Tag: Research
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Eyes wide open
A new study by psychologists at UGA shows for the first time that whites’ beliefs…
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Divide and conquer
A team of researchers at UGA led by postdoctoral associate Giel van Dooren has discovered…
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All in the family
A genetic risk factor that increases the likelihood that youth will engage in substance use…
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Breaking the Code
Southerners may best know sorghum as a sweet, biscuit-topping syrup. But the small grain’s uses…
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Workplace workout
A workplace program that encourages employees to set exercise goals substantially increased workers’ physical activity,…
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Quiet persuasion’
Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but…
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Researchers discover new fish species
While surveying fishes in Georgia’s Flint River, Byron and Mary Freeman noticed that a certain…
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Scientists will use NSF grant to unlock soybean’s genetic code
For millennia, people have grown soybeans and turned them into many useful products. But when…
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The UGA Research Foundation has received a five-year, $18.7 million grant from the Bill and Melinda
The UGA Research Foundation has received a five-year, $18.7 million grant from the Bill and…
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$4.1 million grant will be used to study bee colony collapse disorder
Almost half the bee colonies in the U.S. died this winter. Many were the result…
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Old IV antibiotic may find new life as a stroke treatment
An old intravenous antibiotic may have new life as a stroke treatment, according to a…
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New study: UGA has at least $2.1 billion impact on economy
UGA pumped at least $2.1 billion into the Athens-area economy in fiscal year 2007, according…
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‘Red’ and ‘blue’ viewers
Television news audiences are divided along party lines like never before, according to a UGA…
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‘Dead zones’
Too much of a good thing can have disastrous effects.
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Nano signals
Food-borne pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella, Listeria and Yersinia are responsible for thousands of deaths each…
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Novel genes
The word Apicomplexa may be unfamiliar to most people. But the parasites it describes are…
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Veterinarian studies role of public policy and international trade in animal disease transmission
At first glance, there would appear to be only the most tenuous connection between veterinary…
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‘Tidewater infielders’
Marine bacteria come almost a billion to a cup. Until recently, however, little has been…
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Side effects may vary
Prescription drug ads on television first hit the airwaves just more than a decade ago,…
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Record trends
Newly published research that includes satellite data from three separate sources shows that the seasonal…
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Bad to the Bone
Being overweight is a known risk factor for heart disease, diabetes and a host of…
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‘Unsolved puzzle’
Experiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building…
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‘Risky behavior’
Warnings that alcohol and driving don’t mix are generally targeted at adults or high school…
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Smoke screen
A 1998 settlement designed to limit the marketing of smokeless tobacco to youth hasn’t been…
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