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May 18, 2012 | General News
Agricultural leadership program now accepting applications
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is now accepting applications for the inaugural class of the Advancing Georgia's Leaders in Agriculture program.
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May 18, 2012 | Research News
Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats
The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Their study, published May 17 in the journal PLoS Pathogens, found that the host's geographical location was the most accurate predictor of the viral rate of evolution. Rabies viruses in tropical and sub-tropical bat species evolved nearly four times faster than viral variants in bats in temperate regions.
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May 17, 2012 | Events on Campus
UGA’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium hosts World Oceans Day celebration
In celebration of World Oceans Day, Jacques Cousteau's birthday and the new "Sea Jellies of the Georgia Coast" exhibit, the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service will host free hands-on education programs June 9 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island.
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May 14, 2012 | Honors & Awards
UGA graduate student wins fellowship to study invasive seaweed, nutrient pollution
Linsey Haram, a doctoral student in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, has received a three-year National Estuarine Research Reserve System graduate research fellowship, one of only nine awarded in 2012.
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May 11, 2012 | Honors & Awards
UGA ecology undergraduate wins NOAA Hollings Scholarship
University of Georgia Honors ecology student Scott Saunders received an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of only 115 awarded nationwide in 2012.
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May 10, 2012 | General News
UGA, Georgia Sea Grant help Tybee Island prepare for potentially rising seas
The University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government and Georgia Sea Grant are developing a climate adaptation plan for the barrier island community of Tybee Island through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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May 9, 2012 | Research News
NSF grant will help scientists uncover hidden soybean genes
Soybeans are the world's largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, tofu, adhesives, alternative fuels, disinfectants, plastics and particleboard. Using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, University of Georgia researcher Wayne Parrott hopes to uncover more uses for the popular legume.
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May 8, 2012 | General News
UGA students use crowd funding as they compete in SciFund Challenge
Two University of Georgia doctoral students are participating in the second round of the SciFund Challenge, an experiment in crowd funding for scientific research. Alyssa Gehman, in the Odum School of Ecology, and Sean Sterrett, in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, are raising money from individuals to fund their research.
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May 8, 2012 | Research News
UGA study finds in extinction risk, there’s not always safety in numbers
A basic tenet underpinning scientists' understanding of extinction is that more abundant species persist longer than their less abundant counterparts, but a new University of Georgia study reveals a much more complex relationship.
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May 3, 2012 | General News
UGA professor awarded American Horticultural Society’s top honor
The American Horticultural Society has awarded University of Georgia faculty member Allan Armitage its Liberty Hyde Bailey Award.
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May 2, 2012 | Honors & Awards
UGA College of Environment and Design dean judges national sustainable awards
Daniel Nadenicek, dean of the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, recently served as a juror on the 2012 Seimens Sustainable Community Awards panel in Atlanta. The annual competition, which received 135 applications from 40 states across the U.S., is co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center and the Seimens Corporation.
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May 1, 2012 | Research News
UGA researcher receives $2.82 million grant to track tuberculosis transmissions in Africa
Christopher Whalen, the Ernest Corn Professor of Epidemiology in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics in the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has received a five-year, $2.82 million grant to understand how tuberculosis is transmitted in urban environments in Africa.
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April 30, 2012 | Honors & Awards
UGA graduate student wins Singularity University scholarship to grow food indoors
University of Georgia doctoral student Erico Rolim de Mattos envisions a world where exploding human populations, global climate change and land overdevelopment has rendered mankind incapable of producing enough food to sustain humanity. This scenario is a very real possibility, and it has captured the minds of specialists from organizations like NASA and the United Nations.
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April 27, 2012 | Research News
Tiny wasp may hold key to controlling kudzu bug
University of Georgia researcher John Ruberson is looking for natural enemies of the kudzu bug in an effort to fight the pest's spread across the Southern states. A tiny Asian wasp may be the best option.
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April 27, 2012 | General News
Mad cow scare shows how well nation’s food-safety system works
While the California dairy cow that tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, made national headlines this week, University of Georgia livestock and food-safety experts say the real story is how well the nation's food-safety system worked.
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