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Tennis All-American Abigail
Tere-Apisah (B.S. ’14) leaves more than
a champion’s resume
Honors College Founding Dean
Larry Berman tells the untold stories of
the Vietnam War
After more than 60 years,
the Atlanta Streetcar returns to
Georgia State’s backyard
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Georgia State scientists
have discovered a perfectly natural way to delay the ripening
process of fruits and vegetables. The breakthrough could revolutionize
our food system and improve public health.
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CONTENTS
DE VE LOPME NT &
A LU M N I A F FA I R S
MEET
JOHNNY
MAJORING IN
Chemistry
PROUDEST MOMENTS
Being named
a Netzel Scholar; spending a summer interning
at Great Lakes Solutions-Chemtura and
contributing to research into new flame-retardant
materials; getting accepted to the University of
California, Berkeley for grad school
CAMPUS CONTRIBUTION
10 Frozen Foodie Nick Carse (J.D. ’08) and his brothers run King of Pops, a gourmet ice pop operation and an Atlanta institution.
11 Swimming with the Sharks Aaron Simpkins (B.A. ’99) is the underwater photographer at the Georgia Aquarium.
14 Shine On Katherine Lucey (MBA ’84) and her nonprofit, Solar Sister, are empowering women one solar lamp at a time.
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THE FUTURE OF FOOD
GEORGIA STATE SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED
A NATURAL WAY TO KEEP FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES FRESH FOR LONGER. 22
THE DEAN OF HIS TRADE
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RAIL REDUX
HONORS COLLEGE DEAN LARRY BERMAN HAS
PENNED BIOGRAPHIES OF TWO INTRIGUING
FIGURES FROM THE VIETNAM WAR.
THE STREETCAR, ONCE THE PREFERRED
MODE OF TRANSIT IN THE CITY, RETURNS
TO GEORGIA STATE’S BACKYARD.
AD
Chartering
the Undergraduate STEM Research Society, giving
undergrads in scientific fields a forum to discuss
current issues and prepare themselves for the
next steps in their careers
L I F E LO N G G OA L
Earn a Ph.D. and become
a professor, with an emphasis on mentoring
minorities and students from disadvantaged
backgrounds in the sciences
Because of a generous planned gift to the
Netzel Scholarship Fund, Johnny Truong is
on track to join his brother, also a Georgia
State student, and sister as the first generation in their family to earn college degrees.
Have you considered including GSU in your
estate plans? As little as 2 percent of an
IRA can create a future for students who
otherwise may not be able to afford a
four-year research university.
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M A G A Z I N E. G S U. E D U
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
LETTERS
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“We’re committed
to fostering an environment
where taking risks and pushing
boundaries — something you, our
alumni, know is written into our
DNA — are rewarded.”
“I’M A RETIRED SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST
AND APPEARED IN THREE EPISODES OF
‘THE WALKING DEAD’ AS ONE OF THE
GOVERNOR’S SOLDIERS AND LATER AS
A ZOMBIE. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT ONE OF
THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS IS TOM LUSE
FROM GEORGIA STATE. GLAD TO BE A GRAD!”
Vern Swygart (B.A. ’73, M.Ed. ’75, Sp.Ed. ’78)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
GEORGIA STATE IS EDUCATING INDUSTRY’S FUTURE LEADERS
AND TRANSITIONING ITS RESEARCH INTO THE MARKETPLACE
AS A MEMBER of the Metro Atlanta Cham-
ber’s Business Higher Education Council,
I’m often asked about what universities are
doing to help Atlanta grow. What are we
doing to jump-start our region’s economy,
build collaborative relationships with the
business community and go beyond classroom learning to make the city and region
a more vibrant hub for innovation?
Here at Georgia State, we’re sending
more of our bright students out into the job
market than ever before, awarding 7,500
degrees annually, a 30 percent increase
over numbers just five years ago. We’ve
set records for sponsored research funding, surpassing $71 million in 2013. We are
helping to transform downtown Atlanta by
expanding our real estate footprint. And
our economic impact? More than $1.6 billion annually, with more than 13,000 jobs.
But we can and will do more.
We’re focused on working with our
university partners such as Georgia Tech
and Emory to build the talent pipeline for
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growing industries. We’re expanding our
internship and entrepreneurship opportunities for undergrads, paving the way
for signature experiences that will make
them even more marketable upon graduation. And we’re committed to fostering an
environment where taking risks and
pushing boundaries — something you,
our alumni, know is written into our DNA —
are rewarded.
We recently appointed our first chief innovation officer, Phil Ventimiglia, to help us
define new strategies using technology to
advance the university. Ventimiglia, formerly
vice president for innovation and new product development at NCR Corporation, will
look for creative new ways to help us grow.
We’re expanding our relationships with
business and industry and continuing to
look for ways to take our research out of
the lab and into market. In this magazine,
you’ll read about the incredible discovery
made by biology professors George Pierce
and Sid Crow. By using common bacteria
found in soil in a new way, they’ve discovered the secret to keeping fruits and vegetables fresher longer. In our Institute for
Biomedical Science, researchers are tackling topics from measles to cancer, looking for new therapies and drugs that could
save and extend lives.
When we say Georgia State is a campus
without boundaries we are talking about
our physical environment and our intellectual reach. Our impact extends well beyond the classroom, affecting the vibrancy
of downtown Atlanta, the economy of our
region and state and enhancing the quality
of life for people around the world.
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Sincerely,
Mark P. Becker
President
SUMMER 2014, Vol 5, Number 2
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SAM HE IS
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It was with great enthusiasm and admira- about candidates running for Atlanta city
tion that I read Charles McNair’s excel- offices. His positive, upbeat attitude was
lent article on Sam Massell. I can’t think amazing. Anytime I called Sam, he always
of a better subject to profile than “Mayor would comment how the “sun is shining in
Massell,” and McNair did it so well. I have Buckhead,” even if it was raining cats and
had the pleasure of looking up to Sam for dogs outside. Your story was a joy to read
almost 20 years through Rotary and the about a great man that continues to give
Buckhead Coalition, and that pales com- back to his community.
pared to his long tenure bringing value to
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Atlanta. I was proud to be in atPresident, Morrisville, N.C.
tendance in 2011 when Sam was
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one man making such an imLuse of “The Walking Dead.”
pact on a city like Atlanta, but
Warning, there are more of us
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zine. The layout and graphics
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IN THE CITY
ABIGAIL
TERE-APISAH

First tennis
All-American in
Georgia State history

Highest national
ranking in singles (No.
8) and doubles (No.
16) in program history
CAMPUS

Most wins in
women’s tennis
history (85, and
still going!)
CAMPUS SOUTH
Georgia State hopes to redevelop
Turner Field and surrounding property
Georgia State wants to redevelop the
property around Turner Field for multiple uses, including athletics, retail and
student housing. The university and
Carter, one of the country’s leading real
estate, development and advisory firms,
have plans to transform the stadium site
and surrounding parking lots, a 77-acre
area just south of Georgia State’s campus that has become available because of
the Atlanta Braves’ pending departure to
Cobb County.
The $300 million redevelopment would
be funded by public and private sources.
Carter’s preliminary proposal includes a
30,000-seat football, soccer and track and
field stadium on the Turner Field site and a
Georgia State baseball stadium that would
incorporate the wall from Atlanta Fulton
County Stadium over which Hank Aaron’s
715th home run ball flew in 1974.
In addition, residential and student
housing, retail businesses, green space and
plazas would be added, making it a walkable, downtown neighborhood.
“We are excited about being partners in
the proposed plan,” said President Mark
Becker. “I believe it holds great promise
for the neighborhoods near our campus,
and it’s important to Georgia State that we
are contributors to the growing vitality of
downtown.”
EDUCATION INNOVATION
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Phil Ventimiglia, former vice president of
applied innovation at NCR Corporation, is
Georgia State’s new chief innovation officer. The newly created position will oversee Information Systems and Technology
and work across divisions to assist them
with innovative problem-solving solutions
that use technology.
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Ventimiglia will lead the

First women’s tennis
player to be invited
to the NCAA Singles
Championship and
NCAA Doubles
Championship

2013 Georgia State
Student-Athlete of
the Year

2013 All-Sun Belt First
Team in singles and
doubles
HIGHER ED
HARDWARE
THE SYMBOLS, TRADITIONS AND ARTISTRY
OF CEREMONIAL GRADUATION GEAR
HEAVY MEDAL: The President’s Medallion symbolizes the re-
sponsibilities of the university’s highest office. The sterling silver,
14-karat gold ornament bearing the university seal is passed from
president to president upon inauguration and is an integral part of
ceremonial regalia.
THE AR
RT
TIS
IST
T:: Julia Woodman (M.F.A. ’90) designed
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the medallion. She studied with third- and fourthgeneration Fabergé masters while on a Fulbright
grant in Finland and is the first American certified as
a Master Silversmith there. Her work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
LEAVING A LEGACY
While All-American tennis player Abigail
Tere-Apisah preps for the pros, her little sister,
Marcia, is ready to make her mark. BY WILLIAM INMAN PHOTOS BY JOSH MEISTER
SINCE MEDIEVAL TIM
TIMES : The Mace is a traditional symbol of sover-
eignty that dates back to antiquity. It’s carried in front of the processional during commencement and other significant university events.
ILLUSTRATION BY JORDON CHEUNG
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LEAVING A LEGACY
A
bigail Tere-Apisah, Georgia State’s first All-American tennis player
and by far the most decorated female athlete in school history, hasn’t
quite settled in to her new life as an aspiring professional tennis player. ¶ “I love competing with the team, and I will miss that,” she says.
¶ Forgive her for harkening back to her glory days so soon. For the native
of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea — almost 9,000 miles from Atlanta —
the women on the Georgia State tennis team are like family. She enjoyed
her experience here so much she encouraged her little sister, Marcia, to
become a Panther. Marcia just wrapped up her first season on the team.
MARCIA
TERE-APISAH

Teamed with fellow
frosh Tarani Kamoe
to rank No. 89 in the
country

The team beat the
No. 2 doubles team in
the country last fall
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Wrights of Passage
Brothers Adam (B.B.A. ‘97)
and Matt Wright, magazine
publishers and vintage auto
10,000
Since finishing her career with
an appearance in the NCAA Tournament to compete in singles and
doubles competition, the elder
Tere-Apisah has been training in
preparation for the leap into the
professional ranks.
“She’ll have to play some smaller tournaments to get points to
get invited into larger ones,” said
her former coach, Robin Stephenson, who knows well the grind
Tere-Apisah is up against. Stephenson is
a former professional tennis player, and
like Tere-Apisah, a former collegiate AllAmerican.
“She’s going from being Top 10 in the
country to starting from scratch,” Stephenson said. “But she’s got what it takes,
that’s for sure.”
At age 10, Tere-Apisah left home for
the Oceania Tennis Development Centre
in Fiji where she lived, studied and practiced tennis. A few years later, she moved
to the tiny town of Albury in New South
Wales, Australia. There, she quickly established herself as a top junior player
and American college coaches took notice. Despite being recruited by powerhouse tennis programs, Tere-Apisah
picked Georgia State.
“It didn’t really matter to me if the
school was top-ranked. I lived in a small
country town in Australia — I wanted to
be in a bigger city,” she said.
Marcia hopes to follow in her sister’s
successful footsteps, and, in many ways,
she already has. She, too, left home at age
10 for the same tennis academy in Fiji, and
shows much of the same promise her big
sister had at her age.
“We are excited about where her game
can go,” Stephenson said.
“It’s been exciting to be on the same
team as Abby,” Marcia said. “She’s been
the number one player on the team, so it
makes you want to do better.
“But I want to be better than her,” she
said, drawing a laugh from big sister.
Miles from which Georgia State’s six-telescope
array of the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy can spot a nickel.
university’s strategy to find the next model
for higher education beyond just the online
class portals of today.
“Right now there is a lot of experimentation with new modes of education,” said
Ventimiglia, who was the vice president for
innovation and new product development
for NCR. “A lot of those will fail, but at sometime, just as occurs in the development of
any new market, we’re going to come to a
point where a new paradigm emerges. We
want to be ahead of that curve.”
The strategy might not be completely
technological, either.
“My approach is not to come at it from
a ‘we need these technologies’ point of
view,” he said. “It’s what is the experience
and what are the benefits that we want to
bring to the learning process.”
MISSION FOR HEALTH
Nursing students provide care to underserved Nicaraguan communities
Set up on the porch of a rural home outside Leon, Nicaragua, 19 senior nursing
students got their first taste of medical mission work. This makeshift clinic,
complete with wandering barnyard animals, provides the community of El Pozo
Quezalguaque with its only opportunity
for healthcare. In March, under the supervision of nursing and respiratory
faculty, three local physicians and two
nurse practitioners, the students served
383 patients during the four-day clinical
practice and gained valuable experiences
in healthcare.
“The students demonstrated what can
be the hardest thing to teach, true compassion and caring for those in need,” said
Kristen Lingle, clinical assistant professor
of nursing and team leader. “They were
compassionate, well prepared and hardworking, working long hours in difficult
circumstances with nothing but gratitude
for the opportunity to help others.”
The students earned 60 community
clinical hours for their work.
“I think the most rewarding part of our
experience was being able to provide aid to
groups of people who receive very little medical attention,” said nursing student Jennifer
Meagley. “Everyone welcomed us with such
gratitude and respect. I simply could not
have asked for a better experience.”
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family photo in Library Plaza.
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STUDY ABROAD INDIA
For the first time, Georgia State students
will experience academic life there
Georgia State will send students to study
in India this fall and will create a new study
abroad model. The semester will be split
into two “mini-mesters” and will allow students to take a full course load.
“This is a part of the world that students
have a lot of interest in, but there’s not a lot
of opportunity,” said S. Rashid Naim, director of undergraduate studies for Political
Science and director of the program. “It’s
a very important part of the world to which
we are not getting enough exposure, and
which students will really enjoy.”
The first part of the semester will be spent
in Atlanta, where students will study the history, politics and religion of India. Then they
will spend six weeks traveling in India.
While abroad, students will spend time
at three universities (higher education in
India is taught in English) and will get to
visit some of the country’s best-known
landmarks.
“We’ll be visiting monuments like the
Taj Mahal and Mother Teresa’s mission,
we’ll be going into national forests and
to tiger and bird sanctuaries,” said Naim.
“And we’ll be there in October and November, which has the best weather.”
As an added incentive, Georgia State’s
study abroad office is offering scholarships
to the first 10 qualifying students who sign
up for the program.
DISCOVERY
BETTER MOBILITY
Center for Pediatric Locomotion Sciences
helps children with movement disorders
For adults, the ability to walk from point A
to point B is often an unconscious means
to an end.
This isn’t always the case for kids, as College of Education professor Mark Geil and
assistant professor Jerry Wu can attest.
“For a child, locomotion is an adventure.
It’s an opportunity to explore life, to imagine, to create a journey,” Geil said.
Geil and Wu study different aspects of
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children’s movement. Geil examines prosthetic knees in children while Wu tackles
the effects of physical interventions with
people with disabilities. The two are the
principal investigators at the new Center
for Pediatric Locomotion Sciences, which
focuses on improving the lives of children
and adolescents with movement disorders.
The center is conducting exploratory locomotion research in four primary areas
challenging to children.
Their work could lead to changes in the
way health care providers treat children
who face movement challenges.
“Establishing this center will bring researchers and clinicians together to work
on projects with a huge impact on the quality of life for children with movement disabilities,” Wu said. “We’re looking forward
to conducting more groundbreaking research and finding new treatment options
and services we can provide to children
with disabilities.”
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work at the Center for Pediatric Locomotion Sciences.
CENTER OF SUPPORT
Nicole Patton Terry understands helping
children in urban schools means more
than just evaluating a child’s teacher or assessing academic performance.
“Children living in urban communities
face complex challenges, and to address
their needs, you need to work with their
teachers, their neighborhoods and their
families,” said Patton Terry, College of
Education professor and director of the
newly formed Urban Child Study Center.
“We must focus on their entire lives and
their entire contexts, and that means the
programs we have, the research we do
and the initiatives we put forth will be just
as focused on the children as their communities, their families and their schools.”
The college’s location in downtown Atlanta and its emphasis on interdisciplinary research make it an ideal setting for
the Urban Child Study Center, which promotes the overall development and school
success of children and youth in urban
contexts through innovative research that
informs policy and practice.
Leveraging the college’s and university’s
talent and resources, the center focuses
on a number of issues, including achievement gaps and associated risk factors,
learning and health disparities, language
and literacy development, and teacher
knowledge. The center will also serve as
a model for educators in other major U.S.
cities, Patton Terry said.
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YOUNG EXPLORERS
Research at Georgia State isn’t just
for Ph.Ds. Undergrads are also making
valuable discoveries
FROZEN
FOODIE
IN 2010, NICK CARSE (J.D. ’08) WAS A PROSECUTOR IN GWINNETT
The eighth annual Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference this April
was a perfect place for ideas, discoveries
and creativity to come alive.
“Research or creative work as an undergraduate enriches students’ educational experiences, promotes critical
thinking and writing, and provides students with the opportunity to present
scholarly thought in public,” says Sarah
Cook, associate dean of Georgia State’s
Honors College.
Besides the hard sciences like biology,
there were artistic displays, and even a
critical look at a famous musical, “Oklahoma,” and marriage right after World
War II.
“I wondered what was there in our
culture that led women to get married so
young,” sophomore Alison Dees said. “It’s
all written into it. It’s rhetorically written
so you want to fall in love.”
COUNTY. TODAY, HE AND HIS BROTHERS RUN KING OF POPS, A
GOURMET ICE POP OPERATION AND ATLANTA INSTITUTION.
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How did King of
Pops get started?
It’s a pretty cool story, actually. It started as a daydream,
or rather a beach-at-nightin-Mexico dream, but wasn’t
realized for years later. In
2005, Steven, my younger
brother and business partner,
and I traveled from Panama
up through Mexico eating
all kinds of delicious frozen
treats along the way — it’s
hot! In Mexico we discovered
the paleta, a fresher version
of a popsicle. We ate a ton of
them and talked about starting our own Mexican paleta
pushcart business. Steven
got laid off in 2009 during the
financial craziness and moved
onto my couch. Somehow we
talked him into spending his
meager life savings to buy a
paleta freezer. We plugged
it in and started making
pops. We voted on the name,
painted a mural on a wall at
Buddy’s gas station in Poncey
Highland and decided that
April 1, 2010 was going to be
the day it all started.
When did you know that
you could quit your day job
and make popsicles?
I was helping Steven nights
and weekends but still had
a full-time job. I quit my job
only about two months in and
haven’t looked back. It was
tough. I quit when we couldn’t
keep up with demand. We
didn’t get paid the first year
but survived off of pop
mistakes.
How many pops have
you sold to date? And
in what cities can we find
a King of Pops cart?
We’ve sold a lot, over a million
all in. King of Pops operates
carts in Atlanta, Charleston
S.C., Richmond, Va., Charlotte,
N.C., Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Athens, Ga. and starting in
Greenville, S.C. and Savannah,
Ga. this year. You never know
where we’ll pop up!
What are some of your
best, and worst, recipes?
Crowd faves are chocolate
sea salt, raspberry lime,
banana puddin’ and whatever
“special” pops we have going
on. My favorite is probably
blackberry ginger lemonade
or Mexican chocolate — cinnamon, cayenne and vanilla.
All of the recipes are good for
someone, just not everyone.
We did a really horrible coconut curry and a really bad
fig and goat cheese. Those
never saw the light of day. All
the others are winners in their
own way, all my children.
What are some flavors we
can look forward to this
summer?
It’s always changing, but we
just came up with a box of
pretty fab Girl Scout cookie
pops with Thin Mint, Samoa,
Do-si-do and Trefoil. We also
just had our semi-annual
kitchen summit and got to
play with a lot of great stuff
like black sesame, orange
blossom and honey, vegan
chocolate coconut, lemon
poppy, et cetera.
Interview by
Lauren Montgomery (B.A. ’14)
CREATIVITY
COMPELLING ARGUMENT
Georgia State debaters tap into personal
experience, take home title
“Thank God for the woman on the end of
my call at 3 a.m. on a Monday night,” said
Luke Floyd. “I awoke to the sound of a gunshot, bolting up in my bed. I grabbed the
pistol I keep loaded by my pillow to check
the door, I noticed my dog was still asleep.
Was it all in my head? Was I going crazy?”
So he began the last speech of the final
round of the Southeast Cross-Examination Debate Association Championship
Tournament.
Floyd, a veteran of the Iraq War, was making a very personal argument for including
the experience of war veterans in public
policy decisions. Less than half an hour after
he spoke, Floyd and his partner, John Finch,
were declared the champions of the Southeast Cross-Examination Debate Association
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Championship Tournament.
ILLUSTRATION BY BOB DALY
W
alking through the Georgia Aquarium, you might not realize how much
of the experience is created by the
design of the building itself or the visual
pieces on the walls. You may not consider
how the exact placements of the text and
images on an infographic shapes the way
you learn about the animals or about the
ecological issues facing the globe today.
Aaron Simpkins (B.A. ’99) is the man behind the camera
For Aaron Simpkins these thoughts reat the Georgia Aquarium. BY ASHTON BRASHER (B.A. ’15) PHOTO BY BEN ROLLINS
peat through his head all day.
As the manager of exhibits and graphics, Simpkins manages a team of artists,
designers and photographers. He signed
on as a graphic designer seven years ago
and quickly rose to a leadership position on his team. Connected
“There’s nothing quite like swimming next to a whale shark,” he
with each department in the aquarium, Simpkins produces work said. “You have to capture the perfect moment with some of these
that touches each corner of the operation.
creatures, and when you do, it’s really fulfilling.”
A day at work for Simpkins always guarantees variety, which is part
Apart from photography, Simpkins dabbles in all of the visual
of why he loves his job. Some days might mean donning a wetsuit aspects of the aquarium.
and photographing a giant manta ray, or meeting with the market“I like that the work I do leads to the educational advancement
ing team to discuss visual strategies. One thing is for sure — he gets of our visitors in addition to creating a positive, friendly atmoto exercise his talents for art and design in a unique environment.
sphere,” he said.
SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS
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IN THE CITY
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Floyd and Finch had reams of good oldfashioned evidence as well, in the form of
academic and policy research. But Floyd’s
ability to bring experience into the argument was seemingly a key part of the team’s
victory over top-seeded teems from Emory
University and Wake Forest University.
Floyd and Finch are the first team from
Georgia State to win the championship.
STUDENTS AT RISK
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EARLIER DECISIONS ON A MAJOR
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VILLAGE LIVING
Photography class documents life in
New Urbanist community
THE REAL
MONUMENTS MAN
PROFESSOR’S NEW BOOK CHRONICLES THE LIFE OF THE SCHOLAR
WHO STOOD UP AGAINST NAPOLEON’S BIG ART HEIST
LONG BEFORE HITLER began stealing great
works of art, another famous leader was
pillaging paintings: Napoleon. During his
conquest of Europe, Napoleon stole hundreds
of pieces of art and took them back to Paris
to display as the spoils of war. But one famous
art scholar, Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère
de Quincy, had the courage to oppose him.
“He was jailed for six months, he was
sentenced to death, he was forced to flee the
country, but he was still the most famous art
historian in Europe,” said Louis Ruprecht, the
William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies.
In his new book, “Classics at the Dawn of
the Museum Era: The Life and Times of Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy,”
Ruprecht takes a closer look at Quatremère’s
life. His relationship with the French government was often strained, and he frequently
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spoke out against the regime’s attitude
toward art.
“In the late 18th century,” Ruprecht said,
“the Vatican had a huge collection of art.
Then, in 1796, Napoleon took 100 works.
They were listed out in the peace treaty he
forced the pope to sign.”
Ruprecht’s book follows Quatremère’s life
and work throughout Europe, and takes a
detailed look at each of his published pieces.
The book’s publication also coincides with
the release of “The Monuments Men,” a film
that follows a team of soldiers in World War
II as they attempt to recover art being stolen
by the Nazis. Ruprecht wanted his book
released at the same time as the film because
both works cover artistic imperialism in times
of political upheaval.
By Sarah Gilbreath
Serenbe may be only 45 minutes south of
Atlanta, but it’s a world away from life in
the big city. The planned community advocates regionalism, environmentalism
and a pedestrian lifestyle. Encompassing
1,000 acres, more than 70 percent of the
land is uninhabited and forested with bike
paths and hiking trails. The buildings were
designed with sustainability in mind, and
the farm-to-table restaurants use primarily local ingredients grown within the community.
Serenbe recently asked Georgia State to
collaborate on a photographic project to
document life there.
“This is a signature experience,” said
photography professor Nancy Floyd. “This
is the kind of thing that students would
never get to experience in the classroom.”
Floyd’s students are each working on
a separate photography series, with topics covering everything from female leaders in the community to comparative
architecture.
“It’s been an amazing experience,” said
student Consuela Boyer. “I’ve absolutely
loved working in this community.”
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and converse with successful alumni
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2011
57%
43%
2012
55%
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2013
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February, four players and head coach
Ron Hunter have earned postseason
awards, the most prestigious being R.J.
Hunter’s nod as an Associated Press honorable-mention All-American. It was the
third All-American honor for a Panther in
program history.
The younger Hunter also was the
league’s player of the year while his father
was the coach of the year. R.J. Hunter and
Ryan Harrow, who return in 2014-15, were
each first-team all-league selections, while
graduating seniors Manny Atkins (second
team) and Devonta White (third team) also
were honored.
STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
Georgia State student-athletes notch a
stellar spring
With senior Nic Wilson swatting 12 home
runs, good for third in the country, the
Panther baseball team ranked in the top
five nationally in home runs through April
15. Chase Raffield was also in the national
top 10 for runs batted in (7th, 43). Taylor
Anderson was the softball team’s power
provider with 11 home runs.
The top honors this spring have gone
to Maria Palacios (women) and J.J. Grey
(men), who swept the Sun Belt Conference
Golfer of the Month awards for March,
while Georgia State student-athletes won
the first three weekly female track awards
of the outdoor season.
Overall, 15 weekly or monthly Sun Belt
honors and two conference championships — women’s tennis and men’s golf —
have been collected by Panthers competing this spring.
BIG DATA
ATHLETICS
HOOPS HONORS
The honors have continued to stream in
for the Panther men’s basketball team following a record-setting 25-9 campaign that
ended with Georgia State’s fifth postseason berth, and second in three years.
Since the Panthers clinched the Sun
Belt Conference regular-season title in
ILLUSTRATION BY OWEN GATLEY
IT’S NO COINCIDENCE that Georgia
State’s novel new student tracking
system is called GPS for short. In the
same way your car’s navigation system
pulls huge amounts of data to map your
way, Georgia State’s Graduate Progression Success advising system is culling through 10 years of student data —
2.5 million grades — to find pathways to graduation for thousands of students.
Using predictive analytics for each student’s success in individual majors and
courses, the system uses the decade of data to identify 700 alerts for risk
factors for students who wander off course. The university has drastically reduced the number of students each adviser sees — from 700 to one to 300 to
one, meaning students are getting more individual attention. In the first year of
GPS, visits to the new student advising center topped 34,000, almost unheard
of at a major university. Georgia State is leading the national charge on upping
graduation rates, and the road map for success has never been clearer.
ALUMNI
SMELLS THAT SELL
After making his dollars in scents, Steve
Tanner (B.B.A.’66) gives back
Steve Tanner has what’s probably the
best-smelling warehouse in America.
Tanner is president and chief executive
officer of Marietta-based Arylessence
CONT’D ON P.15
Inc., a manufacturer of
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IN THE CITY
SHINE ON
50
Katherine Lucey (MBA ’84) is
empowering women one solar
lamp at a time. BY ASHTON BRASHER (B.A. ’15) PHOTO BY JOSH MEISTER
M
ore than 1.5 billion people lack access to electricity. For the most
part, they rely on kerosene lanterns
and candles for light, and spend up to 40
percent of their family income on energy
that is inefficient and hazardous. When
Katherine Lucey took notice of this, she
got to work.
Lucey is the founder of Solar Sister, a
non-profit company dedicated to changing the lives of women and girls living in
energy poverty.
Solar Sister trains, recruits and supports female entrepreneurs in East Africa
to sell affordable solar lighting and other
green products such as solar lamps and
mobile phone chargers. The women use
their community networks of family and
neighbors to build their own businesses,
earning a commission on each sale.
Lucey says engaging women to distribute clean energy is effective change and a
solid investment.
“Investing in women is not just the
right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to
do,” she said. “Women are primarily responsible for energy usage at the household level. Clean-energy technology will
not be adapted on a widespread basis if
women are not part of the solution.”
Solar Sister has changed the lives of
women and families in remarkable ways.
One woman, Rebecca, a rural farmer in
Uganda, put a solar light in her chicken
room. By increasing the hours of light,
the chickens ate more and were healthier.
They laid more eggs, which improved the
economics of her operation and provided
extra income to buy seeds, and eventually, a goat, pigs and a cow.
Rebecca built a school where she
teaches children to read and write, and
also how to farm.
“The strength of our enterprise solution comes from the women themselves,”
Lucey said. “It is their own ingenuity and
commitment that builds their business.
We are just offering them the opportunity to help themselves.”
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30 percent reduction in
household expenses when
customers use solar lamps to
replace expensive kerosene
Three hours more
study time for children
every day when their
families replace kerosene with solar light
84,379 people are benefiting from solar
light through Solar Sister
U.S. Olympians whom Dan Benardot, professor
of nutrition and director of the Laboratory for
Elite Athlete Performance at Georgia State,
has worked with since 1996.
fragrances for everything from air fresheners to colognes to household cleaners.
The company has also branched out into
composing flavors for sauces, beverages
and beauty products.
Tanner’s business acumen helped grow
the company from only 14 employees when
he joined in 1986 to more than 100 today,
supplying fragrances to more than 1,000
companies around the world.
Before he began his career in business,
Tanner served five years in the Army.
That’s what inspired him to endow the
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
program at Georgia State.
“I have a lot of respect both for the people who serve and for those who provide
opportunities for our former service personnel,” he said.
In addition to the ROTC Endowment,
Tanner has also made significant contributions to Georgia State’s Fund for Business
and the Herman J. Russell Center for Entrepreneurship. But his support isn’t limited to dollars: He educates and mentors
business students in the classroom and at
his own company.
“We have programs going with the Institute of International Business,” he said,
“and since we’re looking at international
markets for expansion, why not have some
of these MBAs come in and help us, and
we’ll help them at the same time?”
NATION REBUILDING
Wais Said (B.A. ’84) returns home to Afghanistan to rebuild its tech infrastructure
780 million women and children breathe
kerosene fumes, inhaling the equivalent of
smoke from two packs of cigarettes a day
1.6 billion people live in
energy poverty. That’s
25 percent of the world’s
population
Wais Said always dreamed of going back to
Afghanistan with the knowledge he gained
at Georgia State. In 1978, Said’s family was
forced to flee his home country at the onset
of the Soviet War.
“I’ll never forget the immigration officer in New York who said ‘Welcome
home!’” Said said. “We came to Atlanta
in August that year and Georgia State accepted my credentials and SAT score. The
rest is history.”
Since graduating with a degree in math
and information systems, Said has worked
as a systems architect in the information
technology sector. Three years ago, he received a call from USAID with an offer to
finally reach his dreams.
ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM CRUFT
WAIS SAID (B.A. ’84)
“The efforts that
went into building this fragile
democracy have not been in vain.”
“In the past three years,” he said, “we
have accomplished the impossible in
Afghanistan, specifically in terms of capacity building, revenue generation and
most significantly, gender and outreach
in southern Afghan municipalities — the
toughest area by far.”
Said began working as a systems architect and then moved to the principal
program adviser
position to build
governance and democracy, outreach
Years that Georgia
and productivity.
State has held a
Said’s work focommencement
cuses on the promoceremony. The
tion of e-governance
100th commencein Afghanistan by
ment ceremony will
connecting municibe this fall.
palities across the
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nation to the central government in Kabul.
This was the first time in Afghani history
technology was used to contain corruption,
to connect citizens with their government
and to create a system of transparency and
accountability.
Said’s story was unimaginable only a
few years ago. However, Said sees these accomplishments as an indicator American
efforts in the nation have already started
to pay off in many ways.
“Contrary to what you often hear in the
media,” he said, “the efforts that went into
building this fragile democracy have not
been in vain. The efforts behind our work
and the growing success story are proof
of that.”
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THE
Georgia State scientists
FUTURE
have discovered a safe and natural way to delay the
ripening process in fruits and vegetables.
But the invention doesn’t stop there.
The same science has been found to prevent
Colony Collapse Disorder in bees and stave off a
fungus found to be a killer of bats.
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OF
FOOD
BY W I L L I A M I N M A N A N D L AT I N A E M E R S O N
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From now until Labor Day, GEORGE PIERCE figures he and the scientists in his
lab will eat dozens of the state’s most famous fruit — it’s part of their research.
“We eat a lot of peaches this time of year. Our hands get sticky,” he says.
That’s a sweet perk of some very significant science.
All summer long, Pierce will bring bushels of Georgia peaches and other produce to his lab to continue testing a patented process that has shown, with incredible efficacy, to naturally delay the ripening process in fruits and vegetables.
Pierce and his longtime colleague Sid Crow, both professors of biology, have
been studying Rhodococcus rhodochrous, a bacterium common in soil. They’ve
found that, under the right conditions, the tiny bacteria can keep all those
peaches — or apples, or bananas, or spinach, or even recently cut flowers —
fresh for a longer period of time. The process they use to treat the plants is
totally natural, without genetic modification and it doesn’t even have to touch
the produce to work.
Their discovery has been shown to double the shelf life of certain fruits and
vegetables, and it’s also proven to be effective at room temperature, meaning it
can save on the cost of refrigeration.
There are other breakthrough applications.
Chris Cornelison (M.S. ’11, Ph.D. ’13), a
postdoctoral researcher in Crow’s lab,
is using the same science to inhibit the
growth of fungi responsible for the deadly Chalkbrood disease in honeybees and
White-Nose Syndrome that’s ravaging
North American bats. The U.S. Department
of Agriculture says one out of every three
bites of food in America rely on the diligent
work of bees. Bats play a crucial role in
pest control. A single brown bat will eat the
equivalent of its body weight in insects in
one summer night, Cornelison says.
By preventing waste, improving the consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables,
allowing companies to ship produce longer
distances and keeping our natural pollinators and pest-eaters healthy, this discovery
has the potential to completely change our
entire food system, and public health, for
the better.
“Simply put, this can affect every person who walks into a supermarket,” says
Chester Bisbee, director of technology
commercialization and industry relations
at Georgia State.
LIKE TOMATOES
IN A PAPER BAG
A
s ripening begins, many fruits and
vegetables produce ethylene, a
naturally occurring gas responsible for changes in texture, softening and color during the ripening process. So, when you want to
ripen tomatoes, you take five or six and put
them in a paper bag.
“This keeps all the gas close,” Pierce
says, “and what you find is they all respond
in an even, and quicker, way.”
Based on earlier studies, Pierce reckoned that by conditioning Rhodococcus
rhodochrous it would produce certain
enzymes that would stem the release of
ethylene and other gases that signal the
ripening process. A few years ago before
the winter break, he set up a handful of
experiments placing the enzyme-induced
Rhodococcus rhodochrous near different
types of fruit to test his theory.
“It worked,” he says. “It worked the first
time. And, in scientific experiments, that
almost never happens.”
Pierce says the bacteria are part of the
beneficial micro-flora that make a healthy
and robust plant. In addition to the ability to
delay ripening, beneficial microorganisms
such as Rhodococcus are capable of inhibiting undesirable molds and plant pathogens.
“All we’ve done is trick it so it overproduces certain enzymes that heighten its
ability,” he says.
The bacteria aren’t being nice. It’s to
their benefit, says Pierce. If they can preserve the peach, they can take advantage
of this beneficial relationship.
“We’re causing them to work out their
own physiology,” he says. “They’re being
conditioned to respond.”
Unlike genetically modified organisms,
which have had their DNA altered in a way
that cannot occur in nature, this process
tweaks how the wild organisms grow to
encourage them to express certain enzymes. In other words, in the lab, they’ve
created the perfect condition for the bacteria to thrive.
“They’re happy, not stressed. It’s like a
spa for bacteria,” Pierce says, laughing.
“It really is like conditioning an Olympic
athlete,” adds Crow.
FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
T
he Rhodococcus rhodochrous “spa”
is on the fourth floor of the Natural
Science Center annex. Inside three
stainless steel, computer-controlled
fermentation tanks are, perhaps,
some of the happiest bacteria in the
world. They’re fed a steady diet of sugars,
proteins and pure oxygen, and in about
three days a suspension of café au laitcolored super Rhodococcus rhodochrous
is harvested. Freezing the suspension into
bricks then stabilizes the bacteria.
The final application is a catalyst based
on those enzymes. Pierce explains the
safest way to apply the catalyst is by killing the bacterial cell so it’s not capable of
growing or replicating. Killing the bacteria
doesn’t affect the activity of the all-important enzymes.
“So now all we’re dealing with is the
gases,” Pierce says. “Thus, the catalyst
does not have to touch the fruit to work. ”
On the wall in Pierce’s office are side-byside photos of two wax-lined cardboard
shipping boxes, each holding about 20
peaches. The photo on the left shows the
fruit in various shades of grayish-brown and
covered in mold. The peaches on the right
look ready for a Fourth of July picnic table.
Smiling, Pierce says, “Guess which one
has the catalyst in the wax?”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
estimates about 40 percent of harvested
produce never makes it to the dinner table
because of spoilage, contamination or damage during transport. All along the supply
PHOTO BY BEN ROLLINS
Unlike genetically modified organisms, which have
had their DNA altered in a way that cannot occur in
nature, this process tweaks how the wild organisms
grow to encourage them to express certain enzymes.
In other words, in the lab, they’ve created the
perfect condition for the bacteria to thrive.
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“Food grown for people to eat that isn’t
consumed is a dead loss. We are working
on a safe, efficacious way to prolong the
life of fruits and vegetables so that people
have better nutrition cheaper.”
chain — from the farmer, to the wholesaler,
to the distributor and to the retailer — the
price includes that loss.
Not only can the catalyst be incorporated into the wax coating in individual
boxes, it can be sprayed inside of the giant
modular shipping containers used when
moving produce by truck or rail. And because the catalyst allows for the storage
of produce at room temperatures rather
than refrigerating it, it can potentially save
enormous amounts of energy while the
produce is in transit.
There is interest in the invention from
businesses all along that supply chain, especially from transportation companies.
Pierce says his lab is aggressively moving
forward, testing the catalyst before taking
it to market, and there are a number of expanded field trials underway.
“Our food system is limited by how
far you can ship something,” Pierce says.
“Slower ripening means that the food
is less susceptible to injury — you bang
around peaches in transport, they get
moldy. I want people in Minneapolis to eat
the tastiest Georgia peaches this summer.
“Food grown for people to eat that isn’t
consumed is a dead loss. We are working
on a safe, efficacious way to prolong the life
of fruits and vegetables so that people have
better nutrition cheaper.”
The university has six patents on the
discovery, and six more are in the pipeline.
Bisbee and the newly formed technology
commercialization and industry relations
group at Georgia State have met with several large corporations to discuss licensing.
“This has far-reaching applications and
could have tremendous impact in industry,” Bisbee says.
Pierce, Crow and the scientists in their
labs are working to identify those applications. Pierce notes that the catalyst not
only delays the ripening of fruits and vegetables, it also inhibits the development of
mold and the growth of many fungi.
The labs are investigating its effectiveness preventing the growth of
mold on corn and grain, as well as
how it can fight the highly contagious banana wilt disease that, in
the last decade, has been devastating banana plantations in Africa.
But a grave and unprecedented
threat to North American bats
might thrust Rhodococcus rhodochrous into action sooner rather
than later.
SAVING BATS AND BEES
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ince 2006, White-Nose
Syndrome has killed an
estimated 6 million bats in
the eastern United States.
Last year, the deadly fungal
disease was discovered in
Georgia. White-Nose Syndrome is
named for the way it bleaches bats’
muzzles and wings, and kills its victims by
creating enough discomfort to wake the
bats during hibernation — when body fat
is low and food is scarce — causing them
to starve to death. The plague is responsible for the steepest wildlife decline in the
past century in North America, according
to Bat Conservation International.
By eating bugs that destroy crops and
spread disease, bats save the country’s agriculture industry between $4 and $50 billion a year, says the U.S. Geological Survey.
They are also voracious predators of mosquitos and pollinators of certain plants.
“If we continue to see declines, we’re
going to lose their ecological services and
there may be consequences for agriculture
and human health,” Cornelison says.
Cornelison, who worked alongside
Pierce and Crow throughout development of the catalyst, earning his master’s
degree and Ph.D. along the way, is using
their discovery to learn how to use antifungal treatment based upon Rhodococcus rhodochrous that might be able to save
these animals.
Cornelison says his research is ready to
go to trial with live, wild bats.
He’s found the bacteria slowed fungal
growth and permanently eliminated spore
germination on the bats. Like with fruit, it
works to prevent the spread of fungi on
bat skin without ever touching the animal.
This fall, Cornelison will work with the
Tennessee Nature Conservancy to treat
bats in abandoned military bunkers and
mine shafts.
In addition, he’s learned that Rhodococcus rhodochrous is effective in fighting Chalkbrood disease, a fungal disease
that infects bees in the larval or juvenile
stage. Chalkbrood disease in bees has
contributed to the number of managed
honeybee colonies in the U.S. being cut
in half, a phenomenon known as Colony
Collapse Disorder.
Cornelison is seeking a benign alternative to anti-fungal drugs, which are expensive and can make honey inedible. So
far, he has achieved positive results in cell
studies, and no negative effects were found
in toxicity trials exposing bees to the bacteria in the air or in their honey.
Pierce and Crow see Cornelison’s work
as just one bootstrap from their potentially
world-changing invention, and they’re taking steps to pass along that knowledge, one
generation of scientists at a time.
“We’re training a whole new group we
hope will inherit this, run with it and populate this industry,” says Pierce.
Visit magazine.gsu.edu for a video on Cornelison’s work
fighting Colony Collapse Disorder in bees.
THIS DISCOVERY HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO COMPLETELY
CHANGE OUR ENTIRE FOOD
SYSTEM, AND PUBLIC HEALTH,
FOR THE BETTER.
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HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDING DEAN LARRY BERMAN UNCOVERS
THE POLITICAL SECRETS OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND TELLS THE STORIES OF TWO
OF THE WAR’S MOST FASCINATING FIGURES
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G
GEORGIA STATE INTRODUCED its Honors College in January
2012. Founding Dean Larry Berman and other Georgia State planners dreamed into being an institution that would directly expose
bright, talented undergrads to experiences that transform them
into citizens who can make a difference. ¶ So far, the program brings
ringing endorsements from student scholars. ¶ “It’s hard to fathom
the full impact of the Honors College on my academic career,” says
Shelby Lohr, a senior on her way to a post-graduate scholarship at
the University of Chicago. (Last year, Lohr became Georgia State’s
first finalist for a prestigious
Sophomore Hannah Basta set a lofty
Marshall Scholarship.) “I look
goal: She wants to be a Rhodes Scholar.
at my resume, and I see more
She feels the Honors College could pave
her path to Oxford.
than half of what’s there is
“People in the Honors College are seen
due to the Honors College.”
as distinguished students,” she said. “I re-
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ally wanted to be part of that, to be with
really driven, motivated fellow students.”
Berman guides hundreds of honors students, Georgia State’s best and brightest,
its stars. He can barely contain his enthusiasm for the college and its ambitions.
“We want to become a national model
for a public university Honors College,” he
says. “We want to develop undergraduate
scholars into global citizens. And we want
their accomplishments to be recognized
with prestigious fellowships, scholarships
and awards throughout their lives.”
Berman understands at a personal level
the rewards of such accomplishments. His
own studies and works have given him a
remarkable life.
CROSS-OVER SCHOLAR
B
ERMAN STARTED COLLEGE in turbulent 1969 at American University in
Washington, D.C. The Vietnam War
dominated American discourse then, and
society seemed engaged in a great collective
nervous breakdown, trust and values called
into question, protesters in the streets.
He went to Princeton for a Ph.D. The
Vietnam War and its howling side-effects
especially intrigued him.
It became his life’s work.
n 1977, Berman joined the University of
In
California, Davis, to teach political science
and carry on research. For the next three decades, Berman would seek answers for why
America sent more than half a million soldiers to a small Asian country, losing nearly
60,000 lives without achieving its political
or military goals. Berman also wanted to
understand the war from the Vietnamese
perspective. His search required years of research, countless interviews with political,
military and cultural figures, and more than
a little self-discovery.
In 1982, Berman wrote his first book on
Vietnam — still in print and in classrooms
— based on previously classified documents from the National Security Council.
“Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam” established
Berman as a scholar, historian, political
scientist and writer.
He kept at it, taking risks. To gain access
to the classified wartime briefs of President Lyndon Johnson, Berman brought
nformation Act
suit under the Freedom of Information
against the CIA. Though he lost his case on
appeal in California’s Ninth Circuit Court,
his insistence on the right to read these
important documents would eventually
open the way for his own research and the
work of many others.
He’s proud of his work’s relevance.
“A lot of political science digs down into
the science, sometimes a little too much,”
he says. “It makes little contribution to the
real world. I think of myself as a cross-over
’m dealing
scholar, a political historian. I’m
with policies, personalities and decisions
that make a difference.”
DOMINO THEORY MADE REAL
A
MERICA’S VIETNAM-ERA LEADERS,
most notably President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, ascribed to a strategy of
containment and a belief in the domino
theory. It held that if Vietnam fell to the
communists, all the other small nations in
Southeast Asia would tumble too, one by
one, like dominoes in a row.
Vietnam did fall, but Southeast Asia
didn’t turn out as predicted. Vietnam today
is an increasingly important strategic and
bilateral partner with the United States.
Americans trade in and tour the region.
A kind of domino theory, however, did
affect Berman’s own career. It happened
with his books.
If “Planning a Tragedy” put him on the
map, the publication in 1989 of “Lyndon
Johnson’s War: The Road to Stalemate in
Vietnam” stretched the map borders. In
2002, “No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam” brought Berman’s research into the national dialogue.
Then, like a tipped domino, “No Peace,
No Honor” led directly to two more important Berman volumes. These biographies
concern two figures from the Vietnam era,
one high and one low, one who served in
secretive shadows, another who served
under the brightest spotlights.
Berman began writing “No Peace, No
Honor” as a 1998-’99 fellow-in-residence at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His year
of research and work there brought him
into contact with Admiral Elmo Zumwalt,
the charismatic former chief of naval operations during the Vietnam War and the
man dubbed Father of the Modern Navy
for social and technological reforms he
championed in that branch of the service.
While Berman worked, cable TV channel C-SPAN selected him as subject for a
“Book TV” segment on the process a nonfiction writer uses to create a book. For
an entire year, as Berman researched and
wrote, the camera followed him. It accompanied him to the National Archives and
Library of Congress.
C-SPAN wanted Berman to interview a
prominent political or military figure for
the TV special. Berman asked Zumwalt,
formerly chief of naval operations and
member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The two men bonded. Their meetings
became more frequent. Berman felt a biography taking form in his head, a next book
about leadership.
But another domino fell first.
PHAM XUAN AN
O
N A VISIT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA in
summer 2000, Berman found himself at dinner on his last night in
Saigon in a crowded seafood restaurant.
Only one seat remained empty, directly
across the table.
A man entered the restaurant. Every Vietnamese person in the room rose.
“It was like a great dignitary had
walked in,” Berman says. “He came
to my table and sat down. He spoke
to my colleagues in English, and I
introduced myself and we didn’t
stop talking for four hours.”
The thin, intelligent, aging man
at the table turned out to be Pham
Xuan An, a legendary spy for the
North Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh’s
government sent An to the U.S. in
1957-’59, where he enrolled at Costa
Mesa College in California to study
journalism. Ironically, his sponsor,
Edward Geary Lansdale, would
serve in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence
Agency and became legendary as
one of the most ardent anti-communists of the era. (In 1957, Lansdale
headed the Saigon Military Mission.)
Lansdale mentored An, never suspecting that his eager young charge
had been preselected by the Viet
Minh, the government in Hanoi, to infiltrate
Lansdale’s shop. With amazing foresight,
the communists in the north positioned An
so he could get sponsorship — and political cover — and make his way to the U.S. to
study journalism. All of it was a cover for his
real mission — to learn about the character
and soul of the Americans, whom the Vietnamese foresaw as their next invader.
An eventually became a Vietnam War reporter for Time magazine where he worked
as a spy for North Vietnam. He was a brilliant spy, with access to the highest-ranking American and South Vietnamese officials during the conflict, and claiming as his
friends and confidants the most respected
American journalists of the day.
After the war, Vietnam recognized An as
one of the great war heroes of his nation.
At that Saigon dinner, Berman told An he
was writing a book about the secret Paris
negotiations between Kissinger and Le Duc
Tho, the Vietnamese diplomat who eventually brokered a cease-fire that would allow America to exit the war. An, with a sly
smile, told Berman he knew a lot about the
topic, and he offered to speak with Berman
the next day.
After the meal, Berman learned An’s history from a friend. Stunned at the potential scholarly value of a relationship with
this unusual, significant source, Berman
returned to his hotel that evening.
He faced a choice.
If he followed his plan, Berman would
be on a flight to Cambodia the next morning to sight-see at the famous ruins at
Siem Reap and Angkor Wat. He would
either be on that flight or sipping coffee
with the most important spy of the
Vietnam era, a man almost forgotten
in the West.
“That night, I couldn’t sleep,” Berman says. “I tossed and turned. I just …
had a hunch. I could be a tourist some
other time. I went with my heart.”
He stayed and met An.
Eventually, Berman found himself
having discussions in the An home,
poring over documents and materials. The two men corresponded, and
their friendship deepened. Sensing a
great biography in the making, Berman endlessly beseeched his friend,
but An would not commit to authorize a writing of his life story.
At one point, An grew gravely ill,
cigarettes finally doing what American bullets never could. (“An smoked
five packs of cigarettes a day for 50
years,” Berman says, “and because
he was very superstitious, he chose
Lucky Strikes, feeling they would
help keep him alive.”) Berman wrote
his friend a personal goodbye note and
“mailed it to An’s house,” he says.
An didn’t die that time. It took several
more years for the Lucky Strikes to lose
their luck. In the last two, An finally granted Berman the story of his life. Literally.
Berman heard the exclusive, exhaustive,
nearly unbelievable tale of one of the great
spies in the history of espionage.
In 2007, “Perfect Spy: The Incredible
Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time MagaM A G A Z I N E. G S U. E D U
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BERMAN ENVISIONS EVERY STUDENT IN
THE HONORS COLLEGE UNDERTAKING A
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE. HE HAS NOW FOCUSED
HIS ENERGIES ON RAISING SCHOLARSHIP
DOLLARS TO MAKE THE DREAM A REALITY.
zine Reporter & Vietnamese
Communist Agent” revealed
the experiences of this remarkable Vietnamese version of
James Bond. The book topped
the best-seller list in Vietnam,
and now is in development
there as a lengthy television
miniseries. Berman holds out hope it will
be developed as a major motion picture in
the U.S. as well.
And then a second domino fell.
“A professor always has to write another book,” says Berman.
ZUMWALT
A
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FTER “PERFECT SPY,” Berman
learned certain classified papers
from Zumwalt’s service had been
released through the “byzantine declassification process,” as he puts it. This was an
important win for Berman who, just as with
the Johnson briefs and the Freedom of Information Act proceedings against the CIA
years before, had sued for the documents.
This time, on appeal to the military’s legal
organ, the Judge Advocate General, or JAG,
he won the right to see them.
He began assiduously piecing together
the life story of a very different kind of
hero. Zumwalt rose as high as a soldier can
go, and courageously fought for principles
that kept him in headlines and often in political dire straits.
Berman learned that Zumwalt’s accomplishments as a sailor, for all the medals
and glory, felt hollow. In a tragic irony,
Zumwalt’s son, who commanded a swift
boat patrolling the rivers in Vietnam during
the war, grew ill soon after his service and
died. The culprit? Agent Orange, a defoliant used widely over areas of Vietnam to
restrict hiding places for unfriendly Vietnamese guerrillas. In one of the war’s great
scandals, revelations after the conflict
showed chemical companies knew full well
from laboratory tests the chemical could
cause deadly cancers and other serious
physical problems.
Zumwalt himself, after asking all the
right questions and hearing the assurances
of the prevaricators, approved the use of
Agent Orange. The commander believed
the lies of chemical companies and issued
fatal orders for its use.
The chemical killed his own son. It killed
and sickened tens of thousands of other
Americans exposed to it, as well as their
unborn children. It killed or robbed the
health of uncountable numbers of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
Zumwalt spent his final years finding out
the truth about Agent Orange and using his
reputation, influence and many powerful
connections to bring restitutions, medical
treatments and settlements to those affected by the deadly chemical.
That honorable work earned Zumwalt
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Bill Clinton, for tireless
efforts on behalf of his sailors and their
families. Zumwalt never stopped caring
for those under his command. It was a
lifetime commitment.
Berman’s 2012 biography, “Zumwalt:
The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell ‘Bud’ Zumwalt Jr.,” arrived as the first
major biography of a man with a single
word on his gravestone: Reformer.
A high point of Berman’s scholarly career came in April of this year. He attended the christening ceremony for a new ultramodern Navy guided missile destroyer,
USS Zumwalt, in Bath, Maine. Zumwalt’s
surviving son, Lieutenant Colonel Jim
Zumwalt, spoke at the christening. He
singled out Berman, of 6,000 people in attendance, for the biographer’s portrayal
of his father.
“He said he felt I’d really captured the
soul of the man. I really felt like I’d written
a book that mattered,” Berman says.
Bill Moyers included Berman on the PBS
series “The Public Mind” in a notable episode, “The Truth About Lies.” David McCullough used Berman’s work to ballast a
television special, “American Experience.”
Stanley Karnow made Berman part of
“Vietnam: A Televised History.”
There’s more. Berman appears on CSPAN and The History Channel, lectures
internationally and does high-level advisory work with veterans’ groups, most notably the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation’s new Education Center at the Wall.
The work has brought Berman distinguished awards.
A Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
An American Council for Learned Societies
fellowship. The Faculty Research Lecturer
Award, the highest recognition bestowed
on a faculty member at UC Davis. He
earned a teaching award — the Outstanding Mentor of Women in Political Science
Award — from the Women’s Caucus for Political Science. He received the Navy’s Vice
Admiral Edwin B. Hooper award. Berman
held the position as a fellow at
the Woodrow Wilson Center,
enter,
and another as scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Center in Bellagio, Italy.
All the accolades and achievements merely whetted Berman’s
appetite for something more. A
career capstone. A legacy.
A role as founding dean of an Honors
College.
BLUEPRINT FOR TOMORROW
T
HE BLUEPRINT FOR what’s possible
at the Honors College sprawls far
into the future.
Berman has a recruitment plan in place
to cherry-pick high school stars. (Students
can also “walk on,” as he puts it, joining the
program once they’re enrolled, already into
their studies.) A new, energetic alumni outreach keeps the program alive for students
already in their careers, already making a
difference in the world. Berman envisions
every student in the Honors College undertaking a global experience. He has now
focused his energies on raising scholarship
dollars to make the dream a reality.
“We are dedicated to creating an environment where students can imagine a future
they once thought unattainable,” Berman
says. “As students engage in the Honors experience, they gain essential credentials and
tools to achieve their career goals and leave
a positive mark on the future.”
Pending partnerships with other schools
at Georgia State promise even more — and
more fascinating — interdisciplinary classes. The Honors College offers a new track
on leadership studies. Beautifully designed
Centennial Hall houses the Honors College
and Berman’s offices. The complex bustles
with youthful energy.
Berman seems everywhere at once —
Asia today, London or D.C.. tomorrow. He
somehow remains accessible, mentoring,
familiar to students.
The door to his office stays wide open.
Berman’s open-door policy evokes a line
from the writings of William Blake.
“In
n the universe, there are things that
are known, and things that are unknown,
and in between, there are doors.”
Berman’s lasting legacy, Georgia State’s
Honors College,
ollege, will open many doors, to
many souls and many good works.
CHARLES MCNAIR is the author of the novels “Pickett’s
ickett’s
Charge” and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Land ‘O
Goshen” and has been books editor at Paste Magazine since 2005.
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RAIL
REDUX
By H.M. Cauley Photography by Ben Rollins
ATLANTA STREETCAR CLOSE-UP
Cost of cars
$3.6 MILLION EACH
Cost of ride
$1.00
*
Capacity per car
60 SEATED, 200 STANDING
Expected schedule
EVERY 15 MINUTES, EVERY DAY
Number of cars
0004
Length of track
2.7 MILES
* Proposed one-way fare to be decided by the Atlanta City Council.
Total cost
$98.9 MILLION
THE ATLANTA STREETCAR, ONCE THE
PREFERRED MODE OF TRANSIT IN THE CITY,
IS RESURRECTED IN GEORGIA STATE’S BACKYARD
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THOSE
torn-up roads, blocked sidewalks
and the incessant drone of drills
that have been part of the Georgia W
State campus for the last year are
finally coming to an end.
 Downtown Five Points,
circa 1940s
There’s another point to ponder: Will
riders realize they are putting a new
twist on an old story?
TRACKING THE TROLLEY
THIS SUMMER, the city of Atlanta expects to wrap construction on its new streetcar line,
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an ambitious, and somewhat controversial, project that will bring transit down Edgewood
and Auburn avenues.
City officials expect that the almost three-mile streetcar loop will spawn a number of
significant changes to a corridor that has long suffered from lack of retailers, connectivity
and, until the late 1990s, residents. Economic growth and improved east-west mobility are
two of the primary goals for the streetcar, with the long-range plan to link into additional
transit connections along the BeltLine, the city’s ongoing transportation and redevelopment project along a historic 22-mile railroad corridor circling downtown.
Projections estimate each streetcar will take 177 autos off the road, lessening the congestion on the area’s crowded surface streets. For the Georgia State community, the line
could mean a steady stream of visitors, office workers and downtown residents passing
daily through the campus.
“The streetcar will give Georgia State incredible visibility, as well as access,” says President Mark P. Becker. “It will run through the heart of campus along both Auburn and
Edgewood avenues, with five of its 13 stops within Georgia State’s downtown footprint.”
There’s no way of knowing how many students, staff and faculty will become regular
streetcar riders, but Becker expects it will happen if the right elements are in place.
“One route that looks particularly well-suited for students living in university housing
runs along Auburn Avenue from Piedmont to Woodruff Park,” he says.
hile the 2014 streetcar is designed to keep things moving
around the city’s core, the
first such cars helped people
get out of town. In the early
1870s, when the trolleys were powered
by horses and mules, city dwellers
hopped aboard for trips to the countryside. At the end of one line, near presentday Ponce City Market (the former City
Hall East), were springs and parks. At
the end of another, Brisbine Park boasted a baseball diamond, grandstand and
fields for races and exhibitions.
Tim Crimmins, professor of sociology
and the director of Georgia State’s Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan
Studies that for 10 years has scrutinized
urban community issues, says back then
the trolleys were a means of getting people out of the city for recreation.
“They began as a major way of getting
people to and from events,” Crimmins
says. “But by the 1880s, the trolleys were
subsidized by the sale of suburban land.
Investors who were developing land on
the periphery provided access to the
property they owned. That was a driving force for growth, not just in Atlanta,
but around the U.S.”
The present-day streetcar marks another quirk in Atlanta history: The debut
of the new route will come close to coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the
city’s first eclectic streetcar line. It rolled
out on Aug 23, 1889, when real estate developer Joel Hurt unveiled a power-driv-
en trolley to transport Atlantans to his new
neighborhood, Inman Park. The community on the eastern end of Edgewood Avenue
was a suburb in progress, and getting residents back and forth to the city center was
a key concern. (Hurt’s cars are long gone,
but their home, the aptly named Trolley
Barn at 963 Edgewood Ave., still stands as
a reminder of those early transit options.)
Hurt wasn’t the only entrepreneur to
kick-start a transit company back then.
The Metropolitan line, a trolley pulled by a
small steam engine, was the quickest way
to get from downtown to new communities
south and east of town as far as Decatur.
The principal investor was Lemuel Grant,
whose mansion still anchors the Atlanta
neighborhood (and park) that bears his
name. But it wasn’t long before the engine
gave way to electric lines, and by the turn
of the 20th century, the trolleys were the
biggest consumers of electrical power. It
quickly became clear someone was going
to have to oversee the new industry.
A struggle erupted over who would
consolidate the various lines, provide the
power and establish the infrastructure
to handle both. The winner: the Georgia
Power and Electric Trolley Company, the
forerunner of the modern company that
lights up the city.
“Georgia Power won because it had the
best capacity to generate electricity,” says
Crimmins. “It had developed lakes in north
Georgia to create hydroelectric power that
was transmitted to Atlanta. It was also the
point when electric power was introduced
into residences, even though the trolleys
remained the major users.”
Atlanta wasn’t alone in developing an
intricate web of trolley lines, and by the beginning of the 20th century almost every
major American city had such a network.
At home, the streetcars meant an easier
commute to the Georgia Institute of Technology Evening School of Commerce, the
forerunner of present-day Georgia State.
“One of the advantages of the school was
that it was accessible by the trolley,” says
Crimmins. “But the trolley’s primary rider-
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ship was men coming into town
to work.”
In the era of Jim Crow, the
system was as segregated as
the rest of Atlanta.
“There was a serving class
who rode the trolley from
African-American neighborhoods to middle- and upperclass white neighborhoods for
jobs,” says Crimmins. “It was
common practice for employers to pay a daily wage, plus
car fare. But a bill from 1891
that segregated railroad cars
was extended to the trolleys,
even though Hurt testified at
a hearing that it would be too
expensive for the companies
to have two cars or a permanent division between a white
and black section. So it fell to
the conductors to enforce the
separation of the races, with
the whites in the front and the
African-Americans in the back,
where even there they could be
ordered to give up their seats to
white riders.”
It wasn’t long before the trolley systems were threatened by
the popularity of the automobile. New infrastructure that
catered to cars was built, and
by the time World War II ended, trolleys were well on their
way to becoming impractical
modes of transportation.
“The creation of the interstate highway system caused a decline in
ridership,” says Crimmins. “Georgia Power
remained in control, but after the war, it
converted from electric to bus systems.
There were buses with electric motors still
tied to the trolley lines, which were more
flexible because they could pull right up
to a curb. But by the 1950s, Georgia Power
divested itself of the transit lines, and the
system went to regular buses.”
DOWNTOWN TRAIN
F
ast-forward to 2014, when the contemporary Atlanta streetcar is set
to take on a role reversal. Instead
of shuttling people out of town, city
officials see a downtown trolley as
a magnet that will draw locals and visitors
alike. The line will be dotted with art galleries, retail shops and restaurants that
riders can enjoy between the destinations
such as the Martin Luther King Jr. historic
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CENTENNIAL PARK
MLK CENTER
LAW SCHOOL (FALL ’15)
UNIVERSITY COMMONS
ADERHOLD
LANGDALE HALL
STUDENT CENTER
 Inman Park trolley
SPORTS ARENA
 New streetcar interior
 Trolley construction,
Marietta and Broad streets, 1891
ATLANTA STREETCAR
Streetcar Track
Streetcar Stop
These days, streetcar systems
are being used to help revitalize cities in the U.S.
and throughout the world. And these are not experiments.
They are proven to work. ATLANTA MAYOR KASIM REED
GSU Facilities
Future GSU Facilities
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site, Centennial Olympic Park, the World
of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium.
“I think there’s a sort of nostalgia for the
trolley, but that isn’t going to bring people
from Marietta to downtown,” says Crimmins. “What you can argue is the business
plan. It’s something that connects a major
convention facility at the World Congress
Center with hotels and various sites and
offers relatively easy access through the
downtown district. The city hopes it will
disperse some of the concentration of convention business along the route and create enough of a market for shops at street
level. It’s a reverse of the development the
trolleys supported in the 1880s.”
The trolley also holds some appeal for
curious students, says Joseph Hacker, who
teaches transportation planning and economic development in the Andrew Young
School of Policy Studies.
“They’re very interested in it,” he says.
“One of the big assumptions is that students
will use it, and as the university expands
eastward, I think there’s an opportunity that
they will. There are also a lot of apartments
being built not far from the line, and if more
students live in them it might be a nice way
to get to and from campus.”
The streetcar does have the potential of
revitalizing the areas adjacent to campus,
Hacker adds.
“I think it could make the Fairlie-Poplar
area come alive in the evenings,” he says,
“but there also needs to be events and rea-
sons to draw people downtown. Until there
is that connection, there may be problems
getting people to come to where people
aren’t. But it is quaint.”
Part of the charm is the nostalgia trolleys
create in a generation who, like Atlantans
125 years ago, never saw or rode one.
“There is that historical tradition of
having street cars as part of urban life,”
says Cathy Liu, associate professor of
public policy and a specialist in planning
issues. “Now they’re part of that general
idea of making our downtown more livable and pleasant for visitors and residents. We have been having suburban
development for a long time. Now people
have realized the importance of downtown areas as centers of cities, and more
development and investment are going
in. I see the streetcar as one piece of that
overall shift.”
For its part, the city is jump-starting the
economic revival by creating a program of
pop-up shops and offering incentives such
as a few months’ free rent to business owners and entrepreneurs who locate along the
trolley line. Those shops and restaurants
will give riders options along the route.
“The trolley is definitely appealing for
workers who can hop on and off and stop
at different places and for tourists who
want to see the downtown area,” says Liu.
“It can certainly help downtown’s image.
It’s appealing, and it’s a part of history.”
That history hasn’t escaped Mayor Kasim Reed, one of the project’s leading supporters.
“The streetcars are an integral part of
the story of Atlanta,” he said. “It’s about revisiting our ‘routes,’ as it were. These days,
streetcar systems are being used to help
revitalize cities in the U.S. and throughout
the world. And these are not experiments.
They are proven to work.
“Building the Atlanta Streetcar now is not
about nostalgia. It’s about accommodating
growth and planning for the future.”
H.M. CAULEY is an Atlanta-based freelancer and au-
thor of three travel books about the region. Along with
being a regular contributor to the Atlanta JournalConstitution, the Atlanta Business Chronicle and
other local publications, she is working toward a Ph.D.
in Georgia State’s English Department.
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inside insight
Mid-Century City • A mosaic overlay of 124 stitched-together aerial photographs from 1949 depict Atlanta as it was transitioning to an
automobile-centered city. The project, created by University Librarian Joe Hurley, can be viewed in Google Maps and Google Earth, and
here, on the large-scale, high-resolution visualization wall in the Petit Science Center. Visit magazine.gsu.edu to see more.
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