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Contract for athletic director renewed; Dooley to retire in 2003
Greek Park housing concepts under discussion
Campus Closeup
Special ed prof named director of School of Professional Studies
The past remembered
Phytoremediation will clean up landfillA process which will use trees to help clean up toxic-waste residue from a decades-old landfill near the State Botanical Garden of Georgia was reported by the Associated Press. UGA graduate and applied biochemist Laura Carreira is overseeing the phytoremediation project, which “harnesses the natural ability of some plants to break down chemical poisons into salts and carbon dioxide, the normal byproducts of plant metabolism.” This is the first field trial of this method in Georgia.
Desegregation anniversary noted
The university’s observance of the 40th anniversary of desegregation was covered by the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Daily News, Black Issues in Higher Education and many other media throughout the world.
Packaged salads carry health risk
The Knight Ridder news service quotes Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety, on the issue of packaged salads and their safety. “There are pathogens in lettuce,” Doyle says. “We know there’s a potential problem.” The article goes on to describe the research Doyle has done comparing packaged organic lettuce mixes to conventional lettuce mixes and his caveat that even washing lettuce leaves at home probably won’t remove “all the pathogens.”
Treating depression with exercise
A story in the New York Daily News about the role of exercise in treating depression quotes Patrick O’Connor of the department of exercise science. “Drug companies have nothing to gain and everything to lose if exercise is found to be better than or equal to drug therapy,” O’Connor says. The article focuses on the mood-boosting effects of exercise and physical activity.
Fatal eagle disease studied
Research into the mysterious deaths of bald eagles in Georgia was reported on CNN. John Fischer, of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, is trying to find the cause of avian vacuolar myelinopathy, a disease which results in lesions in the brain and spinal cord of birds. Eighty bald eagles have died of the disease in the past six years. “The diagnosis work so far has not found any evidence of bacteria, virus or parasites,” Fischer says. “That leaves us with the possibility of some type of compound, either natural or man-made, that’s in the environment that might be causing the problem.”
Oil spill threatens Galapagos
The Guardian published an article by Ed Larson on the effect of an oil spill near the Galapagos Islands. “The central role played by the Galapagos Islands in Darwin’s discovery of evolution transformed the archipelago into a sacred site for science and a place of immense interest to biologists and eco-tourists alike,” Larson writes. “Word of an oil spill that could threaten fragile animal habitats, particularly for sea lions and blue-footed boobies, troubles scientists and environmentalists alike.”
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