USGNEWS:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/regents-to-discuss-tuition/nXND6/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajcpremium
Regents to discuss tuition
BY LAURA DIAMOND – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
How much will Georgia’s college students pay next year? The answer will come this afternoon when the State Board of Regents approves fall 2013 tuition rates for the University System of Georgia. Tuition is expected to increase, but the unknown at this point is by how much. The regents are holding the monthly meeting in Savannah, splitting their time between three campuses.

www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/49406/
GSU nursing students learn to deal with disaster
Power outage, multiple casualties simulated
Special to the Herald
…During those three storms, Graf learned a life-changing lesson: be prepared for disaster. She now teaches that to her students in the Advanced Surgical Medical Nursing course. Graf, RN, MSN and Ph.D(c), has used those experiences to give her senior nursing students a dose of what could happen when they step onto the floor of a hospital. Their preparation comes from dealing with the unexpected during “Mock Codes, Emergency Nursing and Disaster Training Day.” In these drills with the assistance of the Statesboro Fire Department, the students have anything and everything thrown at them. It puts them in situations to test what they know and figure out what to do quickly and correctly.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2013-04-15/athens-area-marathoners-mostly-ok-after-boston-bombings
Athens area marathoners mostly OK after Boston bombings
By NICK COLTRAIN AND JOE JOHNSONNEWS
At least 16 Athens-area runners raced Monday in the Boston Marathon and as of press time none were reported injured in the explosions there. As of Tuesday morning, many had checked in with friends and loved ones to report they were unharmed in the bombings that rocked the world-renown race through the heart of one of America’s oldest cities. The Boston Marathon website listed numerous runners from Georgia with more than a dozen residing in Athens and surrounding communities.

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/04/16/2440698/former-bibb-solicitor-board-of.html
Former Bibb solicitor, Board of Regents member to sit on Kroger shooting review board
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
A former member of the Georgia Board of Regents and former Bibb County solicitor will sit on the 9-member panel that will review the fatal December shooting of a man outside the Pio Nono Avenue Kroger. Connie Cater, the former Board of Regents member, and Otis Scarbary, who retired as Bibb County Solicitor last year, will join two law enforcement officers, four Macon police officers and Deputy Chief Henderson Carswell Wednesday in reviewing evidence from the Dec. 21 shooting of Sammie Davis Jr.

GOOD NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/04/15/turner-president-starts-koonin.html
Turner president starts Koonin Scholars Fund at UGA’s Grady College
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Turner Entertainment President Steve Koonin and his wife Eydie gave $250,000 to start the Koonin Scholars Fund at The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The fund will provide scholarships for Grady students preparing for careers in the creative industries and media.

RESEARCH:
www.mnn.com
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/new-app-aims-to-aid-autism-diagnosis
New app aims to aid autism diagnosis
Researchers have developed a new app that would streamline an autism diagnosis and could help a child get treatment sooner.
For parents who suspect their child has autism, the road to diagnosis and treatment can be a long and painful one. Many children must undergo months — if not years — of tests before doctors will confirm a diagnosis and treatment can begin. But a new app hopes to streamline this process and make it easier for health care providers to diagnosis autism and get children started with a treatment plan. …The center received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the autism diagnosis app in collaboration with Behavior Imaging Solutions, a Boise, Idaho, medical-technology company, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

www.vitals.nbcnews.com
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17724368-say-cheese-photos-may-avert-x-ray-mix-ups-study-finds?lite
Say ‘Cheese’: Photos may avert X-ray mix-ups, study finds
By Linda Carroll
Although it’s relatively rare, mix-ups of patients’ X-rays can lead to dire consequences. One way to get around the problem of such “wrong patient” errors is to take a photo of the patient’s face at the same time the X-ray is shot, a new study suggests. . . . No one knows exactly how many times patients are matched with the wrong X-ray each year, said Tridandapani, who conducted the study jointly with the Georgia Institute of Technology. But it’s estimated that these kinds of identification errors occur in 1 out of every 10,000 patients.

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/04/15/2438731/new-water-test-results-shed-light.html#storylink=misearch
New water test results shed light on Juliette contamination
By S. HEATHER DUNCAN
JULIETTE — New water tests on Juliette-area wells appear to support the likelihood that uranium and radium contamination there is not related to a nearby power plant. State officials have long said the well pollution is probably caused by naturally occurring uranium in the underground rock of Georgia’s Piedmont. Radium is formed by the decay of uranium, a radioactive metal. Dozens of Juliette residents have found unsafe levels of these elements in their well water or high radon levels (caused by the underground radium) in the air of their homes. Over long periods of time, digesting uranium can harm the kidneys, and digesting radium can increase the risk of bone, liver and breast cancer, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. …Since then, water samples tested by the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as a smaller group of samples tested by a group of University of Georgia graduate students, showed no pattern of contamination that could be clearly linked to groundwater flow from the coal ash pond. The samples were taken last year, but in some cases it took months for the samples to be analyzed.

www.overclockersclub.com
http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/33974/
Creating Condensates for Quantum Computer Clusters
Author: Guest_Jim_
Just about any new computer you can purchase today, and even some smartphones, contain multicore processors, which deliver high performance without a necessarily high clock speed and associated thermal load. Though not exactly thermal load, researchers developing quantum computers foresee problems with ultra-fast designs because these more complex designs are more susceptible to destructive decoherence. An alternative design paradigm is to utilize multiple, simpler quantum computers analogous to multiple cores in modern computers, and researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have recently studied one means of connecting these cores.

www.cnnradio.cnn.com
http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2013/04/14/cnn-radio-music-notes-meet-jay-zs-guru/?hpt=hp_c4
CNN Radio Music Notes: Meet Jay-Z’s ‘Guru’
By Gavin Godfrey, CNN
In the world of music the engineer is rarely seen and hardly ever given their props. Well, as Jay-Z’s personal engineer, Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton is not your average man behind the boards and in the studio. For this edition of CNN Radio Music Notes, we sat down with Young Guru to find out how the Grammy-nominated 39-year-old became one of the most sought after engineers in the business… Today, Young Guru is as busy as he’s ever been. Between working with Jay-Z on scoring “The Great Gatsby” to going outside the music industry as an educator with Georgia Tech’s Ear Sketch program and GRAMMY U’s Era of the Engineer lecture series, Young Guru’s name is sure to pop up in more places.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-04-15/georgia-industry-recruiter-chief-looks-pursue-tech-companies
Georgia industry recruiter chief looks to pursue tech companies
By NICK COLTRAIN
The commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development said Monday that since the state’s manufacturing base has shored up in the Athens area and elsewhere, it’s time to look toward bolstering the innovation and tech start-up sectors. Chris Cummiskey, as the keynote speaker at the 22nd annual Public Service and Outreach meeting at the University of Georgia, highlighted his department’s efforts, and use of incentives, to attract major Georgia investments from companies including Baxter International, which will create 1,500 jobs east of Atlanta, and Caterpillar in Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties, which will generate about 1,400 jobs and be indirectly responsible for twice that.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/04/15/georgia-gets-c–for-infrastructure.html
Georgia gets C- for infrastructure
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia motorists spend an average of $60 a year on car repairs due to bad roads, according to a report from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Driving on roads in need of repair costs Georgia motorists $374 million a year. The report said 19 percent of the state’s roads are considered of poor or mediocre quality, receiving a grade of C- from the group.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/04/16/why-college-for-all-matters-educating-for-tomorrow-not-today/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
A college degree may someday be as essential as a high school diploma
Dhathri Chunduru is a former Fulton County special educator. She works for an educational non-profit and supports the development of teachers and instructional coaches. In this piece, she addresses the growing sentiment that too many people are going to college, that not everyone needs high education.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/apr/15/senate-race-mind-jack-kingston-shows-843k-gop-name/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
With Senate race in mind, Jack Kingston shows off $843k in GOP names, connections
Last week, we told you that U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston was giving off strong signals that he was packing himself as the candidate for Georgia’s GOP establishment in next year’s U.S. Senate race – an antidote to those Republicans who fear the candidate of U.S. Rep. Paul Broun. Kingston told a Gainesville crowd that Phil Wilheit Jr. would co-chair the fund-raising arm of his Senate campaign. Which was significant, given that Phil Wilheit Sr., a member of the Board of Regents and the governor’s former business partner, will chair Gov. Nathan Deal’s re-elect bid. …Personalities are lining up as well – some well-known Deal backers, others simply well-known financier of Republican causes. Some names picked out by Kingston’s people: …– Ben J. Tarbutton III, assistant vice president, Sandersville Railroad (member, Georgia Board of Regents): $5,200; …– Donald M. Leebern, CEO, Georgia Crown (member, Board of Regents): $5,200; …– Rusty Griffin, former CEO, Griffin, Inc. (member, Board of Regents): $2,000;

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/04/16/2440237/yarbrough-random-thoughts-on-random.html
YARBROUGH: Random thoughts on random subjects
By Dick Yarbrough – Special to The Telegraph
It turns out you can go home again. I recently established a chair in crisis communications leadership at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at my beloved University of Georgia. UGA President-elect Dr. Jere Morehead, along with Dink NeSmith, chairman of the Board of Regents, came for the ceremony and both made my family and me feel warmly welcomed on campus. That is something we haven’t felt at my alma mater for a long time.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52650/
In Era of Accountability, Let’s Use Proper Evaluations
by Arnold L. Mitchem
President of the nonprofit Council for Opportunity in Education, which through its membership services works in conjunction with colleges, universities and agencies that host TRIO programs.
I am writing in response to the March 13, 2013 article on the testimony of Dr. Cheryl Dozier, president of Savannah State University, on behalf of the Federal TRIO Programs at the Public Witness Hearing of the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations. Your article referenced, but did not cite, an evaluation of one of the TRIO programs and suggested that the programs are ineffective.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/How-We-Can-Be-Better-Stewards/138503/
How We Can Be Better Stewards of the American Dream
By William E. Kirwan
America’s level of postsecondary-education attainment—once the highest in the world—is not keeping pace with our global competitors and is not sufficient to meet the work-force demands of the coming decades. The nation’s future well-being hinges on our ability to respond to what has rightly been called the “college completion imperative.”

www.thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com

Colleges Report 2013 Acceptance Rates
By TANYA ABRAMS
As students and parents make their college decisions, The Choice presents its 2013 listing of college admission statistics at a range of institutions. I hope that this data — while far from comprehensive — adds some perspective to the college admission process, especially for seniors who were disappointed by the results, and juniors who are anxious about their own outcomes next year. Applicant pools are growing larger; the University of Southern California received more than 47,000 applications this year. That’s 10,000 more students than just two years ago, when this year’s applicants were sophomores.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/16/interview-authors-new-book-stem-teaching
‘Making Scientists’
By Serena Golden
Everyone seems to agree that education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — needs work, and all the more so when it comes to the women and underrepresented minority students who are the least likely to persist in those subjects. But measurable progress — or even a clear idea of how to achieve it — is often hard to come by.

www.nytimes.com

Are Human Genes Patentable?
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
BRCA1 and BRCA2, abbreviations for breast cancer 1 and 2, are the names of human genes linked to a significant increase in the risk of breast and ovarian cancer for women. In 1997 and 1998, Myriad Genetics, based in Utah, obtained broad patents on the isolated DNA it managed to extract from these genes and on diagnostic tests to find the genes. In granting the patents, the United States Patent and Trademark Office agreed with Myriad’s claim that, by extracting the genes from the human body, the company had invented an “isolated” DNA markedly different (and thus patentable) from the native DNA.

www.nytimes.com

Justices Consider Whether Patents on Genes Are Valid
By ANDREW POLLACK
The Supreme Court is poised to take up the highly charged question of whether human genes can be patented. But another question could trump it: Has the field of genetics moved so far so fast that whatever the court decides, it has come too late to the issue? The case, which will come before the court on Monday, involves patents held by Myriad Genetics on two human genes, which, when mutated, give a woman a high risk of getting breast or ovarian cancer. The patents give Myriad a monopoly on testing for these mutations, a highly lucrative business.

www.nytimes.com

An Ethical Breakdown
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Despite reforms to protect patients from being harmed by medical research in recent decades, 23 academic institutions authorized a research project that failed to meet the most basic standard: providing an informed consent document to parents that accurately described the risks and benefits of the research to be conducted on extremely premature babies. This failure was startling, and deplorable. Federal officials have rightly demanded that the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the lead institution, and Stanford, Duke and Yale, among others, take corrective action to prevent a recurrence.

Education News
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/04/15/georgia-7th-for-parent-involvement-in.html
Georgia 7th for parent involvement in education
Tristan Navera
Staff Reporter-Dayton Business Journal
The Peach State got high marks from the Center for Education Reform for the amount of involvement parents have in their children’s education. Georgia took seventh place in the Center’s “Parent Power Index” which ranks states based on the number of school choices, teacher quality, transparency of schools for information, and online learning options available to parents.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/16/another-college-admits-calculating-incorrect-sat-averages
More Fudging of SAT Averages
By Scott Jaschik
When Bucknell University in January admitted that it had been reporting false SAT averages to U.S. News & World Report (and others), it followed a flurry of similar confessions over the previous 12 months. Since then, several months have since passed. Until Monday, no other colleges had come forward to admit that they too had been submitting false numbers. But York College of Pennsylvania did so on Monday.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Counseling-Centers-Are/138545/
Campus Counseling Centers ‘Are as Busy as They Ever Have Been’
By Libby Sander
The number of college students with severe psychological problems continues to increase, while anxiety, depression, and relationship issues most commonly send students to seek help at their campus counseling centers, according to a report released last month.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/respected-emory-professor-accused-of-creating-fake/nXMsS/
Respected Emory prof accused of creating fake ID
By Shelia Poole
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A prominent Emory University professor and Orthodox rabbi is facing tough scrutiny after a Jewish-oriented television channel reported that he created a fake identity to join a rabbinic group.

www.nytiimes.com

At a College, Dropping Sports in Favor of Fitness
By MIKE TIERNEY
…Then Spelman, a historically black women’s college with alumnae who include former slaves and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will become the second college in the last decade to leave the N.C.A.A. altogether, the other being the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn. Officials at the college, whose 2,100 students make it the size of some high schools, decided last year to eliminate the athletic department. …A remedy seemed obvious: disband N.C.A.A.-level sports and reallocate the money devoted to them toward establishing a wellness program that could take advantage of the college’s gym, courts and fields. The college’s board of trustees approved the plan a year ago.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/A-New-President-Seeks-to-Move/138519/
Morehouse College’s Leader Seeks to Reverse Decline
By Eric Kelderman
Atlanta
Walking across the campus of his alma mater, Morehouse College, President John S. Wilson Jr. points out buildings named for famous alumni and leaders of the civil-rights movement. …A deeper challenge will be to reverse a decline in enrollment that has not only compounded the financial struggles of those institutions but also undermined their reputation as the best places for high-achieving black students.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Florida-A-M-an-Anti-Hazing/138517/
At Florida A&M, an Anti-Hazing Administrator Works to Prevent More Harm to Students
By Ann Schnoebelen
Bryan F. Smith’s role as special assistant to the president for anti-hazing at Florida A&M University is the only one quite like it in higher education, he says. His new position was created in response to the November 2011 hazing death of a Florida A&M student and drum major, Robert Champion. Twelve former band members have been charged with manslaughter in the case. Mr. Smith, who has a law degree from John Marshall Law School and a master’s in public management from Florida A&M, most recently worked as executive director of a nonprofit organization in Georgia that promotes educational success. He plans to put new anti-hazing policies in place and enforce ones the university already has.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/15/qs-changes-rankings-rules-following-recruitment-effort-irish-university
New Ranking Rules
By Scott Jaschik
Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the major groups conducting international rankings of universities, has banned universities from recruiting people to participate in the peer review surveys conducted for the evaluations of institutions.

www.nytimes.com

Japan Tops New Asian University Ranking
By JOYCE LAU
Times Higher Education has published its first university ranking focusing on Asia. While it includes the Middle East, South Asia and Turkey, its standout performers were all East Asian economic powerhouses. On the top-100 ranking released last week, Japan had the most institutions (22), followed by Taiwan (17), mainland China (15) and South Korea (14).

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/I-Fully-Expect-to-Die-With/138507/
‘I Fully Expect to Die With This Debt’
Baby boomers who went back for graduate degrees struggle to pay back their student loans
By Stacey Patton
Student-loan debt is not just a problem for young, recent college graduates searching for their first jobs. Growing numbers of adults nearing the ends of their careers are accumulating such big debt, too, and they don’t have a lifetime to pay it back.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/16/writing-professors-question-plagiarism-detection-software
Turning on Turnitin
By Ry Rivard
Software to detect student plagiarism is faced with renewed criticism from the faculty members who may confront more plagiarism than do most of their colleagues – college writing professors. Members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed a resolution at their annual convention last month to denounce plagiarism detection services, including products like Turnitin.

www.gigaom.com
http://gigaom.com/2013/04/15/novoed-another-stanford-mooc-startup-opens-small-group-learning-services-to-public/
NovoEd, another Stanford MOOC startup, opens small-group learning services to public
by Ki Mae Heussner
SUMMARY:
Launched at Stanford University, NovoEd wants to build on the massive open online course (MOOC) phenomenon with a startup that puts collaboration at the center of the online learning experience.
In an online class of 80,000 students, breaking up into small groups is no easy task — as we saw from a suspended Coursera class earlier this year (that tried to use a Google doc to create groups), it can lead to confusion and technical glitches. But a new startup called NovoEd wants to build on the massive open online course (MOOC) phenomenon with a service that puts collaboration and team learning at the center of the student experience.

www.clarionledger.com
http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart/20130413/BIZ/304130028/Students-training-protect-government-businesses-from-cyberattacks
Students training to protect government, businesses from cyberattacks
Written by Jake Pearson
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Every week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza, plug in their laptops and begin furiously hacking into computer networks. But they’re not shadowy criminals. They’re students training to become “white-hat” hackers, experts to help business and government agencies protect their data from cyberattacks that have become an almost daily occurrence. … While bigger schools such as Georgia Tech, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon are known for their cybersecurity programs, experts say Brooklyn-based NYU-Poly is now considered among the best schools for training students with hands on, mission-critical cybersecurity skills.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52640/
Proposed STEM Grant Program Seems to Fit NAFEO Mission
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — When a federal education official starting telling NAFEO conference attendees Monday about a proposed competitive grant program for postsecondary institutions to do professional development for teachers in the area of STEM, Oakwood University Senior Vice President Timothy McDonald began to take notes. “Some of us have been concerned that the Department of Education, under an Obama administration, has been drifting toward emphasis on K-12 to the detriment of higher education,” McDonald said. He later explained why the competitive grant program caught his attention. “This program at least opens the doors for partnerships for universities to work with local school districts, so it’s a way for strengthening both,” McDonald said.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52654/
Coding Boot Camps Promise to Launch Tech Careers
by Terence Chea, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn’t want to go back to college to study computer science. Instead, he quit his job and spent his savings to enroll at Dev Bootcamp, a new San Francisco school that teaches students how to write software in nine weeks. The $11,000 gamble paid off: A week after he finished the program last summer, he landed an engineering job that paid more than twice his previous salary. …Dev Bootcamp, which calls itself an “apprenticeship on steroids,” is one of a new breed of computer-programming schools that’s proliferating in San Francisco and other U.S. tech hubs. These “hacker boot camps” promise to teach students how to write code in two or three months and help them get hired as web developers, with starting salaries between $80,000 and $100,000, often within days or weeks of graduation.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Librarians-Meeting/138533/
At Librarians’ Meeting, Information Is Championed—but Not Always Books
By Jennifer Howard
Indianapolis
Academic librarians don’t often get to feel like rock stars. But at the Association of College and Research Libraries’ biennial meeting, which concluded here on Saturday, a pop-culture icon treated them like rock stars—or at least like information superheroes. At a conference that emphasizes information literacy and librarians’ role in supporting it, that was a welcome message.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Herbert-Richardson-v-the/138497/
Herbert Richardson v. the World
By Jake New
As a librarian for the University of Utah, Rick Anderson talks regularly to scholarly publishers. But he had never had a call quite like the one he got last summer from Herbert W. Richardson, the founder of Edwin Mellen Press. The press was willing to donate $50,000 worth of books if the library wanted them. Mr. Anderson was not interested, and he explained to Mr. Richardson that most of the press’s titles were on topics too obscure for his library. Mr. Richardson defended his press, pointing out that it serves as a platform for scholarly work that often gets overlooked by university presses. But then the conversation took a peculiar turn.