Research and expertise of Franklin faculty members mentioned widely in the media in September (plus a few notable examples from August): University researchers discover remains of 16th century Spanish fort associate professor of anthropology Victor Thompson mentioned in multiple outlets – R&B, Beaufort Gazette, The Atlantic, Kokomo Tribune, ABH, Ancient Origins HyperSolar names chemistry professor John Stickney as scientific advisor – Yahoo! Finance Sky-high temperatures inside "bounce houses" pose health risk (articles quote geography professors Andrew Grundstein and J. Marshall Shepherd) – CBS News, Ars Technica, ScienceDaily Climate change killing Georgia's salt marsh (marine sciences professor Merryl Alber) – AJC Poem-A-Day – "with grief with fury with action" by professor of English and creative writing Ed Pavlic – The Spectrum Climate change is making floods like Louisiana’s historic once more (UGA Athletic Association Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences J. Marshall Shepherd) – Slate Can “Pokemon Go” make you happier? (psychology professor Keith Campbell) – AJC The conflict at the heart of U.S. retirement plans (associate professor of history Stephen Mihm) – Employee Benefit Adviser Why the Rio Olympics and Leonardo DiCaprio get your attention on climate change (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes Tim Kaine wrongly says Richard Nixon released tax returns during campaign (Stephen Mihm) – PolitiFact Louisiana aftermath: anonymous devastation (Marshall Shepherd) – Philly.com NSF linguistics grant to support study of Southern language variation – UGA Today An expert roundtable's thoughts on a pesky tropical weather system, Invest 99L (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes UGA project aims to catalog diversity of Southern accents (assistant professor in Romance Languages and the Program in Linguistics Margaret Renwick) – WABE 323 reindeer killed by lightning—is this rare from a science perspective? (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes The deadly unsung threat from tropical storm Hermine: Water (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes Forecasters shouldn't apologize for steering people away from beaches (Marshall Shepherd) – The Washington Post Snow joke: United CEO cites Farmers' Almanac in winter plans (associate professor of geography John Knox) – Fox Business Scientists sink teeth into new zooarchaeology study (professor of anthropology Elizabeth Reitz) – The Post and Courier UGA professors transcribing interviews to map out, study regional dialects (Willson Professor in the Humanities William Kretzschmar) – R&B Researchers reveal that magnetic "rust" performs as gold at the nanoscale (Simona Murph, adjunct professor in the department of physics and astronomy) – ScienceDaily, UGA Today Image: Map of Santa Elena fort, via Ancient Origins
