University System News:
WTOC
Georgia Tops $6 billion in film & TV production
http://www.wfxg.com/story/29519991/georgia-tops-6-billion-in-film-tv-production
Georgia is one of the fastest growing entertainment production centers in the world.Gov. Nathan Deal announced film and television productions in Georgia during the last fiscal year generated an economic impact of more than $6-billion dollars. That’s up from $5 billion the previous year and just $250 million eight years ago.
Global Atlanta – (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Georgia Colleges and Universities Reach Out to Liberia
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27711/georgia-colleges-and-universities-reach-out-to-liberia/
by Cynthia L. Blandford
Education will continue to be a key priority of Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s post-Ebola recovery strategy. That University Consortium for Liberia initiative was launched in June 2009, by the Honorary Consul General of the Liberian consulate in Atlanta supported by the Liberian embassy in Washington. In late 2014, the consortium was approved as a non-profit organization that is to work with government and our partners to provide scholarships and support for students to study abroad. It also is to participate in service learning and student exchange programs. That includes opportunities for research and faculty development and collaboration between international colleges and universities.
Twenty-one colleges and universities are partners in the consortium. Our vision is to help provide brighter futures through education and understanding.
USG Institutions:
Augusta Chronicle
Focus shifts to crew training as Georgia lures Hollywood
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2015-07-11/focus-shifts-crew-training-georgia-lures-hollywood
By Kathleen Foody
Boom.
Set heat.
The vocabulary list is a little different for 20 Clayton State University students gathered Tuesday in a dark film studio located about 20 miles south of Atlanta.
The class is part of a broad effort to cement Georgia as a top option for filming blockbuster movies or hit TV series. Last July, representatives for top film and television producers including NBC and Marvel warned state officials that finding trained crew members is a struggle. Several of the state’s technical schools and universities immediately began developing programs.
Statesboro Herald
Georgia Southern filmmakers explore new depths
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/68831/
By BRITTANI HOWELL
Most summer classes do not require students to don hard hats and protective padding for course credit, nor do they hold “classes” 200 feet underground. But the students of Jason Knowles’ Multimedia and Film Production summer intensive class at Georgia Southern University have found themselves in that situation twice since the beginning of June. As part of Knowles’ ambitious summer project — completing a feature-length action-adventure film before the beginning of August — the students and a small cast spent several days filming the feature’s climax deep in the caverns of Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
http://www.msn.com/
Why you can’t just eat one fry (or donut or slice of pizza)
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/why-you-can%E2%80%99t-just-eat-one-fry-or-donut-or-slice-of-pizza/ar-AAcQs25
By Katherine Ellen Foley
It’s a nearly impossible challenge: Eat just one potato chip. Same goes for tater-tots, cheese, ice cream—high-fat foods can be addictive. Before you know it, you’ve finished your portion and moved on to the rest of the container. It turns out, there may be a biological reason for that. Research from the University of Georgia at Athens suggests that high-fat foods actually change the bacteria in your gut, and make it so that we’re unable to detect the sensation that we’re full. Krzysztof Czaja, a neuroscientist at UGA College of veterinary medicine, presented the findings at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior.
Smithsonian
This New Nanogenerator Could Make Cars Much More Efficient
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/new-nanogenerator-could-make-cars-much-more-efficient-180955777/?no-ist
By Emily Matchar
As the Jeep rolled along, its LED lights began to flash on and off. But instead of the toy’s battery powering the lights, as one might expect, a nanogenerator on the Jeep’s tires harvested friction energy to fuel them. Developed by engineers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Zhengzhou University in China, this nanogenerator could eventually make real cars more efficient. By placing electrodes on the tires, the scientists have figured out how to capture the energy from the changing electric potential between the tires and the road.
Savannah Morning News
Savannah children learn self-defense at police youth camp
http://www.macon.com/2015/07/12/3839788/savannah-children-learn-self-defense.html
BY DASH COLEMAN
“Girl power” is what Sgt. Aaron Washington told his class after it wrapped up in June at Savannah State University’s public safety building. The Savannah-Chatham police officer, after all, had just shown about 15 girls how to repel attackers using jujitsu. “It’s very important to learn self-defense at a young age,” Washington said. “Females are the essence of strength.” The class was part of the second of four weeklong sessions of the Savannah-Chatham police department’s youth summer camp for which registration ended earlier this month. This week’s and last week’s sessions were just for girls ages 8-14. On their plates were visits to the Pin Point and civil rights museums, Savannah State’s marine science center, City Hall and tours of the 911 center and the jail.
WABE
Ga. Tech Data Science Interns Develop App For Planting Trees
http://wabe.org/post/ga-tech-data-science-interns-develop-app-planting-trees
By TASNIM SHAMMA
Trees Atlanta has a new tool to convince property owners to plant more trees. “We would drive up and down the street and say, ‘They don’t have any right of way trees, they don’t have any front-yard trees.’ And then we look for a link – someone to establish a project there,” said Alex Beasley of Trees Atlanta. Beasley said now, convincing homeowners will be a lot easier thanks to a program at Georgia Tech. Students interning with the Data Science For Social Good internship program at Georgia Tech created an interactive detailed map of the urban canopy that shows Beasley where the city needs more trees.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
Beyond the Transcript
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/13/project-create-models-broader-form-student-transcript
By Paul Fain
Most people in higher education agree that the old-school college transcript fails to adequately capture what students learn and do during their time in college.
Student affairs administrators and college registrars often see the transcript’s shortcomings in their jobs. So the two national associations that represent those groups today announced a project to develop models for a more comprehensive student record.