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Kudos, September 2014

Great work by our faculty continues, followed by honors and awards that bring distinction to the Franklin College and UGA. A sampling from the past month: Georgia Sea Grant and UGA units including Marine Extension and the Lamar Dodd School of Art were presented with a national award for guiding the…

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Yellow pigment in the eye and greater visibility

How our eyes absorb light and achieve great definition in visibilty is a fascinating subject and the focus of one of the best neuroscience researchers in the country, a faculty member in our department of psychology: [People] with more yellow in their macula may have an advantage when it comes…

Expanding the fight against Infectious Diseases

The UGA Faculty of Infectious Diseases is comprised of many Franklin College faculty members and departments, researchers who have garnered significant resources in the fight against a variety of global health challenges: "The board of regents investment in infectious disease research provided a…

Genetics researchers unveil fully functional lab-grown thymus

A major advance from researchers in the department of genetics: A team of scientists including researchers from the University of Georgia have grown a fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal for the first time. ... The researchers created a thymus, a butterfly-shaped gland and vital…

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