UGA News Roundup

Holly S. Kaplan, a senior academic professional and certified audiologist in the , has been appointed to the Georgia State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Kaplan currently serves as the undergraduate coordinator for the communication sciences program in the college, where she teaches, supervises master’s level students and provides audiology services in the UGA Speech and Hearing ClinicThe board consists of one physician, three audiologists, three speech language pathologists and a consumer member.

UGA recreation and leisure studies professor Douglas Kleiber has received a fellowship from a university in Spain. A faculty member in the College of Education’s department of counseling and human development services, Kleiber has received a fellowship from the Basque Science Foundation to conduct research on leisure and aging with the Institute of Leisure Studies at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain June to December 2011.
Kleiber is widely known as a leading authority on leisure and human development. His work has addressed a wide range of research issues that has furthered the understanding of leisure behavior and the role of leisure in the psycho-social adjustment of the individual. He was among the first scholars to explore personality differences in leisure behavior and the contributions leisure can make to mental health.

Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings will be on view at the from July 2 to Aug. 28.

Dodd was a teacher, arts administrator and one of the most recognized artists of his generation from Georgia. A native of LaGrange, he created work that reflects a love of the American South, focusing mainly on landscapes, history, people and industry. Dodd came to the University of Georgia in 1937, where he began to rebuild and revitalize the art department. He was eventually named head of the art department, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art is named in his memory.
Besides drawings, watercolors and oils, the exhibition will include the first wide-scale display of images from Dodd’s sketchbooks, which range from the late 1920s, when he was at the Art Students League in New York, to the 1990s.

Thirteen undergraduates in the UGA Honors Program have been chosen for summer internships in Washington, D.C., New York and Savannah through the Honors Internship Program.

 The summer 2011 participants in the Washington, D.C. program are sophomores William Gow of Roswell; Camille Gregory of Brentwood, Tenn.; Heather Hatzenbuhler of Lawrenceville; juniors Isabel Glaese of El Paso, Texas; Emily Gober of Sandersville; Eric Johnson of Tucker; Logan Krusac of Acworth; Morgann Lyles of Roswell; Chad Peltier of Cumming; and senior Jacob Shepherd of Newnan. Sophomore Ebony Caldwell of Augusta and junior Hemali Vin of Export, Pa. are interning in New York, while sophomore Danielle Burnette of McRae will be working in Savannah.