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Claire Teitelbaum 4 hours ago Claire Teitelbaum, a graduate student in ecology, researches the effect of landscape changes on wildlife behavior, like the urban wildlife found at Memorial Park. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA) Claire Teitelbaum is finishing up a Ph.D. in ecology. She studies animal movement patterns and how animals respond to human development. This research could later be used to conserve species. She aims to better understand all the ways that nature “works.” “Ecology is an amazing field because everything that we study is so complex and everything interacts with eve...

March 16, 2021 Last fall, when the COVID-19 pandemic moved her introductory biology laboratory to Zoom, Maria Moreno, senior lecturer and research scientist in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, saw an opportunity to try something new. Working with GIS Librarian Miriam Olivares and Life Sciences Librarian Lori Bronars, Moreno developed Yale’s first Geospatial Learning Accelerator for undergraduates, a six-week course module that gives students an intensive introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. GIS provides a structure for assembling, analyzing, and vis...

In its Tuesday meeting, the UGA SGA unanimously passed two resolutions — one to work toward expanding the hours of on-campus study locations and the other to gain support for

Penelope Williams, Jittery Joe’s :  oat milk latte with caramel and hazelnut syrup. Olivia Mead, 1000 Faces Coffee : a cappuccino with “a little bit of brown sugar” Barista-ing, for many, is a job that’s easy to idolize — the very idea of it might make one think of unlimited coffees and lattes, listening to indie music on repeat and befriending hipster coworkers. However, there’s a lot more to being a student barista than may meet the eye. Coffee and connection When Smoltz, an Alpharetta native, got her job at Condor Chocolates in the spring of her sophomore y...

Alexandria Lin January 10, 2021 Senior Alexandria Lin has worked in UGA’s Small Satellite Research Lab since her freshman year at UGA. (Photo by Stephanie Schupska) Alexandria Lin, a senior Honors student majoring in computer systems engineering, was part of the team that put UGA’s first satellite in space. She’s been part of the Small Satellite Research Lab since her freshman year. She already has a job lined up after graduation as software developer for satellite missions. A problem-solver at heart, Lin is passionate about “pushing the boundaries of what we’re capable of. There’...