The cure for Alzheimer’s may be found inside a mouse’s brain. A group of students and professors from the University are attempting to understand the function of Hirano bodies in the brain to learn more about their associations with diseases like Alzhiemer’s. Marcus Fechheimer, Josiah Meigs Professor of cellular biology at the University, has been [...]

Students, professors and families from around Athens started their weekend early Thursday with a night of stargazing. The University’s physics and astronomy department hosted its observatory open house on a Thursday this month, instead of the usual Friday. The switch was done in anticipation of limited parking Friday night for Saturday’s game, as well as [...]

If a petition on Change.org succeeds, pages on Facebook encouraging sexual violence will disappear. The petition, called “Demand Facebook Remove Pages That Promote Sexual Violence,” is seeking 200,000 signatures to tell the social media leader to remove questionable pages. The petition says Facebook “could and should do more to stop them from popping up in [...]

Dwight Perry’s desire to help others began at Chick-fil-A and has taken him to The CW Television Network. Perry, who graduated from the University in December 2010, founded his company Perry International in June 2011 to teach impact development, which says that everything a person does affects someone else. The psychology graduate from Albany goes [...]

The growing number of note-sharing websites can be helpful study tools for students, but some universities are beginning to wonder if they cross the line. Websites such as Course Hero allow students at thousands of universities to post study documents online, where classmates can pay for access for $7.50 per month for a year, $19.95 [...]

Editor’s Note: This Thursday series chronicles some of the most interesting, monumental and hilarious moments in the University’s history. In-line skating taking off in Athens as newest street sport for fun, fitness, thrills and spills For Athens drivers, bicyclists might seem to come out of nowhere sometimes, but in 1993, bikes weren’t the only form [...]

Usually, social networking is used for connecting with old friends, scouting potential employees and sharing photos. In recent years, however, Facebook and its many sister-sites are not always used for good — harassment and hate groups appear more and more as social networking sites and blogs increase in popularity. A study done by Nielsen Media [...]

Acid splashed in the faces of Douglas Crowe, a professor of geology, and a student during an experiment in the Geography/Geology building around 4 p.m. on Friday. After being treated on site, the two were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. A Hazardous Materials Unit truck was on the scene to assess damage and [...]

Every September, the School of Social Work at the University creates a recovery website for National Alcohol and Drug Recovery Month. During the summer, Donna Bliss, an associate professor at the School of Social Work, produces a recovery website based in a different city in Georgia — the latest being based in Augusta. Bliss has [...]

The sagging economy has forced some banks to change the way they do business. Reuters reported in late September that Bank of America plans to charge customers who use debits cards a monthly fee of $5, starting in early 2012. The fee is a reactionary measure designed to generate revenue in a recovering economy of [...]