Next week is spring break and while there's nothing at all wrong with saddling up with friends and heading to a beach to relax, it should be acknowledged that many students will choose to use the week off in a different way:

A group of 360 University of Georgia students will forego… Read Article

The breadth of research in psychology is not limited to humans but reaches into questions about how all creatures learn about the world:

A new study from University of Georgia behavioral scientists reports that bearded capuchin monkeys, Sapajus libidinosus, are skilled at solving problems… Read Article

The terrific Global Georgia Initiative brought to us all by the Willson Center will conclude next week on March 5 with a lecture by English professor and director of the Institute for African American Studies, Valerie Babb. Her lecture will be "In the Footfalls of Diaspora: Reflections on the… Read Article

Very interesting new research from the department of cell biology. The new work

has identified the neural pathways in an insect brain tied to eating for pleasure, a discovery that sheds light on mirror impulsive eating pathways in the human brain.

"We know when insects are hungry,… Read Article

They describe surprise in discovering that the calcium copper silicate in Egyptian blue breaks apart into nanosheets so thin that thousands would fit across the width of a human hair. The sheets produce invisible infrared (IR) radiation similar to the beams that communicate between remote… Read Article