July Faculty in the News

Franklin College faculty were quoted in major national and international media outlets including the New York Times, NBC News and the U.K. Guardian.

• Psychology Professor and Department Head Keith Campbell was quoted in a Sydney Morning Herald article on adultery
• Flagpole described the “Tiny Universe” exhibit at the Lamar Dodd School of Art "unexpected, concise and conspicuously rowdy”
• Professor of Geography Steven Holloway was featured in U.S. News and World Report article in relation to a study he co-authored showing that segregation still persists, especially for African-Americans
• The Athens Banner-Herald covered efforts by a Florida family to raise funds for Associate Professor of Cellular Biology James Lauderdale’s eyesight research
• Psychology Professor L. Stephen Miller was quoted in an Associated Press story on Georgia’s strict standard for proving mental disability in death penalty cases
• Geography Professor and Department Head Thomas Mote was mentioned in more than 850 articles in relation to his observation of extreme melting of Greenland’s ice sheet this summer. Coverage in New York Times, NBC News, the U.K. Guardian, National Geographic and NPR, among others
• David Saltz, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, was featured in a New York Times article on the use of robots in theatre and in an Athens-Banner Herald article
• Geography Professor J. Marshall Shepherd was cited in an EarthSky story on NOAA’s 2011 State of the Climate Report
• Associate Professor of Physics Inseok Song was featured in more than 100 media outlets in conjunction with a study he co-authored that appeared in Nature and challenges conventional theories about planet formation. Coverage in the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine and the U.K. Register
• NSF Science News 360 and Nanotechnology Now highlighted a new single-step method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses, bacteria and chemical contaminants developed by Professor of Physics Yiping Zhao and his colleagues