News from the Chronicles - February 2013


Faculty in the News, Jan - Feb

The work of Franklin College scientists and scholars continue to be reported widely. A sample from the past month:    ‘Geolocation,’ an art project by Lamar Dodd School of Art photography lecturer Marni Shindelman that utilizes Twitter, was featured in web and print publications around the world including Wired.com, Business Insider, Yahoo! Canada, Gizmodo, The Verge, Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Beast, Animal New York, and the Athens…

Tan and Mohnen in the lab
New Plant structure may improve biofuel processing

Great new work from Debra Mohnen and Li Tan in the BioEnergy Science Center: When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply didn’t make any sense. Tan was examining some of the sugars, proteins and polymers that make up plant cell walls, which provide the structural support and…


February Kudos

  Chemistry professor Richard Dluhy is part of a team of UGA scientists who recently received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further flu research. Their method uses nanotechnology-based lasers that can greatly speed the prediction of impending flu strains and with greater accuracy. Research by department of sociology Ph.D. candidate David R. Johnson was the subject of an Wired Campus story in the Chronicle of…


CORE dance company presents 'Take Flight!'

  CORE Concert Dance Company Contemporary and Aerial Dance will present TAKING FLIGHT! Wed.- Sat. Feb. 27 to March 2 at 8 p.m, held at the UGA Department of Dance New Dance Theatre, Athens, GA. Contemporary and a range of aerial dance - including bungee-assistance, triple trapeze, lyra, silks and cyr – blends with digitally rendered film projection and explores an aeronautical and emotional journey. Purchase tickets at: tate@uga.edu/tickets…

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Origin of the Earth

The Origins Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel with Ray Freeman-Lynde from the department of geography: In the early 19th Century, geologists, using simple principles to determine the relative ages of rocks, came to understand the great age of the earth and to establish a relative geologic time scale. Following the discovery of radioactivity at the end of the 19th Century, geochronologists developed techniques…


Park Hall Monitor

Finding our what's going on with English department faculty like Ron Miller and Esra Santesso, along with news from students and staff, in the new issue of the Park Hall Monitor.


Ann Orr Visiting Artist workshop

Designer and master silversmith Julia Woodman will give the 2013 Ann Orr Visiting Artist lecture on February 8 at 5:30 p.m. in room S150 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend. Woodman will also give a workshop the following day, Feb. 9 from 9:30 to 5 p.m. at the Thomas Street Art Complex, where she will share instruction and techniques with students and faculty. The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund…

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Public discussions on science

If anyone was wondering whether there would be any interest in public lectures on big scientific questions, and relatedly, what a packed Chapel for such a discussion would look like, here you are: The Origins Lecture Series continues on Wednesday Feb. 27,  when Claiborne Glover will discuss the origins of biomolecules. Again, arriving early is a good idea. Image: Clumsy author photo and Photoshop job, but you get the idea.


Harshman to lead First-Year Odyssey program

The First-Year Odyssey program has been an important innovation in teaching but also in introducing freshman to the university setting. The FYO now has a new director: Melissa Harshman, an associate professor in the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art, has been named faculty director of the First-Year Odyssey Seminar program. Through the program, small-group academic seminars taught by tenured and tenure-track faculty are offered to…


Valentine's Day Wind Ensemble concert

The UGA Wind Ensemble under director of bands John Lynch is one of the premiere large ensembles in the Southeast. You can purchase their recordings here and here, and a video we made during the 2011 recording session is here. Needless to say, it's a treat when they play on campus, and so thier Valentine's Day concert will be a treat within a treat: The University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music's 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series…

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