Faculty in the Media, February 2014

Franklin College faculty continue to be quoted and to share their wide range of expertise across a variety of media of platforms. A sample from the past month:

Atlanta Council President Ceasar Mitchell joins American Meteorological Society President J. Marshall Shepherd during the 94th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta

AMS conferece also covered by the Red & Black

Shepherd was also a featured guest on the CBS Sunday morning program Face the Nation on February 16

Atlanta Journal Constitution column on Atlanta's botched response to the January snow quoted Shepherd

Broad cross-section of research by Franklin faculty members featured in a special section feature in the Athens Banner Herald, from obesity to bioenergy to cancer to global diseases 

A project to map the human brain led by associate professor of computer science Tianming Liu, in partnership with Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, could help in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia

Grant to study a single-celled organism off the coast of Georgia, led by Distinguished Research Professor Tim Hollibaugh, in an article by the Associated Press

CBC Radio interviewed Chris Abin, a Ph.D. student in microbiology, about the discovery of a poison-breathing bacteria that may one day become a useful tool for industry and environmental protection

Washington Post blog quoted in full an open letter to President Obama from associate professor of Spanish Dana Bultman regarding K-12 education reform and its effect on classroom teachers, including her husband

Associate professor of history Stephen Mihm writes about embaattled hedge fund SAC Capital Avisors in his Bloomberg.com column

Mihm remembers the late folk musician Pete Seeger, an “accidental entrepreneur and unwitting capitalist” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Bloomberg)

Henry “Fritz” Schaefer is ranked 38th most influential scientist in the world by thebestschools.org

The Red & Black covers the extensive record of statewdie digs in the department of archeology 

Associate professor of geography John Knox penned an Op-ed in the Athens Banner Herald, Open House an opportunity to see the Truth about Clarke County Schools