{"id":48442,"date":"2023-10-17T09:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T13:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=48442"},"modified":"2023-11-02T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:26:27","slug":"uga-glass-shop-shapes-the-tools-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/uga-glass-shop-shapes-the-tools-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA Glass Shop shapes the tools of research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Much scientific research is performed using various glassware like flasks, test tubes and beakers. The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/glass\/\">University of Georgia Scientific Glass Blowing Shop<\/a> serves as a resource to faculty and students who need to create and repair their tools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shop, established in 1960 and located in the Chemistry Building, offers a variety of distinctive tools and materials to produce high-quality glassware, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x86-MxMn3DY?si=UlyKSXCeg57Xo4me\">as demonstrated in this video feature<\/a>. It even offers a class in glass blowing tailored to chemistry majors during the spring semester, with additional workshop opportunities available upon request.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The shop can also install, repair or modify vacuum line systems for on-campus labs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cais.uga.edu\/team_member\/annalee-pickett\/\">Annalee Pickett<\/a>, shop manager and president of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society since June, is a seasoned professional with expertise in crafting premium glassware for research. Pickett earned her associate degree in scientific glass technology in 2011, honing her skills at two shops in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She joined UGA\u2019s shop in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGlass is one of the greatest achievements of the ancient world,\u201d Pickett said. \u201cMore than any other material, it has shaped humanity into what we are today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much scientific research is performed using various glassware like flasks, test tubes and beakers. The University of Georgia Scientific Glass Blowing Shop serves as a resource to faculty and students who need to create and repair their tools. The shop, established in 1960 and located in the Chemistry Building, offers a variety of distinctive tools &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/uga-glass-shop-shapes-the-tools-of-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UGA Glass Shop shapes the tools of research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":48467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"look-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"post_medium":[316],"publications":[],"authors":[841],"photographers":[846],"video_credit":[],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-48442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","post_medium-look","authors-isabella-aranda","photographers-isabella-aranda","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=48442"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=48442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}