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A successor to our print magazine, The Franklin Chronicles, this blog allows us to continue to communicate the importance of the arts and sciences to an expanded audience through a variety of means – articles and announcements, video, news and opinion – to pick up the conversation of why the arts, humanities and sciences matter so much at this juncture in the history of our university, our nation and the world. Read more

Printmaker F. Townsend Morgan exibition at GMOA

While there are many exhibits at the Georgia Museum of Art that are worthy of your time, a new exhibit provides insight about an artist and a timescape for the first time. The work of lesser known printmaker, F. Townsend Morgan, is on display for the first time since he died in 1965 in an… Read Article

graphic with people, chains, words

Happy Juneteenth

Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the… Read Article

photo of blue hole point, palau

Mapping the change in deep ocean habitats

Google maps for the undersea world? A new University of Georgia project is designed to make that become a reality.

The project, Mapping Deep Blue Habitat in a Changing Climate, aims to create an underwater 3-D map that illustrates spatial information about habitat characteristics like… Read Article

students with professor at ancient tomb opening

UGA Classics in Rome

UGA Classics in Rome is currently underway under the direction of Professors Elena Bianchelli and Chris Gregg, a Mellon Professor of Classical Archaeology.

Participants and professors live in a small family-run, centrally located hotel in Rome and in their six-week stay they become… Read Article

bacteria with marine diatom

UGA joins collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems

The Simons Foundation has established a new collaboration investigating the mysteries of the microscopic communities that produce more than half of Earth’s oxygen, form the base of the marine food web and cycle nutrients through the ecosystem. The Simons Collaboration on Theory of Microbial… Read Article

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