Krista Capps, the associate director of the River Basin Center and an associate professor at Odum School of Ecology, was named the vice president of the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) at the group’s 2026 annual meeting in May in Spokane, Washington.
Tre’Shur Williams-Carter expects she’ll find antimicrobial resistance in the Oconee River in Athens. That’s because AMR – the adaptation that makes infections from bacteria, fungi and viruses difficult to treat – is common in urban streams like those in the Upper Oconee Watershed in Athens. But, by collecting both running river water