Human Nature News from the Chronicles
How do we change or mis-remember what we see with our own eyes? New research from the department of psychology seeks to unpack this intriguing process:
In just a few short seconds, the human brain helps most people extend the scene beyond what is actually seen.
Scientists at the University of…
Great news this month about our faculty, students and alumni. A few of the highlight of accomplishments and awards in the Franklin College:
University Professor Lynn Billard of the department of statistics was selected to receive the 2013 Florence Nightingale David award by the Committee of…
Here's a sampling of Franklin College faculty writing and quoted in the media this month:
“The secret bromance of Nixon and Brezhnev” – Posting by associate professor of history Stephen Mihm in Bloomberg News, picked up by the History News Network.
A second posting by Mihm is in the same…
One of the new Faculty Research Clusters recently launched by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is the Digital Humanities Lab co-directed by Franklin faculty in the departments of English (Bill Kretzschmar) and history (Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt). This initiative combines digital…
Glycobiology is very complex science - the study the structures, biosynthesis and biology of the sugar chains, or glycans, that are essential components in all living things. Glycans have been the focus of much attention by UGA researchers recently, and now glycobiology is at the center of big new…