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Pentagon gives schools military surplus
By Janel Davis and Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Scenes this summer of police in armored vehicles and riot gear launching tear gas on protesters in Ferguson, Mo., have brought increased scrutiny of a federal program that transfers surplus military supplies to local law enforcement agencies. Georgia colleges and school systems are among those who have taken advantage of the program. Some have acquired refrigerators, firefighting gear and even an electric floor polisher. …In Georgia, a handful of school law enforcement agencies — in three public school districts and at six colleges or universities — have participated in the program, according to data obtained from the Georgia Department of Public Safety. …Police departments for the Dooly County school system and Fort Valley State University received a mix of supplies, cleaning equipment and wet weather gear. …KSU received four M-16s and two M-14s through the program. The six rifles are assigned to officers who have completed 30-plus hours in rifle training.
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http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-09-23/judge-bans-uga-student-athens-while-social-media-threat-case-pending
Judge bans UGA student from Athens while social media threat case is pending
By JOE JOHNSON
A judge Tuesday banned a University of Georgia student from Athens-Clarke County while he faces charges that he made a social media posting suggesting violence on campus last week. Ariel Omar Arias had been held without bail at the Clarke County Jail since his arrest Friday in connection with the post that prompted police to evacuate and search the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. Athens-Clarke County Magistrate Chief Judge Patricia Barron on Tuesday banned the 19-year-old when granting him a total bond of $8,000.
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Judge: UGA student accused of threat must leave Clarke County
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Bond set for UGA student accused of making threat
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http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-09-24/athens-college-students-charged-alleged-crime-spree
Athens college students charged in alleged crime spree
By JOE JOHNSON
Authorities have charged two Athens-area college students in connection with a theft and burglary spree last month. Christopher Joe Romano, 24, who Athens-Clarke County police said attended the University of North Georgia, was arrested Tuesday afternoon. His alleged accomplice, 24-year-old Lauren Michelle Houck, was arrested on Aug. 28. Houck is listed in the University of Georgia’s online student directory. Both have the same address on Ruth Drive, according to police.
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http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/midtown/2014/09/23/georgia-tech-robberies/16132557/
Gunmen try to rob two women on Ga. Tech campus
Kevin Rowson, WXIA
For the third time in a month gunmen tried to rob somebody on the Georgia Tech campus. Georgia Tech Police said the suspects in the latest crime got scared off and fled before carrying out the robbery. According to a police incident report the attempted robbery happened on the boundary of the campus at around 1 a.m. Sunday. Two women, aged 23 and 21, who were not students, were walking east on 10th Street. As they approached the intersection at Center Street, a car pulled in front of them and stopped. The report said two men with guns got out of the car and pointed the guns at the women.
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/police-say-3-men-attempted-rob-georgia-tech-studen/nhSpd/
Georgia Tech robberies may be connected
ATLANTA — Georgia Tech police are investigating their third armed robbery on campus in less than a month. Police say three men tried to rob two people in a busy area, but something spooked the robbers. Police say the men pulled up in a purple two-door convertible near 10th and Center streets this past weekend. Detectives say two men jumped out with guns drawn and tried to rob two people on the sidewalk. …According to the Georgia Tech crime alerts, all of the robberies have something in common.
www.rockdalecitizen.com
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2014/sep/23/cell-phone-video-leads-to-charges-of-statutory/
Cell phone video leads to charges of statutory rape against two men
By Aimee Jones
CONYERS — A video circulating through a local high school led deputies to arrest two University of West Georgia students on statutory rape charges.
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UNG enrollment hits record 16,508 students
By Staff
The University of North Georgia (UNG) started fall semester with a record enrollment of 16,508 registered students, a 2.5 percent increase over fall 2013.
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/sep/23/albany-state-university-marching-band-invited-to/
Albany State University Marching Band invited to 2016 Tournament of Roses Parade
ASU interim dean of the College of Arts and Humanities Marcia Hood said the band was excited, honored by the invite
Staff Reports
ALBANY — The award winning Albany State University Marching Bandhas been invited to perform in the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year’s Day 2016 in Pasadena, Calif.
The parade is a prelude to the annual Rose Bowl, which in 2016 will pit highly-ranked college football teams from the Pac 12 and Big Ten against each other.
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http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-09-23/uga-reveals-plans-new-iron-horse-farm-greene-county
UGA, Iron Horse finally find common ground
By LEE SHEARER
University of Georgia officials showed off plans Tuesday for the university’s new research farm in Greene County. Now renamed the Iron Horse Plant Sciences Farm, it honors the iconic 60-year-old sculpture surveying the 660-acre farm from atop on a knoll beside Georgia Highway 15 near the Oconee River.
www.newsweek.com
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/03/piezoelectricity-and-other-ways-your-body-can-charge-your-phone-272349.html
Piezoelectricity, and Other Ways Your Body Can Charge Your Phone
By Douglas Main
One day in 2002, University of Pennsylvania physiologist Larry Rome got a call from the military. The caller said special forces in Afghanistan were carrying around big backpacks, weighed down with batteries for their equipment, and asked, Did Rome have any idea how to convert the energy the soldiers were expending humping that stuff around into electricity?… One of the pioneers in the field, Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Zhong Lin Wang, has created a variety of devices that harness energy from bodily movements, such as a thermometer incorporated into fabric that can powered by a “few flicks of the shirt,” he says. He has also made a heart-rate monitor that can be placed over the skin and is powered by normal, everyday movement. Wang’s work has also shown that it is possible to harvest significant amounts of energy from falling raindrops. Embedding this technology in, for example, roofing material could enable homes to passively harvest significant amounts of energy.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robots-rfid-find-and-navigate-objects
Robots Use RFID to Find and Navigate to Household Objects
By Evan Ackerman
Vision is, in theory, a great way for robots to identify objects. It works for us humans, so all of the stuff that we have to deal with regularly tends to have distinguishing visual characteristics like pictures or labels. Robot vision can certainly work as a way to identify objects, but it’s not easy, and often requires a ridiculous amount of computing power, whether it’s on the robot or off in the cloud somewhere. And even then, if the object you want to find is facing the wrong way or behind something else, you’re out of luck. So when you think about it, there are two essential pieces to identifying things, and localization is a big one. Vision is often bad at this… Some researchers at Georgia Tech (including Travis Deyle, who writes his own robotics blog) totally know what they’re doing, and have published a paper detailing an efficient, reliable way to perform long-distance localization that’s basically (and I’m quoting the press release here) “the classic childhood game of “Hotter/Colder.”
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/georgia-could-be-first-have-driverless-cars/nhSy2/
Georgia could be first to have driverless cars
By Rachel Stockman
Georgia could become one of the first states to test driverless cars on local county roads. Fayette Commission Chairman Steve Brown confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that he’s talked to Google about bringing the technology to the county. The county commission approved a resolution authorizing Fayette County as a pilot site in metropolitan Atlanta for “autonomous vehicle design, development and testing.”… Channel 2 Action News went to Georgia Tech to get a firsthand look at the technology and the challenges. “Our research is involved in trust, not just how humans trust the self-driving cars, but also how the self-driving cars can and should trust humans,” said Don Davis, chief for Robotics and Autonomous Systems at Georgia Tech.
www.geekwire.com
http://www.geekwire.com/2014/tech-moves-google-x-founder-leaves-vp-role-urbanspoon-names-cto/
Tech Moves: Google X founder leaves, Urbanspoon names CTO, Avanade bolsters board
BY BLAIR HANLEY FRANK
… —The Allen Institute for Brain Science has brought on four new scientists and engineers to boost its research efforts: Stephen Smith, Peter Saggau, Sharad Ramanathan and Craig Forest. Smith, who will be joining the Institute as a Senior Investigator, comes from the Stanford University School of Medicine and will be working on research to understand the mechanisms behind neural computation.… Ramanthan is a Visiting Scientist at the Institute from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and will be working to further his research into how cells and organisms interpret their environment. Forest, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, will continue his research on adapting a technology known as patch clamping as a Visiting Engineer.
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http://www.foodmag.com.au/news/food-supply-management-centre-to-be-established
Food supply management centre to be established
Danielle Bowling
The University of Sydney will partner with brands including Coca-Cola Amatil and SunRice to establish a research centre focusing on maintaining a sustainable food supply to our domestic and export markets. The Training Centre for Food and Beverage Supply Chain Optimisation will operate in cooperation with the University of Newcastle, the CSIRO, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the NSW Department of Primary Industry, and industry partners will include Coca-Cola Amatil, SunRice, the Batlow Fruit Co-operative and Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing. The University of Sydney Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies is establishing the centre, and its chief investigator, Associate Professor Behnam Fahimnia, said a cost effective supply chain is essential if the food industry is to become more sustainable and competitive on the world stage.
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http://www.foodmag.com.au/news/food-supply-management-centre-to-be-established
Food supply management centre to be established
Danielle Bowling
The University of Sydney will partner with brands including Coca-Cola Amatil and SunRice to establish a research centre focusing on maintaining a sustainable food supply to our domestic and export markets. The Training Centre for Food and Beverage Supply Chain Optimisation will operate in cooperation with the University of Newcastle, the CSIRO, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the NSW Department of Primary Industry, and industry partners will include Coca-Cola Amatil, SunRice, the Batlow Fruit Co-operative and Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing. The University of Sydney Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies is establishing the centre, and its chief investigator, Associate Professor Behnam Fahimnia, said a cost effective supply chain is essential if the food industry is to become more sustainable and competitive on the world stage.
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Partner to give kids a chance
By Mike Beatty
Walk into a “12 for Life” facility. See motivated young people working under the direction of adult supervisors, and you will realize something very special is going on. I made my first visit more than four years ago while commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. I spoke with students who shared with me their life-changing experiences. They entered the program behind academically, discouraged, often parents themselves and well on their way to becoming more of Georgia’s high school dropouts. …Later, I met with Commissioner Brian Owens of the Georgia Department of Corrections who had partnered with Monroe County Schools to institute a successful, scaled-down version of 12 for Life in Forsyth. With Ron Jackson, commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia, and Hank Huckabee, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, we formed the Great Promise Partnership and asked Thorn to be the board chair. We instituted a successful two-year pilot with nine sites that replicated the 12 for Life process. It was extremely successful. None of our 100-plus seniors dropped out of school; 89 graduated.
www.forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/09/18/time-to-stop-the-sob-stories-about-student-loan-debt/
Time To Stop The Sob Stories About Student Loan Debt
Jeffrey Dorfman
Contributor
The media and advocates for income redistribution are creating a continual stream of stories about the student loan crisis. We are inundated with sob stories about people suffering under a crushing debt burden. The New York Times alone has had stories on how student loan debt is now a problem for senior citizens, how young people’s lives have been ruined, and how a whole generation will be unable to buy homes because of their student loan debt. Luckily, these stories are based simply on a few scattered cases. In reality, there is no student loan debt crisis and it is time for the media to report the facts, not the sob stories.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/atlanta-metro-area-students-to-receive-state-schol/nhTDx/
Atlanta metro area students to receive state scholarships for college
By Rose French
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dozens of Atlanta metro area students are expected to receive scholarships for college as part of a recently launched state program aimed at helping financially needy students.
Accompanied by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, eight Fulton County middle school students will sign commitments to graduate high school Wednesday during a ceremony at Fulton’s school district headquarters — accepting a $10,000 college scholarship funded by the REACH Georgia program. Some 50 other metro area students will also be participating in the REACH program.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/georgia-seeks-one-year-delay-in-high-stakes-teache/nhTB7/
Georgia seeks one-year delay in high-stakes teacher evaluation system
By Wayne Washington
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia has formally requested a one-year delay as it moves to an evaluation system that ties teacher ratings to how their students perform academically.
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http://chronicle.com/article/In-11th-Hour-Move-Education/148971/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In 11th-Hour Move, Education Dept. Spares the Rod on Loan Defaults
By Kelly Field
Washington
On the eve of the much-anticipated release of its annual roundup of student-loan default rates, the Education Department has announced that it will spare some colleges whose high rates would have cost them their ability to award federal student aid. In a notice published quietly on Tuesday, the department told colleges it had “adjusted” the rates of institutions that fell short of the strict new standard that took full effect this year, excluding some defaulters from the colleges’ totals.
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Reprieve on Default Rates
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/23/homeless-students_n_5864414.html
Number Of Homeless Students In America Is Rising Rapidly
The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Klein
The number of homeless students in the United States reached a record high during the 2012-13 school year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education. The report released Monday shows that homeless children enrolled in public preschool and grades K-12 jumped 8 percent from the previous school year to hit 1,258,182.
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The Reason College Costs More Than You Think
Jon Marcus
Freshmen say they’ll finish in four years, but most will be paying tuition for five or six years
When Alex Nichols started as a freshman at the University of Mississippi, he felt sure he’d earn his bachelor’s degree in four years. Five years later, and Nichols is back on the Oxford, Miss. campus for what he hopes is truly his final semester. …Nearly nine out of 10 freshmen think they’ll earn their bachelor’s degrees within the traditional four years, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. But the U.S. Department of Education reports that fewer than half that many actually will. And about 45 percent won’t have finished even after six years. That means the annual cost of college, a source of so much anxiety for families and students, often overlooks the enormous additional expense of the extra time it will actually take to graduate.
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HBCU Advocates Riding Wave of Wariness Over Proposed College Ratings System
by Catherine Morris
Dr. William R. Harvey, president of Hampton College and chairman of the White House Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, cut straight to the chase in his opening remarks at the National HBCU Week Conference. “Federal support for HBCUs is showing an alarming downward trend, and our friends in Washington need to know that we are watching and counting,” Harvey said Monday. Funding is down across the board for African-American students and HBCUs, Harvey said.
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-state-university-set-to-select-its-next-president-tuesday-afternoon/2198993
Florida State names state Sen. John Thrasher its new president
Tia Mitchell, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE — A search that began in March and stalled over the summer because of the long shadow cast by a powerful state senator ended Tuesday when the Florida State University board of trustees named Sen. John Thrasher the school’s new president.
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Florida State’s Politician President
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http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Better-Major-Gifts/148957/
Building a Better Major-Gifts Officer
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Colleges are increasingly reliant on the big gift. More than three-quarters of all higher-education fund raising came from the top 1 percent of donors in 2011, up from 64 percent just five years earlier. So it stands to reason that colleges are also increasingly dependent on their major-gifts officers, particularly the ones who are really good at landing such donations.
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http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2014/09/23/groundbreaking-research-leads-to-peach-crops-in-florida/16100049/
Groundbreaking research leads to FL peaches
Tammie Fields, WTSP
Winter Haven, Florida — Move over oranges, there may be a new fruit in town. Fifty years in the making, Florida researchers are breaking new ground by helping Bay area citrus growers produce the perfect peach. While it costs three times as much per acre to grow peaches than it does to grow citrus the hope is that the expense will pay off in the long run. When most people think of peaches they probably think of vine-ripe sweet and juicy Georgia peaches, but Florida peaches are now an alternative.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/24/study-suggests-link-between-ethnicity-gender-stereotypes-and-interest-stem
Gender Stereotypes in STEM
By Kaitlin Mulhere
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math fields has been well-documented through various studies and reports. And increasing gender diversity in the so-called STEM fields is a key goal of groups spanning the education, government and labor market sectors. But few reports on gender participation in STEM analyze women under the microscope of different demographic backgrounds to determine whether there’s variation between different cultures or ethnicities, according to the authors of research recently published online in the American Psychology Association’s Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology journal.