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Multiple Presentations from the National Communication Association Convention

This colloquium will feature presentations from multiple speakers that will be delivered at the 101st National Communication Association Convention in Las Vegas, NV.


The Global Discussion Thread: A Liberal Arts Approach to the Digital Age

Isabel Fay will present this lecture as part of the ongoing colloquia hosted by the communication studies department.


Recovering from Katrina: Disaster Response Rhetoric and Displacements of Memory

Jeremy Grossman will present this lecture as part of the ongoing colloquia hosted by the communication studies department.


Sex Texting and International Sport in the Age of Chromosomes

Dr. Jaclyn Nolan will present this lecture as part of the ongoing colloquia hosted by the Communication Studies Department.


Law, Language and Violence: A Rhetorical History of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence

Mikaela Malsin will present this lecture as part of the ongoing colloquia hosted by the Communication Studies Department.


Data-driven Discovery in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Humanities

Marshall Scott Poole is David L. Swanson Professor of Communication, Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), and Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Professor of Organization and Communication Studies at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.  Scott received his Ph.D in 1980 from…


"Art and Activism vs. Surveillant Security State

Dr. Roger Stahl will present this lecture as part of the ongoing colloquia hosted by the communication studies department.

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Narrative in the Classroom

Instructive article in the CHE that echoes the recent Reacting to the Past conference at UGA on pedagogy that connects students to history. Telling stories can help students learn, certainly: But research by cognitive psychologist Roger Schank suggests that the long-term effects of narrative-based learning are more limited than it sometimes seems. We learn by hearing stories from others — like from a professor, say — mostly when the…


DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM: MONIREH HASHEMI

Hashemi was born in Iran in 1985. At the age of nineteen she moved to Herat, Afghanistan and started working as a film actress. She and Abdul Hakim Hashemi established the Simorgh Film Association of Culture and Art (SFACA) in 2005. She has since acted in numerous short films. She wrote and directed the short films In the Embrace of Wind and Last Laugh. In 2007 she won the best director award at the First Educational Theatre…

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Malcolm Adams, 2015 Meigs Professor

Four UGA faculty members have been named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors, the university's highest recognition for excellence in instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including professor and mathematics department head Malcolm Adams: In bestowing the Meigs Professorship, the university communicates its commitment to excellence in teaching, the value placed on the learning experiences of students and the…


Franklin faculty honored with Regents awards

Two Franklin College professors along with the First-Year Odyssey program, which if you remember also originated in the Franklin College, were honored with excellence awards from the USG Board of Regents: • William Finlay, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award; • Paula Lemons, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular…


Science Learning Center: breaking ground

The D.W. Brooks mall on South Campus is about to [begin to] change for the better, with much-needed science instruction space in the new Science Learning Center: The University of Georgia will break ground on its newest building-the 122,500-square-foot Science Learning Center-on Aug. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the south end of the S10 parking lot located just off Carlton Street. ... The Science Learning Center will be situated on South Campus adjacent…


Focus on the faculty: Lisa Donovan

Great Q & A on the UGA homepage with professor of plant biology Lisa Donovan:   When did you come to UGA and what brought you here? I came to the University of Georgia in 1995 and was attracted by the diversity and excellence of the plant biologists here. What are your favorite courses and why? At the undergraduate level, I enjoy contributing to BIOL 1108, “Principles of Plant Biology II” for biology majors, because it provides…


Organic Chemistry II app

Local High School Student, UGA Professor Team Up to iPhone/iPad application By Jessica Luton  jluton@uga.edu For North Oconee High School student Chuanbo Pan, computer programming just comes naturally. After creating an iPhone app to help fellow high school students learn Latin, Pan was sought out by his neighbor, chemistry professor Jason Locklin, to help create an app for what is often known as one of UGA’s most difficult classes—Organic…

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The SCALE-UP teaching method

Terrific article on classroom innovations by two of our very best: Steven Lewis and Craig Wiegert: Two physics professors have taken Isaac Newton's first law of motion-an object at rest will continue to be at rest unless acted upon by an external force-and applied it to the way they teach the subject. For decades there was inertia on how physics classes were taught to undergraduates: A lecturer would talk to students about physics without the…


SEC Academic Leadership Development Program

Four faculty members, including Tracie Costantino of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, will be among the faculty and administrators from the 14 institutions of the Southeastern Conference that gather at UGA this month for a three-day workshop that aims to develop the next generation of academic leaders. The workshop is part of the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, which began in 2008 and has two components: a university-level program…


Beckmann honored with Women in Mathematics Award

For all the attention that mathematics education receives nationally in the U.S., it can be difficult to determine where the front lines are in the battle to help more young people succeed. Beyond the classrooms themselves another is in higher education, where teaching strategies are refined and improved in the search to find more effective pedagogical methods. The department of mathematics is home to one of the leading thinkers on the subject,…


Music Scholarship: Power in the Progress

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is renowned for training some of the best conductors, vocalists, cellists, violinists and other instrumental performers in the country. Many of these UGA graduates go on to outstanding international careers and we take great pride in their accomplishments. The Hodgson School also trains some of the best music teachers in America and its impact on the future of the arts in the classroom is at least as important as…


Medine receives Teaching honor from AAR

The American Academy of Religion awarded one of its highest honors to Carolyn Medine: Medine, a University of Georgia professor in the department of religion and the Institute for African American Studies, has been selected to receive the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Academy of Religion. The professional society for scholarship and teaching in the field of religion, the AAR has more 10,000 members who teach in about 1,000…


Harshman to lead First-Year Odyssey program

The First-Year Odyssey program has been an important innovation in teaching but also in introducing freshman to the university setting. The FYO now has a new director: Melissa Harshman, an associate professor in the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art, has been named faculty director of the First-Year Odyssey Seminar program. Through the program, small-group academic seminars taught by tenured and tenure-track faculty are offered to…


Focus on Faculty: William Finlay

Sociology professor and department head William Finlay is currently featured in the Focus on Faculty on the UGA homepage: A few highlights/insights on Finlay's perspective on teaching: What interests you about your field? I enjoy its diversity and the sheer range of human behaviors and institutions that one can examine and explain as a sociologist. It remains as fascinating a discipline to me now as it did when I took my first undergraduate…

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Cell signaling iBook features faculty partnership from across campus

 


New Microbiology faculty members

The Franklin College’s Department of Microbiology recently hired two senior faculty members, both of whom bring an impressive record of research and teaching to UGA. Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena comes to UGA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his work focuses on a number of areas that impact human health. Among his interests are the use of vitamin B12 derivatives for cancer therapy and the modification of bacterial proteins to…


UGA - Franklin College Study Abroad

Students and faculty at the University are fortunate in the extent to which UGA has embraced the importance of study abroad. An international academic experience intertwines crucial cultural elements with instruction in ways that are otherwise inaccessible for students, but also builds richness into the undergraduate experience that directly supports the well-rounded liberal arts education we speak and write about so often. Whether it is a…


Crime and... Mathematics

The Cantrell Lecture Series in the department of mathematics brings UCLA professor and director of Applied Mathematics Andrea Bertozzi to campus on Wednesday April 25 for an interesting lecture: The Mathematics of Crime There is an extensive applied mathematics literature developed for problems in the biological and physical sciences. Our understanding of social science problems from a mathematical standpoint is less developed, but also presents…
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