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Eric JohnsonIn early October, Dr. Simon Medcalfe, associate professor of finance and director of the MBA program at the James M. Hull College of Business at Georgia Regents University, and three undergraduate students went to the North American Case Research...
Once again, Georgia Regents Research Institute is providing consultative services of Health Research Associates to assist with the development of grant proposals to external funding sponsors. Dr. Anthony Coelho will be on campus Monday, November 30...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – The same lipid that helps algae swim toward the light also appears to enable one type of brain cell to keep cerebrospinal fluid moving, researchers report. The lipid is ceramide, long known to help keep skin smooth, and now Medical...
Denise ParrishDr. Jim Wilde, professor of Emergency Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia and an infectious disease expert with Children’s Hospital of Georgia, cautions Parents magazine readers about administering antibiotics to children when they...
Arthur TakahashiWhen 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...
Nick GarrettLooking 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...
Stacey HudsonIn 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...