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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://outreach.uga.edu/uga-alumna-named-state-botanical-garden-georgia-director/"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://outreach.uga.edu/uga-alumna-named-state-botanical-garden-georgia-director/</span></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:15.6pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:41.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">UGA alumna named State Botanical Garden of Georgia director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#555555">January 9, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, vice president for science and conservation at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, has been named director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA, effective Feb. 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Cruse-Sanders experience as a senior administrator, managing people and projects while raising private funds at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, made her an ideal candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">“Jenny’s strong management skills, her long history with public gardens and her enthusiasm for plants will serve us well as we head into an exciting year,” said Jennifer L. Frum, UGA vice president for
Public Service and Outreach, which oversees the garden. “Working closely with the board of advisors, as well as the Friends of the Garden, she will be in a position to raise the profile of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia throughout the southeast and
the country.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Cruse-Sanders has worked at the Atlanta Botanical Garden since 2008. She was director of research and conservation before becoming a vice president. Prior to Atlanta, she spent nine years as a research
associate at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. She is a double dog, with an M.S. and a Ph.D. in botany from UGA. She earned her B.A. in botany at Boston University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Cruse-Sanders joins the State Botanical Garden as it prepares to break ground in October on the $5 million Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden, named for a charter member of the advisory board and a key
feature of the garden’s master plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">So far, the garden’s board of advisors has raised over $4.2 million for the Children’s Garden and has received authorization from the University System Board of Regents to seek bids for a design professional
and construction manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">The two-and-a-half acre fun-filled educational environment will include a wheelchair-accessible canopy walk in the trees, a tree house, creature habitats, hands-on garden plots, an underground laboratory,
edible landscapes, and a bog garden and pond. One component, an amphitheater in the woods, was completed in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Cruse-Sanders follows Wilf Nicholls, who will retire on Jan. 31, 2017, after more than six years at the garden. Associate Director John Graham will serve as interim director from Feb. 1-14.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">Contact: Kelly Simmons, </span>
<a href="mailto:simmonsk@uga.edu"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif">simmonsk@uga.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#555555">, 706-296-0855<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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