Month: April 2008
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Profitable organic farming
Research at the Agroecology Laboratory at the UGA Odum School of Ecology has led to…
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Study: Even occasional smoking can impair arteries
Even occasional cigarette smoking can impair the functioning of your arteries, according to a new…
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Female sex offenders: Most were victims first
A UGA study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of women…
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Study helps clarify role of soil microbes in global warming
Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria…
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Georgia’s Fragile Coast: Will Building Green Pay Off?
The roads at Barbour Pointe—a marsh-side Savannah development of 36 homesites—are literally paved with good…
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Shallow-water corals more resistant to bleaching
Stressed corals lose the symbiotic algae that help them survive in a process known as…
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Algae holds promise as biofuel
Wastewater generated by carpet production could potentially be used to grow yet another crop for…
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Soybean grant gives researchers tools to unravel better bean
For millennia, people have grown soybeans and turned them into useful products like oil and…
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Program deterring youth alcohol use has positive side affects
A University of Georgia program designed to reduce alcohol use, drug use and risky sexual…
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Janelle Williams
Originally from the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Janelle Williams came to UGA after…
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First UGA/Athens Twilight Jazz Festival to be held April 24-26 with Twilight Criterium
Visitors to the annual Twilight Criterium bicycle races in downtown Athens will get have a…
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Leisure studies scholar Benjamin Hunnicutt to deliver Ramsey Lecture April 17 at UGA
Benjamin Hunnicutt, renowned author and scholar in the field of leisure studies, will speak at…
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UGA conference to focus on school finance, implications for Georgia and beyond
A dozen or more experts in education, economics and law from the University of Georgia…
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Delta AIr Lines and the University of Georgia present the Delta Price for Global Understanding
Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia presented the 2008 Delta Prize for Global…
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UGA Honors student Vanessa del Valle receives 2008 Goldwater Scholarship
Vanessa del Valle, a University of Georgia Honors student, has been selected as a 2008…
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AIDS vaccines expert to address unwarranted pessimism in UGA lecture
There’s been plenty of bad news about AIDS vaccines since the U.S. government shut down…
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Media Advisory: UGA partners with China’s Foremost University
Today Governor Sonny Perdue and senior officials of Tsinghua University in China announced the creation…
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UGA’s Grady College announces 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
Four distinguished alumni from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication…
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UGA student newspaper wins national reporting award
The Red & Black, an independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community, and…
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67th Annual Peabody Awards winners announced
Thirty-five recipients of the 67th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of…
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Georgia Writers Hall of Fame ceremony set for April 11
The late Calder Willingham and South Georgia author Bailey White will be the 2008 inductees…
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Legra to guide UGA new student orientation
The University of Georgia Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced the promotion Milly Legra to associate…
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Co-chair of Iraq Study Group to deliver Getzen Lecture at UGA
Lee H. Hamilton, the co-chair of the Iraq Study Group and former vice-chair of the…
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UGA Alumni Association to honor Joe Frank Harris, Hamilton Jordan and William Barstow among others
The University of Georgia Alumni Association will honor former Gov. Joe Frank Harris, political strategist…
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