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Ninth grade students from Clarke Central High School explore the Science Expo portion of an Experience UGA field trip at Memorial Hall. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA)

Experience UGA connects classrooms to campus

Experience UGA facilitates up to 90 field trips each year with more than 40 partners on campus, bringing nearly 8,000 CCSD students to campus. By getting students out of the classroom for these visits, CCSD teachers can make real-world connections to the content they’re teaching.

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Scientists ID genetic basis for muscle formation

New CRISPR screening platform specific to human muscle cells is the first of its kind. 

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Genetics Major Anna Ramey Featured in Nature News

One day, Anna Ramey, an undergraduate working in a canine genetics laboratory, gazed at her dog, a cocker spaniel’s long, floppy ears, and wondered: why? She took the question to her lab colleagues, and a project was born to map the genes responsible for ear length in dogs.
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Genetics Major Finn Walsh Named UGA's 10th Marshall Scholar

Genetics major Finn Walsh will build on her studies in infectious disease next fall as UGA’s newest Marshall Scholar. The scholarship is among the most selective graduate awards for Americans.

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Ye Lab Publishes Study Describing how Genetic Factors Modify the Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation on the Circulating Level of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

The health benefits of fish oil have expanded in recent years. As laboratory breakthroughs expand the understanding of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids’ impact on brain health and warding off a variety of cancers, uptake in the public has followed.