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UGA Research News
- UGA researchers discover potential new mechanisms of drug resistance in Toxoplasma
6.20.11 -
A team of scientists led by Boris Striepen at the University of Georgia has identified the cause of drug resistance in a large group of parasitic microorganisms that cause malaria and other infectious diseases.
- UGA graduate student wins scholarship for technology to change the world
6.10.11 -
A proposal for a mobile software application that promotes sustainable agricultural and local food consumption has won Brinkley Warren, a University of Georgia graduate student in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, a $25,000 scholarship to Singularity University, a Silicon Valley ideas incubator.
- UGA researcher leads discovery of a new driving force for chemical reactions
6.9.11 -
New research just published in the journal Science by a team of chemists at the University of Georgia and colleagues in Germany shows for the first time that a mechanism called tunneling control may drive chemical reactions in directions unexpected from traditional theories.
- An egalitarian Internet? Not so, UGA study says
6.9.11 -
A University of Georgia study reveals that online discussion groups display the same hierarchical structure as other large social groups, including a preferential attachment by group members toward those with many connections.
- UGA's Wang named Fellow of American Crystallographic Association
6.7.11 -
B.C. Wang, the Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at the University of Georgia, has been named a Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association—one of 16 named in the organization’s inaugural class of Fellows.
- UGA leisure studies professor Douglas Kleiber receives fellowship for research in Spain
6.7.11 -
University of Georgia recreation and leisure studies professor Douglas Kleiber has received a fellowship from the Basque Science Foundation to conduct research on leisure and aging with the Institute of Leisure Studies at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain June to December 2011.
- UGA graduate students receive Excellence in Research Awards
6.3.11 -
The University of Georgia Graduate School recently honored four students with 2011 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Awards.
- UGA Research Foundation receives $1.6 million from the Gates Foundation to develop disease-resistant livestock
5.26.11 -
The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received almost $1.6 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in their efforts to develop a new technology to breed chickens resistant to Newcastle Virus.
- Science paper argues against conclusion that bacteria consumed Deepwater Horizon methane
5.26.11 -
A technical comment published in the May 27 edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the methane discharged from the Deepwater Horizon well.
- UGA researchers awarded $1.34 million USDA climate change grant
5.25.11 -
Researchers and an outreach specialist at the University of Georgia have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to identify and promote ways pine forests can be used to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
- Thirteen UGA students and alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
5.18.11 -
Thirteen University of Georgia students and alumni have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the most prestigious and sought-after fellowships in the United States.
