News Archive - 2024

Integrative conservation starts with a paintbrush and glides its way between India’s tiger reserves and its indigenous communities.  Amit Kaushik, a PhD student in the Integrative Conservation and anthropology, is working on tiger conservation in India. He presented his work earlier this month at an Arts Collaborative Conversation at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, "The Gond Art and the Tiger: A Dialogue on Conservation, Displacement, and…

The Franklin College Writing Intensive Program (WIP) is seeking a student intern to contribute to the Program’s communication and media initiatives. Candidates should be motivated, creative individuals with strong communication, writing, design, and social media skills. If interested in applying, please email Dr. Lindsey Harding with the subject line INTERNSHIP APPLICATION.  As a WIP …

Humanities students are invited to apply for an Oxbelly Fiction Retreat internship which will allow them to review the work of some of the most talented contemporary aspiring writers in the world. Students accepted for this internship will help review applications for the 2025 Oxbelly Fiction Retreat. Interns will join a selection of reviewers from all over the world to review applications from Feb 15th to March 16th. In the first stage,…

The Pre-Professional Advising Office (PPAO) is looking for a student with experience or a strong interest in social media, communications, marketing, and outreach. The intern will work with the PPAO Coordinator to create engaging content, including reels, advertisements, videos, and surveys, aimed at pre-health and pre-law students. Additional responsibilities include launching the Pre-Professional Playbook podcast, developing a LinkedIn account…

A central artery of campus and home to multiple Franklin College units for decades is in the process of significant renovation – and celebration: The University of Georgia held a dedication ceremony on Oct. 30 to celebrate the completion of the first phase of renovations to modernize research and instruction facilities and infrastructure on UGA’s Science and Ag Hill. This area of campus, located just south of Sanford Stadium, includes buildings…

The Computers and Writing 2025 planning committee is seeking a student intern to contribute to the Program’s communication and media initiatives. Candidates should be motivated, creative individuals with strong communication, writing, design, and social media skills.   As a C&W communications/media intern, you will work with English Department faculty and graduate students to plan, promote, facilitate, and document a major…

Derek Alderman, Franklin College alumnus and Board of Advisors member, earned his MA (`93) and PhD (`98) in Geography and was recently named Chancellor’s Professor at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville. This distinction honors the highest standards of academic excellence at UT and is awarded based on outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to their fields. Alderman, a professor of human geography in the Department of…

In 2013, the UGA Graduate School’s Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) established the Alumni of Distinction award to honor graduates who have achieved exceptional success in their professional careers and in service to their communities. More specifically, the Alumni of Distinction award recognizes achievements that exemplify UGA’s mission “to teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things” at local, regional, and global…

In a terrific story combining genome analysis, a love for the hedges and UGA history— a Franklin College faculty member and his students found that the same family of hedges have stood tall for nearly 100 years: Plant biology professor and hedges researcher James Leebens-Mack decided to sequence the genome of the Sanford Stadium hedges. His goal was to combine service-learning with his own areas of research, comparative genome biology and the…

From Sapelo Island, Georgia to Yosemite National Park in California, UGA’s Interdisciplinary Field Program mixes geology, ecology, and anthropology into a 60-day road trip across America: They travel through 20 states and to 23 national parks and monuments—including the Grand Canyon, Muir Woods, Mount Saint Helens, and Yellowstone National Park—and log nearly 12,000 miles on the road, and then tack on another 100 miles or so hiking on foot.…