Franklin College in the Media

<< 2006 Media

>> Derrick Alridge's appointment as director of UGA's Institute for African American Studies appears in The Georgia Informer. 9/20/07

>> Climatologist Marshall Shepherd is quoted in a story on changing rainfall patterns around the world on ABCNews.com. 9/20/07

>> History professor Stephen Mihm has also written the lead article in the "Ideas" section of this week's Boston Globe. He also recently appeared on Air America’s “Young Turks Show” in a 20-minute interview. (8/28/07)

>> Mihm also published a piece recently in the New York Times Sunday Magazine that puts the current credit crunch in historical perspective.  Mihm also was interviewed by Noah Adams on National Public Radio’s "Talk of the Nation" on Aug. 20. (8/21/07)

>> Research by statistics professor Abhyuday Mandal appears in Drug Discovery News. The work was conducted with researchers at Pfizer and Georgia Tech. (5/21/07)

>> The Los Angeles Times quotes UGA history professor Jim Cobb in an article on slavery apologies. “Certainly, for many people, it’s not much of an emotional concession to apologize for something you don’t really feel responsible for,” says Cobb. (3/19/07)

>> Research conducted by UGA associate professor of psychology Jonathon Crystal and Allison Foote shows rats are capable of metacognition, reports the Malaysia Sun. (3/12/07)

>> UGA historian James Cobb is quoted in an Economist article examining the business atmosphere in the South. Cobb criticizes use of public funds to entice individual industries, saying it would be more efficient to make the region equally inviting for all. (3/08/07; subscription required)

>> UGA sociology professor Paul Roman is quoted in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on expansion of a local drug and alcohol addiction treatment center. Roman has led a national study on such centers. (3/08/07)

>> Lioba Moshi, director of UGA’s Institute for African Studies, is named University Professor, reports an article in Diverse Education. (3/01/07)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald features UGA's CORE Concert Dance Company and its Spring Collection. (3/01/07)

>> UGA plant biology student Deep Shah’s efforts to start a Georgia chapter of the Roosevelt Institution “student think tank” is mentioned in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (3/01/07)

>> UGA counterfeiting expert Stephen Mihm is quoted in a Cox News story carried in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on high-tech methods used to foil potential counterfeiters. (2/28/07)

>> The New York Times quotes W. Keith Campbell, UGA associate professor of psychology, in a story carried nationwide via the Associated Press, on a study that finds today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors. The story is also carried by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Fox News Television and Radio, and CNN Radio. (2/27/07)

>> Franklin College board member and retired UGA botanist Sam Jones is featured in an Athens Banner-Herald article on his Piccadilly Farms and the 15th Annual Hellebore Days event set for March 2 and 3. (2/23/07)

>> Research by Matthew Mitchelson, a Ph.D. student in UGA’s geography department, is reported in a CNN feature. Mitchelson’s research looks at the at least 777 U.S. streets named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2/21/07)

>> Ian Lekus, UGA assistant professor of history, is quoted in a New York Times feature on the New York City housing project in which he grew up. (2/21/07)

>> The internal biological clock of plants and animals is the subject of a study by UGA’s Jonathan Arnold, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and subsequently in The Economist. (2/17/07)

>> UGA English professor Elissa Henken is quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Bigfoot rumors afoot in Virginia. (2/17/07)

>> UGA theatre student Martin “Bubba” Holubar, who died in 2005 from an epilepsy condition, will be honored by a benefit performance of “Rent” tonight at the Classic Center, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. The goal is to fund a UGA scholarship in his name, adding to an endowment begun by his family. (1/30/07)

>> The Athens Banner-Herald features UGA’s Lamar Dodd Chair in Art, Nina Bovasso; an exhibit of Bovasso’s work opens Friday, Jan. 26, at the Broad Street Gallery and runs through Friday, March 9. (1/25/07)

>> The Red and Black reports on the dedication of UGA’s Bio-Imaging Research Center. (1/24/07)

>> President Michael F. Adams and Professor Doug Toma (dean of the Franklin Residential College) are prominently featured in Chronicle of Higher Education reporting on yesterday’s Knight Commission meeting. (1/23/07; password required)

>> Retired Franklin College associate dean Clifton Pannell to give Founders' Day talk at UGA on Jan. 25, reports the Athens Banner-Herald. (1/22/07)

>> “At 200, Lee's halo still largely intact Capitol honors legacy of Confederate leader,” says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an article quoting Emory Thomas, UGA professor emeritus of history. (1/19/07)

>> An Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on the discovery of Georgia’s Declaration quotes UGA history professor Jim Cobb. (1/19/07)

>> J. Douglas Toma of UGA’s Institute of Higher Education, and dean of the Franklin Residential College, is quoted in an Associated Press story running in St. Louis and elsewhere regarding up-scale campus recreational facilities. (1/18/07)

>> An Athens Banner-Herald article on “the killer computer of '2001'” quotes Michael Covington, associate director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at UGA. (1/12/07)

>> Noted author and civil rights historian Robert Pratt to speak at Young Harris College, reports the Union Sentinel. Pratt is a UGA history professor and department chair. (1/12/07)

>> An article published by Appalachian State University focuses on a group of professors exploring the challenges of teaching religion in the South. The group, which includes UGA religion professor Carolyn Medine, received a $15,000 grant for the study. (1/12/07)

>> The Red and Black reports that construction of the new Lamar Dodd School of Art is on schedule. (1/9/07)

>> William S. McFeely, UGA professor of history emeritus, is featured in a Boston Globe story about his latest biography of the portrait artist Thomas Eakins. (1/9/07)

>> The new “Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index” runs counter to some reputational presumptions, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, such as ranking UGA’s English department second in the nation, ahead of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Penn and Virginia. (1/9/07; subscription required)

>> UGA cellular biology professor Scott Dougan receives a $707,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to study the role of specific genes in embryonic development, says the Athens Banner-Herald. (1/8/07)

>> A Wired News article on magneto-encephalography, or MEG, scanners quotes UGA psychology professor Keith Campbell. (1/8/07)

>> UGA computer science professor Hamid Arabnia is quoted in the Pocono (PA) Record in an article about solving a decades-old mathematical puzzle.  (1/4/07)