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A successor to our print magazine, The Franklin Chronicles, this blog allows us to continue to communicate the importance of the arts and sciences to an expanded audience through a variety of means – articles and announcements, video, news and opinion – to pick up the conversation of why the arts, humanities and sciences matter so much at this juncture in the history of our university, our nation and the world. Read more

81st University Theatre season begins with 'Doubt'

University Theatre kicks off its 81st season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Doubt: A Parable' on Sept. 19:

"Doubt" is set in 1964. In a parallel with the present moment, new Pope Paul VI is shaking up the Catholic church by pushing a series of reforms, reaching out to other faiths to… Read Article


Kudos, September 2013

Great news this month about our faculty, students and alumni. A few of the highlight of accomplishments and awards in the Franklin College:

 

University Professor Lynn Billard of the department of statistics was selected to receive the 2013 Florence Nightingale David… Read Article


Faculty in the News, September '13

Here's a sampling of Franklin College faculty writing and quoted in the media this month:

 

“The secret bromance of Nixon and Brezhnev” – Posting by associate professor of history Stephen Mihm in Bloomberg News, picked up by the History News Network.

A second posting by… Read Article


English alumna one of six Rona Jaffe Writers' Award winners

Incredible news for department of English alumna Ashlee (Adams) Crews ( A.B., 2000) who was selected for one of the six 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards and will receive $30,000:

In recognition of the special contributions women writers make to our culture and society, The… Read Article


Georgia Virtual History Project

One of the new Faculty Research Clusters recently launched by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts is the Digital Humanities Lab co-directed by Franklin faculty in the departments of English (Bill Kretzschmar) and history (Stephen Berry and Claudio Saunt). This initiative combines digital… Read Article

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