USG NEWS:
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Georgia Tech President visits Rome
By David Crowder
Georgia Tech President Dr. G.P. “Bud” Peterson visited Rome on Tuesday. The purposed of the visit was to see firsthand the impact that Tech has in the Rome and Floyd County community, especially as it relates to the MyJourney Compass project. MyJourney Compass is a federally funded pilot project to put healthcare information in the hands of patients through mobile technology. …Georgia Tech has recently increased its presence in the community by also opening a field office at Georgia Highlands College’s Heritage Hall in Rome.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2014/07/familiar-one-live-oak-building-gets-a-makeover.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_atlanta+(Atlanta+Business+Chronicle)
Familiar One Live Oak building gets a makeover
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Another Buckhead building owner has caught the renovation fever. HighBrook Investment Management LP is under way on multi-million dollar renovations to One Live Oak Center, a 10-story building that’s been part of Buckhead since the early 1980s and known today for counting The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business as its anchor tenant.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/police-two-uga-students-sold-hundreds-of-textbooks/ngmGY/
Police: Two UGA students sold hundreds of textbooks obtained illegally
By Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Two University of Georgia students are in hot water for allegedly selling hundreds of textbooks that University Police said were obtained illegally. In the first of the two cases, which police said are unrelated, Julia Hannah Meranski, 27, was initially arrested April 1 and charged at that time with theft by taking. Meranski, who was also a university employee at the time, “had been reported as a suspicious person seen entering offices in Brooks Hall on campus,” according to a University Police release. …Also Friday, University Police issued warrants charging 34-year-old graduate student and teaching assistant Michael Raymond DeWitt with 77 misdemeanor counts of theft by deception in a case that University Police Lt. Eric Dellinger said is unrelated to Meranski’s case.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/suspect-in-uga-dorm-burglary-is-a-5-star-recruitin/ngmBs/
Suspect in UGA dorm burglary is a 5-star recruiting prospect
By Chip Towers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Athens — UGA Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 5-star recruiting prospect who was attending Georgia’s Dawg Night camp this past weekend. Darnell Saloman, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound wide receiver from Hollywood, Fla., has been identified as the suspect accused of entering the unlocked suite of two female students in Busbee Hall this past Saturday morning and stealing an iPhone5 and a wallet containing cash and credit cards. His name was listed on the UGA’s daily police activity log Wednesday morning.

USG VALUE:
www.coastalcourier.com
http://coastalcourier.com/section/5/article/68684/
Camp designed to pique kids’ interests
Georgia Tech works with Liberty Element
By Katelyn Umholtz
Courier intern
Area elementary-school-aged students studied up on a variety of subjects at the Georgia Institute of Technology STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) Camp last week at Liberty Elementary School. From July 14-18, 26 students from various schools in the area attended “Camp Rock,” which featured hands-on activities, such as making edible rocks, creating volcanoes that erupt and understanding the quickness of quicksand. The students also learned what goes into making apps and, with help from the Georgia Tech team, built their own iPad apps.

RESEARCH:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-math-department-receives-million-grant-to-attract-math-researchers/article_426ceb4a-111a-11e4-966c-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA math department receives $2 million grant to attract math researchers
Aaron Layman
The University of Georgia Department of Mathematics received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation earlier this month to grow math programs at UGA. The grant is to be used over the next five years and will be utilized by the math department’s Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory group to attract and train more students in mathematics. “We are always on the lookout for this type of funding activity. For this particular grant, we applied for funding two years in a row, and received it the second time,” said Daniel Krashen, an associate professor of algebra at UGA.

www.touch.latimes.com
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80861425/
Improved parenting may fortify low-income kids against poverty effects
BY MELISSA HEALY
For children growing up in poverty, the seeds of poor health in adulthood appear to be sown early. But a nurturing parent may be able to foster a child’s resilience to such conditions as allergies, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers, says a new study. To gauge the lasting health effects of good parenting, the latest research returned to rural Georgia eight years after researchers completed their first clinical trial of a seven-week program called the Strong African American Families Project. …The article was published Monday in the journal PNAS. Among its authors are Gene H. Brody, director of the University of Georgia’s center for family research, who helped devise the Strong African American Families Project, whose curriculum has been adopted by agencies in Georgia, California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa andWashington, D.C.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2014-07-22/green-tea-lozenge-helps-dry-mouth?v=1406076235
Green tea lozenge helps dry mouth
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
A lozenge using green tea extract developed at Georgia Regents University appears to work surprisingly well in patients with chronic dry mouth, GRU researchers said. In a randomized control trial of the MighTeaFlow lozenge versus a placebo with just the sugar substitute xylitol, the green-tea extract lozenge increased saliva flow nearly fourfold, the study found.

www.atlantatechedge.com
http://www.atlantatechedge.com/ATLANTATECHEDGE/article/324710/554/Cutting-Edge-Trends-72014
Cutting Edge Trends: 7.20.14
Researchers at Georgia Tech have figured out a way for children to teach robots how to play Angry Birds.(VIDEO segment starts at 2:02)

www.spacenews.com
http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/41314privately-funded-solar-sail-craft-slated-for-launch-in-2016
Privately Funded Solar Sail Craft Slated for Launch in 2016
By Elizabeth Howell
Nine years after a rocket failure destroyed its solar-sailing spacecraft, the Planetary Society is ready for another try … LightSail-B will be boosted to medium Earth orbit inside another spacecraft called Prox-1, a Georgia Institute of Technology project.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/science/study-chimp-intelligence-all-family/ngmKC/
Study: Chimp intelligence is all in the family
By Georgia State University News Service
A chimpanzee’s intelligence is largely determined by its genes, while environmental factors may be less important than scientists previously thought, according to a Georgia State University research study. The study found that some, but not all, cognitive, or mental, abilities, in chimpanzees depend significantly on the genes they inherit. The findings are reported in the latest issue of Current Biology. “Intelligence runs in families,” said Dr. William Hopkins, professor in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State and research scientist in the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.effinghamherald.net
http://www.effinghamherald.net/section/2/article/27234/
Why Johnny can’t go to college
By Tom Crawford
In less than a month, students will be reporting for fall semester classes at the public colleges that make up the state’s university system. I’m sure they will be a smarter group than the students who entered college with me back in my freshman days. We hope they will be a more diverse group as well, reflecting the state’s growing black, Latino, and Asian populations.
Unfortunately for Georgia’s future, there will be fewer of these students attending our public colleges and universities than there were a couple of years ago.

www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/07/atlanta-funds-innovative-dormitory-thats-to-help-entrepreneurs-succeed/
Atlanta funds innovative dormitory that’s to help entrepreneurs succeed
By David Pendered
A dormitory that’s designed to give a leg up to budding entrepreneurs is to be built at Technology Square, in Midtown, with financial aid from Atlanta’s development arm. A dormitory that’s designed to give a leg up to budding entrepreneurs is to be built at Technology Square, in Midtown, with financial aid from Atlanta’s development arm. Invest Atlanta has agreed to fund up to $70 million in construction costs of a 230-unit building dubbed, “Tech Square Tower (the Entrepreneur Dorm)”. Only three similar dorms exist in the nation, according to Invest Atlanta – at Stanford, Columbia, and New York universities, with one more to open in 2015 at University of Florida.

www.southeastfarmpress.com
http://southeastfarmpress.com/cotton/beet-armyworms-feeding-pigweed-threaten-move-georgia-cotton
Beet armyworms feeding on pigweed, threaten move to Georgia cotton
Phillip Roberts, University of Georgia
Beet armyworms feeding on escaped pigweeds have been reported from some areas of south Georgia. Hot and dry conditions like we have experienced in recent weeks is favorable for BAW reproduction. We last observed BAWs feeding on pigweed to any degree in 2009. As a whole, growers are managing pigweed much better today than in 2009, so there is less opportunity for BAW to get established on pigweed and potentially move to cotton in most fields. When pigweed is defoliated by BAW or killed by herbicide, plowing or pulling, large BAW larvae may move to cotton and potentially cause injury.

Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/ap/georgia/ga-lottery-turns-21-launches-kia-promotion/ngk6p/
Ga. lottery turns 21, launches Kia promotion
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The Georgia Lottery is celebrating its 21st anniversary and is partnering with Kia Motors to launch new games and promotions. …Revenue from the Georgia lottery is used to support the state’s HOPE Scholarship program and pre-kindergarten programs throughout the state.

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www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/georgia-lottery-announces-partnership-kia-motors/ngkqG/
Georgia Lottery announces partnership with Kia Motors

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65743/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=1500457ea45b4b899d0772e46e420e72&elqCampaignId=348
Report: Higher Education Behind on Common Core
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
America’s primary and secondary schools may be busy preparing for the onset of the Common Core standards, meant to better prepare students for college, but one key partner isn’t even close to ready: colleges and universities themselves. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the New America Foundation, which finds that “there is little evidence to suggest colleges are meaningfully aligning college instruction and teacher preparation programs with the Common Core standards.”

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65709/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=1500457ea45b4b899d0772e46e420e72&elqCampaignId=348
Stage Set for Showdowns Over Potential Contraction of HBCUs
by Pearl Stewart
Around the same time lawmakers in the North Carolina State Senate recently floated the idea of closing historically Black Elizabeth City State University, the United Negro College Fund reported that the Koch brothers, who routinely support Republican candidates and right-wing causes, had made a $25 million donation to the UNCF to help struggling HBCUs. Although financially ailing Elizabeth City State won’t benefit from the Koch money because the UNCF only supports private HBCUs, both situations focused attention on the plight of numerous Black institutions, especially smaller schools facing dwindling financial resources and enrollment declines. …In recent years, lawmakers in several states have raised the subject of closure or mergers or involving HBCUs, only to be drowned out by various constituents of the institutions. However, consolidation has become acceptable among non-HBCUs. For example, the University System of Georgia has merged eight college campuses into four to save money. But suggestions that Georgia’s historically Black Albany State be merged with predominantly White Darton State have been vehemently opposed by students, faculty and alumni from both campuses.

www.dispatch.com
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/07/21/Ohio_State_donations_rose_in_past_year.html
Donations to Ohio State University near record levels
By Collin Binkley
The Columbus Dispatch
Donations to Ohio State University grew for the second year in a row and came close to the all-time record in the past fiscal year, college officials announced yesterday. In total, Ohio State gathered $404 million in donations during the fiscal year that ended June 30. …Other universities that broke fundraising records in the 2013-14 school year include Purdue University, the University of Georgia, the University of Missouri and the University of Montana. Donations to colleges hit a record $31.6 billion in 2007-08 before a deep slide amid economic recession, according to surveys by the national Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Recently, however, there have been signs of a strong rebound in giving.

www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/07/21/chairs-and-tables-the-classroom-technology-that-could-help-students?int=9a5208
A Swivel Chair: The Most Important Classroom Technology?
Redesigned learning spaces can engage students and faculty members, research says.
By Allie Bidwell
What if the key to boosting student engagement was as simple as swapping out desks and chairs and rearranging the layout of a classroom? The most important classroom technology nowadays is not a classroom projector, laptop or tablet – it’s the swivel chair, according to one environment and behavior researcher.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/23/more-out-state-students-u-california#sthash.TxPHR5mI.dpbs
More Out-of-State Students at U. of California
Enrollment of out-of-state students continues to rise, and provoke debate, at University of California campuses. The Los Angeles Times reported that the percentage of new freshmen from outside California will hit 20.2 percent in the fall, up from 18.3 percent last year and 15.5 percent the year before. While some public universities have for years admitted substantial percentages of their students from outside their states, the trend is relatively new for California, where officials say it is necessary because of the tuition revenue the students bring.

www.wahingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-college-data-give-fuller-picture-of-graduation-rates–and-show-challenges/2014/07/18/92578f92-0dba-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html
New college data give fuller picture of graduation rates — and show challenges
By Nick Anderson
Dozens of public universities across the country, including three in Maryland, report that fewer than half of their full-time freshmen in 2007 earned bachelor’s degrees after six years at those schools or after switching to other schools. That finding emerges from an unusual cache of data posted on a nongovernmental Web site to provide what sponsors call “a more comprehensive and accurate picture” of college outcomes than can be found in federal records. The new data put a rare spotlight on a crucial group: transfer students.The government tracks graduation rates for first-time, full-time students who finish where they began. But that omits the huge number who hop from school to school. Colleges are now stepping forward to fill in gaps in public knowledge through a site called Student Achievement Measure.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/23/competency-based-education-gets-boost-education-department#sthash.rrDKohs9.dpbs
Experimenting With Aid
By Paul Fain
The U.S. Department of Education will give its blessing — and grant federal aid eligibility — to colleges’ experimentation with competency-based education and prior learning assessment. On Tuesday the department announced a new round of its “experimental sites” initiative, which waives certain rules for federal aid programs so institutions can test new approaches without losing their aid eligibility.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/23/intensive-advising-programs-can-alter-students-college-paths#sthash.QYo7Imra.dpbs
Affordable Options
By Jake New
Intensive advising programs can result in significant savings for low-income students going to college, according to a new research paper, but many high schools lack the sort of resources the paper discusses. The paper – co-authored by Benjamin Castleman, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, and Joshua Goodman, an assistant professor at Harvard University – focuses on the outcomes of a Boston-based advising program called Bottom Line.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/23/obama-signs-workforce-training-bill-announces-new-executive-action-overhaul-federal#sthash.5RNbShb1.dpbs
Renewed Push on Job Training
By Michael Stratford
President Obama took steps to overhaul federal job training programs on Tuesday, announcing new executive actions and signing new workforce investment legislation.
The legislation reauthorizes a federal law that provides states and municipalities with money for job training. The new law, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, aims to streamline programs and eliminate redundancy.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/governor-seeks-resignations-of-2-alabama-state-u-trustees?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Governor Seeks Resignations of 2 Alabama State U. Trustees
by Nick DeSantis
Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama has asked the chairman and vice chairman of Alabama State University’s Board of Trustees to resign, in the latest skirmish between Mr. Bentley and the historically black institution’s board.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/23/minnesota-sues-2-profit-colleges#sthash.Jelq73t7.Ac1kw0GQ.dpbs
Minnesota Sues 2 For-Profit Colleges
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson on Tuesday announced lawsuits against the Minnesota School of Business and Globe University, charging that the for-profit institutions were duping students into enrolling in programs that wouldn’t help them, The Star-Tribune reported.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/for-profit-that-took-over-4-corinthian-campuses-files-for-bankruptcy/82551?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
For-Profit That Took Over 4 Corinthian Campuses Files for Bankruptcy
by Andy Thomason
BioHealth College Inc., a for-profit company that acquired its four campuses from Corinthian Colleges last year, has filed for bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company operates four campuses in California, all of which it acquired from Corinthian in January 2013.