April 5, 2012
The University of Georgia’s Outstanding Advisor/Mentor Awards will be presented this year to Anne Marie Zimeri, a faculty member in the College of Public Health, and Misha Boyd, an academic advisor in the Odum School of Ecology.
The award is presented each spring to faculty and staff members for excellence in advising undergraduate students on class selection and course of study, assisting...
March 26, 2012
On April 3, experts from the University of Georgia, Emory University and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom will spend the afternoon sharing their One Healthperspectives on how a changing climate might impact the incidence of infectious diseases in both people and animals around the globe.
The concept “One World, One Health”describes the interconnectedness of human, animal...
March 8, 2012
Dr. Jia Sheng Wang, department head for environmental health science, pulls tea from every nook in his office as he explains the protective effects of green tea polyphenols (GTP) against cancer. He pulls bags from his dorm-sized freezer, canisters from his desk drawers, boxes between books on the shelves, and, of course, he has tea in his cup.
Green tea has no toxic side effects, yet his...
January 11, 2012
The rod-shaped bacteria that killed a Missouri infant this month have infected at least 120 infants worldwide since 1958 and have been linked to the use of baby formula in the past, public-health researchers say.
The potential for the bacteria, called Cronobacter, to infect infants through powdered baby formula has only been known since the 1980s, said Kieran Jordan, a microbiologist at...
December 22, 2011
A group of first-year honors students at the University of Georgia is gaining investigative knowledge and experience in mentor-guided projects asCURO Honors Scholars with UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities.
“The CURO Honors Scholarship, formerly the CURO Apprenticeship, allows students to participate in original research from their earliest days on campus,” said David S...
December 5, 2011
After monitoring firefighters working at prescribed burns in the southeastern United States, University of Georgia researchers found that lung function decreased with successive days of exposure to smoke and other particulate matter.
“What we found suggested a decline in lung function across work seasons,” said Olorunfemi Adetona, a postdoctoral research associate and lead author of the...
August 18, 2011
Winter Park, Fl. and Athens, Ga. – A research team from Rollins College in Florida and the University of Georgia has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean, elkhorn coral was listed for protection under the United States Endangered Species Act in 2006, largely due...
July 28, 2011
Athens, Ga. – Carrie Futch, a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has been named a recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship in infectious disease and public health microbiology through the American Society for Microbiology and Centers for Disease Control.
Beginning in November, Futch will spend two years working in the Division of Foodborne,...
April 25, 2011
Safe to say, Marsha Black has made some rather important discoveries during her accomplished scientific career.
She’s published groundbreaking research on the impact of pharmaceutical drugs on the ecological health of our waterways, and her work is helping to connect the dots regarding the impact of industrial sites on downstream pollution.
For all of those remarkable discoveries,...
March 16, 2011
The current news about radioactivity being released from a nuclear power plant in Japan is sad and worrisome. We are first concerned about the health and safety of individuals who have volunteered to stay at the power plant; they are currently working, sacrificing, and suffering for all of us. They are literally sacrificing their health and future on our behalf. We owe them gratitude beyond...
