News from the Chronicles - November 2012


November Faculty in the News

Here's a sampling of the many times Franklin College faculty members were quoted or mentioned in news articles around the world: Bill Nelson, former UGA geneticist and biologist, named Oconee County’s Teacher of the Year, Athens Banner-Herald Franklin professor and director of BHSI, Harry Dailey, receives $1.5 million grant to study anemia, The Red and Black Bacteria detect potential for DNA damage, UGA researchers discover, The Red and Black…


November Kudos

  Associate professor of musicology and women's studies Susan Thomas and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology Jeffrey Dean were among four UGA faculty named to the SEC academic leadership program. UGA was elected to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), becoming its 78th member Geology professor Steve Holland was elected as President of the Paleontological Society at the November meeting of the Geological…

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Photography Fellow Exhibition

 

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African Studies Institute establishes research collection at Hargrett

UGA and the Franklin College are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the African Studies Institute with the events through the middle of November. One of the many lasting pieces of this milestone is the new research collection in the University archives of materials from the Institute: the University of Georgia African Studies Institute has established a research collection in the University Archives of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript…

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van Wagtendonk's "on a Wing and a Prayer"

Associate professor of art and chair of Art X: Expanded Forms, Martijn van Wagtendonk will present his Willson Center lecture on Thursday, Nov.15 at 4 p.m. in room 248 of the Miller Learning Center. His lecture will focus on his kinetic sculptural installation, Song of Lift: Song of Lift is a 5-minute-long, fully automated, viewer-sensitive opera. A 14-armed circular structure hangs in the center of a gallery’s 20-foot ceiling. Its 12-foot…


Study reveals new gene, key to anemia

Professor of microbiology and biochemistry & molecular biology Harry Dailey is an author on a newly published study that reveals a new gene discovery in the quest to better understand human anemias: Scientists at the University of Georgia, Harvard Medical School and the University of Utah have discovered a new gene that regulates heme synthesis in red blood cell formation. Heme is the deep-red, iron-containing component of hemoglobin, the…


Study reveals new gene, key to anemia

Professor of microbiology and biochemistry & molecular biology Harry Dailey is an author of a newly published study that reveals a new gene discovery in the quest to better understand human anemias: Scientists at the University of Georgia, Harvard Medical School and the University of Utah have discovered a new gene that regulates heme synthesis in red blood cell formation. Heme is the deep-red, iron-containing component of hemoglobin, the…


Holland elected Paleontological Society president


ARCO Chamber Orchestra presents Bach and Beethoven

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra, under the artistic direction of its founder, Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian, is one the gems of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the university. Ambartsumain brought the ensemble with him from Moscow years ago and has, over the years, tranformed it into a first-rate student and faculty ensemble, exhibiting the utmost professionalism in repertoire and performance. A true teacher as well as a…


Inaugural AMS Fellows

Our mathematics faculty is a very distinguished group, a fact highlighted in the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society: Five University of Georgia faculty members are among mathematical scientists from around the world named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2013, the program's initial year. The inaugural class of 1,119 Fellows represents more than 600 institutions, with the number of AMS Fellows targeted…

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