News Archive - 2012

on planets. Open free to the public, the lecture is named in honor of a long-time and much-honored UGA faculty member, Lars G. Ljungdahl. Russell is a member of the Planetary Chemistry Astrobiology Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on the emergence of life and oxygenic photosynthesis in the context of hydrothermal systems on…

With so many arts events on campus this week, we might take the highly-charged collaborative atmosphere for granted. It's more difficult to do this, however, when you see an event so out-of-the-ordinary that it stops you and demands your attention. "The Little Clay Cart," a classical Sanskrit play performed in English, will be presented Nov. 10 at 2:30 p.m. and Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. in the Cellar Theatre. The play will be performed by the Epic…

Franklin College professor of psychology Leonard Martin tested student's capacity for self-control using some simple tools, and the fascinating results are part of a newly published study: participants performed what is known as the Stroop task where they were asked to identify the color of various words flashed on a screen, which spell out the names of other colors. The Stroop task's goal is to turn off the student's tendency to read the words…

Junior Eva Berlin is currently the featured Amazing Student on the UGA homepage. A double major in art history and romance languages, read why Berlin is another amazing Franklin College student. And the current Focus on the Faculty profile features our own Jean Martin-Williams. Director of the horn studio in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and director of the Lilly Teaching Fellows program, you can read how and why Dr. Martin-Williams is such…

The Community Music School in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, which offers musical instruction to people of all ages, will hold an open house tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. at the School of Music. and the Georgia Museum of Art will be holding a Family day just next door, beginning at the same time. Two good reasons to come out to the east campus arts complex for the morning, as the Spotlight on the Arts festival finishes up a busy but…

Here's a sampling of the many times Franklin College faculty members were quoted or mentioned in news articles around the world: Bill Nelson, former UGA geneticist and biologist, named Oconee County’s Teacher of the Year, Athens Banner-Herald Franklin professor and director of BHSI, Harry Dailey, receives $1.5 million grant to study anemia, The Red and Black Bacteria detect potential for DNA damage, UGA researchers discover, The Red and Black…

  Associate professor of musicology and women's studies Susan Thomas and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology Jeffrey Dean were among four UGA faculty named to the SEC academic leadership program. UGA was elected to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), becoming its 78th member Geology professor Steve Holland was elected as President of the Paleontological Society at the November meeting of the Geological…

 

UGA and the Franklin College are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the African Studies Institute with the events through the middle of November. One of the many lasting pieces of this milestone is the new research collection in the University archives of materials from the Institute: the University of Georgia African Studies Institute has established a research collection in the University Archives of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript…

Associate professor of art and chair of Art X: Expanded Forms, Martijn van Wagtendonk will present his Willson Center lecture on Thursday, Nov.15 at 4 p.m. in room 248 of the Miller Learning Center. His lecture will focus on his kinetic sculptural installation, Song of Lift: Song of Lift is a 5-minute-long, fully automated, viewer-sensitive opera. A 14-armed circular structure hangs in the center of a gallery’s 20-foot ceiling. Its 12-foot…