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Faculty in the News, October 2012

  Brian Binder, Associate Professor and Marine Sciences Department Head, was quoted in a Red and Black article highlighting opportunities for undergraduates in marine science James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Research Professor of History, was featured in an Atlanta Journal Constitution…
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Physicist and adventurer Francis Slakey

The department of physics and astronomy will host a lecture this week with Georgetown University's Francis Slakey: Slakey will describe the decade-long journey that led him to become the first person to summit the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean during a University of…

Cobb in New York Times

Spaulding Distinguished Research Professor of History James Cobb takes to the pages of the New York Times to describe Republican support in the South: Lest we go overboard in emphasizing the peculiarities of working-class white Southerners, we should remember that racially tinged, working-class…

National award for book by Stillion Southard

And speaking of communication studies, a new book by one of our terrific young faculty members from the department just received a national award: [Assistant professor of communication studies and women's studies] Belinda Stillion Southard will be honored with the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from…
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Franklin Visiting Scholar talk: 'Post-Racial Politics: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama

The department of communication studies, the Franklin College and the University of Georgia Office of Institutional Diversity host a visit and lecture by Mark P. Orbe professor of communication & diversity at  Western Michigan University. The talk, "'Post-Racial' Politics: Public…

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