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By Caroline Paczkowskicparis@uga.edu

UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs ranks fourth among graduate schools of public affairs, according to the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings.

SPIA also has three highly ranked specialty programs: in public finance and budgeting, UGA is ranked second, moving up from fifth place in the 2012 rankings; the public management administration program is ranked second; and the public policy analysis program is ranked 18th.

“The School of Public and International Affairs is extremely proud of the Master of Public Administration program where the faculty members have demon-strated worldwide impact through their research and where the graduates are among the most ac-complished and influential alumni serving in the public and nonprofit sectors,” said Stefanie A. Lindquist dean and Arch Professor of Public

and Interna-tional Affairs.

A t t h e core of SPIA’s reputation in public affairs is its Master of Public Ad-ministration degree pro-gram, which

is celebrating its 50th anniver-sary this year. In addition, the MPA program was recognized recently on both the House and Senate floors of the Georgia General Assembly for 50 years of positive local to global impact.

“This is truly a special place and it is only appropriate that our work continues to be recognized as among the best of the best,” said Bradley E. Wright, head of the public administration and policy department. “It is a real honor to work with such an elite group of faculty, staff and students.”

Recent accolades also include a

By Kristen Moraleskmorales@uga.edu

The Athens area will have the chance to get to know a California poet and environmentalist thanks to a National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” event held in conjunction with UGA.

UGA College of Education professor Melisa Cahnmann- Taylor has lined up a slate of read-ings, lectures, hands-on events and performances as a way to intertwine the work of Robinson Jeffers with

the culture and landscape of the South.

Launched in 2006, the Big Read unites a community around a classic novel. Several Georgia cities have championed a book since the program’s start, including Atlanta, Savannah and Brunswick. Athens last hosted the Big Read in 2008, when the community read Bless Me, Ultima.

Cahnmann-Taylor chose Jef-fers as a way to “create art in response to art” rather than a more

By Camie Williams camiew@uga.edu

Participation in UGA’s annual undergraduate research sympo-sium has reached a record, with more than 400 students presenting original research projects in fields ranging from art to pathology and computer science at the upcoming Center for Undergraduate Re-search Opportunities Symposium.

The CURO Symposium, scheduled for April 4 and 5 at the Classic Center in Athens, includes poster sessions and presentations, and is free and open to the public. Alan Darvill, Regents Professor of biochemistry and molecular biol-ogy and director of UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, will present the keynote address April 4 at 3:30 p.m.

Senior Vice President for

Academic Affairs and Provost Pa-mela Whitten said that UGA has made expanding undergraduate re-search opportunities a cornerstone of its initiative to ensure that each of its students engages in experiential learning prior to graduation.

“This year’s record CURO Symposium participation and the enthusiastic response to our expanded CURO Research As-sistantship program underscore the intellectual curiosity of our students and their strong desire to apply their knowledge outside of the classroom,” she said.

CURO is administered by the Honors Program but expanded to become available to all undergradu-ates in 2010. For the first time, more than half the participants in this year’s symposium are from outside of the Honors Program.

In addition to $3,000 summer

fellowship grants, which have been available for nearly a decade, students also can apply for the CURO Research Assistantship, which has provided $1,000 sti-pends to 250 undergraduates since 2014. The program will expand to 500 students next academic year.

“We greatly appreciate the very strong support that CURO receives from the central administration and from faculty members across campus,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program. “This allows students to participate in research at UGA for up to a full four years if they choose.”

Nikhil Gangasani is one of the 407 students participating in this year’s symposium. With ambitions of becoming a physi-cian, he got involved in a CURO

By Sam Fahmysfahmy@uga.edu

Students from across Georgia and throughout the nation will be converging on UGA for two events that give young entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their business and consumer brand concepts to a panel of investors and advisers for $35,000 in prize money.

UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur competition, in which eight student teams will compete in front of a live audience for a $10,000 prize,

will be held March 30, with the presentations beginning at 5 p.m. in the Rialto Room of Hotel Indigo in Athens.

The inaugural Collegiate Next Great Consumer Brands Com-petition, in which 10 teams will compete for a $25,000 award and an all-expenses paid trip to attend the Next Great Consumer Brands Conference in New York City, will be held April 7. The recep-tion, which is open to the public, begins at 5:30 p.m. in The Foundry of the Graduate Athens hotel.

Presentations from the three top teams begin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by the announcement of the winning team.

Both events are part of a broader effort at UGA to nurture the en-trepreneurial talents of students, and they are a part of Athens’ first StartUp Week and UGA’s long-running Thinc. Week.

“These competitions are going to shine a spotlight not just on UGA but on Athens and the state of Georgia as a place where new

By Jennifer Adams j.adams@uga.edu

Resident applicants at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership gath-ered March 18 at noon in George Hall at the UGA Health Sciences Campus for Match Day, an event celebrating the next step in their medical careers.

Sealed envelopes addressed to individual students were dropped from lanterns for each of the members of the Class of 2016, and inside each envelope was a personal letter revealing where the student

will pursue his or her postgraduate medical education.

An annual event, Match Day takes place after students par-ticipate in interviews and visits to residency programs in Georgia and across the country. To determine the postgraduation assignments, the students ranked hospitals where they would like to complete residencies, and hospital residency programs ranked the student appli-cants. The lists were then submitted to the nonprofit organization Na-tional Resident Matching Program in Washington, D.C., which uses an

Bigger and betterUndergraduate research symposium at UGA

breaks record, tops 400 participants

Fikri Avci, left, a faculty member in UGA’s Center for Molecular Medicine, shows CURO student Nikhil Gangasani the chromatography machine used by the lab. Gangasani will present his research at this year’s CURO Symposium.

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By Laurie Andersonlaurie@uga.edu

When 15-year-old Constance Baker Motley told her parents that she wanted to be a lawyer, her mother advised her to become a hairdresser instead. Her father said nothing. Even if college wasn’t beyond the means of their large, poor family, it was extremely unlikely in the 1930s that a black female could gain admission to law school.

And yet she did. With the help of a philanthropist, Motley not only entered Columbia University Law School, but went on to become one of America’s most successful civil rights litigators and a distinguished federal judge.

“She lived a paradox of change,” Harvard law and history professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin told attendees March 17 at the fourth annual Donald L. Hollowell Lecture. Brown-Nagin is the author of many articles on civil rights history as well as the book Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, which won the 2012 Bancroft Prize in American History. She currently is working on a biography of Motley.

The Hollowell Lecture is named for Georgia’s late chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. Hollowell served as chief counsel in the Holmes v. Danner case that led to the desegrega-tion of UGA in 1961. Motley was a member of the legal team on that case.

Motley’s life could have gone in a very different direction, though. After earning a law degree in 1946, she ini-tially sought employment with financial corporations in New York, but no one would hire the young, black woman.

“Wall Street’s rejection of Motley was civil rights’ gain,” Brown-Nagin said.

Motley accepted a job with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educa-tional Fund and went on to win nine out of 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as many landmark deseg-regation lawsuits throughout the South.

Despite her successes, she still en-countered bias. After nearly two decades with the LDF, Motley was bypassed for its leadership in favor of a male lawyer. The choice stung, but she moved on.

“Motley didn’t call herself a femi-nist. She played the inside game,” Brown-Nagin said.

After being named the nation’s first black, female federal judge in 1966, Motley continued to weigh in on is-sues of discrimination until her death in 2005. As a judge she ruled for female reporters’ right to enter professional male athletes’ locker rooms to conduct interviews, and she argued for more diversity in the judiciary.

One shouldn’t look at Motley’s ca-reer as the only way to frame success, however, added Brown-Nagin. Litiga-tion in the South took her away from her husband and children for extended periods of time and exposed her to great personal danger.

“It is so important to appreciate that

there are many paths to the mountain-top,” Brown-Nagin said.

The lecture was preceded by a short film about Hollowell and introductory remarks by Maurice C. Daniels, dean and professor of the School of Social Work and director of the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies, and Llewellyn Cornelius, the Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies and director of the Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights.

After the lecture, Brown-Nagin and Cornelius took questions from the audience. Several questions concerned issues of gender bias and how to create a more inclusive society.

“This lecture is part of the center’s commitment to foster in-depth con-versations regarding human and civil rights,” Cornelius said. “I look forward to more conversations like this, which can inspire future research, scholarship and community engagement.”

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Richard C. Tallman, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, will discuss issues relating to national security and the judiciary as the UGA School of Law’s 114th Sibley Lecturer April 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom of Hirsch

Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Tallman was appointed by Pres-ident Bill Clinton to his judgeship and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As a judge, he served

from 2007 to 2011 as the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules for the Judicial Conference of the U.S. In 2014, he was appointed to a seven-year term on the Foreign Intel-ligence Surveillance Court of Review by Chief Justice of the U.S. John G. Roberts.

Tallman hears civil, criminal and administrative cases as a judge on the 9th Circuit, which is the largest federal court of appeals in the nation and over-sees one-third of all federal appeals in the country.

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By Beth Gavrillesbethgav@uga.edu

Landscape history, coastal ecosystem dynamics and disease ecology will be just a few of the topics discussed April 7 at the UGA Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe 2016 Research Symposium .

The symposium, sponsored by the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History, takes place from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the UGA Odum School of Ecology auditorium. It will be followed by a recep-tion and is free and open to all.

Located at historic Wormsloe on the Isle of Hope near Savannah, the UGA Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe hosts graduate students and faculty from the Odum School, the Col-lege of Environment and Design, the Col-lege of Engineering and the departments of anthropology, geography and history to explore questions with relevance not only to Wormsloe itself but which also have national- and global-scale implica-tions. Their research is conducted under the auspices of the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History Science Ad-visory Council, made up of experts from a number of schools and departments at UGA as well as partners from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Wormsloe’s history and location make it an ideal living laboratory for this kind of interdisciplinary work, according to Sarah Ross, director of the Wormsloe Institute and UGA CREW and a faculty member in the College of Environment and Design.

According to the archaeological record, human habitation of the site dates back 6,000 years. In 1736 founding Georgia colonist Noble Jones established Wormsloe as a farm and fortification; it has remained in his family ever since and is home today to ninth-generation descendant Craig Barrow III and his wife, Diana Deas Barrow.

In 2007 the Barrows, with Ross as director, created the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History and partnered with the Wormsloe Foundation and the UGA Graduate School to establish the interdisciplinary Wormsloe Fellows pro-gram. In 2013 the Wormsloe Foundation deeded 15 acres to UGA to create the Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe; research facilities there will be dedicated later this spring.

“This year’s symposium will provide a glimpse of the breadth and depth of research happening at Wormsloe, and highlight the interdisciplinary and in-novative nature of the work taking place there,” Ross said.

Symposium will showcase range of interdisciplinary research at Wormsloe

WORMSLOE INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Hollowell Lecture explores story of judge who battled racial, gender bias

Reporter will share ‘lessons learned’ April 5 at Mingledorff-Lorimer Lecture

New York Times investigative reporter Ian Urbina will speak on “Of Outlaws, Runaways and Glue: Lessons Learned in Journalism” at the 2016 Mingledorff-Lorimer Lecture in Print Media.

Sponsored by the UGA Libraries, the lecture will be April 5 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

“I have known and worked with Ian Urbina for several years now and have team taught a course with him, so I know the treat in store for the UGA community,” said Charles Davis, dean of the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Commu-nication. “This is one of the finest investigative reporters working today. His work on the world’s oceans is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the world these days.”

Urbina has degrees in history from George-town and the University of Chicago. His writings, which range from domestic and foreign policy to commentary on everyday life, have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and Harper’s.

CED, Athletic Association program and exhibit to explore impact of sport at UGA

As part of the observance of the annual Interna-tional Day on Monuments and Sites, the College of Environment and Design and the UGA Athletic Association will present “UGA–The Heritage of Sport” April 11 at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

Open free to the public, the program and one-day exhibit will explore the impact of sport on students, faculty, alumni and fans throughout UGA’s history.

The program will include a video produced by the UGA Athletic Association and written by Loran Smith, associate director of public relations and development for the Athletic Association.

A panel of speakers, moderated by Smith, will explore the heritage of sport in the nation, state and at UGA. Panelists include Verne Lundquist, CBS sports commentator and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports at the 37th annual Sports Emmy Awards; Tony Barn-hart, UGA alumnus and sports broadcaster; Vince Dooley, former head football coach and director of athletics at UGA; and Danny Sniff, director of aca-demic partnerships in the College of Environment and Design. A reception will follow the program.

The program also will feature a special exhibit on the heritage of sport at UGA produced by the special collections libraries.

Organized by the Master of Historic Preserva-tion Program in the College of Environment and Design and the UGA Athletic Association, the program and exhibit are co-sponsored by UGA Libraries and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Golfer named Collegiate Athlete of YearThe Atlanta Sports Council named UGA golfer

Lee McCoy its Collegiate Athlete of the Year.McCoy had one of the most celebrated seasons

in UGA history during the 2015 portion of his ju-nior year. He was named First-Team All-American, All-Region and All-SEC after winning a school-record-tying four tournaments and breaking the single-season school scoring average record. Behind McCoy, the men’s golf team reached the semifinals of the NCAA championship.

After his collegiate season, McCoy was a mem-ber of the U.S. Walker Cup, Palmer Cup and Pan Am Games squads, and he reached the match play portion of the U.S. Amateur. He also played in the U.S. Open and two PGA Tour events.

The other finalists for Collegiate Athlete of the Year were Georgia Tech swimmer Andrew Kosic and Georgia State softball player Ivie Drake.

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From left: Tomiko Brown-Nagin is introduced by School of Social Work Dean Maurice Daniels to School of Law faculty member Lonnie Brown.

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MONDAY, MARCH 28SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES LECTURE“The Status of Organic Agriculture in the South-east,” Jeanine Davis, North Carolina State University. 3:30 p.m. 103 Conner Hall. sustainag@uga.edu.

VISUAL IDENTITY LISTENING SESSIONSUGA is exploring an update of its visual brand identity and logo system and invites members of the UGA community to participate in a series of input meetings. 3:30 p.m. Hodgson Oil Building. 706-542-8083, jgleason@uga.edu. (See Bulletin Board, page 4).

INNOVATION GATEWAY EVENT“From Idea to Marketplace: How UGA Discoveries Become Products and Companies.” Part of Thinc. Week. 4 p.m. 128/130 CAGTECH. 706-542-8969, tduggins@uga.edu.

FILM SCREENING*Mountains that Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama—A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation. 6:30 p.m. 271 special collections librar-ies. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29MARY FRANCES EARLY LECTURE“The Case for Diversity and Inclusion in American Higher Education,” Johnnetta B. Cole. Part of the Signature Lecture Series. 3 p.m. Mahler Hall, Geor-gia Center. 706-542-6416, ajewell@uga.edu.

EUGENE P. ODUM LECTUREJonathan Levine, professor of plant ecology at Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. 4 p.m. Ecology building auditorium. 706-542-7247, bethgav@uga.edu.

VISITING ARTIST/SCHOLAR LECTUREBeth Cavener. 5:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art. 706-542-0116, michelleegas@uga.edu.

BASEBALL vs. Kennesaw State. $5-$8. 6 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SOFTBALL vs. Georgia Tech. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

CONCERT“A Night at the Morton: Celebrating American Roots Music.” Free but tickets required. 7 p.m. Morton Theatre, 195 W. Washington St. 706-542-3737, jkidula@uga.edu.

CONCERTThe Hodgson Wind Ensemble will perform its penul-timate spring concert. $10; $5 with a student ID. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, musicpr@uga.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30INTEGRATIVE CONSERVATION BROWN BAGFeaturing Gwyneth Moody, community programs coordinator at the Georgia River Network. 2:20 p.m. Dean’s conference room, Forestry resources building. talleyv@uga.edu.

LECTUREWilliam Finlay of UGA’s sociology department will present “Teaching What Students Know (Or Think They Know): Using Student Knowledge as a Founda-tion for Learning.” 1 p.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu.

#THROWBACK THERAPIES LECTURESusan Mattern is a Distinguished Research

Professor of History at UGA. 2 p.m. 250 Miller Learn-ing Center. davemarr@uga.edu.

CONCERTThe UGA Tuba Euphonium Ensemble. 6 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, ccschwabe@uga.edu.

UGA’S NEXT TOP ENTREPRENEURThe top teams will compete in front of a live audi-ence and panel of judges for a winner-takes-all cash prize of $10,000. 6 p.m. Rialto Room, Hotel Indigo, 500 College Ave. 706-542-9164, durkinka@uga.edu. (See story, page 1).

WOMEN LEADING BEYOND THE ARCH“Women Leading Beyond the Arch: A Discussion with UGA Young Alumni.” 7 p.m. Reception Hall, Tate Student Center. 706-542-0383, kcfite@uga.edu.

RECITALFaculty from the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music and University of South Florida. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, ccschwabe@uga.edu.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31WORKSHOP“Why Flipping Flops: Perfecting the Practice.” 11 a.m. 372 Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu.

GUEST LECTURE“Moving Statues: The Use and Reuse of Portrait Statues in Pompeii,” Brenda Longfellow. 5:30 p.m. S150 Lamar Dodd School of Art. peb32050@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH KEYNOTE ADDRESS*Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. Part of the Signature Lecture Series. 6:30 p.m. 271 special collections libraries. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu.

CONCERTThe UGA Symphony Orchestra. $10; $5 with a UGA-Card. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, ccschwabe@uga.edu.

FRIDAY, APRIL 1COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE9 a.m. College of Veterinary Medicine. CVMOH2016@gmail.com.

UGA INSECT ZOO OPEN HOUSE10 a.m. Miller Plant Sciences lawn.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCENoon. Georgia Center. 706-542-9068, gthorn@uga.edu.

WOMEN’S STUDIES FRIDAY SPEAKER SERIES LECTURE“Gendering Villagization: Women and Kinship Networks in Colonial and Socialist Lindi, Tanzania,” Husseina Dinani, history. 12:20 p.m. 248 Miller Learning Center. 706-542-2846, tlhat@uga.edu.

SOFTBALL vs. LSU. 6 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

BASEBALL vs. Alabama. $5-$8. 7 p.m. Foley Field.

PERFORMANCERockapella. $25-$40. 8 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Con-cert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400. (See story, left).

SATURDAY, APRIL 2SOFTBALL vs. LSU. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

BASEBALL vs. Alabama. $5-$8. 2 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SUNDAY, APRIL 3BASEBALLvs. Alabama. $5-$8. 1 p.m. Foley Field. 706-542-1231.

SOFTBALLvs. LSU. 2 p.m. Jack Turner Stadium. 706-542-1621.

PERFORMANCEViolinist David Chan, a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1998, will perform. $30. 3 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4400.

MONDAY, APRIL 4CURO SYMPOSIUMThrough April 5. Classic Center, 300 N. Thomas St. 706-583-0698, dotemann@uga.edu. (See story, page 1).

HOMERATHONAn outdoor English reading of Homer’s Odyssey organized by the classics department featuring readings from members of the UGA and Athens communities. 8:30 a.m. Main library.

WORKSHOP“Flipping the Classroom: Best Practices for Engaged Learning.” 1 p.m. Reading Room, Miller Learning Center. 706-583-0067, tchagood@uga.edu.

SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE DESIGN WORKSHOPAn overview of service-learning pedagogy, benefits and best practices for those interested in enhancing existing courses or creating a new service-learning course. 2:30 p.m. PSO Annex Con-ference Room, Office of Service-Learning Building. 706-542-0892, pmatthew@uga.edu.

CONCERTStudents from the trumpet area of the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall, Performing Arts Center. 706-542-4752, ccschwabe@uga.edu.

COMING UP2016 MINGLEDORFF-LORIMER LECTUREApril 5. 4 p.m. Special collections libraries audito-rium. (See Digest, page 2).

STAFF COUNCIL MEETINGApril 6. 2:30 p.m. 250 Miller Learning Center.

SCHOOL OF LAW SIBLEY LECTUREApril 6. 3:30 p.m. Hirsch Hall. (See story, page 2).

WORMSLOE INSTITUTE SYMPOSIUMApril 7. 2:30 p.m. Odum School of Ecology audito-rium. (See story, page 2).

*PART OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

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The UGA Performing Arts Center will present Rockapella April 1 at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. The male vocal ensemble is one of the progenitors of the full-band sound of contemporary a cappella music.

Tickets for the Rockapella concert are $25-$40 and are discounted for UGA students. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400.

Rockapella first achieved national television fame in the early 1990s on PBS’ Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Since then, the group has toured the globe, entertaining generations of vocal music fans with original songs and unique ar-rangements of Motown, pop and soul classics.

A USA Today writer summed up Rockapella’s lasting appeal, saying “The best musical instrument of all is the human voice—if you’ve seen Rockapella you know that’s the truth.”

The current Rockapella lineup features high tenor Scott Leonard, vocal per-cussionist Jeff Thacher, second tenor Steven Dorian, tenor Calvin Jones and bass Ryan Chappelle.

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StairDawgs Challenge The UGA College of Educa-

tion’s Center for Physical Activity and Health and the newly formed Exercise is Medicine on Campus student group are supporting a pilot project from April 1 to May 3 that will challenge UGA faculty and staff to increase their regular physical activity.

The StairDawgs Challenge requires participants to keep track of how many flights of stairs they take and to record this number every week. Participants unable to climb stairs instead should record every one minute of physical activity performed and report those minutes. All participants will compete to place on a weekly climber board with the top climbers getting a chance to win a FitBit.

To participate in the StairDawgs Challenge, register on the College of Education’s website (coe.uga.edu) by March 31.

Senior Teaching Fellows Nominations are being accepted

until 5 p.m. April 11 for the 2016-2017 CTL Senior Teaching Fellows Pro-gram. Any faculty member, dean or department head interested in nominat-ing individuals for the program should email Eddie Watson, CTL director, at edwatson@uga.edu with a brief statement (five to eight sentences) about why the nominee would make an excellent candidate for the program.

Fellows, who will be selected by a committee of past CTL Senior Teach-ing Fellows, will notified by the end of spring semester. A full program descrip-tion is at http://t.uga.edu/2a7.

UGA Night at Six Flags The 13th annual UGA Night at

Six Flags Over Georgia is April 15. During the event, UGA students, fac-ulty, staff, alumni and their families will have exclusive access to the theme park from 6 p.m. until midnight.

Tickets may be purchased at the Tate Student Center cashier window, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., online at http://tate.uga.edu/sixflags or by calling 706-542-8074.

Call 706-542-8074 or visit http://tate.uga.edu/sixflags for more information.

Records retention scheduleThe University System of Geor-

gia has revised its records retention schedule.

The retention schedule has legal and organizational implications for all UGA faculty and staff and is particularly important to those who directly oversee records for their department or unit.

View the schedule at http://www.usg.edu/records_management/schedules.

‘Listening’ sessionsUGA is exploring an update of its

visual brand identity and logo system and invites members of the UGA com-munity to participate in a series of input meetings in March. The meetings will be structured “listening” sessions led by the Division of Marketing & Communica-tions that will explore the preferences and needs of faculty, staff, students and alumni and discuss opportunities to es-tablish a university-wide system for logos and to make it more relevant for digital media use.

To sign up to attend, go to http://goo.gl/forms/ko7ph97ySb.

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algorithm that aligns the choices of the ap-plicants with those of the residency programs.

The final pairings are announced simulta-neously across the U.S. at noon on the third

Friday in March.To see a list of AU/UGA Medical Part-

nership participants and their residency appointments, visit columns.uga.edu.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS—UGA’s women’s swimming and diving team claimed the program’s seventh national title March 19 at the NCAA championships on the Georgia Tech campus. After the meet, UGA head coach Jack Bauerle was named the National Women’s Coach of the Year for the seventh time.

2014 study in the Journal of Public Affairs Education in which the faculty of the public administration program placed No. 1 for in-ternational scholarly output based on quality and productivity. Research conducted by the program’s faculty addresses a variety of issues that provide key insights into the develop-ment of public policies and services provided

by governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations.

The UGA Department of Public Ad-ministration and Policy welcomes UGA employees interested in pursuing the MPA degree to do so through the Tuition Assis-tance Program. Visit padp.uga.edu for more information.

traditional novel like To Kill a Mockingbird. Jeffers lived much of his life in the Big Sur area of the California coast.

He wrote about the rough beauty of the natural world and is considered by some to be an early leader of the environmental movement.

Cahnmann-Taylor has planned events to help residents find a deeper meaning behind Jeffers’ work. Books of his poetry will be available at events and from the Athens-Clarke County Library. Also, The Georgia Review’s spring edition will feature a curated selection of poems.

But, Cahnmann-Taylor stressed, this Big Read selection is more than getting a community to read and discuss a book of poetry. Instead, she said she hopes people will find a handful of poems that speak to them and then apply their meaning to the landscape of the South.

Events also are scheduled in May and June. For complete details on all the events, visit coe.uga.edu/bigread.

project within three months of arriving on campus as a freshman. In fact, he began conducting research in the biochemistry and molecular biology department before he had taken a biochemistry course.

“CURO provides a great opportunity for students to engage deeply in the subject matter that interests them,” said Gangasani, who is now a second-year student and will present his research that could lead to a vaccine for a particularly potent pneumococcal pathogen at the symposium. “Knowledge I have gained from my research has already given me an advantage in classes like organic chemistry and biology. I am excited to see how what I have learned through my research will continue to apply to what I learn in the classroom, and vice versa.”

Martin Rogers, associate director of the Honors Program and CURO, said the benefits of the expanded CURO Research Assistant-ship at UGA can be witnessed not only in the quality of the research being completed by students but in the breadth of faculty-mentored research they are completing.

“No other research university offers such comprehensive support for such a variety of research endeavors, and it’s clear that such support prepares our students to be better leaders, innovators and scholars,” he said.

Students can pursue research in any field,

as Melissa Cousins, a fourth-year student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, learned.

“I’d been hoping to have an opportunity to do research since applying to UGA, but wasn’t sure how to incorporate research into my arts interests,” said Cousins, who received a CURO Summer Fellowship to delve into an enameling technique called plique-a-jour used in making jewelry. “I’m rather excited about introducing the idea of enameling to a wider audience. I hope that I will continue my research in the future to make enameling more accessible, efficient and high quality.”

The 2016 CURO Symposium, which is also sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and the UGA Alumni Association, will begin April 4 at 11:15 a.m. with concurrent oral sessions. The 3:30 p.m. keynote address by Darvill will be followed by a poster session where more than 200 projects will be featured. Awards will be presented for best paper, research and mentoring. The symposium will continue April 5 with concurrent oral sessions.

A UGA bus marked “Special” will provide transportation to the Classic Center, with stops at the Georgia Center, Tate Student Center and the Arch.

businesses and products take root and grow,” said Bob Pinckney, UGA’s director of en-trepreneurial programs. “Students will be able to hone their skills in presenting their business idea, will gain honest and objective feedback on their ideas from business leaders and investors and will get a chance to com-pete on a national stage for some significant seed money to pursue their business dream.”

The Next Top Entrepreneur competi-tion was first held in 2009 but this year has been expanded to include student startups of all types from across the state and nation. Participating startup companies include MiraBlue Bio, which was founded by UGA students and has created a capsule technol-ogy for the delivery of pharmaceuticals and nutraceutical products; Bacon’s Heir, an artisan pork product company founded by a Georgia Tech student; and Recordly, a University of Missouri startup that has created a transcription app for journalists.

The Collegiate Next Great Consumer Brands Competition, which is being held in partnership with Consensus Advisors and NASDAQ, is focused on new and innova-tive products. In addition to taking home a $25,000 prize, the winning collegiate team will attend the Next Great Consumer Brands Conference. The annual event, held at NASDAQ in Times Square, has helped grow companies ranging from KIND Snacks to EvoShield Protective Gear.

The Collegiate Next Great Consumer Brands Competition at UGA will include Proxy Server, a UGA student startup that has created a mobile app to encrypt Internet connections; ThinkBoard, a Babson College student startup that has created a clear film

that turns smooth surfaces into dry erase boards; and EZXS Accessorie, an Auburn student startup that has created a backpack accessory that allows users to pivot their bags to the front without removing the shoulder straps.

Pamela Whitten, UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, said that the new and expanded business competitions are part of a broader effort to prepare students for success after graduation.

Beginning fall 2016, all UGA students will be required to participate in an internship, study abroad, service-learning, research or other form of experiential learning prior to graduation. Fall 2016 also marks the launch of UGA’s campus-wide Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, which is housed in the Terry College of Business but open to students of any major who are interested in launching and growing businesses and nonprofit organizations.

Thinc. Week, which is sponsored by UGA’s Office of the Vice President for Re-search, includes panel discussions, workshops and a 48-hour game development competi-tion, many of which are in partnership with Athens’ inaugural Startup Week. Events hosted by UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program are being sponsored by Wargo French, Wells Fargo, TPG Growth, Monroe Capital, Founders Legal and Brighton Partners.

“UGA’s annual economic impact on Georgia is nearly $4.4 billion, and we are committed to taking that figure to a higher level,” Whitten said. “By creating new hands-on learning opportunities and strengthening our ties with the business community, we ben-efit students as well as Georgia’s economy.”

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