Kudos, February 2014

Many awards, grants and other forms of recognition for our faculty and staff already in the New Year. A sampling:

Lecturer and playwright John Patrick Bray saw a production of his short plays performed by members of University Theatre at the Seney-Stovall Chapel in early February

Henry "Fritz" Schaefer was included in a list of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today

Don Rubin, professor emeritus of communication studies and language and literacy education, was elected inaugural chair of the Georgia Alliance for Health Literacy. The group's mission is to promote health literacy and health equity in the state of Georgia

Eleven Franklin College staff members were among the thirty academic advisers (picured above) who received a Certificate in Academic Advising at the 2013 Fall Academic Advising Workshop in November. The workshop was sponsored by the Academic Advising Coordinating Council and the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. Certificates were awarded to advisers who completed a six-course advising program during the last year 

 A team led by Distinguished Research Professor of Marine Sciences James Hollibaugh received a $727,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to determine why populations of a single-celled organism called Thaumarchaeota explode in the coastal waters throughout the Southeastern United States each summer

Andrea Sweigart and David Nelson, assistant professors in the genetics department of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, each have been awarded five-year, $1 million grants from the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program