University of Georgia Magazine December 2015

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Five years after enduring criticism for her research on the BP oil spill, Samantha Joye is still focusing on the facts

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SELFIE SNAP President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80) joins members of the class of 2019 for a selfie at Freshman Welcome, held in Sanford Stadium in August. Morehead (center) joined Houston Gaines (left) and Johnelle Simpson (right)—vice president and president, respectively, of the Student Government Association—as freshmen formed a G on the field for a class photo.

Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker

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Best place to network with UGA alumni?

YOUR COUCH.

The University of Georgia is proud to offer a free series of virtual networking events for UGA alumni and students. Individuals will participate in up to one hour of 10-minute, one-on-one chats with fellow participants via desktop or mobile device.

Because each event can be accessed by mobile device (no app necessary!), you can join in from work, home, coffee shop or even the treadmill.

See the spring lineup at alumni.uga.edu/virtualworking

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UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye presents her research to a panel during the Gulf Oil Spill Symposium, an event that brought about 500 scientists to UGA in 2011.

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Standing firm Five years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye continues to lead multimillion-dollar research efforts to understand the fate of the oil and its impact on the ecosystem.

26 Quest for knowledge

Memberships soar for UGA’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, an outreach program for older adults who crave learning.

30 Cooking connection

Campus Kitchen opens the door to different worlds for UGA students, taking them beyond buzzwords to understand how hunger and poverty affect society.

ON THE COVER Joye poses on the front deck of the research vessel Endeavor, docked in Gulfport, Miss., for World Oceans Day in June.

Photo by Rick O’Quinn

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December 2015 • Vol. 95, No. 1 GEORGIA MAGAZINE Allyson Mann, MA ’92, Editor Margaret Blanchard, AB ’91, MA ’98, Managing Editor Lindsay Robinson, ABJ ’06, MPA ’11, Art Director Pamela Leed, Advertising Director Fran Burke, Office Manager

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Take 4 President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80) on how UGA supports economic development in Georgia.

Peter Frey, BFA ’94; Robert Newcomb, BFA ’81;

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Rick O’Quinn, ABJ ’87; Andrew Davis Tucker; and Dorothy Kozlowski, BLA ’06, ABJ ’10; UGA Photographers Daniel Funke, Editorial Assistant PUBLIC AFFAIRS Janis Gleason, Interim Director of Communications Alison Huff, Director of Publications

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$1 million gift Sanford (M ’55) and Barbara Orkin (M ’56) establish a scholarship fund for low-income students.

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Class Notes

The Bulldog Nation welcomes Uga X, known previously as Que.

37 Die-hard Dawg

10 Diverse univers(ity) UGA wins award two years in a row for efforts to foster an inclusive, diverse campus.

Eleanor Banister (BSEd ’73, JD ’79) embraces a new leadership role at the UGA Foundation.

38 Alumni Association News, a calendar of upcoming events and how to get involved.

Close ups 12 Innovative initiative With a new experiential learning requirement, UGA is the largest public university in the nation to give all students hands-on learning experiences.

16 Growing Terry UGA’s Terry College of Business set a new precedent for business education with the opening of Correll Hall and the ceremonial groundbreaking of Amos Hall in September.

45 Art, accelerated Maggie Smith Kühn creates on-thespot watercolor portraits at weddings and other events.

56 Back Page Erica Hashimoto, the Allen Post Professor of Law, was named a 2015 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction.

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ADMINISTRATION Jere W. Morehead, JD ’80, President Pamela Whitten, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Ryan Nesbit, MBA ’91, Vice President for Finance and Administration Kelly Kerner, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Rahul Shrivastav, Vice President for Instruction David C. Lee, Vice President for Research Jennifer Frum, PhD ’11, Vice President for Public Service and Outreach Victor Wilson, BSW ’82, MEd ’87, Vice President for Student Affairs J. Griffin Doyle, AB ’76, JD ’79, Vice President for Government Relations Timothy M. Chester, Vice President for Information Technology Change your mailing address by emailing information to records@uga.edu or call 888-268-5442.

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— An interview with President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80)

Q: The University of Georgia is focused heavily on supporting economic development in the state.

Talk to us about some of the major initiatives in this area.

A: Promoting economic development is an important part of the university’s land-grant mission. In fact, UGA has been designated an Innovation and Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities for our efforts to help existing businesses thrive and to make Georgia a desirable place for new companies to locate.

Aiding these efforts is UGA’s Office of Economic Development in Atlanta, which puts university resources into the hands of those who are working to build our economy. Among other things, the office assists the Georgia Department of Economic Development and its allied partners in recruiting companies to our state and retaining those with a Georgia presence. The office’s location in Midtown Atlanta’s Centergy building allows for greater accessibility to the state’s economic ambassadors and is a strategic location for UGA in contributing to the state’s development efforts.

Q: What are some other economic development initiatives?

A: The university’s 17 Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) provide training, consulting and research assistance to small businesses across Georgia. Last year, SBDC consultants worked with nearly 4,000 clients to improve planning and management, capital access, accounting and finance, marketing, exporting and procurement functions in their businesses. In the last five years, SBDCs have helped clients raise $525 million in capital, start more than 1,400 new businesses and create nearly 12,000 jobs. Medical practice management, minority business development, international trade and agribusiness are among the SBDCs’ areas of expertise.

Q: How does faculty research contribute to economic development?

A: Research discoveries boost Georgia’s economy while improving lives around the world. To date, UGA faculty research has led to the creation of more than 525 commercial products and more than 130 start-up companies. Products based on UGA research range from prescription medicines for the treatment of Hepatitis B (Clevudine) and chronic dry-eye (Restasis®) to cell lines that aid in understanding neurological disorders to peanut, blueberry and turfgrass cultivars.

Last year, the university established Innovation Gateway, a new campus unit dedicated to moving new technologies to the marketplace as efficiently as possible. This month, we are breaking ground on the Center for Molecular Medicine, a state-ofthe-art, purpose-built facility that will facilitate the development of new therapies, cures and diagnostics for human diseases.

Q: What role do alumni play as economic drivers in Georgia?

A: The University of Georgia operates as the state’s most effective talent pipeline, producing nearly 8,000 graduates each year who are ready to lead and succeed in today’s economy.

Most of our alumni stay in Georgia, working for Georgia companies or starting their own businesses. Our alumni head some of the most dynamic enterprises in the state, from Fortune 500 companies to biotech startups. With new academic initiatives that foster experiential and entrepreneurial learning by our students, UGA is doing more than ever to ensure that graduates are highly qualified to serve in Georgia communities and lead in Georgia businesses.

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UGA’s Inseok Song (PhD ’00) and fellow researchers are one step closer to understanding how planets formed around the sun after the discovery of a new planet, 51 Eridani b (depicted above). The Jupiter-like planet is actually an exoplanet, which means it revolves around a star other than the sun. The discovery is the first by the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), a new instrument operated by an international partnership of researchers. Song, an associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is co-principal investigator of the GPI exoplanet survey team. He explains that images from 51 Eridani b provide information on the planet’s atmosphere, which in turn “will eventually allow astronomers to examine biosignatures [scientific evidence of present or past life] from mature planets during the next decade.” The discovery comes after more than 10 years of collective efforts by more than 50 researchers. Results were published in the October issue of Science.

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UGA TOPS RANKINGS

Law gains Atlanta footprint

The University of Georgia remains a top university in the nation according to magazine rankings measuring student performance and value.

UGA placed 21st on the list of Best Public Universities 2016 by U.S. News & World Report, released in September. Two critical measures of student success contributed to the ranking: a freshman retention rate of 94 percent and a graduation rate of 85 percent.

The university came in at No. 3 on Washington Monthly magazine’s list of Best Bang for the Buck Colleges in the Southeast 2015. The rankings consider graduation rate and performance, the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants, the net price of attendance and whether students go on to earn enough to pay off loans.

The School of Law is launching its first Atlanta Semester in Practice in January. The program offers second- and third-year students the opportunity to receive full-time, practical experience through placements in the judicial, government, corporate and nonprofit arenas.

The initiative provides new experiential learning and professional development options for law students.

Students will work in full-time placements in the offices of the governor and attorney general, the Georgia Supreme Court and the House Democratic Caucus, as well as a number of other government, nonprofit and corporate locations. In addition to the externships, students will take a clinical seminar and upper-level courses, earning up to 16 credits for the semester.

The School of Law Atlanta Campus will be housed within the Terry College of Business Executive Education Center in Buckhead.

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Donors give $1 million for needbased scholarships Sanford (M ’55) and Barbara Orkin (M ’56), an Atlanta couple with a long history of generously supporting the University of Georgia, have given $1 million to establish a scholarship fund for low-income students.

Eligible scholarship recipients may be first-generation college students with little to no parental involvement and few financial resources. The fund will provide financial support for tuition, books, room and board and other living expenses for outstanding, academically talented students.

“A secure source of funding that helps students meet their housing, food and educational requirements, we hope, will help these remarkable young people stay at the university through graduation and on the road to successful careers and full lives,” Sanford Orkin says.

The gift addresses a top priority for the university by increasing scholarships for students with significant financial need. “I am deeply grateful to Sanford and Barbara for their enduring generosity and for establishing this scholarship fund, which will have a transformative impact on the lives of many UGA students,” says President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80).

UGA MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS The University of Georgia continues to make strides in creating opportunities for students from lowincome backgrounds.

In July, UGA received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help support first-generation students as well as those from lowincome families. The funding is part of the Federal TRIO’s Student Support Services Program, which provides outreach and assistance to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Current TRIO programs at UGA include Student Support Services, Upward Bound and Talent Search. The grant, distributed over five years, will provide academic development and assistance to participants in an effort to increase college retention and graduation rates.

Such efforts are paying off in terms of public recognition. In September, UGA placed 10th among public universities (and 24th among all universities) doing the most for low-income students in the 2015 New York Times College Access Index. The index is based on the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants, the graduation rate of those students and cost of attendance for low- to middle-income students.

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Acclaimed author Alice Walker read from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple at the Morton Theatre in Athens Oct. 15.

SPEAKING IN TRUTH Emphasizing “fearlessness and standing in your truth,” Alice Walker spoke to packed houses at both the Morton Theatre and the UGA Chapel this fall. Students like Mansur Buffins identified with the author’s message. “I love how she lives freely,” says Buffins, a second-year social studies education major. Buffins was among students from UGA, Emory University and Spelman College who met with Walker during her two-day visit as the inaugural Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. The endowed chair was established by the Willson Center for Humanities and Art, through the support of the Delta Air Lines Foundation, to host outstanding scholars, creative thinkers, artists and intellectuals on campus. Valerie Boyd, associate professor of journalism, who moderated the Morton Theatre discussion, is currently curating and editing Walker’s personal journals for a book scheduled for release in fall 2017.

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BARK OUT TO … Alan Covich, professor in the Odum School of Ecology, who received the Distinguished Service Citation for more than 40 years of volunteer service from the Ecological Society of America. … WUGA-FM’s “The Guest List” for winning a GABBY Award for Excellence for the best locally produced program (non news/ sports) from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.

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… Marie Scoggins, administrative financial director of UGA Marine Extension, who received the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award from the U.S. Department of Defense.

… Denisa Gándara, doctoral candidate in the Institute of Higher Education, who received dissertation fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the American Educational Research Association. … Meredith Meyer (BSA ’15), Brooke Oot (BSA ’15) and students Juliana Fritts, Adam Gresham, Shemaine Mensah, Sara Muntean and Faustine Sonon, who won first place in a competition sponsored by the DuPont Company for a breakfast muffin using quinoa they developed in a food science class taught by Professor Yao-wen Huang (MS ’78, PhD ’83).

Denisa Gándara … Malcolm Mitchell, wide receiver for the Georgia Bulldogs, who was named to the Allstate AFCA (American Football Coaches Association) Good Works Team for his commitment to help others and make a positive impact on his community.

… Kamal Ghandi, associate professor of forest entomology, who was named a science policy fellow for the Entomological Society of America. … Ny Raivo Voarintsoa, geology doctoral student, who was selected for the Faculty for the Future Fellowship Award from the Schlumberger Foundation. … the Digital Library of Georgia, the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Atlanta History Center and the Georgia Historical Society, which received the 2015 Award for Excellence Kamal Ghandi in Documenting Georgia’s History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council for the digital collection “America’s Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia.” … Chad Austin, a student in turf grass management, who received the Pete Dye Agronomic Scholarship from the Ford Plantation. … Matthew Nahrstedt, a graduate student in environmental planning and design, who was accepted into the Virtual Student Foreign Service eInternship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. … Jameson Kenerly, feature twirler with the UGA Redcoat Band, who was named National Collegiate Downfield Champion at America’s Youth on Parade, the most prestigious twirling competition in the U.S.

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UGA MOURNS PASSING OF JANE WILLSON Jane Seddon Willson, one of UGA’s most generous benefactors, died Nov. 3 in Albany.

Together with her late husband Harry, Willson established a tradition of giving at the university that spanned more than six decades.

“Jane set a standard for philanthropy and service that few have surpassed,” says UGA President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80). “She supported all aspects of UGA ranging from the Honors Program to the arts and humanities for many decades, creating avenues to promote research and creativity among faculty and to facilitate international travelstudy for our students.”

One of the most visible results of her philanthropy is the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, named in honor of an endowment established by Jane and Harry Willson in 2005.

Willson was an emeritus trustee of the UGA Foundation and served on the UGA Research Foundation and the Georgia Museum of Art board of advisors, among others. In 2006, UGA honored Willson with a Doctor of Laws degree.

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FRESHMEN GEOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION: Students from Georgia represent

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DAMN GOOD DOGS The Bulldog Nation welcomed a new mascot Nov. 21 when Uga X was officially collared during halftime of the Georgia-Georgia Southern football game. Uga X, known previously as Que, assumed his new title after a threemonth audition. He appeared at the Countdown to Kickoff event in July and Picture Day in August before presiding over Georgia’s first seven football games this fall.

As Que stepped into the mascot role, Uga IX, known as Russ, officially retired at the age of 11. The halfbrother of Uga VII, Russ compiled an overall record of 44-19. He worked 25 games as an interim mascot from 200912 and then another 38 games as Uga IX from 2012-14.

The continuous line of Georgia Bulldog mascots has been owned by Frank ROB SAYE W. “Sonny” Seiler (BBA ’56, JD ’57) Uga IX, known as Russ, retired in November after serving as and his family since mascot for 63 games.

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GROWING THE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE Research expenditures at UGA grew 7 percent in fiscal year 2015 due to strategic investments in health-related research and determined efforts to attract more funding from private foundations.

Federal funding for research at the university held steady from fiscal year 2014 to 2015, but support from private foundations rose dramatically to boost overall research expenditures to $154.6 million. For example, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust all provided support for research into infectious diseases and vaccines.

Overall, UGA faculty had nearly 1,500 funded research grant proposals in fiscal year 2015.

“Funding from the federal government and from private foundations enables our faculty to conduct research that benefits health, safety and security, the economy and overall quality of life,” says Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.

“These grants also enable promising graduate students from across the nation and around the world to work alongside our faculty to make UGA one of the nation’s leading research universities.”

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The award is given to institutions for outstanding efforts and success in diversity and inclusion throughout their campuses. As a HEED Award recipient, the university was featured in the November issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity, the oldest and largest diversity magazine and website in higher education.

“Fostering diversity among our faculty, staff and students gives the University of Georgia a competitive edge in today’s globalized world,” says Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. “We all benefit when a broad range of perspectives and ideas are considered, and I am delighted that UGA’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion continue to receive national recognition.”

Successful initiatives include recruiting diverse students, faculty and staff and improving graduation rates of underrepresented groups. UGA’s six-year graduation rate for African-American students is 81.5 percent—more than double the national average, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The graduation rate for Hispanic students is 79.5 percent, which also far exceeds the national average.

UGA Foundation boosts student investments The University of Georgia Foundation invested $750,000 from its endowment to support the Terry College of Business’ Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) as part of its longterm portfolio strategy. The investment grew SMIF’s capital to more than $1 million.

Terry’s SMIF provides students interested in investing or careers within the financial sector to serve as investment managers for the foundation. Responsibilities include regular reporting of market values and reinvesting returns back into the portfolio.

“The foundation’s commitment is a confirmation of the huge impact that SMIF is having on Terry/UGA students in setting them up for tremendous professional success,” says Mitchell Reiner (BBA ’05), chairman of the board of trustees for SMIF and COO of Capital Investment Advisors.

Foundation Trustee Darren DeVore (BBA ’86) and his wife, Pam (BFA ’86), donated $100,000 to start the fund in 2006 to give students practical, rather than hypothetical, experience in investment management.

The program pairs well with UGA’s experiential learning initiative. Student managers present their investment strategies and fund analysis to the foundation’s investment committee three times a year. The highly competitive program annually receives more than 150 applications for 42 student manager positions.

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Deborah E. Lipstadt, a scholar of modern Jewish history, gave a preview of her forthcoming book at a University Lecture Oct. 22.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST One of the world’s leading scholars on modern Jewish history explored how the United States came to understand the Holocaust during a University Lecture Oct. 22. Deborah E. Lipstadt traced how the term holocaust entered the American parlance in 1945 and gradually became the accepted term for the Nazi genocide of European Jews. She also spoke of how the term was used as a metaphor by writers and artists during the 1960s to shed light on the country’s shortcomings.

Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, is author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory and the Eichmann Trial. She warned against appropriating the Holocaust to advance a personal agenda. “We have to be careful about our language,” she says. “We have to draw lessons from the past, but be careful about too easily using the past for our own particular political or social goals.”

Former provost gives $500,000 for professorship The College of Public Health has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Karen and Jim Holbrook Distinguished Professorship and an endowed fellowship to support graduate students in the global health field.

Karen Holbrook served as provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at UGA from 1998-2002.

Her husband, Jim, is a retired oceanographer and past deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Pacific Marine Environmental Research Laboratory in Seattle.

During her tenure as provost, Holbrook was instrumental in creating new programs in the biomedical and health sciences, leading to the eventual creation of the College of Public Health. The UGA Foundation is providing an additional $250,000 for the distinguished professorship in recognition of Holbrook’s transformative time at UGA and in honor of her service to higher education.

Together, the Holbrook Distinguished Professorship and Graduate Fellowship will build on the college’s existing strengths in global health research, increase international collaborations and expand experiential learning activities for students in international public health. The first Holbrook Professor is expected to be named by January 2017.

$1 MILLION GRANT WILL COMBAT ILLNESS IN CHILDREN UGA researchers have received $1 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to speed the development of new drugs for treating cryptosporidiosis, a major cause of diarrheal disease and mortality in young children around the world.

Cryptosporidiosis is caused by a microscopic parasite commonly spread ROBERT NEWCOMB Boris Striepen through tainted drinking or recreational water. There is no vaccine and only a single drug of modest efficacy available.

“Cryptosporidiosis is a tremendous public health challenge,” says Boris Striepen, Distinguished Research Professor in Cellular Biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and a member of UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

Earlier this year, Striepen and his research group created new tools to genetically manipulate the parasite. His team will use funds from the Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to leverage this new technology and speed drug discovery.

DAWGS TEACH FOR AMERICA UGA graduates committed to service are making a difference in high-needs schools through Teach for America. Thirty recent alumni joined 4,100 other recruits this year—making the university a top 20 feeder school for the program among large universities.

Teach for America, part of the AmeriCorps national services network, recruits and develops college graduates and professionals who make a two-year commitment to teach in high-needs rural and urban schools across the country. Only 15 percent of this year’s 44,000 applicants were admitted to the program.

UGA is traditionally a top contributing school for the program and tied for No. 14 this year. Rahul Shrivastav, vice president for instruction, attributes the trend in part to students’ commitment to service, which is embedded in UGA’s curriculum. In 2014-15, more than 7,300 students participated in service-learning courses that build on their desires to give back to their communities.

“University of Georgia students are some of the most engaged students in the nation,” Shrivastav says.

“They are passionate about making a real and lasting impact and helping others.”

UGA joins South Big Data Hub Researchers at UGA will participate in a National Science Foundation initiative called the South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, which aims to solve the nation’s most pressing challenges related to extracting knowledge and insights from large, complex collections of digital data.

Led by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing Institute, members of the South Big Data Hub (SBDH) will engage businesses and research organizations to develop common goals impossible for individual members to achieve alone.

SBDH will apply big data analysis to scientific and social issues in five areas: health care, coastal hazards, industrial big data, materials and manufacturing, and habitat planning.

“Researchers in many diverse disciplines are accumulating unprecedented volumes of data …,” says Lakshmish Ramaswamy, associate professor of computer science in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and a SBDH co-investigator. “This initiative will foster collaborations that will help us extract information from these mountains of data so that we can develop solutions to complex problems in multiple domains.”

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Innovative initiative With a new experiential learning requirement, UGA becomes the largest public university in the nation to give all students hands-on learning experiences

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GA student body President Johnelle Simpson spent the Maymester term in China with a study abroad program. On the flight over—his first time leaving the country—he wrestled with misgivings. Would anyone speak English? Would he like the food?

He quickly learned the answer to both questions was yes, and Simpson says the immersive experience brought a new perspective to his classes this semester.

“When the markets crashed in China and we were talking about it in my finance class …, I was able to relate,” he says. “Beyond academics there’s a whole relatability piece to it and being able to understand it even more.”

That’s exactly the kind of benefit that’s expected next fall when the University of Georgia’s new experiential learning requirement goes into effect. All incoming undergraduates will be required to engage in hands-on learning prior to graduation, and UGA will become the largest public university in the nation to ensure that each of its students has transformative experiences such as internships, study abroad, service learning or research.

“With a spirit of innovation and a deep commitment to student learning, faculty at the University of Georgia continue to push the boundaries of undergraduate education,” says UGA President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80).

UGA’s experiential learning requirement is new, but students have been taking advantage of hands-on learning opportunities for years. Ricky Patel (center) worked as an intern for Dr. J. Benjamin Patrick in 2009. At left, Patel (BS ’11) and dental assistant Tiffany Well (right) assist Patrick as he performs dental bleaching on a patient.

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“Offering a tailored, hands-on experience to our undergraduate students not only will further enhance this institution’s world-class learning environment but also will further distinguish them as graduates.”

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The American Association of Colleges and Universities includes experiential learning on a list of high-impact educational practices that have been widely tested and have been shown to be beneficial for college students from many backgrounds. Research suggests that these practices increase rates of student retention and student engagement while improving students’ ability to analyze and synthesize information.

Studies also show that benefits may include “improved academic performances, increased content knowledge and greater ability to apply that knowledge,” says Tim Cain, associate professor and historian at UGA’s Institute of Higher Education.

Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, notes that in addition to enhancing learning, hands-on experiences help position students for success after graduation.

“Our students will have a competitive edge when they apply for graduate school or begin their careers because of the experiences they have gained through this requirement,” she says.

Linda Bachman (EdD ’13), UGA’s director of experiential learning, spent more than a year laying the groundwork for the initiative. In 2014 she chaired a university-wide committee that explored what an experiential learning program might look like, resulting in the requirement that was passed in April by University Council.

UGA’s initiative is ambitious, Bachman says, and aims to provide the kind of experience that’s normally found at a small liberal arts college.

“To be able to deliver something that’s hands-on and personalized to this many students—that’s a challenge, and it’s one we’re up to.”

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Linda Bachman (EdD ’13), UGA’s director of experiential learning, started working on the initiative in 2014, chairing a committee that explored what the program might look like. After the requirement was approved, she worked with UGA’s schools and colleges to draft plans for how each would define the activities that fulfill the requirement.

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In 2014, Anquilla Deleveaux (right) was a CURO student working on research with Anna Karls (left), associate professor of microbiology. Above, Deleveaux (BS ’15) cultures plates with strains of salmonella.

Each student will be able to select from a diverse slate of opportunities that reflect his or her individual interests and aspirations. The requirement will not increase the number of credit hours required to earn a degree, and the majority of experiential learning opportunities come with no additional cost.

Bachman spent summer and fall working one-on-one with the deans and curriculum committees of UGA’s schools and colleges to determine how each would define the activities that fulfill the requirement.

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“The question [was] how much, how rigorous, how independent?”

Bachman says. “What’s the line at which an experiential learning opportunity meets the requirement?”

The resulting plans for each school and college—approved in October by the University Curriculum Committee—include a list of alreadyexisting courses or programs that meet the requirement. They run the gamut from internships to service learning to field schools to study abroad to research, and Bachman expects that each school and college will continue to develop additional opportunities.

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to its students—particularly through study abroad, service learning, research and internships.

UGA is consistently among the nation’s top universities for study abroad participation, ranking 17th on the 2014 Open Doors report on the number of U.S. students studying abroad. More than 7,300 UGA students participated in service-learning courses in the last academic year. And during the past 15 years, more than 2,000 undergraduates have participated in classes, summer research fellowships, and assistantships through the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO).

At UGA, conducting research with a faculty member is associated with better GPAs and more timely degree completion, says Martin Rogers (MA ’01, PhD ’10), associate director of the Honors Program and CURO.

“The thinking is that the more hands on the learning is, the more committed and successful the students will become,” he says.

Cain says the requirement has the potential to significantly change the university by integrating experiential learning into the fundamental concepts of undergraduate education.

“Over time, it has the chance to become part of what the UGA experience is known for—what students come to expect as a core part of their education,” he says.

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lthough the experiential learning requirement goes into effect next fall, financial support for it is building.

The UGA Athletic Association established a $1 million endowment for the initiative, and Morehead also established a scholarship fund to support undergraduates pursuing experiential learning opportunities.

Bachman also is working on generating new partnerships. When the Oconee Hills Cemetery, located in Athens, approached her to discuss how they might work with students, Bachman listened to their needs—help with mapping, GPS and history—and immediately thought it would be a good fit for UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The Willson Center agreed, setting the stage for a future partnership with the potential for research projects, student internships and course-based service learning.

“It’s a good example, I think, of a community partnership that has many different levels of engagement in many different dimensions of experiential learning,” she says.

But the bottom line is what students will take away from these experiences, Bachman says.

“We have fantastic students, and a lot of them are seeking out experiential opportunities on their own, even without a requirement, and that’s great,” she says. “But we owe it to every single one of our students to make sure that they have this kind of enriched educational experience that really does equip them to take their education out into the world and be immediately effective. Making it a requirement means that those students who aren’t already seeking it out are going to … have the benefit of this experience.”

As a senior, Simpson is not subject to the university’s new experiential learning requirement. But the president of UGA’s Student Government Association says the trip to China opened his mind to the international world, and he sees value in making such experiences mandatory for future generations of students.

Rogers agrees.

“Over and over again you hear from the students that these are transformational experiences,” he says. “They have tremendous influence on how students continue on with their path or choose a career.”

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CREATING CONNECTIONS Nearly one-third of UGA students complete internships in diverse fields like health care, international affairs, journalism, arts and business.

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Through UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, students conduct independent research in disciplines ranging from the humanities to the sciences.

More than 7,300 UGA students participated in service-learning courses in 2014-15.

More than 2,400 students study abroad at our three residential campuses in Oxford, Cortona and Costa Rica, or through programs in almost 60 countries across all seven continents.

UGA is developing partnerships with businesses, community agencies and other organizations on mutually beneficial internship, research, service-learning and study abroad opportunities.

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Growing Terry Business college expands learning community UGA’s Terry College of Business set a new precedent for business education with the opening of Correll Hall and the ceremonial groundbreaking of Amos Hall in September.

Correll Hall marks the completion of Phase I of the college’s planned Business Learning Community.

“As the times have changed, so has the Terry College, which has remained on the leading edge—always adapting in order to prepare the next generation of business leaders,” says President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80). “The Business Learning Community was born out of this pioneering spirit and commitment to excellence.”

Correll Hall is named in honor of A.D. “Pete” Correll (BBA ’63) and his wife, Ada Lee (BSEd ’63).

“Ada Lee and I are immensely proud to be tied to the legacy of the Terry College and the University of Georgia, which has helped so many young men and women over the years,” says Correll, chairman emeritus of Georgia-Pacific. “I know firsthand that the state of Georgia and its workforce benefit directly from the

teaching and learning that happen here. We’re excited to enhance that contribution to our state and nation by helping the Terry College reach new levels of excellence.”

Correll Hall, home to the college’s graduate programs, was designed with collaboration in mind and includes a business innovation lab, multiple team project rooms and a graduate commons. The $35 million project was funded entirely by private donations.

Amos Hall, the centerpiece of Phase II of the college’s Business Learning Community, will house its undergraduate programs. Named in honor of Daniel P. Amos (BBA ’73), chairman and CEO of Aflac, the facility is slated for completion in 2017.

Phase II, supported by $43 million in state funds and $14 million in private donations, will encompass approximately 140,000 square feet with two large auditoriums, eight classrooms, a trading room, a behavioral lab, undergraduate commons, conference rooms and faculty and staff offices.

(Left to right) Terry Dean Ben Ayers, Ada Lee (BSEd ’63) and Pete Correll (BBA ’63), President Jere Morehead (JD ’80) and Dan Amos (BBA ’73) celebrate the dedication of Correll Hall Sept. 18.

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Correll Hall is the first facility in the college’s planned Business Learning Community, located at the corner of Baxter and Lumpkin streets. The 74,000-square-foot building serves as a world-class learning environment for graduate students.

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Above, Associate Professor Santanu Chatterjee, director of the Full-Time MBA Program, leads a doctoral class in economics in the Barry L. Storey Team Room. Correll Hall features multiple project team rooms in addition to several larger classrooms.

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Correll, left, chairman emeritus of Georgia-Pacific, and Amos, chairman and CEO of Aflac, were honored for their significant support of the project. Below, an architectural rendering of the Business Learning Community includes the now complete Correll Hall (top) and Phase II (center), future home of Terry’s undergraduate programs, with Amos Hall as the centerpiece.

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Left, David Mustard, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, leads a law and economics class in the Robert W. Scherer Memorial Classroom on the first day of fall semester.

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Above, students (left to right) Laura Drake, Abby Weinstein and Steven Huynh follow along on their laptops during a management information systems class at Correll Hall.

Left, second-year MBA student Chris Henseler uses an interactive Sharp Aquos Board as he works on a group project in the Innovation Lab. The state-of-the-art lab and multiple meeting rooms within Correll Hall were designed to encourage collaboration and the development of new ideas.

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When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April 2010 and discharged more than 200 million gallons of oil, UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye was one of the first scientists to investigate the disaster and one of the few who had prior knowledge of the ecosystem—she’s been studying the natural seepage of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico for more than 20 years.

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STANDING FIRM Samantha Joye endured a firestorm of criticism for her research contradicting early governmental reports on the BP oil spill. Five years later—and having been proven correct—the UGA scientist is still focusing on the facts.

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n a gorgeous June day in Gulfport, Miss., the white sand beaches have a pristine, swept-clean look—in part a legacy of the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina. That natural disaster seems far away now in the bright hot sunshine bearing down on this city’s massive namesake seaport, where enormous container ships, and a gigantic yellow tanker labeled with the Dole brand, are docked, waiting to bring bananas and other goods ashore.

Beneath these gently lapping waters, however, lie the unseen and still to some extent unknown results of another catastrophe, one inarguably and directly man-made—the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which killed 11 people and discharged at least 5 million

barrels (about 210 million gallons) of crude oil and 250,000 metric tons of natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico.

A month after the explosion, UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye was in the Gulf, documenting the immediate results of the spill.

Her research would have a major impact, shaping the international dialogue surrounding the event.

In the five years since, Joye and the university have led multimillion-dollar research efforts to understand the fate of the oil, its impact on the ecosystem and the recovery of the Gulf— questions with significant economic implications for coastal states and industry as well as the potential to guide environmental policies around the world.

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Joye speaks to local youth from Boys and Girls Clubs on June 8, World Oceans Day, in Gulfport, Miss.

She and colleagues from the ECOGIG Research Consortium hosted a media and education day at the Port of Gulfport about halfway through their team’s three-and-a-halfweek cruise on the research vessel Endeavor.

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t the Port of Gulfport, a throng of kids from local Boys and Girls Clubs sit squinting on a broiling asphalt jetty near two bobbing vessels dwarfed by the commercial ships. A slight, ponytailed woman in khakis and bright blue polo shirt demonstrates a makeshift robot, constructed of PVC tubing and a small aquarium motor, and sets it off to burble around a tub of water. “This helps investigate what’s under the surface,” she tells them. “Now, who wants to help make one?” “Me! ME! MEEEEEE!” the kids yell, arms waving, hot day forgotten, as they race to participate.

Joye, known universally as Mandy, has that effect on people. Despite numerous scientific accolades (in 2014 she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; in 2015 she won a Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award), she is as interested in making sure everyone understands the

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consequences of information revealed by her work as she is in unearthing it.

For more than 20 years, Joye has studied the natural seepage of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico. When the Deepwater Horizon exploded, she was one of few scientists who had extensive prior knowledge of the ecosystem to compare to what she saw in the aftermath of the accident. Joye led UGA’s comprehensive response to the crisis, fulfilling a critical role by providing up-to-date, impartial information to national and regional leaders, the disaster response team and the public. A year later she was named science director of the Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG) program, a research consortium including 29 investigators from 14 institutions.

Last fall, Joye and her team were awarded an additional $18.8 million, three-year research grant.

Today, on World Oceans Day, Joye has invited the press to tour the research vessels, Endeavor and Point Sur, that she and other scientists and students use to reveal what’s happening under the deep blue waters. Journalists and photographers, as well as two documentary film crews, will follow her all day, but Joye has insisted on also inviting local youth to tour the boats and meet the ECOGIG team. “The kids are our only hope,” says the UGA Athletic Association Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of marine sciences. “Adults are set in their ways. We love our SUVs and air conditioning too much. Too many people are disconnected from the natural world.”

That doesn’t mean Joye hasn’t tried talking to the group normally described as “grown-ups.” In the aftermath of the Deepwater explosion, she was interviewed, quoted or featured in more than 4,000 news stories. Later she would testify before Congress and help author a report on the damage.

Joye was one of the first scientists to investigate the disaster. She did her research firsthand, taking samples with her group on the research vessel Walton Smith, breathing acrid, burning air as they scooped up dead jellyfish and birds along with oil-tinged water. Their findings would contradict what the public had heard from BP CEO Tony Hayward (“The oil is on the surface.

There aren’t any plumes”) and the U.S. government’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief, Jane Lubchenco, who initially insisted Joye’s team’s research findings were inconclusive. Lubchenco would change her statements in a press conference just prior to Joye’s appearance before Congress: Thick oil and gas plumes did indeed exist, 1,000 meters below the surface.

Joye questioned the effectiveness of dispersants in removing the oil, rather than simply rendering it invisible. She described some parts of the seafloor to The New York Times as “a graveyard.”

Her reports drew the fire of an angry horde of skeptics who claimed she had

sought the spotlight and exaggerated her findings to burnish her own career and fame. Through it all, Joye remained steadfast, reporting what she knew to an incredulous nation. The issues involved revealed how little scientists know about the ocean—“much less than the moon or Mars, and it’s here on Earth,” says Joye— and how the Gulf ecosystems would respond to the spill. She was criticized not only by industry and government, but also those who pressured her to cross the line from advocacy to activism. The difference between the two is “not even a fine line,” says Joye. “It’s a four-lane highway. I believe I’m a responsible advocate. The best way to influence policy is to publish papers that document important things that then drive science and policy changes. I feel I can do much more as a scientist than as an activist.”

Sylvia Earle, NOAA’s former chief scientist under President George H.W. Bush, takes a few moments away from a crammed schedule on the eve of a

trip to the Arctic to talk about Joye’s early findings. “She was compelled to share that evidence,” says Earle, also founder of engineering firm Deep Ocean Exploration and Research and nonprofit Mission Blue. “A lesser person might have knuckled under. The pressure that was imposed upon her for speaking the truth in a very clear, unbiased way has made her a hero in the eyes of those who respect integrity and the truth. It’s hard when your job and reputation are on the line, and she just says, ‘Look, I tell you what I see. I’m telling the public what the world needs to know.’”

Lindley Mease, a senior research analyst for the Stanford Universityaffiliated Center for Ocean Solutions, sought out Joye for a project on better ways stakeholders, academics and government agencies can prepare and respond to environmental emergencies.

“She’s been a key communicator in the Gulf and in Washington, D.C.,” Mease says. “She has provided pivotal and

On Endeavor, Joye spends time online participating in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). Reddit is an entertainment, social networking and news website—similar to an online bulletin board—where users can submit content.

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insightful information. It’s been fantastic to work with her and have a voice that is both independent and self-possessed.”

Christopher Martens, William B. Aycock Distinguished Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC), was a member of Joye’s Ph.D. advisory committee. He describes her as the best kind of leader. “It’s common for people to view persons at the front of the pack as wearing capes, like Superman or Wonder Woman …,” he says. “I’d rather describe Mandy as like a point guard [on a basketball team]. She’s a leader who runs directly at a challenge, and enthusiastically goes after tough things, because she knows they potentially bring fruitful discoveries. And she wants to bring the rest of the team with her.”

“When I’ve been on cruises with her,” he says, “she was always the hardestworking person on the ship.”

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n an early fall semester morning, Joye is editing a paper in her basement office in UGA’s Marine Sciences Building, which houses the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ marine sciences department. As a planned 30-minute interview stretches to over two hours, Joye slowly reveals herself in ways large and small, from a scrappy upbringing in a small town on the border between North and South Carolina to being a bullied “shrinking violet” in high school, and finally deciding she would overcome her shyness and reinvent herself at UNC, where she earned three degrees. By turns wryly humorous, emphatically serious, and occasionally emotional, she describes the events after the spill and her current projects with a natural storyteller’s ease.

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Associate Professor Christof Meile, and three daughters, Sophie, Nicole and Zoë, and with some of the awards that she has only recently framed and hung. In a corner, a bright quilt and toys await her daughters. The girls are never far from her mind, not only personally, but as representatives of the next generations she believes will inherit the problems we’ve left them. Joye says they know the ocean as a close friend who is sick. “Have you fixed the ocean yet?” Sophie would often ask her in the days after the spill.

Five years after the disaster, Joye’s team’s most recent research (and the paper she is working on today) only confirms in greater detail her initial concerns about the plumes and dispersants. “This whole question of whether chemical dispersants are an effective way to stimulate oil degradation is fundamentally important,” she says.

“They’re considered the first line of defense, but there may be other negative consequences on fish larvae and coral larvae, even on the very microorganisms that degrade oil. And, in some cases, they do not stimulate oil degradation.

It’s possible they are doing harm as well as good.”

It’s impossible to know much about the ocean without studying it, and the costs of research vessels are “enormously expensive,” Joye says. The Alvin submersible and its attendant ship and crew is “about $85,000 a day or thereabouts,” she says. “You’ve got to write a hell of a good proposal for a 20day cruise, and you might end up with five [days].” If her $18.8 million grant sounds like a lot of money, she points Steve Dykstra (left), a Ph.D. student at Dolphin Island Sea Lab, demonstrates a mini-ROV (remote operated underwater vehicle) to children during the media and education day June 8. Joye’s “Science at the Stadium” program has brought similar demonstrations to home football games, where she and her research team educate UGA alumni and fans, including hundreds of school-aged children, on science and oceanography.

Joye and Sarah Harrison (left) discuss an experiment in the laboratory aboard the Endeavor. Harrison, a doctoral student in marine sciences, is microprofiling how deep oxygen penetrates into ocean sediment.

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out that over its three-year span, $2-$3 million per year will go for the cost of the ships and crews and vehicles alone, and much of the rest is split among investigators. “I’m not rich,” she says succinctly, pushing up her taped-together glasses. And she will retain her independent voice: The ECOGIG grants were awarded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, an independent entity established to manage the $500 million fund set up by BP—the oil company leasing the Deepwater Horizon at the time of the explosion—to pay for independent scientific research.

In addition to ongoing research, Joye is also spearheading several planned media-based outreach projects. She believes that filmmaking will be her team’s “signature mark” and the most effective way to educate and empower a global environmental movement, she says. “When people start to realize that climate change impacts were hitting the proverbial fan decades ago and that the consequences, such as coral bleaching, are now globally apparent they will wake up. That will start a grass-roots effort, not driven by politics, but driven by people. These people will demand action.” The changes she envisions start small, like walking instead of driving and turning down the heat during winter. But the collective consequences are large.

“During the oil spill, I spent many wakeful nights wondering, ‘Why exactly am I in the middle of this firestorm?’ ” she says. “Early one morning, I realized that people are listening. A lot of people. With that came the awareness that I had an opportunity, a voice, but with this opportunity came an immense responsibility. You can’t walk away from that. This is not just about oil spills, it’s about climate change and environmental resilience—from recycling and plastics and pollution and low oxygen zones and overfishing—all of these critically important issues of our time.”

“It’s about my kids, and all the kids,” she says. “It’s about securing our future. For me, that’s the silver lining of the horrible dark gloomy cloud that was the oil spill. I realized that I can make a difference. I believe that I was meant to make a difference. I think I have the ability and the opportunity to do it. And if I keep at it, I’m going to help light the fire that changes our course toward one that makes the world more ecologically secure and the future more in balance with nature.”

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Jere Langford (MSW ’67) attends UGA Over the Centuries, one of more than 150 classes offered during fall by UGA’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Taught by Nash Boney, professor emeritus in UGA’s department of history, the class covers the history of the university from its chartering in 1785 to the present.

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s she approached retirement, Betty Jean Craige often was asked, “What are you going to do?” The UGA professor, scholar, translator and writer planned to stay busy and remain in Athens, but didn’t have a solid answer.

After retiring in 2011, Craige figured it out—she decided to become a student again. Each semester, the University Professor emerita of comparative literature and director emerita of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts signed up for more than 20 classes from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UGA (OLLI@UGA), which offers 250 to 300 noncredit classes annually to individuals 50 and older.

“I just love the classes. I’ve taken classes, not in literature, which I taught for 38 years, but in geology, geography, history, wine, balsamic vinegar,” says Craige, now president of OLLI@UGA’s board of directors. “I like learning about new things all the time. I like meeting people I haven’t known before.”

Membership in the program has more than doubled since 2011, growing from about 600 to 1,372 individuals

in 2015. UGA alumni and former faculty join longtime Athenians and newcomers from careers as diverse as aviation, engineering, the arts, technology and business.

“It provides a good way to meet people your age with varied interests, people who’ve done all kind of things in their life,” says Wyatt Anderson (BS ’60, MS ’62), dean emeritus of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and a retired genetics professor. “The range of topics is huge, and everyone can find something of interest.”

OLLI@UGA brings all kinds of adults to UGA to learn and participate in education and is a great example of outreach, says Ron Cervero, professor of education and associate vice president for instruction.

“We’re the land-grant university for Georgia, and our mission is to support the educational efforts of everyone in the state, not just the students who are admitted to the university,” he says.

“Outreach is part of the university’s mission,” says Katy Crapo, OLLI@UGA executive director. “OLLI is a wonderful program to do that.”

OLLI’s evolution OLLI@UGA began more than 20 years ago as Learning in Retirement, which offered classes to seniors through an informal relationship with the College of Education (COE). In 2009, Learning in Retirement received the first of three $100,000 grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation, a San Franciscobased organization that supports what it describes as “a national lifelong learning network for seasoned adults.”

With Cervero’s help, the organization secured a formal connection with the university and became known as the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Georgia, or OLLI@ UGA, a unit of the COE. OLLI@UGA, which also has chapters in Washington and Madison, is among Osher’s 119 lifelong learning institutes on U.S. campuses. (Visit osherfoundation.org to find a program in your area.)

Two larger Osher Foundation endowment gifts—$1 million in 2011 and $1 million in 2013—helped expand OLLI@UGA. Now, OLLI@UGA is transitioning from a small, volunteerrun organization to a professionally run 501(c)3 organization with three full-time staff and numerous committed volunteers, who serve on the board and on committees and who facilitate classes and other events. OLLI@UGA is funded by the interest earned from endowments, membership dues ($50 annually), course fees and business sponsorships.

Growth has coincided with Athens-Clarke County evolving into a top retirement destination. The city has received national attention in publications and websites including Forbes, AARP Bulletin and Where to Retire for amenities such as UGA and its proximity to Atlanta.

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Instructor Debbie Wagner (standing) leads participants (left to right) Marihope Flatt (BSHE ’58, EdS ’74, EdD ’87), Pat Davis, Donald McKim and Peggy Cole (MEd ’75, EdS ’80) in a beginning bridge class at the Athens Bridge Center. During the two-hour session, Wagner (MEd ’78) shows students how to formulate a plan and execute it.

One of the reasons Athens receives such accolades is because of the learning opportunities for retirees, says Jack Parish (EdD ’99), COE associate dean for outreach and engagement.

“Learning is a lifelong process and doesn’t stop whenever we complete our formal education,” Parish says.

“The OLLI@UGA members certainly model and embody lifelong learning in many ways.”

Demand for senior learning programs is likely to increase; the earliest baby boomers turned 65 in 2011, and the U.S. will experience considerable growth in its older population as more boomers reach that milestone. In 2050, the U.S. population aged 65 and over is projected to be 83.7 million—almost double its estimated population of 43.1 million in 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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can ward off dementia and Alzheimer’s …,” says Laura Bierema, professor and associate dean for academic programs at the College of Education. “There’s an old proverb that says, ‘If you’re not learning, you’re dead.’ I think that really speaks to the importance of learning across the life span and finding continual ways to pique your curiosity and learn new things.”

Active and interested OLLI@UGA’s classes aren’t typical college courses. Most are one-meetingonly classes, taught during the day at UGA’s River’s Crossing building, where the College of Education makes classroom space available. The topics are varied—Arrival of Sound and Musicals in Hollywood, The New Cuba, Growing Shiitake Mushrooms, African American Quilters, Google

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Glass in Musical Performance and Pedagogy, iPhoneography—and draw an enthusiastic audience.

“They’re here for the joy of learning,” Crapo says.

Bierema (EdD ’94) agrees. “They love learning, and the topic almost doesn’t matter, but it’s that chance to be using their brain and meeting new people and learning new things,” she says.

The unpaid instructors include former and current faculty from UGA, such as Loch Johnson and Gary Bertsch (who also serves on the board of directors), as well as industry professionals and subject matter experts.

The seniors pepper their teachers with questions, sometimes even interrupting them. They show their attention and appreciation for learning, even though there are no tests.

Classes and events also provide a social component, giving aging adults another reason to get dressed and out of the house. Crapo says children sometimes give memberships as gifts.

Since Chuck Murphy joined in 2007, he’s taught 29 courses on digital photography and other topics. His special interest group, “Picture This,” has grown to more than 100 members who learn about photography and go on outings to the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, waterfalls and other spots in Georgia.

“OLLI is the No. 1 way that I find to give back to the world, doing something that other people enjoy and enriching their retirement,” he says.

Full calendars and minds About half of OLLI@UGA’s members participate in its more than two dozen special interest groups. The groups, such as Enjoy Opera in Athens and Garden Enthusiasts, typically meet once a month. Breakfast, lunch and dinner groups include SOLOSeniors.

Even a few folks who have met through OLLI@UGA have gotten married.

“Without question, the love of OLLI@UGA for my wife and I [stems

from] the unmatched opportunities for mental and intellectual growth through OLLI classes and the friends made through the social interactions,” says John Songster, who joined OLLI in 2005.

Members connect with the community through special events. In 2015, OLLI@UGA partnered with the AthensClarke County Library System for the “Created Equal” film series. After an August screening of a PBS documentary based on Douglas Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery

by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, dozens of people in the standing room-only library auditorium raised their hands to ask questions and discuss civil rights.

OLLI@UGA is active beyond Athens. The travel/study program offers day trips in Georgia and multiday trips to destinations such as Cuba and Croatia.

Nancy Canolty and her husband, Tom, dreamed of visiting Cuba. After he died in 2002, she decided that when she retired from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences faculty in 2004, she would go for both of them. But twice, in

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Jim Marshall and Sheila Marple dig in after participating in a cooking class at the Healthy Gourmet. Led by Tim Dondero, the class involved preparing a complete meal with commentary on methods and techniques used as well as a discussion of wine pairings.

Participants received copies of the recipes and wine pairings.

2006 and 2007, tour companies canceled her Cuba trips.

OLLI@UGA finally took her to Cuba, in 2014.

“Making it to Cuba was a big deal,” she says. “It was eye opening. The people are wonderful.”

As membership grows, leaders are trying to determine the ideal number of members, based on factors including classroom space. For 2016, OLLI@UGA plans to continue to expand its offerings and build its endowment. One new event is a spring conversation series; Craige will interview Mary Francis Early (MMEd ’62, EdS ’71), the first black student to graduate from UGA, for the first one.

“We want to keep our minds sharp, our bodies active and our social calendar full,” Craige says. “It’s our motto.”

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OLLI Volunteer Coordinator Sandy Clark welcomes members and guests to The OLLI Bash, an activity fair held in September. The Bash gave attendees a chance to ask questions about activities and sign up for special interest groups as well as learn more about membership, committees and sponsors.

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COOKING CONNECTION Campus Kitchen opens the door to different worlds for UGA students

by Margaret Blanchard (AB ’91, MA ’98) photos by Dorothy Kozlowski (BLA ’06, ABJ ’10)

From garden to kitchen to table, students provide healthy meals for low-income households through Campus Kitchen at UGA. Far left, Carson Dann, a senior agricultural science major, harvests peppers at UGArden, which provides fresh produce for the program. Near left, a student prepares meals using donated ingredients in the kitchen of Talmage Terrace and Lanier Gardens Senior Living Community. Above, Bobby Harrison, a senior economics/ pre-med major, delivers meals to area households of grandparents caring for grandchildren like Autumn, 7.

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t’s a hot August afternoon, and the inside of Ashley Owens’ black SUV smells faintly of the meatballs, chicken and sautéed vegetables she helped package this morning. In the trunk is a red-and-white cooler packed with meals in plastic containers and tote bags filled with gourmet bread, fresh fruit and vegetables.

The food—all locally sourced and prepared by students—is made possible through Campus Kitchen at UGA (CKUGA).

Launched in fall 2012, the program aims to increase access to adequate food among senior households in the community. It’s also a powerful learning tool for students.

En route to deliver meals to five different households, Owens, an intern with the program for almost two years, explains how she ran across Campus Kitchen as a work-study option.

“I had no idea it had anything to do with my major—I got pretty lucky,” says the senior dietetics major, who plans to train as a nurse practitioner in geriatrics.

Owens considers working with elderly people a calling similar to teaching. “[Working] with older people, you can see a difference you’re making and in the end you can make a connection,” she says.

“You … just have to watch me doing it to understand how much I love it.”

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And she’s right. On this steamy afternoon spent hopping in and out of a hot car, hauling food and patiently waiting for clients to answer the door, Owens remains upbeat and focused. Before each visit, she’s careful to share any special circumstances regarding a client: T. J. Shelton is blind and prefers that food be placed directly in his hands. Mildred Huff is a gregarious woman who loves to chat and may repeat the same funny stories a couple of times.

More than 100 clients look forward to deliveries every other week from CKUGA students and other volunteers— for some older adults it may be their only connection to the outside world. Owens says the visits are mutually beneficial.

“The more hands-on experience the better. [There’s] nothing compared to doing it in the real world,” she says. She also credits the program with broadening her view of the local community. “It’s humbled me. [Students] need to get out of the bubble and see more of Athens—there’s a huge dichotomy.

It’s been an education.”

Such experiential learning is the point of programs like Campus Kitchen, which aims to take students beyond buzzwords to understand how hunger and poverty affect society. The project, run out of the Office of ServiceLearning under the offices of the vice presidents for public service and outreach (PSO) and instruction (OVPI), is part of a national network of universities called The Campus Kitchens Project.

Client Allyson Meeler (right) unpacks provisions provided by CKUGA’s Harrison as her granddaughter Autumn looks on. The program partners with the Athens Community Council on Aging’s Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program to identify households in need; they receive food deliveries every other week.

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Kirsten Allen, a sophomore pharmaceutical science major, rolls out dough in the kitchen of Talmage Terrace, which provides free access to its facility. CKUGA thrives in part through its strong community partners and enthusiastic volunteers.

UGA’s program evolved out of a service-learning project for a women’s studies class. A group of students developed the project to address issues of food waste and food insecurity in the Athens community. They partnered with the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) to identify grandparents raising grandchildren who needed assistance.

The students sourced the food, prepared meals and delivered them to families in spring 2011. The next year, UGA’s branch of Campus Kitchen was founded, the first in Georgia and 33rd overall. Funding for the program comes from PSO and OVPI as well as organizations like the AARP Foundation, CoBank Rural Hunger Solutions and the UGA Parents and Families Association, among others.

Food insecurity is a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. A defining characteristic includes household members reducing their food intake and normal eating patterns due to a lack of money or other resources.

When Owens or other CKUGA volunteers knock on the doors of clients like Shelton and Huff, it’s a welcome visit.

Shelton, 79, says that although he gets around and has friends, he doesn’t have anyone else bring him food during the week.

Lunch buddies enrich food with friendship Providing healthy meals for older adults is a critical aspect of Campus Kitchen (CKUGA), but some clients also benefit from much-needed social interaction.

For more than a year, Joshika Money, a senior at UGA, and Elise Robinson (above right) have had a standing lunch date on Fridays at the latter’s Athens home. The two meet to share food and catch up with each other as part of the Lunch Buddy Program, a partnership between CKUGA and the Athens Community Council on Aging. Designed to address poor nutrition caused by social isolation, the program matches a homebound or otherwise isolated senior with a student volunteer for a weekly meal.

Robinson, 94, is grateful for the food, provided free-of-charge by Talmage Terrace and Lanier Gardens Senior Living Community, but the purpose of the visit is more about connecting than eating.

“She is like a family member,” she says of Money.

“Anything in her life that she doesn’t understand, she talks to me about it. She knows I’ve been here long enough to know some things!”

Money isn’t able to spend much time with her own grandmother, who lives in India, so “Miss Elise”

serves as a surrogate. “Both are religious and like to talk about things that happened in their childhood,” she explains.

Despite age and cultural differences—Money is vegetarian and Hindu; Robinson is a devout Baptist— the two have bonded.

“She is just like my own child,” Robinson says.

“We teach each other. We talk about everything.”

“Things like friends and relationships,” Money agrees. “She’s open and easy to talk to.”

After simultaneously seeking a bachelor’s degree in health promotion and a master’s in public health, Money hopes to become a physician focused on combining patient-based medical care and prevention.

For now, she credits the Lunch Buddy Program with “putting a face to the place we live during the important time we’re here.

“It’s more personal than just delivering meals— you really get to sit down and talk to them … [It’s] a recognition that they are a valuable part of the community.” accaging.org/lunchbuddyprogram

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Founded in 2010, UGArden has quickly become a popular training ground for students as well as a community asset for its fresh vegetables. Student volunteers like Jay Morris, right, a senior health promotion and behavior major, harvest vegetables and learn about sustainable agriculture on the 4-acre plot off South Milledge Avenue.

Huff, 89, also credits the program with helping keep her kitchen stocked—especially with fresh items.

“It’s wonderful food! They bring me vegetables, and I love them,” she says.

Together with community partners such as ACCA and the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia, CKUGA has helped reduce food insecurity among seniors by more than 30 percent.

The program’s success has a lot to do with students like Owens. In addition to preparing and delivering meals to clients, students harvest fresh vegetables and recover surplus food from local restaurants, grocery stores and caterers. Last year, the program drew more than 400 students from

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across disciplines—from social work, foods and nutrition, and agriculture to geography and women’s studies.

“We touch so many important ideas—from nonprofit management to food insecurity and sustainability.

We’re kind of a perfect model for service learning and a great example of collaboration within the university,” says Brad Turner, coordinator of Campus Kitchen at UGA. Students enrolled in courses with a service-learning component usually complete 15-20 hours per semester.

Faculty members provide students a variety of opportunities relative to their area of study. For example, a public health major may focus on the food delivery aspect of the program while a student studying nutrition learns to plan meals using appropriate USDA guidelines for older adults.

An important food source and partner is the UGArden, where students help harvest vegetables a couple of times a week. JoHannah Biang (BSA ’09, MS ’12), farm manager, and other workers guide new students.

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BY THE NUMBERS The Campus Kitchen at UGA makes a difference in the local community. Numbers for FY 2015 include:

• 300+ clients served • 313 Lunch Buddy visits • 51,900 lbs. of food recovered • 3,095 lbs. of fresh produce harvested • 17,700 meals delivered • 32,000 lbs. of food donated in addition to meals

“There’s definitely some on-the-fly training,” she says. “I tell students there’s no such thing as stupid questions. They just have to have a willingness to do it and that’s it—we can fill in the blanks.”

That mentality applies to menu planning as well. Because food is donated from local grocery stores such as Trader Joe’s and The Fresh Market, volunteers never know what to expect.

At one evening cooking session in August, Aiden Holley, a junior in international affairs, is charged with menu planning and guiding new volunteers in the kitchen of Talmage Terrace and Lanier Gardens Senior Living Community. Tonight’s offerings include beef tips, chicken tenders and drumsticks, broccolini, eggplant, green peppers, basil and bags of potatoes.

“We get lots of random stuff,” explains Holley, a Campus Kitchen intern who’s also seeking certificates in international and organic agriculture. He cites as example the dozen boxes of frozen cherries awaiting transformation in the freezer. “I’m not sure what we’ll do with them. Maybe make a bunch of pies at Thanksgiving …”

Preparing meals for large groups and navigating commercial equipment is an additional opportunity to learn through experience, especially for students whose culinary experience amounts to boiling water for a bag of Ramen noodles or microwaving a frozen entrée.

“I’ve learned how to cook meat—they call me the Meat Queen,” Owens jokes. “When I first started, I learned that I didn’t even know how to use a knife correctly.”

Students like Owens and Holley serve as shift leaders for cooking crews of up to six volunteers. Shift leaders must complete food safety training—a written test and four-hour class—in order to supervise volunteers. In addition to learning the importance of wearing gloves and a hairnet, they learn safe practices for recovering food. For example, they cannot use cut fruit or dairy products due to the need for refrigeration. These items instead are passed on to other organizations to distribute.

Each semester brings a fresh crop of student volunteers like Rachel Deese to Campus Kitchen at UGA. A couple of weeks into her freshman year, Deese, a social work major, explains what attracted her to the program as she dices potatoes and tosses them into a stainless steel bowl during a cooking session.

“My favorite thing about Campus Kitchen is that it incorporates so many aspects of our UGA and Athens community: the UGArden, community stores, local assistedliving homes, and some of the older folks,” she says. “CKUGA is a hands-on way to encounter people I would not typically interact with, and I love that!”

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Top: Brad Turner (right), coordinator of CKUGA, provides instructions regarding a client to Harrison before the latter sets out on his delivery route. Students and volunteers deliver meals and donated food to approximately 100 clients in the Athens area on Thursday afternoons. Bottom, Turner checks food temperature before delivery; the program must adhere to strict food safety regulations and appropriate dietary guidelines.

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Jarryd Wallace (M ’13) set a new world record in the 100-meter race at the Parapan American Games held in August in Toronto, finishing with a time of 10.71 seconds. The Athens native competes in the T44 division against athletes who also have single-limb, below-the-knee amputations. Wallace’s right leg was amputated in 2010 after numerous surgeries failed to repair damage caused by chronic exertional compartment syndrome. Next year, he plans to compete at the 2016 Paralympic Games that will be held in Rio de Janeiro in September.

CLASS NOTES

Compiled by Daniel Funke and Margaret Blanchard

improve services offered to senior citizens in Southwest Georgia for more than 40 years.

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1960-1964

Julian D. Fleming (ABJ ’46) of Cumming was one of 10 Georgians named to France’s National Order of the Legion of Honor on June 4 at the state Capitol. The country’s highest honor allows American veterans who fought in French territory to be decorated. Fleming was a bombardier captain in the 15th Air Force during World War II.

1950-1954

Kay Huston Hind (BSHE ’51) of Albany received the Excellence in Leadership Award at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging conference in Philadelphia in July. She has worked to

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Arnold Young (BBA ’63, LLB ’65) of Savannah was included in Best Lawyers in America 2016, an annually published list of top-rated lawyers in the U.S. Young is an attorney with the HunterMaclean law firm.

1965-1969

Theresa Hulsey Johnson (BS ’65) of Conway, S.C., received an inaugural Van Rensselaer Award from the Colonial Dames of America, the oldest women’s lineage society in the U.S. The award is given to a member who has made significant contributions to the preservation of history in her state or

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community. Johnson retired in 2007 from a long career in medicine. Murray Poole (ABJ ’65) of Brunswick was nominated to the Glynn County Sports Hall of Fame, Class of 2016. Poole served as the sports editor and senior sports editor for The Brunswick News for 40 years and has worked as a writer and columnist for Bulldawg Illustrated magazine for the past 14 years. John Tatum (AB ’65, LLB ’68) of Savannah was included in Best Lawyers in America 2016, an annually published list of top-rated lawyers in the U.S. Tatum is an attorney with the HunterMaclean law firm. Susan Percy (ABJ ’66) of Atlanta won two first-place awards for her feature writing and commentary in Georgia Trend magazine as part of the 2015 Green Eyeshade Competition, held annually by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Percy is editor-at-large for Georgia

ALUMNI PROFILE Trend. David Sipple (AB ’66, MPA ’69) of Savannah was included in Best Lawyers in America 2016, an annually published list of top-rated lawyers in the U.S. Sipple is an attorney with the HunterMaclean law firm.

Douglas Gressette (BSA ’68) of Stuart, Fla., and Jo Neal Griffeth (BSEd ’68) of Monck’s Corner, S.C., were married in May in Charleston, S.C. Hershell Paige Scarborough Jr. (BBA ’68) of Athens retired from Morgan Stanley in September after working for 38 years as a financial consultant. Stephen Watson (BBA ’68) of Lakeland, Fla., was included in Best Lawyers in America 2016. He practices real estate law with the GrayRobinson firm. Jack Hood (AB ’69, JD ’71) of Birmingham, Ala., attended an American Bar Association-sponsored trip to Ireland and the U.K. in June for the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta. Hood is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Elizabeth Lide (BFA ’69) of Atlanta was named a winner of the 2015-16 Working Artist Project by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

She received a solo exhibition, promotion, a studio assistant, catalogue and a $15,000 stipend to create work for the year.

Mark Reed II (BBA ’69) of Dawsonville designed and help raise money for a veterans memorial at Sigma Pi fraternity’s headquarters in Lebanon, Tenn. Reed is a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War.

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Creg Smith (ABJ ’70) of Indian Land, S.C., retired five years ago after more than 30 years in public and government relations with the American Petroleum Institute in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He serves on the board of communications for the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Maxine Hubbard Burton (BSEd ’72, MEd ’78) of Bogart had a flower named after her at the International Floriculture Exposition in Chicago on June 8. The pink Dianthus Sweet F1 was awarded the name “Maxine” Dianthus Sweet in honor of Burton, president and founder of burton + BURTON, a family-owned balloon and gift business. Teresa Singletary Irvin (AB ’72) of Columbus received the 2015 Susan M. Cochran Scholarship for Faulkner Studies. Irvin is chair of the Basic Studies Department at Columbus State University.

Die-hard Dawg Alumna embraces a new leadership role at the UGA Foundation

by Allyson Mann (MA ’92) After nearly 34 years of practicing law, Eleanor Banister retired in December 2014 with the intention of not taking on any new commitments during 2015.

“I have a lot of interests, but I didn’t have any particular one that I wanted to pursue,” she says, “other than making sure that I made it to PETER FREY as many Georgia football games and Eleanor Banister basketball games as I could.”

Banister (BSEd ’73, JD ’79) is a die-hard sports fan, the kind who stays till the bitter end and would rather watch in person than on TV.

“I would almost always rather be there, even if it’s bad weather, just because the energy is so incredible,” she says. “There’s nothing like being at Sanford Stadium. It’s just the best.”

In addition to attending sporting events, Banister also found time this year to travel—to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands—as well as raft down the French Broad River with her brother and nephew.

And despite her intentions, she did take on one new commitment: She joined the UGA Foundation board of trustees.

“I just felt like it was an opportunity that I couldn’t turn down,” she says.

“I’m constantly amazed at the programs and the opportunities we have for students, and I think this will give me an opportunity to learn even more.”

Joining the board brings together her love for UGA and her appreciation for education—an understanding formed early in her career.

Banister’s first UGA degree was earned in education. After graduating she taught school in Madison County—familiar territory since she grew up in Ila—but decided after four years that she wanted to do something different.

Law school was the answer. After graduating in December 1979, Banister was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia; that same month she also began a clerkship with the late Judge G. Ernest Tidwell in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. In 1983, she joined the Atlanta office of King and Spalding, where she specialized in employee benefits and executive compensation, eventually becoming a partner at the firm.

Serving on the board of trustees will reunite Banister with a law school classmate, President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80).

“I’m continuously impressed with how he relates to alumni and how he steers the university,” she says.

And she’s excited about finding ways to connect alumni with opportunities to give back—by helping with programs like the university’s new experiential learning initiative, for example.

“I’m a big ambassador for the university, but I think [serving as a trustee] is going to give me a platform to do that with even more zeal,” she says, “and I’m looking forward to that.”

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2016 State of the University Address President Jere W. Morehead (JD ’80) will deliver the annual report to the university community.

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(Left to right) Bonnie Grant (JD ’05), Tiffany Brown (BBA ’07) and Marjai Roberts (ABJ, BBA ’10) were among the hundreds of UGA alumni and friends who attended the university’s July 16 reception in San Francisco.

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A rare ally Alumna’s dogged commitment to one nonprofit

by Margaret Blanchard (AB ’91, MA ’98) Anyone who works in nonprofits knows a good stable of volunteers is key to running a successful organization. But someone like Ellen Hanna (MEd ’72, EdS ’74) is a rare find.

Hanna, 86, volunteered at The Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (now Learning Ally) for more than 50 years—logging more than 5,000 hours in the studio since they started counting.

Her involvement with the organization began shortly after moving to Athens from Alabama with her late husband, Mark, a business professor, in 1963.

In between raising five sons and attending Ellen Hanna graduate school part time, Hanna carved out 90 minutes a couple of times a week to don headphones and read various texts into a microphone in a soundproof booth. The opportunity to give others a chance to enjoy books or learn new skills via audio seemed like a worthwhile pursuit to Hanna, a retired math and science teacher.

“I just found it interesting,” she says, noting how volunteers may read from a math textbook one day and classic literature the next.

At the time, the national agency recorded mainly for the blind and visually impaired; over the years it expanded to offer its materials to those with learning differences like dyslexia. The name changed to Learning Ally in 2011 to better reflect the agency’s overall efforts and to expand its reach, according to Eleanor Patat Cotton (AB ’87, JD ’90), geo hub director.

While Hanna tends to downplay the significance of her service, Cotton praises her loyalty and commitment.

“It’s amazing for a person to work at the same place for 50 years … but to volunteer? It’s a special breed and personality,” she says.

A testament to Hanna’s dedication is the brick building housing the nonprofit on UGA’s west campus. Shortly after being introduced to the organization, she helped rally for a new facility (they had been working from a vacant lab). In 1967, with funds Hanna secured from the Callaway Foundation, the organization set down permanent roots on Florida Avenue.

It was a time when both town and university were rapidly changing. “We came here on the crest of the huge expansion,” she says of the era when UGA’s student body doubled and its physical footprint tripled.

Through it all she kept a practical outlook. “Well, you know, you just kind of go with the flow … you did what you had to do to keep up,” she says.

Hanna retired from volunteering earlier this year but her impact at the Learning Ally studio is still evident—a framed certificate and the Athens Community Service Award given to her in 2014 are on display in the front lobby.

“I figure if I brought them here they’d just sit and gather dust,” she says from her cozy Athens apartment.

Ever pragmatic, Hanna’s advice to those who wish to follow her lead is simple: “A good volunteer keeps to a schedule!”

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ROBERT NEWCOMB

Tom Jackson (AB ’73, MPA ’04, PhD ’08) of Watkinsville became heritage communications executive in the office of the chancellor of the University System of Georgia in August. Jackson was UGA’s institutional spokesperson from 19882015 and vice president for public affairs for the past nine years. He has served as the “Voice of the Redcoats,” the stadium public address announcer for the Redcoat Marching Band, for more than 40 years.

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Katie M. Dempsey (BSEd ’75) of Rome was named to the Governor’s Commission on Medical Cannabis.

She represents the 13th District in the Georgia House of Representatives.

Jane Jaskevich (BFA ’75) of Atlanta had her artwork displayed in the “Speaking Figuratively” show at the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, N.C., from July 15-25. Gale Cutler (ABJ ’76) of Atlanta received the Friend of 4-H Award from the Georgia Association of Extension 4-H Agents in July. Hal Gill Jr. (AB ’78, JD ’81) of Atlanta joined Stites & Harbison PLLC as a partner in the Real Estate & Banking Service Group in September.

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The Lindner family celebrates after Blake’s graduation from UGA earlier this year. From left, Rusty, Mary Faith, Jones, Blake (AB ’15), Rebecca (AB, AB ’12) and Mimsy.

Bulldogs by choice When their children enrolled at UGA, the Lindners joined the Bulldog Nation

by Kellyn Willis (ABJ ’09) Neither Russell “Rusty” Lindner, nor his wife, Mimsy, are graduates of the University of Georgia. He earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the George Washington University Law School; she graduated from the University of Kentucky.

But all four of their children have attended UGA. Their two eldest, Rebecca (AB, AB ’12) and Blake (AB ’15) have already earned degrees at UGA, and their younger children, Mary Faith and Jones, are currently enrolled.

The Lindner family lives in Washington, D.C., and had never visited Athens until encouraged by a close friend, former U.S. Representative W.S. Stuckey Jr. (BBA ’56, JD ’59). After Rebecca was admitted they became involved with the university; today Rusty is a trustee of the UGA Foundation and a member of the Terry Dean’s Advisory Council. Since their initial contact with UGA in 2007, the Lindners have supported the university’s academic mission with an ongoing series of gifts and pledges.

“To some extent, we’ve followed the example of our parents, who always believed it important to support education,” Rusty says. “The value of a UGA education far exceeds the tuition we pay—as does the cost the university bears to provide such an exemplary education. We feel it is our duty to cover that gap, and then some.”

Rusty and Mimsy appreciate their children’s positive experiences at UGA, and they plan to continue providing gifts that will afford similar opportunities for other students.

“Beyond the fiduciary duty to support UGA, our passion is fueled by the magnificent experiences our children have enjoyed, inside and outside the classrooms; the terrific colleagues and leaders Mimsy and I have met by virtue of our association with UGA (many of whom have become cherished friends); and our desire to help other students—current and future—enjoy the benefits of a superior UGA education,” Rusty says.

—Kellyn Willis is former director of communications for the division of development and alumni relations.

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Mary Eilleen Bulkeley (Lyon) Cleary (ABJ ’81) of Grand Rapids, Mich., won two bronze Telly Awards and four Public Relations Society of America Awards in May for videos she produced as associate vice president for university communications at Grand Valley State University. Victor Wilson (BSW ’82, MEd ’87) of Athens was elected to Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s national board of directors in September. Wilson serves as vice president for student affairs at UGA. Christopher Phillips (BSFR ’83, MFR ’85, JD ’88) of Savannah was included in Best Lawyers in America 2016, an annually published list of top-rated lawyers in the U.S. Phillips is an attorney with the HunterMaclean law firm. Douglas Ashworth (AB ’84, JD ’87) of Royston was elected to the executive committee of the Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators. Ashworth serves as director of programs for the Athens-based Institute of Continuing Legal Education. Thomas Austin Jr. (AB ’84) of Atlanta joined the law firm Berman Fink Van Horn P.C. in September. Austin specializes in bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and collections, as well as other financial law areas. Jeffrey W. Frazier (ABJ ’84, JD ’86) of Atlanta was appointed magistrate judge of Fulton County State and Superior Courts. Rachel Iverson (AB ’84, JD ’87) of Alpharetta merged her eponymous law firm with McManamy McLeod Heller LLC, a professional title and closing firm in Atlanta, where she was also named partner. Mark Murphy (BS ’84) of Savannah was named to the Governor’s Commission on Medical Cannabis. Murphy is a senior partner with the Center for Digestive and Liver Health and assistant professor of internal medicine at Mercer University’s School of Medicine in Savannah.

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Robert Cheshire (BSAE ’85) of Register was confirmed as deputy city manager of Statesboro in August after serving as interim city manager for 13 months.

Kurt Lawrence (BSAE ’85, MS ’87, PhD ’97) of Bogart was selected as a fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in July. He is a supervisory agricultural engineer at the

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Omari Hardwick (AB ’96) plays James “Ghost” St. Patrick, the lead character on “Power,” an original series airing on Starz. St. Patrick seems to have it all, but he’s living a double life—the family man and owner of a popular nightclub also heads one of New York City’s largest drug empires. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson co-stars and serves as executive producer for the show. In June, the season two premiere was the most-watched episode of an original series in Starz’ history, bringing in 1.43 million viewers in live ratings and rising to 3.62 million in live-plus-same-day ratings.

Season three airs next year.

U.S. National Poultry Research Center in Athens. Terry Cole (ABJ ’87) of Tucker was named manager of strategic communications of the water division of Burns & McDonnell in September. Cole will focus on water, wastewater and other infrastructure issues out of their Atlanta regional office. James Hoover (BBA ’87) of Hoover, Ala., was appointed vice chair of the Healthcare Practice Section of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. Hoover practices health care law at the Burr & Forman firm in Birmingham. Michael Scott Carlson (AB ’88) of Duluth was appointed to the state’s Court-Martial Review Panel. He is a deputy chief assistant district attorney in Cobb County.

1990-1994

Michael Abramowitz (ABJ ’90) of North Palm Beach, Fla., was promoted to public relations manager of membership at PGA of America. Laura Reese (ABJ ’90) of Buford was promoted to director of digital and media for Church’s Chicken. Renee Unterman (BSW ’90) of Buford was named to the Governor’s Commission on Medical Cannabis.

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She represents the 45th District in the Georgia Senate. Keith Wood (ABJ ’90) of Woodstock received the 2015 Outstanding Probate Judge Award from the Georgia Probate Judges Council in September. Wood is a judge for the Cherokee County Probate Court.

Valerie Brown (BSAE ’91) of Dalton was chosen as an inaugural Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellow in June. The program recruits recent graduates and professionals with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and prepares them to teach in high-need secondary schools. Matthew Brown (ABJ ’92) of Perry is managing editor of the Houston Home Journal, where he has worked for 10 years. Chris Manzi (BBA ’93) of Watkinsville is the owner/ executive director of the Athens Area Junior Golf Tour and the Oconee Junior Golf League. Michael Caputo (BBA ’94) of Savannah joined BankSouth in July.

He will lead local mortgage lending at the community bank. Brian Cooksey (BBA ’94) of Dalton was selected as the Georgia Face of Manufacturing for June 2015 by the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership at Georgia Tech.

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Providential pitch A knuckleball threw former UGA football player into a broadcasting career

by Andy Johnston (ABJ ’88) David Greene chuckles when he thinks about the unexpected path that led him to becoming the host of the SEC Network’s “SEC Film Room.”

His three-year NFL career was finished and the former UGA quarterback had settled into his job with Seacrest Partners, an insurance company in Atlanta. Greene (BBA ’04) and his wife, Veronica (BBA ’04), were raising their family in Grayson, not far from the high school sweethearts’ hometown of Snellville, when he received an opportunity to appear on a baseball show on the MLB Network.

The idea was to take former college quarterbacks and teach them how to throw a knuckleball for a reality-type show called “The Next Knuckler” in 2013.

“Anyway, once I was done filming that show—I was runner-up—and some of the executives that were there were like, ‘If you would ever want to do TV, this might be a good fit for you.’ So, I got a call from the folks at ESPN. That’s really kind of how it opened up that door.”

“I mean, it’s a pretty wild story,” he says.

Greene is in his second year as host of “SEC Film Room.” He travels to a different campus every week during the football season and meets with that program’s head coach.

The show often takes place in a team meeting room, where Greene and the coach use video to highlight blocks or breakdowns and other key moments from the previous game.

“We try to pick out plays that we think are teaching moments for the fans, because what we really try to do with the show is make it Football 101,” Greene says. “[We want it to be] something where the casual fan can learn something, but it’s not so in-depth that we’re talking over everybody’s head.”

The show is filmed on Sunday or Monday, and Greene is back with his family and job at Seacrest Partners the rest of the week. He and Veronica have two boys—Jordan, 7, and Barrett, 4.

“My oldest is a lefty, so he’s like his pops,” Greene says. “Jordan has been playing some flag [football], but they’ve been playing pretty much all of the other sports, soccer and baseball and basketball.”

Greene also hosts “The David Greene College Show” every Thursday night during the football season

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David Greene (BBA ’04) poses with Hairy Dawg during UGA’s football game against the University of Florida in 2012. Georgia won 17-9.

on Atlanta’s 92.9 The Game radio station and is a cohost—with brothers Matt (BBA ’98) and Jon Stinchcomb (BS ’02)—of the Countdown to Kickoff Fan Festival, which raises money for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Transplant Foundation.

“You know the other things I do, from the radio to ESPN, are more of a passion, more of a hobby,” Greene says. “I try to make sure I don’t overextend myself too much. I was pretty fortunate the way it turned out. It was something where I wanted to be involved (with football) in some capacity, but I really wanted the flexibility as much as I could, where I didn’t want to miss my kids’ games on the weekends. They’re only little once.”

—Andy Johnston is a writer living in Bogart.

1995-1999

Brent Marable (BSA ’96, MAL ’13) of Watkinsville is assistant director of plant licensing for the UGA Innovation Gateway. T. Heath Fountain (BBA ’97) of Albany was named CEO of Hawkinsville-based PlantersFIRST Bank in July after serving as chief financial officer at Heritage Bank of the South.

Susan Keigans (BBA ’97) of Camilla was elected president of the Leadership GBA Executive Committee for the Georgia Bankers Association. Keigans, who is executive vice president and corporate secretary for Planters and Citizens Bank, will also serve a one-year term as the Leadership GBA representative on the GBA board of directors. Amy Middlebrooks Tapley (ABJ ’97) of Columbus was named brand manager for TSYS, a financial services company.

Wes Whitener (AB ’97) of Decatur was promoted to executive creative director of Fitzgerald & Co., an agency specializing in advertising, digital, social, media planning and buying, as well as brand marketing and strategy.

Art, accelerated

Atlanta-based artist Maggie Smith Kühn (BFA ’09) meets a lot of people while she works—the live event painter creates on-thespot watercolor portraits as party favors at weddings, corporate events and parties. But a lot more people got to know her in August, after she posted examples of her work on Reddit. The image link got more than 430,000 viewings, and a subsequent Buzzfeed story led to inquiries from prospective clients as far away as Spain and Dubai. Followers on Instagram and Facebook doubled and tripled, respectively. Kühn works 40-50 events a year; the majority are weddings. In addition to painting a couple’s first dance—as they’re dancing—she creates portraits of guests in only 10 minutes.

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Books by UGA Alumni

Georgialina: A Southland as We Knew It The University of South Carolina Press (2015)

By Tom Poland (ABJ ’71, MEd ’75) Veteran journalist and Southern storyteller Tom Poland takes readers down back roads to old homeplaces, covered bridges and country stores.

New Wave Music: Image is Everything Palgrave Macmillan (2015)

By M. King Adkins (PhD ’07) Adkins, an assistant professor of humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, explores the evolution of this oftenneglected pop genre.

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The Georgia Bulldogs Playbook: Inside the Huddle for the Greatest Plays in Bulldogs History Triumph Books (2015)

By Patrick Garbin (BBA ’98), foreword by Charley Trippi (BSEd ’51) Detailed diagrams, descriptions and full-color photographs of memorable gridiron plays by Bulldogs over the years.

It’s Always First Down Brentwood Publishers Group (2015)

By John McEachern (BBA ’63), foreword by Vince Dooley and Mark Richt A compilation of stories by Georgia football players.

McEachern is a UGA football letterman (’60, ’61, ’62) and retired General Electric Company executive.

Exes and O’s Jack of All Trades Media (2015)

By Lakeshia Poole (ABJ, AB ’05) In the second book of The Village series, Ciara returns to college to face challenges in both love and learning.

Small Mothers of Fright Louisiana State Press (2015)

By Tara Bray (BSEd ’87, MEd ’91) The poet draws on her experience as a mother struggling to protect her daughter from the world’s perils while revealing its wonders.

Roads and Ecological Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications for Small Animals Johns Hopkins (2015) Co-edited by Kimberly Andrews (BS ’99, MS ’04, PhD ’10) Ecologists and transportation experts weigh in on the ways roads impact reptiles, amphibians and small mammals.

Dixie Mafia Gangster: The Audacious Criminal Career of Willie Foster Sellers A & A Publishing (2014)

By Maxwell Taylor Courson (ABJ ’58, MA ’59) A true-crime story of the Georgia native and swindler who was once on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Due to the number of submissions, we cannot list all books received. Priority is given to books released within the current year, within two years prior and to submissions with high quality, high-res photos of book covers. The list may be edited for reader interest and regional relevance.

Atlanta Chef’s Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Big Peach Globe Pequot (2015)

By Kate Parham Kordsmeier (ABJ, BSFCS ’10) Buckhead-born author rediscovers Atlanta dining by connecting with 75 restaurants, chefs and signature dishes.

Faulkner’s Geographies University Press of Mississippi (2015) Edited by Jay Watson (AB ’83) and Ann J. Abadie Eleven essays explore the diverse functions of space in William Faulkner’s artistic vision. Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

On Milk and Honey: How God’s Goodness Shows Up in Unexpected Places Amazon (2015)

By Morgan Bacon Cheek (BS ’08) The true story of a mother’s spiritual journey and dealing with the challenges of having twin daughters with severe special needs.

Cuba Undercover Entangled Select Suspense (2015)

By Linda Bond (pen name for Linda Hurtado ABJ ’89) The essence of Cuba is captured in this romantic adventure full of twists as two enemies become lovers.

Postcards to the Past: Context and Continuity in Primitive Technology CreateSpace Independent Publishing (2015)

By Scott Jones (AB ’90) This book explores themes of an archaeological and philosophical nature, integrated with hands-on skills.

Bonded By A Blade CreateSpace Independent Publishing (2013)

By George Pettett (ABJ ’52) A hunting knife becomes the uniting link between a guilt-laden grandfather and an unknown grandson until a chance encounter in the warscarred South in 1863.

Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press (2015)

By Angela Pulley Hudson (MA ’99) In the mid-1840s an ex-slave from Mississippi remakes himself as a Choctaw performer and hooks up with a divorced white Mormon from New York who likewise claims to be Native American.

The Thebaid of Statius: The Women of Lemnos Bolchazy-Carducci (2015)

By Patrick Yaggy (AB ’99, MA ’09) Adapted from Latin, the story of Hypsipyle and the women of Lemnos in a student-friendly textbook designed to facilitate reading comprehension.

Murderers, Madmen & Lunatics Deeds Publishing (2015)

By David Crowe (AB ’84) Funny, irreverent stories from the underbelly of criminal defense. Crowe has practiced law in Athens for 25 years.

Refuge Lulu Press Inc. (2015)

By Jason K. Macomson (DVM ’98) A young woman finds herself caught up with an unlikely pair of vampire hunters and must confront difficult questions about the nature of good and evil.

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Mascot Books (2015)

By Emily Gaddy (BBA ’08) Ride along with a family of Dawgs as they get ready for a tailgate party and football game. A spin on P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book Go, Dog. Go!

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Giant. Robot. Battle.

(Left to right) Brinkley Warren (ABJ ’05, MA ’12), Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein pose in front of the MegaBot Mk. II at Comic-Con International, held in San Diego in July. The three are co-founders of MegaBots, a robotics company that plans to create a new global sports league of giant, human-piloted robots. This summer MegaBots challenged Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot battle. The MegaBot Mk. II, controlled by two pilots, is 15 feet tall, weighs six tons and fires 3-pound paint cannonballs at speeds of over 100 miles per hour; it will face Suidobashi’s Kuratas, a single-pilot robot that weighs 4.5 tons and features Gatling guns (forerunner to the modern machine gun) controlled by an advanced targeting system. In order to upgrade the Mk. II for robot-on-robot combat, MegaBots raised more than $500,000 via a Kickstarter campaign. The epic battle—the first of its kind—is expected to take place sometime next year.

Brian Fuller (BS ’98) of Atlanta was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for his fundraising efforts. Sharri Edenfield (AB ’99) of Statesboro completed her term as the 68th president of the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia.

She is a partner with Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens P.C. Heather Layfield McCullough (BLA ’99) of Charlotte co-founded Society 54, a professional consulting firm launched in September.

Sara Robertson (ABJ ’99) of Austin, Texas, is executive producer of “BBQ with Franklin,” a cooking and travel show that aired on PBS over the summer. She is also vice president of production and technology at KLRU-TV.

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2000-2004

David Gersmehl (BBA ’00) of Cumming joined the law firm D.H. Gushman & Sons as an attorney specializing in ear, nose and throat malpractice.

Ryan Zondervan (BBA ’00) of Atlanta opened a franchise of USA Insulation in June. David Cleveland (BBA ’01) of Sharpsburg is director of community and economic development for CowetaFayette EMC. Kenneth Linsley (AB ’01, MEd ’09) of Athens became the K-8 science program specialist for the Georgia Department of Education in October. Chris Stratton (BBA ’01) of Nashville, Tenn., was named divisional vice president of ADP’s Southeast Small Business Sales Division and relocated

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to Cumming. Jonathan HarwellDye (BFA ’03) of Macon was named director of creative placemaking at Macon Arts Alliance, where he will lead arts-based community development initiatives. Charlie Johnson (BLA ’03) of Tallahassee, Fla., was promoted to senior project manager at Wood+Partners Inc., a landscape architecture and land-planning firm. Cameron Schwabenton (BSFCS ’03) of Charleston, S.C., received first place in the 2015 American Society of Interior Designers Excellence in Design Awards for Historic Renovation in the Carolinas for a project in Charleston.

Heather Wegenhart (BSA ’03) of Acworth was chosen as an inaugural Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellow in June. The program recruits recent graduates and professionals with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and prepares them to teach in high-need secondary schools. Drew Molitoris (BSEd ’04) of Shawnee, Kan., was hired as athletic director and head coach of boy’s basketball at Immaculata Catholic High School in Leavenworth, Kan.

2005-2009

J.R. Charles (ABJ ’05) of Athens became economic development director of Oconee County July 1. Douglas Harden (AB ’05) of Germantown, Md., was inducted into the Phi Gamma Mu National Honor Society at the University of North Georgia. Todd Zeigler (ABJ ’05) of Snellville is director of communications and content for Acting For Your Life, a training and motivational program that aims to help artists balance their lives. Zeigler previously worked for The Voice-Tribune and The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. Marcus Howard (BSFCS ’07) of Atlanta was named a Canadian Football League Shaw Top Performer in July for his performance as defensive end for the Edmonton Eskimos. Howard is a former football player for the Georgia Bulldogs. Rachael Jones (AB ’07, BSEd ’15) of Athens was a winner of the 32nd annual Writers of the Future contest for her short story “Dinosaur Dreams in Infinite Measure.” She received a cash prize, a trip to Hollywood, Calif., for a weeklong writing workshop and will be published in the anthology L. Ron Hubbard

Presents Writers of the Future. Lauren Morgan Patrick (ABJ ’07) of Powder Springs was one of three finalists for Marketing and Social Media Leader of the Year in the Technology Association of Georgia Young Professionals Society’s “One in a Millennial” Awards. Patrick runs PrettySouthern.com and has content management experience with several Atlanta startups. Joel Penn (ABJ ’07) of Athens became executive chef at Heirloom Café in May. Previously he was a sous chef at The National.

Matthew Burgoyne (ABJ ’08) of Washington, D.C., was awarded a fellowship from the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.

Fellowships are awarded to support the graduate study of American history by secondary school teachers of history, government and social studies. Lyndsey Downs (BBA ’08) of Lawrenceville was promoted to product development specialist at The Millennium Company in Suwanee, where she has been the marketing executive for three years.

Elizabeth Lynn (BSA ’09, MS ’11, DVM ’15) of Reidsville received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Lynn plans to practice mixed or small animal medicine. Anthony Tilton (AB ’09) of Gulfport, Fla., received his Florida Certified Building Contractor License from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation in August. Tilton is a construction law associate at Trent Cotney P.A.

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Chelsea Cook (ABJ ’10) of Atlanta was promoted to writer/producer at CNN in August. She will write for “Newsroom with Fredericka Whitfield” and “Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin.”

Cook has been at CNN for three years.

Jamie Fendley (BSA ’10, DVM ’15) of Bethlehem received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Fendley will practice small animal medicine in Bethlehem.

Jacquelyn Horner (BS ’10, DVM ’15) of Powder Springs received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Horner plans to practice small animal medicine at the Pharr Road Animal Hospital in Atlanta.

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teach in high-need secondary schools.

Will McCartney (BBA ’14) of Augusta developed DinnerCrunch.com, a website that provides cooking information for people who don’t know much about meal preparation. Megan Ernst (ABJ, AB, MPA ’15) of Atlanta was awarded a fellowship from the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.

Fellowships are awarded to support the graduate study of American history by secondary school teachers of history, government and social studies.

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40 Under 40

Adam Cohen (front row) celebrates being named one of the UGA Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40 for 2015 at the awards luncheon in September. Joining him are family members (left to right) Joan Dane-Kellogg (MSW ’81), Julie Cohen (BBA ’06, MAcc ’07), Renee Cohen, Jeffrey Cohen, Lauren Bernath and Renee Korte.

Cohen (BBA ’06, MBA ’12), a partner at Tenon Consulting, established a recruiting and internship program at his firm to help place UGA students. He also serves as a mentor at the Terry College of Business. For the complete list of honorees, visit alumni.uga.edu/40u40.

Elodie Huguet (BSA ’10, DVM ’15) of Aiken, S.C., received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Huguet plans to practice equine medicine at the Virginia Equine Imaging Center in Middleburg, Va. Allison Robillard (BSFR ’10, DVM ’15) of Martinez received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Robillard will practice small animal medicine at Banfield Pet Hospital in Buford. Lee Barton (BSA ’11, DVM ’15) of Hazlehurst received his doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Barton will practice mixed animal medicine at Clarkesville Veterinary Hospital. Alexandria Byas (BSA ’11, DVM ’15) of Lizella received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Byas will enter an anatomic pathology residency program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. Elyse Paske (BSA

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’11, DVM ’15) of Alpharetta received her doctorate from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine on May 2. Paske plans to practice small animal and exotic medicine at Red Barn Veterinary Hospital in Dahlonega. Therysa King (ABJ ’12), Air Force airman first class, graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas, in July. Nicki Alexander (AB ’14, BSES ’14) of Atlanta was selected for a Princeton in Latin America Fellowship for 2015-16. Alexander will focus on social justice service with the organization Liceo Científico Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro in the Dominican Republic.

Olivia Fine (BS ’14) of Winder was chosen as an inaugural Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellow in June. The program recruits recent graduates and professionals with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and prepares them to

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Joshua Gurtler (PhD ’06) of Phoenixville, Pa., developed an antimicrobial produce wash called First Step + 10 with NatureSeal Inc. The product will kill pathogenic bacteria on fresh fruits and vegetables. Gurtler works in the Food Safety Intervention Technologies department at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Arts & Sciences

Jeffrey Webster (MS ’77, PhD ’80) of Huntington Beach, Calif., has been chief psychologist at the Long Beach Veteran’s Administration Hospital since 2011.

Webster has been with the hospital for 36 years. Cynthia Baum (MS ’80, PhD ’82) of Gaithersburg, Md., was appointed chancellor of Argosy University in July.

She is the former president of Walden University. Sanjit Sethi (MFA ’98) of Santa Fe, N.M., was named the inaugural director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University in August. Previously Sethi was director of the Sante Fe Art Institute.

Michael Seymour (MS ’14) of Athens was chosen as an inaugural Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellow in June. The program recruits recent graduates and professionals with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math fields, and prepares them to teach in highneed secondary schools.

Business

Robert Krueger (MBA ’70) of Hawkinsville was elected chairman of the board for ComSouth, a

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Living history Greg Harlin’s illustrations retell epic stories

by John W. English Artist Greg Harlin (BFA ’80) enjoys fully immersing himself in the past while working on assignment.

“One of the fun things about my job illustrating history is trying to live the history while working on a project,” Harlin says of his creative process. “I look at all relevant pictures I can find. I read stacks of books. I work with historians and really appreciate their collaboration.

Sometimes I put on costumes and pose as characters. It gives me a feel for the job.”

Working from his home SPECIAL studio in Annapolis, Md., Greg Harlin (BFA ’80) at the unveiling of his painting commemorating the bombardHarlin is part of the Wood ment of Fort McHenry for the U.S. Postal Service in Baltimore last September. He has Ronsaville Harlin firm. He designed three stamps for the Postal Service. was recruited soon after graduating by Rob Wood (MFA ’75), who had returned to campus to guest lecture.

After tweaking, he begins painting the final watercolor

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“My goal is always to try to get the illustration perfect are magazines such as Smithsonian, National Geographic for the person who really knows it,” he says. “I’m really and Scientific American, and museums such as the Field happy when consultants say ‘You got it!’” in Chicago and the McClung in Knoxville.

Harlin says he’s enjoying recent public recognition

Harlin’s work reached an even broader audience after and participating in events like the unveiling ceremony for he illustrated a children’s book, We the People: The Story his stamp commemorating Fort McHenry in Baltimore last of Our Constitution by Lynne Cheney. The book made The September.

New York Times best-seller list upon its initial release in

He’s also begun showing his work at an Annapolis 2008 and again in 2012 in paperback. art gallery and enjoys socializing at openings. “Selling my

He’s also had success designing historical postage original art is a secondary market for me, and they are stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. He’s done three to popular with collectors. I get a chance to talk to people date—the state of Georgia bicentennial and two in a who bought my work.” series about the War of 1812: the Battle of New Orleans

Some illustration jobs require travel to places as farand the bombardment of Fort McHenry. flung as Egypt and Bolivia. “There is nothing like standing “While the reach of a stamp can be intimidating, I try in the place where history occurred,” he says. “It’s to think of it as a regular project,” he says. “It does have something you can feel—a huge aura. I hope the sensation more layers of researchers and consultants.” of a place finds its way into my illustrations.”

He explains how thumbnail sketches go through two committees that check for visual impact and accuracy —John W. English, professor emeritus of journalism, is a before he creates a more detailed black-and-white sketch. frequent contributor to GM.

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telecommunications company based in Middle Georgia. Mitch Paull (MBA ’00) of La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., was promoted to partner with Ernst & Young LLC. He leads the firm’s SAP Finance capability group for the U.S. Jon Butts (MBA ’10) of Alpharetta is the founder of Muscle Up Marketing, a Roswell-based marketing agency that was ranked 40th on Inc. Magazine’s annual list of fastestgrowing, privately held businesses in the U.S. Muscle Up Marketing specializes in campaigns for the fitness industry.

projects at foreign institutions. Osborne was the chief strategic communications adviser for the Afghan National Security Forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year. In the fall, she became the inaugural holder of the C-SPAN Chair at the Brian Lamb School for Communication at Purdue University. Wagner Pierre (MEd ’12) of Miami, Fla., is now a middle school science teacher at GEMS Dubai American Academy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Environment & Design

J.K. Tiller (MLA ’73) of Bluffton, S.C. received the Distinguished Alumni Award during the UGA College of Environment and Design’s reunion weekend in April.

Tiller is founder and president of J.K. Tiller Associates Inc., a landscape architectural and land-planning firm.

Marcelo Ardón (PhD ’06) of Raleigh, N.C., received the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America

Education

Janet Buckworth (MSW ’79, MA ’84, PhD ’93) of Athens is a co-author of the second-edition textbook Exercise Psychology. She is professor and head of UGA’s Department of Kinesiology. Editor’s note: In the September issue of Georgia Magazine, Buckworth was identified incorrectly as an associate professor of exercise science at Ohio State University. She joined UGA in June 2014.

GM regrets the error. Lacy Camp (MEd ’84) of Athens retired from her job as a marriage and family therapist at the Samaritan Center for Counseling and Wellness in May. She was executive director of the center from 2010-14. Susan Sanneman Kelly (MA ’81) of Reston, Va., was named a finalist for a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that aims to revitalize federal government by inspiring public service. Kelly is head of the Department of Defense’s Transition to Veterans Program Office. Edward Shaw Jr. (AB ’72, EdD ’84) of Mobile, Ala., retired from the University of South Alabama after 28 years. Shaw also received the Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and was a co-winner of the Outstanding Innovation Award from USA’s College of Education in April.

Daniel Pugh Sr. (PhD ’00) of College Station, Texas, was appointed vice president for student affairs at Texas A&M University in May. Formerly he was vice provost for student affairs at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Jason Umfress (MEd ’05) of Brunswick was named vice president for student affairs at the College of Coastal Georgia. Kimberly Osborne (PhD ’06) of West Lafayette, Ind., was selected to the Fulbright Specialist roster in June. She will be working on education

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Underground astronaut Hannah Morris (AB ’07) gets a warm welcome after emerging from the Rising Star cave during a 2013 expedition. This fall the expedition made headlines when, after two years of analyzing fossils, researchers announced that a new species of human relative, Homo naledi, had been identified.

BECCA PEIXOTTO Morris and five other women—chosen for their scientific credentials, caving experience and slender build and dubbed “underground astronauts”—spent 21 days excavating fossils in the cave outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. Getting to the site, which eventually yielded more than 1,500 bones, required a 30-minute journey that involved rappelling down a jagged rock wall and squeezing through a narrow, vertical chute less than 8 inches wide in some places. The find was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society and the South African National Research Foundation and published in the journal eLife. A NOVA/National Geographic special, “Dawn of Humanity,” premiered in September, and the story appeared on the October cover of National Geographic magazine. Morris is now a Ph.D. student in integrative conservation at UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

in August for his research paper titled “Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export.” The paper was published in Global Change Biology. Ardon is an assistant professor of biology at East Carolina University.

Journalism & Mass Communication

Dane Claussen (PhD ’99) of Miami, Fla., was named professor of communication and Pedas Endowed Chair in Communication at Thiel College in

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Greenville, Pa., in July. He will also serve as executive director of the James Pedas Communication Center. Monica Kaufman Pearson (MA ’14) of Jonesboro received the Chairman’s Award at the 37th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 26. She retired in 2012 after working at WSB-TV for 37 years.

She now hosts a weekly radio show and teaches part time.

Law

Benjamine Reid (JD ’74) of Miami, Fla., was appointed national co-chair of

the American Bar Association Litigation Section Judicial Intern Opportunity Program in July. He will oversee the program’s placing and funding of internships for minority law students with state and federal judges. Gary Jackson (JD ’75) of Atlanta was chosen as president-elect of the Council of Municipal Court Judges. Jackson is an associate judge of the Atlanta Municipal Court. Steve Cox (JD ’76) of Rome was named 2015 Assistant District Attorney of the Year for Division 3 in July by the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. Mary Chaffin (JD ’82) of Winchester, Mass., was named one of the Leaders in the Law for 2015 during an awards ceremony organized by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and New England In-House.

Chaffin is the general counsel of Accion International, a nonprofit organization aimed at building a financially inclusive world. She is also co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s International Law Section. Joan T.A. Gabel (JD ’93) of Columbia, Mo., was named executive vice president of academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina in July. She is the former dean of the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business. Hank Syms (JD ’00) of Augusta was selected as the 2015 Assistant District Attorney of the Year for Division 1 in July by the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. Brian Rickman (JD ’01) of Tiger was appointed to the Governor’s Commission on Medical Cannabis. He is a district attorney for the Mountain Judicial Court. Jamie Baker Roskie (JD ’01) of Fort Collins, Colo., joined the Coan, Payton & Payne law firm in September, where she focuses on government law and environmental and conservation law. Joe Miguez (JD ’02) of Austin, Texas, was appointed to the City of Austin Human Rights Commission in September. Miguez is an attorney with McGuireWoods LLP.

Pharmacy

Lindsey Welch (PharmD ’08) of Watkinsville was named the 2015 Distinguished Young Pharmacist of the Year in Georgia by the Georgia Pharmacy Association. Welch has worked at UGA’s College of Pharmacy for five years.

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