Author: Phillip Williams
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UGA researcher leads discovery of a new driving force for chemical reactions
New research just published in the journal Science by a team of chemists at the…
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‘Window on America’
James C. Cobb, UGA’s B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American…
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$2 million NSF grant to aid work on quantum computer
It should work. Scientists believe it will work. And yet, as UGA researchers leap into…
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Dance faculty member named to first Jane Willson Professorship in Arts
Bala Sarasvati, a professor of dance in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has…
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Microscopic drifters
The number of plankton in the seas is almost beyond comprehension. A single teaspoonful of…
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Research team will use $4.1 million grant to study ‘jumping genes’
Transposable elements, popularly called “jumping genes” when they were discovered more than a half-century ago,…
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Lucy’s baby
No one knows how the child died. Perhaps disease claimed her or some kind of…
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$1.1 million NSF grant will fund study of bacterial agents
Plasmids, small independently replicating DNA segments found mostly in bacteria and archaebacteria, are molecular trucks,…
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Researchers discover carb that is crucial to anthrax
A week after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the letters began to arrive. Someone filled…
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Shades of black
Everyone knows about the insidious effects of racism in American society. But when it comes…
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‘Footloose wanderers’
Don’t even think about trying to pronounce it. Although it is found in many organisms…
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Formula for success
Since 1970, UGA art students have flourished in a study-abroad program set in the quiet,…
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Squashing a bug
Toxoplasma gondii is one nasty bug.
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Clinical psychology program earns national ranking in two areas
UGA’s clinical psychology program received high rankings in two areas, according to a study recently…
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Kissing cousins
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, wrote Cole Porter.
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Roots to shoots
Environmental arsenic pollution is a serious and growing environmental problem, especially on the Indian subcontinent.…
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Biologist named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Susan R. Wessler, Regents Professor of Plant Biology at UGA, has been named one of…
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Mathematician will deliver 12th annual Cantrell Lectures
Fields Medal winner Stephen Smale, professor at Toyota Technological Institute and the University of Chicago,…
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$276,091 NASA grant will fund collaborative, three-year study of star-forming regions
NASA has awarded a team led by two UGA physicists a grant of $276,091.
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Global survey
Nearly 20 million people worldwide are infected with a parasitic ailment called Chagas disease, and…
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Putting down roots
James Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, teaches courses in Southern history and culture. A…
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‘More harm than good’
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that airbags installed in automobiles have saved some…
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Weeding out alternatives
A new study shows, for the first time, that the release of the body’s own…
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Highland discovery
A University of Georgia anthropologist is part of an effort that has discovered the first…
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