Franklin College in the Media

>> UGA meteorologist/climatologist Marshall Shepherd is featured in an article on “Urban Rain” on NASA’s Earth Observatory website. (12/13/06)

>> The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports on an American Cancer Society a $707,000 grant to UGA cellular biologist Scott Dougan to study embryonic development. (12/12/06)

>> Letty Fitch, who majored in zoology at UGA, is the focus of an Athens Banner-Herald article titled “A woman's love of literature and wildlife in new book.” (12/12/06)

>> Students in theatre professor Mike Hussey’s class have contributed 3-D computer animation to a History Channel documentary, The Russian Navy, which the channel will air on Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. (12/08/06)

>> Franklin College anthropology professor Robert Rhoades is quoted in an Earthwatch Radio story on glacial changes. (12/08/06)

>> Two UGA professors have received a grant from the Georgia Cancer Coalition for their cancer-related studies.  Franklin College cellular biology professor Edward Kipreos will share the $110,000 award with College of Pharmacy professor Lyndon West, reports the Athens-Banner-Herald. (12/07/06)

>> Erk Russell inspires new Coca-Cola Santa designed by Lamar Dodd School of Art student Kathleen Bradshaw, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (11/30/06)

>> Three UGA microbiology professors have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  They are Lawrence Shimkets in developmental biology and bacterial physiology, William Whitman for systematics and his study of prokayotes, and Juergen Wiegel for microbial biology, ecology and biotechnology, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (11/28/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution features an article on NBC's “Friday Night Lights.”  Coach Eric Taylor is played by 41-year-old Loganville native Kyle Chandler who was a theatre major at UGA. (11/27/06)

>> A Seattle Post-Intelligencer article quotes UGA psychology professor Keith Campbell on the recently shelved O.J. Simpson book. (11/27/06)

>> UGA retired art professor Art Rosenbaum’s exhibit at Mercury complements museum show, says the Athens Banner-Herald. (11/27/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports live-in advisers Doug Toma and Linda Bachman are rearing their toddler, Jack, in Rutherford Hall. Toma is dean of the Franklin Residential College and Bachman is assistant dean for external affairs at the Franklin College. (11/26/06)

>> A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a diagnostic test that can detect viruses such as influenza, HIV and RSV in a minute or less.  The nanotechnology work by UGA physics professor Yiping Zhao and UGA chemistry professor Richard Dluhy is being reported widely. (11/21/06)

>> New York’s Newsday quotes UGA history professor Claudio Saunt on the origins of Thanksgiving as an American holiday – “it’s not as old as many may think.” (11/21/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald features the debut of Metropolitan Opera veteran Frederick Burchinal as the new director of UGA's Opera Ensemble in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. (11/17/06)

>> The Portuguese Tribune features a book written by retired UGA geology professor Norm Herz.  The California-based newspaper has named “Operation Alacrity: The Azores and the War in the Atlantic” its 2005 Book of the Year. (11/15/06)

>> The Chronicle of Higher Education features retired UGA artist Art
Rosenbaum, calling his work “Music to Your Eyes.” (11/13/06; subscription required for on-line version)

>> UGA history professor John Morrow is quoted in a Washington Post story on military applications of aviation, in a review of the four-part documentary “Warplane.” (11/07/06)

>> UGA professor and Franklin Residential College Dean Doug Toma is quoted in an Oregonian story on perks for athletics donors. (11/07/06)

>> Pigment question lingers in job search, says an article in the Memphis Commerical Appeal that references UGA doctoral student Matthew Harrison's study about skin color in the job selection process. (11/07/06)

>> Education Week quotes UGA associate professor of mathematics Sybilla Beckmann that “despite the media’s preference for conflict,” in math “there’s a lot of agreement about what students need to know.” (11/02/06)

>> Colorism weakens job market says the University of Southern Alabama Vanguard in an article that mentions UGA doctoral student Matthew Harrison's study about skin color in the job selection process. (11/02/06)

>> The New York Times features UGA Franklin College alumna Claudia I. Mason-Henschke (Ph.D. statistics ’69), a professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who strongly advocates early CT scans for smokers and former smokers to detect tumors when they are small.  She says such a procedure could prevent 80 percent of lung cancer deaths in the U.S. each year. The story is running worldwide in the International Herald Tribune and elsewhere. (10/31/06)

>> Elissa Henken, UGA English professor, is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on the legend of Old Pete. (10/31/06)

>> In an article in The Hindu, UGA marine microbial ecologist Mary Ann Moran is quoted on the bacterial “switch gene” that regulates how oceans emit sulfur. (10/31/06)

>> Science and faith are topic at Ohio State, says the Columbus Dispatch in an article quoting UGA history professor Ed Larson. (10/30/06)

>> UGA biochemist Michael Adams is quoted in a Chemistry World article, “Volcanoes reveal the secret of the origin of life.” (10/30/06)

>> UGA psychology professor Abraham Tesser is quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article headlined “The Biology of Cute,” which focuses on the public’s affection for Zoo Atlanta’s baby Panda. (10/27/06)

>> UGA sociologist Dean Rojek is quoted in an Athens Banner-Herald article on jail-expansion in Madison. (10/24/06)

>> UGA retired art professor Art Rosenbaum gathers experiences on canvas, says the Athens Banner-Herald. (10/19/06)

>> Genetics research pioneer Norman Giles, who was chiefly responsible for establishing UGA’s genetics department and was one of UGA’s members in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, died Monday in Vermont at age 91, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (10/18/06)

>> The Red and Black reports on the rededication of Old College, original home of the Franklin College that now houses the college’s deans’ and administrative offices. (10/16/06)

>> A team of UGA biology researchers receives a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study self-replicating DNA strands in the bacterial world, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (10/13/06)

>> UGA psychology professor Keith Campbell is quoted in another article on narcissists run by Daily India.com. (10/10/06)

>> UGA geology professor Paul Schroeder is part of a team of scientists searching Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula for clues to the origins of life. The research is featured in the Baltimore Sun. (10/10/06)

>> “Get rid of racist shades in hiring,” reads an editorial headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.  The writer mentions a UGA study psychology doctoral student Matthew Harrison that found light-skinned African Americans were more likely to get a job than darker-skinned candidates. (10/05/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes UGA professor of English James Kibler in article on the new album by Bob Dylan. (10/03/06)

>> Rene Bobe, UGA assistant professor of anthropology, is featured in the Santiago (Chile) Times for his part in discovering the oldest human female skeleton ever found.  The three-year-old girl found in Northern Ethiopia outdates the previously known oldest, “Lucy,” by some 150,000 years. (09/22/06)

>> National women’s honor society Iota Iota Iota “brings women’s studies major to the forefront,” says the Athens-Banner Herald in a story on the society in UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies. (09/18/06)

>> English professor Jim Kibler is quoted in a New York Times story on Bob Dylan's borrowing of words/lines from Confederate poet Henry Timrod on Dylan's latest album, "Modern Times." (09/14/06)

>> UGA math professor Sybilla Beckmann helped write a National Council of Teachers of Mathematics report indicating the need for a change in the way math is taught in U.S. schools.  Beckmann is quoted a New York Times article on the report. (9/13/06)

>> In a Brown Alumni Magazine essay titled “The Calculus of Drinking,” UGA professor of writing Molley Hurley Moran says “Giving up alcohol was not a sacrifice; it was an act of imagination”; Moran is a Brown alumna. (9/12/06)

>> “Celebrities are their own biggest fans,” says The Los Angeles Times in an article quoting UGA psychology professor Keith Campbell. (9/12/06)

>> Author Philip Lee Williams reflects on mornings in an Athens Banner-Herald feature on the front-page of the "Living" section; Williams is the director of public information for UGA’s Franklin College. (9/11/06)

The Savannah Morning News looks at “how 9/11 changed us” in an article citing remarks by UGA history professor William Stueck. (9/08/08)

>> In an article on tips for learning with disabilities, the Miami Herald mentions Christopher M. Lee, director of the Alternative Media Access Center House in UGA's department of psychology. (9/08/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald highlights the Second Thursday Scholarship Concerts at UGA; the concerts are sponsored by and support the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. (9/07/06)

>> Georgia colleges get mixed grades, reports the Macon Telegraph in an article quoting UGA Institute of Higher Education associate professor J. Douglas Toma.  Toma is also dean of the Franklin Residential College. (9/07/06)

>> A study by UGA psychology graduate student Matthew Harrison is cited in an article titled  “Darker-skinned Black Job Applicants Hit More Obstacles” in Diverse Education magazine. (9/05/06)

>> Coleman Barks, translator of the poetry of the mystic Rumi, finds an audience, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Barks is a retired UGA English professor. (9/05/06)

>> In an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, UGA history professor James Cobb says politicians since World War II have cited “the lessons of Munich” to justify military actions.  “We must take care not only to know what happened and when, but to also understand why and how,” he writes. (9/01/06)

>> “Euge! Latin lives on football Fridays,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an article quoting UGA classics professor Richard LaFleur.  “Ite, vos canes hirsuti!” says LaFleur, who has taught at UGA for 35 years (translation: “Go, you hairy Dawgs!”). (8/29/06)

>> UGA astromony professor Scott Shaw is quoted in an Athens Banner-Herald article on the change in Pluto's classification (it's no long a planet). (8/25/06)

>> UGA history professor Stephen Mihm is featured in a Marketplace public radio report on freezing North Korean bank accounts. Mihm is also heard in a radio interview on the Australia Broadcasting Corporation and in an interview by Alex Chadwick on the National Public Radio program "Day by Day." (8/25/06)

>> UGA Ph.D student Matthew Harrison is interviewed by AfricaSpeaks.com. Harrison has researched colorism in the workplace. (8/25/06)

>> The Red & Black reports that construction is underway on the new Lamar Dodd School of Art on East Campus. (8/24/06)

>> Pete McCommons, editor of The Flagpole (third item), reviews UGA English professor Jed Rasula’s essay, “Jazzbandism,” in the current issue of The Georgia Review.  McCommons says “this is a fascinating slice of cultural history, detailing the entry of jazz into the world and into the language.” (8/23/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports on a Franklin College alumni survey revealing times gone by at UGA. The survey was conducted by the college's Director of Alumni Relations Ruhanna Neal. (8/23/06)

>> Literary critic, author, and former UGA professor of English Marion Montgomery takes an in-depth look at Flannery O'Connor.  Story appears in the Athens Banner-Herald. (8/19/06)

>> UGA professor of geography Marshall Shepherd recently appeared in an edition of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Georgia Weekly.”  Professor Shepherd discussed his research on the hurricane-global warming debate and urban rainfall. (8/18/06)

>> A UGA research study on the use of skin tone in hiring differentiation is reported by United Press International and The Red & Black. (8/18/06)

>> The family of Capricorn Records co-founder Phil Walden announces creation of memorial fund benefiting University of Georgia’s new Music Business Certificate Program, says The Duluth Weekly.  The story also appears in the Athens Banner-Herald. (8/18/06)

>> "Label deal may give Whigs taste of wider audience," says The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Hank Sullivant, bassist for The Whigs, is an alumnus of UGA's Department of English. (8/17/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Metropolitan Opera star Frederick Burchinal is to join UGA faculty. (8/03/06)

>> Staff at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences moved this week into newly renovated Old College.  Contractors recently finished the 18-month, $2.9 million renovation of the 200-year-old building, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (8/03/06)

>> “Redcoats invade China,” says the Athens Banner-Herald. (8/02/06)

>> “If legislators and conservative activists exercise power over teaching and research in higher education, they will undermine the credibility of research and scholarship in the United States...,” writes UGA professor of comparative literature Betty Jean Craige in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed. (8/02/06)

>> "Bigger cities causing stronger summer storms," says a NationalGeographic.com article that cites research by J. Marshall Shepherd, a meteorologist and associate professor in UGA’s geography department. (7/27/06)

>> David R. Johnson, a UGA sociology student, is quoted in an article on full-time fathers in the San Francisco Chronicle.  Johnson, who’s conducting research on the subject, says "there are men who assume this primary caregiver role, but not a heck of a lot is known about them." Johnson hopes to publish a paper on the topic. (7/25/06)

>> Renowned poet and UGA English professor Judith Ortiz Cofer tells a story of her daughter’s experience with Alice in Wonderland in a Washington Post feature. (7/25/06)

>> Stephen A. Mihm, UGA assistant professor of history and an expert on the history of counterfeiting in the United States, pens an extended op-ed on the topic in the July 23 edition of the New York Times Magazine. (7/24/06)

>> UGA marine ecologist Merryl Alber is quoted in a Boston Globe article officials who are seeking the causes for the detioration of marshes into "barren flats." (7/24/06)

>> David Joseph Platt, a Franklin College alumnus with an AB in speech communication, is named senior pastor of the 4,300-member Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham. At age 28 he is perhaps the youngest person in the nation to head a mega-church, says the Atlanta Journal-Constution article about the new pastor. (7/19/06)

>> The University of Georgia has named English professor Judith Shaw as permanent associate provost for international affairs, reports an article in the Athens Banner-Herald. (7/13/06)

>> Further coverage of the UGA Redcoat Band’s trip to China is featured in articles in the Rome News-Tribune and the Hartwell Sun. (7/12/07)

>> A profile of Georgia’s burgeoning music industry in the current Georgia Trend magazine cites the new music business program in UGA’s Terry College of Business and Hugh Hodgson School of Music. (7/11/07)

>>“Reconciling God and Science” – A Time magazine report on a new book by genome-mapper Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian, quotes Edward Larson, a UGA historian whose specialty is the evolution debate. Larson won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the Scopes trial. (7/11/07)

>> UGA professor of applied psychology Lillian Eby is quoted in Forbes magazine in an article about mentors.  Eby says “mentors aren’t just important for those starting out, they’re essential to rising through the ranks, too.” (7/06/06)

>> High interest in foreign languages among UGA students is featured in an Athens Banner-Herald report that quotes Franklin College Associate Dean Hugh Ruppersburg along with Franklin faculty members.  Japanese has joined Spanish, French and Portuguese as the most popular languages for study, with strong enrollment gains seen in classes teaching Arabic, Swahili and Chinese. (7/01/06)

>> Franklin College student Rebecca Witter, a Ph.D. candidate in ecological and environmental anthropology, receives a Fulbright Award, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (7/01/06)

>> “Post-sex fruit fly gene activity studied,” reads a headline filed worldwide by United Press International.  The story involves evolutionary and developmental biologists at UGA's Franklin College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

>> Research by Marshall Shepherd, UGA associate professor of geography and climatologist, is reported worldwide via UPI and Scripps Howard News Service and carried by Daily India.com among others. In a study of more than 100 years of climatological records in arid environments such as Riyadh and Phoenix, he finds that human activities affect rainfall patterns around such cities. (6/21/06; 6/26/06)

>> Robin Shelton, professor of physics and astronomy in UGA’s Franklin College, discusses her research on galaxy formation in a segment of “Earth and Sky,” a daily series heard on public radio stations across the country. (6/25/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiles Chris Jansen, a computer programmer who is also a poet on a mission.  Jansen has a degree in microbiology from UGA’s Franklin College. (6/22/06)

>> UGA history professor Peter Charles Hoffer’s book on historic urban fires is reviewed in the Detroit Free Press (6/21/06; second item).

>> The San Francisco Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception prominently highlights UGA's Kamchatka Microbial Observatory in an extensive web feature. (6/20/06)

>> Risk-taking can be a two-faced monster says a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article that quotes UGA associate psychology professor Adam Goodie. (6/15/06)

>> Franklin College alumnus Omari Hardwick (AB speech communication ‘96), star of the television series “Saved,” is profiled in the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (6/14/06)

>> New Scientist magazine reports the Pentagon's National Security Agency is researching the mass harvesting of information people post about themselves on social networks such as MySpace and Friendster.  The article cites a paper delivered by UGA professor of computer science Amit Sheth. (6/13/06)

>> Marshall Shepherd, associate professor and climatologist in UGA’s geography department, writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that “global warming is real,” but a scientific connection to an increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes is not yet proven. (6/12/06)

>> Athens Banner-Herald columnist and Franklin College student Jeff Emanuel writes that “Marines deserve some benefit of doubt.” (6/12/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s DeKalb/Rockdale section profiles Franklin College alumnus Omari Hardwick (AB speech communication, ‘96); the “Saved'”star plans to make Georgia his home. (6/09/06)

>> “University of Georgia astronomers say they have discovered the absence of hot gas in a spiral galaxy first cataloged more than 225 years ago,” UPI reports.  The story also appears in the Malaysia Sun. (6/07/06)

>> “Stopping to help? Be careful” says an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article quoting UGA social psychologist Keith Campbell. (6/07/06)

>> Research by a team including Stephen P. Hubbell, who is on faculty at the University of Georgia, is featured in the New York Times. (6/06/06)

>> The search for what is polluting some Golden Isles beaches from time to time is focusing on one very likely suspect, according to an article in the Brunswick News that mentions UGA researchers. (6/06/06)

>> The Atlanta Daily World reports on Oluwamuye Felix Akinbote, a senior honors student at UGA’s Franklin College. Akinbote is the school’s first Merage American Dream Fellow.  The two-year, $20,000 scholarship supports his first two years of medical school. (6/05/06)

>> Athens Banner-Herald columnist and Franklin College student Jeff Emanuel says “moratoria destroy 'predictability' of ordinances.” (6/05/06)

>> “Nicolas Coster: A winning tale” – The Orange County Register reports that veteran actor Nicolas Coster loves to tell stories, and in his 50-year career he's gathered a million of them. Coster says he teaches at the Franklin College’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies. (6/05/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the Atlanta Mythic Journeys conference. The article mentions that Coleman Barks (poet and professor emeritus at UGA and best known for translating the work of Rumi, a Muslim poet) will be in attendance. (6/05/06)

>> Folk artist Annie Geraldine Wellborn, profiled in the Athens Banner-Herald, is inspired by unexplainable moments; the article quotes UGA art professor Art Rosenbaum. (6/05/06)

>> UGA history professor James Cobb is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about Southern accents.  Cobb says an accent is a way of “distinguishing oneself.” (5/25/06)

>> State climatologist and UGA engineering professor David Stooksbury tells the Macon Telegraph this year’s hurricane season may be just as intense as last year’s. “The entire state is vulnerable to impacts from tropical systems,” Stooksbury said. (5/25/06)

>> People’s Daily Online reports on the Redcoat Marching Band’s tour across China.  “The band’s China tour is a positive and friendly response to President Hu Jintao’s visit to the U.S. in April,” reads the article. (5/25/06)

>> Novelist Judson Mitcham earns second state fiction award, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Mitcham has an AB, MS, and a Phd from UGA’s Department of Psychology. (5/25/06)

>> The Shanghai Daily publishes an article about an upcoming performance by UGA’s Redcoat Marching Band.  The band’s last stop in China will be a show in Shanghai.  The Redcoats are in Xiamen for a performance.  An article also appears in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Atlanta & the World section. (5/24/06)

>> UGA history professor James Cobb files an editorial in the History News Network. (5/22/06)

>> UGA associate professor of social psychology Keith Campbell is quoted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in a story about narcissism.  Campbell says “the beauty of being a narcissist is that even when disaster stares you in the face, you feel neither doubt nor remorse.” (5/22/06)

>> Georgia Strange is named new director named of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (5/22/06)

>> UGA documentary focuses on log cabins seeks to dispel the negative image of the Georgia log cabin, according to the Savannah Morning News. (5/22/06)

>> Retired UGA professor Coleman Barks receives rare honor from Iranian officials for his Persian poetry translation, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (5/19/06)

>> World wide coverage of a UGA study about DNA is run by UPI.  Computational chemists, including UGA’s Henry F. Schaefer III, have discovered how DNA damage can lead to diseases. (5/18/06)

>> UGA history professor Ed Larson is quoted in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about the creation versus evolution debate.  Larson is the author of “Trial and Error: the American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution.” (5/16/05)

>> Some 3,500 students graduated Saturday from the University of Georgia. Editor-in-chief of Time magazine and 1970 UGA grad in English John Huey delivered the commencement address.  More than 1,100 students received master’s and doctorate degrees at an afternoon ceremony inside Stegeman Coliseum. Stories appeared in the Athens Banner-Herald and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday and Sunday. (5/14/06)

>>“Redcoat Band embarks on its long march to China” reads the headline in a front-page feature in the Athens Banner-Herald. The article highlights the logistical feat of moving the 313-member band to China for a 16-day concert tour, the highlight of which is to be a May 28 marching performance in the 80,000-seat soccer stadium in Shanghai.  The band departs Sunday on eight different flights. (5/12/06)

>> International media outlets, including Mehr News and others, report that the University of Tehran will grant an honorary doctorate to Coleman Barks, a retired professor in UGA’s English department.  Barks taught poetry and creative writing and is a scholar and translator of the work of the Sufi poet Rumi. (5/11/06)

>> Franklin College student Jeff Emanuel pens another op-ed for the Athens Banner-Herald saying campus speech codes are capricious, harmful to all students. (5/11/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Franklin College student Mike Lynch (a graduating Foundation Fellow) has received Fulbright teaching scholarships for the 2006-07 academic year. (5/05/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald files an op-ed by a UGA senior.  Special Operations military veteran Jeff Emanuel writes about Georgia’s new immigration law; he says the law should serve as a national model. Emanuel is a student in the Franklin College and a Franklin Ambassador. (5/04/06)

>> UGA Research Professor in History, Peter Charles Hoffer, author of the forthcoming Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America, writes an op-ed in the New York Times on the dangers of brush fires becoming a city inferno. (5/01/06)

>> The Athens-Banner Herald reports that Jane Willson, a UGA donor and member of the Franklin College board of advisors, will receive an honorary degree from the university. (5/01/06)

>> Doug Toma, dean of the Franklin Residential College and an associate professor in UGA’s Institute of Higher Education is quoted in USA Today coverage of the Duke lacrosse scandal.  He says he believes many people “enjoy seeing a place like that get knocked down a peg or two.” He's also quoted in an MSNBC.com story on the potential impact of Duke’s lacrosse rape investigation into giving to the institution.  Toma specializes in university management strategies. (4/26/06; 4/16/06)

>> “Green grows beyond the Ivy, too” – New York’s Newsday reports on this year’s listing of Kiplinger’s best buys in colleges, including #1 UNC-Chapel Hill, #2 University of Florida, #3 UVA, #4 William and Mary, #5 New College of Florida, and #6 UGA. (4/24/06)

>> Stephen A. Mihm, UGA assistant professor of history, pens an op-ed in the New York Times on research into the connection between diet and criminal behavior. (4/16/06)

>> The National Public Radio program “Living on Earth” reports on research directed by UGA anthropology professor Robert Rhoades. Rhoades and his assistants are conducting research in Cotacachi, Ecuador, on climate change and its effects on people in the region. (4/11/06)

>> In an Athens Banner-Herald article on the complexities for teens of on-line relationships, visiting sociology professor Patrick Williams says "Teens don't realize that what they're doing is illegal or even problematic.”  Williams is a Franklin Fellow. (4/10/06)

>> In an article titled “A beautiful life,” the Athens Banner-Herald says Judy Voss Jones left behind the gift of her art.  An exhibit of the late Lamar Dodd School of Art professor’s work is on display at the school beginning April 14 through May 6. (4/08/06)

>> “UGA plant biology professor Susan Wessler is one of 20 top researchers  across the nation who will get $250,000 a year over the next four years to put innovative teaching ideas into practice as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor,” reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (4/08/06)

>> UGA English professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s reading today from her new book, A Love Story Beginning in Spanish, is featured in the AJC’s
“Access Atlanta” section. (print edition only; 3/31/06)

>> Franklin College alumnus Cmdr. Tom Ishee took command of the USS Key West, a nuclear submarine, on March 14.  Ishee grew up in Madison County and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in mathematics from UGA.  He also has an M.A. in engineering from the University of Texas. (3/30/06)

>> The Delta Prize for Global Understanding was awarded to former media mogul Ted Turner last night in Atlanta. Stories appear world wide in the Mainichi Times, The Hindu Times, Sidney Morning Herald and closer to home in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. The award is administered by UGA's Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts. (3/29/06)

>> UGA English and Creative Writing professor Judith Ortiz Cofer is
featured in the April 2006 issue of Southern Living magazine.
(print edition only; 3/29/06)

>> Four UGA students in the Franklin College have been awarded the 2006-07 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the maximum number allowed at one institution per year.  Since 1995, thirty UGA students have received the award, among the most prestigious scholarships in the country. A brief story appears in the Athens Banner-Herald. (3/24/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Chris Cuomo will head UGA's Institute for Women's Studies, which is administered by the Franklin College. (3/24/06)

>> Virtual Vaudeville, a live performance simulation system, is featured in USA Today.  The project was created by David Saltz, head of UGA’s Department of Theatre and Film Studies.  (scroll to "You're virtually there"; 3/23/06)

>> University Theatre production of “Polaroid Stories” opens March 23 in the Fine Arts Cellar Theatre.  The Athens Banner-Herald previews the show. (3/23/06)

>> The Marietta Daily Journal reports on the family of a former UGA student who has established a scholarship in his honor.  The Martin Oldrich Holubar Scholarship in Theatre and Film Studies will be administered by UGA’s theatre department. Holubar was a 19-year-old rising sophomore when he died in his sleep last summer. (3/17/06)

>> UGA history professor James C. Cobb is quoted in a Boston Globe story headlined “Demystifying grits for the Northern palate.” (3/08/06)

>> Time, Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey (AB ‘70) will deliver the undergraduate commencement speech at UGA on May 13. Stories appear in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Red & Black. (3/03/06)

>> An article by UGA history professor Claudio Saunt, titled "Jim Crow and the Indians," is the front-page story on Salon.com. (2/21/06)

>> Classics professor Nancy Felson's teaching project, "Reacting to the South," is the subject of an article in The Red & Black. (2/21/06)

>> “NASCAR hall not worth all the fuss,” writes UGA historian James C. Cobb in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, on the Atlanta-Charlotte competition to lure a sport that “still conjures up images of ‘shine-hauling Bubbas trying to outrun the revenuers.” (02/20/06)

>> “Speed limit lifted on the pace of evolution,” says a report in Science. “Our view of evolutionary patterns is going to change,” says UGA paleontologist Steve Holland. (2/16/06)

>> The Washington Post reviews “Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity” by UGA history professor James C. Cobb (2/13/06)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes UGA art historian Alisa Luxenberg in a story detailing “Images of Muhammed: Three ways to see a cartoon, saying “depictions of religious figures can strike nerve.” (2/13/06)

>> “No Muslim fury over Mohammad art,” says United Press International in an article quoting UGA religion professor Alan Godlas. (2/09/06)

>> UGA historian James C. Cobb comments in a Los Angeles Times story on the contrasting ministry of Bishop Eddie L. Long with that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Long’s suburban mega-church, New Birth Missionary Baptist, is the site of the funeral for Coretta Scott King. (2/07/06)

>> Computer science professor Amit Sheth is named a Fellow by engineer institute, says the Athens Banner-Herald. (2/06/06)

>> A letter-writer to the Athens Banner-Herald says the Redcoat Band's trip to China is a smart goodwill move. (2/02/06)

>> Mandarin language becomes the new Spanish as parents prepare their children for changing economic realities, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The article mentions that earlier this month, the state Board of Regents approved a major in Chinese language and literature at UGA. (1/30/06)

>> UGA history professor James C. Cobb comments in the Los Angeles Times on the trial of former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell saying Campbell “played the race card [and] a huge number of African Americans in Atlanta don’t buy that.  That was never Atlanta’s style.” (1/24/06)

>> The UGA Redcoat Band plans a five-city concert tour of China this May, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (1/23/05)

>> International Herald Tribune (print edition only) reports on the internationally acclaimed Kazakh National Academy of Music in Kazakhstan, which has exchange agreements with three American music schools, including UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. (1/23/05)

>> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution features a Georgia soldier who writes letters that his 3-year-old daughter can read when she's a teenager. The soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Eaton, had been pursuing a fine arts degree at UGA’s Franklin College before being deployed. (1/23/06)

>> The UGA Founders' Day lecture, to be delivered by philosophy professor emeritus Bernard Dauenhauer, is set for Friday, Jan. 27, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (1/23/06)

>> The Cleveland Orchestra will perform at UGA's Hodgson Hall Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. The Athens Banner-Herald features a story on the orchestra’s director. (1/23/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports that the 56th annual UGA band festival is a chance for 800 high schoolers to showcase their talents.  The festival is sponsored by UGA Bands and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. (1/17/06)

>> A story in the Athens Banner-Herald features the work of former history students at UGA who’ve compiled essays to honor emeritus professor Emory M. Thomas. (1/17/06)

>> Cellular biology professor Roberto Docampo's research on blood clotting is featured in the journal Chemical and Engineering News. (1/17/06)

>> Forbes magazine references Docampo's research in a health news article. (1/12/06)

>> Former President George Bush will attend the April 7 dedication of the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences at UGA, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (1/12/06)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald reports UGA will offer a new major in Chinese, a program to be administered by the department of comparative literature. (1/12/06)

>> The Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the Franklin College teams with UGA’s law school on a music business class; Drive By Trucker Patterson Hood lectures, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (1/11/06)

>> An MSNBC/Newsweek story on the importance of microorganisms to human health cites research by UGA microbiologist Mark Schell into a bacterium that  aids digestion. (1/10/06)

>> UGA professor of plant pathology Tim Denny tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he has abandoned research on a particular bacterium because of the expense and restrictions of new federal security regulations on toxins in the wake of 9/11. (1/10/06)

>> Kavita Pandit, head of the geography department at UGA, is promoted to associate dean at the Franklin College, reports the Athens Banner-Herald and The Red & Black.  Pandit has been a geography professor at UGA since 1987. (1/09/06)

>> Franklin College alumnus John Huey (AB ‘70), is named editor-in-chief of Time, Inc., making him responsible for content of the company’s 154 magazines with worldwide readership of 173 million, reports Time Magazine. (1/04/06)