Earth News from the Chronicles
Friday, September 30, 2022 - 1:34pmUniversity of Georgia oceanographer Samantha Joye has been awarded the 2022 Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration.
Awarded jointly by the Marine Technology Society and the Society for Underwater Technology, the award is named for American oceanographer and marine policy specialist Capt. Don…
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - 4:00pmA new naming system for microbes, Greenland's zombie ice, a Finnish scholar on a American history, and tributes to a beloved campus colleague and friend lead Franklin College media mentions and experts During September:
Greenland ‘zombie ice’ an ominous warning for future, new study finds – Tom…
Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 11:18amUGA’s Audrey Ward won Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Yeast Microscopy Competition in the category of Best Special Effects and Editing with “Ghost in the Cell,” this spectral shot of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
To create the image, she and Yee Mon Thu of Colby College used calcofluor-white staining…
Thursday, September 1, 2022 - 2:17pmDefying all expectations, a fern no larger than a dinner plate currently holds the title for highest chromosome count, with a whopping 720 pairs crammed into each of its nuclei. This penchant of ferns for hoarding DNA has stumped scientists, and the intractable size of their genomes has made it…
Friday, August 26, 2022 - 11:09amBroad coverage of big stories on race, health, climate change, weather safety, and history featured research findings and expertise of faculty from across the Franklin College over the summer. A sampling of ongoing, highly impactful scholarship from our colleagues:
Black, Latino people more likely…
