Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The Delta Prize was created to recognize groups or individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."
After 20 years of sporadic research, a UGA professor has identified the author of a fragment of Atlanta's Civil War history. His book "Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta" traces the lives of Vermont native Cyrena Bailey Stone and her family who clandestinely but comfortably lived in the South.
The Terry College of Business has the most productive researchers in one of the hottest careers in business ñ management information systems. The MIS faculty at the University of Georgia ranked first in research productivity, according to an analysis of the two leading MIS research journals.
University of Georgia biochmist Leigh Ann Lipscomb has uncovered some mysteries behind the cell structure of an important cell protein.
Extreme heat-loving organisms may be the key to molecular evolution, origin of life, according to new book by University of Georgia scientists.
Although illegal and considered both socially taboo among humans, the phenomenon of imbreeding is a natural occurance among trees. However natural it may be, inbreeding, even among trees, still has disturbing consequences, according to University of Georgia and New Zealand Forest Research Institute research.
University of Georgia researchers have genetically engineered yellow poplar trees giving them the ability to absorb toxic mercury from the soil, covert the toxin to a relatively inert form, and release the converted matter as a vapor into the atmosphere.
University of Georgia research suggest that some 18th century British pottery could have been cheap knock-offs of the originals.
Thanks to more than $21 million in NSF grants, the University of Georgia will be conducting research to improve crop genetics, including mapping the genomes of sorghum and rice.
A new study suggests that eliminating forests are a major cause of the decrease in songbird species in the American South. Forest fragmentation allows large predators to access ground-nesting birds, which results in a loss of eggs and nesting areas.
University of Georgia researcher's book suggests that differences in communication styles may be a cause of many problems that exist between African American males and females. Professor Veronica Duncan suggests that the effects of slavery and racism may also play a part in the communication dynamics.
A new education project at the University of Georgia is utilizing tools of information technology to help save farmers across the state millions of dollars from crop loss by providing more efficient and effective plant diagnostics.
Survey by UGA Professor shows that the job market has improved for mass communications and journalism graduates.
Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from the University of Georgia has made a direct estimate of the total number of bacteria on Earth -- and the number makes the globe's human population look downright puny.
University of Georgia research shows that, at least for fruit flies, those creatures who choose their own mates produce offsprings longer life spans.
President Bill Clinton may be facing the possibility of impeachment over the issue of Monica Lewinsky, but his mastery of public speech could be his ticket to staying in office, according to a University of Georgia professor of speech communication who is a scholar of presidential and political rhetoric.
A new book by a University of Georgia genetics professor brings together the most recent discoveries in evolutionary and molecular genetics and uses them to show a vital link between all aspects of human life -- including religion.
A new study by geneticists at the University of Georgia shows that when female fruit flies are given a choice between mates, their offspring live longer as adults than females who have only a single mate from which to choose. The research is bringing new insights into both female choice and male competition.
Bacteria are the huddled masses of the microbial world, performing tasks that include everything from causing disease to fixing nitrogen in the soil. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from the University of Georgia has made a direct estimate of the total number of bacteria on Earth.
Intriguing new clues about the evolution of retrotransposons in a genome -- evidence that could serve as a model system for understanding why retroviral elements evolve so quickly, have been uncovered by researchers at the University of Georgia .
A new study by botanists at the University of Georgia now shows for the first time that trees left standing in tropical pastures can actually dominate the reproduction in nearby remnant forests, creating a "genetic bottleneck."
A $1.5 million grant to the School of Social Work and Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia will fund an in-depth view of those who are continuing to receive welfare assistance and the changes that have taken place in the Division of Family and Children Services since welfare reform began in the state five years ago.
Whether its gymnastics or genetics that most influences the growth and development of top-ranked gymnasts could be answered by a $1.2 million study that's beginning at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia.
Let's say you own a hundred acres of forest in the mountains of North Carolina. You want the land to stay beautiful, but you also want to sell some of the timber to put your kids through college. Years ago, your best bet would be to cut and pray, but not any more. A new decision support system that researchers from the University of Georgia have helped design could make your job vastly easier.
Just 10 days before India conducted five underground nuclear tests, participants in an international workshop at the University of Georgia expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of change in the strategic bilateral relationship between India and the United States.
A child sets fire to his grandmother's apartment and the blaze ignites the African-American consciousness. The death of Betty Shabazz? Yes, but decades before, it also was the experience of author Richard Wright.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can also hurt you, says a University of Georgia clinical psychology professor. Bruises and broken bones are easier to see, but it doesn't mean that the injuries of psychological abuse are any less painful or long-lasting.
The CIA and its 12 companion U.S. intelligence agencies are bloated bureaucracies, overly reliant upon technology and in need of a game plan for the post-Cold War era, according to Loch Johnson, a University of Georgia Regents Professor of Political Science.
University of Georgia researchers have spent the past decade searching for the secret to living an active, meaningful life beyond the age of 100. Instead of a secret formula, they've found an equal-opportunity phenomenon.
A new discovery by researchers at the University of Georgia may help explain why -- when it comes to people -- all veins are not created equal. The scientists demonstrated for the first time dramatic differences in the density of receptors for a powerful blood-borne substance called endothelin. And once again, it's bad news for white males.
A new study by marine scientists at the University of Georgia has discovered that bacteria from the so-called "marine alpha group" dominate the near-shore waters and estuaries of the Georgia coast.
A small, gentle shorebird, hunted nearly to extinction earlier this century as an adornment for women's hats, is perched on the brink again. A new study by University of Georgia wildlife researchers has found that nearly all of Georgia's surviving least tern pairs are nesting on some type of artificial site.
A team of anthropologists from the University of Georgia has joined the Foxfire Fund, Inc., to help preserve materials collected during the 30 years of the project that studies the southern Appalachians.
A University of Georgia historian has discovered that it is possible for African-Americans to begin identifying particular ethnic cultural and social influences once thought unrecoverable.
A new book, edited by a University of Georgia professor, brings together for the first time some of the most important American speeches of the 20th century.
The U.S. Air Force is making a multimillion-dollar grant to a program headed by a psychologist at the University of Georgia to develop an Internet-based system that can help AWACS crews make better decisions.
A molecular biologist at the University of Georgia has proposed that transposable elements may play a crucial and central role in evolution and could be the "missing link" in our understanding of how multicellular organisms work.
Only one area of the continental U.S. has not been mapped --the Everglades. Now a team from the U.S. Park Service and the University of Georgia are in the final year of a mapping project.
New information gathered last summer shows that diseases on Florida's coral reefs have dramatically increased with potential long-term consequences for the coral reef ecosystem.
A University of Georgia study released today at the American Heart Association's 70th Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., may help explain why African Americans have a higher incidence of cardio- vascular disease than Caucasians.
Women and employees with working spouses may be offered fewer chances to relocate because of a not-so-subtle bias among employers, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Georgia.
Concern over the health of our oceans has grown, in the past two decades, from worry to alarm. Coastal waters are crucial links in the food chain of the seas, and numerous disasters, many of them man-made, have threatened these waters.
ATHENS, Ga. -- A team of researchers at the University of Georgia are the first to determine that the hormone leptin causes the programmed death of fat cells rather than simply reducing them in size.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Should you move to Cambridge and earn an MBA from Harvard? Or will a master's in business administration from State U. serve you just as well? What about Grandma's china? Do you pay to store it for the next two years or sell it at a yard sale? And what about the kids, your spouse, your aging parents? For women considering graduate school, these questions -- and many more -- can weigh heavily on their decisions, according to the author of "A Woman's Guide to Surviving Graduate School," published by Sage Press and now available at Borders bookstores.
A new study by a psychologist at the University of Georgia shows that banks may be losing the elderly as ATM customers and that education and machine redesign could be the best hope from bringing them back.
New research by scientists, including one at the University of Georgia, shows that self-sufficiency in foraging among capuchins arrives long after they have sufficient manual skills to achieve it.
A psychologist at the University of Georgia has developed a new model that can help predict how well caregivers will be able to deal with the care of an older, ill relative.
Athens, GA--A program that combines first-time juvenile offenders, their parents and siblings with counselors has shown a 21 percent decrease in recidivism rates when compared with juveniles who didn't complete the program.
Athens, GA--A program developed by a College of Family and Consumer Sciences professor at the University of Georgia allows counseling clients to "turn the tables" on their therapists. "By directly obtaining feedback from clients about their experience of the therapy events and the therapist's actions, the therapist and supervisor are better able to focus their energy on helping the client," said Bill Quinn, a FACS professor.
Athens, GA-- What's occurring at the "micro-level" of a therapy session is the subject of research by a professor at the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. He uses discourse analysis -- a process that breaks down a conversation into the finest of detail.
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