A Newhouse News story quoted Sherrie Nist, retired academic enhancement director, in an article about new students adjusting to collegiate life. Nist, also the author of College Rules! How to Study, Survive and Succeed in College, emphasized communication and teamwork when dealing with roommates. “You don’t want to run the administration,” she said. “You want to work it out.”

Terence J. Centner, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at UGA, lent his expertise to the Santa Cruz, Ariz., Nogales International in an article about that state’s open range laws and their effect on ranchers, cattle and homeowners. The laws, which date back many years in Arizona’s history, might need to be updated, Centner said.

“Things have changed a lot in 40 years,” he said. “If you practice range management, research has shown that the range will generate more food.”

In an article about dwindling sturgeon populations, the Portland, Maine Morning Sentinel quoted UGA’s Douglas Peterson, an assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Speaking about causes and effects of less sturgeon, Peterson said, “The biggest problem is we have dams on nearly every spawning river.”

The Belleville, Ill., News-Democrat turned to professor Sharon Crowell-Davis of UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine Behavior Service for an expert take on why cats sometimes skip over the litter box.

“I have seen cats who used their litter boxes in the day, but eliminated in other places at night. With one of these cases, it turned out the litter box was in a closet in the basement and the cat had to negotiate stairs and make it clear through the basement in pitch dark to get to the litter box. Yes, cats can see really well in dim light, but they can’t see in total darkness! Adding a night-light solved that problem,” she said.

In a recent speech in Atlanta, President George W. Bush praised UGA graduate Noah Harris for his service in the war in Iraq. Harris was killed in Iraq last summer when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb. “Noah grew up here in Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia. He volunteered for the Army after September 11, 2001. He told his dad that people had an obligation to serve a cause higher than themselves,” Bush said.

A Washington Post story quotes Scott Alan Brown, head of the small animal medicine department at UGA in an article outlining an obesity epidemic plaguing the nation’s dogs and cats. “We see large numbers of domesticated pets being fed very high quality food and living very sedentary lifestyles with very limited exercise,” Brown said. “Quite honestly, it’s analogous to what we see in the pet owners.”

An article in the Taiwan Journal about Fulbright scholars’ experiences in Taiwan, quotes Hui-Chin Hsu, an associate professor in the child and family development department who spent one year at National Taiwan University on a Fulbright research grant.

“It has been a wonderful experience for me to work with an interdisciplinary research team. . . My research in Taiwan is my first experience to team up with pediatricians and physical therapists to assess pre-term infants and newborn full-terms in the hospital. I have learned a lot from my Taiwanese colleagues,” she said.