Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 8, 2004 Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced to the university's board of visitors today that the university and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) of Rockville, Md., have signed a memorandum of understanding. The new alliance will enrich the university's basic research capacity in the life sciences and enhance TIGR's computational and experimental capaci...UGA scientist Moran receives $2.6 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for marine research
University of Georgia marine scientist Mary Ann Moran has been awarded a grant of more than $2.6 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue her research on marine bacteria that are important in the cycling of carbon and sulfur in the coastal ocean. ... ...Moran, a professor in UGA's marine sciences department, studies bacteria that are...