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A successor to our print magazine, The Franklin Chronicles, this blog allows us to continue to communicate the importance of the arts and sciences to an expanded audience through a variety of means – articles and announcements, video, news and opinion – to pick up the conversation of why the arts, humanities and sciences matter so much at this juncture in the history of our university, our nation and the world. Read more

UGA chemist honored with Humbolt Award

More prestigious honors accrue to Franklin faculty:

Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia and director of the Center for Computational Chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award from… Read Article


Does Abstinence-only sex ed work?

There has been a great amount of conjecture over the years that the best kind of sex education for youngsters is Just-Don't-Do-It. The only problem with this, University of Georgia researchers now say, is that it does not work:

States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs… Read Article


Franklin physicists invent near infrared-emitting material

UGA news service reports on newly published work by physics and astronomy faculty member, Zhengwei Pan:

Materials that emit visible light after being exposed to sunlight are commonplace and can be found in everything from emergency signage to glow-in-the-dark stickers. But until now,… Read Article

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