The University of Georgia
UGA enters new era under Jere W. Morehead

UGA enters new era under Jere W. Morehead

The university’s 22nd president takes the reins with a sharp focus on improving the educational experience for UGA’s students. Read More

About UGA

Page « First  <  2 3 4 5 6 >  Last »
{title_gallery}

Beyond Tang

Maximizing Research Opportunities

Deep-space travel will require foods that contain such low levels of oxygen that they can be stored for years while retaining their quality. As it turns out, this is a valuable trait for food stored here on Earth as well.

{title_gallery}

A heavy burden: A weight pill?

Maximizing Research Opportunities

Possibly, UGA researchers say. Clifton Baile and his colleagues at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have been exploring the potential of certain plant-based compounds as aids to weight loss.

{title_gallery}

Seeing things in a different light

Maximizing Research Opportunities

University of Georgia researchers have developed a new material that emits a long-lasting, near-infrared glow—potentially revolutionizing medical diagnostics and providing a foundation for highly effective solar cells.

{title_gallery}

Small Wonders

Maximizing Research Opportunities

For decades, scientists have wondered whether tiny structures known as Hirano bodies found in the brains of people with diseases such as Alzheimer’s were one of the causes or consequences of the disorder. Now, a University of Georgia cellular biologist and his colleagues have found…

{title_gallery}

What is under threat?

Maximizing Research Opportunities

According to Shan Huang, a Ph.D. student at the UGA Odum School of Ecology, the effects of extinction impact more than just the endangered species.

{title_gallery}

Facing a wildlife crisis

Maximizing Research Opportunities

“White-nose syndrome” is spreading through states and devastating colonies of bats from Canada to North Carolina. A federal-state cooperative housed in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine is part of team trying to determine the cause and solution.

{title_gallery}

Shaping two futures

Maximizing Research Opportunities

Chuck Mobley and Adam Barb, postdoctoral scholars in UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, have two missions. The first is to shape their own research future. The second will help shape the future of postdoctoral scholars across UGA.

{title_gallery}

Key to the coral killer

Maximizing Research Opportunities

The UGA Odum School of Ecology is part of a research team that has identified human sewage as the source of a deadly pathogen that causes white pox disease in Caribbean elkhorn coral, which is an endangered species.

{title_gallery}

UGA researchers hit a gold mine

Maximizing Research Opportunities

UGA researchers have discovered a veritable medical gold mine.  Nanoparticles of gold can help accurately detect influenza in a matter of minutes.