Faculty In the News

Unique milk cooler to boost Ugandan dairy farmers
Voice of America News, 1.13.09

[UGA engineering professor] William Kisaalita, has developed a unique system, using renewable energy, that allows the farmers to keep their milk cold. Then they can transport... read more

Going nuts for biochar
Environmentalresearchweb.org , 01.12.09
Associate engineering professor K C Das has found burning peanut shells at low temperatures creates a charcoal-like substance, known as biochar, which can be used as fertilizer on land, as well as a hydrocarbon oil, which can be used as biofuel.
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Conserving water must be the norm
Athens Banner-Herald , 01.03.09
Editorial discusses UGA engineering professor and state climatologist David E. Stooksbury's suggestion that recalculating what is normal in terms of the state's annual average rainfall has ramifications far beyond being a mathematical readjustment.
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Faculty members look Towards 2010
Columns, 04.29.02
UGA faculty members and state leaders from government, industry and higher education gathered to explore trends and opportunities in interdisciplinary engineering at the April 18 symposium Towards 2010: The Faculty of Engineering at UGA."
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Gearing up for the future
Columns, 10.29.01
Columns talked to Dale Threadgill, recently named to direct the UGA Faculty of Engineering, about the concept and plans for the coming year...
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Faculty of engineering director named
UGA News Bureau, 10.02.01
Dale Threadgill has been named director of the University of Georgia Faculty of Engineering by Provost Karen Holbrook...

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Bio Ag Engineering head named director
Columns, 10.01.01
Dale Threadgill has been named director of the UGA faculty of engineering and will also continue as head of the department of biological and agricultural engineering...

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Engineering something new
Columns, 04.30.01
More than 100 faculty from some two dozen disciplines across campus attended a day-long symposium April 19 focused on ways to develop a comprehensive program of engineering at UGA...

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Symposium focuses on comprehensive engineering
Columns, 04.02.01
A day-long interdisciplinary symposium has been scheduled at the State Botanical Garden with the goal of identifying new opportunities for interaction between faculty currently involved in engineering activities and those in related fields...

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