GOOD NEWS:
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2013-03-30/exchange-brief#.UVmY5nCTpGN
Exchange in brief
3rd article down
Military Times ranks GSU’s business school
Georgia Southern University’s College of Business Administration has been recognized by the Military Times as being one of the best business schools for veterans in the United States. In the magazine’s first survey, Georgia Southern received the “Best for Vets: Business Schools” seal.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52281/#
More HBCUs Expanding Their Global Studies Programs
by Tina A. Brown
Twenty-one-year-old Gabrielle Whisenton had dreams of studying abroad, but she couldn’t visualize how she’d be able to do it financially until she received a presidential scholarship. That funding established at Savannah State University by President Cheryl Davenport Dozier allowed Whisenton, a junior, to travel with 13 other students and two professors to Nova Scotia, Canada. …Whisenton’s experience offers a foot print for a new wave of students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who are studying abroad. The institutions are expanding their global studies programs in part because the leadership at those institutions.
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/education/20130331-EdNotes-MOS
UWG unveils business analytics certificate program
The Economics department of the University of West Georgia’s Richards College of Business introduced a new certificate program at the inaugural SAS Day recently, creating opportunities for business students to network with professionals and providing them with career options available in analytics.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/blueprint/2013-03-31/career-academy-offers-students-chance-earn-college-credit
Career Academy offers students chance to earn college credit
Students enrolled in the Clarke County School District have an opportunity to earn college credit for free. Through the Athens Community Career Academy, a charter program and partnership of the school district, Athens Technical College, the University of Georgia and OneAthens, students could potentially earn an associate’s degree or start UGA as a sophomore. Books and tuition are included, and again, there is no cost for our students.
www.statesboro.wtoc.com
http://statesboro.wtoc.com/news/news/116751-georgia-southern-offers-lowcountry-mba-students-state-tuition
Georgia Southern offers Lowcountry MBA students in-state tuition
Submitted by WTOC Web Staff
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC)- Students in the Lowcountry have the opportunity to earn their degree in Savannah and pay in-state tuition. The College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University are inviting students from the Bluffton and Hilton Head Island area to an open house session to learn how they can earn their Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree while attending classes in Savannah.
USG VALUE:
www.consumeraffairs.com
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/what-cyber-warfare-means-for-consumers-032913.html
What cyber warfare means for consumers
Financial data and vital infrastructure could be at risk
By Mark Huffman
Chances are, when you’re scanning the news you don’t spend a lot of time reading about the latest cyber warfare attack. After all, it’s just countries battling one another with computers – doesn’t affect consumers, right? Don’t be too sure about that. In late March a massive cyber attack took place, not between warring nations but between an anti-spam group and a hosting service that rents server space to spammers. It resulted in what experts are calling the largest denial-of-service attack in the history of the Internet… Experts at Georgia Tech — the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) — constantly work to stay one step ahead of the hackers.
USG NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2013/04/more-students-to-get-college.html
More students to get college acceptance, denial letter online
Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor
The flood of student applications to colleges has prompted more prestigious schools to deliver mass acceptance and rejection form letters via email, reports The Washington Post. April 1 marks the height of decision season for colleges across the country, the paper adds. …Jenna Kress, 17, told the Washington Post she was elated when she checked the status of her application to the University of Georgia.
Video fireworks appeared on her computer screen as she learned she was accepted to UGA.
Related article:
www.washingtonpost.com
More colleges break the news to would-be students online
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/more-colleges-break-the-news-to-would-be-students-online/2013/03/31/5cf3c1e4-967f-11e2-9e23-09dce87f75a1_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop
www.businessinsider.com
http://www.businessinsider.com/course-load-the-growing-burden-of-college-fees-2013-3
Colleges Have Found A Hidden Way To Raise Tuition
Marian Wang, ProPublica
At the University of California Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees 2014 including a small charge for what’s billed as “free” HIV testing. Students at Oklahoma State University pay a handsome sum to attend one of the state’s flagship schools, but they are also responsible for covering 18 different fees, including a “life safety and security fee.”… Since 2009, students at Georgia’s public colleges have been paying hundreds of dollars a year in what are called “special institutional fees,” separate from tuition. The fees vary, depending on the campus; at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which charges the most, they now top $1,000 a year. All of it goes straight into schools’ general funds.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/ex-ksu-employee-charged-with-conspiracy-to-defraud/nW7mt/
Ex-KSU employee charged with conspiracy to defraud state
By Angel K. Brooks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A former Kennesaw State University employee was arrested Thursday night and charged with conspiracy to defraud the state. Gerald Donaldson, former executive director of environmental health and safety at KSU, was allegedly part of a crime ring that created “shell companies” to conduct fraud of almost $1 million, including within the unit he managed, the university said in a press release.
RESEARCH:
www.wabe.org
http://www.wabe.org/post/atlanta-researchers-develop-nanotechnology-technique-aid-brain-tumor-patients
Atlanta Researchers Develop Nanotechnology Technique to Aid Brain Tumor Patients
By LISA GEORGE
Researchers in Atlanta have developed a technique, using nanotechnology, that could improve the chances of survival – and quality of life – for people with brain tumors. …Researchers at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech developed the technique using what are called nano-carriers. The key to its success is the fact that tumors create new blood vessels as they grow, and those blood vessels leak.
www.newscentralga.com
http://www.newscentralga.com/news/local/Local-Team-Competing-for-Sikorsky-250K-200649691.html
Local Team Competing for Sikorsky, $250K
Clinton Bourgeois
There’s a race that has been going on for the last 33 years and no one has yet to claim the $250,000 grand prize. The first team to make it to 3 meters wins, that’s 3 meters off the ground. “Thirty seconds into it you start to feel the fatigue,” said Neal Fischer. Fischer will pilot a human powered helicopter design by teammate Kenneth Huff. …Huff and Fischer are students at the Middle Georgia State College School of Aviation in Eastman have put in two years of design work on the project which has come with two years of exciting mishaps.
www.mobile.nytimes.com
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/business/robots-and-humans-learning-to-work-together.xml
Freed From Its Cage, the Gentler Robot
By ANNE EISENBERG
FACTORY robots are usually caged off from humans on the assembly line lest the machines’ powerful steel arms deliver an accidental, bone-crunching right hook. But now, gentler industrial robots, designed to work and play well with others, are coming out from behind their protective fences to work shoulder-to-shoulder with people. It’s an advance made possible by sophisticated algorithms and improvements in sensing technologies like computer vision. The key to these new robots is the ability to respond more flexibly, anticipating and adjusting to what humans want. That is in contrast to earlier generations of robots that often required extensive programming to change the smallest details of their routine, said Henrik Christensen, director of the robotics program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
www.techland.time.com
WATCH: Robotic Jellyfish ‘Cyro’ Could Work for Navy, Come After You
WATCH: Robotic Jellyfish ‘Cyro’ Could Work for Navy, Come After You
By Matt Peckham
Mention unmanned drones these days and you’ll conjure images of tiny plane-like vehicles packing serious heat. Mention unmanned deep sea drones that look like umbrella-shaped aquatic critters and you’ll probably conjure something more like a blank stare. …The research team still has miles to go before Cyro’s action-ready– it currently gets just four hours from its nickel-metal hydride battery. And it’s not the only game in town, with underwater surveillance research extending to projects like Georgia Tech’s intriguing one to develop collaborative, autonomous robotic entities with specialized functions — robots that communicate with each other to perform distributed roles.
www.latinospost.com
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/15080/20130322/terradynamics-scientists-introduce-new-academic-field-study-motion.htm
Terradynamics: Scientists Introduce New Academic Field to Study Motion
By Erik Derr
There’s now a new field of study for better understanding how machines —- and potentially living creatures — move across various types of terrain, like sand. The academic discipline of terradynamics, as it’s now called in the halls of the Georgia Institute of Technology, otherwise known as Georgia Tech, is the science of legged animals and vehicles moving on granular and other complex surfaces, explained Daniel Goldman, a professor in the institute’s School of Physics.
www.blog.makezine.com
http://blog.makezine.com/2013/03/28/georgia-techs-makerspace-is-a-model-for-higher-education/
Georgia Tech’s Makerspace is a Model for Higher Education
By Dale Dougherty
“We’re moving the maker movement back into engineering and engineering schools,” says one of the members of the Makers Club at Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio at the end of the video below. The Invention Studio is a campus-wide makerspace open 24 hours to any faculty, student, or staff member and project, not just those in classes. The Invention Studio has $500,000 of equipment in 3,000-square feet. There are over 500 users per month now. Seventy students are members of the makers club, which provides support and training for the community of users.
www.lasvegassun.com
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/mar/30/flexibility-will-help-nevadas-banks-economy/
Flexibility will help Nevada’s banks, economy
Joey Smith
The law of unintended consequences holds that the actions of people, and also governments, often have results that are unexpected and not deliberate. Sometimes the unintended consequences are positive — such as when government approval of a new drug paves the way for discovery of other therapeutic uses unanticipated by the manufacturer or government regulators. …New research from the University of West Georgia’s Richards College of Business and its Center for Business and Economic Research suggests the rule could be hampering Nevada’s economic recovery rather than stabilizing the economy.
www.indianexpress.com
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/happy-positive-messages-key-to-success-on-twitter/1080671/
“Happy, positive” messages key to success on Twitter
Meghnad Desai
Scientists have discovered the secret to becoming popular on micro-blogging site Twitter. C.J. Hutto and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta examined the content and re-tweeting fate of tweets sent by 500 non-celebrities over a 15-month period. They looked for 2800 terms that convey positive and negative emotions, including slang and swear words, a set of emoticons and common acronyms like LOL.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/leaders-agree-to-198-billion-budget-with-extra-mon/nW6cs/
Legislature passes $19.9 billion budget for 2014
Includes extra money for schools but no raises for teachers
By James Salzer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With less than four hours remaining in the session, the General Assembly on Thursday adopted a $19.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year that funnels millions more into k-12 education and public health care but also imposes another round of spending cuts for many state agencies. The new budget, which passed the House 175-1 Thursday night and the Senate 54-0 earlier in the day, doesn’t include cost-of-living raises for 200,000 teachers and state employees. They haven’t received such raises since just after the start of the Great Recession.
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/03/29/lawmakers-pass-on-abortion-guns
Lawmakers Pass On Abortion, Guns
By Rickey Bevington and Claire Simms
Governor Nathan Deal will soon begin the process of signing bills into law. The Georgia General Assembly adjourned shortly after midnight Thursday for the year. Lawmakers finished their session after midnight following a whirlwind final day that included passing a $41 billion budget for state government.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/03/30/2418633/the-legislative-session-had-its.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
The legislative session had its share of winners and losers
By MAGGIE LEE — mlee@macon.com
ATLANTA — After 40 days, 2,695 bills and resolutions, more than $719,000 in lobbyist spending, a few hundred committee meetings and thousands of sheets of paper, the 2013 state legislative term ended fairly quietly for the midstate, legislators said. Here’s a look at the winners and losers from this year’s session.
www.inboundlogistics.com
http://www.inboundlogistics.com/cms/article/georgia-logistics-front-and-center/
Georgia: Logistics Front and Center
A prime geographic location positions businesses in Georgia to take the lead.
On May 20, 1819, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean departed Savannah for Liverpool, England. Georgia has been making transportation history ever since, and the state became a logistics leader before the word even existed in industry vernacular. Today, that leadership continues… Workforce. Nationally ranked university and technical college systems offer 100 logistics-related degrees and certificates, including doctoral programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Southern University. The state offers high-quality workers at affordable wages, and helps companies train new workers with Quick Start, the nation’s top-ranked workforce development program.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/city-ink/2013-03-30/deke-and-azziz-where-theres-mill-theres-way
Deke and Azziz: Where there’s a mill, there’s a way
By Sylvia Cooper
Columnist
The proposal Mayor Deke Copenhaver pitched to GRU President Dr. Ricardo Azziz and his cabinet to restore the historic Sibley and King mills for the expansion of the GRU campus looks good on paper. At least the artist’s rendering does.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/college-ready-writing/announcing-thatcamp-kentucky#ixzz2PDBbFiT7
Announcing THATCamp Kentucky!
By Lee Skallerup Bessette
I am very happy to announce that I am organizing a THATCamp at the University of Kentucky June 1-2. You can follow @ThatCampKY on Twitter or visit our little corner of the web. So if you’re in or near Kentucky (Ohio and West Virginia, I’m looking at you) and have not yet been able to attend a THATCamp because of cost due to distance, please feel free to sign up and come on over. I promise it will be a great time… Thankfully, I was able to attend a THATCamp before having to pull one off myself. After three years of trying, I was finally able to attend a THATCampSE in Atlanta. This year, it was hosted by Georgia Tech, and we got to experience its new learning spaces, designed specifically for collaboration and multi-modal composition; there were terminals in the halls to display student and faculty digital work, rooms with movable desks and walls that doubled as whiteboards, and spaces that provided an environment to do the kind of work I (and others, I know) aspire to do in our classrooms.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/comparative-perspectives
Comparative Perspectives
By Matt Reed
Next week I’m doing my first accreditation visit. I’ve been on the receiving end of three ten-year visits in my career — you’d think that wouldn’t be mathematically possible, but it is — but this will be my first time on the visiting side. I spent a chunk of this weekend plowing through the self-study, pen in hand. Already, I can see the value in it as a professional development exercise.
www.nytimes.com
Resurrecting California’s Public Universities
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Even before the recession hit, the public colleges and universities that educate more than 70 percent of the nation’s students were suffering from dwindling state revenue. Their response, not surprisingly, was to raise tuition, slash course offerings and, in some cases, freeze or even reduce student enrollment. The damage was acute in California, whose once-glorious system of higher education effectively cannibalized itself, shutting out a growing number of well-qualified students.
Education News
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/Education/West-Georgia-Tech–LaGrange-College-make-credit-transfer-agreement?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2FTopStories+%28The+Times-Herald+%3E+Top+Stories%29
West Georgia Tech, LaGrange College make agreement
A new statewide partnership will make it easier for West Georgia Technical College graduates to enter LaGrange College with a transfer of credit hours. …The articulation agreement between the Georgia Independent College Association and the Technical College System of Georgia was signed last month in a state Capitol ceremony hosted by Gov. Nathan Deal.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/03/31/2419552/mgtc-student-wins-state-award.html
Education Notebook: MGTC student wins state award for adult education
By Staff reports
Stephanie Garcia, a Middle Georgia Technical College student, has been named the Adult Education Student of the Year for the state of Georgia.
www.ccweek.com
http://www.ccweek.com/news/templates/template.aspx?articleid=3488&zoneid=3
NEWS BRIEFS:
Compiled by CCW Staff
A summary listing of higher-ed-related news from around the nation
Tech Colleges in Ga. Expanding Global Reach (8th article down)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The Technical College of Georgia is expanding its global reach with new international contracts. Officials expect to sign a $3 million contract with the African nation of Kenya soon, The Athens Banner-Herald reported. Athens Technical College and two other system colleges already are working with Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal University under an $8 million contract, TCSG Commissioner Ron Jackson said recently.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Everyone-Wants-to-Fix-Student/138199/
To Fix Student Aid, First Try to Understand It
By Beckie Supiano
Pretty much everyone agrees that the federal financial-aid system is broken. But fewer agree on exactly how it is broken, or on what should be done to fix it. In fact, despite the amount of money spent on aid and the number of students who rely on it, experts’ understanding of how the current system affects students remains limited. But the march to make a better student-aid system goes on. The most recent effort is Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery, a project sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Related article:
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Handicapping-the-Reimagining/138197/
Gates-Financed Proposals to Redesign Student Aid: a Prognosis
By Kelly Field
When it comes to remaking the federal financial-aid system, grantees in the Bill & Melinda Gates Reimaging Aid Design and Delivery program tend to agree on a few key fixes. They want to change the way student-loan interest rates are set; make income-based repayment more common, if not universal; end, or at least consolidate, higher-education tax credits; and provide students with more data about specific programs’ outcomes.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Latest-Report-on-Fixing/138219/
Latest Report on Fixing Financial Aid Focuses on Minority Students
By Ann Schnoebelen
A report released on Monday discusses the financial hurdles African-American students and their families face in pursuing a college education. The National Urban League, a civil-rights organization that works to economically empower minority groups, published “Education Transforms Lives: Postsecondary Affordability Survey and Focus Groups.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/01/colleges-party-emphasis-maintain-economic-social-inequality-new-research-suggests
‘Paying for the Party’
By Allie Grasgreen
If you are a low-income prospective college student hoping a degree will help you move up in the world, you probably should not attend a moderately selective four-year research institution. The cards are stacked against you.
Related article:
www.chronicle.com
College and Class: 2 Researchers Study Inequality, Starting With One Freshman Floor
http://chronicle.com/article/CollegeClass/138223/
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/01/research-suggests-top-colleges-could-attract-many-more-high-achieving-low-income
Attracting the Missing Students
By Scott Jaschik
In December, a study revealed that most low-income, high-achieving high school students aren’t applying to a single competitive college. Further, the study found that many colleges are searching for these students at a very small number of high schools (magnet schools and the like) — and in the process are missing lots of other talent.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52286/#
Stopping the Clock on Credits That Don’t Count
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
As March Madness nears its all-consuming climax, a less widely noticed kind of intercollegiate competition is forcing students to churn endlessly through the higher-education system, wasting their own — and taxpayers’ — money. In this game, the players score, but it doesn’t count. That’s what happens when students earn academic credit at one university or college, then try to transfer to another, which won’t accept it — even within the same states and systems. The result is that they end up spending far more time and money trying to finish their degrees, assuming that they even stick around to bother. …When these students’ credits don’t transfer with them, they churn, seemingly endlessly, in college, piling up debt and wasting time repeating the same courses. It now takes full-time students, on average, 3.8 years to earn a two-year associate degree and 4.7 years to get a four-year bachelor’s degree, according to the advocacy organization Complete College America — further increasing the already high cost to families, and at public universities, states.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Creativity-Cure/138203/
Creativity: a Cure for the Common Curriculum
By Dan Berrett
Lexington, Ky.
Einstein was blessed with a rare genius. He also understood the intellectual weight of a flight of fancy. When he was 16, he wondered what would happen if he were to ride alongside a beam of light. He turned over the idea in his mind for a decade before concluding that the light beam next to him would appear to be at rest even though it was traveling at the speed of light. Einstein’s image eventually helped unlock one of the most-consequential theories in the history of science: his special theory of relativity.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/01/montana-state-tenure-track-faculty-members-vote-decertifying-union#ixzz2PDTamVSC
Un-Unionizing a University?
By Carl Straumsheim
Faculty members at Montana State University could next month vote to end a four-year experiment with unionization, stripping the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association of a hard-won chapter at a research university.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/01/mellen-press-continues-its-legal-maneuvers-against-critics#ixzz2PDTHj1df
Call in the Lawyers
By Ry Rivard
Edwin Mellen Press is continuing to threaten its online critics. A second librarian is facing legal threats from Mellen, a scholarly publishing house in Lewiston, N.Y. Mellen is threatening legal action against Rick Anderson, the interim library dean at the University of Utah, after Anderson criticized Mellen, in part for legal action the press has already taken against another librarian.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52290/#
U.S. Still Has More Work to Do in Technology Education
by Autumn Arnett and T.A. Copper
A new survey from Dell suggests that when meeting students’ technology needs, the U.S. can take a few notes from China. According to the findings, China is more likely to integrate technology into the entire curriculum, Chinese students spend more time using technology in school, and more Chinese students say teachers are technologically savvy.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/01/newspaper-sells-ads-universities-positive-coverage
Newspaper Sells Ads to Universities for Positive Coverage
The Orange County Register is selling three universities ads that will appear in special weekly sections that will contain “positive” news about the institutions, The Los Angeles Times reported. A memo from an administrator at the University of California at Irvine — one of the participating universities — said that its public relations staff would serve as “content advisors, idea generators and collaborators” on the project. …Jeffrey Brody, a professor of communications at Fullerton and a former Register reporter, said that the new approach would be “wonderful for the universities,” but he questioned whether this was appropriate for a newspaper.
www.tampabay.com
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/florida-house-releases-its-education-budget-plan/2111953
Florida House releases its education budget plan
Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer
The Florida House on Friday officially released its 2013-14 spending plan, which still must be smoothed over with Senate budgets that have yet to be finished. Among the highlights, the House would set aside $674.6 million that school districts could use for raises, bump up per-student funding by 6.2 percent, and increase school recognition funding to $125 per student at receiving schools. …In higher education, the House calls for a 15 percent increase in general funds, and a 6 percent university tuition hike. State colleges would see a 3.3 percent increase in funding.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Lawmakers-Accuse-Regents/138187/
Texas Lawmakers Accuse Regents of Vendetta Against President
By Katherine Mangan
Austin, Tex.
Undeterred by accusations that they are engaging in “witch hunt after witch hunt” against a popular president, members of the University of Texas Board of Regents voted last month to authorize a fourth inquiry into a law-school foundation that began a controversial incentive program while the flagship’s president, William C. Powers Jr., was law dean.
www.nytimes.com
College Rivalry, or Differences Over Policy?
By ROSS RAMSEY
Is this about Bill Powers or U.T.’s tower? Tensions between Gov. Rick Perry’s administration and Mr. Powers, the president of the University of Texas at Austin, are rising, sucking up legislative time and pitting lawmakers, prominent alumni and higher-education critics against one another in a running argument over politics, rivalries and what a public university is supposed to be.
www.voanews.com
http://www.voanews.com/content/major_advance_made_in_biological_computing/1631511.html
Stanford Scientists Place Computer Inside Cell
Art Chimes
ST, LOUIS, MISSOURI — Researchers at Stanford University in California have taken the next step in genetically engineering a computer in a living cell’s DNA. Making cells “smarter” could have a wide range of medical and industrial applications. Today’s electronic computers are built around vast numbers of transistors, etched into silicon wafers.
Related article:
www.upi.com
Researchers create bio-computer
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/03/30/Researchers-create-bio-computer/UPI-91591364655248/#ixzz2PDJtedi0
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/print-edition/2013/03/29/university-of-florida-innovation-hub.html
University of Florida innovation hub among the most productive in the nation
Carole Hawkins
Reporter-Jacksonville Business Journal
GAINESVILLE — David Messias five years ago met the University of Florida professor who had built a computerized virtual patient to give medical students experience diagnosing illnesses. Messias, a former Wall Street venture capital executive, thought the software would sell if the number of questions the avatar answered could be increased from 2,000 to 20,000. “Students need more and more to gain access to medical sites and patients to get clinical experience,” Messias said. “This digital standardized patient gives them another tool.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/01/state-department-clarifies-stance-study-abroad-cuba
State Department Clarifies Stance on Study Abroad in Cuba
The U.S. State Department has released a written statement on the issue of third-party study abroad providers operating credit-bearing educational programs in Cuba. In a written statement that confirms study abroad professionals’ prior understanding of the changing regulatory environment, the State Department indicated that “academic service providers” are now eligible to receive “specific” licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control to offer for-credit educational programs in Cuba on behalf of accredited American undergraduate and graduate institutions.