Noted and Quoted, summer 2025

Throughout the summer quiet and into the busy fall, Franklin faculty expertise and research findings continues to resonate broadly across the global media.

A few of the many recent stores we've been following:

How it’s not about the place — it’s about the people – research lead by Daisi Brand, graduate student in the department of psychology, reported by Health Medicine Network

 

New research illustrates how live events foster social connection – new research from Richard Slatcher, Gail M. Williamson Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program, reported in the Scientific Inquirer

 

Missouri adult dies after brain-eating amoeba infection – Dennis Kyle, GRA Eminent Scholar Chair in Antiparasitic Drug Discovery in the department of cellular biology, commenting on WGN

 

The clash between science and common sense through a weather lens – Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and Franklin College associate dean for research, writing in his regular column at Forbes

 

Life saving devices may also create the perfect incubator for deadly fungal infections – research led by Aaron Mitchell, Distingiushed Research Professor and head of the department of microbiology, reported by UGA Today

 

A meteorite crashes into a Georgia home. Turns out it’s older than Earth – Scott Harris, faculty member in the department of geology, quoted by – USA Today

 

Space rock that punched through roof almost struck resident – analysis of meteorite by Scott Harris reported widely by The New York Times, The Guardian, People, FOX5,  Smithsonian Magazine

 

UGA video with Harris

 

Out of this world research: UGA analyzes and names new meteorite – extended coverage of Scott Harris at UGA Today, ABC News, ANF, WSB-TV, U.S. News & World Report, Associated Press, BBC

 

Feel sticky this summer? That’s because it’s been record muggy East of the Rockies – Marshall Shepherd quoted by ABC News