Society News from the Chronicles

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Noted and Quoted, January 2017

Franklin College faculty engage in public scholarship by offering comments, regular columns and sharing expertise across a variety of media. A sample from just this month: Five big mysteries about CRISPR's origins, Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Michael Terns…
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Happy 232nd, UGA

Today, public colleges and universities across the United States educate about 15 million students each year. This includes the more than 300,000 students throughout the public colleges and universities that make up the University System of Georgia. A great moment to celebrate, in the history of…
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LACSI shares needs assessment of local Hispanic and Latino community

The Athens-Clarke County Hispanic and Latino community faces significant challenges when trying to access basic services locally, according to a report by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute: The study is the first comprehensive needs assessment of this population, which has…
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UGA Law to host CEASE conference

 
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Amazing Student: Kelsey Brown

Combining theatre and speech-language pathology has allowed amazing student Kelsey Brown to put a unique stamp on her undergraduate career: I chose to attend UGA because… I applied to 12 schools for undergraduate. I had no idea where I wanted to go; just what I wanted to do. I toured schools and…