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fall 2010
GSU
Advances
Boosting nature’s
recovery in the
Gulf, p. 22
Mapquest
The cartographers
who helped win
WWII, p. 30
Making the Grade
GSU launches
teacher residency
program, p. 34
magazine
24 Year of the Panther
Led by President Mark Becker, GSU is turning its
The Pantherettes lead the Homecoming
Golf Cart Parade through the streets
of downtown. Read about GSU’s first fall
Homecoming on page 7. photograph by
meg buscema
students into global citizens. By Andrea Jones
30 Mapping History
A professor tells the story of those who created the
maps that helped win World War II. By Jeremy Craig
34 Making the Grade
College of Education launches a new groundbreaking
teacher residency program. By Elizabeth Klipp
departments
On the cover:
East meets west when GSU’s Panther statue is
masked with a traditional Chinese paper art design.
Design by Ellen Powell
2 president’s letter
21 advances
5 cityscapes
41 connections
13 panthers
17 the arts
48 the guest list
contents
features
president’s letter
welcome friends & alumni
Expanding Horizons
GSU extends its reach in business,
research and teaching
GSU magazine
FALL ’10 | Volume 2, Number 1
Publisher DeAnna Hines
executive editor Andrea Jones
editor William Inman
This is a very exciting fall at Georgia
copy editor Margaret Tate
State University. In August, we wel-
contributors ann claycombe
comed our largest and, we believe, best
Jeremy Craig
Renee degross valdes
prepared freshman class in our history.
john s. duffield
And in September, we kicked off the
allison george
inaugural season of Panther football, a
history-making milestone for GSU and
the Atlanta community.
Another milestone this fall was the
opening of a Confucius Institute at
Georgia State University (page 24), an
initiative that provides comprehensive
resources for advancing greater understanding of Chinese language and culture. An important and unique feature of
GSU’s Confucius Institute is its focus on supporting the business community.
On Oct. 15, I was honored to join Xiliang Cui, president of the Beijing Language
and Culture University, and Yanping Gao, Consul General of the People’s Republic
of China in Houston, in the official dedication at GSU’s Rialto Center for the Arts.
Also in this issue, you’ll meet Jeremy Crampton, associate professor of geography, who tells the mostly untold story of geographers’ and cartographers’ part in
helping Allied forces win World War II, and plan for the post-war era (page 30).
And you’ll learn about GSU’s newly formed fall teacher residency program,
which matches 10 pre-service teachers with 10 mentors in metro Atlanta schools.
Funded by a $13.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the
program is similar to the residency programs doctors go through; the pre-service
teachers will be working full-time for a year for a stipend in low-income schools
and high-need content areas such as math and science.
There is much going on at Georgia State University, and there is much more on
the horizon.
Sincerely,
Mark P. Becker
Leah seupersad
ashley webb
creative director Ellen Powell
project manager renata irving
ART DIRECTOR Pamela Lang
graphic designeR patricia p. simmons
PHOTO EDITOR Meg Buscema
PHOTOGRAPHER Carolyn Richardson
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This fall, nine of GSU’s 24
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Recently, I’ve been thinking about
getting a master’s degree in public health to be able to do clinical
research in disease prevention in
third-world countries. I want
to be able to give back to the
world community.
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anna oltmann
Student
Q &A
A freshman majoring in nursing, Anna Oltmann
is one of seven Presidential Scholars for 2010
How does it feel to be
a Presidential Scholar?
I was very excited to receive the
Presidential Scholarship. It’s a
great opportunity to have handson learning at Georgia State, a
chance to study abroad, do undergraduate research and have great
access to faculty. The scholarship
covers full tuition all four years,
books and expenses, housing and
a one-time study abroad trip, as
well as other perks. It’s an honor
that motivates me to do well and
to make a difference.
How did you decide to
major in nursing?
Since the 6th grade, I’ve wanted
to go into pediatric nursing. My
aunt and uncle, who are surgeons,
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used to do mission work. They
would come back with all these
stories and pictures, and it really interested me. I volunteered
my senior year of high school at
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta,
and it has been an affirmation of
what I want to do with my life. I
got a first-hand look at how the
health care field works every day.
Where would you like to go
on your study abroad trip?
I’m interested in Georgia State’s
“Medical Virology in Argentina”
study abroad program. You get
to do research and work with the
Argentinean equivalent of the
CDC [Centers for Disease
Control]. I want to study Spanish
and incorporate that as well.
What is your University
Assistantship, which is part
of the Presidential Scholar
Program?
I’m assigned to the Atlanta
Regional Geriatric Education
Center, which is just starting up
at Georgia State. It was recently funded, and the center’s goal is
to expand geriatric education for
health professionals in the Atlanta
area, particularly in the area of
late-life depression. I’m gathering
existing geriatric educational materials and exploring creative ways
to reach health professionals.
How do you plan to be
involved at Georgia State
and in the Atlanta community?
I’m really interested in Habitat
for Humanity, Relay for Life and
Campus Crusade for Christ. I
would like to get involved over at
Grady Memorial Hospital or volunteer again at Children’s. I swam
competitively since I was 5, so I’d
like to join the GSU swim club.
I would also like to participate in
the GSU alternative spring break
program, where I can combine
traveling and giving back to the
community. Atlanta is great because the CDC is based here and
so many other organizations in
public health. I’m sure I won’t
have trouble finding my niche.
B y E l i z abe t h K l i pp
s p o t l i g h t
A Fast Growing State
fall homecoming a success
Georgia State is expanding its foot-
Week-long festivities end with Panther victory
chased two downtown hotels to be
Georgia State’s first fall Homecoming — and its
first centered on a football game — proved
Panther spirit is strong and growing among students, alumni, employees and the community.
A crowd of 15,264 at the Georgia Dome Oct.
2 was treated to a solid performance by the GSU
Panthers, who dominated the Morehead State
Eagles, 37-10.
Homecoming Queen LaToya Raines
Georgia State’s unique Golf Cart Parade
and King Nicholas Alexander are
also transitioned well for fall Homecoming. On
crowned during half-time.
the afternoon of Sept. 30, GSU President Mark
Becker and his wife, Laura Voisinet, rode in a convertible mini-Cooper and led
the traditional parade of golf carts, decorated with blue and white streamers, balloons and signs, through downtown. The parade included more than 30 student
organizations, numerous GSU academic and administrative divisions, the ROTC,
the GSU Marching Band, the GSU Cheerleading team and, new this year, the
Pantherettes dance team.
Even after a hectic week, Panthers were out in force for game day. The Dome’s
Orange Lot was full of tailgating alumni, students, faculty, staff, and families as
well as other supporters.
“You can tell alumni are thrilled,” said Christina Million, assistant vice president for the GSU Alumni Association. “They’re already excited about being a
Georgia State grad, but this just adds to it.”
new Greek housing — the first of
print. The university recently purused as residence halls, and opened
its kind for GSU — as well as a new
classroom building in Alpharetta.
Most recently, the College of Law
received support from the state legislature for a new building. The design phase is set to begin, said GSU
President Mark Becker. “We are
grateful to the state legislature for
approving the design money for the
building,” he said.
“This represents a great opportunity for us,” said College of Law
Dean Steve Kaminshine. “After a year
of pre-design, we’re ready and eager
to move forward with the design
phase and make this dream a reality.”
To cater to the growing demand
for on-campus housing, the universi-
ty has acquired the nearby Baymont
Inn and Wyndham Garden hotels.
Georgia State is housing right at
3,000 students this fall, with another
800 expected for fall 2011.
In August, more than 145 students
from nine of GSU’s 24 Greek organizations moved into GSU’s first Greek
housing. The new development feaPhotography: Meg Buscema/Staff
on campus
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Georgia State President Mark Becker (right) and his wife, Laura Voisinet, lead gsu’s
traditional Homecoming Golf Cart Parade through downtown on Sept. 30.
tures nine three-story townhomes.
GSU’s new 45,000 square-foot
Alpharetta facility opened this past
summer. Located at 3705 Brookside
Parkway, the facility will serve mainly as a satellite campus for the
Robinson College of Business and
the College of Education.
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cityscapes
the iraq war
The Class of 20I4
Georgia State welcomed its largest
freshman class this semester. It’s
Are We Safer Now?
also the strongest academically.
Here’s a look at the Class of 2014,
By John S. Duffield
Applications for the
freshman class:
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Brianna Bussey, a member of GSU’s largest-ever incoming class, waits for the official
Freshman Convocation ceremony to begin on Aug. 22.
Percent increase in
freshman applications
from five years ago:
45
Freshmen accepted:
6,352
Average GPA:
Sound Advice
“A college experience is a milestone that can and will shape
the rest of your life. I encourage you to make the most of it.
Whatever your area of study may be, I encourage you to focus
on academic excellence, while also taking time to learn ‘outside
the classroom.’
I would encourage you to take part in the many campus organizations Georgia State has to offer, both academically and in the
arts and humanities. Consider interning at the many companies
and nonprofit agencies with which Georgia State has partnerships.
Provost
Study abroad if you can. I strongly believe that learning happens
Risa Palm
— thrives, even — far beyond the classroom.
The late American author Eric Hoffer once said, ‘In a time of drastic change,
it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves
equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.’
Today, you become a part of a tradition of excellence at Georgia State
University. Become one of the learned. Embrace the future, don’t fear it. The only
limits for your future are the things you cannot dream.”
Provost Risa Palm to the incoming freshman class during Freshman Convocation.
3.37
Average SAT score:
I,I 05
Percent of African-American
and Hispanic freshmen:
39
Percent of incoming
freshmen entering with
HOPE scholarships:
80
States in the U.S. represented
by incoming freshmen:
27
Freshmen enrolled in
Honors Courses:
205
at issue
by the numbers:
Faculty
OP-ED
The recent departure of the last American combat units from Iraq marks an appropriate time to take stock: Was the war worthwhile? Has it made the U.S. more secure?
One way to approach this question is to compare the costs and benefits of the war.
Clearly, the costs have been substantial. Most obvious has been the human toll. Nearly
4,500 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and more than 30,000 seriously wounded.
In addition, at least 100,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, have died since the invasion.
To this we must add the tremendous financial costs. The total price tag could eventually amount to $2-3 trillion when delayed and indirect costs, such as caring for
wounded veterans, are included.
Harder to measure are the geopolitical costs of the war, but these are no less real.
A large U.S. military presence in a Muslim country combined with the deaths of so
many Iraqis has provided a rallying cry for anti-American jihadists. The war diverted
critical financial, military and intelligence resources away from Afghanistan. And it has
emboldened North Korea and Iran to pursue nuclear weapons.
Against these costs we must weigh the benefits of the war. Certainly, the Iraqi political situation is much improved. Saddam Hussein and his repressive regime have
been deposed and replaced by a democracy, and the country no longer threatens its
neighbors. Indeed, a real possibility exists that Iraq could become a model for political
reform and reconciliation in the region. If these positive changes hold, many may conclude that the war was worth the substantial costs.
The longer-term prognosis, however, is less clear. We do not yet know whether
Iraq’s fledgling political institutions will strengthen or eventually be swept away and
replaced by anarchy or new authoritarian structures. The country’s recent inability to
form a new government and the resurgence of terrorist attacks are cause for concern.
There is, moreover, another way to evaluate the war, raising further doubts about
its wisdom. Rather than compare costs and benefits, we might ask instead whether the
resources the United States has devoted to Iraq might have been used more effectively in other ways to increase U.S. security. For example, the United States could have
attempted to continue containing Iraq, as it had more or less successfully during the
previous decade, at a fraction of the cost of going to war.
Alternatively, the United States might have tried to reduce the need to contain Iraq
in the first place by taking steps to limit our oil dependence, the primary reason for
our substantial engagement in the Persian Gulf. The transportation sector is responsible for two-thirds of American oil consumption. If the government had instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars in fuel efficiency, hybrids, electric vehicles and
alternative fuels, how far might we have weaned our cars and trucks off oil by now?
If Iraqi nuclear weapons or terrorist ties were the real problem, the United States
could have spent more on missile defenses, port and border security, and other aspects
of homeland security. Or we might have sought to promote our security by devoting
more resources to political and economic development around the world.
Such questions are impossible to answer with certainty. But they are worth pondering, especially the next time the United States considers a major military intervention.
We do not
yet know
whether Iraq’s
fledgling political
institutions will
strengthen or
eventually be
swept away
and replaced by
anarchy or new
authoritarian
structures.
J o hn S . D uff i eld i s pr o fess o r o f p o l i t i cal sc i ence and c o - au t h o r
o f “ B alance S hee t: The Ira q W ar and U . S . N at i o nal S ecur i t y. ”
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Highlighting
the good
SONGKHLA VENZA and other students in the GSU chapter of the
works of GSU
American Undergraduate Dental Association this summer helped to bring smiles to
the faces of people who can’t afford dental care.
around the
world
global
The students volunteered to work with Medical College of Georgia dental students at the Ben
Massell Dental Clinic, metro Atlanta’s major indigent dental care clinic. They assisted with multiple dental
procedures such as tooth extraction, fillings and even root canals.
“The best thing about being able to volunteer here is that you get an experience that many people
don’t get anywhere else,” said Venza, president of the GSU AUDA chapter.
Beyond learning, though, the experience was highly rewarding, said Tabatha Reece.
“It’s great to work with Massell,” Reece said. “After coming in, the clients just feel better, and feel
better about themselves. Until you go and do it, you don’t realize how rewarding it truly is.”
B y J erem y C ra i g
local
elena bargo (B.B.A. ‘09) was vacationing in the Dominican Republic
on Jan. 12, 2010, when she felt tremors from the earthquake that devastated
neighboring Haiti. Four days later, she wrote to friends and family that she was
postponing her return home indefinitely.
A certified professional rescuer, Bargo traveled in Haiti with 30 volunteers who, in the days just after the
earthquake, provided aid to more than 8,000 people. She administered first aid, cleaned infected wounds,
stabilized broken bones and provided medication to the victims.
Highlighting
She also worked in an orphanage in Léogâne — the epicenter of the quake — where she played with
the good
children and otherwise tried to keep them smiling. For the entire three months she volunteered there,
works of GSU
Bargo slept in a tent.
see,” she said. “Haiti is an amazing country with amazing people. This has been undeniably one of the
most interesting and rewarding experiences of my life.”
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in Georgia
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“I have done things I’ve never imagined I would do. I have seen things I have never imagined I would
and in the
community
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GSU’s first president
Social Media @ GSU
ong before becoming Georgia State’s first president, George M. Sparks was
a war correspondent who covered the Mexican Revolution, a city editor at
The Macon Telegraph and a journalism professor at Mercer University and
Georgia Tech.
Sparks, who took over as director of the Evening School of Commerce
(as Georgia State was then known) in1928, sustained the institution through the
Great Depression and oversaw the school’s expansion in the years that followed.
He is credited with expanding the curriculum and increasing student enrollment, and in 1932, he transformed the Evening School into a four-year college
with graduate programs.
Sparks is also recognized for founding the school’s library, doing so with a donation of his own books. During the nation’s severe economic crisis, Sparks worked hard to ensure that
the school stayed afloat. For instance, according to the book “Educating the New
Urban South,” by Merl E. Reed, Georgia State professor emeritus in history,
Sparks is believed to have borrowed on his life insurance to cover “out-of-pocket
expenses like heat and light.”
He also used his own money to pay tuition costs for a struggling undergraduate,
William M. Suttles. That student — who
went on to become a Georgia State administrator, faculty member and, ultimately,
president — repaid Sparks’ favor by helping numerous students pay for school out
of his own pocket.
Despite money shortages, Sparks continued his expansion plans and pushed
for separating the Evening School from
Georgia Tech. He expanded the school’s
curriculum by promoting the arts and sciences. Although historians say his major contributions grew out of his financial
president george M. sparks outside of
management and statewide contacts, these
the hall that still bears his name, 1957
developments attracted more interest in
the institution, which resulted in increased student enrollment. To accommodate
the growth, Sparks sought, acquired, renovated and occupied three different buildings between 1931 and 1946.
Although he served as the school’s director for 25 years, Sparks’ presidency was
brief. He was appointed the first president in 1955 but retired two years later. He
died Oct. 29, 1958.
Today, Sparks is remembered fondly at Georgia State for his contribution to
the school. Sparks Hall houses administrative offices and classrooms, and Georgia
State’s Alumni Association also gives out annual Sparks Awards to the university’s
unsung heroes — faculty, staff and students who exemplify Sparks’ perseverance
and good nature in their own service to the school.
with GSU in a new way — through
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Join the conversation and interact
social media. A growing number of
GSU faculty, administrators, alumni, students and staff are using social
media to communicate and engage
with one another.
For example, Georgia State accounts on Twitter provide frequent
brief updates on GSU news, events,
sports, research, academic programs,
student groups and much more.
Popular accounts include Georgia
State Athletics (@GSUPanthers),
Georgia State University Relations
(@gsu_news), Head Football Coach
Bill Curry (@coachbillcurry) and the
Georgia State Alumni Association
(@GSUAA).
Many Georgia State colleges,
departments, organizations and
alumni groups now have Facebook
pages, and the university has a site
on Apple’s iTunes U where users
can download audio and video podcasts of GSU lectures, performances and student- or faculty-created
content — all for free. Georgia
Heads up!
State also has a dedicated channel
Sophomore midfielder Jocelyn
on YouTube with the latest Georgia
Baker fields a long pass during
State videos, from football high-
the Oct. 10 match against
lights to student film projects.
Virginia Commonwealth University
So stay connected with Georgia
at Panthersville. The Panthers and
State no matter where you are, by join-
Rams played to a scoreless tie
ing the university’s virtual community.
after two overtimes.
For direct links and more information, visit www.gsu.edu/social.
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H i s t o r y
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panthers
New women’s basketball coach
Sharon Baldwin-Tener comes
back home to lead the Panthers
F
or those wondering where
Sharon Baldwin-Tener got
her toughness, look no
further than the house on
James Place in Smyrna, Ga.,
where she grew up.
That’s where, as a young girl, the
head women’s basketball coach dueled
her older brother, Brian, in games of
one-on-one in the driveway and took
on him and his friends in neighborhood
contests of baseball and sandlot football.
“I give him a lot of credit,” BaldwinTener says of her brother. “We didn’t
exactly get along growing up. He made
me tough.”
That toughness defined her during her playing days. In high school she
was the state AAAA Player of the year
at Wills High School in Smyrna, and
as a college player, she overcame a torn
ACL to star at both Kennesaw State and
the University of Georgia.
At Georgia, where she transferred
after two seasons at Kennesaw State,
she was a gritty guard and team captain her senior year, leading the 1990
Bulldogs to a 25-5 record and a No. 7
overall ranking.
After that impressive campaign,
Georgia’s Hall of Fame head coach
Andy Landers asked Baldwin-Tener,
who had just earned her degree in business education, to stick around and become a graduate assistant.
During her seven seasons as an assistant for Landers, she coached two Final
Four teams and earned the Naismith
National Assistant Coach of the Year
award in 1997. She also earned her master’s degree in education.
“Sharon is a proven winner,” Landers said.
“She won as a player,
she was a great asset on
our staff and was influential in some of our
finest moments.”
She left Athens to start
a program at Life University
in Marietta, Ga. In just her
second season there, the
team went 31-3 and advanced to the Elite Eight
of the NAIA tournament.
She left Life for
Mercer University in
Macon, Ga., where she
smyrna native and new women’s basketball coach Shacoached for one season and ron Baldwin-Tenor comes to GSU from East Carolina,
where she led the team to their first-ever Conference
was named Atlantic Sun
USA Tournament title.
Conference Coach of the
Year in 2002.
From there, she took the head
Now, Baldwin-Tener, hired in April,
coaching position at East Carolina,
is back in Atlanta. She runs an aggressive,
where she turned the languishing proup-tempo style of play, and she’s ready
gram into a perennial contender.
to take the Panthers to new heights.
During her eight-year tenure there,
“It’s a great feeling to be back
the squad’s overall Division I rank imhome,” said Baldwin-Tener, who lives
proved nearly 150 spots and attenwith her husband Matt — a former
dance quadrupled. In 2007, she led the Georgia football player — and their two
Pirates to their first-ever Conference
children just a few miles from her old
USA Tournament Title.
house on James Place.
More importantly, she says, she
“I’m just really excited to have the
graduated every player who finished her opportunity to build a program and make
eligibility at East Carolina.
a strong program in my hometown. The
“The main thing, to me, is that I
challenge is there, but we can do it.”
want my teams to be good people as
B y W i ll i am Inman
well as good players,” she said. “I want
them to graduate, I want them to do
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Men’s basketball ready for the season
Men’s Head Basketball Coach Rod Barnes is welcoming eight newcomers to his
squad. But, he says, the way the new players have meshed with the veterans has
become the team’s calling card.
“I think our strength will be in our team’s chemistry and unity,” Barnes said.
Barnes, going into his fourth season, said he anticipates that this year’s
Colonial Athletic Association will be the toughest he’s seen since he took the helm
at GSU; still, he’s undaunted about the pre-season polls that have the Panthers
near the bottom of the conference. In fact, Barnes says, he’s looking forward to fly-
Martelli wins 100th
ing under the radar.
The skies were clear with no sign
“I’ve just been telling them ‘Guys, nobody knows who you are,’” he said. “I
of rain Oct. 8 at Panthersville, yet
think as the season goes on, we are going to grow into being not only a good
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team, I think we’ve got the potential to have a great team.”
Domenic Martelli found himself
soaked following GSU’s 2-1 overtime
bo knows
Magnanimitas, a Latin word meaning
“greatness of spirit,” is used frequently
by Head Football Coach Bill Curry. Every
individual, says Curry, possesses magnanimitas.
Curry’s program even has an award
based on magnanimitas: a red “M” helmet
decal that recognizes an exemplary display
of the characteristics of a champion.
So far, the only Panther to earn it is
Bo Schlechter.
The redshirt freshman from Wellington,
Fla., came to Georgia State as a highly
recruited quarterback and one of the
Bo Schlechter
Panthers’ most versatile athletes.
That versatility enabled Schlechter to nail down the job as Panther punter while
he was competing for the starting berth at quarterback.
Once it became apparent to Schlechter that he would not be GSU’s starting signal caller, he focused his energies on other ways in which he could help his team.
Schlechter seized his magnanimitas moment when he volunteered to move from
quarterback to receiver. Since, he has been a steady contributor in the Panthers’ receiver rotation.
“We thought that Bo could be a good wide receiver, but even we didn’t realize
that he could adapt as quickly as he did,” said Curry. “He’s a tremendous contributor to our team.”
Schlechter’s punting certainly has not suffered as he has taken on the additional
responsibility. In fact, he has been one of the best punters in the FCS ranks, helping GSU rank among the national leaders in net punting.
So, Bo knows punting, he knows receiving, and he knows … magnanimitas.
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Stephen Jones
Courted home
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p r o f i l e
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s p o r t s
victory against James Madison. In
celebratory fashion, Martelli’s team
doused him with contents from the
water cooler immediately following
the game-winning goal that took him
to his landmark 100th career win.
“That win by itself is huge; the
100th win was just the icing on the
cake,” Martelli said.
At the beginning of the season,
Martelli had already compiled the
most wins in Panther history, with a
record of 90-87-23.
Now in his 11th season as head
coach, Martelli says that it’s not always
about the wins at the end of the day.
“It’s about the student-athletes,”
he says. “What we can do for them
after they graduate or what they can
accomplish for themselves.”
Martelli came to GSU in 2000 after
serving as assistant women’s soccer
coach for seven seasons at the United
States Military Academy in West
Point, N.Y. He played collegiately at
Ohio State.
B y A shle y W ebb
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Italy’s Magnificent
Lake District
Costa Rica –
Wind Star
Treasures of China &
Tibet – Century Sky
Rome – An Insider’s
Perspective
May 31 – June 8, 2011
March 16-26, 2011
August 26 – Sept. 10, 2011
November 7 – 15, 2011
Discover the
beauty and
magic of Italy’s
Lake District.
Cruise the
sapphire
waters of Lake Maggiore to the
Borromean Islands. Visit Milan
and admire the dazzling art and
architecture. Explore Bellagio
and Como, two of Italy’s most
enchanting cities before heading
to the idyllic Swiss village of
Ascona. Your home base from
which to explore Italy’s celebrated
Lake District is the town of Stresa
nestled on the shores of Lake
Maggiore.
Begin your
Costa Rican
journey in
cosmopolitan
San Jose, and
then travel to
the exquisite cloud forest, Arenal
National Park. After spending
two days in this cloud-drenched
paradise you will board the
elegant Wind Star for a sevennight cruise touring Costa Rica’s
many treasures. Start in beautiful
Playa del Coco, then continue
to Quepos and explore the rain
forest, then head to Bahia Drake
and the Curu Game Reserve and
finish on the sun-drenched shores
of Tortuga Island.
Discover
China and
experience
its ancient
culture and
enduring
history. Visit Tian’anmen Square in
Beijing, the Forbidden City and the
Great Wall. Marvel at the Terra
Cotta Warriors in Xi’an then
experience the stunning landscape
in Lhasa and impressive landmarks
of Tibet. Travel to Chongqing to
see the giant pandas and then
board Century Sky to cruise
the magnificent Three Gorges
along the Yangtze River. Finish in
Shanghai with visits to the Bund
and Yu Garden.
Travel back
in time
with a walk
through the
Colosseum,
marvel at
the Vatican Museum and Sistine
Chapel. Journey to Orvieto for
a cooking class and delve into
ancient Rome in Studio Cassio.
View the impressive shrines and
temples in the port of Ostia.
Planned excursions and free
time, plus centrally-located
accommodations, give you the
opportunity to discover the
Eternal City’s must-see sites.
Price is approximately $3,495 per person,
plus airfare and taxes, based on double
occupancy.
plus airfare and V.A.T, based on double
occupancy.
plus airfare and V.A.T, based on double
occupancy.
the arts
music, art, film & literature
Alumni association Travel
Price is approximately $2,495
per person plus airfare,
based on double
occupancy.
* All trips are presented by AHI International. For more information visit GSU.EDU/ALUMNI or call 1-800-GSU-ALUM.
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the arts
A Classical Approach
A Musical Home Run
GSU graduate student keeps baseball music alive
New distinguished professor
has big plans for GSU opera
As New York Mets third baseman David Wright stepped up to the plate to face
G
Braves organist Matthew Kaminski was playing “You’ve Got it (The Right Stuff)”
by New Kids on the Block.
As fans figured out the song’s connection to Wright’s name, they chuckled
or sang along. Some even sent kudos to the organist using the social media
tool Twitter.
In an age when most major league baseball teams have decided to do without
a live organist and use pre-recorded music, Kaminski, a graduate student in the
School of Music’s jazz studies program, is keeping the tradition of the baseball
Kaminski is one
of 15 “live” organists left in Major
League Baseball
production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” broadcast worldwide on PBS’ Great Performances.
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events that will bring together artists
with researchers of various academic
disciplines.
On Feb. 26,
CENCIA will present
a concert by School
of Music students
titled “Baghdad in
Spring 2011 events also include a
French jazz concert titled “Bordeaux
who is known to
in Atlanta” on
use Twitter. More
March 16-17;
than 2,000 people
the 5th annu-
follow Kaminski
al Italian Film
under the name
@bravesorganist.
“To me, it is
fun when I can
Rahim Al-Haj
musician and composer.
and the only one
Festival March
Matthew Kaminski is the only organist in Major League
24-27 and “The Nature of Waste:
Baseball known to use Twitter to get feedback and
An Arts Meets Science Symposium”
suggestions from fans.
make people happy watching the game here or at home,” said Kaminski, who also
earned his bachelor’s degree in music at GSU.
Kaminski’s clever song selections, which gently poke fun at an opposing playCourtesy of Carroll Freeman
Kay Paschal Freeman, in “The Merry Widow” in 1983; 4) Freeman (right) as Don Ottavio in Peter Sellar’s 1990
Georgia State is sponsoring several
work of Rahim Al-Haj, an Iraq-born
Before each home game, Kaminski tweets a list of songs he is thinking about
for the Braves’ opposing team line up that night. Fans write in with their reactions
and suggestions.
Throughout the game, Kaminski tries to keep up with fan requests —
sometimes learning songs on the fly — and responds as much as possible.
“It’s a given you have to be able to play but you also have to be adaptable,”
said Gordon Vernick, GSU associate professor and the School of Music’s director
with Beverly Sills, wins National Opera Institute Award at the Kennedy Center in 1982; 3) Freeman and his wife,
International Arts (CENCIA) at
Recital Hall. Students will perform the
er’s name, situation or style, have impressed the Braves organization and fans.
From Left: 1) Carroll Freeman in concert dress for Columbus Boychoir School in 1963; 2) Freeman, pictured
The Center for Collaborative and
Exile” at Kopleff
Meg Buscema/Staff
organ alive.
Meg Buscema/Staff
eorgia State’s School of Music this
fall welcomed an internationally
known opera singer and stage director as its first-ever Valerie Adams
Distinguished Professor of Opera.
Carroll Freeman, 58, has been involved in many
facets of the classical music world — from singing professionally to directing and teaching. Most
recently, Freeman was director of opera at the
University of Tennessee School of Music and artistic director of the Knoxville Opera Studio.
He comes to GSU not only with experience but
with a desire to take the School of Music’s opera
program to the next level.
“I believe that Georgia State can be a center
in the Southeast for producing the best operatic
Carroll Freeman
talent,” Freeman said. “It’s going to take work,
and it’s going to take collaboration with arts companies.
director of the Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Program.
But I feel confident that we can do it.”
He has done stage directing for the Nashville Opera, the
At age 5, Freeman began performing professionally with
Cleveland Institute of Music, the Lyric Opera of Dallas, and
the Columbus Boychoir School, now known as the American
many others. In fact, Freeman was recently named “Stage
Boychoir School, and even soloed with Leonard Bernstein
Director of the Year 2010” by Classical Singer magazine.
and the New York Philharmonic.
Freeman will begin his tenure at Georgia State producing
Freeman debuted with the New York City Opera as
some scene performances this fall, but his big job will be to
Alfredo in “La traviata.” He met his wife, Kay Paschal, in the
produce the opera “Madama Butterfly” in the spring.
opera circuit and the two performed with opera houses all
“It’s a stretch to do a production of this size with youngover the world before finally settling in Atlanta. The couple
er artists,” Freeman said. “But that’s my job — to stretch my
have a son, Adam, who is 12.
students. We have to prepare them and coach them for the
Directing also has been a passion for Freeman. He has
roles. The talent is here — I’m convinced of it.”
served as artistic director of the Mississippi Opera and as cob y E l i z abe t h K l i pp
the Atlanta Braves’ Derek Lowe, a curious tune echoed through Turner Field.
CENCIA sponsors
nine art events for
the 2010-11 season
of jazz studies. “That’s what I teach the kids, and Matthew mastered it. He’s doing
very well, and we’re really proud of him.”
on April 14-15.
“Our entire focus is dedicated
to the campus and downtown Atlanta
providing students, faculty and the
community an opportunity to experience our global world through the
arts,” said Ralph Gilbert, associate
dean of fine arts and director
of CENCIA.
For more information on CENCIA
events, visit www.arts.gsu.edu. All
events are free and open to the public.
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b y E l i z abe t h K l i pp
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research & innovation
Carolyn Richardson/Staff
new orleans gothic
Professor’s book tells story of German
immigrant in the Big Easy during WWII
With the memory of Hurricane
Katrina still haunting the city of New
Orleans — and popular imagination —
most novels set in the Big Easy these
days are in some way about the storm.
But Josh Russell, associate professor
of creative writing, was out ahead of the
storm when writing his latest novel.
“I finished this book literally days
before Katrina hit in 2005,” he said. “It
really is more of an Iraq War book.”
Thematically, that is. “My Bright
Midnight” (LSU Press, 2010) actually takes place during the last days of
World War II. The story centers on the
character of Walter Schmidt, a German
immigrant who at the time of the story
has been in America for 20 years.
Russell, who lived in New Orleans
for many years, said he became interested in the war after divers found an
intact German U-Boat in the Gulf of
Mexico in 2001. The sunken submarine
was part of a German blockade of the
port of New Orleans.
Further research revealed that the
U.S. government had run 50 POW
camps in Louisiana for captured
German soldiers. An older friend told
b o o k s
The Almohads:
Rise of an Islamic Empire
By Allen Fromherz
I.B. Tauris
288 pages
Allen Fromherz is an
assistant professor
of history
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Christmas in Germany
A Cultural History
By Joe Perry
University of North
Carolina Press
399 pages
Joe Perry is an
associate professor
of history
Meeting the Enemy: American
Exceptionalism and International Law
By Natsu Taylor Saito
New York University
Press
384 pages
Natsu Taylor Saito is
a professor of law
Seeing the World:
Jack Reed, a staff member of the
Department of Geosciences, demonstrates
the mapping capabilities of GSU’s new
visualization wall, a 200-million pixel array
of monitors in the Petit Science Center.
Meg Buscema/Staff
f a c u l t y
Russell that when he was a
child, German POWs had
been used on road crews
filling potholes in New
Orleans city streets.
Russell began to think
about what it would have
been like to be a German
immigrant in the city in
the 1940s.
“Then 9/11 happened,”
Russell said. “I remember being shocked at how
quickly the anti-Arab bigotry started. Somebody
firebombed a Lebanese restaurant in New Orleans.”
In the novel, Schmidt
josh russell
struggles with his own past,
with a mention in Vanity Fair and a
his marriage, his best friend, his family
Bob Edward’s interview with Russell
back in Germany, and his suddenly tenthat was broadcast on National
uous position in American society.
Public Radio.
“It’s really a book about loyalties,”
Russell’s next book, titled “A True
Russell said. “Everybody’s exhausted by
History of the Captivation, Transport
the war, and everyone has these weird
to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of
divided loyalties.”
Hannah Gutentag,” will be published
“My Bright Midnight,” which came
in 2012.
out in August, has already made a
b y ann clay c o mbe
splash with the critics, most notably
advances
the arts
Researchers are using the wall for a variety
of applications, from molecular modeling
to creating “virtual field trips” for English
as a Second Language classes.
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advances
boosting nature’s recovery
L i f e
tanding in the oilslicked marsh of
Barataria Bay along
the Gulf Coast in
Louisiana, Ryan
Perry, a second-year Ph.D.
student in microbiology, eases
a metal core sampler down
through the murky water and
deep into the soil.
“It’s like the consistency of
butter,” Perry said as he held
up a core of foul-smelling mud.
“That smell is hydrogen sulfide,
and if you mix oil into it, it’ll
above: Daniel Deocampo, assistant professor of geosciences, takes notes while wading in a marsh
make you even more nauseous.”
of Barataria Bay, La., which has been inundated with oil. Below: PH.D. student ryan perry uses an
That putrid mud, however,
auger to retrieve a sediment sample for analysis with kuki chin, assistant professor of biology.
may hold the key to restoring
the bay, along with the rest of the Louisiana
preliminary data by spring — a quick turnaround
Warm up
coastline, much of which has been coated with oil for research, he noted.
GSU’s experiments
as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
“Any time we can shave off the timeline for
include measuring
Perry is with a team of GSU scientists who
ecological restoration of the Gulf Coast, it will
how fast the
are testing a way to encourage the bacteria that
have tangible economic and ecological impacts,”
microbes eat the oil
live in marshes and break down organic matter — Deocampo said.
producing that swampy, rotten egg smell assoAfter a hot, muggy day in the marshes spreadfrom the Deepwater
ciated with hydrogen sulfide — to feast on the
ing the clay mixture and gathering samples, the
Horizon spill, and
oil. These tiny bacteria are already born oil eatGSU team headed back to one of the few rental
researchers are
ers: They gobble up the small
houses available (BP workers
hoping that the
amounts that naturally seep
had snapped up most of
from the ocean floor.
the lodging).
warm weather
“The oil has provided them
On their journey across the
typical of the Gulf
with a food source,” Perry said.
bay, they were reminded of
Coast will accelerate
“We just want to give them a
the importance of their work.
the rate, said Kuki
little nudge.”
Shrimp trawlers were stationary
In hopes of doing this, they
at the docks, and along the highChin, assistant
have sprayed clay minerals on
way, homemade signs mourned
professor of biology.
three experimental plots. The minerals have a
a way of life that has been shattered by perhaps
“A lot depends
high electrical charge, which they believe will
the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
on different
help the bacteria gain nutrients and will stimulate
Still, signs of hope remain. As the boat zipped
environmental
their appetite. across the choppy waters, Perry spotted one.
The scientists have brought samples of sea“Look,” he said. “Dolphins!”
conditions,” she
water and chunks of sediment back to GSU labs
said. “Temperature
for further analysis. They will return to the marshcan make a
es for more samples every month into the spring.
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difference.”
Daniel Deocampo, assistant professor of
Visit gsu.edu/magazine for a video from the trip.
geosciences, said the team is hoping to have
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AMY ROSS is a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Marise
Adding it up
Parent, associate professor of neuroscience. Ross recently moved
into the Neuroscience Institute in the new Petit Science Center,
where she researches how diet affects the brain.
The brain and nervous system communicate through synchronized sig-
A s t o ld t o J erem y C ra i g
But when this synchronicity goes out
Most of my research focuses on high fructose diets, and we have found so far
that it does impair memory but doesn’t affect learning. But we have yet to figure
out what’s exactly going on in the brain to cause this.
We’ve known for longer than a decade that diet can affect cognition. Most of the
research focused on high-fat diets, but because we as a society are consuming more
and more sugar, especially fructose, Dr. Parent got the idea to study the subject.
It looks like the process involves more than just the brain directly. Most of what
you consume is processed by the liver, especially fructose and high fat, and from
there, it can go on to the rest of your body. Our new hypothesis is that something
is going on in the liver, and that, in turn, is affecting the brain.
I became interested in brains and behavior back in high school. I took a psychology class, and I really, really liked it. I got my undergraduate degree in the
field at the University of Pittsburgh’s Johnstown campus.
I’d like to continue this research after I’m finished, and my ideal job would be
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
nals throughout the body, making
muscles move and the heart function.
of whack, diseases such as Parkinson’s
or epilepsy can occur.
Biologists are working to understand these problems, and now,
mathematicians and physicists in
the Neuroscience Institute are joining them. Together, they are generating mathematical models that can
reveal more about the nervous system’s functioning.
“We’re trying to create a bridge
between life sciences and mathematics and physics,” said Andrey
Shilnikov, associate professor of
mathematics. “It helps to find a common language so that we can work
on the edge, helping to open up
new horizons.”
The researchers use a branch of
mathematics called dynamical systems
theory, which uses math equations to
represent systems that are constantly
changing, like the nervous system, to
predict what they’ll do next.
Using the theory, they have been
able to determine that, for instance,
when too many neurons synchronize
at once, a seizure can occur.
“It’s very important to understand
the mechanism of synchronization,”
S
Photography: Matthew Munson/Special
GSU scientists investigate oil-eating bacteria in the Gulf
i n
said Igor Belykh, assistant professor
of mathematics. “If we know that, we
should be able to destroy an abnormal state, such as a seizure.”
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GSU expands its
beijing
BEIJING — Georgia State University
reach into asia
Story by Andrea Jones
year of the
PANTHER
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President Mark Becker hurries through
a crowded street in downtown Beijing.
Horns blare as thousands teem through a bustling marketplace with wares that include everything from embroidered
shoes to cell phone parts.
Teenagers with punk haircuts and iPods weave among
stooped old men on bicycles, and women hold thin umbrellas high above their heads, trying to shield themselves from
the hot July sun. Pharmacy shops feature Vicks cough syrup
next to traditional Chinese herbal remedies in glass cases, and
outdoor vendors hawk barrels of brightly colored dried fruit
candy. Wangfujing Street, one of Beijing’s busiest shopping
districts, is alive with activity.
Pausing for a moment, Becker gestures around. “You just
can’t get the scope,” he says, “unless you’re here.”
Becker first visited China in July 2004 as dean of the
School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.
Before leaving on the trip, which was focused on building
partnerships in the health sciences, he says, he had little notion of what to expect. As a professor of biostatistics, he was
used to teaching Chinese students — they usually filled more
than half the seats in his classes. He had Chinese friends, all
warm, hardworking people with a strong work ethic, he says.
But his notions of China as a country were far less formed.
Most, he says, were shaped by watching news clips of Chairman
Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai on television as a child.
The 2004 trip, he says, was “life changing.” At that time,
Beijing was four years from hosting the Olympic Games. He
saw dozens and dozens of cranes in every direction, a rapidly modernizing city positioning itself for its coming-out party
on the global stage.
“It was amazing how different the images I had in my
head were from what I saw,” he says. “My feeling as a dean
was that our students need to experience this. And that’s what
set me on the path.”
Turning college students into global citizens has become
a passion for Becker, one he has brought to his tenure as the
seventh president of Georgia State University. Becker envisions a GSU where all students obtain passports and are
strongly encouraged to study all over the world.
Globalization also figures prominently in Georgia State’s
soon-to-be-launched strategic plan, which sets the course for
the university over the next five years. The goal is to achieve
distinction and promote opportunities for faculty and students by building sustainable international relationships and
continuing to expand partnerships with universities from
around the world.
Georgia State’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business has
been particularly active in the world arena, beefing up its international programs, creating degrees with a global focus
and leveraging its location in downtown Atlanta to bring in
resources and partnerships.
Most recently, the College of Business celebrated the
launch of a new Center for International Business Education
and Research, CIBER, funded through a $1.5 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education and one of
only 33 nationwide. This resource funds research from faculty across the university that is focused on international
business and increasing American competitiveness. Projects
planned under GSU’s CIBER include introducing a required
undergraduate course in international business, creating a
higher-ed consortium and emphasizing less-commonly
taught languages like Mandarin, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish
and Korean.
Dean H. Fenwick Huss believes the business school is in a
prime position to make the most of a CIBER.
Georgia State university President
Mark Becker chats with students at
the Beijing Language and Culture
University after giving a lecture.
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“We have operated in this college for more than a decade with the basic premise and assumption that business and
global business are synonymous,” Huss said at a recent ceremony to celebrate CIBER’s opening. “If we talk about business, it’s global. That’s just the nature of the world (today).”
Another example of the college’s inroads into internationalization is its Global Partners MBA, which began in 2005
and teams with leading business schools on four continents to
give students a truly world-class business experience during a
14-month study abroad program.
Marta Szabo White, a management professor in the
College of Business who leads Global Partners MBA students
on their trips to China, says for students in the program, “education knows no borders, no time zones.”
During White’s program, students have learned firsthand
about tax issues in China from a Georgia State grad, Daoshu
Wang, who serves as director of the Department of Revenue
Planning and Accounting for the State Administration of
Taxation. They also take time to sit down for a formal dinner
with Chinese officials, learning the cultural difference between
doing business here and abroad. “We capitalize on the diversity reflected in our student body,” White says, “and embrace
learning in cultures around the world.”
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The Chinese Calendar:
Year of the Tiger
The Chinese lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. In the
Chinese calendar, the beginning of the year falls somewhere between late
January and early February. While the Chinese have adopted the Western
calendar, the lunar calendar is used for festivals and holidays, such as
Chinese New Year.
The calendar features rotating animal signs, which were used as a folk
method for naming the years in traditional China. Much like horoscopes in
Western society, the animal signs in China are used to predict someone’s
temperament or attitude.
The animal signs are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse,
Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar.
2010 is the Year of the Tiger.
It was the goal of bridging cultural differences and bringing both Georgia State and
the Atlanta business community closer to
China that took Becker to Beijing this summer. The president and other university representatives made
the trip to finalize plans for a Confucius Institute, which
officially opened at GSU in October. There are now more
than 60 Confucius Institutes in the U.S., and more than
300 worldwide.
Xiiang Cui, president of Georgia State’s partner institution, Beijing Language and Culture University, points out
that GSU’s Confucius Institute will be unique in that it will
specifically focus on promoting Chinese language and culture
to the broader business community in Atlanta and Georgia.
“We know Georgia State will be a strong business leader,”
he says.
Becker agrees. “We’ve got the largest business school
in the Southeast and a very strong presence in international business,” Becker says. “We have some programs in China,
and we really haven’t had the instruction around Chinese language and culture to support those programs.”
At the University of South Carolina, where Becker served
as executive vice president of academic affairs and provost,
he was instrumental in getting a Confucius Institute off the
ground. The Confucius Institute there focuses on strengthening the university’s course offerings in Chinese to the point
where they can offer an undergraduate degree in Mandarin
Chinese; capitalizing on their unique faculty strength in
Chinese film; expanding the China-related research library
collection; and hosting visiting faculty members from China.
Now, Becker notes, Chinese is the second most popular foreign language at that university, behind only Spanish.
“China is where the action is, in terms of business. The
visibility of the Confucius Institute led to an increased interest in study abroad…. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen here.”
Two professors from the Beijing Language and Culture
University have already arrived on campus to begin teaching
Chinese this spring, says Baotong Gu, the new director of the
GSU Confucius Institute.
In addition to regular for-credit courses for GSU students,
the Confucius Institute will offer non-credit courses geared
toward the general public, including courses and workshops
on Chinese culture and business practice for corporations and
organizations interested in expanding business connections
with China.
Huss says that while business Chinese is mentioned in
some Confucius Institutes around the country, there are none
that offer targeted, in-depth courses.
“We will be unique in our ability to educate businesses, organizations and community groups throughout the Southeast
that have business relationships with China,” Huss said.
Baotong Gu, the new director of the GSU Confucius
Institute, points to the Chinese sign for “United
States” on a wall at the Beijing Language and
Culture University. The marble wall features each
country in which BLCU has partnerships.
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Georgia State
Asia
Georgia
Stateand
and
Asia
Georgia State’s Asian Studies Center was established
in 2003. Professor Kim Reimman in political science
serves as director of the center and as faculty adviser
to undergraduate students majoring in Asian Studies.
Georgia’s Ties to China
travel, teaching and research and seeks to integrate
GSU with the larger Asian community.
Undergraduate Exchange Programs in Asia
through GSU include:
China
Tsinghua University: Beijing
Central University of Finance and Economics: Beijing
Tsinghua University: Beijing
Sichuan Normal University: Chengdu
India
Aligarh Muslim University: Aligarh
Japan
Osaka Gaidai University: Osaka
Korea
Ewha University: Seoul
Hanyang University: Seoul
Sookmyung Women’s University Exchange: Seoul
Culture and Arts
learning
Study Abroad programs from left: student Charlene
McFarlane, Transition Economies class, China 2008;
college of business management professor Marta Szabo
White with student Charles Fuhr, china 2005; Yali Zhao’s
Early Childhood Education International Student
Teaching Program to Chengdu, China 2009.
In 2009 alone, Georgia’s exports to China totaled
close to $1.8 billion, ranking China as Georgia’s
second biggest export destination, according to the
Georgia Ports Authority. Overall, Georgia is the
12th-largest export state in the United States, with $23.8 billion in exports in 2009.
Among U.S. states, Georgia ranks first among states in exports to China of meat; books and newspaper manuscripts;
textile floor coverings; and silk. Other top exports to China
include paper, glass and glassware, salt, sulfur, earth and
stone, woodpulp, and aircraft and spacecraft, according to the
Ports Authority.
Trade between Savannah and China has grown 139 percent
over the past five years, and the Port of Savannah is the biggest portal for China trade in the U.S. Mid and South
Atlantic.
Gov. Sonny Perdue made three trade missions to China
during his tenure as governor, most recently in September.
China “cannot be ignored,” the governor said upon his
return. “While Europe continues to be our lowest-hanging
fruit, China, when their market becomes mature and their
companies get ready to move offshore into other areas, they
all want to be in the U.S. market and we want them all to be
in Georgia.”
Learning Chinese culture at Georgia State will
go beyond the business world, however. Georgia
State’s Confucius Institute aims to bring both classic and modern Chinese art — including music,
film, dance and sculpture — to GSU and Atlanta audiences.
Recently, for example, the Institute brought a Chinese film
festival featuring classic films by Chinese directors.
Lauren Adamson, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, says the language and culture components of the
Confucius Institute also will serve Georgia State.
“The College of Arts and Sciences is proud of its growing offerings in Chinese language and culture and its many
strong partnerships with colleagues in China,” she says. “The
Confucius Institute will provide invaluable resources, which
will greatly enhance our educational programs and our connections with the Chinese community in Atlanta.”
Provost Risa Palm (LEFT) and Lauren Adamson, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, stand outside the Hanban,
the Confucius Institute Headquarters, on a rainy
afternoon in Beijing.
Students Onboard
world
activities related to Asia and Asian Americans through
Commerce
The center coordinates cultural, artistic and scholarly
It’s clear that the international buzz is
catching on at Georgia State. More than
1,400 students attended a recent Study
Abroad Fair hosted by the Department of
International Education, stopping to chat with representatives
at booths and hearing from students and faculty who have
traveled to all corners of the world. The room hummed with
excitement and chatter as a large screen projected a slideshow
with pictures from student experiences.
Farrah Bernardino, GSU’s director of study abroad programs, says she is thrilled that so many students are interested
in seeing the world.
“Study abroad gives students the tools they need to become successful in a world where borders continue to blur,”
she says. “Demonstrated knowledge of global affairs and
cross-cultural communication skills are essential upon graduation, regardless of a student’s major.”
And while those European castles are lovely, many Georgia
State students say they are intent on traveling to Asia.
Sophomore Casey Hicks, who is majoring in Asian
Studies, said she plans to study in Japan or Korea during her
time at GSU. She is studying both languages and is considering adding Chinese to that list.
The Atlanta native, who was homeschooled, says some
students might be deterred from traveling so far, but not her.
“I don’t want to play it safe,” she says. “I want to be where
the action is.”
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Mapping
History
Geography professor Jeremy Crampton tells
the story of mapmakers who helped win
World War II and shape post-war Europe
By Jeremy Craig
Meg Buscema/Staff
It was June 1944, in the heat of World War II,
when Allied forces launched the largest amphibious assault in history and commenced a battle that
would hasten the defeat of Nazi Germany — the
D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Before the battle could ensue, however, military
leaders convened to map out precise details of the
many physical hazards that could undermine the
success of that historic day.
They anticipated that enemy forces, entrenched
in the cliffs and hills overlooking the beaches, could
fire high-caliber weapons at the advancing troops.
They also knew that “Hedgehogs” — spiky, antisubmarine mines that could destroy an amphibious
vehicle before it reached the beachhead — littered
the shoreline.
To navigate the dangers that lay ahead in this
and other battles, intelligence relied on specialized
“bigot” maps — bigot standing for the maps’
secret classification.
Gathering the information for these critical
maps was a responsibility of the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), America’s first centralized spy agency.
From a network of secret agents, informants
and resistance fighters stationed in cities and villages across Europe — who often faced great risk,
even death, if apprehended by the Nazis — the
OSS amassed the data they needed.
Then, quietly, behind closed doors in
Washington, D.C., a group of men and women
from academia helped win the war simply by making sense of the data and putting it on maps that
were easier to understand.
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For years, the stories
of these geographers and
cartographers remained in
the background, as most historians focused on the drama
of OSS spies and informants
on the front lines.
Now, Jeremy Crampton,
an associate professor of
geography, is using newly
declassified archives from
OSS vaults to help tell the
stories of those whose maps
helped soldiers navigate the
battlefields and later helped
policymakers draw up new
boundaries for the postwar years.
He has co-authored a
chapter of an upcoming book,
“Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating
War and Post-War Geographies,” about the
geographers’ and cartographers’ work.
“The importance of the geographers’ role in
planning can’t be underestimated,” Crampton said.
“Not many people have looked at this period in
geography. And because there were so many people, not just geographers but academics working
for this short, intense period in government,
I think it says a lot about the relationship between
academia and intelligence, and the policies of
the war.”
ABOVE: A detailed
map of the beaches
at Normandy in
1943. OPPOSITE:
Jeremy Crampton,
associate professor
of geography, sits in
front of renowned
cartographer
Arthur Robinson’s
projection of
the globe.
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Mapping the War
In the first days after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the
U.S. had no single point for intelligence
gathered by different
parts of the government. The OSS would
come to serve as that
central point.
Led by William
“Wild Bill” Donovan,
William
remembered as the
“Wild Bill”
“Father of American
Intelligence,” the OSS Donovan
was composed of agents who braved
the front lines to collect and pass along
information, as well as scholars who
could compile and interpret what they
were gathering.
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Donovan recruited some of the best
and brightest from America’s universities to create a Research and Analysis
(R&A) branch of the OSS.
Within the branch, a mapping division of around 150 cartographers was
created and led by a young professor
from Ohio State University, 26-year-old
Arthur H. Robinson.
Robinson’s team found themselves in
new, unfamiliar territory.
As Robinson wrote in an article in
the Annals of the Association of American
Geographers in 1979, the geographers
and analysts flew by the seat of their
pants in the division’s early days.
“The present student of cartography
who has a high level of understanding
would find it difficult to appreciate our
The man who headed up cartography for the
Office of Strategic Services would go on to,
literally, change our view of the world.
Arthur H. Robinson is often considered a
Charting the Post-War Period
Allied leaders were torn about how
to shape the world after the war.
Geographers within the R&A branch
had provided President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and later President Harry
Truman, with “president’s globes” to
use in their decision making. Robinson
would attend meetings when the leaders
discussed possible post-war plans.
Numerous proposals were made,
but the biggest controversy revolved
around what to do with Germany,
Crampton said.
key player in the creation of modern cartography. After World War II, he went on to join the
faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
textbook, “Elements of Cartography,” has become the standard
for educating young geographers.
One of Robinson’s key contributions addressed the challenge of accurately portraying the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper, sonamed the “Greenland Problem” because on the then-popular Mercator
map, the island appears to be about the size of South America, even
though it’s only as large as Mexico.
Robinson was never satisfied with this. In 1963, he created his own
map to more accurately reflect the Earth’s landforms. This map would
Even in the ’70s, Robinson foresaw modern techniques such as geographic information systems computer programs that help planners
and governments make sense of the world today.
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be adopted by the National Geographic Society and is also the basis
for maps in the federal government and several world atlases.
ignorance,” Robinson wrote about his
early experiences.
Despite the initial learning curve,
Robinson and his team were able to create accurate maps to help soldiers in
the field familiarize themselves with
the lay of the land and avoid hazards,
Crampton said.
“In one case, analysts working in
the map division analyzed the defenses around the economically vital French
city of Marseille, down to which specific
location an ammunition dump was likely to be found,” Crampton said.
Crampton said the OSS map division
cartographers were very skilled in getting only what was needed on the maps.
“This involved winnowing out the
irrelevant details,” he said. “In order to
do this, you need to know for what purpose the map is going to be used. This
implied that the United States’ policy and strategy was clearly articulate,
which of course it sometimes was, and
sometimes wasn’t.”
Above: A Robinson map depicts the boundaries of Europe before 1945,
showing where cartographers zoomed in on maps by hand. Right: A
map of Germany shows where President Roosevelt scribbled proposed
boundaries for the post-war era.
Henry Morgenthau, the U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, proposed an
almost complete deindustrialization
of Germany to, in the words of the New
York Times, turn the nation into “a country of small farms.”
“Not only was
Morgenthau offended by the concentration camps, but he also
seemed to genuinely believe that this was
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the best policy preMorgenthau
venting Germany from
being a military threat again,”
Crampton said. “A rural Germany
would be a defanged Germany.”
Members of the OSS R&A branch
were privately appalled by the plan, however, and the Morgenthau plan would
later be scuttled in favor of reconstruction. Ultimately, the post-war partition
of Germany came down to four zones
of occupation — one by the U.S., one
by France, one by the United Kingdom
and one by the Soviet Union, with the
city of Berlin carved into four pieces.
While maps produced by the OSS
R&A branch were needed to show the
population and resources of the defeated countries, interestingly enough, the
exact demarcations weren’t of immediate importance to wartime leaders
like Roosevelt.
“I don’t think that
Roosevelt was ultimately
all that bothered by
[the exact locations of the
borders],” Crampton said.
“Looking at the maps,
there was one where
Roosevelt sat at lunch time and
had a map. He had three colored
pencils, drew where partitions would
go, and someone came in and
recorded it.”
The Politics of Maps
While studying documents at the
National Archives and Records
Administration this past summer,
Crampton discovered that maps are
very much influenced by the political
climate surrounding them.
“For example, in the case of Arthur
Robinson, many years later in the
1970s, he became adamantly opposed
to a new map that had been developed
by a German historian, Arno Peters,”
Crampton said. “Robinson believed that
the [Peters’ world map] was overtly political, and that it therefore distorted
what cartography should be.
“In his mind, cartography should
strive for a purely objective representation
of the landscape,” Crampton explained.
Robinson’s experience in the OSS is
a commentary on the role of mapping,
Crampton said, especially when it
comes to the politics behind the field.
“If his maps were ‘wrong,’ then potentially lives would be at stake,” he
added. “This worldview, I suggest, has
come to dominate cartography and geographic information systems in the
post-war period.
“I’d argue that, in fact, all maps are
political in some way, and to ignore this
is to ignore the basic power of maps,”
he said. “It’s ironic that it was this wartime government experience that has
led cartography away from an engagement with its own politics.”
In any case, the maps of World
War II are still with us today in the
NARA archives, a testament to those
who tried to make sense of the landscape in the heat and politics of perhaps
one of the most critical, world-shaping
wars in history.
Maps courtesy of National Archives and Records
Administration; Morgenthau inset courtesy of the
Library of Congress
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making
the
grade
College of Education
launches new teacher
residency program
left: Graduate student
and teacher resident
Josh Wilkinson, 22,
observes his mentor
teacher as she leads
the ESOL Math I class at
Cross Keys High School
in Atlanta. “I’ve had
a lot of great teachers,
but she’s the best
I’ve ever seen. She’s
amazing,” Wilkinson
said of his teacher
mentor, Lee Mahavier.
above: Nia Bernard, 22,
GSU graduate student
and teacher resident
at McNair Middle School
in College Park, Ga.,
interacts with students
in an 8th grade math
class. “This residency
has given me more than
a taste of teaching. I’m
eating the whole meal,”
She said.
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Story by Elizabeth Klipp | Photography by Carolyn Richardson
F
or the uninitiated, walking into a middle school math
class might seem no less hectic than merging into rush
hour traffic.
One boy wants a pass to the bathroom, two girls are talking to each other and
not paying attention while another girl, hand in the air, wants to be called on, all
while the person in the driver’s seat — the teacher — is trying to explain the difference between equations and expressions.
But Nia Bernard, 22, a Georgia State University graduate student, has it under
control. She is one of the first teacher residents in a groundbreaking new College
of Education training program.
“Remember, this is an expression, so the answer is going to be a number plus a
variable,” Bernard says to the students. “An equation has what? I want you to yell
it out.”
“An equal sign,” the class replies in unison.
“That’s right! Say it again,” Bernard commands.
Even though Bernard has been teaching at McNair Middle School in College
Park, Ga., for less than two months, she already seems to have the necessary mix of
enthusiasm, patience and authority to handle the 8th grade math class.
And if she falters, she has her assigned mentor, Alvin Todd, right by her side.
A middle school teacher with 12 years’ experience and a commanding presence,
Todd stresses a two-fold approach to good teaching.
“I’ve been explaining to Ms. Bernard that in addition to knowing the content,
good classroom management skills are essential; you must make sure students stay
on task,” says Todd. “At the end of the school year, I know she’ll be ready.”
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A new model for
training teachers
Thanks to a five-year, $13.5 million
Teacher Quality Partnership grant
from the U.S. Department of Education, Georgia State’s College of Education this year launched this innovative
teacher training program, which is
helping to make sure that new teachers
have the skills they need for success in
the classroom.
Similar to the residency programs
that medical students go through,
Georgia State master’s students are
working full-time under the supervision
of an experienced teacher mentor for
an entire academic year. Residents are
placed in high-need schools, typically
those where 45 percent or more of the
school’s population receives free or
reduced lunch.
Georgia State’s teacher residents are
paid a living stipend of $25,000 to teach
“in-demand” content areas such as math
or science. Residents also can gain
instructional experience with students
with special needs or students who
are learning English along with the
subject matter.
This year, 10 GSU graduate
students are teaching math full-time
in schools in the university’s partner
districts, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Next year,
that number will double to 20, with 10
teacher residents in science classes and
10 in special education classes.
The residency program goes far
beyond the traditional half-day student
teaching experience, and time spent
in the classroom is invaluable to a
teacher’s development, advocates of the
residency model say.
“The important difference between
teacher residences and regular student
teaching experiences is higher levels of
mentoring and more time in schools,”
says Joseph Feinberg, assistant professor of social studies education and
coordinator of the teacher residency
program at GSU. “The mentor teach-
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ers are handpicked by their principals
and gradually ease the resident into the
teaching role.”
What better way to learn a teacher’s
daily tasks, from managing the classroom and planning lessons to grading tests and dealing with disciplinary
problems, than to watch an experienced
educator or try it yourself?
“This is the only way you should
train teachers,” says Lee Mahavier, an
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) math teacher at Cross Keys
High School in DeKalb County, who is
mentoring GSU graduate student Josh
Wilkinson. “You can’t tell someone how
to teach. You have to show them.”
The graduate students emerge from
the 14-month master’s program with
Georgia’s initial certification to teach
math and science at the middle and
secondary grade levels. Upon completion of the 45 credits of coursework,
students earn a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. Residents make a commitment to teach for at least three years in
a high-need school, hopefully the same
one where they have been doing their
residency.
“The benefit is that the teacher
residents will be in a classroom and
they will become part of the school’s
culture,” says Gwendolyn Benson, the
College of Education’s associate dean
of school and community partnerships.
“They will know more about the student
population they are working with, and
they will be more confident in the first
two years of teaching, when we typically
lose teachers in the field.”
The great education debate
For decades, politicians, school administrators, parents and advocacy
organizations have been looking for
the answer to America’s lagging public
education system. The statistics are
alarming: Education spending in the
U.S. has increased 40 percent since
1971, yet both math and reading scores
have remained stagnant. America ranks
top left: Mentor teacher Lee Mahavier (right) at Cross Keys High School works with
Wilkinson (center) to explain a math problem to student Jin Bai, an English language
learner.
above: Bernard takes the reins of the class from her mentor teacher to explain
algebraic equations to students. As the residency progresses, Bernard will get more
time teaching on her own.
far left: Bernard (left) and teacher mentor Alvin Todd (right) together help student
aliyah mcdaniel with a math problem at McNair Middle School.
left: quinyana blue, an 8th grader in Todd’s and Bernard’s class at McNair Middle
School, completes an equation for her classmates to see.
below: Cross Keys High School student Carmen Ayala Lopez works on a math problem
in Mahavier’s and Wilkinson’s class.
below right: chancey johnson and christopher mack, two students from McNair Middle
School, collaborate on an assignment.
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NET-Q aims high
Along with its teacher residency program, the College of Education’s
NET-Q project is using the $13.5 million federal grant in other ways to
improve student achievement and teacher quality.
The five-year grant, the largest federal grant ever received by
GSU’s College of Education, funds several initiatives in Georgia State’s
partner school districts — Atlanta, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and
Gwinnett county public schools.
Partner schools have established Cross Career Learning Communi-
ties: groups of new, mid-career and veteran teachers, as well as GSU
faculty, who meet regularly to discuss student achievement data,
dilemmas of classroom management and other areas of teaching.
The learning communities are intended to help mentor and retain
new teachers and improve overall morale at schools. Each partner
school also has a GSU faculty member who regularly visits the school
and advises new teachers.
Georgia State is also working with other higher education institutions such as Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter College,
Albany State University and Columbus State University to inform the
field of urban and rural K-12 education.
Through a partnership with the National Commission on Teaching
and America’s Future, GSU teacher residents, mentors and university
faculty will also be participating in “Teachers Learning in Networked
Communities.” This online community connects teacher residents
with residents across the country to build proficiency with learningtechnologies and establish the habit of participating in a collaborative
teaching culture.
“Partnership is key,” said Gwendolyn Benson, associate dean of
school and community partnerships for the College of Education.
“We must continue to work collaboratively in a more intense way
to impact teacher quality.”
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25th in math and 21st in science among
30 developed countries.
Recruiting good teachers and keeping them in the classroom is part of the
issue, experts say. Nearly 40 percent
of new teachers leave the profession
within the first three years, and replacing them is costly for school districts.
To compound the issue, teachers from
the baby boomer generation will be
retiring soon, and by 2014, the government estimates, an additional 1 million
teachers will be needed in U.S. schools.
To meet this critical need, Georgia
State’s College of Education and other
universities are focusing on new ways to
bring highly qualified individuals into
the teaching field and keep them there.
Georgia State is one of 28 universities in the U.S. to receive the federal
government’s Teacher Quality Partnership grant and start a teacher residency
program. Georgia State has named
its program Network for Enhancing
Teacher Quality or NET-Q.
“Georgia State’s College of Education is leading the way with its teacher
residency program,” says Dee Taylor,
NET-Q program director at Georgia
State. “We are looking forward to
the significant impact that the first
10 teacher residency teams will make
in our metro Atlanta district partner
schools.”
The residency program doesn’t just
place teachers in the classroom after
some training, like Teach for America
does. Georgia State’s teacher residents
get unwavering support from their
teacher mentors and university faculty
members.
For instance, Wilkinson was
assigned to Cross Keys High School
Teacher Lee Mahavier’s ESOL math
class, which is filled with students
speaking Mandarin, Bengali, Spanish,
French, Ethiopian and other languages.
“Sometimes it overwhelms me,”
Wilkinson admits. “I think, ‘How do
I teach these kids if they don’t speak
English?’”
Luckily he has Mahavier, who
comes from a family of math educators — her father spent his career
as mathematics professor at Emory
University. When Wilkinson tries
to explain to the class the concept of
“factoring completely,” Mahavier sees
where he goes wrong.
“Who can explain why this answer
is completely factored,” Wilkinson asks
the class. “Is there a number or letter
that is still in common in the equation?”
The class looks at him blankly.
That’s when Mahavier jumps in to
explain what the phrase “things in
common” means to students. She asks
two girls what they have in common,
and they agree they are both in her
class and are wearing sweatshirts. The
concept is explained and Wilkinson
continues with the math lesson.
“I’ve had a lot of great teachers, but
she is the best I’ve seen,” Wilkinson
says about Mahavier. “She is amazing.
I could write a book about all the good
things she does, and the kids would tell
you the same thing.”
Bernard, the teacher resident at
McNair Middle School, has equal
praise for her mentor, Alvin Todd.
Todd runs his classroom by giving
respect to students and requesting the
same respect in return.
“His communication style syncs
with me, and we get each other,”
Bernard said.
Program advocates hope early
mentoring and a follow-up induction
program can make the difference
between a high-quality teacher leaving
the profession or staying for a longlasting career.
“We need more initiatives like this,
particularly for math and science,” Todd
said. “This program lets [new teachers]
ask themselves, ‘Do I really want to
teach?’ and when they leave, they’ll
know whether they have the passion
and knowledge to reap the rewards.”
Above: Wilkinson (left) explains how to
solve a math equation to Maria Balanos
Gutierrez (center) as his teacher mentor
Mahavier looks on with approval.
below left: Wilkinson instructs the class
on how to solve a binomial problem as
his teacher mentor observes from afar.
“Josh is great and we’re a great fit,” said
Lee Mahavier. “He’s smart and has the
right attitude. He listens to what I say and
takes it in.”
below right: Bernard (right) helps
McNair Middle School student
akira brown-reynolds with a problem
she’s stuck on.
Seeing is teaching
Josh Wilkinson, 22, graduated from
Georgia Tech in May with a degree in
industrial engineering, but rather than
head into business and industry like
his peers, he sought out a career in the
classroom.
“It’s fresh and different from the
previous day,” Wilkinson says. “I don’t
perceive it as work. It’s a duty, but it’s
also fun, and the kids are having fun too.”
That’s exactly what the NET-Q
teacher residency program strives to
do — make teaching appeal to career
changers and raise the prestige of
the profession.
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connections
Panthers
alumni news & notes
A Good Name:
Alumnus Bill Dahlberg
(M.B.A. ´70), left, former
chairman and CEO of
the Southern Company,
receives a panther
statuette from GSU
President Mark Becker at
a dedication ceremony
to change the name of
Alumni Hall to Dahlberg
Hall on Sept. 17.
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Legendary leader
Class notes are the perfect way to share your
1 9 9 0 s
news with friends and classmates. Read about
Erin E. Asher (M.S. ’95)
has been appointed vice
president for human
resources for Omnicare
Inc., a leading provider of
pharmaceutical care for
the elderly.
A.W. “Bill” Dahlberg (B.B.A. ’70) marches to the beat of
his own drum — literally.
your classmates in this issue of GSU Magazine,
accomplishments and photos. Mail your class
The retired chairman and CEO of the Southern Company once
then share your own news, achievements,
donned a drum major’s hat, grabbed a baton and led a marching band
notes to GSU Magazine, P.O. Box 3983,
through the Student Center to celebrate the completion of GSU’s first-
Atlanta, GA 30302-3983 or e-mail them to
ever fundraising campaign. “I’ve always liked costumes,” Dahlberg said.
[email protected].
“I wore a gorilla costume to an annual report meeting one year.”
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Antics aside, Dahlberg is one of Atlanta’s most successful business
leaders. He worked his way to the top at the Southern Company after
beginning his career washing meter covers for Georgia Power in 1960.
He also worked his way through
GSU while holding down two jobs
and raising three children.
Dahlberg held positions in
accounting, finance and marketing and by the late 1980s, he was
tapped as president and CEO of
Georgia Power. He was named
president of the Southern Company
in 1994 and chairman and CEO
a year later.
Among his many accolades,
Meg Buscema/Staff
Georgia Trend named him “Man of
the Year” in 1994 and “Georgia’s
Most Respected CEO,” in 1996.
Under Dahlberg’s guidance, the
Southern Company grew from a regional electric utility in the Southeast
to an international energy company with operations in 12 countries.
Throughout his career, Dahlberg maintained an unwavering support
for GSU. He chaired the university’s first capital campaign, which raised
money to restore the Rialto Center for the Arts and build the Aderhold
Learning Center.
Ping-Tung Chang
(Ph.D. ’77), professor of
math at Mat-Su College
in Palmer, Alaska, was
named one of the 2009
U.S. Professors of the
Year by the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education and
the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement
of Teaching.
Tim Holladay (B.A.’73)
has been elected president of the National
Association of Insurance
and Financial Advisors of
Florida for 2010-11.
Bob Hubbs (M.B.A. ’70)
retired from J&J Industries as vice president of
customer satisfaction in
October after 25 years.
John M. Johnson
(B.B.A. ’72) was recently
elected a trustee for
Kiwanis International
at the International
Convention in Las Vegas.
Charles H. “Chuck”
Bowling (B.B.A. ’92)
was promoted by MGM
Resorts International to
president and chief operating officer of Mandalay
Bay Resort & Casino.
Paul B. Kelman
(M.P.A. ’77) retired last
month as executive vice
president of Central
Atlanta Progress and
the Atlanta Downtown
Improvement District,
after 22 years.
David Castleberry
(B.B.A. ’91), CEO of
Upson Regional Medical
Center in Thomaston,
Ga., was recently elected
to the Georgia Hospital
Association’s Center for
Rural Health board of
trustees, a two-year term
serving the interests of
19 small rural hospitals.
1 9 8 0 s
Kay Davis (B.B.A. ’86)
has been promoted to
executive vice president
of the Tenant Advisory
Group in the Atlanta
office of Grubb & Ellis
Equity Advisors.
Bucky Folami
(M.P.A. ’93, Ph.D.’99),
associate professor of
accounting at Bryant
University in Smithfield,
R.I., has received the
school’s Outstanding
Service Award.
Stephanie A. Marino
(B.B.A. ’89) has been
named executive vice
president by Ravello
Solutions, a leading
provider of insurance
technology solutions.
A. Lois Sealy (Ed.S. ’80)
was appointed by Gov.
Sonny Perdue to represent
the 8th Congressional
District on Georgia’s
Nonpublic Postsecondary
Education Commission.
Dylan Fusillo
(B.Mu.’95) and Jeremy
Wilms (B.Mu. ’95) are
both musicians in the
new hit Broadway musical “Fela!”
Todd H. Greene
(M.P.A. ’93) was named
vice president for
economic and community development in the
Federal Reserve Bank
of Atlanta’s research
division. He is the bank’s
community affairs officer
and co-director of its
Labor, Education and
Health Policy Center.
Chris Morris (B.A. ’92),
director of DeKalb
County Community
Development, was
awarded an Outstanding
Citizen award from
Common Cause, a
nonpartisan, nonprofit
advocacy organization
that helps ensure citizens’
voices are heard in the
political process.
Beth Newman (B.S. ’99)
is a transportation planner
with the Metropolitan
Washington Council of
Governments.
Jimmy Parson
(B.S. ’99, M.P.A. ’02)
has been named a senior
business consultant with
the American Cancer
Society in Atlanta, where
he has been since 2005.
Lee Armstrong Lumpkin (B.A.’68) has never forgotten
her father’s lessons about the importance of the
First Amendment.
Those lessons would help her become the first woman promoted to a
general manager position at a Cox television station when she took over
WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio, in 1997.
This year, she established the John William Armstrong Jr. Endow-
ment in the Department of Communications in her father’s honor. The
endowment will be used to establish and run an annual advanced communications seminar that focuses on the
First Amendment in the media, journalism
ethics and public affairs reporting.
“The primary mission for me of the
endowment is to make sure that people
understand the responsibility that we have
in media, a responsibility to be balanced,
to be fair and to be relentless in pursuing the facts of things as opposed to the
opinions of things,” said Lumpkin, who
recently retired from WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., where she served as general
manager since 2007.
Now, she’s taking full advantage of her retirement. This past year, she
traveled to Australia, New Zealand and Alaska. Lumpkin also is an active
member of the College of Arts and Sciences board of visitors.
“I was very lucky. I did something I truly loved for a long time, and one
of the great things about television was that everyday was a new day,”
Lumpkin said. “I consider myself very fortunate. “
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In September, GSU changed the name of Alumni Hall to Dahlberg Hall
in recognition of his support. During the dedication ceremony, Dahlberg
from left: 1) GSU President Mark Becker with GSU President emeritus carl
recalled how he saw his first-ever elephant at a circus there back when the
patton at gsu’s inaugural football game vs. shorter, september; 2) alumni
tailgate, gsu vs. lambuth, september; 3) college of law alumnae Christine
building was known as the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium.
Koehler (J.D. ‘95) with savannah couch at homecoming game vs. morehead
“GSU gave me so much and an opportunity to get a degree,”
state, october; 4) school of music alumnus John Irvin (B.Mus. ‘10) sings the
national anthem before homecoming game, october.
Dahlberg said during the dedication. “It’s a great day for the Dahlberg
family, and it’s even better than seeing an elephant!”
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first amendment
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2
3
4
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justice goes
international
from left: 1) Nursing alumnae Ann Speight (B.S. ’73,
M.S. ’77) at the homecoming game vs. morehead state,
october; 2) GSU alumnus Andrew Pace (B.B.A. ‘87) enjoys
the Sigma Nu homecoming tailgate with his son and
fraternity legacy, Jonathan, october; 3) college
From February to May 2009,
Polster joined the world’s
first permanent war crimes
tribunal — The International
Criminal Court — in The Hague,
Netherlands, as a visiting professional. The ICC is an independent body that came into
force just in the last decade.
“It was the experience of a
lifetime,” Polster said. “I apMeg Buscema/Staff
plied for the program on
a whim.”
Bemba is charged with war
crimes. He led the Movement
to Liberate the Congo opposi-
tion party, and his militia allegedly raped, murdered and tortured people
to maintain power. The trial is set to begin later this year.
For her part, Polster spent 90 days helping to amend the charges
against Bemba, resulting in the ICC agreeing to hear the case. The
charges attempt to hold Bemba personally liable as a commander of a
militia alleged to have been out of control.
“Every minute in there we were setting precedent,” Polster said. “It
was an incredible opportunity. I was really able to dig in to the case.”
Since returning from the ICC, Polster has been working with DeKalb’s
special victims’ team on high-risk domestic violence and murder cases.
Her passion lies in helping the innocent. While at GSU, she co-found-
ed the Georgia Innocence Project, which uses DNA testing to help to free
people who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes.
“I’m all about justice,” Polster said. “That’s why I started the Georgia
Innocence Project, and that’s why I’m a prosecutor.”
B y R enee degr o ss valdes
of law alumnae Nicole Ware (J.D. ‘10) and Natasha
Nankali (J.D. ‘08) with travis macdonald at homecoming,
october; 4) Weslie-Claire Lewis, granddaughter of
1
Tom Lewis, Senior Advisor to GSU President Mark Becker,
2
3
4
at alumni tailgate, GSU vs. Savannah State, October.
1 9 9 0 s
John Pecore
(M.Ed. ’99, Ph.D. ’09)
has received the American
Association of Teaching
and Curriculum (AATC)
Dissertation Award.
Michael Tuller (M.S. ’94)
is community development director for the city
of Dunwoody, Ga.
Scott Wheeler
(M.B.A. ’97) has
joined Atlanta-based
Purchasing Power as
chief operating officer.
Wheeler recently served
as vice president and
general manager of
LexisNexis’s Insurance
Marketing Solutions.
Daphne Wright (B.A. ’99)
set two American records
in Paralympic Class 38
for the javelin and shot
put. Daphne was named
to the list for hopefuls
for London in 2012.
2 0 0 0 s
Kwaw Andam
(M.A. ’06; Ph.D. ’08),
was selected to join the
World Bank’s prestigious
Young Professionals
Program. The program
is highly selective,
choosing only 30 to 40
people annually from an
applicant pool of more
than 12,000.
Rhonda Belser-Davis
(B.S. ’00, M.P.A. ’08) has
been named a Presidential Management Fellow
with the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta,
where she has worked for
the past two years.
Jessica E. Blinkhorn
(M.F.A. ’10) recently performed at Eyedrum after
a screening of “Grounded by Reality,” a short documentary about her daily
life as an artist, whose
work is often informed
and shaped by a degenerative genetic disease that
caused her to lose her ability to walk at a young age.
James Burns (Ph.D. ’10)
has been selected as the
new executive director
of the Desert Caballeros
Western Museum in
Wickenburg, Ariz.
Janelle CambronMellott (B.A. ’01)
recently left her postdoctoral position at the University of Alabama from
2009-2010 to become
senior study director
with Synovate, a major
market research firm in
Washington, D.C.
Grace L. Chikoto
(M.P.A. ’04, Ph.D. ’09)
has been named an
assistant professor in the
College of Letters and
Science at the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Blake Dettwiler
(B.S. ‘05) recently was
named community
development director
for Sandy Springs, Ga.
Previously, Dettwiler
served as the city’s assistant director of land
development.
Candice Duggan
(B.S. ’10) has been named
a development officer at
Habitat for Humanity’s
headquarters in Atlanta.
Michael Halicki
(M.P.A. ’09) recently
joined Southface Energy
Institute and is the
Atlanta nonprofit’s
first chief operating
officer. Halicki previously worked as a senior
associate with an Atlanta
public affairs firm and in
several environmental
organizations.
Terence Lewis (B.A. ’04)
was named president and
CEO of Trust One Bank,
Synovus Financial Corporation’s community
bank in Memphis, Tenn.
Ashley Lounds-Brooks
(B.B.A. ’07) was picked as
“Champion of the Week”
by the Champion Free
Press in July. LoundsBrooks is president of
CLASSIC, a nonprofit
organization that helps
young women, including single mothers and
students. Last year during Christmas, the group
provided toys for more
than 300 children.
pigskin planner
Even before the first snap of the Chick-fil-A Bowl on
Dec. 31, 2010, Derek Martin (M.S. ’95) will be looking
ahead to the 2011 college football season.
That’s because Martin, senior vice president of events for the
Chick-fil-A Bowl, will be well into planning the hoopla surrounding next
year’s Chick-fil-A games.
Joe Winter (B.S. ’06)
is co-founder of C4
Atlanta, a nonprofit arts
service organization
whose mission is to build
a foundation of research,
technology and education for a sustainable,
creative economy.
Demishia Wright
(B.B.A. ’03) was named
EIT T-Mobile USA
Employee of the Year.
She was also recently
promoted to application
support analyst III within
the company.
Guo Wu (M.A. ’02)
recently had his
dissertation-based
monograph, “Zheng
Guanying, Merchant
Reformer of Late
Qing China and his
Influence on Economics,
Politics, and Society,”
published by Cambria
Press. Wu is assistant
professor of history at
Allegheny College.
“People ask, ‘Is that a full time job?’ or ‘What do you do the rest of
the year,’” he joked. “It’s full-time, and we start planning for next year
while this year’s event is taking place.”
Next fall, for the
first time, the Chickfil-A Kickoff will open
the season with a
doubleheader, which
means Martin has to
pull double duty.
This year’s Chickfil-A Bowl marks
Martin’s 12th time
Last year, DeKalb County Assistant District Attorney
Jill Polster (J.D. ’01) temporarily put her job on hold to
help bring a case against Jean-Pierre Bemba, former
vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
organizing the more than 30 events surrounding the annual postseason
game. “We work year ’round on planning so everyone involved leaves
with a great impression and, hopefully, the best experience they have had
at a game,” he said.
After earning his master’s degree in sports management, Martin
interned with the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. He later joined the Georgia
World Congress Center as an event coordinator for the 1996 Olympics.
“The advice everyone gives is do something you love,” Martin said.
“Sports, and specifically the business side of sports, greatly interest me.
And Atlanta makes the perfect destination for the bowl, the Kickoff game
and all the events that surround them because of its location, facilities,
hotels and attractions.”
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recovery of
mind and body
in memoriam
1 9 5 0 s
Thomas Nadelhoffer (M.A. ’99) came to Georgia State
to study neuroscience and philosophy and to explore,
through science, why we think the way we do. He never
expected the theoretical to become personal, but it did.
Les Todd/Duke Photography
In 1997, Nadelhoffer suffered a broken neck during
a hit-and-run accident. Since
then, he has lived with permanent pain and has learned —
firsthand — about the nervous
system and how it affects a
person’s psyche when it is
damaged. “It was not a great
thing to endure in graduate
school,” said Nadelhoffer, now
an assistant professor of philosophy at Dickenson College in
Pennsylvania. “I finished with a
3.9 GPA, but it was a big blip in
the road. Still, I had the support
of great faculty and friends, and it all worked out for the best.”
For a few years, he focused his research on how neuroscience con-
nected with our ideas of pain.
“The accident affected me personally, but it didn’t really affect me
philosophically,” he said.
In recent years, he has moved on to pioneering a new field of neu-
roscience called neurolaw, which explores how jurors make decisions in
court cases.
Currently a visiting scholar at Duke University, Nadelhoffer is working
with colleagues there to learn more about how people perceive scientific
concepts introduced in trials — and how they use them in making
decisions.
“Once we have a better understanding of the science, we can then
turn our attention to policy issues in terms of how we use concepts in
courtrooms,” he said.
B y jerem y cra i g
Howard J. McDonald
(B.C.S. ’51) Chamblee,
Ga., Aug. 18, 2010
1 9 6 0 s
David B. Asher
(B.B.A. ’83) Washington
D.C., Aug. 4, 2010
Louise Cording
(Ph.D. ’83) Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 31, 2010
Jenny Wood Kimbrel
Bunn (M.Ed. ’69)
Marietta, Ga.,
July 6, 2010
Marcia L. Cunningham
(M.Ed. ’80) Clarkesville,
Ga., April 31, 2010
Byron Hopkins
(M.B.A. ’69) Dacula, Ga.,
July 14, 2010
Ronald L. Henderson
(M.P.A. ’80) Marietta,
Ga., July 22, 2010
1 9 7 0 s
Christine Peterson
(M.P.A. ’82) Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 9, 2010
Billy Bailey (B.B.A. ’71)
Tucker, Ga.,
Sept. 7, 2010
George Coleman Jr.
(B.S. ’72) Douglasville,
Ga., Sept. 6, 2010
Domingo L. Diaz
(B.B.A. ’74) Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 6, 2010
Robert Dillon
(M.B.A. ’70) Roswell,
Ga., Aug. 5, 2010
Jerry Files (B.A. ’72)
Dacula, Ga., Oct. 3, 2010
Lewis Leary (B.S. ’79)
Kennesaw, Ga.,
July 23, 2010
Eloise Newhard
(B.A. ’71) Stone
Mountain, Ga.
Aug. 20, 2010
Norma Owens
(M. Ed. ’75) Conyers,
Ga., Aug. 26, 2010
Robert B. Riser
(B.S. ’70) Decatur, Ga.,
July 19, 2010
Harry D. Taylor
(B.B.A. ’73) Statesboro,
Ga., Aug. 25, 2010
Howard Threatt
(B.B.A ’74) Highlands,
N.C., July 9, 2010
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Theodore Wolf
(Ph.D. ’87) Roswell, Ga.,
Sept. 14, 2010
1 9 9 0 s
Linda Burgner Krebs
(Ph.D. ’94)
St. Petersburg, Fla.,
July 10, 2010
John F. Long
(B.B.A. ’92) Sugar Hill,
Ga., Sept. 10, 2010
Cecilia Myrick
(Ph.D. ’96) Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 31, 2010
Jahi Omari (B.S. ’95)
Atlanta, Ga., July 31,
2009
Wendy Smith-Oglesby
(B.A. ’97) Conyers, Ga.,
Aug. 6, 2010
2 0 0 0 s
Sarita K. Jones (BS ’01)
Union City, Ga.,
Aug. 14, 2010
Darryl Parker (B.S. ’04)
Lithonia, Ga.
July 30, 2010
Nhi Vuong (M.S. ’00)
Savannah, Ga.,
June 29, 2010
2010
Awards Recipients
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award
Distinguished Alumni Service Award
W. Frank Blount (M.B.A., ’69) currently
is chairman and CEO of JI Ventures, Inc.,
a high-tech venture capital company. Over
the past 20 years, he has held numerous
high-level executive positions in communications companies, including Telstra, an
Australian telephone company that he helped move from government-owned to privately-held. In 2000, he co-authored
a book titled “Managing in Australia,” and in 1999, he was
awarded the Order of Australia by the Australian Parliament.
At the behest of President George H.W. Bush, he served
as interim CEO of the non-profit New American Schools
Development Corporation in 1991. Blount’s generous service
and support of Georgia State University include serving on
the GSU Board of Trustees and the J. Mack Robinson College Board of Advisors. In 2007, he was awarded the Robinson College Lifetime Achievement Award in Leadership.
Sandra Bergeron (B.B.A., ’82) is one of
the best-known and most highly respected
executives in Silicon Valley. She currently
serves as chairman of the board of directors
of TriCipher, and also sits on the boards
of TraceSecurity, Inc., ArcSight, Inc., and
Qualys, Inc. Bergeron was recognized as one of Information
Security’s Top 25 Women of Vision in 2003. She sits on the
board of advisors for J. Mack Robinson College of Business
and has established a $1 million scholarship endowment, the
Bergeron Women in Technology Leadership Fund, which is
awarded annually to five female students who demonstrate
high potential for leadership careers in technology. Based
on her philosophy of “active philanthropy,” in addition to a
monetary award, recipients are paired with successful female
executive mentors. Bergeron was honored with the Robinson
Alumni Technology Leadership Award in 2006.
Distinguished Alumni
Achievement Award
Jan Jones (M.B.A., ’82) was elected to
Georgia’s 47th House District in 2003.
In 2010, she was elected Speaker Pro Tem
of the House of Representatives, the first
female Speaker Pro Tem and Republican Majority Whip in
its history. In 2007, she was named Policy Maker of the Year
by the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Education and received the Outstanding Legislator Award by the
Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children.
She was designated Founder of the City of Milton in 2007
in recognition of her leadership in forming the new city. In
2009, she received an Environmental Leadership Award from
the Georgia Conservation Voters. She has been a tireless
supporter of Georgia State and has worked to include the
university as a partner in developing state policies in health
care, government planning and fiscal analysis.
Distinguished Alumni
Community Service Award
Natalie H. Sweat (B.A. ’74) has been
involved in community service most of her
life, with the development of parks and
green space as an overriding focus. She
served on the Callanwolde Foundation board of directors for
eight years, implementing a corporate sponsorship program
as president. She helped to found Park Pride and served as
president for several years. Many of her volunteer activities
centered on fundraising and image building for organizations
including the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the Carter Center,
the United Negro College Fund, the Georgia Council for
International Visitors, and the Georgia Advisory Council for
the Trust for Public Land. Recently, she has helped lead the
effort to restore the Olmsted Linear Park along Ponce de
Leon Avenue. She has served in numerous leadership positions with the Georgia State University Alumni Association.
Visit gastatealumni.net to submit a nomination for the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Click on the “Honors and Awards” tab and choose the appropriate award category.
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the guest list
2010 • 2011 SerIeS
david allison
David Allison, B.A. ’84, editor of the Atlanta
Business Chronicle, shares his top 10 Atlanta
business stories of 2010
1 Fixing Atlanta’s transportation mess
In April, the state legislature adopted a transportation funding
bill that will let Georgians vote by region whether to raise
sales taxes to pay for needed highway and transit projects.
Sat, Oct 23 • 8 PM
Sat, Oct 30 • 8 PM
Sun, Nov 7 • 5 PM
Sat, Nov 13 • 8 PM
2 No progress in “water war”
In 2009, a federal judge gave Georgia, Alabama and Florida
until July 2012 to reach a deal over Atlanta’s use of water
from Lake Lanier. During 2010, little progress was made.
3 Big changes at airlines, airport
Georgia’s economic engine is Atlanta’s airport, the world’s
busiest. In 2010, Delta Air Lines completed its integration
of Northwest; Continental merged with United; and
Southwest agreed to buy AirTran, which hubs in Atlanta.
Noche Flamenca with Soledad Barrio
Flamenco Music & Dance
Sat, Nov 20 8 PM
•
4 Banks going belly up
During 2010, Georgia remained the epicenter of the nation’s
banking crisis. Between January and mid-September, 14
Georgia banks failed while more than 120 failed nationwide.
John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension
Jazz Guitar Innovator
5 Job creation stalls
As of August, the state unemployment rate was 10 percent, and
it marked the 35th consecutive month the state’s unemployment rate was higher than the national unemployment rate.
Sat, Jan 29 • 8 PM
6 The search for energy
Georgia companies have been trying to develop alternative
energy sources. Georgia Power continued working in 2010
on two new nuclear reactors. Solar companies like Suniva
and Mage Solar expanded. Meanwhile, Georgia’s first
wood-to-ethanol plant opened.
Capitol Steps Music & Political Satire
straight from Washington, D.C
Sat, Mar 19 • 8 PM
7 Mergers and acquisitions
This year saw a number of billion dollar-plus deals including The Coca-Cola Company’s purchase of the
North American assets of Coca-Cola Enterprises; Mirant
Corporation’s merger with RRI Energy; and Gentiva
Health Services acquisition of Odyssey Healthcare.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Contemporary Dance
8 Housing hangover
Georgia had the seventh-most foreclosures of any state
during the third quarter of 2010.
10 Commercial real estate crash
For building owners and developers, a lack of growing
companies combined with overbuilding and high debt
levels to make a toxic brew.
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9 Globalization
Sony Ericsson placed its new Americas headquarters here
early in the year; the city hosted a group of world ambassadors in October; and the state’s ports handled record freight.
Fri, Apr 22 • 8 PM
Joe Lovano Saxophonist & Composer
with the Georgia State University
Jazz Band
An Evening with Lila Downs
Ballet Preljocaj
Mexican American Vocalist
French Contemporary Dance
Sat, Dec 4 8 PM & Sun, Dec 5 3 PM
•
•
Gala Holiday Concert
Georgia State University School of Music
Fri, Feb 18 & Sat, Feb 19 • 8 PM
Balé Folclórico da Bahia
Traditional Brazilian Music and Dance
Sat, Apr 2 • 8 PM
Zakir Hussain, Béla Fleck,
Edgar Meyer Meeting of the Maestros
Sat, Dec 11 8 PM
•
Holiday Jazz Vespers
featuring the Atlanta Jazz Chorus
Sat, Feb 26 • 8 PM
Roy Haynes & the Fountain of
Youth Band Jazz Master
Sat, Apr 9 • 8 PM
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Rumberos from Cuba
Sat, Apr 30 • 8 PM
Big 3 Palladium Orchestra: Latin Jazz
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Angélique Kidjo
Grammy-winning Vocalist
Sat, Jan 22 • 8 PM
Urban Bush Women
African American Contemporary Dance
Sat, Mar 12 • 8 PM
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
South African A Cappella Male Vocals
Fri, Apr 15 & Sat, Apr 16 • 8 PM, Sun, Apr 17 • 3 PM
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Georgia State University School
of Music Opera Theatre & Symphony
Orchestra
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The Music of Machito, Tito Rodríguez,
& Tito Puente with Mario “Machito Jr.”
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gsu.edu/magazine
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Department of University Relations
P.O. Box 3983
Atlanta, GA 30302-3983
Generations of Peace
Ela Gandhi, peace activist and former Member of the South African
Parliament, places a garland on the statue of her grandfather, Mohandas
Gandhi, which stands on the grounds of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
National Historic Site. Joining Gandhi is Indira Balakrishnan, president
of the Greater Atlanta Tamil Sangam. Earlier, Gandhi spoke during the
College of Education’s 22nd annual Benjamin E. Mays Lecture.
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