Research and expertise of Franklin faculty members mentioned widely in the media in September (plus a few notable examples from August):
University researchers discover remains of 16th century Spanish fort associate professor of anthropology Victor Thompson mentioned in multiple outlets – R&B, Beaufort Gazette, The Atlantic, Kokomo Tribune, ABH, Ancient Origins
HyperSolar names chemistry professor John Stickney as scientific advisor – Yahoo! Finance
Sky-high temperatures inside "bounce houses" pose health risk (articles quote geography professors Andrew Grundstein and J. Marshall Shepherd) – CBS News, Ars Technica, ScienceDaily
Climate change killing Georgia's salt marsh (marine sciences professor Merryl Alber) – AJC
Poem-A-Day – "with grief with fury with action" by professor of English and creative writing Ed Pavlic – The Spectrum
Climate change is making floods like Louisiana’s historic once more (UGA Athletic Association Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences J. Marshall Shepherd) – Slate
Can “Pokemon Go” make you happier? (psychology professor Keith Campbell) – AJC
The conflict at the heart of U.S. retirement plans (associate professor of history Stephen Mihm) – Employee Benefit Adviser
Why the Rio Olympics and Leonardo DiCaprio get your attention on climate change (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes
Tim Kaine wrongly says Richard Nixon released tax returns during campaign (Stephen Mihm) – PolitiFact
Louisiana aftermath: anonymous devastation (Marshall Shepherd) – Philly.com
NSF linguistics grant to support study of Southern language variation – UGA Today
An expert roundtable's thoughts on a pesky tropical weather system, Invest 99L (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes
UGA project aims to catalog diversity of Southern accents (assistant professor in Romance Languages and the Program in Linguistics Margaret Renwick) – WABE
323 reindeer killed by lightning—is this rare from a science perspective? (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes
The deadly unsung threat from tropical storm Hermine: Water (Marshall Shepherd) – Forbes
Forecasters shouldn't apologize for steering people away from beaches (Marshall Shepherd) – The Washington Post
Snow joke: United CEO cites Farmers' Almanac in winter plans (associate professor of geography John Knox) – Fox Business
Scientists sink teeth into new zooarchaeology study (professor of anthropology Elizabeth Reitz) – The Post and Courier
UGA professors transcribing interviews to map out, study regional dialects (Willson Professor in the Humanities William Kretzschmar) – R&B
Researchers reveal that magnetic "rust" performs as gold at the nanoscale (Simona Murph, adjunct professor in the department of physics and astronomy) – ScienceDaily, UGA Today
Image: Map of Santa Elena fort, via Ancient Origins