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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

New Faculty Tour

Each year, the Franklin College welcomes many new faculty members to the University, which itself welcomed over 120 new full time faculty members since September 2012. Now, for the first time since 2008, 40 of these new professors are taking a tour of the state to become better acquainted with… Read Article


English PhD Matthew Nye wins Emerging Writer's Residency and Book Prize

Congratulations to Matthew Nye, a PhD student in English who was selected as the sixth winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency and Book Prize:

[Nye] will be in residence on the campus of Lake Forest College from February 1 to March 31, 2014, where he will work… Read Article


Joye organizes research expedition to Hercules incident site

 


NOAA supercomputers: 200 trillion calculations per second

As we enter the height of hurricane season, forcasters have a new model to improve their work. Newly upgraded supercomputers of NOAA’s National Weather Service are now more than twice as fast in processing sophisticated computer models to provide more accurate forecasts.

The scientific… Read Article


UGA Symphony Orchestra to open 2nd Thursday season Sept.12

The Second Thursday Scholarship Series is one of the great traditions at the university and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the series is set to begin anew on Thursday Sept. 12:

The series' opening concert will feature the UGA Symphony Orchestra Sept. 12 in a performance with bass-… Read Article

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