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Commencement 2012


Healing from Spiritual Violence

Sponsors: GLOBES, Office of Institutional Diversity, Black Faculty & Staff Organization and I.M.P.A.C.T. (Sustained Dialogue) The Franklin College and the University are glad to provide a forum to bring these groups together. Our campus must be a catalyst for discussion and the free exchange of ideas that provide comfort and understanding on issues of crucial importance to the entire community. Learn more about these groups and the role…


Amazing student Mathew Lustig

Biology major Matthew Lustig combines his interest in ROTC with a love for Johnny Cash to create his unique UGA experience: I studied abroad in Australia, which allowed me to study biology, immerse myself in a new culture and make some of the best friends I have at UGA. Upon returning, I tried out and made the UGA co-ed cheerleading team and performed for UGA football, men’s/women’s basketball, gymnastics and volleyball. Meanwhile, I played…

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Beckmann Kazez recognized with Regents' award

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics Sybilla Beckmann Kazez received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents:   The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences professor was chosen for the award that goes to one faculty member annually from research institutions in the university system. Awards also are given to one faculty member from the system's regional and state…

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Diversity Forum: The Trayvon Martin Tragedy

Mr. Stewart Thompkins Zellars Statistics & Economics   


CURO Symposium

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston used to have an ad campaign that hinted, "There's more to life than just Monet." In a similar vein, this article in Red & Black on the CURO symposium reminded me that, while they are heavily engaged in everything from genetics to particle physics, UGA students conduct research in much more than just the hard sciences. Brendan Boyle, a junior mass media arts and film studies major, presented his paper…


Faculty workloads

Former New School chancellor David Levy took to the pages of the Washington Post this weekend to make an interesting argument: public support for higher education has led to rising tuition costs and faculty are generally overpaid for 'inefficient' teaching schedules. Not changed, however, are the accommodations designed to compensate for low pay in earlier times. Though faculty salaries now mirror those of most upper-middle-class Americans…


Art's Expanding Mission

A colleague pointed me to this Times article elucidating the role university art museums are playing on college campuses everywhere:   In the 21st century, university art museums have become more aggressive in extending their missions and collections to reach deeper into classrooms and curriculums not ordinarily associated with art. At Duke’s seven-year-old Nasher Museum, two members of its 30-person staff are devoted exclusively to…


New Dean

The Franklin College has a new dean, Alan T. Dorsey, currently associate dean for natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Florida: The appointment was announced by Jere Morehead, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, to whom Dorsey will report.   “The history of UGA and the history of the Franklin College are inextricable, and the role of the dean there is a critically important one,” said UGA President…


UGA inventors making a difference

Three University of Georgia inventors were recognized by the Association of University Technology Managers in their most recent Better World Report: For the 2011 report, AUTM was charged with selecting technologies that help the world in the face of adversity, and just 23 from the thousands of innovations from around the globe were selected. Five were from UGA. "Our researchers deserve acknowledgement for their relentless efforts in helping…


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2012 Meigs Professors

  Two of the four University of Georgia faculty named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors for 2012 are in the Franklin College. The Meigs Awards are the university's highest recognition for superior instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The 2012 Meigs Professors are: • Jeffrey Berejikian, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the department of international affairs in the School of Public…


Critical University Studies

Are students being taught how to write effectively across disciplines and subjects? What is the role of the arts in post-secondary education? How do we instill a sense of entrepreneurship, among other intangibles, in the people walking across the stage each spring? These difficult questions are increasingly asked at many institutions, including our own. But how to even pose them effectively? An article in Chronicle this week takes on the…


Graduate Student Award Competition

Attention UGA graduate students: a competition sponsored by the Provost’s Office, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Vice President for Research, the university will select a particularly promising graduate student for an award to attend the 10-week experience at Singularity University (SU) this coming summer. The competition submission deadline is March 21, 2012.  Interviews with the finalists will be held April 10, 2012…


Russell Library opens

The University of Georgia special collections libraries will celebrate the opening of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries with a dedication on Feb. 17 at 11 a.m. on the building's front lawn: The recently named building houses the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and the Peabody Collection. The university broke ground…

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Dunning to present Snyder Lecture

Former UGA vice president for public service and outreach Art Dunning returns to campus in March to deliver the 20th annual Darl Snyder lecture: Dunning, vice chancellor for international programs and outreach at the University of Alabama System, will deliver the 20th annual Darl Snyder lecture at the University of Georgia March 6 at 10 a.m. in the Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel…


Cook named associate provost for institutional diversity

Former Franklin associate dean Michelle Cook has been named as the new associate provost for institutional diversity at the University of Georgia: Cook has been leading the university's Office of Institutional Diversity as interim associate provost since Cheryl Dozier stepped down to become interim president of Savannah State University. An internal search was conducted to fill the associate provost position. "Dr. Cook has done an outstanding…


Franklin Dean Finalists Announced

When former dean Garnett Stokes stepped down this past August to become provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University, senior associate dean Hugh Ruppersburg was named interim dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. A longtime faculty member with vast institutional knowledge of Franklin College as well as a noted scholar of American film and literature, Ruppersburg has taken on the role of dean…

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Minding the Gender Wage Gap

Gender disparities and under-representation continue to plague American boardrooms as well governmnent at every level. Only 22% of all state-wide elective executive office positions are currently held by women. Ninety-two of the 276 members who have ever served in the United States Congress are current Members - 75 in the house and 17 in the Senate. Equal compensation for equal work is one of the cornerstones of building a meritocracy where the…


Babb named Director of IAAS

Professor of English and African American studies Valerie Babb has been named director of the Institute for African American Studies in the Franklin College: “The IAAS is one of UGA’s premier units for engaging in the contemporary exchange of ideas across disciplines,” said Hugh Ruppersburg, interim dean of the Franklin College. “Dr. Babb’s scholarship in American literature and culture will be a vital contribution to the intellectual history…


MLK Speech in Cleveland, 1967

      Little-known audio of Martin Luther King, Jr., at Glennville High School in Cleveland on April 26, 1967, a little less than a year before his assassination.    Great story of how this recording was found and made available by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, here.    


Franklin Alumni Event in Washington, DC

One of the Franklin College's distinguished experts on the Civil War will be featured at an event for DC-area alumni on Feb. 7. The lecture will focus on the Lincoln Marriage: The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences will host a history lecture in Washington, D.C. on February 7. The lecture, entitled "Inside the White House 1861-1865: The Lincoln Marriage During the Civil War," will be given by UGA associate history professor Dr. Stephen Berry…


Equality Matters

I was thinking about the upcoming Martin Luther King Holiday on my walk in this morning, how the Civil Rights Era in the U.S. can sometimes seem distant, abstract and merely iconic. But it is so much more than that. The principles for which people fought, marched and died continue to impact us in very real ways. Equal voting rights and equal civil rights have very real implications for improving society up to and through today. Take education…


Forever Voyaging

Here's a great little post about Apple and Steve Jobs to start the New Year: In June 1976, Steve Jobs went looking for someone to print the manual for the Apple I computer, the first product from the company he had started with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne a few months earlier. Jobs's friend Regis McKenna, the head of Silicon Valley's premier advertising and public relations firm, suggested he contact Mike Rose, who ran a small advertising…

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Mentoring benefits uneven across races

Interesting, if counter-intuitive, research on the implications of mentoring, from the department of psychology: Networking within an organization and having a mentor are widely thought to promote career success, but a new University of Georgia study finds that African-American men don't receive the same measurable benefits from these professional connections that Caucasians do. Study co-author Lillian Eby, a professor in the Industrial-…
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