Human Nature News from the Chronicles

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Researchers investigate personal hurricane evacuation decisions

An important question with relevance throughout our region is the focus of a new research collaboration: Why do some people living in the path of a major hurricane decide to evacuate while others stay put? Prashant Doshi, a professor of computer science, and professor of psychology Adam Goodie…
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Noted and Quoted, November 2017

Franklin faculty and students appeared in a wide variety of media during the month of November. A sample: UGA studies how stress affects vaccine effectiveness – assistant professor of psychology Katherine Ehrlich quoted in the Red &Black Study says public’s politics are correlated with climate…
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Kudos, November 2017

Graduate student papers, TedX, AAAS and new offices for our advising colleagues lead the most recent round up of kudos and congratulations: UGA sociology graduate students Tara Sutton, Brittany Martin, and Eric Klopack accepted the ‪@ASCRM41 Division on Women & Crime graduate student paper…
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Three UGA Plant Center faculty named AAAS Fellows

Two Franklin College faculty members are among three UGA professors named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: [The] three faculty members are among 396 new AAAS Fellows who will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue-representing science and…
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Interdisciplinary classroom: Go ask ALICE

Created by Gutierrez, professor of ­mathematics, and his students as a part of a National Science Foundation grant, ALICE is 21 years in the making and originally began as a program called Literatronica as part of an adaptive learning grant.  In discovering how and why UGA continues its…

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