When high school students come to college, they want to find the right answer to questions they have, according to research. But sometimes there’s no right answer. Other times there’s more than one. So GRU faculty got together and created a course...
Looking to start a career in academia? Drawn to the research lifestyle? If so, submitting your undergraduate research for publication might be one of the best things you can do to make yourself a standout candidate in your given field. Arsenal is a...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Weight and physical activity levels are both factors in a child’s ability to acquire and use knowledge, a new study finds. “The question this paper asks that has not been asked before is whether it is just fitness that influences...
Do you have new research to present to colleagues? Do you have a great teaching lesson that needs a trial run? Perhaps you need to prepare for a conference. If so, CIRCA 2016 is your chance to shine for your colleagues at Georgia Regents University...
Dr. Jane Garvin, assistant professor in the Department of Physiological and Technological Nursing, will be honored during ObesityWeek 2015, the combined annual meeting of The Obesity Society (TOS) and the American Society for Metabolic &...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – At its most basic level, the brain is about the power of two, says Medical College of Georgia neuroscientist Dr. Joe Z. Tsien. He postulates in his “Theory of Connectivity” that, not unlike high school, where a human clique includes...
Dozens of high school students from Richmond and Aiken counties were introduced to the benefits of nuclear technology and career opportunities during the third annual GRU Education Day event on Oct. 20. Part of Nuclear Science Week, GRU Education...
AUGUSTA, GA. – Plotting on a grid just how a chicken walks may one day give farmers more insight into how best to protect their flock from non-airborne pathogens that can also hurt their profit. “What this mathematical model tells you at this...
In Dr. Meredith Rausch’s mind, her career success just kind of happened. “It was really a matter of being in the right place and knowing the right people,” she said. But one look at her curriculum vitae and the truth reveals itself: National...
Researchers are looking across the entire human genome to see if early life stress causes persistent changes in gene expression that increase the lifelong risk of cardiovascular disease. “We know this stress is bad, and we can link this stress to...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – While high levels of the satiety hormone leptin don’t help obese individuals lose weight, they do appear to directly contribute to their cardiovascular disease, researchers report. “With obesity, leptin cannot tell our brain to stop...
High-efficiency transporters that work like a shuttle system to constantly move ions into and out of neurons appear to slam into reverse following a stroke or other injury and start delivering instead too much water, scientists have found. It’s...
The mission of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS) is to promote and support research, scholarship and creative activity at the undergraduate level. From the very beginning, CURS has made great strides to see that members of...
If you want to turn your great idea into the next big thing in the marketplace, you have one last chance to register for the Innovation Summit 2015. “We encourage anybody who wants to become a successful innovator to come to the Innovation Summit,”...
A breast cancer drug with promise for improving the chance that couples with unexplained infertility can have a baby without increasing their risk of multiple births apparently does not deliver, according to a comparative study. “The question was...
Maj. Gen. John Davis, senior military advisor for cyber to the undersecretary of defense for policy with the U.S. Department of Defense, will address “Ethics in a Cyber World” as part of The Russell A. Blanchard Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics...
Three GRU College of Education students recently presented their research at theInternational Literacy Association’s annual conference in St. Louis, Mo. The students – Adam Aldridge, Eriq Hearn and Alexis Wren – are all enrolled in the university’s ...
A new study is looking at whether short, daily bouts of reduced blood flow to an arm or leg can reduce the ravages of dementia. It’s called remote conditioning, and researchers say it activates natural protective mechanisms in the brain that should...
Georgia Regents University is among 15 institutions in the nation to receive federal funding to help train the next generation of physician-scientists in obstetrics and gynecology. GRU will receive $1.7 million over the next five years from the...
The regular physical trauma that appears to put professional football players at risk for degenerative brain disease may also increase their risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, researchers say. The frequent hits football players...
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