GOOD NEWS:
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/blogs/georgia-works/2013/09/18/georgia-southern-named-military-friendly-school
Georgia Southern Named Military Friendly School
By Chip Rogers
Georgia Southern University proudly announced that they have been named a Military Friendly School® by G.I. Jobs magazine for a third year in a row. Furthermore, earlier this year, Military Times named the College of Business Administration (COBA) one of the best business schools for veterans in the United States for its online and part-time MBA program and for having staff dedicated to veterans issues.

www.itworld.com
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/373567/top-20-colleges-computer-science-majors-based-earning-potential
Top 20 colleges for computer science majors, based on earning potential
By Ann Bednarz, Network World
California is home to the top five computer science schools in the U.S., according to a new salary-centric report from PayScale. The research company ranked 129 college majors based on the median pay for alumni from 1,016 schools . . .Best Schools for Computer Science Majors . . .16. Georgia Institute of Technology (tie) Starting pay: $65,800, Mid-career pay: $111,000

www.redandblackcom
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/campus/uga-ranked-in-top-universities-with-best-professors/article_c94adece-208e-11e3-98c6-0019bb30f31a.html
UGA ranked in top 17 universities with best professors
Staff Reports
RateMyProfessors.com ranked the University of Georgia No. 6 out of the top 17 colleges and universities with the best professors of 2013. Auburn University came in at No. 11, Texas A&M at College Station placed at No. 9 and Vanderbilt University stood at No. 2. No other SEC schools made the list.

www.masstransitmag.com
http://www.masstransitmag.com/article/11107313/top-40-under-40-2013-dr-kari-edison-watkins-pe
Top 40 Under 40 2013: Dr. Kari Edison Watkins, PE.
Georgia Tech Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dr. Kari Edison Watkins.
Kari Edison Watkins, PE, PhD, is an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech. In her research and teaching, Watkins uses focuses on uses of technology to improve, understand and influence travel mode choice.

USG NEWS:
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/19/congress-hears-about-role-accreditation-and-online-partnerships
Helpful or a Hindrance?
By Paul Fain
WASHINGTON — A one-hour phone conversation between officials at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a regional accreditor was necessary for the creation of one of the biggest developments in the MOOC craze. Whether that discussion was a regulatory burden or a courtesy call depends on whom you ask.

www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/23469192/georgia-southern-marks-air-force-birthday
Georgia Southern marks Air Force birthday
By Dal Cannady
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) -Leaders of Georgia Southern University’s Military Affairs Office hosted a birthday party for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force was born from the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1947. …Founders of the Military Affairs Office said their ROTC program is networked with their Air Force.

RESEARCH:
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-09-18/skidaways-glider-joins-other-robotic-researchers#.UjsY97-AF7x
Skidaway’s glider joins other robotic researchers
By Mary Landers
A small fleet of underwater robots, including one from Skidaway Institute, is swimming off the East Coast this fall, collecting data that could shed light on scientific puzzles ranging from hurricane intensity forecasts to fish migration patterns. Researchers have dubbed it GliderPalooza.

www.medicalxpress.com
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-poor-social-skills-linked-disordered.html
Poor social skills linked to disordered eating attitudes
Young women with critical, over-involved mothers likelier to have poor social skills and disordered eating attitudes. …According to the study’s lead author, Analisa Arroyo, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, young adult females whose mothers frequently engaged in “family expressed emotion” which she explained as “an extraordinarily harmful pattern of criticism, over-involvement, excessive attention, and emotional reactivity that is usually communicated by parents toward their children,” tended to have poorer social and relationship skills.

www.southeastfarmpress.com
http://southeastfarmpress.com/soybeans/uga-researchers-taking-part-soybean-root-knot-nematode-resistance-program
UGA researchers taking part in soybean root-knot-nematode resistance program
By Randy Mertens, University of Missouri
Scientists from the University of Georgia, the University of Missouri and the Beijing Genome Institute have teamed up to use next-generation sequencing to identify two genes — out of approximately 50,000 possibilities — that defend soybeans from damage caused by the root-knot nematode (RKN). This pest causes millions of dollars in yield losses each year in the United States alone.

www.phys.org
http://phys.org/print298746200.html
Container’s material properties affect the viscosity of water at the nanoscale
Georgia Tech associate professor Elisa Riedo poses with a glass water bottle and a plastic water bottle. While container materials don’t significantly affect the rate at which water pours from bottles of this size, a new study shows that the properties of containers at the nanoscale dramatically affect the viscosity of water. … The effect of container properties on the fluids they hold offers yet another example of surprising phenomena at the nanoscale. And it also provides a new factor that the designers of tiny mechanical systems must take into account.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/science_health/dolphins-killed-by-measles-related-virus-uga-researchers-say/article_a67cae12-1e5f-11e3-9886-001a4bcf6878.html
Dolphins killed by measles-related virus, UGA researchers say
Jeanette Kazmierczak
The cause of a large die-off of dolphins in the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in 476 deaths between July 1 and Sept. 9, has been tentatively identified as dolphin morbillivirus by University of Georgia researchers and others. Dolphin morbillivirus is related to the virus that causes measles in humans as well as diseases like canine distemper in dogs and peste de petits ruminants in sheep and goats.

www.hispanicbusiness.com
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/9/18/reports_on_biomedicine_and_biomedical_engineering.htm
Reports on Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering Findings from Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Provide New Insights
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech Week — Investigators publish new report on Biotechnology. According to news reporting out of Atlanta, Georgia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The aortic valve (AV) experiences a complex mechanical environment, which includes tension, flexure, pressure, and shear stress forces due to blood flow during each cardiac cycle. This mechanical environment regulates AV tissue structure by constantly renewing and remodeling the phenotype.”

www.enn.com
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/46437
Flying High on Research and Development
Sixteen universities have been identified to participate in Research and Development grants to support the United States Government (USG) commitment to a reduction in greenhouse gases in the commercial airline industry. . . .The NextGen plan includes the organization of the Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) headed up by lead universities Washington State and MIT. . . . Other participating schools include: . . . Georgia Institute of Technology

www.nanowerk.com
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=32338.php#ixzz2fKpUFHLg
Triboelectric nanogenerator harvests wind energy
Researchers at Georgia Tech and the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, led by Xiaonan Wen and Zhong Lin Wang, report a triboelectric effect based wind energy harvester as a sustainable power source and a self-powered wind vector sensor system for wind speed and direction detection.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.slate.com
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/09/spocs_small_private_online_classes_may_be_better_than_moocs.html
Forget MOOCs
Free online classes shouldn’t replace teachers and classrooms. They should make them better.
By Will Oremus
… As of this month, that prediction is looking overblown. After a year in which almost every big-name university in the United States rushed to get in on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the backlash is in full force. And no wonder: The idea of free online video lectures replacing traditional classrooms not only offends many educators’ core values, but it threatens their jobs.

www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2013-09-18/our-economic-times-higher-education-policy#.UjsHIb-AF7w
Our economic times: Higher education policy
By NICHOLS MANGEE
Dr. Nicholas J. Mangee is an assistant professor of economics at Armstrong Atlantic State University
Attaining higher education is inextricably tied to one’s future earnings capacity and increases the nation’s productivity as a whole. Alas, tuition levels at historic highs present financial challenges to many families and lead to an average of $26,000 of debt per student for successful graduates.There are, however, value-oriented paths to higher education available in the form of state colleges and universities whose tuition levels are considerably less than that of private and out-of-state institutions.

www.economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Getting a Clearer Picture of College Costs
By DAVID LEONHARDT
For high-achieving, low-income students, some of the cheapest places to attend college are the ones with the highest list prices. Thanks to their endowments, these elite colleges often award large scholarships to poor and even many middle-class students.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Does-Merit-Aid-Abet-Tuition/141623/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
How ‘Merit’ Aid Hurts the Needy—and Colleges
By Henry E. Riggs
Henry E. Riggs is president emeritus of Harvey Mudd College and an emeritus professor and former vice president of Stanford University.
College students, their parents, government officials, and higher-education experts dwell, with tedious repetition but to no apparent effect, on the issues of college tuition and financial aid. First, they condemn annual tuition increases that greatly exceed the nation’s inflation rate. Second, they lament the paucity of financial aid and the accumulated debt of present and former students.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/why-admissions-and-financial-aid-professionals-should-work-together-2/36417?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Why Admissions and Financial-Aid Professionals Should Work Together
By Chris George
For many families, college admissions and financial aid are two parts of one process. Yet financial-aid and admissions professionals don’t always understand one another’s work. In a guest post today, Chris George, assistant vice chancellor for enrollment and director of financial aid at the University of Denver, explains why the two groups should work more closely together.

www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_without_limits/2013/09/how_teachers_are_turning_to_social_media_to_extend_learning.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
How Teachers Are Turning to Social Media to Extend Learning
By Laura Heinauer Mellett
Social media is one of the trendiest ways teachers are enhancing lessons and engaging students both in and out of the classroom.With just a smartphone, iPad, laptop, or a home computer, social media can improve teaching and extend learning time in a way students get excited about.

Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/College-Access-Group-Hailed-by/141677/?cid=at
College-Access Group Hailed by Obama Expands to 11 More Campuses
By Eric Hoover
Say Yes to Education Inc., a nonprofit organization, announced on Wednesday the addition of 11 more private-college partners that will provide free tuition to eligible low-income students who participate in the group’s program, bringing the total number of member institutions to 54. The announcement comes a month after President Obama praised the group’s efforts to prepare students for college in Buffalo, N.Y., and Syracuse, N.Y.

Related article:
www.huffingtonpost.com
Say Yes Tuition Pact Adds Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton To Help Urban Students
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/say-yes-tuition-cornell-dartmouth_n_3951789.html?utm_hp_ref=college

www.latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-uc-fundraising-20130919,0,4908204.story
Celebrities join UC online crowdfunding campaign for financial aid
Actor Jamie Foxx, Beach Boys member Mike Love and Gov. Jerry Brown are among those promising activities if their fundraising goals for UC financial aid through the Internet campaign are met.
By Larry Gordon
SAN FRANCISCO — In an unusual effort to bolster financial aid for undergraduates, UC on Wednesday publicly launched an online crowdfunding campaign that has movie stars, politicians, students and faculty pledging to host parties, lead hikes, sing rap songs and work in soup kitchens to win donations. The Promise for Education campaign, which will last six weeks, is designed in part to attract donations from young alumni and others who might not respond to more traditional fundraising appeals but may be intrigued by a social media one and donate to a particular person’s activity.

www.michiganradio.org
http://michiganradio.org/post/university-michigan-now-offering-state-tuition-undocumented-students
The University of Michigan is now offering in-state tuition to undocumented students
By Stateside Staff
The new fall semester at the University of Michigan is bringing significant change. Earlier this summer, the U of M Board of Regents said “yes” to offering in-state tuition to undocumented students as long as they meet certain criteria. All military will be allowed to pay in-state tuition, active, reserve, and honorably discharged, as well.

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/lawmaker-floats-proposal-for-free-community-college-tuition/?utm_campaign=0919ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=7dd659a1b20d46b9bf3bb635fcbc641f&elqCampaignId=85
Lawmaker floats proposal for free community college tuition
Source: Statesman Journal
Some Oregon high school graduates could get free tuition at a community college for two years, under a proposal floated around Tuesday by a Beaverton lawmaker. The free tuition would allow those students to enter a two-year degree program or take college credits that they would transfer to a four-year university.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/19/seven-state-coalition-pushes-more-information-about-military-credit-recommendations
Credit for Service
By Paul Fain
Statewide higher education offices in seven Midwestern states have banded together to help student veterans earn college credit for the training and experience they receive in the U.S. military.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Penn-State-Eliminates-Fines/141705/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Penn State Eliminates Fines for Employees Who Skip Wellness Questions
By Robin Wilson
Pennsylvania State University has dropped a controversial plan to levy a $1,200 annual fine on employees who fail to answer health-related questions that many faculty members called too invasive. … At issue was an online questionnaire the university unveiled in July as part of a new wellness plan. The plan was aimed at cutting the institution’s health-care costs, which have risen by 20 percent over the last two years, to more than $217-million in the 2013-14 academic year.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/19/segregated-sororities-not-limited-alabama-experts-say
It’s Not Just Alabama
By Allie Grasgreen
The University of Alabama has faced a barrage of criticism over the past several days, after its student newspaper published an account of black students being denied membership into white sororities because of their race. . . .But the allegations out of Alabama are not particularly shocking to some who study diversity in the Greek system, in which informal segregation has remained the norm on campuses far beyond the deep South.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/education-dept-to-convene-rule-making-panel-on-clery-act-changes/66165?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Education Dept. to Convene Rule-Making Panel on Clery Act Changes
by Nick DeSantis
The U.S. Department of Education plans to convene a negotiated rule-making committee to propose regulations for carrying out new campus-crime reporting requirements that were included in this year’s reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, according to a notice to appear in Thursday’s Federal Register.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/141697/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
What You Need to Know About Reauthorization
Congress is gearing up to “reauthorize,” or renew, the Higher Education Act, the major law that governs federal student aid. The following is a guide to reauthorization, with information about what’s at stake for colleges and resources to help make sense of the process.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/performance-based-appropriations-may-not-sway-student-outcomes/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Performance-Based Appropriations May Not Sway Student Outcomes
By Eric Kelderman
President Obama has suggested that the federal government start awarding money to colleges based on their academic performance. But national policy makers should keep in mind that such a system hasn’t completely worked at the state level, according to the recommendations of a new report.

www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2013/09/gao_race_to_the_top_states_hav.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
GAO: Race to Top States Have Mixed Record on Teacher Evaluation
By Alyson Klein
Race to the Top states are having differing degrees of success with what has turned out to be one of the toughest tasks required by the Obama administration’s marquee competitive-grant program: crafting new teacher evaluations that take student performance into account, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm.

www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/18/04esra_ep.h33.html?tkn=NTZFXRT4mmfZqxTlQsiT1EUeR5wdpbNUrGls&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Lawmakers Question Education Research’s Usefulness
By Sarah D. Sparks
Washington
Federal education research has gotten more scientifically rigorous, but in a time of shrinking agency budgets, Congress is debating whether it is practically useful. The first reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act—six years overdue and counting—gained some Hill traction last week, as the latest attempt to renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act limps in the Senate.