Tag: Research
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UGA study identifies species that could transmit bird flu
UGA researchers have found that the common wood duck and laughing gull are very susceptible…
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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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Bioinformatics investment in computing promises big return
With the launch this month of a new high-performance computing cluster in UGA’s Research Computing…
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Damage control
UGA professor Richard Hussey has spent 20 years studying a worm-shaped parasite too small to…
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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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Migraine study may improve care in and outside of emergency rooms
Migraines sufferers want relief fast. The debilitating effects of a migraine can seriously impair quality…
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Athens tree canopy study paves the way for Southeastern project
With startling growth rates in the 16-county metro Atlanta area, there is a loss of…
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Researcher uses grant to study home schooling for black families
College of Education researcher Cheryl Fields-Smith will spend the next two years studying home schooling…
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Squashing a bug
Toxoplasma gondii is one nasty bug.
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Airing it out: Environmental health students’ pollution tests let community breathe easier
The industrial solvent trichloroethylene is classified as an animal, and possibly human, carcinogen. According to…
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Center of attention
The College of Veterinary Medicine has opened its state-of-the-art Animal Health Research Center. An open…
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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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Minding the weather
For UGA faculty member Alan Stewart, it’s all about the weather.
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Crossing over: CDD brings scientists together to help state of Georgia
Seinfeld had Larry David. Apple Computer Inc. had Steve Jobs. UGA’s new Center for Drug…
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Bombs away
During March-which traditionally comes in like the proverbial lion, bringing cold, windy and irritable weather-a…
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Digging up the past
For generations, schoolteachers taught Georgia children that the state’s history began with the arrival of…
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Breaking Records
The university has received a record number of applications from students seeking admission to the…
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CURO provides innovative model of inquiry-based learning for others
UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities was the subject of a presentation at the annual…
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First aid
A serendipitous comparison prompted by an old scientific image, and involving an ancient but understudied…
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Two faculty, one staff member receive Fulbright Scholar grants
Dorothy Fragaszy, Tammy Lyskowinski and Hui-Chin Hsu have recently received Fulbright Scholar grants to travel…
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Six faculty research projects funded by ‘poverty’ grants
The Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach has awarded six grants…
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Superior discovery
Lake Superior has a new native resident. It’s been hanging around the shore for years,…
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