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Students for Environmental Awareness to hold benefit concert

The University’s bus system consumes 300,000 gallons of petroleum gas each year in moving students across campus. One group would like someday to reduce that number to zero. Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) started a campaign to convert the University’s bus fleet to biodiesel, an alternative energy source that burns processed oils left over in [...]

African-style dance to groove into town

In the Yoruban society of Nigeria, speech flows through the fingertips as clearly as through the lips. Traditionally, skilled musicians transpose spoken language onto the talking drum, passing musical messages to an entire village in the style of a town crier. A simple four-four pattern to an untrained ear may be to a Yoruban an [...]

Alcohol-free parties are not ‘un-spirited’

Chris Odom and Paul Myers moved into a new apartment in the fall and watched as the guys next door threw the normal parties – a couple of kegs and two or three dozen people hanging about drinking them. Not to be outdone by their neighbors, Odom, a junior from Marietta, and his roommates decided [...]

Holdrich on her way to accomplishing goal

When Annie Holdrich was 12, she entered state foster care. At 15, she and a friend broke out of the torment of their assigned home. The friend was unable to go on – she committed suicide – but Holdrich kept running. “To me it was a life or death situation with our house parents,” said [...]

Professor receives new grant for astronomy study

The halls around his office bear pictures of dazzling distant galaxies and exploding supernovae, but Phillip Stancil’s fascination with those eye-pleasing images ended some time back. “I owned a little telescope as a kid,” said the University physics professor. “But that was a long time ago.” Stancil’s current work largely concerns theoretical astrophysics occurring on [...]

Vocal group has rhythm

It’s impossible for Classic City Jazz’s nine voices to produce the same brassy fuzz as the instrumentalists who largely invented and defined the jazz discipline. Injecting the soul requires a little something found in the negative space between the notes – attitude. “It has to have that nasty trumpet type of sound,” music professor Mitos [...]

Red planet will be focus of observatory’s open house

Saturday evening will not be students’ only chance this weekend to see Athens in red and black. Earth’s red neighbor Mars will be shineing against the black sky with rare clarity Friday night, and the University community will not have another opportunity to see the planet in such prime viewing position for about 15 years. [...]

Illness virtually unknown in U.S.

War against a deadly parasitic infection is being waged on scientific as well as cultural fronts. Chagas disease, a degenerative disorder most prevalent in the Americas yet affecting 20 million people worldwide, is being researched in Athens. For nearly 30 years – the last 21 of them at the University – cellular biology professor Rick [...]

Community Tree Fair to feature tree climber

The thousands of trees on the University’s campus require a full-time team of specialists to prune, chop and remove excess green. For limbs the cranes and sky-buckets can’t reach, the specialists turn to Shawn Doonan, who has training as a professional tree climber. “It is unusual and that’s kind of what drew me to it,” [...]

Scientists fight cancer protein

In its mutated and hyperactive state, Ras, a common protein in human cells, is responsible for 30 percent of all cases of cancer. Unlocking the properties of the protein may lead to novel methods of fighting many forms of the deadly disease, but much remains unknown about Ras and its related enzymes. Research at the [...]

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