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Noted and Quoted, September 2016

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, ABHAncient 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 PavlicThe 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

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