How researchers track a disease outbreak
Feb 2020
Disease models could change the way we prepare for and combat infectious disease outbreaks like the coronavirus that originated in China, according to Prof. John Drake.
Great Commitments: Sounding The Alarm
Jan 2020
UGA disease ecologist John Drake is working to predict the next outbreak.
Rohani named Regents’ Professor
Jan 2020
Pejman Rohani is one of two faculty members from the University of Georgia named Regents’ Professors for research that is recognized both nationally and internationally as innovative and pace-setting.
Pringle named UGA Women’s Leadership Fellow
Jan 2020
Distinguished Research Professor Catherine Pringle is one of nine University of Georgia faculty and administrators named to the 2019-2020 class of the university’s Women’s Leadership Fellows Program.
Insects through the ages: Monitoring how urban aquatic insect communities change over time
Dec 2019
River Basin Center doctoral student Denzell Cross is studying Atlanta’s aquatic ecosystems, comparing data collected in the 1970s from the same locations he’s sampling today to examine how insect communities in urban streams have changed.
Laurie Fowler: Pioneering Georgia’s environmental law
Dec 2019
As a lawyer, educator and policy maker, Laurie Fowler, the director of policy for the River Basin Center, has had an impact on Georgia’s students and ecosystems that extends through decades.
Worden, PhD ’00, discusses giant viruses
Dec 2019
Alexandra Z. Worden, UGA Ecology PhD ’00, was featured on the podcast This Week in Virology discussing giant viruses that infect ocean hosts.
$1.5 million gift to Odum School of Ecology honors legacy of ecology student John Spencer
Oct 2019
A graduate fellowship established through a $1.5 million commitment from John Spencer’s mother and stepfather, Kathelen and Dan Amos, is ensuring that John’s legacy will reach far into the future.
In the field with flying foxes
Oct 2019
UGA ecology PhD student Cecilia Sánchez studies how urbanization affects movement, diet and disease in Australian flying foxes (fruit bats).
Kaylee Arnold: scientist, dancer, environmental educator
Sep 2019
You might find UGA ecology PhD student Kaylee Arnold in the lab, teaching a hip-hop class at Dancefx, leading a science workshop for teens—or all of the above.