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Brennan MeagherWhile there’s nothing like that distinctive smoky taste from your backyard barbecue, scientists have raised concerns about grilled meats due to the formation of certain chemicals during grilling, including heterocyclic amines and polycyclic...
StaffWhat is happening? The U.S. Department of Labor is revising the salary requirement for determining which employees must be paid overtime for hours worked above 40 per week and which employees are exempt from that requirement. Why is the DOL changing...
Kelly JasperThe Augusta Canal Authority announced a 75-year lease of its Sibley Mill property to Cape Augusta Digital Properties to develop a state-of-the- art cyber campus that has the potential to support cyber-related activities in Augusta such as the Cyber...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottAUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Claire Pomeroy, president of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the Medical College of Georgia Hooding Ceremony. The event, which recognizes the 180th graduating class of the state’s medical...
Advances in recent years have led to increased survival of our service members. In this, our third Wounded Warrior Symposium, we will focus on the ever present, but not always obvious, hidden wounds of wars. These include mild Traumatic Brain...
The following statement was issued by the University System of Georgia Atlanta — We sincerely appreciate Governor Deal’s veto of House Bill 859. We recognize this was not an easy decision for the Governor to make. The vast majority of our faculty...
Linda Wise is a senior staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit. She’s part of a team who transports sick infants by helicopter, plane or ambulance from other hospitals to CHOG and is also the coordinator for the neonatal ECMO program. ECMO...
Paul Smith is a senior staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit, where he takes care of patients who have open-heart surgery and other surgical procedures that require intensive care. The Nursing Specialty Awards are given each year during...
Marcie Johnson is a senior staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit and performs nursing assessments on patients who come from the operating room, manages their pain, assesses their physiologic and psychosocial health and transfers them to the...
Samantha Hughes is the charge nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Georgia’s emergency department. She helps to manage the nurses, EMTs and clerks on the pediatric side of the emergency department. Samantha is the lead-by-example kind; during busy...
Catrina Crawford is a senior staff nurse in the echo lab and performs stress tests to increase the heart’s workload and monitors for changes in the patient’s blood pressure and electrical activity of the heart. “Catrina advances the power of our...
Augusta University Health will celebrate the hard work, dedication and commitment of all our medical center personnel with a host of activities during Hospital Week, May 9-13. Monday, May 9, 8-10 a.m. in the Magnolia Room (Terrace Dining): Healthy...
Graduation day is just around the corner and many Augusta University seniors are feeling the pull of senioritis. Augusta art majors may be the exception, though. This group of seniors has worked hard to prepare and present exhibitions of their...
For one of their final assignments of the semester, 3-D design art students are hosting a popup show in the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art on Augusta University’s Summerville campus. There are approximately 21 students participating in the show, each...
Haley HughesExciting changes are in store for the M. Bert Storey Cancer Research Building. On May 9, work will begin on the 78,000 square feet of additions and renovations, the first phase of a single center that seamlessly combines clinical cancer care and...
Nick GarrettEarlier this year, the staff of The Bell Ringer issued a challenge to the Augusta community: design a new logo worthy of Augusta University’s student newspaper. Now, the university’s oldest student publication needs your discerning eye...
Dr. John E. Hall, Arthur C. Guyton Professor and chair of the department Physiology and Biophysics and director of the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, will present as the 19th Thomas G...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The group who developed the National Disaster Life Support Courses, which prepare health care professionals and emergency response personnel for mass casualty events, has been honored with the Ron J. Anderson Public Service Award from...
Eric JohnsonOn Thursday, April 28, graduating seniors enjoyed food, fun and a few selfies with President Brooks Keel at the Class of 2016 Senior Celebration.
Denise ParrishBloomberg News: May 1, 2016 Simon Medcalfe, a finance and economics professor at Augusta University’s Hull College of Business, says that based on the latest index report — released last week — the view from up high looks pretty...