News from the Chronicles - February 2013


Refining your research

Along with a couple of dozen colleagues from campus, I was involved in a day-long workshop back in the fall on the subject of communicating research: how to accurately condense descriptions of research for public consumption. It's not inevitable that we always can, but we do try. And now, Columns reports that workshops to assist faculty on this subject will soon be repeated:  A team of UGA faculty and staff is beginning a new program to…

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Focus on the Faculty: Patricia Yager


Franklin Visiting Scholars Program presents Stephen Carpenter

Artist, activist and educator Stephen B. Carpenter II will visit UGA the week of Feb. 20 as part of the Franklin Visiting Scholars program. His work and presentations at UGA will focus on creative interdisciplinary responses to the global water crisis: Carpenter's visit to UGA will include a public performance and workshop on "Collaborative Creative Resistance" Feb. 19 at noon at the west entrance of the school of art. Both the lecture and the…


Shepherd at Senate Climate Hearing today

Professor and director of the UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program in the department of geography Marshall Shepherd will testify before a U.S. Senate Committee this morning. Per the AMS blog: The Senate Committee on Environment and Infrastructure, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer, has already lined up a session on the “Latest Climate Science” for this morning, at 10 a.m. EST. The blue-ribbon panel of invited experts providing testimony includes AMS…

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Morning Talk TV the focus of University Theatre's 'Must Go On'

A terrific, original new work is coming from University Theatre at the end of this month: the University of Georgia Theatre will present the world premiere of "Must Go On," a comedy written and directed by John Kundert-Gibbs, an associate professor in the department of theatre and film studies. The homage to morning talk shows will feature a combination of onstage theatre and live television broadcast Feb. 21-23 and Feb. 27 to March 2 at 8…


Robots and live theatre

David Saltz, head of the department of theatre and film studies, and assistant professor Anthony Marotta are presenting a paper this weekend at the International Conference in Commedia dell'Arte at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Their paper, A 21st century huminoid robot, becomes a commedia performer, details a project that brings together several UGA units that we've written about previously when it was performed for the public back in…


'Django Unchained' roundtable

Was the recent Quentin Tarantino film 'Django Unchained' a revenge fantasy? Revisionist history? Harmless escapism? The only thing not in doubt is that Tarantino is a controversial filmmaker. These and other points will be taken up at the next Cinema Roundtable on the film Feb. 22 at 4 p.m. in room 248 of the MLC: organized by the UGA Institute for African American Studies in cooperation with the department of theatre and film studies in…


Collaborative research proposals bring together UGA and CDC

Two of the three research proposals selected for funding by the Centers for Disease Control in a recent competition are from Franklin College faculty: Funded by the UGA Research Foundation and the CDC, the awards provide pilot research project funding to promote collaboration in scientific innovation and technology development at the interface of human, veterinary and ecological health, increase quality and output of research, and…


Printmaker Karen Kunc at Lamar Dodd

The school of art welcomes printmaker Karen Kunc to campus this week, where she'll be printing with graduate students all week. She will present a public lecture on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in room S151 in the school of art. A reception will follow at 7 p.m. Learn more about Karen Kunc and her work here.


Schaefer receives Chemical Pioneer Award

An outstanding honor will be presented to Henry "Fritz" Schaefer from the American Institute of Chemists: Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Chemical Pioneer Award at the AIC's annual meeting in April. The award recognizes researchers whose work has had a major influence on advances in chemistry. Past recipients include Nobel laureates Linus Pauling and Glenn T. Seaborg,…

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