USG NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-18/georgia-must-open-doors-meet-education-goals-speaker-says
Georgia must open doors to meet education goals, speaker says
By LEE SHEARER
Georgia needs to develop a sense of urgency if the state really wants to reach Gov. Nathan Deal’s goal of raising by 250,000 the number of its citizens graduating from college or technical training by the year 2020, a speaker said Monday at the University of Georgia. Only about 34 percent of Georgia adults have a two- or four-year college degree, said James Applegate, vice president of education nonprofit The Lumina Foundation. That’s well below the U.S. average of about 42 percent, which only ranks 12th in the world, and puts Georgia on a par with countries such as Slovenia and Greece, Applegate told about 450 participants in the second annual Complete College Georgia Summit at UGA’s Center for Continuing Education.
Atlanta Business Chronicle
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/02/gru-launches-areas-first-cancer.html
GRU launches “area’s first” cancer genetics clinic
By Urvaksh Karkaria
About five to 10 percent of all cancers can be traced to a hereditary link—but patients with those genes may be five times more likely to develop cancer.
Georgia Regents University Cancer Center has launched, what it says is, the area’s first dedicated cancer genetics clinic, so patients can find out if they are at greater risk and work proactively with their physicians to try to reduce that risk.
Albany Herald
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/feb/18/asu-responds-charles-foundation-statements/
ASU responds to Charles’ Foundation statements
By J.D. Sumner
Albany State University officials have released a statement reiterating their position on a $3 million gift music icon Ray Charles gave the school following critical statements made by the Ray Charles Foundation in a newspaper story Sunday.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/kennesaw-turns-attention-looking-football-coach/nWSQY/
Kennesaw State learned from Georgia State, ODU
By Doug Roberson
Kennesaw State’s leaders sought advice from presidents and athletic directors from Mobile, Ala. to Norfolk, Va. as they put together the blueprint for new football program.
Global Atlanta
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/26098/university-to-immerse-high-schoolers-in-key-foreign-languages/
by Trevor Williams
The University of North Georgia is hosting for the third year a summer foreign-language program that allows high schoolers to experience three weeks of intensive study on a college campus. The Federal Service Language Academy is an initiative targeted at high school students with an international bent and a desire to pursue careers in government service.
RESEARCH:
Daily Tribune
http://www.daily-tribune.com/view/full_story/21738325/article-Cream-of-the-Crop–David-Apple-finds-success-in-helping-Bartow-County-businesses-succeed?instance=home_features
Cream of the Crop: David Apple finds success in helping Bartow County businesses succeed
by Matt Shinall
As region manager for the Georgia Extension Manufacturing Partnership, Cartersville resident David Apple strives each day to make Georgia companies more profitable and competitive. Through initiatives and research from Georgia Tech, GEMAP helps manufacturers in the areas of process improvement, quality assurance, energy management, sustainability and product development.
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/18/artificial-platelets-battlefield-bleeding_n_2706929.html
Artificial platelets could save lives in war
By Rachael Rettner
New technology could help the blood to clot faster, potentially reducing blood loss in people suffering from life-threatening wounds, such as those sustained on the battlefield, researchers say. Scientists have made a new biomaterial that mimics the function of platelets, components of blood that help with clotting, or sealing, a wound. In studies on animals, these “artificial platelets” augmented the work of natural platelets, reducing clotting time by 30 percent and blood loss by as much as 40 percent, the researchers said here today
WABE
http://www.wabe.org/post/nanotechnology-breakthrough-georgia-tech
Nanotechnology Breakthrough at Georgia Tech
By Scott Casavant
This past December, an invention out of Georgia Tech was named by Physics World Magazine as one of the top ten physical science breakthroughs of the year. The invention, a power cell that directly converts mechanical energy into chemical energy, was developed by a team led by Dr. Z.L. Wang. Dr. Wang is the Regents Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
WXIA-TV
http://www.11alive.com/News/Crime/278334/445/Georgia-considers-guns-in-churches-and-on-college-campuses
Georgia considers guns in churches and on college campuses
Paul Crawley
While President Obama and some of the rest of the nation are pushing stricter gun control laws, Georgia’s State Legislature is debating looser gun laws. The main argument behind them is that people should have the right to protect themselves from criminals or a deranged gunman.
WSB-TV
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/state-reps-trying-repeal-gun-restrictions-churches/nWR8L/
State reps trying to repeal gun restrictions at churches, colleges
By Craig Lucie
A couple of Georgia State Representatives are trying to repeal the government’s restriction on allowing guns in churches and college campuses. The pro-gun bills were heard before the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Monday.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21751987/article-Georgia-Voices–On-new-UGA-president–Woof–woof-?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
Georgia Voices: On new UGA president: Woof, woof!
Georgia’s Board of Regents didn’t go very far to find someone to succeed Michael Adams as the new big man on campus at the state’s flagship university in Athens. In fact, they stuck close to the arches and hired UGA Provost Jere Morehead. The regents who oversee the state’s public universities voted 18-0 to hire Morehead, a 1980 graduate of the University of Georgia Law School who also served as senior vice president for academic affairs. Other key credentials include vice chair of the Georgia Athletic Association Board of Directors; vice chair of the UGA Research Foundation; a UGA Foundation trustee; and a UGA Real Estate Foundation trustee.
New York Times Opinion
The Trouble With Online College
Stanford University ratcheted up interest in online education when a pair of celebrity professors attracted more than 150,000 students from around the world to a noncredit, open enrollment course on artificial intelligence. This development, though, says very little about what role online courses could have as part of standard college instruction. College administrators who dream of emulating this strategy for classes like freshman English would be irresponsible not to consider two serious issues.
Education News
Atlanta Journal Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/new-president-brings-sense-of-urgency-to-morehouse/nWSNp/
New president brings sense of urgency to Morehouse
By Laura Diamond
As a student at Atlanta’s Morehouse College in the 1970s, John Silvanus Wilson Jr. loved his college but didn’t always like it. He shared his frustrations about the needless bureaucracy during a conversation with Benjamin Mays, the college’s former president. Mays challenged Wilson to stay at Morehouse, graduate, go out and learn a few things, and then return ready to improve the college.
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/19/research-aaas-meeting-notes-difficult-job-market-academic-science#ixzz2LLeTzGVm
Scott Jaschik
Tenure Track as Alt-Ac
When the Survey of Earned Doctorates was released in December, much of the analysis focused on the worsening job market for those with new doctorates in humanities fields. But research presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — based on that survey and other federally sponsored data — suggested that the job market for those in many scientific fields is also taking a beating. And this is so much the case that tenure-track jobs should now be considered “alt-ac” positions (or alternative academic careers) because they are not the norm anymore for new Ph.D.s, in the words of Paula Stephan, a professor of economics at Georgia State University who specializes in the intersection of economics and science.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/atlanta-a-leader-in-new-technology-to-monitor-home/nWSNg/
Atlanta a leader in new technology to monitor home from phone
By Kristi Swartz
Every day Larry Schweber can see his 8-year-old daughter come home from school, even while he’s at work. He gets a text message with a video clip every time someone walks through the front door of his Ansley Park home.
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/19/two-community-colleges-get-serious-about-working-k12
Redefining College-Ready
Paul Fain
The growing crisis of students arriving at college unprepared to do college-level work has led to plenty of finger-pointing between high school and college educators. But two community colleges have learned that better collaboration with local high schools may be the best way to dramatically reduce the number of students who fall into the quagmire of remedial coursework.