News Archive - 2026

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“Yes, and”: Inside-Out class uses creativity to build connection

UGA students and Athens-Clarke County Jail residents explored how creativity can challenge assumptions and open new possibilities. A student offered a gesture. The others repeated it, then added their own. Soon the class was dancing, laughing, and responding to one another’s energy. The exercise drew on the improvisational theater principle “Yes, and”: accept what someone offers, then build on it. Over eight weeks, that idea became a way for UGA…

Victoria Hasko and Olga Thomason
Russian Flagship Program prepares students for a changing world

One of UGA’s crown jewels for academics, the Russian Flagship Program prepares students to reach advanced language proficiency while developing a nuanced understanding of the Russian-speaking world. Housed in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the intensive four-year program is one of only four Russian Flagship programs nationwide. Director Victoria Hasko developed the program’s curriculum and…

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UGA’s Victoria Hasko leads U.S. Department of State-funded English language program

The University of Georgia has received funding from the U.S. Department of State to provide an online American English language program for adult learners abroad. Victoria Hasko of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences serves as principal investigator and director, with Misha Cahnmann-Taylor of the Mary Frances Early College of Education as academic director. Hasko and Cahnmann-Taylor helped launch UGA’s online Graduate…

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The body belongs to a person: Aspiring physician-scientist finds a fuller view of medicine through the Classics

This story is part of Humanities in Practice, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences series exploring the value of the humanities in work and everyday life. For aspiring physician-scientist Mohammed Q. Al Eethawi, the humanities provide the other half of a medical education. Al Eethawi is working to identify neurodegeneration before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear. A 16th-century anatomy book helped shape how he thinks about the human…

Sarah Wright and Ruth Harmen
UGA professors receive competitive Lilly Endowment grant to advance ethical reasoning and character education

Sarah Wright, a philosophy professor in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Ruth Harman, a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, have received a prestigious $50,000 Capacity-Building Grant from the Educating Character Initiative. UGA was selected as one of only 68 institutions nationwide to receive the competitive award from the initiative, a project of the Program for Leadership and…


Technical Communications Internships in Engineering Capstone Groups Spring 2027

The English Department and the College of Engineering are partnering to offer Technical Communications Internships with Engineering Capstone Groups. All Engineering students participate in a yearlong capstone project, where groups of 3-5 engineers work together to solve a complex problem, often for actual companies and organizations. Some of the companies engineering students have worked with before include Creature Comforts Brewery,…


Spring 2027 Ethics Hub Communications & Programming Internship

The newly launched UGA Ethics Hub is seeking a student with experience in research, social media, marketing & strategy, and event planning. The intern will collaborate with Charlie Kurth, the incoming Director of the UGA Ethics Hub, in order to research and develop ethics-oriented programing for the Hub as well as to assist in the planning, marketing, and advertising of the Hub’s events.  This internship will give you exciting, hands-on…

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UGA dedicates second phase of Science and Ag Hill modernization

Renovated Cedar Street Building B provides upgraded research facilities, collaborative spaces The University of Georgia celebrated the completion of the second phase of its Science and Ag Hill modernization initiative with a ribbon cutting on Oct. 28. The project focused on the east wing of the late-1950s Biological Sciences Building, which is now known as Cedar Street Building B. This section of the building underwent comprehensive renovations…

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Five Franklin faculty members selected for UGA Service-Learning Fellowship

The Office of Service-Learning at the University of Georgia has announced the 22nd cohort of its Service-Learning Fellows, and five members are faculty of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.  The program allows faculty from a wide range of disciplines to integrate academic service-learning into their professional work. Since its launch in 2006, over 200 faculty from across UGA have participated in the Service-Learning Fellows program…

Zion Basque
Franklin assistant professor featured in Scientific American

As artificial intelligence rapidly changes the computer software industry, assistant professor Zion Basque is on the front lines of learning how the technology could have lasting impacts. Basque, who teaches in the School of Computing, spoke with Scientific American about Kuna, a tool built in his research group that can use AI agents to decompile, or reverse engineer, machine code into source code. Basque, who focuses his research on reverse…