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Handle with care: Coordinator trains others in humane treatment of animals
Getting a blood sample from a gerbil isn’t always easy. “If the handler is not well trained and experienced, there is a higher-than-average probability of…
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Split decision
In principle, stem cells offer scientists the opportunity to create specific cell types—such as nerve or heart cells—to replace tissues damaged by age or disease.
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Bottled up
A Bloomberg Business Week article detailing information about the bacteria that killed a Missouri infant in December and infected at least 120 infants worldwide since…
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Works by Georgia Sea Grant artists on display at Athens Academy
Keeping Watch, a Georgia Sea Grant painting exhibition inspired by the Georgia coast that illustrates the connections between art and science, is on display in…
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Alumnus pledges $11 million to Yale
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an $11 million pledge from an alumnus to support the creation of new exhibition galleries as part of…
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Study: African-American men don’t reap same career benefits from mentoring as Caucasians
Networking within an organization and having a mentor are widely thought to promote career success, but a new UGA study finds that African-American men don’t…
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Historic move
Faculty and staff from the epidemiology and biostatistics department marked the start of spring semester by being the first unit from the College of Public…
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UGA, University of Puerto Rico create algae biofuels center
Taking advantage of a marine location and tropical climate that are ideal for growing algae, researchers from UGA and the University of Puerto Rico are…
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Teaching kids science
Collaboration between UGA faculty and Georgia teachers is improving science, technology, engineering and mathematics education at local schools and giving both groups a community where…
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Patrick Fitzmaurice
From working with MATHCOUNTS Outreach and the Garnett Ridge Boys & Girls Club in Athens to traveling to Oxford University to spending a weekend in…
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UGA mourns Grady College professor Conrad Fink
Conrad Fink, Regents Professor of Journalism at the University of Georgia, died on Saturday, Jan. 14 in Athens.
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UGA presents 2012 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Awards
The University of Georgia presented a faculty member, a doctoral student and a UGA retiree with the 2012 President’s Fulfilling the Dream Awards on Jan.…
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College of Education to reschedule Immigration and Education Forum
The College of Education has decided to reschedule the Immigration & Education forum that was scheduled for Jan. 18 until later this spring.
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Walther receives NSF CAREER Award to improve engineering education research
American engineering schools face a recruitment challenge. According to the National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. lags far behind Europe and Asia in the number…
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UGA researcher named emerging scholar by Diverse magazine
Athens, Ga. – Franklin West, a University of Georgia assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has…
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Exchange program allows students to earn UGA credit at campuses nationwide
The National Student Exchange program at the University of Georgia is currently accepting applications from students for participation during the 2012-2013 academic year. A domestic…
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UGA Parents Leadership Council accepting grant proposals for 2012-13 student life
The University of Georgia Parents Leadership Council is accepting grant proposals for the 2012-13 academic year. Grant applications are due Feb. 3 by the close…
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UGA works to increase pecan awareness, profitability
The pecan, a Georgia crop staple, packs a much higher antioxidant punch than its nut-cousin the almond. But what the little-known nut is high in…
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Georgia Museum of Art receives collection by African-American artists
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has a new collection—prominent works by African-American artists—donated by Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson.…
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UGA College of Education Butchart receives national book award
University of Georgia College of Education professor Ron Butchart’s book, which focuses on the formal education of freed slaves in the American South from the…
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$1 million Deloitte Foundation fund established at UGA’s Tull School of Accounting
With pledged gifts totaling $1 million, the Deloitte Foundation has established an endowment for the J.M. Tull School of Accounting in the Terry College of…
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UGA’s Richard Watson receives LEO award from the Association for Information Systems
Richard T. Watson, the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, has received the LEO…
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UGA Undergraduate Admissions to host Colleges in Your Backyard program
High school students and their parents are invited to learn more about post-secondary opportunities available in Athens-Clarke County and surrounding communities at the third annual…
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UGA College of Public Health professor appointed to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Athens, Ga. – Dr. Mark Ebell, an associate professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia, has been appointed to the…