News Archive - 2017

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Summer Program in Public History in Washington, DC

 

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Distinguished Research Professor Jessica Kissinger

Professor of genetics, globally recognized molecular biologist and world expert in bio-computational research, 2017 Distinguished Research Professor Jessica Kissinger's contributions to the field of eukaryotic pathogen research have helped transform how pathogen research is conducted internationally. An expert on the evolution of parasite genomes, she conducted the first systematic survey of gene transfer in the Apicomplexa, upending…

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UGA joins collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems

The Simons Foundation has established a new collaboration investigating the mysteries of the microscopic communities that produce more than half of Earth’s oxygen, form the base of the marine food web and cycle nutrients through the ecosystem. The Simons Collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems, or THE-ME, will investigate how microbial ecosystems in the oceans form and function. The new collaboration will seek answers to three main…

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UGA Classics in Rome

UGA Classics in Rome is currently underway under the direction of Professors Elena Bianchelli and Chris Gregg, a Mellon Professor of Classical Archaeology. Participants and professors live in a small family-run, centrally located hotel in Rome and in their six-week stay they become intimately connected with the city and the Italian life style. Classes are held every morning right in front of the monuments and they focus on the archaeology, the…

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Mapping the change in deep ocean habitats

Google maps for the undersea world? A new University of Georgia project is designed to make that become a reality. The project, Mapping Deep Blue Habitat in a Changing Climate, aims to create an underwater 3-D map that illustrates spatial information about habitat characteristics like temperature, oxygen, light, using computational and graphical tools so that scientists, stakeholders, and the public can “see” how the ocean habitats will change.…

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Happy Juneteenth

Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States: in 1979 Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth an official holiday. (Ironically, the bill was passed on June…


Printmaker F. Townsend Morgan exibition at GMOA

While there are many exhibits at the Georgia Museum of Art that are worthy of your time, a new exhibit provides insight about an artist and a timescape for the first time. The work of lesser known printmaker, F. Townsend Morgan, is on display for the first time since he died in 1965 in an exhibit called "Avocation to Vocation: Prints by F. Townsend Morgan."  While the works and the artist are not well-known to even many art historians…


Hurricanes, Black Holes and Gamma Rays

If you're not following Marshall Shepherd on social media, you're missing out on an opportunity to learn about a whole spectrum of science-related topics that may never have crossed your mind previously. Shepherd, the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor  and the director for the program in atmospheric sciences at UGA, not only has his finger on the pulse of breaking news in the climate and weather research fields, he also…


New study shows food insecurity will grow in Atlanta

A new study by geography professor Jerry Shannon shows that food insecurity is on the rise in Atlanta. The study, which was done in collaboration with the Atlanta Community Food Bank, shows that those people currently experiencing food insecurity in Atlanta, in the downtown area and south of I-20,will see a decrease while residents in the suburbs to the east and west will see an increase. That’s not really surprising, said Jerry Shannon, a…

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Nanoparticle research may mean less radioactive contamination, safer nuclear power plants

Additionally, methods or concepts from this research may be applicable to capturing other radioactive materials, cleaning nuclear waste materials, cleaning nuclear waste environments such as rivers and lakes, removing radioactive vapors released in the atmosphere during nuclear accidents like Fukushima, or capturing non-radioactive contaminants found in the semiconductor industry. Nanoscience, she added, provides a way to use nature’s materials…