Tags: Book Sale

woman, campus exterior
Amazing Student Miller Singleton

Franklin College double major Miller Singleton (biology & psychology) strives to make service and study abroad the hallmarks of her UGA experience: Since my freshman year, I have volunteered as a mentor with Shop with a Bulldawg, an organization whose mission is to serve Athens by bringing joy and hope to children during the holidays. I currently volunteer with Affinis Hospice in which I have the opportunity to serve as a companion and…


Holiday Book Sale

This annual holiday book sale features new and used publications in all genres.  Georgia Museum of Art. Dec. 1-4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.   


UGA Press Dirty Book Sale

The book sale features slightly damaged or shopworn books in a range of subjects including nature writing, poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and history will be available, as well as general interest titles about Georgia and the South. Open to individuals with a valid UGA ID. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday.

woman next to building with columns
Amazing student Leighton Rowell: potential for happiness

What we mean when we talk about the university experience being about more than training for a career or simply finding a job is given perfect voice in the words of Amazing Student Leighton Rowell: As an intern for the local newspaper during my senior year of high school, I wrote an op-ed about my search for the perfect college. “My number one criterion is potential for happiness,” I wrote. Four years later and a senior once more, I couldn’t be…

student with professor and microscope
Amazing student Karishma Sriram

Foundation Fellow and undergraduate stem cell researcher Karishma Sriram is making the most of her UGA opportunities: Entering college as a Foundation Fellow, I was immediately immersed in an enriching and creative environment. Through the Fellowship, I have been able to participate in intriguing book discussions, dinner seminars and conversations that helped me shape my understanding of the world around me. Further, the Fellowship afforded me…

woman outside the coliseum
Amazing Student Lindsey Cheek

UGA gymnast and Franklin College triple major Lindsey Cheek sets the bar for "Amazing Student" somewhere out near the Gama Quadrant: I didn’t start college like the normal student. I graduated high school in December and immediately joined the gymnastics team.  When the spring semester began in January I was competing on three events when I should have been a senior in high school. During that season I was named freshman of the week once,…

man, at stadium
Amazing student: Colton Fowlkes

We talk often (and hear even more) about high school students' involvement in a range of activities beyond the classroom, and how this can make them more attractive applicants in the selective college admissions process. But what about after they are admitted and become university students? Are extra-curricular activites still important? Is having fun while you're making a difference important? Double-major in psychology and biology Colton…


Amazing student Omar Martinez-Uribe

Meet Amazing UGA student Omar Martinez-Uribe: a senior biology major from Fayetteville, GA, Uribe has been volunteering in the community, working with student organizations, conducting undergraduate research and representing his college throughout his UGA career. The next step for this avid Bulldog fan is medical school. ... University highlights, achievements and awards: After my first semester at UGA I entered the Honors Program through…


Amazing student Allison Koch

A.B. in anthropology, A.B. in Latin American and Caribbean studies, minor in ecology Freshman year, I pursued interests in archeology, interning for a semester in the archeology lab under Jared Wood. I worked on digitizing data for a Native American mound site in Southwest Georgia. The following summer, I interned in Malang, Indonesia, teaching English at a kindergarten and living with a host family for nearly two months. This was a…


Student and Faculty features

Well, in a way, I live a double life. In the spring semesters, I teach Organic Chemistry II. This is one of the more challenging courses for pre-professional students in their curriculum, and the class size averages approximately 350 students. This class is high intensity, and I really enjoy lecturing to this class size. On one hand, I get to interact with some of the best students in the university. On the other, many students struggle…


Amazing student Victoria Ramenzoni

Afterward, I joined NOAA as an intern for the Northwest Pacific Fisheries Center where I worked in the development of socio-ecological indicators to measure coastal communities’ resilience dealing with climate change. In March 2011, we received support from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Graduate School and the department of anthropology at UGA to present at the biennial meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology…


Amazing student Victoria Ramenzoni

Afterward, I joined NOAA as an intern for the Northwest Pacific Fisheries Center where I worked in the development of socio-ecological indicators to measure coastal communities’ resilience dealing with climate change. In March 2011, we received support from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Graduate School and the department of anthropology at UGA to present at the biennial meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.…


Amazing student (and faculty!)

Junior Eva Berlin is currently the featured Amazing Student on the UGA homepage. A double major in art history and romance languages, read why Berlin is another amazing Franklin College student. And the current Focus on the Faculty profile features our own Jean Martin-Williams. Director of the horn studio in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and director of the Lilly Teaching Fellows program, you can read how and why Dr. Martin-Williams is such…


Kudos, October 2012

Faculty Kudos  “Visiting Hours at the Color Line,” a collection of poetry by English and Creative Writing Professor Ed Pavlic, was a selection of the National Poetry Series for 2013 and will be published by Milkweed Editions. Belinda Stillion Southard, assistant professor of communication studies and women’s studies, won the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for her book Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman's…


Music student Joe Brent sings anthem

Joe Brent, a DMA student, in the Hodgson School of Music, traveled to San Francisco last week to sing the national anthem at AT&T park before the Giants-Nationals game.   A talented tenor who has sung principal roles in many UGA opera productions, Brent is a member of the first-ever graduating class of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, New York. Founded by world-renowned entertainer Tony Bennett, and his wife Susan…

Photo of Danielle Sobol
Amazing student(s)

Spring 2012 graduates, their friends and familes have all been blessed with beautiful weather the past few days as anticipation grows for tonight's graduation ceremony at the stadium. The campus is teeming with visitors being given imprompu tours of favored haunts by excited grads-to-be - the orderly line at the arch for photos is a testament to patience and a gentle nature that many will hopefully be able to remember in later, more, trying…
Subscribe to Book Sale

Support Franklin College

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Click here to learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.