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Lynne Billard selected for Florence Nightingale David Award

We are fortunate to have so many faculty members who work diligently in the classroom, as well as the laboratory - whose scholarly research introduces innovation into their instruction efforts. Our students benefit and the institution grows as a result. Then there is a level of achievement even beyond those two types of outstanding contributions, when a faculty member has an outsized impact on a wide swath of their colleagues, on their careers,…


Exploring Autism in the Theatre - Women's Studies Lecture

  This Week in the Women’s Studies Lecture Series: Exploring Autism in the Theatre By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu Theatre and film provide insight and commentary on the culture around us.  Oftentimes it gives us perspective and helps us put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, but sometimes it also helps us see our own cultural stereotypes and misperceptions. Marla Carlson, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of theatre…


Faculty in the Media

    That's the NOVA special from Wednesday, October 9, on the Aftermath of Megastorms, featuring our own J. Marshall Shepherd among its panel of experts. President of the American Meteorological Society and director of the UGA atmospheric sciences program, Marshall is a regular source for the news media on everything from climate change to aging weather satellites. Earlier in the same week, Marshall was on Atlanta's WSB…


When Health and Culture Collide

MEDLIFE meeting features speaker, service opportunities By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu A meeting tonight offers students a closer look at research and service at UGA. At 7:30 p.m., at the Zell B. Miller Learning Center in room 214, a meeting for the UGA chapter of the student organization MEDLIFE will feature a lecture from UGA Anthropology professor Susan Tanner. The event is of interest to any student interested in the ways in which culture…


SEC Academic Leadership Development Program

Four faculty members, including Tracie Costantino of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, will be among the faculty and administrators from the 14 institutions of the Southeastern Conference that gather at UGA this month for a three-day workshop that aims to develop the next generation of academic leaders. The workshop is part of the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, which began in 2008 and has two components: a university-level program…


Learning About Islam in America

Tate Student Center – Reception Hall Image: corner of Muhammad Ali Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther KIng, Jr., Boulevard in Newark, NJ, via Creative Commons attribution.  


Hasan Elahi: surveillance, data and new media

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes interdisciplinary American artist Hasan Elahi, whose experiences on a government watch list have introduced a new element to his art, and our society: "When Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list, he fought the assault on his privacy by turning his life inside-out for all the world to see."  In 2011 he gave a well received TED talk which can be seen here, and he…


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. UGA comes in at number seven on The College Database’s “50 Colleges Advancing Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)” list.  A university that promotes STEM will mean more…


Beckmann honored with Women in Mathematics Award

For all the attention that mathematics education receives nationally in the U.S., it can be difficult to determine where the front lines are in the battle to help more young people succeed. Beyond the classrooms themselves another is in higher education, where teaching strategies are refined and improved in the search to find more effective pedagogical methods. The department of mathematics is home to one of the leading thinkers on the subject,…


UGA historian featured on The Learning Channel

  By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu A University of Georgia historian was featured on the TLC show “Who do you think you are?” earlier this month. A recent Ph.D. recipient, Joshua Haynes currently teaches four classes in American History and Native American history, but this summer he had a chance to help Trisha Yearwood sort out her family history and discover why her family ended up in Eatonton, Georgia. Along the way, Haynes learned some…


English alumna one of six Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winners

Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000: In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The Rona Jaffe Foundation is giving its nineteenth annual Writers’ Awards under a program that identifies and supports women writers of exceptional talent. The…


Georgia Virtual History Project

One of the new Faculty Research Clusters recently launched by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is the Digital Humanities Lab co-directed by Franklin faculty in the departments of English (Bill Kretzschmar) and history (Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt). This initiative combines digital humanities courses and the strengthening of the university’s digital humanities research core through projects such as the Linguistic Atlas Project and…


Women's Studies: Friday Speaker Series

  From a women’s perspective:  Friday Speaker Series brings together diverse women for thought-provoking lectures By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu           Beginning later this month, a Friday speaker series in the Franklin College Institute for Women’s Studies will feature female representatives from a variety of disciplines.  Faculty and staff from many areas of campus—marine sciences,…


Engaging Students and Communities in Music Research

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music present a lecture by a noted expert on bringing research into communities and vice-versa. Carol Muller, a South African-born Ethnomusicologist at the University of Pennsylvannia, will speak at the Hodgson Schoo, at 4 p.m. Thursday Sept. 5 in room 408.  Muller has published widely on South African music at home and abroad. Her books include Rituals of Fertility…


UGA Apero Africana lunchtime lecture series begins today

  Lectures begin today at 12:15 in room 481 at Tate Center By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu Today is a special historical anniversary.  Fifty years ago today, hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists descended on Washington D.C. to call for civil and economic rights for African Americans. In Washington D.C. today, a special series of events will mark the occasion. A website for the events, http://50thanniversarymarchonwashington.…


East-West Fiction as World Literature

The department of English and the Franklin College welcome professor and dean of humanities at Duke University Srinivas Aravamudan to campus on Sept. 13: [Dr. Aravamudan] will give the first lecture of the 2013-14 Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century British Literature at the University of Georgia. His talk on "East-West Fiction as World Literature: Reconfiguring Hayy ibn Yaqzan" will be Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall…


The humanities: is everything contextual and contingent?

In 1996, a hoax perpetrated by NYU physics professor Alan Sokal exposed some of the ideological and professional blinders of academic publishing, particularly in the humanities. This and other examples build an interesting criticism of academic life as construed in the work of writer Stanley Fish in the New Republic: The empirical truth that Fish proffers can hardly be challenged—intellectual life in this country has been highly professionalized…


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Student and Faculty features

Well, in a way, I live a double life. In the spring semesters, I teach Organic Chemistry II. This is one of the more challenging courses for pre-professional students in their curriculum, and the class size averages approximately 350 students. This class is high intensity, and I really enjoy lecturing to this class size. On one hand, I get to interact with some of the best students in the university. On the other, many students struggle…


Franklin Alum honored with Benjamin Franklin book award

We point out this terrific award for an alum's book for obvious reasons, I think. Franklin Alum honored with Benjamin Franklin book award Book tells real history through fictional characters By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu For author and Franklin alumnus Jonathan Grant, Benjamin Franklin has been a recurring theme. He began his career as an English major (AB, ’76) in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and now he is also been a recent…


Faculty in the News, Summer 2013

(Many) classes were out, but the media kept the phone calls and emails coming to our faculty this summer. Here's a sampling:   Michael Terns, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is quoted in an MIT news article about genome editing.  The work of Mark Abbe, professor of ancient art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, is featured in Archeology magazine “Brown ocean” can fuel inland tropical cyclones – Several reports on a newly…


Professor reveals artistry of the natural environment

Great service feature on the work of Lamar Dodd school of Art professor R.G. Brown on the UGA homepage: Brown, a sculpture professor with the Lamar Dodd School of Art, won a Public Service and Outreach Faculty Fellowship last fall to beam sonar into salt creeks on the coastal islands near Savannah as a creative way to help people see the natural environment from an unexpected point of view. The fellowships offer UGA professors the opportunity…


August Kudos

  Here are just a few of the terrific honors recently received by Franklin College faculty and students (plus one from an alumnus). Faculty   Senior associate dean Hugh Ruppersburg was named interim vice provost for academic ­affairs and began the new position on Aug 1. Earlier this year, Ruppersburg was named University Professor, an honor bestowed electively on UGA faculty who have had a significant impact on the…


New Faculty Tour

Each year, the Franklin College welcomes many new faculty members to the University, which itself welcomed over 120 new full time faculty members since September 2012. Now, for the first time since 2008, 40 of these new professors are taking a tour of the state to become better acquainted with the place and the people they serve: Forty new University of Georgia faculty members will embark on a five-day journey across Georgia Aug. 5-9. They will…

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Young Dawgs research program

The pipeline that connects university research to the public, from new drug treatments to insights about our own history, is one of the very important functions of higher education. The pipeline that connects young students to one day become those very researchers is just as important: Run by UGA Human Resources, Young Dawgs is doing more than capturing the imaginations of high school students and preparing them for future careers. It's also…
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