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Students and alumni from the Franklin College are doing great things all over the world, here are examples from just two of those we heard about today: Jason Carter, a BFA student in painting and drawing at the Lamar Dodd School of Art has spent the summer working as a studio assistant for Berlin-…

UGA anthropology researcher quoted on Mantle site

CBSNews.com ran a story about a very interesting discovery in Ontario - a giant, hitherto unknown 16th century settlement: Occupied between roughly A.D. 1500 and 1530, the so-called Mantle site was settled by the Wendat (Huron). Excavations at the site, between 2003 and 2005, have uncovered its 98…

Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin College

Douglas Anderson in the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at UGA. He has taught and written about Benjamin Franklin throughout his career, including most recently The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin, published by Johns Hopkins in spring 2012. Here he talks about Franklin the man, his ideas…

Happy Independence Day

Image: Jefferson Memorial seen across the Tidal Basin at dusk, courtesy Creative Commons license.  

Franklin College: Framework for the Future

  From Interim Dean Hugh Ruppersburg:    Dear members of the Franklin College community, I am pleased to share with you the outcome of our year-long strategic planning initiative:  "Franklin College:  Framework for the Future" (framework.franklin.uga.edu).  As the…

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