Don’t do it
UGA food scientist Mark Harrison was quoted in the Ottawa
Citizen in an article about the vulnerability of homemade “refrigerator
dill pickles” to bacterial contamination. “What you want
to say to people is ‘don’t make this pickle,’ ”
he said. Other news outlets also ran the story.
Story plus music
The Miami Herald questioned
Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, about the popularity
of Miami Vice 20 years ago,
and the effect of that popularity on the city of Miami. “You
can’t talk about Miami Vice
without talking about MTV,”
he explained. “Miami Vice
was seen as MTV with a narrative focus.”
A global disease
LifeNews.com quoted UGA’s Steve Stice in a discussion of the
political pressure to ease limits on stem cell research in hopes
of finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. “Alzheimer’s
is a more global disease, with an effect on numerous kinds of cells,”
he said. “That makes it much more difficult for a cell therapy
to be effective.”
Bells are ringing
Horticulture professor Allan Armitage was interviewed for a Washington
Post story on the perennial named coral bells, which
is very popular but can be tricky to grow, some cultivars in particular.
“The future lies with those which combine excellent bronze
foliage with spectacular red and pink flowers,” Armitage said.
Money helps
For an article dealing with the costs of running a successful election
campaign, the Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner
quoted Grady College professor Spencer F. Tinkham. “We still
think money is power in politics,” he said. “Money is
an indication that you have a professionally run campaign. . . .
It’s not essential to have a high-financed campaign, but it
does help.”
Elevated crime
The Chicago Sun-Times reported
on the murder charges against Atlanta dentist Barton Corbin, and
quoted UGA law professor Ron Carlson about the media’s interest
in the case. “It includes the aspects of jealousy, obsessiveness,
a close relationship between the parties involved, and perhaps most
importantly, very attractive people who were killed,” he explained.
“The pictures of a very pleasant-
looking Jennifer Corbin and also the beautiful pictures of Dolly
Hearn have helped to elevate this particular domestic violence case
over others.”
Speeding up research
The Chicago Tribune reported
on the work of a team of scientists from UGA working at the Advanced
Photon Source, the X-ray research facility at Argonne National Laboratory.
The group solved the structures of five separate molecules in less
than 24 hours, a speed record. Zhi-Jie Liu, a research scientist
in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at UGA and
leader of the team, explained that the techniques the team had used
to speed the research could be adopted by others. “Nothing
like this has ever happened before,” he said. “This
is a great opportunity to show how high-throughput structure determination
is possible.”
Kim
Carlyle of the UGA News Service monitors coverage of UGA in local,
state and national media. Contact her for information about these
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