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Colby Ruiz CAES News
A Doctor's Journey 01/23/25 Aaron Hale
Dr. Colby Ruiz was a teenager when he watched his first surgery. He volunteered in the operating room at Valdosta’s South Georgia Medical Center, where his parents worked as nurses. Ruiz could have ended up in any of the hospital units except, at 14, he really didn’t want to wear the pink “candy striper” uniform of most hospital volunteers. When Ruiz learned that OR volunteers wore green, he was all in.
Students Hailey Bos (left) and Guy Kemelmakher (center right) discuss a geological feature with instructors Debra Dooley (center left) and Carolyn Cummings (right) while hiking the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Trail. CAES News
For Spacious Skies 01/22/25 Aaron Hale
Compared to some of the long, more strenuous hikes at Yosemite National Park in California, the venture up the granite outcrop at Olmsted Point is short if a little steep. But an epic view awaits the 18 University of Georgia students who make the climb. High above Yosemite Valley, they gaze westward to make out Half Dome in the distance. Other peaks of various shapes and features stretch on endlessly. Class is now in session.
Palisades Fire from Playa Vista, Los Angeles CAES News
Prescribed burns 01/21/25 Maria M. Lameiras
As shocking images of the fire-blasted hills around Los Angeles demonstrate, wildfires have become an increasing concern in the United States, particularly in regions where suppression strategies have dominated for decades. A new study by University of Georgia researcher Yukiko Hashida examines how prescribed burns could play a key role in mitigating wildfire risks.
UGA professor and peanut breeder William “Bill” D. Branch has developed more than 30 novel, licensed peanut varieties. (CAES) CAES News
Branch Honored 01/17/25 Brandon Ward
William “Bill” D. Branch, Georgia Seed Development Professor in Peanut Breeding and Genetics in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been elected as Fellow for the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Branch is the 17th UGA faculty member to receive this honor, which recognizes inventors whose innovations have had a significant impact on society, economic development and quality of life.
Nayantara Hareesh poses for a quick photo with Peanut Butter. CAES News
Animal Magnetism 01/15/25 Sameeka Prabath Rajamani
In Associate Professor Kari Turner’s “Companion Animal Care” class, Penelope stands in front of the lecture hall, her large, brown eyes taking in her audience. Penelope, a piebald pit bull terrier mix, and her caretaker, Katlyn Davis, a fourth-year animal biosciences major, are there to tell their rescue story. Three years ago, the months-old pup was found abandoned, malnourished and covered in mange under an abandoned house.
sugar beet cyst nematodes CAES News
Cyst Nematodes 01/14/25 Gary Goettling
People love the taste of sugar beets’ primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes — parasitic, microscopic worms — enjoy the root vegetable, too, but as their sole food source. It’s an obstinate, expensive problem for farmers that researchers at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences are working to solve.
rabbiteye blueberry CAES News
Organic Shelf Life 01/10/25 Lillian Sosbee
Organic fruits and vegetables often face a higher risk of spoiling and harboring foodborne pathogens than their conventional farming counterparts. Because organic growers and packers must adhere to higher production standards and restrictions on chemical additives, University of Georgia experts are exploring alternative methods for protecting organic products and consumers through a new $3.5 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Peanut Innovation Lab Director Dave Hoisington works with Rachelle Djiboune at CERAAS, where Djiboune is characterizing groundnut seed as high-oleic or not. The handheld NIR device validated by Hoisington has made her work many times faster. CAES News
High oleic testing 01/10/25 Allison Floyd
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could look inside a peanut kernel and see the nutritional content hiding there? It’s possible. A device calibrated and deployed by the Peanut Innovation Lab is allowing partners to test peanut seed where they are – avoiding time-consuming and expensive off-site lab tests – to see which plants have the desired oil content. The technology is saving money and speeding up the process to develop new high-oleic lines where people need them the most.
Modou Mbaye, a physicist with ISRA in Senegal sets up a drone to fly over a groundnut field. Mbaye plans to use AI to develop predictive models for crop performance based on historic data collected with drones. CAES News
Drones for plant breeding 01/10/25 Allison Floyd
Plant breeders can’t speed up how fast a plant grows, which limits how quickly they can develop new varieties. But knowing sooner how a plant is responding to its environment can speed up the process of selecting plants with certain traits and make that work more reliable. In earlier research, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut used hand-held sensors to evaluate peanut plants in the field, and developed vegetation indices (VIs) that could predict disease resistance, water stress tolerance, and yield better than traditional methods of evaluating plants. Now, researchers are working with drones in four African countries, using similar technology to make selections with less time and manpower, and more accuracy, and can be used in connection with digitized methods of analysis and selection decision tools.
The Jersey Management by Students program at CAES equips animal and dairy science majors with high-value skills in livestock breeding. CAES News
Herd Mentality 01/08/25 Maria M. Lameiras
Slipping on a shoulder-length plastic glove, fourth-year animal and dairy science student Sophie Du Pont prepared to perform a pregnancy ultrasound on a 16-month-old Jersey heifer named Woof at the University of Georgia Teaching Dairy in Winterville, Georgia. Having carefully watched Associate Professor Jillian Bohlen perform the procedure on several Holstein heifers minutes before, Du Pont maneuvered the ultrasound transducer to coax a clear digital image onto the computer screen connected to the scanning device.