Technology is transforming farming faster than ever — and drones are leading the charge.| UGA Research News
Nathan Lewis joined the University of Georgia in fall 2024 as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Cell Biology, with appointments in the Center for Molecular Medicine, the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.| UGA Research News
William “Bill” D. Branch, who holds the Georgia Seed Development Professorship in Peanut Breeding and Genetics in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been elected as Fellow for the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Branch is the 17th UGA faculty member to receive this honor, which recognizes inventors whose innovations have had a| UGA Research News
Increasing food security and connection| UGA Research News
It’s a Thursday morning in the Perry (Ga.) Events Center, a high-ceilinged, white-walled open room that used to serve as an armory. It’s filled with just shy of 150 attendees of the 2nd Integrative Precision Agriculture Conference hosted by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture(IIPA). When the first conference was held two| UGA Research News
University of Georgia startup CytoNest Inc. released its first commercial product, a fiber scaffold that optimizes cell manufacturing and tissue engineering, last month. The product, called CytoSurge 3D fiber scaffold, has applications in cell research, biopharmaceuticals, cell therapeutics, and cultured meat and seafood development. UGA is ranked No. 1 among U.S. universities for number of| UGA Research News
Natalie Cohen, assistant professor of marine sciences in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2024 Simons Early Career Investigator. The three-year grant provides $810,000 to fund her work tracking shifts in phytoplankton physiology along continental shelf ecosystems. A researcher in biological oceanography, Cohen is interested in how| UGA Research News
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a multi-institutional initiative based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-led by University of Georgia researchers, has been renewed by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of four bioenergy research centers across the nation that advance robust, economical production of plant-based fuels and chemicals. According to its announcement,| UGA Research News
As the world grapples with how to reduce its carbon footprint, it’s clear there’s no silver bullet solution for climate change. It will take a multifaceted approach to scale back fossil fuel usage and find more sustainable alternatives.| UGA Research News