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Title: “Behind the Lens” Link to Article: http://magazine.gsu.edu/2015/11/behind-‐the-‐lens/ Publication date: Nov. 6, 2015 Project responsibilities: I contacted the story’s subject and conducted an interview with her. Based on her responses I wrote and edited the article, and selected the attached media after resizing the image in Adobe Photoshop.

Title: “Sign Here” Link: https://issuu.com/gsucehd/docs/in_magazine_fallwinter2015 Publication date: cir. Nov. 10, 2015 Project responsibilities: Georgia State University’s College of Education asked for my assistance with the subheading for its Fall 2015 publication cover. After reading the story, I wrote the line “Language is about more than what you say. It’s about what you see.”


Title: Letters Link: https://issuu.com/gsumag/docs/winter_2015 Publication date: Nov. 11, 2015 Project responsibilities: This portion of the magazine is dedicated to readers’ letters to the editor in response to the previous issue. I was given the task to redesign the page being that there were no letters sent in from readers and the publication date was steadily approaching. I suggested that we instead make a social media spread and showcase images of social media mentions in place of quotes from the readers’ letters.


Title: Table of Contents Link: TBA Publication date: TBA Project responsibilities: I developed the displayed headings and subheadings for the Spring 2016 issue of the magazine’s feature stories and profile pieces based on the stories contents. The issue is due to be published by the end of February 2016.


06 07GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE SUMMER 2016 ILLUSTRATION BY DIEGO PATIÑO

BIG DATA INSIGHTRobinson College partners with leading financial institutions to form new institute focused on analytics.

Starr Companies, a global insurance andinvestment organization, and SunTrust Banks Inc., a national financial servicescompany, have teamed to create the new Institute for Insight at the J. Mack Robin-son College of Business.

The Institute for Insight brings stu-dents and institutions together to explore new business opportunities that can be drawn from big data analytics.

The institute is home to the Robinson College’s newest specialized master’s de-gree, the master of science in analytics. Thedegree combines “hard skills” in statistics,computer science and business along with “soft skills” through a deep immersionprogram where students work with experi-enced industry data scientists and GeorgiaState researchers in the institute’s InsightLab. The institute is being built around an interdisciplinary research faculty.

“Through the Institute for Insight, Rob-inson is exploring and solving data issues,dissecting the problems and creating man-agement plans,” said Richard Phillips, dean of the Robinson College. “Students master a set of mathematical, computa-tional and statistical methods that arethen applied in a variety of settings, in-cluding marketing analytics, health ana-lytics and risk analytics.”

LONG TO STEP DOWNCollege of Arts and Sciences DeanWilliam Long’s tenure has been markedby success and growth.

Dr. William Long has announced he willstep down from the dean-

CAMPUS

IN THE CITY

A GEORGIA STATE CAST Chris Escobar (B.A. ’08, M.A. ’13), the festival’s executive director since 2011, says most of his staff are Georgia State grads or students, including program director KristyBreneman (B.A. ’10) and senior short film programmer Christina Humphrey (M.A. ’16). “The entire programming staff is fromGeorgia State,” Escobar said.

EARLY DAYS Kay Beck, associate professor of communications, is one of the found-ers of the long-running film festival and is a member of the Board of Directors.

ATL-CENTRIC Escobar said the festival has evolved in the last few years to create amore local experience, such as moving from nondescript multiplexes to the Plaza Theatre, the city’s oldest independently owned cinema, and showcasing locallymade films. “We’ve moved away from ‘what can happen anywhere’ to ‘what canuniquely happen here in Atlanta,’” he said. CONT’D ON P.9

DER COACH Head baseball coach and former German national team coach Greg Frady will be the first American elected into the German Baseball Hall of Fame.

BY ALEXIS GREEN (B.A. ’16) PHOTOS BY BEN ROLLINS

FOUR DECADES OF CINEMATHE ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL, HOUSED AT GEORGIA STATEAND LED BY A TWO-TIME ALUMNUS, CELEBRATES ITS 40TH.

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ship of the College of Arts and Sciences in June at the end of his five-year term.

The college has introduced policy in-novations and made major achievementsunder Long’s leadership, including the development of six new undergraduate degree programs, 18 new five-year dualbachelor’s-master’s degree programs, three new graduate concentrations and four new graduate certificates.

Long has also been involved in many oth-er groundbreaking initiatives, such as the creation of the Creative Media Industries Institute and the Global Studies Institute.

“He has been a tireless advocate of suc-cess in both research and learning, settinghigh standards for achievement for the unitswithin the college,” said Provost Risa Palm.

A national search for his replacementis underway.

IN THE TEETH Perimeter students bring dental careto Georgia’s most vulnerable.

For more than 20 years, Perimeter’s den-tal hygiene students have teamed up withthe Georgia Department of Public Health to provide dental hygiene for low-income and at-risk elementary school students in DeKalb County.

This past winter, Perimeter College dental hygiene students provided seal-ants and fluoride treatments, plus a dose of education to students at Hightower El-ementary School in DeKalb County as part of an all-day oral health fair. For some kids,it may be the only dental care they get.

“In Georgia, there are many barriers todental care, including cost, lack of den-tal insurance, transportation and wide-spread dental health professional short-age areas,” said Pam Cushenan, a dentalhygiene instructor. “We want to make a positive impact on our most vulnerable populations. And our students also gain agreat appreciation for how they can make a difference.”

$2 million Awarded to the student financial center fromSunTrust Foundation to create the SunTrust Student Financial Management Center, a first-of-its kind program to help students address financial issues that can be obstacles to earn-ing their degrees.

W hen Greg Frady was invited to lunch with members of the German parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin last spring, a bundle of nerves went with him. However, Frady wasn’t feeling pressured about representing the United States in the way you might expect.

“I wasn’t nervous about meeting the politicians,” he said, “it was about knowing which spoon to eat with.”

Frady calls that luncheon, where he was honored for his 12 years as head coach and general manager of the German national baseball team, one of the most memorable expe-riences of his career. This summer, Frady will become the German Baseball Hall of Fame’s first American inductee and 12th overall.

Prior to his arrival, the Germans were foundering in international competition. The team was invited to play in the 2003 European championship, lost every game, and at that point had never finished higher than seventh place in a European competition. Today, they’re ranked 17th in the world and have sent two players to the major leagues in the U.S.

Although Frady was the architect of that turnaround, the recognition caught him off guard. “It was a big surprise to me, to be honest,” he said. Frady became an expert at balancing his family life with his two positions on opposite

hemispheres. Frady’s family spent summers in Germany when his children’s schools were on break, and Frady would often appear to both his baseball teams via satellite.

The cross-cultural coaching experiences in Germany have definitely changed the way

Frady approaches baseball, he said. “I started with young men who were 18

years old and [was] still coaching them when they were 30,” he said. “You see them tran-sition from young adult to fathers and real leaders. They became a lot like family to me.”

He gives his experience in Germany credit for making him more patient and open-minded with his team at Georgia State. He even managed to scout and re-cruit players from his time in Germany to play for the Panthers.

“As a coach, I was able to bring back the-ories, ideas, concepts, information and op-portunities to grow my own players so that they would have better opportunities in the future,” he said.

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• Saving the Bats Visit magazine.gsu.edu for aneditorial by researcherChris Cornelison (M.S.

’11, Ph.D. ’13) on the waragainst white-nose syn-drome, a vicious diseasethat’s killing bats.

• Best of the Beach Visit magazine.gsu.edu for a recap of Beach Vol-leyball’s stellar season.

The Panthers were inthe eight-team field thatcompeted for the na-tional championship.

Exactly what is a super-delegate? An unelect-ed delegate to the Demo-cratic — not the Republican— National Convention who is seated automatically andwho votes for whomever heor she wants. They encom-pass all Democrat members of the House and Senate and state governors, and ad-ditional superdelegates are chosen during the primaries and by each state party.

What about the Repub-lican Party? By contrast, the Republican National Convention has only three non-elected delegates perstate, the state chairperson

and two district-level com-mittee members. However, they have no discretion andmust vote for their state’sleading vote gainer in the caucus or primary.

What’s the history of the superdelegate? After the 1968 Democratic Na-tional Convention, the party made changes in its del-egate selection process. Thepurpose was to make the composition of the conven-tion less subject to control by party leaders and more responsive to the votes castduring the campaign for the nomination. Superdelegates are more likely to prefer

better-known candidates.At the 2008 Democratic

National Convention, the superdelegates made up approximately one-fifth of the total number of delegates.

Can a superdelegate change his or her mind on their candidate be-fore the convention? Yes. And because they are free to support anyone they want, superdelegates can change the lead and nominate the candidate in secondplace, i.e. Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton.

• Read more at magazine.gsu.edu

ELECTION ARBITERSPOLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR HENRY “CHIP” CAREYEXPLAINS THE ROLE OF SUPERDELEGATES IN THE2016 PRESIDENTIAL RACE.


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