| Scientist
gets $2.6 million to research marine bacteria
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Mary Ann Moran |
Marine scientist Mary Ann Moran has been
awarded a grant of more than $2.6 million by the Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation to continue her research on marine
bacteria that are important in the cycling of carbon and sulfur
in the coastal ocean.
Moran, a professor of marine programs, studies bacteria that
are critical to the marine food web and the sulfur cycle of
the ocean. Her research addresses issues ranging from marine
biodiversity to global climate control. |
MacArthur Fellow Judy Pfaff
visits School of Art
The Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist Series has brought
a wide range of talented and respected artists to Athens, but
installation artist Judy Pfaff is its first certified “genius.” |
UGA plans International
Education Week events
International Education Week begins on Nov. 15 with a celebration
from
6 to 9 p.m. in Georgia Hall at the Tate Student Center. |
Teaching Academy anniversary
commemorated
As part of the fifth anniversary observance of UGA’s Teaching
Academy, a commemorative plaque was installed in Meigs Hall.
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Pack MULEs: UGA scientists
discover that some transposable elements in rice often carry
fragments of other genes when they reproduce themselves
A team of UGA scientists has discovered a new way that genetic
entities called transposable elements—TEs—can promote
evolutionary change in plants. The research, published earlier
this fall in the journal Nature,
was led by Susan Wessler, a Distinguished Research Professor
of Plant Biology at the university.
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| NSF grant funds study
of evolutionary game theory
UGA economics professor Don Keenan and Pejman Rohani, an assistant
professor with UGA’s Institute of Ecology, have been
awarded a $100,000 research grant from the National -Science
Foundation for their proposal, “On Long-Term Consequences
of Selfish Behavior: A Game Theoretic Approach to Host-Pathogen
Co-Evolution.” |
Blowing hot and cold
Shop makes scientific glassware for UGA’s research community |
Faculty of Engineering
hosts first conference
The Faculty of Engineering held its inaugural conference late
last month. |
Summer service
Ghana’s planning director was on campus last month to
report on last summer’s service-learning study-abroad
program sponsored by the College of Environment and Design.
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