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Five win Brooks Awards 10/18/04
Five University of Georgia faculty members received the prestigious D.W. Brooks Awards for Excellence Oct. 18 in Athens, Ga. The $5,000 awards recognize UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences educators and researchers who excel in teaching, research, extension, public service extension programs and international agriculture.
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Volunteers help 10/14/04
As state agencies struggle to operate under budget cuts and hiring freezes, volunteers can make a big difference in keeping their programs effective. At the University of Georgia, Master Gardeners do just that.
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Pansy weeds 10/14/04
Pansies are easy to grow, they come in a myriad of color combinations and they can take cool weather when few other plants can. No wonder they're one of the Southeast's premier bedding plants. But even pansies can be troubled by weeds.
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Apples survived 10/14/04
Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne caused major damage to many crops in the Southeast. But they didn't take a big bite out of north Georgia apples.
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Chicken surgery 10/12/04
If you go to a hospital to have surgery, you want the anesthesia to work. Two Georgia high school students in a University of Georgia internship program have made sure it works for chickens, too.
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Safer Hispanic workers 10/07/04
A $105,000 Occupational Safety and Health Administration grant will help University of Georgia faculty members accomplish what they've been trying to do on a shoestring budget: train the state's Hispanic landscape workers.
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Vegetable damage 10/07/04
After repeated hits by tropical storms this fall, Hurricane Jeanne hit Georgia on Sept. 27 and gave what amounted to a final blow to the state's vegetable crop.
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Eminent scholar 10/07/04
Steven Knapp has joined the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in crop genomics.
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DW Brooks Lecture 10/07/04
Mark Drabenstott, vice president and director of the Center for the Study of Rural America at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, will deliver the 2004 D.W. Brooks Lecture, Oct. 18 in Athens.
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Pumpkin picking 10/07/04
Corn shocks, hay bales, Indian corn and pumpkins have become popular in store windows, front yards and even the house in celebrating the fall season.