News from the Chronicles - March 2016

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Study predicts impacts of sea level rise

Assessing the risk from rising seas using year 2100 population forecasts for all 319 coastal counties in the continental U.S., a new UGA study predicts that more than 13 million American homes will be threatened by rising sea levels by the end of the century: The study is based on analyses by Mathew Hauer for his doctoral work with the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; Deepak Mishra of the UGA department of geography; and Jason…

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Focus on the faculty: Jennifer McDowell

The mysteries of the brain shape the contours of psychology professor Jennifer McDowell's research and teaching: What are your favorite courses and why? “Biologic Foundations of Behavior”— most graduate students in clinical or counseling fields have to take it, end up taking it with me, and a subset of students   always dread it. When I was new, I felt sorry that they were forced to take the class.  I have evolved.  Now I…

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Choral Ensembles Second Thursday Concert

"We're hoping this will be an engaging and entertaining program for the audience, featuring a collage-like succession of choral performances," Bara said. That's a pretty special Second Thursday lineup, featuring many students and highlighting our excellent choral program. Bringing a growing, national reputation to local stages on a regular basis, our large vocal ensembles present a range of repertoire built around soaring artistry that inspires…

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LEAD Athens team makes Athens Transit bus routes available on Google Maps

LEAD Athens is a program of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce designed to develop effective leaders committed to building a vibrant community through Leadership, Education, Awareness and Development. For the past year, The Franklin College has supported LEAD Athens by sponsoring the participation of our senior web services manager, Stephanie Burr Sharp, to work on a LEAD project. And now thanks to the efforts of Sharp's group, a ride on…

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Hodgson School of Music project in Kenya

A music education and piano performance outreach project took Hodgson School of Music students and faculty to Kenya in March: Eldoret, Kenya – Many of UGA’s 35,000 students traveled somewhere over spring break, but most didn’t leave the country. Fewer still crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Only six flew to Nairobi, then took a seven-hour van ride to Eldoret, Kenya, to teach music. A group of eight from the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s music…

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Chemist Michael K. Johnson named Regents Professor

The 2016 recipient of the Regents Professorship is chemist Michael K. Johnson, an internationally renowned pioneer in the development of methods for investigating the biological properties of metals that are essential to life processes in plants and animals.  Regents Professorships are bestowed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on faculty members whose scholarship or creative activity is recognized nationally…

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University Theatre presents Sweeney Todd

Music and murder are on the menu for University Theatre’s final production of the season, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, directed by George Contini.  Performances will be in the Fine Arts Theatre April 14-15, 20-23 at 8 p.m. and April 17 & 24 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $16, $12 for students, and can be purchased at drama.uga.edu/box-office, by phone at 706-542-4400…

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How neurons grow: tracking stem cells

Extraordinarily novel, and painstaking, interdisciplinary research project to develop a better understanding of how neurons grow, connect and function: Goodfellow, a graduate student in the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center, has developed a unique approach of marrying stem cell biology and 3-D imaging to track and label neural stem cells. His findings were published in the journal Advanced Functional Material.…

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Writing Intensive Program launches The Classic

Extraordinary achievements in writing and research by undergraduates in the Writing Intensive Program (WIP) at UGA is the focus of a new online journal, The Classic: Our purpose as a journal is twofold. First, The Classic Journal is a cross-disciplinary publication, fostering a community of diverse writers throughout the arts, humanities, and sciences. Second, this journal aims to provide undergraduates with the…

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Noted and Quoted, March 2016

Franklin faculty expertise continues to gain influence in the media on a wide variety of crucial issues affecting American society and the world. A sample from the month of March: The Washington Post files an editorial written by professors Marshall Shepherd and John Knox. The post is about “the unfortunate demise of the National Achievement Scholarship Program.” U.S. News map: What going viral looked like 120 years ago. An interactive map,…

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