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Research reveals how medieval writers reshaped stories of ancient women

Just as today's filmmakers reboot classic movies, medieval writers turned to the ancient world for stories they could reshape for their own audiences. The characters remained familiar, but their motivations and moral significance shifted as ideas about religion, gender, and power evolved.  For Mounawar Abbouchi, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, those…
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Dance as research: UGA students take creative inquiry to the world's stage

Two University of Georgia dance students spent the summer training at internationally recognized programs in Italy and Germany, where they explored choreography as a form of artistic research alongside leading contemporary dance artists.  Rising third-year dance and finance major Spencer Burdett studied the work of choreographer Pina Bausch with former members of Tanztheater Wuppertal at Orsolina28 in Italy. Rising fourth-year dance and…
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When people become data points: A Ph.D. candidate’s call for ethical guardrails in biotech and AI

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate Blessing Temitope Adewuyi has built her academic journey around perseverance and faith. Raised in southwestern Nigeria, she became the first in her family to earn a college degree. In May, she will again make family history as the first to earn a Ph.D. Adewuyi’s work sits at the intersection of ethics, religion, and biomedical science. Focusing on bioethics, she examines how advances in…
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Where you’re from in how you speak: Franklin Ph.D. candidate Keiko Bridwell’s research on language and place

Ph.D. candidate Keiko Bridwell’s path to commencement at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences began with a fascination for words and grew into a study of how language shapes identity. As a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics, she focused her research on Athens and neighboring Oconee County, exploring how communities separated by a river and a county line express who they are through speech. By analyzing vowel patterns and interviewing Georgia…
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Franklin senior Kennedy Ingram breaks ground in ocean science graduation milestone

“It’s the mystery of it,” says Kennedy Ingram about the ocean. “Knowing that over 80% of the ocean is still unexplored makes me feel like there’s so much left to discover.” In May, Ingram will graduate from the UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences with a B.S. in ocean science and a minor in geology. She is one of the first two Black women to graduate from the program, and her academic path reflects Franklin’s emphasis on experiential and…
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The ampersand at work: How Caroline Moore found meaning in the spaces between disciplines

At the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the ampersand symbolizes the generative nature of multidisciplinary education, where knowledge meets experiential learning, studio practice connects with research, theory, and application work side-by-side, and local inquiry and global engagement converge. Graduating senior Caroline Moore, majoring in art history with minors in studio art and English, is grateful for her Franklin experience…
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Following curiosity: How one Franklin senior turned passion into research

This story is part of Franklin’s celebration of its Class of 2026 graduates at the University of Georgia. For Gavin Wright (AB ’26, English), undergraduate research grew naturally out of a passion first sparked in high school: a love of reading, writing, and thinking deeply about literature. At UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, that early interest evolved into a sustained intellectual pursuit. “Studying English has been a way to…
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Communicating research through art and creativity

As the timer counted down 4 minutes and 33 seconds, presenters took the stage to share their integrative arts investigations. The presentations that unfolded went beyond standard explanations of an abstract and utilized creativity to captivate the audience.  The 2025 4’33” Competition featured a variety of presentations from poetry readings to immersive visuals. First place winner Younghyun Kim, Ph.D. student in Learning, Leadership, and…
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The collaborative power of poetry and photography in Andrew Zawacki’s Endscape

UGA professor explores a distressed landscape in new interdisciplinary collection This November Andrew Zawacki, Distinguished Research Professor in the department of English, published Endscape, a collection of his poetry and photography. The work appears in the inaugural edition of the P5 Photo Poetry Pamphlet series, directed by Photoworks.    Endscape began around 2019, born out of an interest in the landscape surrounding…
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Cellist David Starkweather reflects on 40 years at UGA

David Starkweather is the professor of cello in the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, housed within the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, where he has been a faculty member since 1983. In this interview, Starkweather discusses the role that cello has played in his life and how he uses technology to unlock centuries-old musical mysteries. How did you become interested in the cello? I started playing in the…
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Traveling with a pack of trombones

Josh Bynum, professor of trombone in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, took home a UGA Creative Research Medal last year for his album Catalyst, a collection of classical pieces inspired by classic works of art, music and literature. In this interview with our Office of Research colleague Michael Terrazas, Bynum discusses his approach to music pedagogy and research, as well as his love for that most epic of orchestral…
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Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin selected as 2019 TED Fellow

 Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, assistant professor in the department of theatre and film studies, has been selected as a TED Fellow, joining a class of 20 change-makers from around the world to deliver a talk on the TED stage this April in Vancouver: Dr. Amma was selected for her original and hyper-collaborative approach to creating artistic works based on archival research for the stage and screen, including her new musical in…
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4'33" arts research competition

Based on the three-movement 1952 John Cage composition "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds," the Spotlight on the Arts festival hosted the fifth-annual competition highlighting scholarly research by UGA students on Nov. 7. Poster and presentation winners were: Bridget Dooley PhD Creative Writing, English. Advisor: LeAnne Howe Her PhD dissertation, Night of the Same Day, documents her research into the extraordinary life and…
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Middle school students DIVE into art and poetry

The Georgia Museum of Art's partnership with Camp DIVE has focused on art and poetry, with about two dozen middle-school students enrolled in the camp visiting the museum weekly through the month of June to make connections between visual art and creating their own literature: Camp DIVE—which stands for discover, inquire, voice, and explore-provides local, underserved youth in Athens with a month-long free learning experience. This partnership…
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Including Inclusion: Lester leads discussions on race

An important series of events this week, already in progress, featuring Dr. Neal Lester and organized by linguistics doctoral student Kim Waters to address issues of diversity and inclusion with the University of Georgia and the city of Athens: Waters has organized a series of events that will take place from Sept. 13–17, both on campus and in town, in an effort to promote social healing and cross-cultural understanding. Waters is working…
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