USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/key-committee-approves-26-million-in-spending-cuts/nWHQd/
Key committee approves $26 million in spending cuts
By James Salzer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia House will vote Friday on a $19.3 billion midyear budget that would trim $26 million overall but put more money into k-12 schools. …The midyear budget would add $162 million for growth in k-12 school enrollment but cut $73 million in basic teaching funding for the University System of Georgia and $13 million from technical colleges.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-06/water-will-be-issue-uga-athens-says-uga-president
Water will be issue for UGA, Athens, says UGA president
By LEE SHEARER
A future lack of water in northeast Georgia might create problems for both the University of Georgia and the Athens area, outgoing UGA President Michael Adams said Wednesday.
USG VALUE:
www.henryherald.com
http://www.henryherald.com/news/2013/feb/06/georgia-southern-partners-pleasant-grove/
Georgia Southern partners with Pleasant Grove
Elementary school focuses on STEM subjects
By Johnny Jackson
STOCKBRIDGE — Twin brothers Savastian and Angel Guerrero were excited to help demonstrate how the small robot is programmed to perform simple tasks. The boys, 11, are members of Pleasant Grove Elementary School’s PoBots robotics club. The team recently presented their latest project to representatives from Georgia Southern University. Principal Tracie Copper said the club is part of an overall effort at the school to focus on its science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum.
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/21004015/georgia-southern-alumna-wins-grant-to-fight-diabetes
Georgia Southern Alumna Wins Grant to Fight Diabetes
By WSAV Staff
STATESBORO, GA –
Susan Riley, FNP, CDE, an alumna of Georgia Southern University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, has been awarded a $20,000 grant to expand a much needed diabetes education program in Georgia.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/01/28/marine-business-training/1870569/
Executives learn ethics the hard way: From Marines
Jim Michaels, USA TODAY
…Executives out of their element
…”The idea is to make them cold, wet, tired and hungry,” said Steven Olson, a professor at Georgia State’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business who runs the program that brings executives and students to Quantico for the training. The Georgia State group is one of several relationships that the Marines have established with civilian schools to teach leadership and ethics.
RESEARCH:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/laser-beams-help-flu-monitoring-uga-research-shows/article_437d9ba0-70d6-11e2-878d-0019bb30f31a.html
Laser beams help flu monitoring, UGA research shows
by JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK
What do you get if you add laser beams, silver nanorods, bits and pieces of a virus and four University of Georgia researchers? A quicker, more effective tool for identifying highly contagious and deadly viruses.
www.southeastgreen.com
http://www.southeastgreen.com/index.php/news/georgia/7993-georgia-southern-turning-old-tires-into-new-highways
Georgia Southern Turning Old Tires into New Highways
Georgia Southern University associate professor of civil engineering, Junan Shen, Ph.D., has been selected by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to conduct the second phase of a project to investigate the performance of rubberized asphalt mix for use in road construction in Georgia. The nearly $300,000 research project will examine how “green” material derived from scrap tires will make a viable alternative for use in road construction.
www.techweb.com
http://www.techweb.com/news/240147993/darpa-funds-python-big-data-effort.html
DARPA Funds Python Big Data Effort
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is spending $100 million over four years to advance big data technologies, recently awarded $3 million to develop data analytics and data processing libraries for popular computer programming language Python. The funding, awarded to data visualization and analytics company Continuum Analytics, will go toward the development of a scientific computing library for Python called Blaze and a visualization system called Bokeh, Continuum announced in a blog post… Then, in December, Georgia Institute of Technology announced that it had received a $2.7 million award to work on scalable machine-learning technologies and distributed computing architectures to rapidly process data analytics algorithms, and Scientific Systems Company, Inc., won an undisclosed amount of funding for new machine learning software.
www.biofuelsjournal.com
http://biofuelsjournal.com/articles/university_of_georgia_plant_structure_discovery_could_lead_to_improved_biofuel_production-130202.html
University of Georgia Plant Structure Discovery Could Lead to Improved Biofuel Production
Athens, GA—When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply didn’t make any sense. …But Tan and Mohnen, who both work as part of the BioEnergy Science Center, one of three U.S. Department of Energy-funded research centers, were persistent, and they, along with an interdisciplinary team of chemists, molecular biologists and plant experts at UGA, began searching for answers.
www.torquenews.com
http://www.torquenews.com/397/new-technology-may-take-ev-charging-down-minutes
New technology may take EV charging down to minutes
By Don Bain
Auto News
Potential Difference, Inc. thinks it shouldn’t take much more time to charge an electric car than it does to charge your smartphone or laptop and they have an have exclusive license from Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard graduate Elliott Small to seek funding to prove it.
www.lightyears.blogs.cnn.com
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/02/sex-changing-fish-secret-lives-of-bluebanded-gobies/
Sex-changing fish: Secret lives of bluebanded gobies
By Kelly Murray, CNN
…Matthew Grober, associate professor of biology at Georgia State University, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to better understand what mechanisms cause some of these fish to change sexes.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/deal-proposes-more-hope-changes/nWJGz/
Deal proposes more HOPE changes
By Greg Bluestein and Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gov. Nathan Deal backed a plan Thursday that would make it easier for technical college students to receive the HOPE Grant. Students will be eligible for the award if they maintain a 2.0 grade-point average. …The 3.0 GPA requirement would remain in place for the HOPE scholarship, which is primarily used by students in the University System of Georgia. Colleges in that system include the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University and Georgia Perimeter College.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/senate-democrats-propose-hope-changes/nWHZd/
Senate Democrats propose HOPE changes
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Senate Democrats introduced several bills Wednesday they said would expand Georgia’s popular HOPE scholarship. The bills would undo many of the changes put in place when lawmakers overhauled the program in 2011.
www.globalatlanta.com
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/26076/georgia-leaders-in-india-seeking-biotech-investment/
Georgia Leaders in India Seeking Biotech Investment
By Trevor Williams
Leaders from the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the Metro Atlanta Chamber are in India through Feb. 7 on a mission promoting the state’s biotechnology scene and courting investment. Along with leaders from Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, they are visiting companies and industry shows in the cities Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore, following the same trail as a trip led by the chamber last February.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/02/06/democrats-want-to-tweak-hope-scholarship-again-give-full-hope-to-top-3-percent-of-class/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Democrats want to tweak HOPE Scholarship again. Give full HOPE to top 3 percent of class
The Democrats in the Senate are getting busy on education issues. One of their chief targets is the Zell Miller Scholarship, the top tier HOPE award that goes to high school graduates who perform well in both GPA and SAT. Democrats want to expand the scholarship to students who graduate in the top 3 percent, regardless of their SAT score.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2013/02/06/catching-up-with-paul-stamatiou-designing-growth-at-twitter/
Catching up with Paul Stamatiou: designing growth at Twitter
By Brian Mathews
When people ask me what inspired my startup thinking I point to Paul Stamatiou. He was an undergrad at Georgia Tech when I was there and I started following his blog as part of my preemptive reference experiment.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/would-you-announce-your-email-habits/45941
Would You Announce Your Email Habits?
By Natalie Houston
A similar strategy is part of Courteous.ly, which sports the tagline: “if they only knew how much email you have.” This service (which is part of a larger research project by Eric Gilbert, at Georgia Tech) connects to your Gmail account and counts how many messages you receive. …A similar strategy is part of Courteous.ly, which sports the tagline: “if they only knew how much email you have.” This service (which is part of a larger research project by Eric Gilbert, at Georgia Tech) connects to your Gmail account and counts how many messages you receive.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/07/moving-needle-college-completion-thoughtfully-essay
Rethinking the Completion Agenda
By Sanford C. Shugart
Not long ago, a good friend and outstanding college president moved from El Paso Community College, where for a decade he had led a complete transformation of the college and the results its students achieved, to Austin Community College, a college ready for much the same kind of transformational leadership.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/07/essay-use-research-improve-student-retention
Research to Improve Retention
By Robert J. Sternberg
One of the most serious problems facing colleges and universities today is that so many students leave before finishing their studies. When students drop out, it is bad for them because they lose huge future career and income potential; bad for the institution they leave because of lost reputation, revenue, and opportunity to make a difference in the students’ lives; and bad for society because of the need for an educated work force that is able to compete in the global marketplace.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/3-higher-ed-lessons-netflixs-house-cards
3 Higher Ed Lessons from Netflix’s “House of Cards”
By Joshua Kim
House of Cards, a Netflix streaming only drama starring Kevin Spacey, may have a few things to teach us in higher ed:
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2013/02/06/aids-and-the-state-of-public-health/?cxntfid=blogs_atlanta_forward
Atlanta Forward
AIDS and the state of public health
by Rick Badie
Moderated by Rick Badie
We turn attention to preventive health care since today (Thursday) happens to be National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. A former CDC researcher writes that early HIV detection is paramount to curbing the virus, which more than 40,000 Georgians live with. Two college officials outline statewide progress made in preventive care since the establishment of the Department of Public Health.
Tide turning for public health
By Phillip Williams and James Curran
Dr. Phillip Williams is dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia; Dr. James Curran is dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
In less than two years, a move made with the future of Georgia in mind is already yielding returns. The establishment of the Department of Public Health is a signature achievement in Georgia’s quest to vanquish public health challenges that plague us. …read more
Education News
www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Subra-Suresh-Obamas-chief-geek-to-head-Carnegie-Mellon-University/articleshow/18376240.cms
Subra Suresh, Obama’s chief geek, to head Carnegie Mellon University
By Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN
WASHINGTON: President Obama’s geek-in-chief, an Indian-American whose academic pedigree spans institutions from IIT to MIT, is stepping down from a high profile post in the administration to head Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which also hosts the world’s top ranked school for computer studies. The White House and Carnegie Mellon both announced on Tuesday that Subra Suresh, 56, is quitting as director of National Science Foundation to move to Pittsburgh to become the 9th president of the storied, century-old institution founded by Andrew Carnegie, a contemporary of Jamshedji Tata. …While Indian-Americans head other U.S universities, notably Renu Khator at University of Houston and Beheruz Sethna at the University of West Georgia, Suresh will be the first person of Indian-origin to preside over a major American university with over a billion dollars in endowment.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/07/ace-deems-5-massive-open-courses-worthy-credit
Expanding Pathways to MOOC Credit
By Doug Lederman
From the moment the American Council on Education announced in November that its College Credit Recommendation Service would assess the creditworthiness of a set of massive open online courses, there seemed to be little doubt that such approval would be forthcoming. And indeed, Coursera’s announcement today that five of its courses have earned credit recommendations from ACE felt just a little bit anticlimactic.
Related articles:
www.chronicle.com
American Council on Education Recommends 5 MOOCs for Credit
http://chronicle.com/article/American-Council-on-Education/137155/
www.online.wsj.com
Big MOOC Coursera Moves Closer to Academic Acceptance
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578288341039095024.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_2
www.businessweek.com
College credit recommended for free online courses
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-02-07/college-credit-recommended-for-free-online-courses
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/07/cbo-estimates-pell-shortfall-gone-2014
No Pell Shortfall for 2014
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — Reports of the Pell Grant’s imminent peril have been exaggerated, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday. The federal student aid program, previously thought to face a $5.7 billion shortfall in 2014, now has another year on sound financial footing.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51171/
TRIO Program Advocates Seek Support in Congress
by Ronald Roach
WASHINGTON — With across-the-board federal spending cuts looming as a real possibility as of March 1, TRIO program advocates made a timely plea Tuesday for congressional support of the federal government’s oldest group of college outreach, readiness and retention programs for low-income and aspiring first-generation college students.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324761004578286102004694378.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_2
Does an ‘A’ in Ethics Have Any Value?
B-Schools Step Up Efforts to Tie Moral Principles to Their Business Programs, but Quantifying Those Virtues Is Tough
By MELISSA KORN
Business-school professors are making a morality play. Four years after the scandals of the financial crisis prompted deans and faculty to re-examine how they teach ethics, some academics say they still haven’t gotten it right.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324761004578286210658347482.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_2
Extra Help for Foreign M.B.A.s
Business Schools Try to Make Transition Smoother for International Students
By MELISSA KORN
U.S. business schools have spent years courting international students. Now that they’ve arrived—more than a third of M.B.A. students at many top schools hail from overseas—the institutions are struggling to keep up with their diverse demands.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51179/
Community Colleges Rise as Leaders of Technological Education
by Cherise Lesesne
Although the economy has slowly begun to piece itself back together, several new college graduates and incoming college students still have found themselves at a disadvantage in finding employment while holding liberal arts degrees, and thus, have continued to incorporate graduate school as a stepping-stone to either enter or elevate their career pursuits.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/07/higher-pass-rates-computer-based-ged
Higher Pass Rates for Computer-Based GED
The pass rate for students who took the new, computer-based version of the GED last year was 88 percent, outpacing the 71 percent pass rate of those who who took the paper-based version, the GED Testing Service said.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51190/
Oregon Bill Would Require College Credit in High School
by Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Legislature is looking at making college students out of every Oregon high-school student.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51187/
Washington Bill Gives Immigrants with Deferrals College Aid
by Manuel Valdes, Associated Press
SEATTLE — A bill introduced in the Washington state Legislature on Tuesday would allow young immigrants who have no legal status in the country to apply for state financial aid for college.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/US-Supreme-Court-Is-Urged-to/137159/
U.S. Supreme Court Is Urged to Rule on Michigan Affirmative-Action Case
By Sydni Dunn
The U.S. Supreme Court is being urged to add another major affirmative-action case to its docket, with proponents of Michigan’s voter-passed ban on race-conscious college admissions asking the court to decide whether such a ban is constitutional.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/02/06/entrepreneurship-back-on-a-roll-in.html
Entrepreneurship ‘back on a roll’ in U.S.
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
The U.S. has its entrepreneurial mojo back. That’s the word from the Kauffman Foundation’s annual State of Entrepreneurship event at the National Press Club Tuesday, The Business Journals reported.