News Archive - 2012

dancers in traditional Aztec costume
Hispanic Heritage Month

 

professor and her co-author in the lab.
New drug targeting utilizes nanoparticles

  The nanoscale continues to unlock dynamic potential of research into therapeutic drug delivery: researchers at the University of Georgia have refined the drug delivery process further by using nanoparticles to deliver drugs to a specific organelle within cells. By targeting mitochondria, often called “the powerhouse of cells,” the researchers increased the effectiveness of mitochondria-acting therapeutics used to treat cancer, Alzheimer’…


English alums collaborate on Cofer book

  The contributors include award-winning poets, fiction writers, and scholars of American Literature, Latino/a Studies and Women’s Studies, which makes this collection a unique and much-needed addition to the scholarship of Hispanic, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, multicultural, and women’s literature. Congratuations to Cofer, Lopez and Crumpton on this project and kudos to the English department for continuing to develop outstanding writers…


Wind Ensemble on the Lawn

One week from today on Friday, September 28, the UGA Wind Ensemble will present another free concert on the lawn on the north campus quad: The event hearkens back to the turn-of-the-century tradition of afternoon band performances in the park and will include patriotic selections including John Phillip Sousa marches. The wind ensemble, which has approximately 60 members, will perform "Summon the Heroes," written by film composer John Williams…


Dailey receives $1.5 million NIH grant

UGA microbiologist Harry Dailey has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a class of previously unidentified of anemias:   Dailey will receive funding over the next four years from the highly competitive SHINE—Stimulating Hematology Investigation: New Endeavors—program supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or NIDDK, part of the National Institutes of…


'The Future of Food' workshop, Oct.1

As world population stretches past seven billion, many questions come to the fore about how to support so many people. For example, what if everyone elsewhere in the world consumed meat at the rate of the developed world? Does growing crops for transportation fuel put pressure on food crops? To address these questions and more, The University of Georgia Center for Integrative Conservation Research will host a free workshop to explore the links…


Georgia Writers Hall of Fame celebration

The Georgia Writers Hall of Fame was established in 2000 as part of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library to honor Georgia writers and in doing so, introduce the public to the Hargett's rich collection of materials from Georgia's literary and cultural history. The annual ceremony, this year at the newly-christened Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Librairies, celebrates each year's annual inductees. This year's event is…


New Books

And speaking of writers, English professor Ron Miller has two new books out this fall: In On the Ruins of Modernity Ron Baxter Miller proposes that as the centuries turned and the nation became more diverse, the great Chicago Renaissances—especially the literary and cultural ones—never really ended. The nation’s cities simply became more richly complexioned and culturally nuanced. and Critical Insights: Langston Hughes Edited and with…


Kopelman Quartet to perform Payne Memorial Concert

Former dean of the Franklin College Wiliam Jackson "Jack" Payne founded the Franklin College Chamber Music Series in 1978 as a way to acknowledge music lovers and patrons of the cultural life of both the university and and the community. The concert annual concert honoring former dean Payne continues this year with the Kopelman Quartet on Oct. 7: The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will present the Kopelman Quartet Oct. 7 at 3 p.m.…


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