Every kid wants a pet, be it a dog, a horse or a snake. Jack Horner, Regents professor of paleontology at Montana State University, has always wanted a dinosaur. “There was never a point in my life where I didn’t want to be a paleontologist, and there has never been a point where I didn’t [...]
The University College of Public Health received a five-year, $3 million grant toward a study researching how to improve type 2 diabetes education. The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases are funding the grant. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type, said Mark Wilson, professor and department head of the Department of Health [...]
Panhandling is often a vicious cycle, and University students may be enabling it. As recent efforts by the Athens Downtown Development Authority to change panhandling laws have brought the issue back into the local spotlight, students may remain unaware of their own contributions. Information gathered by the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing showed that higher percentages of students give money [...]
University researchers are smarter than the average bacteria. Recent developments in life science have uncovered the Achilles heel of bacteria is that which keeps it safe — its immune system. “We’re studying an immune system that exists in prokaryotes,” said Rebecca Terns who co-authored the research with her husband Michael Terns, both on the faculty in biochemistry and genetics [...]
Since University researchers narrowed the scope of cancer treatment, they have wanted to move forward. After success in a mouse model, the research has taken a more focused direction on whether the same results can be executed in humans. And Geert-Jan Boons of the Boons Group at the University’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center said the outcome is [...]
Officially opening on Feb. 17, the Special Collections Library’s doors are now open to student workers and researchers — though librarians remain in the middle of a long move. “Staff has just been moving into the building for several months. We were all real anxious to get over here and show off our collections,” said Jean Cleveland, the public relations [...]
Thousands of broken trees line the banks of the Chattooga River. The dead gray stabs were once evergreen monsters offering shade to trout and picturesque views to visitors. These Eastern hemlocks are dying rapidly, and University of Georgia researchers are working to save them. One tiny insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid, is to blame. The [...]
The knowledge that bacteria possess adaptable immune systems that protect them from individual viruses and other foreign invaders is relatively new to science, and researchers across the globe are working to learn how these systems function and to apply that knowledge in industry and medicine. Now, a team of University researchers has discovered how to [...]
The future of the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Program is uncertain, after it has provided grants for hundreds of students and teachers to go abroad for study or research since 1946. Although the budget for the fiscal year has yet to be determined by Congress, it is uncertain how much the Bureau of Educational and [...]
When you cut an apple and leave it out, it turns brown. Squeeze the apple with lemon juice, an antioxidant, and the process slows down. Simply put, that same “browning” process—known as oxidative stress—happens in the brain as Alzheimer’s disease sets in. The underlying cause is believed to be improper processing of a protein associated [...]
