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J. Tom Coleman, businessman, civic leader, dies
http://savannahnow.com/news/2014-06-04/j-tom-coleman-businessman-ciovic-leader-dies#.U49SRC_ZN5s
By Jan Skutch
Posted: June 4, 2014
J. Tom Coleman, a businessman who served his native Savannah and state in various political offices over four decades died early today at his home under care of Hospice Savannah. He was 85. Coleman started Bonitz of Georgia Inc. in 1954 and remained as board chairman…In addition to his elected and appointed positions, Coleman served on the state’s Board of Regents beginning in 1995 and the Savannah Port Authority. While in the state Senate, he chaired the Senate Transportation Committee and was considered the go-to guy on transportation issues.

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Georgia to receive $1 million higher education grant
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/georgia-to-receive-1-million-higher-education-gran/ngC7Q/
By Janel Davis
June 3, 2014
Georgia colleges will receive a $1 million grant to help make college more affordable and ensure more students graduate on time. Gov. Nathan Deal is scheduled to make the announcement Wednesday at Georgia Tech’s Historic Academy of Medicine with officials from the Lumina Foundation and Complete College America.

Gwinnett Daily Journal
Georgia Tech president Bud Peterson visits Rotary Club of Gwinnett
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/jun/03/georgia-tech-president-bud-peterson-visits-rotary/
By Emily Clance
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The Rotary Club of Gwinnett welcomed Georgia Tech’s president, Bud Peterson, to its meeting on Tuesday. It was Peterson’s second time speaking to the club, the first being in November 2009, shortly after he had become president. His speech on Tuesday centered around how Georgia Tech is involved in its community and how higher education as a whole has changed. Gwinnett County is home to 7,000 Georgia Tech alumni and 2,000 of the 14,000 undergraduates currently attenting the school are Gwinnett natives. Accordingly, Georgia Tech is heavily involved in the county, Peterson said. The school has a partnership with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, a program through the Enterprise Innovation Program.

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Pasaquan will be restored then gifted to Columbus State
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/06/03/3135716/pasaquan-to-be-restored-gifted.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
By MARK RICE
June 3, 2014
The effort to preserve Pasaquan, the internationally renowned visionary art site in Marion County, has received a huge boost that will result in a gift to Columbus State University. The Kohler Foundation Inc., based in Wisconsin and dedicated to preserving art environments, has announced plans to restore the seven acres and six buildings to the colorful glory created six decades ago by the late Eddie Owens Martin, known as St. EOM. After the two-year project is finished, Pasaquan will be gifted to the CSU Foundation for the university to use under the direction of associate art professor Mike McFalls. CSU plans to use the site for events, programming, educational activities and tours.

Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/06/03/3135716/pasaquan-to-be-restored-gifted.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
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GRU researcher finds liver cancer vaccine that works in mice
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/06/03/gru-researcher-finds-liver-cancer-vaccine-for-mice.html?s=print
By Ellie Hensley
June 3, 2014
A researcher at Georgia Regents University has developed a vaccine effective at preventing liver cancer in mice. The vaccine, created by Dr. Yukai He, immunologist at the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Regents University Cancer Center in Augusta, Georgia, blocked cancer about 90 percent of the time when tested on mice that were exposed to liver cancer. Vaccines work by helping direct the immune system to attack invaders by showing it an antigen that the body will recognize is foreign. He used Alpha-Feroprotein (AFP), which is normally expressed during cancer cell development, but not typically by healthy adults. This is because cells must revert back to an immature state called dedifferentiation for cancer cells to flourish. For this reason, the immune system can recognize AFP as itself. Using a process called antigen engineering, He tweaked AFP so that the immune system.

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Researchers see solar-powered cars on the road ahead (Video)
http://bluesky.chicagotribune.com/chi-solar-powered-cars-bsi-news,0,0.htmlstory
By Ben Gruber, Reuters
June 2, 2014
The idea of solar powered cars may seem far-fetched but researchers at Ford Motor Company and the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing a system they hope will spark a revolution in sun-powered transportation.

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Intel & Georgia Tech Advance Spintronics
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322589&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT
By R. Colin Johnson
6/3/2014
Spintronic devices that store information on state variables of electrons (not their cumulative charge) could be the answer to the increasing power dissipation of chips as their dimensions are scaled down. Spintronics also could solve the memory refreshing problem that bogs down computers on startup. “There are two primary reasons for going to spintronics,” Ian Young, a senior fellow at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, Ore., told us. “The first is they require much less energy to switch, giving them a power advantage. And the other is that they are nonvolatile, since you can turn off the power supply and still retain their spin.”

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At-risk boys try new things at Foundation Camp
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/lifestyles/at-risk-boys-try-new-things-at-foundation-camp/article_58d9b1f4-eaed-11e3-8619-0017a43b2370.html
by Jeremy Stewart
Posted: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Community organizations, college professors, and their students have once again joined forces to provide local at-risk boys a chance to make a change in their lives. For the ninth year, Georgia Highlands College is hosting its annual Foundation Camp, a free day camp for boys ages 10-14. It kicked off Monday at the school’s Rome campus on Cedartown Highway with around 120 participants. David Mathis, camp administrator, said they are providing a way for kids who may not be on the right path toward a good education to get a better view of the future. “We want to help them understand that college is and should be a part of their future,” Mathis said. “We are showing them that people do care about them and want to get them ready to be, in many case, first-generation college students.” Ike Nwokike is a former GHC student and serves as a counselor for the two-week program. “When a lot of these kids come in at first they are shy and don’t speak a whole lot,” Nwokike said. “But by the end of it they are changed. They walk up to you with confidence and will shake your hand.”

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Georgia Tech student injured in shooting runs thriving business (Video)
http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/georgia-tech-student-injured-in-shooting-runs/vCcnkb/

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Miss EGSC to compete in Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant
http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_1fb23c1e-eb58-11e3-a9ee-001a4bcf887a.html
Posted: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 3:49 pm
Harley Strickland, a sophomore at East Georgia State College and the reigning Miss EGSC, will travel to Columbus to compete in the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant on June 21, 2014. The daughter of JoAnn and Keith Strickland of Claxton, she is a graduate of Pinewood Christian Academy. At EGSC, she is pursuing a major in broadcast journalism. The Miss Georgia Send-off Celebration 2014, hosted by Miss EGSC and Miss Emanuel County/Miss Southeast Pageant Boards, has been planned for Harley Strickland, Miss East Georgia State College; Austin Carruth, Miss Emanuel County; Charlene Bibeau, Miss Southeast Georgia; Cassie Cothern, Emanuel County’s Outstanding Teen; and Allie Griffis, Southeast Georgia’s Outstanding Teen at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Luck Flanders Gambrell Center at East Georgia State College on June 5th. The event is free and open to the public and will feature sportswear, swimsuits, and dresses that the ladies will wear at the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant later this month. A reception will be held following the preview show.

Education News
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Presidents vs. Guns
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/04/poll-finds-most-college-leaders-oppose-concealed-carry-campus#sthash.b0FWdPV4.dpbs
June 4, 2014
By Scott Jaschik
Amid a national push by gun advocates to permit concealed carry on campuses, a new poll of college presidents found that 95 percent of them oppose measures to allow concealed weapons on campus. The reason cited by more than 9 out of 10 presidents was that concealed carry would lead to accidental shootings of students. And 65 percent of presidents are opposed to concealed weapons off campus, not just on campus. The poll was conducted before last month’s tragedy near the University of California at Santa Barbara, where six students were killed (three by shooting) by a disturbed man who vowed to punish college women for not finding him attractive.

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Input Not Wanted
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/04/u-nebraska-changes-role-faculty-and-students-high-level-searches#ixzz33gvFeuEi
June 4, 2014
By Colleen Flaherty
Faculty members merit a meaningful role in searches for senior administrators, according to the principles of shared governance. Because the decisions chancellors and presidents and their deputies make often impact curriculum, tenure and academic freedom — all traditionally considered the primary domains of the faculty — professors tend to want to vet candidates themselves. So when the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska proposed changes that would have diminished faculty and student input in searches for senior administrators, professors across the system were united in their opposition. They appealed to the board to reconsider its position through emails, phone calls and media outreach, and at its meeting last week.

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Rankings Noise
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/03/what-would-it-really-take-be-us-news-top-20#ixzz33h1RID22
June 3, 2014
By Ry Rivard
What would it take for a well-regarded institution — such as the University of Rochester, and a few dozen more like it — to be among U.S. News & World Report’s top 20 national universities? Hundreds of millions of dollars and a prayer, according a new peer-reviewed paper co-written by a former Rochester provost and his staff. The study, published by the journal Research in Higher Education, argues that small movements in the rankings are simply “noise” and that any kind of sustained upward movement is both immensely expensive and nearly impossible. Ralph Kuncl, a former Rochester provost who is now president of University of Redlands, in California, co-wrote the paper, which was a decade in the making. He started thinking about changes in the rankings when he was vice provost at Johns Hopkins University.

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Why Online Education May Drive Down the Cost of Your Degree
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By Devon Haynie June 3, 2014
As the price of higher education continues to skyrocket, some universities believe they have found the key to keeping tuition costs down — online education. Recently, for example, Georgia Institute of Technology announced it would be offering an online master’s degree in computer science for $6,600 — about $35,000 less than its on-ground program. The University of the People, an accredited, online-only school, is now offering degrees with no tuition. And massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been hailed as free educational resources that people could eventually use to complete a degree.

Www.Chronicle.com (Blog)
Will MOOCs Undermine Top Business Schools, or Help Them?
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/will-moocs-undermine-top-business-schools-or-help-them/53021
by Steve Kolowich
June 3, 2014
Massive open online courses are not currently cannibalizing tuition-based programs at top business schools, according to an enthusiastic report from the University of Pennsylvania. Rather, MOOCs could become a recruiting tool for tapping new pools of potential students. Business schools that offer MOOCs should also figure out how to charge the many students who sign up for the online courses without intending to complete them, write the authors of the report.

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June 3, 2014
AAU Is Accused of Glorifying a Limited View of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/AAU-Is-Accused-of-Glorifying-a/146897/
By Paul Basken
The New America Foundation gave voice on Tuesday to a simmering resentment toward the Association of American Universities, saying its system for ranking research universities is a net negative for higher education. The foundation, in a report by Kevin Carey, its director of education policy, suggested the AAU undergo an overhaul in which its heavy emphasis on research spending as a membership criterion became more balanced by attention to institutional success in teaching students. Through the AAU, Mr. Carey said, a “tiny cabal of venerable institutions has done more to shape and, increasingly, harm the cause of higher learning in America than any other group one could name.”

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A Global Push to Reduce Dropout Rates
http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/a-global-push-to-reduce-dropout-rates/33761?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
by Nigel Thrift
June 3, 2014
Britain has one of the lowest dropout rates of any country in the world, according to a recent study by Sylke V. Schnepf, a researcher at the University of Southhampton. Her work showed that 16 percent of British students prematurely leave their courses at universities, colleges, and vocational institutions. Her study examined mostly European nations and did not include the United States. While not an apples-to-apples comparison, 46 percent of those who enter an American college fail to graduate within six years, according to “The American Dream 2.0″ report. All around the world, dropout rates—and their corollary, retention—are a major concern. They are, of course, a particular concern of American universities, in part because of the Obama administration’s focus on the issue.