Every pet owner wants their pet to feel safe and secure, especially on daunting trips to the veterinarian’s office. One major hurdle is the frigid stainless steel tables that offer an unappealing surface for animals that are used to the comfort of home. During the 2021 University of Georgia Food, ...

The University of Georgia has returned to the top of AUTM’s national rankings for the number of products developed by industry partners based on UGA research discoveries, marking the seventh straight year UGA has placed among the top five schools in the country for this metric. AUTM, formerly known as ...

The University of Georgia has officially opened its new Innovation Hub in downtown Athens as part of the university’s Innovation District initiative to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and experiential learning. Thanks to a generous commitment by The Delta Air Lines Foundation, the Spring Street Building was completely renovated to provide university, community and ...

The National Academy of Inventors has named three University of Georgia faculty members to the 2021 class of NAI Senior Members, including two from the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center (PDRC). Mark Eiteman, professor in the College of Engineering, and Holly Sellers and Mark Jackwood, both professors in the College of Veterinary Medicine and researchers at ...

The University of Georgia’s Innovation District is offering a new tool to support university entrepreneurs pursuing commercialization of their research discoveries. Georgia Startup License is an express program that combines business and technical assistance with a streamlined technology licensing process to help UGA startups get off the ground. Created by Innovation Gateway, UGA’s ...

Faculty members Melanie Reber and Eric Harvill have been named Innovation Fellows for spring 2021. Launched as part of the University of Georgia’s campus-wide Innovation District initiative, the semester-long fellowship helps faculty align their research activities with industry needs and bring their discoveries to the marketplace. Reber, an assistant professor of chemistry in the Franklin ...

Spring Street Building will become UGA’s front door for industry engagement The University of Georgia’s new hub for innovation is almost open for business. The Spring Street Building, just south of Broad Street near downtown Athens, is undergoing renovation and will open in January as UGA’s Innovation Hub, albeit with limited ...

Acanthamoeba Keratitis (AK) is an extremely rare but devastating eye disease that primarily affects individuals wearing contact lenses. Caused by an infection of amoebas, the condition can lead to permanent eye damage or even blindness if left untreated. Christopher Rice, assistant research scientist in the Center for Drug Discovery, may ...

Expansion of Startup Mentor Program aims to provide deeper levels of support to faculty entrepreneurs The University of Georgia has become an academic powerhouse for turning research discoveries into marketable solutions, thanks to its enterprising faculty and students. UGA has been a Top 5 university in bringing new products to market for six ...

The University of Georgia may be one of the country’s leaders in developing new commercial products out of its research, but those products did not simply burst out of UGA labs fully formed and ready for market. They had to be refined through additional research and development that itself can be long, painstaking—and ...

America’s Seed Fund focuses on next-generation research, development UGA entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies soon will have an opportunity to connect directly with the country’s largest source of early-stage funding. The University of Georgia’s Innovation Gateway is hosting the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Regional Small Business Innovation Research Week—virtually—beginning Sept. 14.  It will ...