Tag: About UGA

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…
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…
Shallow-water corals more resistant to bleaching

Stressed corals lose the symbiotic algae that help them survive in a process known as…
Algae holds promise as biofuel

Wastewater generated by carpet production could potentially be used to grow yet another crop for…
Soybean grant gives researchers tools to unravel better bean

For millennia, people have grown soybeans and turned them into useful products like oil and…
Program deterring youth alcohol use has positive side affects

A University of Georgia program designed to reduce alcohol use, drug use and risky sexual…
The Write Stuff

When the 2005 National Survey of Student Engagement found that UGA students spend less time…
Where the wild things are

As Bud and Mary Freeman describe a recent trip to Ecuador to collect fish samples…
Student-designed fashions

When shoppers head to the UGA Bookstore later this month, they’ll be able to purchase…
Rhodes Scholars for 2008

The University of Georgia is the only public university in the nation to have two…
Fighting HIV with mobile media

A team from the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute recently traveled to Philadelphia to…
Thai-ing it all together

At UGA, study abroad and service learning are increasingly intertwined in a growing list of…
Adventure across America

It’s one thing to see America from 35,000 feet and quite another to hear the…
Canine Spay Day at UGA

The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine Canine Club held its annual Canine Spay…
D.C. program preparing future national leaders

While other UGA students have returned to the classroom for spring semester, senior William Rooks…
Edelman Digital Bootcamp

With 70 percent of adults and 93 percent of teenagers using the Internet, it is…
Buckle up for safety

Safe Kids Buckle Up Virtual Video Showdown, an online safety video competition, created by the…
UGA to offer wide array of summer camps

From playing with earthworms to playing the tuba, summer camps at the University of Georgia…
RSVP: Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention

Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. Approximately 80 percent of rape…
Students go green

Thousands of students pass the Lumpkin Street Rain Gardens every day, yet few understand the…
Treading New Water

Camus, associate professor of pathology in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine, goes virtually unnoticed to…
Writers of the storm

This is New Orleans, ravaged more than two years ago by Hurricane Katrina. Broken levees,…
UGA program boosts environmental, community volunteers

When Mary Evans heard about an adult wildlife education program called Georgia Master Naturalist, she…
Mail management at Zaxby’s

Students in Dave Chatterjee’s undergraduate Management Information Systems capstone class haven’t discovered the secret behind…