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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
Pictured: Computing students holding up flag at Oxford

Where Code Meets Cobblestones

UGA Students Study Computer Science This Summer at Oxford

Summer 2025, nineteen UGA students swapped their familiar Athens classrooms for the storied halls of Oxford, diving into computing courses that blended academic rigor with cultural immersion. Students were able to take two computer… Read Article

Gary May and Dean Stenport

Gary May, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, shares insights on the future of higher education in lecture

This Fall, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost welcomed Gary May, the Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, to kick off the Fall 2025 Provost Seminar Series. In his lecture, “A Retrospective and Prospective Look at the Value of Higher Education,” May… Read Article

telescope image with red ring and blue center in dark space

NSF project to peer into deep space, observe rapid planet formation

University of Georgia faculty member Cassandra Hall is a co-principal investigator on a new project supported by $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to learn more about planetary formation by studying a star system over 500 light-years away.

The grant funds a three-year… Read Article

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Dance Majors and Minors Excel at UGA

In our fourth installation in this five-part series, we’re excited to showcase the talented success stories of our Art students featured in the first-ever Fine & Performing Arts Season Brochure, where all of the arts programming in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences come… Read Article

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Courtroom to Campus: Sherrie Hines’s Franklin Journey: Mock Trial to UGA Law School Lecturer  

Dual-University of Georgia grad and now UGA law professor Sherrie Hines attributes her time in the Franklin College   to her current successes. While at the UGA, Hines studied criminal justice and speech communications, and still uses tools from her courses such as a law school… Read Article