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Larissa McPherson is a Lamar Dodd School of Art master’s student specializing in jewelry and metalworks. Her unique process of incorporating organic materials into her jewelry, specifically bones, allow her to explore how pollution and plastics permeate animals and humans alike.

Humanities & Arts

June 3, 2025

Wearing what’s left: Larissa McPherson resurrects bones into timeless art

Meet the Tapir Valley tree frog, measuring just 2 centimeters and categorized as a critically endangered species in the journal Zootaxa. Thought to exist only in a single wetland in Costa Rica, it was first identified in 2018 by herpetologist Donald Varela-Soto, who discovered a male of the species that year. (Photo: Twan Leenders)

Aspinall (right) gives preserve visitors a better look at the Tapir Valley’s critically endangered amphibian. She plans to use acoustic monitors to capture the frog’s vocalizations to collect important information about its population, life, and environment. (Photo: Michiel van Noppen)

The Tapir Valley tree frog, or Tlalocohyla celeste, has only been spotted in a 20-acre wetland within the Tapir Valley Nature Preserve, which borders Costa Rica’s Tenorio Volcano National Park. The frog shares the nature reserve with the native Baird’s tapir, jaguars, collared peccaries (pig-like animals also known as javelinas), and many exotic birds. (Photo: Mike Melton)

Ecology

June 26, 2025

Sounds of survival: A grad student’s quest to protect the Tapir Valley tree frog

This is the automated Drone Dock system developed in CAES Assistant Professor Luan Oliveira’s Precision Horticulture Lab. The dock is designed to be an autonomous service platform for a spray drone. It was the grand winner at the 2025 Farm Robotics Challenge, where it competed against technologies from 37 other universities across the globe.

May 27, 2025

Where innovation takes root: UGA, partners demo future of agriculture at Grand Farm groundbreaking

Dictyostelium is an amoeba that crawls on glass. The green stain prominently displays its cytoskeleton after cells were fixed and permeabilized, using an anti-actin antibody. The new anti-O-fucose antibody, created by Megna Tiwari, illustrates in red the concentration of O-fucose proteins within the nucleus, highlighted by the blue dye. One of the cells has 2 nuclei, and the white bar measures 5 microns.

Infectious Disease

May 7, 2025

UGA biochemists create new tool to study biological process in parasites

UGA celebrates excellence at 2025 Research Awards

Awards & Honors

April 3, 2025

UGA celebrates excellence at 2025 Research Awards

Parastoo Azadi, Tina Salguero and Carla Hadden

March 13, 2025

Highlighting 3 impactful women who lead UGA core research facilities