News Archive - 2016

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Kudos, September 2016

Jeopardy! a Guggenheim Fellowship, new associate provost for international education and a festschrift... quite a month for Franklin College students, faculty and alumni: PhD theatre student Seth Noel Wilson is on Jeopardy! this week – Wilson won on Tuesday night and will return. What is fantastic news for a graduate student? The University of Georgia moved up three spots to No. 18 in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best…

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2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecturer Suzanne Massie

The author who wrote, together with her then husband Robert K. Massie, the influential book Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of the Russian Empire, Suzanne Massie will deliver the 2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecture in the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Friday September 23 at 5:30 p.m. in room S150: Massie is both the 2016 Shouky Shaheen Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts and keynote…

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Expanding opportunity

The news earlier this week of national recognition for UGA for its efforts to foster an inclusive campus [for the third year in a row, no less], dovetails nicely with the renewal of a major new NSF grant for a program that has helped triple minority enrollment in STEM fields at the University: UGA initially received funding to implement the Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation a decade ago, and the program will…


Shepherd, Garvin named SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows

We are happy to announce today that two Franklin College of Arts and Sciences professors--Marshall Shepherd and Chris Garvin-- have been named SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows:  Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program and the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geography in the Franklin College, is a leading international expert in weather and…

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Communication Studies Professor Gives Debate Insight

If you were among one of the 84 million viewers who watched the debate on Monday night, you may have had your own take on who "won" the debate. The debate was the most-watched Presidential debate in history and while many commentators and political science experts had their own assessment of the debate, one of Franklin College's reknowned communication studies experts had a different kind of assessment. Edward Panetta, who has been the director…


Art Tonight at Lamar Dodd

Tonight, the closing reception for “Spectra: Lamar Dodd School of Art Faculty Exhibition" will begin at 7 p.m. at the Dodd Galleries. It's your last chance to view this vast collection of Lamar Dodd faculty art.  Named for the broad array of styles conveyed, the exhibition presents works from the school’s many departments,including ceramics, printmaking, photography, metalwork, drawing and painting and sculpture, this latest feature…

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Faculty profile: Cecilia Rodrigues

"I've always loved teaching and language, so the university was a natural path for me," Rodrigues said. "I feel a perfect connection with students that is so much more than just being in the classroom and doing research." As campus communicators, we get to spend time with the most impressive people you'd ever hope to meet. Dr. Rodrigues fits this bill and more, and her passion for the humanities makes her one of the crucial expert voices on the…

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Hodgson Wind Ensemble presents "American Guernica" Oct. 6

The composition tries to capture that moment: its precursor, the act itself and its wake. The inscription on the score reads, “for Carol, Addie Mae, Cynthia, and Denise; the four girls ages 14, 14, 14, and 11, killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church.”  The HWE and other ensembles in the school of music continue to incorporate innovative programming to win over new audiences. The repertoire here is first-rate, and inviting audience members…

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Klein receives Festschrift commemorating scholarly career

Professor of linguistics, Classics, and Germanic and Slavic languages Jared Klein has been honored with the publication of a festschrift celebrating his career and contributions to the discipline of Indo-European linguistics. The book-length volume of original, scholarly articles, Tavet Tat Satyam, was published by Beech Stave Press on the occasion of Klein’s seventieth birthday. The presentation of a festschrift is a European tradition honoring…

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Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems

A perennial political and economic issue, the state of American infrastructure in the face of rapid environmental and social changes is the focus of a new UGA institute that will involve collaboration with Franklin College faculty: The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems will be administered by the College of Engineering and will include faculty members from more than nine academic units across campus. Faculty in the new institute…