November Faculty in the News

Here's a sampling of the many times Franklin College faculty members were quoted or mentioned in news articles around the world:

Bill Nelson, former UGA geneticist and biologist, named Oconee County’s Teacher of the Year, Athens Banner-Herald

Franklin professor and director of BHSI, Harry Dailey, receives $1.5 million grant to study anemia, The Red and Black

Bacteria detect potential for DNA damage, UGA researchers discover, The Red and Black

The Huffington Post features piece by Richard Elliott Friedman, Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at UGA

The Auburn Plainsman previews Auburn Writers Conference keynote speaker, UGA English professor Judith Ortiz Cofer 

Franklin College faculty will be well-represented in the upcoming issue of the award-winning Georgia Review

Jim Cobb is quoted on efforts to save the Georgia Archives Clayton News Daily, Florida Times-Union

Cobb also penned an Op-ed for the New York Times on the South's enduring conservatism

English professor Bill Kretzschmar quoted by the BBC News in a story on "the Britishisation of American English" 

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes UGA sociologist David Smilde on Chavez's win in Venezuela

Geography faculty members J. Marshall Shepherd and John Knox authored an Op-ed on forecasting Hurricane Sandy that was picked up by hundreds of media outlets worldwide, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to the Japan Times, and including Time Science & Space, Popular Mechanics and Science Friday.

New research on the keys to self-control by psychology professor Leonard Martin quoted in the Boston Globe and elsewhere.

Senior associate dean and professor of English Hugh Ruppersburg quoted in the New York Times on the death of Faulkner expert and friend Joseph Blotner.