News Archive - 2012

  As noted earlier this summer, the Franklin College was very proud of the announcment that alumna Natasha Trethewey had been appointed the next poet laureate of the United States. And now we are thrilled that UGA will welcome her back to campus during the Arts Festival in November: Natasha Trethewey, U.S. poet laureate for 2012-2013, will deliver the University of Georgia Charter Lecture as one of the signature events during UGA's…

    The Wilkes County News-Reporter highlighted the dedication of a sculpture by Lamar Dodd School of Art Instructor Kinzey Branham that is part of Washington, Georgia’s, new monument to black Revolutionary War soldiers Psychology Professor and Department Head W. Keith Campbell was mentioned in a Washington Times story on the narrowing “he-she” gap in books  and an article on narcissism among politicians. Spalding Distinguished…

  Faculty Kudos, August 2012 “Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia,” a monograph by Noel Fallows, Professor of Spanish and Associate Dean of International and Multidisciplinary Programs in the Franklin College, earned the prestigious La corónica International Book Award Daniel Krashen, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to create nimble ways to analyze mathematical…

In October, UGA Opera Theatre will present a concert performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman: Jacques Offenbach’s supernatural tale of unrequited love, in a two-night presentation on Thursday, October 11 and Saturday, October 13 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets for the program, part of the 2012-2013 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, are $18/$5 for students and available via the UGA…

Lots of great coverage of the Franklin College in Columns this week, including a nice front page story on new faculty member Lawrence Sweet: A clinical neuropsychologist whose research explores the relationship between physical changes in the brain and conditions as diverse as dementia, nicotine dependence and obesity has joined UGA as the inaugural Gary R. Sperduto Professor of Psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Lawrence…

The Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde is famous for almost as many popular quotations as Mark Twain or Orwell. His late-Victorian world was peppered with all manner of dandyism and wise-crackery, captured perfectly in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. But his life was also colored by his homosexuality, closeted as it was with his wife and children, which eventually led to his imprisonment and death. A fascinating artist, and now his trial will…

The 2012-2013 Dodd Professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, jeweler Lola Brooks, will present the Dodd Chair Lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 5:30 pm in room S151 of the school of art. The lecture is free and public is invited to attend. Brooks is an artist of international renown, whose work can be found in galleries and collections across the country including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She was at UGA a couple of years ago as…