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Selected Works: A shark’s-eye view

Students participated in an internship program with Georgia State and the Georgia Aquarium to observe and record the behaviors of the aquarium’s four whale sharks.

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Neuroscientists show that a gas serves a physiological role in nervous system

Georgia State University scientists have found that the gas nitric oxide – an air pollutant found in cigarette smoke and automobile exhaust – is also produced in cells of the nervous system and serves physiological functions. This discovery has implications for better understanding the nervous system’s development and its diseases. (Georgia State University website, 2010)