News Archive - 2026

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Franklin College of Arts and Sciences researcher Rongjie (RJ) Liu earns NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor of Statistics in UGA's Franklin College Department of Statistics, Rongjie (RJ) Liu, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance artificial intelligence (AI) tools for understanding neurological disease. The NSF CAREER Award is among the most competitive honors for early-career researchers in the United States, recognizing faculty who demonstrate strong potential as both researchers and…

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Scott Kleiner awards invest in the next generation of Franklin philosophers

Each year, the Scott Kleiner Awards support graduate students in philosophy whose work stretches across disciplines, traditions, and continents. This year’s recipients are pursuing questions about art, games, ethics, sound, metaphysics, pedagogy, and ancient philosophy while balancing pedagogy, parenting, leadership, and international scholarship. Together, their stories show how targeted support can shape research trajectories and widen access…

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Franklin College researchers part of UGA effort to study life-altering tick-borne allergy

Researchers at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences are helping unravel the mystery behind alpha-gal syndrome, a potentially life-threatening allergy triggered by tick bites that can make everyday foods like beef, pork, and lamb dangerous for some people. As diagnoses rise across the Southeast and beyond, scientists at the UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center are studying the biology of tick saliva and the sugar molecule known…

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