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Processing visual information: flicker fusion

Psychology researchers have linked sensory function to congnitive function in an interesting new study: researchers from UGA's Neuropsychology and Memory Assessment Laboratory and Vision Sciences Laboratory collaborated to use a method based on measuring processing speed through sight. Catherine…
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Convincing Arguments

The communication studies department held its bi-annual public speaking contest on Thursday, November 12. The evening began with the announcement of this year's Olive M. Cone Scholarship winner, Elizabeth Trent. The Cone Scholarship recognizes the outstanding achievement of a Communication…
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Big Data heads South

• Habitat planning, including urban infrastructure, smart cities efforts, transportation, rural-urban infrastructure and wildlife habitat and conservation. Dr. Ramaswamy and his colleagues are already engaged in some vsionary work monitoring algal blooms in the region's ponds and lakes using cloud…
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Streipen lab receives $1 million for cryptosporidium research

Fantastic news from one of our best, rewarding the hard work of his team to fight one of the world's most pervasive scourges: Researchers at the University of Georgia have received $1 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to speed the development of new drugs…
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Franklin College Kudos

The Georgia Debate Union won the recent intercollegiate tournament at Vanderbilt University - details on that, along with a few other honors and accomplishments from the month of October: Two teams representing the Georgia Debate Union, which organizes and fields competitive policy debate teams at…

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