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VIEWPOINT
- Violence, Like Other Public Health Threats, Is Preventable (Fall 2007)
Violence is as much a public health issue as obesity and cardiovascular disease,and like these diseases, it is best addressed through prevention.
- A Program for Universities That Means Business (Spring 2007)
Georgia’s universities are transforming discoveries into new technology companies that provide social and economic benefits to the state.
- Owning Up to Poverty in America (Winter 2007)
Despite a lack of focus in the public arena, poverty remains a crippling national problem.
- Why the Arts Matter in Education (Fall 2006)
What do they offer students and why are they important? What are the implications for arts teacher preparations at UGA?
- Peace, Not Security (Summer 2006)
In order to deliver a “new world order” to future generations, we must realize and accept the shortcomings of a security regime and value the wisdom of a peace paradigm.
- Global Warming: What to Do About the Changing Climate (Fall/Winter 2005)
The signs of global warming are all around us.
- Plagiarism (Summer 2005)
To avoid this journalistic felony, educators must teach how to do journalism the right way.
- Mobile Media's Growing Pains (Spring 2004)
UGA's New Media Institute director examines how new uses for WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, is changing the wireless world.
- Research Universities Should Nudge National Policy (Fall 2003)
Academia has a responsibility to participate in the national security dialogue.
- Preparing for Terrorism (Summer 2002)
Americans can take a lesson from the ineffective emergency responses to the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
- Nobody Pays for Criticism (Summer 2001)
How should art and humanities compete for their share of the research funding pie? Betty Jean Craige offers insight.
- The GMO Controversy and the Ivory Tower (Winter 2000)
Two UGA researchers urge scientists to take a more vocal role and follow in the "activist scientist" footsteps of Albert Einstein.
- Research at the Extremes (Spring 2000)
To what extreme will researchers go in pursuit of science? Two UGA scientists tell of risks traveling to opposite ends of the Earth.
- Of Mice, Men and Medical Achievement (Summer 1999)
Today's science has come a long but necessary way from yesterday's research techniques of using animals for biomedical study.
- The Scholar's Audience (Fall 1998)
Conrad Fink is unequivocal about a scholar's moral obligation to share facts, insights and reflections.
- Finding a Voice for Science (Spring 1998)
Society needs more scientists and writers with a talent for elucidating the wonders, intricacies and controversies of science.
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Celebrating Three Decades from the Editor (Winter 1997)
- The Global Face of Agriculture (Winter 1997)
A big challenge for the next millennium will be feeding the world's population. Ed Kanemasu makes a case for an international research cooperation.
- Cloning: Thoughts Evoked by the New Ewe (Summer 1997)
Dolly, the sheep, raises many questions for scientists and the public.
- Positioning University Research (Spring 1996)
How will budget changes from Capitol Hill affect university research? Vice President Joe Key shares his viewpoint on the future of research funding.
- Southern History in Black and White (Winter 1995)
In Portraits in Black and White, historian John Inscoe explores the complex, emotional and deeply personal aspects of Southern race relations.
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The Family--Society's Smallest Democracy (Summer 1994)
Sharon Y. Nickols, dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, points out the need for more family-oriented research.
- How a University Grows (Fall 1993)
Ecologist Eugene Odum finds parallels between the growth of ecosystems and academic institutions.
- Research Planning and the Challenge of Change (Spring 1993)
Dean Alphonse Buccino recently returned from a year-long stint in Washington, examines the promise of change and the potential for research in the '90s.
- Heroes in the Lab (Fall 1992)
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Deborah Blum makes a case for why researchers
who use animals must tell the rest of us about the
good work they do.
Research
Communications, Office of the VP for Research, UGA
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