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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

'The Future of Food' workshop, Oct.1

As world population stretches past seven billion, many questions come to the fore about how to support so many people. For example, what if everyone elsewhere in the world consumed meat at the rate of the developed world? Does growing crops for transportation fuel put pressure on food crops? To… Read Article


Dailey receives $1.5 million NIH grant

UGA microbiologist Harry Dailey has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a class of previously unidentified of anemias:

 

Dailey will receive funding over the next four years from the highly competitive SHINE—Stimulating Hematology… Read Article


Wind Ensemble on the Lawn

One week from today on Friday, September 28, the UGA Wind Ensemble will present another free concert on the lawn on the north campus quad:

The event hearkens back to the turn-of-the-century tradition of afternoon band performances in the park and will include patriotic selections… Read Article


English alums collaborate on Cofer book

 

The contributors include award-winning poets, fiction writers, and scholars of American Literature, Latino/a Studies and Women’s Studies, which makes this collection a unique and much-needed addition to the scholarship of Hispanic, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, multicultural, and… Read Article

professor and her co-author in the lab.

New drug targeting utilizes nanoparticles

 

The nanoscale continues to unlock dynamic potential of research into therapeutic drug delivery:

researchers at the University of Georgia have refined the drug delivery process further by using nanoparticles to deliver drugs to a specific organelle within cells.

By… Read Article

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