News from the Chronicles - October 2023

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Noted and Quoted, October 2023

Sharing disciplinary expertise and opinion on issues of the day are important constituent elements of public scholarship. Franklin College faculty and graduate students do their part month in, month out, enhancing the reputation of UGA and Franklin College in the process. A sample of the many stories across the media featuring our colleagues:   What Hollywood gets right-and wrong-about real-life AI – Stephen Mihm, professor and head of the…

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All roads lead through Franklin

The UGA Mentor program will host a virtual panel on October 25 featuring College of Pharmacy alumnus Kevin Hatcher. UGA Mentor Program Ambassador Caroline Batson details his mentoring experience below. Hatcher's academic journey – like those of so many UGA students and alumni – ran through arts and sciences. Market Health & Wellness Director for Walmart based in East Tennessee and current mentor for the UGA Mentorship Program, Hatcher (…

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Focused on the fuel

Franklin College faculty and graduate students across the life sciences are engaged in bringing next-generation transportation fuels to market through a variety of ongoing research efforts. From  refinement of living organisms to breaking down sugars to release the energy in biomass, extraordinary researchers are developing new methods for displacing fossil fuels from the carbon budget. Our colleagues in the Office of Research share the…

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Kudos, October 2023

In the campus community, across the state and around the nation, we applaud the outstanding work by Franklin College faculty and students announced during October. A sample of the awards, grants, performances, and milestones: Organizers of this year’s Atlanta Art Week invited nine M.F.A. students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art to present the group exhibition “Unlisted” at The Works in Atlanta’s Upper Westside. The discipline of dance:…

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Two UGA doctoral students win international Geology Award

Two Franklin College doctoral students won the Farouk El Baz Student Research Award from the Geological Society of America. The primary role of the GSA research grants program is to provide partial support of master's and doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences for graduate students enrolled in universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. The highly regarded Farouk El Baz Award for desert research is…

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Theatre student helping in the effort to keep UGA’s drama scene alive and well

With Wyn Alyse Thomas as artistic director, the Thalian Blackfriars staged its first production in three years. The second-oldest student theatre company in the country, the Thalian Blackfriars had been on hiatus due to COVID-19, which stretched through a concerning number of semesters threatening the health of live theatre at the University of Georgia.  “It was about to maybe die out,” Thomas said. “And I had been really wanting to have a…

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New director Gagan Agrawal discusses the future of UGA School of Computing

The University of Georgia elevated its longstanding department of computer science to a School of Computing in July 2022 in response to rising student enrollment, the growing role of computing in a range of fields, and the institutional investment in a Presidential Hiring initiative in data science and artificial intelligence. Created within an interdisciplinary framework, the School of Computing is jointly administered by the Franklin…

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Publishing at a Crossroads: Notes on the 'D' word

The University of Georgia Creative Writing program welcomes postcolonial literature scholar Bhakti Shringarpure to campus on Thursday Nov. 2, 2023. Shringarpure, associate professor jointly appointed in the department of English and the Institute of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, will give a lecture at 4:30 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall on the UGA campus. Shringarpure’s work engages questions of…

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Spotlight on the Arts, 2023

Happy Halloween! The week/month-long celebration of ghosts, ghouls, and making merry with costumes and candy – thanks, Wild Rumpus! – comes to end tonight. It will be time to put away the makeup and pumpkins and make way! Spotlight on the Arts begins Nov. 1 with a nice segue: Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernandez: Día de los Muertos  Mariachi master José Hernández and his Sol de México boast a history as rich and colorful as mariachi…

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