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Drum majors direct the band as the Redcoat Marching Band perform. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Marching band kids at risk from heat illness

It’s not just student-athletes who need guidelines for heat protection during practice. This time of year, you hear a lot about heat-related illnesses in athletes. Thousands of student-athletes are sidelined by heat illnesses each year, and some don’t recover. But while guidelines exist to help coaches and trainers keep their students safe, there’s another group on the field that’s still at risk: students in marching bands.…

Courtney Balling in Cannons Point, St. Simons Island
Geography Ph.D Student selected for Sea Grant Research Trainee program at UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

Seven students from universities across Georgia have been selected to participate in the year-long Georgia Sea Grant Research Trainee program at the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, one of which is the Geography department's very own Ph.D students, Courtney Balling. Balling, also a student in the department of Integrative Conservation at UGA, is researching the environmental drivers of septic system failure. She will work with…

Dr. Amy Trauger
Dr. Amy Trauger named the Canada Research Chair in Food Studies at the University of Guelph

Dr. Amy Trauger has been named the Canada Research Chair in Food Studies at the University of Guelph which is administered through the Fulbright Canada program. With this position, Dr. Trauger will research the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food insecure populations, particularly rural and indigenous people. Food shortages, due to disruptions in national-scale supply chains are an ongoing characteristic of the pandemic across…

(from left to right) Chase Fiveash, Kathryn Boyle, and Killian McSweeney
Three UGA students named Hollings Scholars

Three undergraduates in the Geography Department's Atmospheric Sciences Program have been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Congratulations to Kathryn Boyle, Chase Fiveash, and Killian McSweeney! They will go on to receive two years of financial support, a 10-week, full-time paid summer internship to any NOAA facility nationwide, and support to…

Lake Oconee Algae Sensor
Cyber infrastructure for citizen science

The CyanoTRACKER project led by Dr. Deepak Mishra is developing cyber-infrastructure for citizen participation to track harmful algae before they can take over an entire body of water.  It is the first early reporting system of its kind.  
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