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Grade-A expert:Internationally recognized authority on avian diseases, vaccines joins vet medicine faculty
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Egbert Mundt |
A worldwide search for a
researcher to help lead the state’s avian vaccine development efforts has brought German scientist Egbert Mundt to the University of Georgia. Mundt, one of the world’s foremost experts in poultry vaccines, is UGA’s latest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and its first Caswell Eidson Chair in Poultry Medicine.
Mundt holds eight patents, including one for a system that uses a technique known as reverse genetics to tailor make vaccines by manipulating the virus that causes infectious bursal disease—a costly ailment to the poultry industry. In addition, Mundt has provided a key element of a new diagnostic test for avian influenza that is cheaper and safer than traditional methods. |
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Panel talks terror
A panel including Corrie Brown, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and veterinary pathology professor, addressed a U.S. House subcommittee in August on the susceptibility of the nation’s farmland and food supply to terrorist attacks. |
Forestry School plans to create chestnut tree research orchard
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources has reached an agreement with the American Chestnut Foundation to develop a chestnut tree orchard at the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center in Union County. |
UGA cracks down on laptop theft
Roughly 20 UGA-owned laptops go missing in an average year, and with the increasing worries about employee records leaking, the university is taking measures to track down the property.
From employee negligence to lost baggage, the expensive and portable machines disappear like remote controls in between couch cushions on a regular basis, rarely to be found again. But thanks to a new university program, the computers can act like any good teenager and call home when they’re gone too long. |
Researcher uses grant to study home schooling for black families
College of Education researcher Cheryl Fields-Smith will spend the next two years studying home schooling among African
American families, in hopes of finding new teaching methods that will lead to greater success for black students in public schools. |
Students find themselves learning a variety of disciplines in Balkans
The trip 21 students took to Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro this summer wasn’t just UGA’s first public health-involved study-abroad program to the Balkan states. It was a rare opportunity for students to immerse themselves in a wide variety of disciplines, such as public health, architectural design, sociology and language. It was also a golden example of collaboration, said Carol Cotton, professor of health promotion and an organizer of the trip. |
Four finalists named for public health deanship; campus visits scheduled
Four finalists to become the first permanent dean of the new College of Public Health at the University of Georgia have been named by Svein Oie, dean of the College of Pharmacy and chair of the search committee. |
Mentoring program at mobile home park helps students make strides in school
Selene Angel, 8 years old, has difficulty with math, but still claims it as her favorite school subject.
When Elizabeth Rodriguez, mother to 8-year-old Elizabeth Arellano, went to a parent-teacher conference, Elizabeth’s teacher asked what kind of outside help she’d been getting to put her at the head of her class. |
Stagecraft
The syndicated radio show ‘Mountain Stage’ was
recorded from the Hodgson Concert Hall on Aug. 27. It airs from 2–4 p.m. Nov. 19 on WUGA 91.7/97.9 FM. |
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