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Students, faculty, and alumni from across the university gathered in Brooks Hall on Tuesday to hear from economist Lars Peter Hansen, a 2013 recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel and this year’s Bradley Lecturer.  

Hansen, the… Read Article

As head of UGA’s Department of Geology, Adam Milewski says people are often surprised that his work focuses on water. But Milewski, a hydrogeologist who studies the water found beneath earth’s surface, will be the first to tell you that geology includes more than rocks.

Milewski is also a… Read Article

A weather expert's “humanities-atmospheric sciences rabbit hole” raises new questions about how early writers observed the natural world.

This story is part of Humanities in Practice, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences series exploring the value of the humanities in work… Read Article

Jane Odum developed MyFixam through the inaugural Franklin CREATE! Summer Startup Academy 

Three months after Jane Odum earned just $9 from the first product she tried to sell, the University of Georgia computer science Ph.D. candidate stood on a Los Angeles stage to accept a $100… Read Article

Nick Foukal educates the next generation of oceanographers

Nick Foukal’s fascination with the ocean began decades ago, on the waters off the coast of Nahant, Massachusetts, a 3,000-resident beach town 13 miles north of Boston. He remembers spending summers taking the family’s rowboat out with… Read Article