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A successor to our print magazine, The Franklin Chronicles, this blog allows us to continue to communicate the importance of the arts and sciences to an expanded audience through a variety of means – articles and announcements, video, news and opinion – to pick up the conversation of why the arts, humanities and sciences matter so much at this juncture in the history of our university, our nation and the world. Read more

It is one of the lowest moments in United States history, a day that stands hallowed for all the wrong reasons, shrouded in mystery and unanswered questions in every direction. On the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection present… Read Article

The UGA Griffin campus will hold a Criminal Justice information day, CJ Day @ UGA, this Friday Nov. 22 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Griffin Campus Student Learning Center:

Known as CJ Day @ UGA, the event will feature presenters from all areas of law enforcement, including a keynote… Read Article

In last week's Nature magazine, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator Boris Striepen makes the case for more research and funding to find a treatment for the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium, one of four pathogens responsible for severe diarrhea in thousands… Read Article

More and more, students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art are leading the way in a variety of areas that include thinking about how our society deals with waste:

Lindsay Pennington, a senior from Albany majoring in sculpture at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art, is challenging the way… Read Article

The momentum of the Spotlight on the Arts festival continues through the weekend (and beyond) with a film festival honoring former Athenian Jim McKay:

The Willson Center, in partnership with Whatever It Takes Athens, will present a four-day festival dedicated to the films, television work… Read Article