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Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration

Join Franklin College and the UGA Libraries to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Free food from Agua Linda, a variety of libraries resources, and information on upcoming events will be available.

2026 Homecoming Tailgate

Join Dean Anna Stenport, alumni, and friends on the New College Lawn on North Campus for food, beverages, and pre-game fun! Catering provided by Flying Biscuit Cafe. Event will begin three hours before kick-off. For questions, contact Haley Avery at havery@uga.edu. 

Finals Pop-Up

Get cozy for your study session on Reading Day with a free Franklin sweatshirt* and some snacks to fuel you up for finals! *While supplies last.  No RSVP required

First-Gen Check In

In honor of First-Generation Celebration Week, Franklin is hosting a drop-in event for all of our first-gen students! We welcome you to come by Tate 479 for breakfast treats and a special button and stay for as long as you'd like to chat with our ambassadors and each other! No RSVP required.

Snow Cones with Stenport

Drop by Memorial Plaza (in front of Memorial Hall, across from Journalism and Psychology) to enjoy a free snow cone*, an exclusive Franklin bandana, and mingle with Dean Stenport! *While supplies last. The first 250 students are guaranteed a snow cone. No RSVP required.

Tips & Trix

Join the Franklin College Student Ambassadors in Tate 479 to enjoy a bowl of cereal + short crafting activities! All students are welcome and encouraged to ask any questions they have about college resources, majors, involvement opportunities, etc. We want to make sure you're thriving at the mid-semester point! No RSVP required.

Franklin Fest

Join us inside the West End Zone of Sanford Stadium for Franklin Fest! This social event is a great opportunity to meet new people, discover student organizations and learn about valuable resources. Receive access to the locker room + a 360 camera experience, enjoy free food and games, and be entered into raffles for prizes from the bookstore just by attending. You don’t want to miss out on the college’s largest social event of the year!

Startup Social

Free Food, Founders, & Funding Ideas: Startup Social Come for the free food, stay for the coolest student, staff, and faculty-led startups on campus. Whether you're looking to join a team, pitch your own future idea, or just see what those in the UGA community are building, this is where it happens. No boring speeches—just pure innovation (and great networking). Please RSVP through the Involvement Network at: https://uga.campuslabs.com…

Franklin CREATE! at ATDC Entrepreneurs Night

Join the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta for Entrepreneurs Night at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). Hosted by ATDC, the Franklin Board of Advisors, and Franklin CREATE!, this will be an evening to connect and network with visionaries at different stages of their entrepreneurial journeys alongside UGA and Franklin alums. We're pleased to showcase Franklin CREATE!, a bold new initiative designed to build…

Franklin CREATE! Build Your Team

Do you have an idea that you can imagine as a commercial venture, but you need other people to help you get it off the ground? Join Franklin CREATE! for this in-person event! Network with other students and talk with Franklin CREATE! staff and Faculty Ambassadors.

Franklin CREATE! Build Your Team

Do you have an idea that you can imagine as a commercial venture, but you need other people to help you get it off the ground? Join Franklin CREATE! for this in-person event! Network with other students and talk with Franklin CREATE! staff and Faculty Ambassadors.

Kafka in Athens

Mark Harman, professor emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College and award-winning translator of Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person, The Castle, and most recently, Selected Stories, will give a talk and have a conversation on translation on Thursday, November 13, at 5:30 p.m. in Cine.  The event is part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival, and Harman’s visit is in collaboration with the departments of English and…

Reading by Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee

The Creative Writing Program is overjoyed to welcome Booker Prize Finalist Neel Mukherjee to Athens!   The reading will be held in The Graduate Reading Room on the third floor of the Main Library on North Campus. Books will be available for purchase before and after the reading. With support from the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts and the English Department.   Neel Mukherjee is the author of A Life Apart…

Indigenous-Led Conservation: The Living Forest Talk and Kichwa and Spanish Film-screening

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025, the Department of Anthropology is hosting a public screening of the film Helena from Sarayaku, followed by a Q&A with the director Eriberto Gualinga, an internationally recognized Indigenous filmmaker from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The full-length documentary depicts Sarayaku’s struggle against environmental degradation in their territory and how this struggle gave…

The Athens Film Project

A special showing of the Athens Film Project, a presentation of the Athens Historical Society.  This screening is sponsored by the history department and The B. Phinizy Spalding Chair in History. The Athens Film Project creates short films on Athens history for use in area schools with funds generously donated by local supporters. Working with local teachers, student consultants,  and hired graduate students in history, project…

T-Shirt Design Contest

Create a unique and creative t-shirt design that reflects the essence of the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. KEY DATES: Competition Announcement: September 15th Submission Deadline: October 10th PRIZE • A feature on Franklin College’s website and social media. • Free t-shirts featuring their design. • A gift card to the UGA bookstore. Click the link below to check out the competition guidelines

North of the Arch

North of the Arch is an official welcome from the Athens community to new UGA students. Team up with hallmates, orientation groups, and friends and find the Athens Downtown Development Authority check-in table in front of The Grill on College Avenue to participate in this adventure through Downtown Athens. Document the journey on social media using #NorthoftheArch and learn more about Athens. Visit https://govt.relations.uga.edu/north-of…

Spring Commencement 2025

Undergraduate ceremony speaker Jarryd Wallace (A.B, Communication Studies '19) is a four-time Paralympian and winner of two bronze medals. Born and raised in Athens, Wallace was a state champion cross country runner and was attending UGA on a track scholarship when complications from compartment syndrome changed his plans. During his junior year in 2010, he started feeling pain in his right shin then ultimately underwent 10 surgeries over…

Sustainability Showcase

Annual event to celebrate the culmination of the hard work, innovation, and dedication of Sustainability Certificate students.  Michael Chanin, Founder and CEO of Cherry Street Energy, will provide opening remarks for the Showcase. The event will include short presentations by each capstone team, visual displays, networking, and light refreshments.  Read more

Spring Dodd Market

The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents the Second Annual Spring Dodd Market — a vibrant, student-run art market showcasing the incredible talent of UGA's art students. 270 River Road, Athens, GA 30602. Free and open to the public. Friday, March 28 | 10 AM – 5 PM Traditional works of art Café Racer food truck all day Live local music Saturday, March 29 | 10 AM – 4 PM A diverse mix of art, crafts, and unique creations Live local music…

Screening and Conversation: "Mai Zetterling’s 'The Girls' (1968): Feminist Movements and European Art Cinema"

Join Anna Stenport, dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication studies with an appointment in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, for a screening and conversation about one of the most influential feminist films of the late 1960s and 1970s, Swedish director Mai Zetterling’s The Girls (Flickorna, 1968). A masterpiece of modernist art cinema, The Girls is a visually stunning, narratively complex,…

UGA Humanities Festival Student and Faculty Appreciation Reception

All are invited to a public gathering with refreshments and conversation to begin the UGA Humanities Festival in its third year, with recognition of outstanding achievements by members of the UGA humanities and arts communities. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. with remarks by UGA Humanities Council co-chairs Jeanette Taylor, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and Director of the…

Graduate Student Reading Series Poet: Joy Priest

The University of Georgia Creative Writing Program through its Graduate Students Reading series presents a reading and book signing with Joy Priest, the 2025 Visiting Poet. This free event is open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be served. Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series), selected by Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of…

Franklin Fest

Join us at the DW Brooks Mall on Thursday, 2/27 from 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. as we continue our celebration of Franklin Fest! We recently introduced the Franklin Spark featuring the traits that align with Franklin students, faculty and staff - ambitious, curious, creative, innovative and tomorrow's leaders. The Franklin Spark is a symbol highlighting how the arts and sciences comes together - fostering academic excellence and collaboration…

Franklin Fest

Join us at the Courtyard of Hugh Hodgson & Lamar Dodd on Wednesday, 2/19  from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. as we continue our celebration of Franklin Fest! We recently introduced the Franklin Spark featuring the traits that align with Franklin students, faculty and staff - ambitious, curious, creative, innovative and tomorrow's leaders. The Franklin Spark is a symbol highlighting how the arts and sciences comes together -…
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