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Chemistry professor Richard Dluhy is part of a team of UGA scientists who recently received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further flu research. Their method uses nanotechnology-based lasers that can greatly speed the prediction of impending flu… Read Article

Great new work from Debra Mohnen and Li Tan in the BioEnergy Science Center:

When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply… Read Article

The work of Franklin College scientists and scholars continue to be reported widely. A sample from the past month:

 ‘Geolocation,’ an art project by Lamar Dodd School of Art photography lecturer Marni Shindelman that utilizes Twitter, was featured in web and print… Read Article

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides public-access data confirming “average temperature in the United States for 2012 was ... 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, and 1.0 degree above 1998, the previous warmest year” in the United States. It is also… Read Article

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a new study authored by a UGA sociology PhD candidate with some interesting findings:

the study, “Technological Change and Professional Control in the Professoriate,” includes interviews with more than 40 professors at three universities. It… Read Article