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Future-Ready Healthcare Careers: How Entrepreneurial Thinking Drives Professional Success

Join Franklin CREATE! for a dynamic panel featuring UGA faculty and alumni who are using entrepreneurial thinking to solve real challenges across the healthcare landscape. Panelists will share how they identified gaps in their fields, designed and tested innovative solutions, and built meaningful career paths by approaching healthcare with curiosity and creativity. Students will explore how embracing an entrepreneurial mindset can strengthen…

Zero Waste UGA Film Screening & Panel Discussion: The Cigarette Surfboard

Film screening, panel discussion and art exhibition. Join the filmmaker, featured surfer, UGA artists and researchers in a discussion of ocean stewardship and strategies to reduce single use plastics. Sponsors: UGA Office of Sustainability, UGA Sustainability Certificate, UGA Marine Extension / Sea Grant, UGA Arts Collaborative, UGA Department of Anthropology  

Linguistics Alumni Panel and Retirement Reception in Honor of Prof. Bill Kretzschmar

Join guests for a retirement reception and alumni panel conversation in honor of William Kretzschmar, Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, whose work has influenced not just the fields of linguistics and English but interdisciplinary work, digital humanities, and more around the world. In the panel, former students and mentees of Kretzschmar will come together to discuss his profound impact on their professional journeys. As they…

Artistry Unleashed | Conversations with Accomplished Alumni

Translating the major you love to a career you'll love can be a challenge. At this event, this panel of Lamar Dodd alumni will join us to share information about their careers, including how they chose to incorporate the arts into their career paths and what steps they took to successfully carve their lives after graduation. Our panelists will offer practical advice to help you begin planning your future careers as well as offer vivid examples…
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Student satellite team moves one step closer to space

The ingenuity and hardwork of the Small satellite Research Labaoratory continues to lead the project up, up and away: A University of Georgia research laboratory led by a group of undergraduate students is one of only two university research programs chosen by the United States Air Force to build and launch satellites into space. The UGA Small Satellite Research Laboratory, which is supported by faculty from the Franklin College of…
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Psychology professor will study astronaut health for NASA

Dorothy Carter, assistant professor of psychology, is the principal investigator on one of only seven proposals accepted by NASA's Human Research Program to support astronaut health on missions to Mars: NASA's Human Research Program will fund seven proposals to help answer questions about astronaut health and performance during future long duration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. The selected proposals will investigate the impact of the space…
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UGA CubeSat one step closer to space

Great news from NASA for students and faculty working diligently to design and build UGA's first satellite: The University of Georgia CubeSat project is among 34 small satellites selected by NASA to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard missions planned to launch in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The UGA project, led by a team of undergraduate students and including faculty from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, performs…
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Swarms of Satellites: The NASA Nodes CubeSat Mission

The Small Satellite Research Laboratory of UGA presents Swarms of Satellites: The NASA Nodes CubeSat Mission on Friday November 11 at 3:30 pm in MLC 348 Come learn about Small Satellites, specifically CubeSats, and how they are pushing the limits of space based operations. Jasper Wolfe and UGA Alumni Roger Hunter from NASA Ames Research Center will give a review of the NASA Nodes CubeSat mission -- objectives, requirements, and…
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Dawn Of the DAWGSat program

The time when UGA did not have a space program is soon to be ending, thanks to some truly ambitious and imaginative undergraduate students and an interdisciplinary faculty team: A University of Georgia project led by a team of undergraduate students and including faculty from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering was recently selected for funding by NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. The UGA proposal, "CubeSat…
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NASA and Cube-sats

NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI) provides opportunities for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned for upcoming launches. These CubeSats are flown as auxiliary payloads on previously planned missions. CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites are approximately four inches long, have a volume of about one quart and weigh about 3 pounds. A lecture on the program will be held…
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Astronomers discover 'young Jupiter' exoplanet

Looking at younger star systems in the early stages of development is the best way for astronomers to learn how our solar system evolved. In the new issue of Science, a team of astronomers that includes Inseok Song from the department of physics and astronomy has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young star system that could serve as a guide for understanding how planets formed around our sun: The new planet, called 51 Eridani…

Goddard Memorial Trophy

The Franklin College has a special relationship with NASA's Kepler Mission in the person of alumnus and Kepler project manager, Roger Hunter. And so we are especially proud that Hunter and the Kepler Mission will receive the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy from the National Space Club in a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on March 7: The Kepler Team will receive the Club’s preeminent award, the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy. Kepler has…

Space camp

Terrific show of student work at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, opening tonight, featured in an article in the Athens Banner Herald: “Space Camp,” the larger exhibition featuring Lee’s work, showcases 15 student artists currently working in Lamar Dodd’s studios. It’s reception is 7-9 p.m. tonight at Lamar Dodd at 270 River Road. Installation[s] art is not about object making, Hwangbo said. Space is the thing. Instead of the art hanging on the…
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