Tag: About UGA

Validating standardized testing

Get plenty of sleep. Eat a healthy breakfast. Every spring, school children are sent home…
CURO Promising Scholars

Fifteen Georgia high school seniors got a preview of the available undergraduate research options at…
Students ready for terrorist attacks in food supply

Dead pigeons don’t usually attract much attention. But a few hundred of them infected with…
Teaching turtle returns to the wild

Ten years ago on Jekyll Island, two loggerhead turtle hatchlings were trapped in their nest…
Supreme success

Counting the recent selection of University of Georgia School of Law alumna Merritt E. McAlister…
Secretaries of State at UGA

On the eve of a historic presidential election, five former U.S. secretaries of state convened…
Technology helps female workforce

Battered, divorced and unwed pregnant women struggling to make a living in Morocco found unlikely…
Georgians invited to walk… online

University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents across the state are encouraging the people in their…
Virtual peanut farms, real answers

When agricultural lobbyist Bob Redding wants to know how pending policy decisions will impact farmers…
African perspectives

Akinloye Ojo came to University of Georgia radio station WUGA in 1997 with a proposal…
Map it out

Georgians are gaining access to valuable local information as more county governments take the benefits…
Heart Fitness

Local cardiologists raised their eyebrows when exercise scientist Harry DuVal came to Athens in 1980…
Beyond beetlemania

For Adam Fowler, a UGA study abroad program in Costa Rica was simply an elective…
Imported foods cause for concern

A University of Georgia expert says the challenges in ensuring a safe U.S.food supply will…
Real world training for veterinary students

It’s another busy day in the veterinary clinic as Jonathan Dear and Jessica Griffin assist…
Thirty years of helping small business

After yet another meal slid across her bamboo tray and spilled, Ashley Hatcher had an…
Surviving breast cancer

Surviving breast cancer is both a physical and emotional ordeal, but the consensus is that…
It’s easy being green

University of Georgia buses are still red and black, but they’re also a bit “greener”…
The “failed” experiment

The experiments had gone terribly awry. Mike Adang had expected the hornworms to be ready…
Indirect illness

In the wake of national disasters such as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane…
Tick tock goes the biological clock

Science has known for decades that biological clocks govern the behavior of everything from humans…
A long distance calling

Sonia Altizer’s interest in butterflies and parasites began when she received a microscope and grow-your-own-butterfly…
How do I love me?

A brush with a narcissist’s inflated ego often leaves one reeling with resentment.
Antibiotic resistance in poultry

A surprising finding by a team of University of Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the…