University researchers studying vampire bats don’t fear for loss of blood. Sonia Altizer, associate professor at the University School of Ecology, and Daniel Streicker, a doctoral student at the school of ecology, are researching rabies transmission among vampire bats in Peru. The team hopes the research will lead to predicting, and eventually preventing, rabies outbreaks [...]

By spring the mounds of dirt students see from Baxter Street will be converted into a home for some of the University’s most interesting treasures. Construction on the Richard B. Russell Building began last January and is ahead of schedule. This $46 million project was first envisioned almost 20 years ago to give special documents [...]

The day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico was the day “all hell broke loose” in the University’s marine sciences program. As soon as Samantha Joye, a professor in the department, left for a previously-scheduled research cruise in the Gulf, phones in the department began ringing off the hook as [...]

Members of the University faculty recently received about $75,000 in grants for projects involving childhood obesity, a subject of rising concern in Georgia. Of the four grants distributed by the University System of Georgia for childhood obesity research, three were for projects involving University researchers. The grants were for approximately $25,000 each. According to a [...]

Animal science professor Steven Stice has cloned bovine embryos. He’s commercialized a human embryonic stem cell kit through his self-launched company. He’s seen science achieve what humans once thought impossible. But hearing that stem cell research would go from cutting edge to the cutting board marked the first time Stice was speechless. “I think this [...]

University geneticist Mike Arnold has received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant to assess the affects of crude oil and dispersant on native plant populations in the Gulf Coast region. The $175,000 grant will allow Arnold and two postdoctoral researchers to gather baseline information about the spill’s immediate effects on coastal iris populations in [...]

B.C. Wang, the Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at the University of Georgia, and four UGA colleagues have received a $1.47 million award for the purchase of a next-generation, high-speed X-ray detector. The new equipment, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will be housed at the UGA-operated Southeast Regional Collaborative Access [...]

The summer of 2010 has been agonizingly hot in much of the continental U.S., and the record-setting temperatures have refocused attention on global warming. Scientists have been looking at ways the Earth might benefit from natural processes to balance the rising heat, and one process had intrigued them, a premise that melting ice at the [...]

The University has been awarded federal stimulus funding to launch an innovative new program that will help meet the workforce needs of Georgia’s growing biotechnology industry. The three-year, $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will create a new Professional Science Master’s program in biomanufacturing and bioprocessing that capitalizes on UGA’s academic strengths, facilities and [...]

Metals and proteins are crucial partners in keeping organisms healthy and stable. And yet the extent to which this molecular metalloprotein team works at the cellular level is not known because the numbers, amounts and types of metal-containing proteins in any organism have remained something of a mystery. Now, in a study led by a [...]