Tags: Human Nature
Finding cures and new treatments for diseases seems to be a unique eschelon of highly-informed scientific detective work, as this new finding published by Franklin College researchers demonstrates:
Long ago, when life on Earth was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae propelled themselves through the vast prehistoric ocean by beating whip like tails called flagella. It's a relatively unremarkable tale, except that now, more than…
The UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island was founded in 1953 and has been at the center of ecological research on salt-marsh coastal ecoystems ever since. That work, lead by our department of marine sciences, continues apace with the renewal of an important NSF grant:
A consortium of universities headed by the University of Georgia will continue ecological field research on the marshes and estuaries of the Georgia coast following the renewal of…
The Red & Black had a nice rembrance of jazz great Dave Brubeck, who died wednesday at the age of 91. The article recalls that Brubeck was a guest artist in residence at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Feb. 2008. We are lucky to have shared our campus and opened our stages and classrooms to this visionary pianist and composer. The UGA students who can say they learned from and performed alongside Brubeck will carry something all their…
The Atlanta Chapter of the ARCS - Achievement Rewards for College Students - Foundation awarded $70,000 to nine doctoral students in the biomedical and health sciences at the University of Georgia, one of whom received a special $10,000 grant to study global health research abroad:
The ARCS Foundation was founded in Los Angeles in 1958 and is dedicated to helping meet the country's needs for scientists and engineers by providing…
The fall 2012 issue of the ugaresearch magazine is out, and available online. It features some great stories on Franklin College faculty, including geography professor Steven Holloway and whole section devoted to the Civil War, with a focus on books by history facuty members Stephen Berry, John Inscoe and a forthcoming work by Kathleen Clark.
Great work all around.
Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic disease commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an insect vector, but it can also be spread through blood transfusions and food contaminated with parasites. It's a horrible scourge that, though eminently treatable, is believed to infect more than 8 million people in Mexico, Central America and South America, most of whom do not know they are infected.
But now, researchers in UGA's Center for…
National Science Foundation Career Awards are a bit of misnomer, in that they are titled as though the awards are given at a career pinnacle recognize achievement. In fact, they are early career awards to support, and widen, a promising scope of inquiry by a young researcher. Tianming Liu, assistant professor of computer science in the Franklin College, was presented with just such an award after he demonstrated a new way to map the human brain…
Professor of microbiology and biochemistry & molecular biology Harry Dailey is an author on a newly published study that reveals a new gene discovery in the quest to better understand human anemias:
Scientists at the University of Georgia, Harvard Medical School and the University of Utah have discovered a new gene that regulates heme synthesis in red blood cell formation. Heme is the deep-red, iron-containing component of hemoglobin, the…
Professor of microbiology and biochemistry & molecular biology Harry Dailey is an author of a newly published study that reveals a new gene discovery in the quest to better understand human anemias:
Scientists at the University of Georgia, Harvard Medical School and the University of Utah have discovered a new gene that regulates heme synthesis in red blood cell formation. Heme is the deep-red, iron-containing component of hemoglobin, the…
Franklin College professor of psychology Leonard Martin tested student's capacity for self-control using some simple tools, and the fascinating results are part of a newly published study:
participants performed what is known as the Stroop task where they were asked to identify the color of various words flashed on a screen, which spell out the names of other colors. The Stroop task's goal is to turn off the student's tendency to read the words…
More terrific news from Franklin College scientists in the CCRC:
Ovarian and pancreatic cancers are among the most deadly, not because they are impossible to cure, but because they are difficult to find. There are no screening tests that can reliably detect their presence in early stages, and most diagnoses are made after the disease has already spread to lymph nodes and vital organs.
But University of Georgia cancer researchers Karen Abbott and…
New changes in molecular structures on the surface of stem cells, recently discovered by UGA researchers, may play a critical role in the specialization process of embryonic growth:
Their study, published recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, demonstrated how the genetic expression of specific enzymes resulted in significant changes to the complex chains of sugar molecules that densely coat the outside of cells. Known as glycans,…
Lots of great speakers on campus during the last week of October. I'll talk about dance choreographer Liz Lerman next week but the deparment of psychology will also bring to campus a neuroscientist whose work identifies the neural and genetic mechanisms that underlie physical attraction, love and family bonds. The lecture, on Nov. 2 at 12:20 p.m. in room 148 of the Miller Learning Center, is free and the public invited to attend.
Larry Young is…
The neurodegenerative disease that has affected millions of people continues to puzzle researchers, but a new discovery at UGA sheds light on the mystery:
Matthew Furgerson, a doctoral candidate in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of biochemistry and molecular biology, used cell culture models to study the role of Hirano bodies in cell death induced by AICD, or a fragment of AICD called c31, that are released inside the…
From its ongoing series of seminars on Modernism, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a lecture this afternoon by Franklin's Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Professor of English at UGA, Jazzbandism:
When jazz emerged during the First World War, and rapidly spread around the globe, the term “jazz” was not consistently understood to refer to music. It was taken to be a dance, a drum kit, a euphemism for sex, a term for general gaiety,…
Brian Binder, Associate Professor and Marine Sciences Department Head, was quoted in a Red and Black article highlighting opportunities for undergraduates in marine science
James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Research Professor of History, was featured in an Atlanta Journal Constitution article on the closing of the Georgia archives
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing, and several other…
And speaking of communication studies, a new book by one of our terrific young faculty members from the department just received a national award:
[Assistant professor of communication studies and women's studies] Belinda Stillion Southard will be honored with the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association at their annual convention in November for her book Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the…
And speaking of writers, English professor Ron Miller has two new books out this fall:
In On the Ruins of Modernity Ron Baxter Miller proposes that as the centuries turned and the nation became more diverse, the great Chicago Renaissances—especially the literary and cultural ones—never really ended. The nation’s cities simply became more richly complexioned and culturally nuanced.
and
Critical Insights: Langston Hughes
Edited and with…
As world population stretches past seven billion, many questions come to the fore about how to support so many people. For example, what if everyone elsewhere in the world consumed meat at the rate of the developed world? Does growing crops for transportation fuel put pressure on food crops? To address these questions and more, The University of Georgia Center for Integrative Conservation Research will host a free workshop to explore the links…
UGA microbiologist Harry Dailey has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a class of previously unidentified of anemias:
Dailey will receive funding over the next four years from the highly competitive SHINE—Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors—program supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of…
The nanoscale continues to unlock dynamic potential of research into therapeutic drug delivery:
researchers at the University of Georgia have refined the drug delivery process further by using nanoparticles to deliver drugs to a specific organelle within cells.
By targeting mitochondria, often called “the powerhouse of cells,” the researchers increased the effectiveness of mitochondria-acting therapeutics used to treat cancer, Alzheimer’…