Digital Georgia
Journalism college shows how new media are transforming both education and educators
The lights go out, and a spooky voice breaks the silence.
“The serenity of the peaceful planet Tombstone has been interrupted. . . .”
In the next few minutes, a familiar plot plays out. A queen, kidnapped by an evil rogue, is saved by a hero who’s appropriately named Eastwood. What’s new about this narrative experience is how the story is presented---through a mixture of live performance and digital animation. Only the queen is played by an actress; the evil rogue and Eastwood are animations created by students and projected on a screen.
Welcome to the drama department’s interactive-performance space, just one stop on the new-media tour organized by associate professor Scott Shamp of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
La professoressa italiana alla communità di Myers
These are golden days in Italy, days of lovely fall weather in hill towns that are the cradle of Western art and literature. One native of the area, however, is living happily in Soule Hall on South Campus, a pioneer in a new program to bring the study of foreign language closer to UGA’s students.
Federica Goldoni, an instructor in Italian, is the first faculty member to move into a residence hall in an initiative designed to transform residence halls from places of retreat from teaching and teachers to places of active learning.
Legal Eagles
Professors meet here to share theoretical insights for effectively teaching corporate law
 The nation’s leading corporate law scholars will share tools of the trade with their peers during a two-day conference aimed at better preparing law students for the realities of corporate practice Oct. 15-16 at the School of Law. The conference is the brainchild of Charles R.T. O’Kelley, who joined the law school in 1997 as the first Martin E. Kilpatrick Professor of Corporate and Securities Law. Before joining the UGA faculty, he concurrently served as dean of the University of Oregon Law School and as founding director of its Law and Entrepreneurship Center. O’Kelley took a break from conference planning to discuss the event with Columns.
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Workshop focuses on university’s minority recruitment efforts
Some 150 deans, directors and department heads met at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Oct. 4 for a three-hour session to discuss ways to recruit more minority students and faculty to the university.
Provost Karen Holbrook welcomed the group to the first administrative special topics workshop of the academic year and challenged them to think about ways to create a recruitment pipeline to build diversity at UGA.
2nd Thursday season opens
with Jazzy Georgia Brass
The School of Music will open the 20th season of the 2nd Thursday Concert Series on Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. with Fred Mills and the Jazzy Georgia Brass.
The concert will be in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center and feature music by Duke Ellington, a brass version of George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and special brass arrangements by former UGA visiting professor of music Sammy Nestico. Music faculty members Steve Dancz and Thomas McCutchen will join the group as guest performers.
Physics professor’s research breathes new life into science about air quality
 Monique Leclerc searches for the words for a moment, then announces, “I need the white board.” Quickly cleaning a nearby board, she begins to draw.
The marker is almost inkless, leaving only faint marks. But Leclerc moves on, intently explaining her complex science. She can see her images perfectly. And before long, her visitor can, too. Her vision is contagious.
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