professional fields. The application deadline for 2018-2019 academic year is Aug. 1. A representative from the Institute of International Education, which administers the Fulbright program,
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be holding special recognition ceremonies for honored students in their disciplines. For more information, go to http://calendar. uga.edu/. Honors Week will begin April 17 with the 26th annual Public Service and Outreach Meeting and Awards Luncheon. It will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Hotel and Conference Center. The meeting and luncheon are open to the public, but online registration is required at http://t.uga.edu/Es. During morning and afternoon sessions, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to attend professional development sessions. A luncheon at noon in the Magnolia Ballroom will honor the 2017 Public Service and Outreach award recipients. The 2016-17 Service-Learning Fellows’ poster presentations, highlighting the courses and projects they have developed during their yearlong fellowship with the Office of Service-Learning, will be on display. The Faculty Recognition Banquet also will be held April 17 in Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia Center. The reception for the invitation-only event will begin at a 5:45 p.m. reception; dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, the event will recognize the winners of this year’s awards for teaching excellence, including the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorships and the Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as faculty and graduate students who will be honored for outstanding teaching. The Presidential Honors Week Luncheon will be held April 19 with registration and photos at noon and the luncheon at 12:30 p.m.
PEABODY from page 1 FUSION after party. The deal includes exclusive content in the print magazine and on EW.com. Supporting sponsors of the 76th annual Peabody Awards ceremony include the Emerson Collective, an organization focused on education, immigration reform, the environment and other social justice initiatives, and The Coca-Cola Co. Jones is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, musician and activist. She currently stars in the hit TBS series Angie Tribeca in which she plays the title role, in addition to working behind the camera as executive producer and a director of some episodes. A multi-hyphenate in the entertainment
will be on campus to conduct workshops for UGA faculty interested in applying to the program. The workshops will provide an introduction to Fulbright and offer tips on identifying grants and preparing a compelling application. Two identical workshops will be offered, and faculty may choose which session they wish to attend. Both workshops will be held April 20. The first one is at 10:30 a.m. in Hirsch Hall (Room 355) of the School of Law. The second workshop is at 1 p.m. in Room 141 of the Coverdell Center. RSVP online at http://oie.uga.edu/fulbright/. Faculty who cannot attend either session may fill out the RSVP form and indicate that they would like to be invited to future Fulbright-related events. More information on the Fulbright Scholar program, including the 20182019 catalog of awards is at http://www.cies.org/.
Spring pottery sale
Hosted by the Office of the President, the invitation-only recognition luncheon at the President’s House will honor First Honor Graduates and Student Government Association leaders, as well as student recipients of the Presidential Award of Excellence and national scholarship winners. At 5:30 p.m. that same day, the Honors Program Banquet will be held at the Classic Center. Dinner for the invitation-only event will be held at 6:30 p.m. During the banquet, Honors Program students who have graduated in the summer or fall of 2016 as well as the graduating class of May 2017 will be recognized. Recognitions presented at the banquet include the Jere W. Morehead Award, which is given to an exceptional alumna/alumnus or friend of the Honors Program. On April 20, the Research Awards Banquet will be held in Mahler Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The reception for the invitation-only event will begin at 5:30 p.m.; dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., the 38th annual Research Awards Banquet recognizes excellence in UGA research and scholarly creativity. Awards are given annually to honor outstanding faculty and graduate students. The Alumni Awards Luncheon (see story, page 7) will be held April 21 at noon in Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center. The UGA Alumni Awards celebrate distinguished alumni, faculty members and friends of UGA. The Alumni Merit Award, Young Alumni Award, Faculty Service Award, Family of the Year Award and Friend of UGA Award recognize those who demonstrate dedication to the University of Georgia. Registration for the luncheon, which is required, can be completed online at t.uga.edu/34E.
The UGA Ceramic Student Organization will hold a spring pottery sale April 26-27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the first floor lobby of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, 270 River Road. Work on sale will include hand-built sculptures for home and garden as well as functional pottery: teapots, mugs, boxes, plates, vases and bowls. All work was made by ceramic students or faculty. Prices will range from $10 and up.
space, Jones was nominated this past year for an NAACP Image Award for co-writing the first episode of Netflix’s third season of Black Mirror. She also developed Claws on TNT, a nail salon turned money-laundering-front dramedy, set to premiere this summer. On April 21, she will be releasing a docu-series on Netflix, Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On, a continued exploration of themes discovered in her Emmy-nominated documentary in 2015, Hot Girls Wanted. The series will focus on society’s relationship with sex and technology. Fans grew to love Jones from her roles on The Office and Parks and Recreation and through the romantic film that she wrote and starred in, Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Proceeds from the ceramic sale will go to support a student educational field trip to a national ceramic conference and to help bring resident artists to campus. Hourly parking is available at the Performing Arts parking deck, which is located next to the Performing Arts Center on River Road. For more information, email Ted Saupe at tsaupe@ uga.edu.
Faculty Writing Retreat
Write@UGA will hold a Faculty Writing Retreat May 17-18 from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Miller Learning Center. Faculty members may elect to register for just one or both days. Breakfast, lunch, refreshments and snacks will be provided along with a comfortable and quiet space for participants to work. Writing faculty also will be available should participants wish to discuss a project in process. For more information, email Lindsey Harding (lharding@uga.edu) or Elizabeth Davis (eadavis@uga. edu). Registration, which is open until May 7, may be completed online at https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/jfe/ form/SV_bkoPTn2ruvdDlPv. Bulletin Board is limited to information that may pertain to a majority of faculty and staff members.