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Engineering program will grow by fall 2012

It doesn’t take an engineer to determine how complicated it would be for the University to develop a school of engineering. With the addition of civil, electrical and mechanical engineering majors – approved by the Board of Regents in October – the University will have eight beginning in fall 2012. Because the University already has [...]

Dean finalists announced for College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Thirty-eight applied, and now the number of candidates for the new Dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences has been whittled down to three. The search committee announced Tuesday that Linda Fox, Laurie Kramer and Jay Whelan would be vying for the position, which was vacated in September 2010 when Laura Jolly was [...]

Univ. home to fly lab: Studies aid in world health

Tucked away on Riverbend Road is Riverbend Research Facility North, home to various science laboratories — and the world’s only black fly colony. “It was started in 1981 at Cornell University and it operated at Cornell for a number of years,” Elmer Gray, an entomology research professional, said. Gray said the colony was transferred to [...]

Panelists explore questions of oil spill

The Gulf of Mexico was adversely affected by the events of April 20, 2010 — the day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spilling unfathomable amounts of oil and gases into the water. However, innumerable questions remain, and the answers are not clear. Instead, they’re blue. “The water, to a marine biologist, is not just [...]

Faculty earn high honor in science

Six University faculty members have reached the pinnacle of their scientific careers after being named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “It’s probably one of the highest and most visible ways of supporting and recognizing scientific achievement in the world today,” said David Lee, vice president for research. “It helps promote [...]

Genetically engineered food sparks ‘vigorous debate’

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series about genetically modified organism research at the University. We continue with legislation concerning GMOs. Can a genetically modified food product cause consumers who eat it to grow a third eye? “Absolutely not,” said Wayne Parrott, University crop and soil sciences professor and researcher on GM [...]

OIL SPILL SYMPOSIUM: Disaster prompts campus event

When a disaster strikes what is the first move — fight or flight? Samantha Joye chose to fight. As thousands were forced to leave their homes on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the University professor began conducting research on the oil plume from the Deepwater Horizon explosion in May 2010. Joye was one [...]

SPLICE OF LIFE: Genetically modified food at ‘center’ of debate

      Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series about genetically modified organism research at the University. Part two will continue next week with legislation concerning GMOs. We begin with part one and the questions surrounding the GMO debate. Some call it frankenfood. Others call it playing God. But at the [...]

NIGHTS IN ATHENS: STAYING-IN CROWD; Liquor stores provide alternative to downtown for money-conscious

Editor’s note: What is a night in Athens like? The Red & Black took to the streets to find out, recording the sights and sounds of an Athens evening. We continue with reports from a liquor store after dark. It’s the Friday night before the Georgia versus Georgia Tech football game. Thousands of Bulldog fans, [...]

University not affected by direct layoffs; Staff members critical for campus

There are 1,418 University employees who were almost out of jobs for Fiscal Year 2011. The affected offices were spread all over the state, from the President’s Office on North Campus to the Bamboo Farm & Coastal Gardens in Savannah. The positions to be cut were on the list of proposed cuts given to the [...]

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