News Archive - 2013


Science Learning Center and CURO

  Increased CURO participation validates need for Science Learning Center By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu Recent news of a twenty percent increase in participation among undergraduate students through the CURO program, alongside news that UGA will finally be getting a new Science Learning Center, are two great pieces of news for the UGA community. By investing money in a new building and further supporting research, the University is…


Fire walk with him

The department of physics and astronomy hosts a distinguished guest to campus on Thursday sept. 19 with a very unusual bit of expertise to share with all and sundry: To some, fire walking is an act of faith, belief or mind-over-matter, but for condensed matter physicist John Campbell, fire walking is a matter of thermal conductivity. Campbell will lecture on the subject at the University of Georgia Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. in the physics auditorium.…


Exploring Earth Sciences

By JESSICA LUTON  jluton@uga.edu If interest in the Earth sciences is at your core, two events happening this week may very well provide some insight into the kinds of careers that are possible in meteorology and geography. First up, tonight from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 200B of the Geography and Geology building, is an informational meeting entitled “Your Future in Meteorology.”  The UGA Chapter of the American Meteorological Society is…


Balkan poet reads, leads discussion Friday

UGA and the Franklin College welcome Nikola Madzirov, a Macedonian poet whose work has been translated into 30 languages and published around the globe, to Athens to deliver two back-to-back events on Friday Sept. 20 at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave., sponsored by the University of Georgia Creative Writing Program and the departments of Germanic and Slavic studies and comparative literature. Madzirov describes his native Macedonia as a space…


UGA Wind Ensemble, Concert on Lawn

In what is becoming a terrific campus tradition each fall, the UGA Wind Ensemble, under Director of Bands John Lynch, will present a free Concert on the Lawn on North Campus, Friday, September 20 at 12:30 p.m. Bring your friends and office colleagues (and lunch) and come down to the North Campus quad for some pop selections and light classics from one of the Hodgson School's premiere large ensembles. Here's a video from the first concert in 2011…


Fire walk and lecture

Nice slideshow in the Athens Banner Herald on the fire walking demonstration and lecture by John Campbell at the Physics Building last night, in case you missed it. Great event - kudos to the department of physics and astronomy for sponsoring and bringing more science to the public. And here's a great multi-media piece on the event from our colleagues at UGA Public Affairs, Andrew Tucker and Dot Paul:  


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,…


Focus on the faculty: Akinloye Ojo

My primary field is linguistics, and the most interesting thing about the field, I think, is the focus on one of the key capacities that makes us human—language—and its form, structure, acquisition, use, preservation and evolution over time. Growing up, I was always fascinated by language use, especially living in a home with a school teacher (my mother) and an author and broadcaster (my father) who both worked in the two languages that I…

man dancing, with mask
University Theatre present commedia dell'arte classic with 'The Servant of Two Masters'

Assistant professor T. Anthony Marotta makes his directorial debut when University Theatre presents 'The Servant of Two Masters' beginning Oct. 7: Regarded as one of the greatest Italian plays ever written, he said, "The Servant of Two Masters" is in the style of commedia dell'arte, a popular form of street theatre that, for hundreds of years, has featured broad comic characters in masks. "Commedia characters were living cartoons before the age…

structures of glycoenzymes
$7.4 million NIH grant to Franklin researchers

For the second time in two months,  a group of UGA researchers have received significant grant support from the NIH to study and experiment on the sugar molecules known as glycans: [The researchers] have received a five-year $7.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help better understand one of the most fundamental building blocks of life. They are tiny chains of sugar molecules called glycans, and they cover the surface…