GOOD NEWS:
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/48432/
Science educators headed for GSU
Special to the Herald
More than 250 science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers will be at Georgia Southern University for a conference designed at helping them improve their skills. …The conference aims to highlight efforts across the state to improve science, technology, engineering and math teaching and learning and promote careers in those fields. More than 250 higher education and K-12 educators will participate along with state business leaders and Rusty Griffin from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
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www.thecreativecoast.org
Georgia Southern Welcomes Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Educators
http://www.thecreativecoast.org/savannahnews/view/11101-georgia-southern-welcomes-science-technology-engineering-and-math-educators?cls=savnews&src=web
USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/students-aclu-protest-regents-illegal-immigrant-ba/nWjXK/
Students, ACLU protest Regents illegal immigrant ban
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Student protesters and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia called on the State Board of Regents Wednesday to eliminate a policy that bans illegal immigrants from attending the state’s top colleges.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-03-06/undocumented-students-supporters-protest-ugas-arch-education-equality
Undocumented students, supporters, protest at UGA’s Arch for education equality
By ANDRÉ GALLANT AND NICK COLTRAIN
Undocumented students barred from Georgia’s top public universities and their supporters gathered at the University of Georgia Arch Tuesday to voice their unhappiness at what they call the South’s continued segregation of education, and their support for Freedom University, an ad-hoc school of higher education that doesn’t discriminate based on immigration status.
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www.redandblack.com
Freedom University students march for right to attend Georgia colleges
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/freedom-university-students-march-for-right-to-attend-georgia-colleges/article_e1802cda-86c7-11e2-b361-001a4bcf6878.html
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-03-06/georgia-wins-one-round-battle-over-new-universitys-name
Georgia wins round in legal battle over GRU name
By Sandy Hodson
Staff Writer
Georgia has fended off a legal move that would have stripped the state of a major defense in a copyright lawsuit that challenges the name of the merged universities in Augusta – Georgia Regents University. …U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall issued an order Tuesday that denied the Virginia university’s attempt to prevent Georgia from asserting a government’s right to sovereign immunity.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-03-06/azziz-takes-blame-altered-photos-gru-view-book
Azziz takes blame for altered photos in GRU view book
By Steve Crawford
Staff Writer
Georgia Regents University’s president issued a statement Wednesday taking responsibility for a publication that used altered photos of athletes, in which Augusta State University logos and emblems were removed from their uniforms. “We messed up! And because at the end of the day the buck stops at my desk … my team and I have to take full responsibility for this error,” Dr. Ricardo Azziz said in a statement, which was published a week after news of the altered photos was reported in The Augusta Chronicle.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539404578340291423269154.html
Vocal on Gay Issues, Dean Goes Beyond Classroom
By MELISSA KORN
Steve Salbu, dean of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, says he is the only openly gay dean at a top U.S. business school. As a result, he feels a duty to speak out for openness and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and professionals.
RESEARCH:
www.tiftongazette.com
http://tiftongazette.com/local/x36438987/Research-provides-a-winter-crop-that-can-t-be-beet
Research provides a winter crop that can’t be ‘beet’
Clint Thompson/University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
CNHI
TIFTON — A vegetable is producing “sweet” results with researchers at the University of Georgia. Timothy Grey, an associate professor on the Tifton campus of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environment Sciences, and Ted Webster, research agronomist with the United States Department of Agricultural- Agricultural Research Service, are collaborating on a project with Betaseed Inc[SD1] . The research team is studying the production of winter-grown energy beets for biofuel use.
www.news.yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/graphene-antennas-could-pave-way-terabit-wireless-data-044503939.html
How graphene antennas could pave the way for terabit wireless data speeds
By Brad Reed | BGR News
While gigabit Wi-Fi seems to be all the rage these days, some researchers at Georgia Tech are working on new technology that makes even the fastest wireless networks look like dial-up in comparison. Technology Review reports that Georgia Tech’s broadband wireless networking laboratory has been experimenting with making antennas out of graphene, a two-dimensional “super-material” that measures just one atom thick and has been described by Nokia (NOK) as the “strongest material ever tested, having a breaking strength 300 times greater than steel.”
www.militaryaerospace.com
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2013/03/BAE-Systems-MAST.html
BAE Systems to help lead extended Army research to develop battlefield micro robots
Posted by John Keller
Micro robot experts at the BAE Systems Electronic Systems sector in Merrimack, N.H., will help U.S. Army researchers develop bio-inspired micro-robotics technology to extend the remote sensing capability of U.S. ground forces under terms of a $43 million contract extension announced Tuesday. BAE Systems will be among the leaders of extended research efforts for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md., in the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) collaborative program among scientists from the Army, academia, and industry, BAE Systems officials say… Also on the MAST Alliance are the Georgia Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California at Berkeley; University of California, Merced; University of Maryland; University of New Mexico; University of Sydney; Vanderbilt University ; University of Michigan; University of Washington; Daedelus Flight Systems; and North Carolina A&T.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/03/uga-deciphering-the-origins-of-life.html
UGA deciphering the “origins of life.”
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
University of Georgia researchers discovered genetic clues about the history of microorganisms called archaea and the origins of life itself in the first ever study of its kind. Results of their study shed light on one of Earth’s oldest life forms, UGA noted in a statement.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/03/06/georgia-lawmakers-pass-mid-year-budget.html
Georgia lawmakers pass mid-year budget
Dave Williams
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
The General Assembly has passed unanimously and sent to Gov. Nathan Deal a $19.3 billion mid-year budget covering state spending through June 30.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/48442/
Ga. bill would ease gun carrying rules
By RAY HENRY
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers will debate rules Thursday that could allow more mentally ill people to carry firearms, though hasty changes may blunt some of the impact. The issue arose as House Republicans make a last-minute push on legislation permitting school districts to arm their employees and allowing those licensed to carry a gun to take their weapons into bars, churches and college campuses.
www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/lawmakers-face-midnight-deadline-college-gun-carry/nWjxh/
Lawmakers face midnight deadline on college gun carry bill
ATLANTA — A bill up for consideration would allow guns on college campuses in Georgia. Georgia Tech has emergency call stations set up around its midtown Atlanta campus, but some state lawmakers want to arm students with guns if they come across a threat. Lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow licensed gun owners to bring weapons onto college campuses statewide. The chancellor of Georgia’s university system is campaigning against the legislation.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/03/06/23minnici.h32.html?tkn=LNYFwqS0%2BAkvgq%2Bfqa4zT3asSEEkBGBLSTvl&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1
Making Teacher Evaluation a Launch Pad for Growth
Shaping systems to promote professional learning
By Angela Minnici and Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt
It was one of the best lines of the last 2012 presidential debate, even if it wasn’t delivered by Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. After much back and forth on education policy and the importance of teachers, moderator Bob Schieffer summed it up: “I think we all love teachers.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/03/07/thomas-friedman-wrong-about-moocs-essay
MOOCs R Us
By Carolyn Foster Segal
There’s a legendary story about Anne Sexton’s learning how to write a sonnet by watching I.A. Richard’s educational-television series in the late fifties. I’ve thought about that fairly often while reading the daily stories on MOOCs.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/signal-flares-and-suicide-notes
Signal Flares and Suicide Notes
By Matt Reed
Kevin Carey’s latest, a long piece on financial aid as an enabler of fiscal irresponsibility in elite higher education, is well worth the read. But for everything in it, I’ve been stewing on a single paragraph for the last few days:
Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/07/u-texas-political-tensions-come-head-legislative-hearings-spring
High Noon in Austin
By Kevin Kiley
In the minds of a lot of Texans, the scene in Austin looks something like this: Republican Governor Rick Perry and William Powers Jr., president of the University of Texas at Austin, are standing 10 paces apart, staring each other down, hands by their hips. The clock is counting down to a duel. One man will get gunned down. The other will walk away with the state’s flagship university.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/07/new-jersey-community-colleges-launch-web-portal-hire-train-adjuncts
Adjuncts on File
By Carl Straumsheim
New Jersey’s community colleges will this year consolidate how they hire and train non-tenure-track instructors, but some adjuncts are concerned the program will make it more difficult to find teaching opportunities in the state.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/07/educators-consider-struggles-humanities-worldwide
Besieged Humanities, Worldwide
By Scott Jaschik
DUBAI — If it’s any comfort to humanities professors who feel that their jobs, budgets and disciplines are being threatened, they have colleagues facing the same challenges pretty much all over the world.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/03/07/us-investigate-unc-chapel-hills-handling-sexual-assaults
U.S. to Investigate UNC-Chapel Hill’s Handling of Sexual Assaults
The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights plans to investigate how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill handles sexual assaults on the campus, the Associated Press reported.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/03/07/texas-legislature-backs-combined-university-new-med-school-south-texas
Texas Legislature Backs Combined University, New Med School in South Texas
Both houses of the Texas Legislature approved a measure Wednesday that would merge two existing institutions to create one university in South Texas, and give the region its first medical school, The Monitor reported.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/03/07/scholarship-providers-complain-about-colleges-aid-rules
Scholarship Providers Complain About Colleges’ Aid Rules
Several leading corporate scholarship providers are complaining about the rules used by some wealthy colleges for calculating students’ expected contributions to their college expenses, Bloomberg reported.
Other News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/crossover-day-arrives-at-state-legislature/nWjxr/
Crossover Day arrives at state Legislature
By Aaron Gould Sheinin and Kristina Torres
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than 800 pieces of legislation have been proposed this year in the General Assembly, but what really counts happens Thursday.
Crossover Day, which comes every year on the 30th day of the Legislature’s annual 40-day session, is the day when bills must pass at least one chamber to remain alive. It is hectic and long, but out of Thursday’s clamor will come winners: several dozen bills picked as worthy of consideration to become law.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-03-06/many-bills-await-consideration-busy-legislative-day?v=1362603577
Many bills await consideration on busy legislative day
By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
ATLANTA – Legislators will work into the evening Thursday racing to beat their own, internal deadline for considering bills they want to keep alive for the last 10 days of the 2013 legislative session. The House starts the long day at 10 a.m. with 37 bills on its agenda, including ones that could help attract grocery stores to downtown Athens, prohibit cities from running public WIFI networks and revise a tax break designed to spur large tourist attractions. The Senate also meets at 10 with 29 of its own bills, including ones that would allow pumping surface water into some aquifers, make medical-identity theft a felony and provide car tags to retired legislators.