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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

Franklin scientists continue to unravel stem cell mysteries

New changes in molecular structures on the surface of stem cells, recently discovered by UGA researchers, may play a critical role in the specialization process of embryonic growth:

Their study, published recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, demonstrated how the genetic… Read Article


Shepherd and Knox opine on Sandy and forecasting in the AJC

How do we understand the potential of a megastorm like Sandy, currently battering the East coast of the U.S.? Geography professors Marshall Shepherd and John Knox explain in an Op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Advances in numerical weather forecasting during the past several… Read Article

lerman in studio with dancers in motion.

Choreographer Liz Lerman

Choregrapher, performer, educator and writer Liz Lerman is in residency at UGA this week and will give a public lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. in room 248 of the Miller Learning Center.

Lerman organizes highly collaborative works that cut across traditional disciplines and… Read Article


Two Franklin faculty among four UGA profs accepted into SEC leadership program

Four UGA faculty members were recently accepted as Administrative Fellows in the Academic Leadership Development Program of the SECU, the academic unit of the Southeastern Conference:

The Administrative Fellows will work with Libby Morris, vice provost for academic affairs who is… Read Article

Larry Young in a blue shirt.

The mechanics of physical attraction

Lots of great speakers on campus during the last week of October. I'll talk about dance choreographer Liz Lerman next week but the deparment of psychology will also bring to campus a neuroscientist whose work identifies the neural and genetic mechanisms that underlie physical attraction, love… Read Article

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