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As a member of Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Research Enterprise Support Team, Christopher serves as a contact for pre-award grant administration between the Franklin College Business Services Office (FBSO) and UGA’s Office of Sponsored Project Administration (SPA). He closely interfaces with Principal Investigators and Sponsored Programs in the submission of grant proposals.
Chair of our biological sciences division in the Franklin College Mark Farmer is a regular contributor to public debates on support for science in the classroom and lab. Yesterday in the pages and pixels of the Athens Banner Herald he weighed in on the creeping politicization of the NSF: Over the past 60 years, the NSF has paid dividends that far outweigh the relatively modest investment of taxpayer support. Doppler radar, magnetic resonance…
The work of Franklin College scientists and scholars continue to be reported widely. A sample from the past month:    ‘Geolocation,’ an art project by Lamar Dodd School of Art photography lecturer Marni Shindelman that utilizes Twitter, was featured in web and print publications around the world including Wired.com, Business Insider, Yahoo! Canada, Gizmodo, The Verge, Andrew Sullivan: The Daily Beast, Animal New York, and the Athens…
December was a short month on campus but there was no shortage of news stories featuring the work and expertise of Franklin College faculty. A sampling:   Linguistics professor Bill Kretzschmar was quoted in a Fox News article on Google Books study on how language changes over time. Kretzschmar was also quoted in a Florida Times-Union story about Jacksonville’s disappearing Southern accent.   Professor and senior associate dean Hugh…