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Honors and awards of every stripe have been announced for faculty, staff and students. 

Vincent Starai was awarded $1,503,565 by the National Institutes of Health to investigate how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease, Legionella pneumophila, overcome the body’s defenses… Read Article

As part of its 'African Diplomat on Campus' series, the African Studies Institute presents a public lecture by HE Seydou Bouda on Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m. in room 480 of the Tate Student Center:

His Excellency, Ambassador Seydou Bouda has served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and… Read Article

This is more a Save the Date item but next month the Georgia Museum of Art will host an event that connects the humanities with visual art in a very, well, creative, way:

Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s advanced creative writing class presents an evening of readings inspired by works of… Read Article

Franklin College faculty continue to be widely quoted and featured in the news media. A sample from April:

UGA researcher Vincent Starai, an assistant professor of microbiology, has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to study Legionnaires’ disease.… Read Article

Franklin's Philip Grayeski becomes UGA's 44th Goldwater Scholar:

Grayeski, a junior Honors student majoring in genetics and chemistry at the University of Georgia, has been named a 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar.

Grayeski is among a group of 271 recipients of the one- and two-year… Read Article