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Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series: "TrowelBlazers: Women in Archaeology and Earth Sciences"

"TrowelBlazers: Women in Archaeology and Earth Sciences" presented by Dr. Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch


Henry L. Roediger III: The Study of People Who Deliberately Memorize

Henry L. Roediger III, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, will provide a quick history of interest in mnemonics and then discuss modern research. He will discuss the usual processes involved in mnemonic training and how these processes support the validity of conclusions derived from laboratory research, albeit in magnified form. Then, he will report results of a program of research on…


The Science of Successful Learning and Memory

Henry L. Roediger, III, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University, will report on a program of research about the benefits of retrieval practice through quizzing as an aid to learning. Testing or quizzing is a practice usually considered only to measure what a student knows, but experimental research shows that retrieving information helps to stabilize the knowledge and make it easier to recall on future…


Guest Lecture: James Porter

"Climate Change and Biological Conservation in Georgia: John Abbot and the Pearly Eye Butterflies of Athens-Clarke County"  Porter will discuss the global phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change in the context of conservation in Georgia and Athens-Clarke County. He will announce a major new discovery of the presence of three closely-related species of Pearly-Eye butterflies with the Tallassee Forest. Porter will present evidence that…


Lunchtime Time Machine: How did Roman toilets work?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern teaches courses in world history and in the history of Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt, marriage, medicine, disease, women, and law. She has written several books, including most recently The Prince of Medicine, a biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on mental disorders in antiquity…


Lunchtime Time Machine: Why did everybody expect the Spanish Inquisition?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Benjamin Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Spain and England, European encounters with Islam, and transnationalism. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614.  Free admission, free pizza. 


Guest Lecture: Robert Wyatt

UGA biology professor Robert Wyatt will discuss "Sex in the Garden" in the next event of the Georgia Natural History Museum Lecture Series. The lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History, a nonprofit organization that supports and advances the mission and programs of the museum by increasing public awareness, supporting service and outreach programs, fundraising and mobilizing other resources. The series…


Guest Lecture: Who was John Abbot?

"Who Was John Abbot?" Beth Tobin will discuss the life and accomplishments of John Abbot, a London-born naturalist artist, who as a young man, moved to Georgia where he drew more than 7,000 watercolor drawings of North American birds and insects. The talk coincides with an exhibit, “John Abbot, Early Georgia’s Naturalist Artist,” which includes rare watercolor illustrations from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript collections and borrowed from…


The Virtual Roach Project

Joseph McHugh will discuss the Virtual Roach Project, a Web resource focused on insect anatomy that was developed as a technical reference and an instructional tool. The project links morphological terminology with an extensive image archive, including scientific illustrations, scanning electron micrographs and photomicrographs. Users are able to explore the anatomy of a cockroach through a virtual dissection. The talk coincides with the exhibit…


Charter Lecture

The 2016 Charter Lecture, "Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe in an Age of Terrorism: A Conversation with Bill Perry and Sam Nunn," will feature Senator Sam Nunn, CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense. Perry will join the conversation via videoconference. Reception to follow. The Charter Lecture Series, established in 1988, was named to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 Charter, which…


Guest Lecture: Tammy Ingram

"Driving Dixie: The Politics of Early Automobile Tourism," Tammy Ingram, author of "Dixie Highway: Roadbuilding and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930." Ingram will give a talk focused on the ways that automobile tourism reshaped both the physical and political landscapes of the South and Georgia from the 1910s through the 1930s. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture. A screening of the GPB documentary "Down the Dixie…


Guest Lecture: Tess Davis

"Tomb Raiders and Terrorist Financing: Cutting off the Islamic State’s Illicit Traffic in ‘Blood Antiquities,'" Tess Davis, affiliate researcher at the University of Glasgow. Part of the Signature Lecture Series. Davis, a lawyer who has dedicated the last decade to combating the illicit antiquities trade, served as executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation before joining the Scottish Centre for Crime and…


Physics Lecture: Ashvin Chhabra

Alumnus, physicist, former Merrill Lynch CIO to speak on physics of financial markets and investing. The UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of physics and astronomy welcomes alumnus and former Chief Investment Officer for Merrill Lynch Ashvin Chhabra (M.S. ’84) to campus to present a guest lecture April 28 at 3:30 p.m. in room 202 of the Physics Building. Chhabra’s lecture, “The Aspirational Investor: A Physicist…

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UGA Honors Week

The accomplishments of faculty, staff, students and alumni at the University of Georgia take center stage this week as the campus community celebrates Honors Week 2016. With recognition of extraordinary individual accomplishments of faculty in teaching, research and service, the Franklin College takes its place as the academic home of excellence on campus. Individual faculty members featured in print and online publications this week include:…


Keynote Speech for Society for Economic Anthropology: Kathleen Galvin

Co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Kathleen Galvin will present a keynote speech, “Global Environmental Change: Research and Engagement for Resilience.” This talk opens the annual conference of the Society for Economic Anthropology. As a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Galvin’s group shared the Nobel with Al Gore. She is a member of the National Academy of Science/National Research Council’s Research Council’s…


Chemistry Alumni Lecture: Mildred Dresselhaus

The UGA Chemistry Department's annual Alumni Lecture will be presented by Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus from MIT on the topic of "Nanoscience in Our Future." Dresselhaus has received many national and international awards. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1990 in recognition of her work on electronic properties of materials as well as expanding the opportunities of women in science and engineering.  She received…


Barbara Methvin Lecture

The fourth annual Barbara Methvin Lecture will be given by Lloyd Pratt, a professor at Oxford University. Pratt's topic is "A Woman Reading Emerson in the American South." Pratt is an expert on Southern and African-American literature and is the author of "The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature" and "Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century." Dr. Pratt is the author of Archives…


Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture: Jeannine Falino

Jeannine Falino is an independent curator and museum consultant. She has curated exhibitions, lectured, presented workshops and written extensively on American decorative arts from the colonial era to the present. She specializes in metalwork, jewelry, modern decorative arts, craft and design. Previously the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Falino has worked…


Lecture: Naomi Norman

Naomi Norman, associate vice president of instruction, will present "It's All About the Journey: From the FYO to Experiential Learning at UGA" as part of the Center for Teaching and Learning's Award Winning Faculty Series. The FYO seminar offers each instructor a wonderful opportunity to engage first-year students, to introduce them to an academic life and to help set them on a successful path to graduation. In other words, it is the first step…


Voices from the Vanguard Lecture Series: Dendritic Cells

The UGA Voices from the Vanguard 2016 series concludes as Sarah J. Schlesinger tells how novel cells that were first spotted under a microscope in the 1970s have since been recognized as sentinels, sensors and “conductors of the immune symphony.”  That’s how the 2011 Nobel Prize committee described dendritic cells, which have enabled a wealth of insights into the development of drugs and vaccines, including those aimed at preventing AIDS.…


Guest Lecture: Brenda Longfellow

"Moving Statues: The Use and Reuse of Portrait Statues in Pompeii," Brenda Longfellow. In this lecture, Longfellow considers the afterlives of honorific portrait statues in Pompeii, detailing how individuals and groups in the city interacted with re-cut and re-purposed statues of publicly honored benefactors. It addresses the effects of obviously modified statues in public spaces, where they were seen by people who may have recognized the…


Guest Lecture: Kit Hughes

"From Homeless to Hypergrowth: A Punk Art Student's Path to Building One of America's Fastest Growing Companies," Kit Hughes, a UGA alum and founder of digital agency Look-Listen. Hughes will describe his journey to success. Part of Thinc. Entrepreneurial Week.  Sponsored by: Research, Office of the Vice President for (OVPR), Thinc. at UGA Contact: Terry Hastings 706-542-5941


#Throwback Therapies Lecture

Susan Mattern is a Distinguished Research Professor of History at UGA. Throwback Therapies is an innovative new interdisciplinary seminar series designed to entertain and enlighten any audience with interests in the origins of modern health sciences. Mattern's most recent book is "The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire" (Oxford University Press 2013). It is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, a cultural…


Lecture: William Finlay

William Finlay of UGA's Department of Sociology will present "Teaching What Students Know (Or Think They Know): Using Student Knowledge as a Foundation for Learning" as part of the Center for Teaching and Learning's Award Winning Faculty Series. To register, visit: https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6M4DgTBPF1FzTuJ  


Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture: Beth Cavener Stichter

Beth Cavener Stichter believes primitive animal instincts lurk in everyone's depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment. The sculptures she creates focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization and articulated through animal and human forms. On the surface, these figures are simply feral and domestic individuals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface, they embody the consequences of human…
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