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“To teach, to serve, and to inquire
into the nature of things."
     
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The University of Georgia we know today got underway in 1801 in the humblest of circumstances in a log cabin on the edge of the wilderness. The town of Athens grew up around it. In admiration for Benjamin Franklin, the leading man of intellect in the infant United States, the institution came to be known as the Franklin College.		  
 
  Jennifer Kyle, a geology graduate student, process samples brought back from the research trip to the Uzon caldera in Kamchatka last summer.  
  The call from "out of the blue":
Eve Troutt Powell, associate professor of history, has been named a recipient of a "no strings attached" $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the first faculty member in UGA history so honored. In general, her research revolves around nationalism in the Middle East, Arabic literature, and the area's slavery in the late 19th century. MORE 		 
Points of Pride


I am proud that the College now consists of 30 departments and is home to more than 30 centers, institutes, and special programs. Some of our recent accomplishments include:

Arts and Humanities

  • Eight named professorships that have helped us recruit and retain outstanding faculty in the arts and humanities

  • Dance joined art, music, and drama as part of our fine arts program

  • History professor Eve Trout Powell was named winner of UGA's first-ever MacArthur Foundation –genius grant” and Ed Larson, history department head, received UGA's first-ever Pulitzer Prize

  • We now offer more than 25 languages from Arabic to Zulu

  • New major in film studies and an MFA in performance

Natural and Social Sciences

  • More than a dozen faculty members have received major national and international scientific awards

  • Nationally recognized research in cancer, Alzheimer's disease, substance abuse, plant and animal genomics, erosion, and geographical remote sensing and mapping

  • Seeking approval for new majors in engineering in three areas: computer systems, ecology, and biochemistry
 
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