Society News from the Chronicles


Shepherd at TedX Atlanta

Geography professor and director of the UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program Marshall Shepherd is among the speakers in today's Tedx Atlanta Line up: Even as we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles, humanity finds reasons to believe in a better world. On May 7th, from noon to six, TEDxAtlanta will…
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President Adams at HHSOM commencement

It's that time of year, and the UGA commencement exercises on Friday May 10 are an exciting culmination of profound investments in and expansions of human potential. We salute all UGA graduates and the feeling of accomplishment that extends to family and friends, and of course to faculty and staff…

Farmer Op-ed: the art of science and politics

Chair of our biological sciences division in the Franklin College Mark Farmer is a regular contributor to public debates on support for science in the classroom and lab. Yesterday in the pages and pixels of the Athens Banner Herald he weighed in on the creeping politicization of the NSF: Over the…
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Digital capital in the classroom

Some great new research published out of the department of sociology, concerning the signals teachers get from students and how teacher perceptions shape student performance: Elementary school students bring varied skills and experience to the classroom, commonly referred to as cultural capital.…

Big Data

We're told how it's going to change everything, and truly we now exist in a sea of information: This explosion of data is relatively new. As recently as the year 2000, only one-quarter of all the world’s stored information was digital. The rest was preserved on paper, film, and other analog media.…