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"Show Me the Money: Salary Negotiation for Women"

Katelyn Kivett and Kate Templeton, from the UGA Career Center, will present this lecture as part of the Friday speaker series. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.


"Love's Reasons"

Melissa Fahmy, from the UGA department of philosophy, will present this lecture as part of the Friday speaker series. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.


"Women as the Barometers of Newlyweds’ Relationship Outcomes"

Justin Lavner, from the UGA department of psychology, will present this lecture. The event is free, open to the public and FYO.


"Debt and the Safety Net"

Mary Caplan, from the UGA School of Social Work, will present this lecture. The event is free, open to the public and is a First Year Odyssey course.


"A Real Life ‘Scandal’: Black Women Writers, Images, and Representation in Hollywood"

Kristyl Tift, from Women's Studies & Theatre and Film Studies, will present this lecture that is part of a weekly lecture series for the Institute of Women's Studies. The event is FREE, open to the public and is First Year Odyssey (FYO) event.


Stephen Berry: "CSI Dixie: Medical Science and Death Investigation in the 19th Century South"

This is a Throwback Therapies: History of Medical Science Series Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry, Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era and co-founder of the Center for Virtual History at UGA. The lecture focuses on the increasing role of medical science in establishing precise causes of death in the 19th-century U. S., which in turn created a more precise and robust understanding of public health. The data is drawn from two sources—the South…


Guest Speaker John Parker : “What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?”

Distinguished UGA alum John R. Parker Jr. (History, '73) presents a talk on "What’s a History Degree Good for Anyway?” John Parker is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza will be served for this lunch hour talk.


Historian Catherine Clinton: "The Assassination of Mary Lincoln"

Award-winning historian Catherine Clinton, author of Mary Lincoln: A Life(HarperCollins, 2009) delivers a short lecture on the myriad tragedies suffered by Mary Lincoln in the aftermath of her husband's murder. Inconsolable in grief, Mary Lincoln was then herself the victim of character assassination in stories that were circulated first by her enemies, then by her biographers and her historians. Come hear the "other half" of the…


Jerry Shannon, "Stimulus or Stigma? Examining the expansion of Georgia's SNAP retailers during the Great Recession."

Jerry Shannon is an assistant professor in the department of geography and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia. He is a geographer studying how to make urban neighborhoods and food systems healthier and more equitable. Dr. Shannon’s broad interests are in urban development and inequality, geographic information systems, political geography, and place effects on health. More specifically,…


Mark Berg, “The Cultural Context of Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Anderson’s Player Hypothesis Revisited."

Mark Berg is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Iowa. Berg’s research interests primarily include criminology, interpersonal violence, the mobilization of law, and the social context of adolescent development. He is currently investigating the situational characteristics of disputes as part of a project funded by the National Institute of Justice (U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC).


Tim Gill, "The Venezuelan Government and the Global Field: The Legislative Battle over Foreign Funding for NGOs."

Tim Gill is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. His areas of interest include political sociology, global/transnational sociology, and sociological theory. He is currently completing his dissertation on US democracy assistance programs in Venezuela under the Chávez Administration, and how the Venezuelan government has challenged them.


Tara Sutton, “Mechanisms that Link Childhood Economic Disadvantage to Intimate Partner Aggression: An Extension of the Family Stress Model.”

Tara Sutton is a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Georgia. Her areas of interest are family and deviance and  her research addresses the influence of individual, family and community factors on adjustment problems during adolescence and emerging adulthood.  She is currently working on projects that that link social contexts and family of origin experiences to outcomes such as delinquency,…


"Crash and Burn: Interactions between forest disturbance from wind and fire"

Jeff Cannon presents this exit seminar. His research interests include: unraveling the complex ways in which common forest disturbances (such as wind damage and fire) can interactively influence forest regeneration. Currently, my research focuses on how wind damage can alter the amount and type of forest fuels which can lead to dramatic changes in fire behavior. I am also monitoring whether the combination of wind and fire disturbances can alter…


“Small RNA-producing genes in plants: Improved methods and novel discoveries”

Michael Axtell, Penn State department of biology, presents this lecture. His research interests are listed as follows: We are biologists who use diverse plant species to study a class of genes that produce small RNAs. Small RNAs went largely undetected until around the turn of the century. We now know that they are critical components of gene expression in nearly all eukaryotic organisms. These small RNAs are functionally united in that they all…


"Local adaptation in the context of climate change"

Jill Anderson, UGA department of genetics, presents this lecture. Her research interests include: Our lab also investigates seed dispersal by frugivorous fish in tropical South America. Seed dispersal is a critical stage in the life history of plants. It determines the initial pattern of juvenile distribution, and influences community dynamics, species diversity and gene flow among populations. One major group of vertebrates has been largely…


"CRISPR for Populus: lignin biosynthesis revisited"

Chung-Jui Tsai, UGA department of genetics, presents this lecture. Her website states: I am a plant biologist with a special passion for large organisms - trees! Trees are 'large' not merely by their physical or genome size, but primarily by their longevity. Longevity depends on a perennial growth habit, which can mean added functionalities for genes, proteins and metabolites compared to herbaceous annuals. The quest for 'what makes a tree a…


"Gene by environment interaction and the evolutionary genomics of environmental response in plants"

Dave Des Marais, Harvard, presents this lecture. From his website: I study the diversity of life at many different scales. Like most of us, I am amazed by the visual diversity of plant life. But I am also fascinated by the diversity of genes, proteins, and other molecules which give rise to the beautiful plants that surround us. My research addresses how molecular processes shape organismal diversity, and how these processes evolve within and…


"Range-wide studies of genetic and transcriptomic diversity in sunflower"

Edward McAssey presents a seminar. Hosted by: John M. Burke. His research focus is plant evolutionary genetics and genomics. More specifically, studying the genetic basis of evolutionary divergence within the sunflower family (i.e., the Compositae or the Asteraceae). He also maintains an interest in the ecological and evolutionary impact of transgene escape from genetically modified crops into their wild relatives.


How does plant immunity restrict bacterial virulence?

Brian Kvitko, from the department of plant pathology at University of Georgia, will present the following: Plants encode large sets of cell surface pattern recognition receptors that are able to detect “non-self” microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) such as bacterial flagellin. In Arabidopsis thaliana the bacterial flagellin epitope flg22 is a potent elicitor of the Pattern-Triggered-Immunity (PTI) response which converts the leaf…


Regulation of Clostridium difficile virulence factors by the second messenger cyclic diguanylate

Rita Tamayo, from the department of microbiology and immunology at UNC School of Medicine, will present a lecture on the following: Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea in humans, with approximately 250,000 cases and 14,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. A Gram-positive obligate anaerobe, the formation of metabolically dormant, oxygen‐resistant endospores allows transmission between hosts. Once in the anaerobic large…


Cell-cell recognition by the polymorphic myxobacterial TraA receptor leads to beneficial and adversarial interactions

Daniel Wall, from the department of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming, will present this lecture: Cooperative behavior among individuals often involves resource sharing which in turn provides fitness advantages to the community. Myxobacteria are a microbial example where individuals share their resources to build cooperative multicellular communities, as exemplified by fruiting body development. In the case of Myxococcus xanthus,…


"Isa Genzken: Geometries of Lived Perspective"

"Isa Genzken: Geometries of Lived Perspective," Lisa Lee, an assistant professor of art history at Emory University. Lee will discusses German artist Genzken, whose large wooden sculptures challenge the understanding of line and surface. Between 1976 and 1985, the Genzken produced a series of floor-skimming wood sculptures that rigorously elaborate the stereometric forms of the ellipsoid and the hyperboloid. Yet rather than illustrate…


Henry Louis Gates Jr: "Genealogy, Genetics and Race"

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, will present "Genealogy, Genetics and Race" as the 2015 Peabody-Smithgall Lecture. Gates, a celebrated scholar and Peabody winner, has created 13 documentary films and authored 16 books and scores of articles.  Presented by the Peabody Awards and sponsored by the Morton…


Deborah Lipstadt: "The Holocaust: An American Understanding 1945-2015"

Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University presents "The Holocaust: An American Understanding 1945-2015" Lipstadt was appointed by Presidents Clinton and Obama to successive terms on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. A BBC film adaptation of her 2006 book, "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier," is currently in development. Sponsored by the Office of the…


Georges C. Benjamin: "Becoming the Healthiest Nation: A Public Health Approach"

Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, presents "Becoming the Healthiest Nation: A Public Health Approach" as the College of Public Health's 10th Anniversary Lecture. Benjamin is one of the nation's most influential physician leaders and leads the American Public Health Association's push to make America the healthiest nation in one generation. This lecture is part of the UGA fall Signature…
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