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ATHENS — University of Georgia professors Scott NeSmith, Anumantha Kanthasamy and S. Edward Law have been elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Including these three new Fellows, 12

UGA now has 12 faculty to receive National Academy of Inventors honor.

UGA establishes new blueberry orchard near main Athens campus Research at the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) is devoted to helping blueberries continue to thrive as a ‘super food’. On April 26, UGA CAES Dean and Director Nick Place formally inaugurated the new blueberry orchard at the UGA Durham Horticulture Farm in Watkinsville, Georgia, close to the main Athens campus. Place planted the first blueberry bush to honor the potential that...

ATHENS — Native to North America, blueberries are the most recently commercially domesticated fruit in the U.S. Just a little over a century ago, researchers began studying this wild berry