Human Nature News from the Chronicles
Great work and career accomplishments by Franklin College faculty and alumni were celebrated widely in September. Here are just a few:
Four UGA faculty members, including professor of genetics Jessica Kissinger and Franklin College associate dean Kecia Thomas were selected as the university's 2015-…
What we mean when we talk about the university experience being about more than training for a career or simply finding a job is given perfect voice in the words of Amazing Student Leighton Rowell:
As an intern for the local newspaper during my senior year of high school, I wrote an op-ed about my…
On the heels of news from over the summer on the UGA informatics initiative, proposals and new positions have been approved at the university level that moves UGA a few more steps in that direction:
[UGA] is building upon its established strengths in the interdisciplinary field of informatics by…
A NASA Interdisciplinary sciences project by UGA faculty lead by Thomas Mote and including Patricia Yager and Renato Castelao collected data this summer at the top of the world:
On Greenland’s ice sheet, a vast icy landscape crisscrossed by turquoise rivers and dotted with melt water lakes, a small…
Researchers in the department of psychology analyzing borderline personality disorder (BPD) have contributed something very interesting in conceptualizing the disorder's connections to empathy:
"Our results showed that people with BPD traits had reduced activity in brain regions that support…