Pathway to discovery: Professors endow student research
May 2024
Odum faculty Jim and Karen Porter retired in 2016, but their impact on students continues through an endowment fund that supports research by ecology undergraduates.
2024 Research Awards
May 2024
Jeb Byers is named Distinguished Research Professor, a distinction awarded to senior faculty members who are internationally recognized for their innovative body of work and its transformational impact on their field.
AAAS elects 3 more UGA faculty as Fellows
Apr 2024
Gene Rhodes, UGA Athletic Association Professor in Applied Ecology, was one of three UGA faculty named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Academic advisor helps students find community and strive for sustainability
Apr 2024
As the undergraduate advisor for the Odum School of Ecology, Misha Boyd finds ways to enhance the student experience. With her inclination for the pursuit of fresh initiatives and hearing the perspectives
Collaboration and coronaviruses: Lunn brings interdisciplinary approach to disease ecology
Feb 2024
Bats deserve more than just a few weeks in the limelight each Halloween. The flying mammals are critical pollinators and pest control agents, according to Tamika Lunn, a disease ecologist and new
Odum faculty named Athletic Association and Foundation Professors
Jan 2024
Two faculty in the Odum School of Ecology have been recognized with named professorships based on their long-standing commitments to excellence in research, education and service at UGA. Craig Osenberg
Ecology lecturer identifies solutions
Oct 2023
Alli Injaian, lecturer and academic coordinator at the Odum School of Ecology, sometimes feels like a talent manager. Fifty percent of her job is teaching, but the other 50% involves instructional service and administrative responsibilities like determining faculty teaching assignments.
UGA’s Lipp Named Georgia Power Professor
Oct 2023
University of Georgia College of Public Health professor and Odum courtesy faculty Erin Lipp has been appointed to the Georgia Power Professorship in Environmental Health Science.
Hunter, Altizer named Odum chair and professor
Sep 2023
Dean Mark Hunter has been named the Eugene Odum Chair in Ecology, and Sonia Altizer has been named the Martha Odum Distinguished Professor in Ecology at the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology.
New AI tool will help survey, protect coral reefs
Aug 2023
University of Georgia ecologist Jim Porter has received funding to create an artificial intelligence tool expected to greatly improve mapping of coral reefs and lead to significant advancements in underwater 3D measurements—information that will aid efforts to help these reefs survive.