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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

Shepherd: shell game with climate science

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Science rolls out its fifth assessment report this week, Athletic Association Professor and president of the American Meteorological Society J. Marshall Shepherd weighs in on the need for common sense on climate change:

For me, the hat with the… Read Article

dance in motion

Lénablou: Caribbean Dance Performance, French Lecture

On Monday Sept. 30 and Tuesday Oct. 1, the UGA dance department welcomes a very special guest to campus for performances and a lecture:

Lénablou is a renowned choreographer, scholar, and activist known for her innovative promotion of Caribbean performance cultures through her dance… Read Article


More UGA women in STEM fields

 

UGA touted for women in STEM programs

By Jessica Luton

jluton@uga.edu

 

The University of Georgia is helping more women go into the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), according to a recent College Database ranking.

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Visiting Hours at the Color Line

The words we use to describe a phenomenon often obscure a meaning opposite from the words themselves. The concept, or reality, of a color line in society is no different - what sounds like a stark demarcation has increasingly become an irregular, uneven blur of factors surrounding contemporary… Read Article

structures of glycoenzymes

$7.4 million NIH grant to Franklin researchers

For the second time in two months,  a group of UGA researchers have received significant grant support from the NIH to study and experiment on the sugar molecules known as glycans:

[The researchers] have received a five-year $7.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health… Read Article