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Haley HughesThe United States’ honey bee population has been in steep decline over the last decade or more, and a special addition to Georgia Regents University is teaching students how to be part of the solution . In April, Facilities Management Maintenance...
Toni BakerScientists have found an explanation for the century-old observation that if you end up with just one kidney, the lone organ gets bigger. When a single kidney is removed because of injury or for transplantation, the remaining kidney can rapidly get...
Eric JohnsonWhen Dr. Michael Stefanek, Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, was starting his career, a study came out in The Lancet that looked at the benefit of support groups in cancer survival. Despite the fact that there were flaws in the...
Body builders have it right: vitamin E does help build strong muscles, and scientists appear to have figured out one important way it does it. Vitamin E has long known as a powerful antioxidant, and now scientists have shown that without it, the...
StaffHull College of Business (HCOB) students John Bourassa and Nilda Treska have successfully completed the Internal Audit Internship program as of May 2015. During the spring semester, they logged a combined total of nearly 200 hours, and contributed...
The gene and hormone soup that enables women to breastfeed their newborns also can be a recipe for breast cancer, particularly when the first pregnancy is after age 30. Researchers have now found that the gene DNMT1 is essential to maintaining...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – An enzyme that converts testosterone to estrogen appears to have significant impact in a healthy and injured brain, scientists report. There’s mounting evidence that in the healthy brain, aromatase and the estrogen it enables...
The Graduate School presented 28 awards at the 31st annual Graduate School Awards Banquet, held at the Alumni Center on Wednesday, April 15. The awards were given for work presented at Graduate Research Day, a yearly event that provides participants...
Children who experience multiple traumatic events, from emotional and sexual abuse to neglect, have higher blood pressures as young adults than their peers, researchers report. The difference of 10 points in the systolic pressure – the top number...
A wristband that records motion throughout a 24-hour cycle may be an inexpensive, safe way to determine which patients with major depressive disorder will respond best to commonly prescribed drugs such as Prozac. Selective serotonin reuptake...
Asthma rates among black youth living in urban Detroit and rural Georgia are essentially the same, researchers report, a finding that conflicts with the widely held theory that city life is a risk factor, and pointing instead toward poverty. About...
Christine Hurley DerisoThe role music therapy in healing . . . using interactive video games to enhance the quality of life of those with chronic conditions . . . a study of the ecological impact of thwarting Mother Nature. . . These are among the articles featured in the...
The relative cost, benefits, and complications of three minimally invasive techniques for reducing or eliminating symptomatic uterine fibroids are being compared in women who don’t have cancer and want to preserve their uterus. The Medical College...
Denise ParrishWithin the next 10 to 15 years, Dr. Leroy Hood predicts that the focus of health care will shift from disease treatment to prevention. “Biology will be the dominant science of the 21st century, just as chemistry was in the 19th century and physics...
Danielle HarrisIn January, Georgia Regents University’s James M. Hull College of Business Augusta Leading Economic Index (LEI) increased 0.2% from December. The index has increased 5.6% from January 2014. This represents eleven consecutive months of growth...
According to Dr. Wayne Lord, Associate Dean of Georgia Regents University’s College of Education, the newly created doctoral degree in educational innovation is generating a lot of attention. “We recently had 18 applicants on campus for interviews...
Kelly JasperDr. Leroy Hood, a renowned systems biologist who helped pioneer the human genome program with the development of the automated DNA sequencer, is the keynote speaker for Georgia Regents University’s 31st annual Graduate Research Day. Hood’s...
Brain levels of the lipid ceramide are high in Alzheimer’s disease, and now scientists have found increased levels of an antibody to the lipid in their disease model. While some members of this lipid family are a plus in skin cream, inside the...
The Center for Undergraduate Research & Scholarship (CURS) will offer a six-week Summer Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Program sponsored by the Provost, Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs, and the Senior Vice President...
Older, single white males with advanced bladder cancer have the highest suicide risk among those with other cancers of the male genitals and urinary system, researchers report. Genitourinary cancers – prostate, bladder, kidney, testis, and penile...