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Protein-protein interactions and iron homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Dr. Mario Rivera, University of Kansas department of chemistry professor, presents a lecture entitled"Protein-protein interactions and iron homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa." Hosted by UGA associate professor William Lazilotta.


TGIF: Why do cells need to oxygen and how do they do it?

Dr. Christopher West presents a lecture entitled "Why do cells need to sense oxygen and how do they do it?" Hosted by: Biochemistry Graduate Student Association  


Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Vivienne Varay

Jewelry and Metals MFA candidate, Vivienne Varay will discuss her group exhibition Forms of Adornment: Flesh and the Erotic.


Shouky Shaheen Lecturer: Willian Rudolph, San Antonio Museum of Art

Dr. William Keyse Rudolph is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator and the Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.  Exhibitions he has organized include “Thomas Sully: Painted Performance” (2013–2014), “In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans,” (2011–2012), “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist” (2008–2009), and "Charles Sheeler’…


VAS Series Artist: George Scheer

George Scheer is the co-founder and Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin, and South Elm Projects, a curated series of place-based public art…


Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Ry McCullough

MFA candidate in printmaking and book arts, Ry McCullough will discuss his curated exhibition Slagfields​, a two person exhibition that features word by McCullough and Findlay, Ohio-bases artist Ian Breidenbach. 


VAS Series Artist: Farrah Karapetian, Lecture

Farrah Karapetian is a Los Angeles based artist who works in sculpture, installation and photography. Much of her work is photo based which she achieves without the use of the camera in a process known as photograms. Karapetian explores reality and representation through the constructed image and the use of different mediums. She believes in transparency of process, and in the capacity of photography to communicate the marks of its making. Her…


VAS Series Artist: Henrik Drescher, Lecture

Born in Copenhagen, Henrik Drescher and his family immigrated to the United States in 1967. After only a semester, he broke from his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to begin a career in illustration. He also traveled throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, keeping journals of notes and drawings that he later used as portfolios. Drescher’s editorial illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times, The…


Catherine Robson, "Talking to the Enemy: Germany's Capture of British Voices in the Great War"

Catherine Robson is a professor in the English Department at New York University, where she teaches nineteenth-century British cultural and literary studies; she is also a long-time faculty member of the Santa Cruz-based Dickens Project.  She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (2001) and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (2012), and co-…


Lunchtime Time Machine: What did the spirits say about Cuba’s future?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Reinaldo Román. Professor Román teaches courses in the history of the Caribbean, Latin America, and religion; he is currently working on a new book about spiritualism and utopian politics in Cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Are women citizens or mothers of the nation in Africa?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Husseina Dinani. Professor Dinani teaches courses in the history of Africa after 1800, and on women in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working on a book about women, citizenship, and development in Tanzania. Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did Americans visit cemeteries for fun?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Akela Reason. Professor Reason teaches courses in U.S. intellectual and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the history of American cities and material culture. She is currently preparing a study of the politics of Civil War monuments in New York City during the Gilded Age. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza.…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did Iraqi poets spark a revolution?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Kevin Jones. Professor Jones teaches courses in the history of the Middle East, and he is currently writing a book on the political functions of poetry in Iraq between the first and second world wars. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did a conservative housewife, an accountant and the 1964 Presidential candidate go green?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the second half of the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His recent book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why do historians fudge?

This installment of the history department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by professor Jim Cobb. Professor Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society, and culture in the American South, and you’ll find him in the Flagpole as the columnist behind Cobbloviate. Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Mourning Lincoln

"Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the Civil War," presented by Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University. Public responses to Lincoln's assassination have been well chronicled, but Hodes is the first to delve into personal and private responses—of African-Americans and whites, yankees and confederates, men and women, soldiers and civilians—investigating the story of the nation's first presidential…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did ancient love spells work?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern’s most recent book, The Prince of Medicine, is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on a global history of menopause. She teaches courses in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law. Students of all majors…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Did Europeans ever stop "going Medieval" on each other?

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Steve Soper. Professor Soper teaches the second half of the western civ survey and courses on modern Europe, Italy, and microhistory. He is working on a new book about political prisoners in southern Italy on the eve of Italian unification.   Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.


Elizabeth Heath Lecture: Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age

Baruch College historian Elizabeth Heath will give a lecture entitled: "Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century" From Heath's Baruch College profile: Elizabeth Heath joins Baruch as Assistant Professor of History. An historian of Modern France and the French Empire, her research focuses on colonialism, globalization, and everyday life…


Alice Walker: "Standing in Georgia, Writing to the World"

A native of Eatonton, Walker is the author of seven novels, including "The Color Purple," for which she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Walker has been designated the Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Walker will give a talk and read from her literary works in this keynote Delta Chair event. The event free and open to the public, and seating is general admission. Overflow seating with a live video…


Visit by Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Inaugural Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

Alice Walker, a native of Eatonton, Georgia, will visit the UGA campus Oct. 14 through Oct. 15. Walker is the author of novels, including The Color Purple, Meridian, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, books of poetry and essays, and seminal collections of short stories, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love and Trouble.   She will participate in programs with the campus and local…


Jennifer Moxley Reading

Author and poet Jennifer Moxley will read from her work at Cine. Moxley is the author of six books of poetry, a book of essays, and a memoir. In addition, she has translated three books from the French. Her poems have been included in two Norton Anthologies, Postmodern American Poetry and American Hybrid. Her book The Sense Record(2002) was picked as one of the five best poetry books of the year by both Stride …


Book Signing and Lecture by Prof. Barbara McCaskill

Prof. McCaskill will discuss and read from her book, Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (UGA Press, May 2015). This event takes place in downtown Athens at Cine, 234 West Hancock Avenue, Athens, GA 30601.  Free and open to the public.  Contact bmccaski@uga.edu with any questions.


Franklin faculty honored with Regents awards

Two Franklin College professors along with the First-Year Odyssey program, which if you remember also originated in the Franklin College, were honored with excellence awards from the USG Board of Regents: • William Finlay, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award; • Paula Lemons, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular…

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Beckmann Kazez recognized with Regents' award

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics Sybilla Beckmann Kazez received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents:   The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences professor was chosen for the award that goes to one faculty member annually from research institutions in the university system. Awards also are given to one faculty member from the system's regional and state…
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