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Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences! From our family to yours, all the best of the holiday season and warm wishes for 2025.

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2023 Dodd Market

The Lamar Dodd School of Art Dodd Ambassadors present the third annual Dodd Market Friday Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Courtyard and First Floor atrium of the school of art. The Dodd Market’s mission – to provide valuable selling experience to art students and to engage the UGA and Athens community with student artists – creates a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talent at the Dodd. And just in time for the holidays. Shop from over…

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Holiday art and excursions

With the calendar year winding down, our campus and community present many wonderful opportunities to enjoy the holidays with art, lights, nature and music.  Winter WonderLights at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia is UGA's first winter light show, running though Jan. 9: Created by local artists using welded metal and thousands of dazzling lights, a cardinal, a unicorn, polar bear, penguin, bluebird, goldfinch, giraffe and elephant dot…

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Happy Holidays!

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences wishes you all the best for the holidays and in the new year 2020! University of Georgia offices will be closed beginning December 25 and re-open January 2, 2020.

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Holiday Concert Nov. 21-22

The Holidays come early this as the Hugh Hodgson School of Music presents its annual Holiday Concert Nov. 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall as the final Thursday Scholarship Series performances of this calendar year. The program features the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, combined choirs of Glee Clubs, University Chorus, and Hodgson Singers: The program will include a large portion of the orchestral music from…

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The year at Franklin

This is the 222nd post of 2018 on the Franklin Chronicles, and what an incredible year it has been for UGA's oldest, largest and most academically diverse college. We look back: 17(!) Amazing students [and counting] Eight Focus on the Faculty features And from January though today, a plethora of rich activity that defines the modern academy - groundbreaking scholarship, outreach, research, performance, milestones, new initiatives, books,…

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Happy Holidays!

May your holidays be filled with joy and light from within.  Best wishes this holiday season and in the New Year from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.


New chemistry study challenges fundamental mechanism

As one of the fundamental disciplines that help us understand the physical world and how it works, organic chemistry plays an essential role in both our instruction and research missions. So it is significant that researchers continue to test and challenge this crucial area of study at its most basic levels: A family of millions of known chemical compounds called "aromatics" or "arenes" and their products, including a great number of medicines,…
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