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A successor to our print magazine, The Franklin Chronicles, this blog allows us to continue to communicate the importance of the arts and sciences to an expanded audience through a variety of means – articles and announcements, video, news and opinion – to pick up the conversation of why the arts, humanities and sciences matter so much at this juncture in the history of our university, our nation and the world. Read more

(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… Read Article

New gallery director in the Lamar Dodd School of Art Katie Geha is featured in the Athens Banner-Herald:

As the incoming gallery director at Lamar Dodd, Geha’s relationship with curatorial work won’t lessen. Geha sees the position as quasi-academic, wherein she’ll act as teacher or mentor… Read Article

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… Read Article

On August 21, WUGA-TV will broadcast a new 30-minute documentary on medical students in Athens, produced and edited by graduate students from the Grady College:

The 30-minute documentary-"Changes and Transitions: Georgia's New Medical Partnership," compiled by a team of health and medical… Read Article

 

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… Read Article