Neda Akhavan, Sara Rosenkranz, Lorena Dias, Amber Wood, and Cinthia Chavarria (all Kinesiology & Nutrition Sciences) recently published "Ultra-Processed Foods and the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Continuum: Integrating Epidemiological, Multi-Omics, and Translational Evidence" in the journal Nutrients. 
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At the recent American Academy of Advertising Conference, Marla Royne Stafford (Marketing and International Business) and her Georgia colleague received the Temerlin/AAA grant for social responses d ethics to support their work on using humor and humorous threat in responsible gambling messages.  
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Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was recently invited by his collaborators in the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he presented a seminar on the development of a remote gamma spectra collection system using a high-purity germanium detector integrated with a CosmicGuard system. This research was…
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