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Race and Ethnicity 07/16/15 Cal Powell
Never far from the surface, race relations have dominated headlines in recent months. News stories about protests in Ferguson and Baltimore, the Confederate battle flag and the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina, can cause children to ask questions that parents might not be ready to answer. However difficult or awkward these questions are, they are a starting point for important conversations about race.
Young children need 60 minutes of active playtime to ensure good health. CAES News
After School Recess 07/16/15 Bridget Marie Thompson
For most parents, fall is a whirlwind of after-school meetings, tight schedules, homework and dwindling family time. Even after the dash becomes daily routine, the hours between school and dinner often get lost in the shuffle. To rescue these important hours, assign your kids the task of hosting “after-school recess” during that time each day.
Mike Doyle, director of UGA Center for Food Safety, holds a bowl of spinach. CAES News
Food Safety 05/21/15 Cheri Abraham
Clinicians at hospitals and doctors' offices play a key role in ensuring consumers are aware of the threats of foodborne illness, says University of Georgia food safety expert Michael Doyle.
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Safety Chains 05/21/15 Sharon Dowdy
A new bill, signed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, requires drivers to secure trailers to their vehicles with safety chains. The bill, which takes effect July 1, was prompted by the death of a young Fayette County mother who was killed last fall when a runaway trailer struck her vehicle.
Kale is being researched on the UGA Tifton Campus. CAES News
Georgia Kale 05/14/15 Jordan Hill
A “green superfood” is making its way into the mainstream and into the fields of southwest Georgia farms, according to a University of Georgia vegetable expert. Increased consumer demand in connection with its many health benefits has Georgia farmers planting, and selling, more of the leafy green.
UGA Extension agent Ines Beltran teaches a cooking class in Gwinnett County. CAES News
Walk-a-Weigh Program 05/07/15 Jordan Hill
To complete their mission of education and to fight the state’s obesity problem, University of Georgia Extension agents are teaching state residents about exercising and cooking healthier meals. These two simple acts can, and are, having dramatic effects across the state.
UGA researchers Franklin West and Steve Stice have developed pig induced pluripotent stem cell from pig skin cells. These cells can be used to replace damaged neural rosette cells. CAES News
Brain Cure 05/03/15 Charlene Betourney
A pig’s skin cells may hold the key to new treatments and cures for devastating human neurological diseases. Researchers from the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences working in the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center have discovered a process of turning pig induced pluripotent stem cells into induced neural stem cells.
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RBC aides in regrowth of repairing missing bones 04/22/15 Charlene Betourney
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia's Luke Mortensen holds up an X-ray image showing an infant's hand, but without bones. The next image is a child's chest, revealing no ribs. The images represent what parents might see if they have a child suffering from hypophosphatasia. Mortensen, an assistant professor in the Regenerative Bioscience Center, will research therapies to grow these missing bones.

Rocky Mount's Tyler Romeu (left) and Jonathan Miller (right) show the contents of their net to instructor Chris Edmonds (far left) during lake ecology class while on an environmental education field trip at Rock Eagle 4-H center in Eatonton, Tuesday, May 3, 2005. CAES News
Military Camps 04/09/15
Georgia 4-H has scheduled a wide variety of camps this summer that are geared specifically toward military youth.