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Loss of Georgia in name worries Augusta University dental school
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2015-10-08/loss-georgia-name-worries-augusta-university-dental-school
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
Not everyone was cheering when the name of Georgia Regents University was changed to Augusta University. Soon after the name change, College of Dental Medicine Dean Carol Lefebvre said she heard from students concerned that the name Georgia no longer graces the state’s only dental school. “They were concerned about the loss of identity of the state in the name,” she said. That was particularly true in light of the fact that the state dental schools in all of the neighboring states are at universities that bear the state’s name, such as Medical University of South Carolina, for instance. Lefebvre said. In fact, most of the state-supported dental schools have some allusion to that state, although not all, she said.
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Georgia Tech Opened Its Doors 127 Years Ago
http://news.wabe.org/post/georgia-tech-opened-its-doors-127-years-ago
By BRENNA BEECH
Oct. 8 is a big day in Georgia Tech’s history. On this day in 1888, Georgia Tech opened its doors to students, as long as they were OK with working toward the only degree the school offered at the time ─ a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degree. Upon it’s opening, classes were only offered from the School of Mechanical Engineering and its departments of chemistry, mathematics and English, according to Georgia Tech’s living history website. By Jan. 1889, 129 students were enrolled in the mechanical engineering program.
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Siemens, Georgia Tech expand innovation partnership
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/siemens-georgia-tech-expand-innovation-partnership/nnyGy/
Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Siemens and Georgia Tech are expanding a nearly two-decade partnership to prepare the future manufacturing and engineering workforce. The expansion was announced Thursday during the “Bold Bets: Commercializing the Cosmos” event held by The Atlantic at Georgia Tech, which focused on collaborations between companies and government entities. Under the expanded relationship, Georgia Tech was named a Siemens Center of Knowledge Interchange partner, joining a group of eight research universities. The partners are set to work on a project to enhance the company’s human-simulation software.
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Startup aims to allow vending industry to track cash, inventory
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/10/09/startup-aims-to-allow-vending-industry-to-track.html
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Teaming up for research
The city of Atlanta, Georgia State University and Georgia Tech will be founding members of the MetroLab Network to research, develop and deploy new technologies to address challenges in the nation’s urban areas. The MetroLab Network is based on previous successes of technologies developed from city/university partnerships, according to a statement. These partnerships have produced transportation and water infrastructure projects that increased the efficiency and reduced the environmental impact of infrastructure systems. By becoming partners of the network, the city, George State and Georgia Tech will collaborate on challenges, not only in Atlanta, but throughout the cities that have partnered in the MetroLab Network.
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“Stealth” sculpture soon-to-be unveiled in Midtown
http://www.myajc.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/stealth-sculpture/nnxMP/
By Erica Hernandez – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta, meet the soon-to-be most-Instagrammed spot in Midtown: “Stealth.” The 33-foot-tall concrete sculpture by Atlanta native, Tristan Al-Haddad, has been in the works for about two and a half years and is now less than a month away from completion. Commissioned by Cousins Properties, owners of Promenade II at 1230 Peachtree Street N.E., Atlanta, Ga., Al-Haddad’s “Stealth” is perched between the High Museum of Art and The Castle. …Al-Haddad, a 25-year Midtown resident, is also the owner and creative force behind Formations Studio. In the other half of what Al-Haddad calls his “double life” he is also on faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture.
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Grant to fund Armstrong water farming
http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2015-10-08/grant-fund-armstrong-water-farming
By: Business in Savannah
The Forum Group Charitable Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Armstrong State University to fund the creation of an aquaponics research center. Its mission is to conduct cutting-edge research and develop technologies and best practices that improve the sustainability and profitability of soilless farming techniques. The new facility, which broke ground in November 2014, will be located in the field next to the Arts Drive parking lot.
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Shooting Sports Center adds opportunities at Georgia Southern
http://www.wtoc.com/story/30220883/shooting-sports-center-adds-opportunities-at-georgia-southern
By Dal Cannady
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Georgia Southern University officially opened their Shooting Sports Education Center Thursday. The $5.8 million facility took years to bring to reality, combining the land, the money, and political support. The university worked with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, City of Statesboro, and a private foundation to build and equip it. The center includes 16 range lanes each for archery and firearms.
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Schools use social media to watch for threats of violence
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/schools-use-social-media-to-watch-for-threats-of-v/nnyK9/
By Janel Davis and Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Authorities at Georgia’s college and public school campuses are constantly on alert for the potential of mass shootings or violence, and they try to prepare themselves. …UGA is in its first year of using a location-based social media monitoring platform they are testing at special events and with the school’s alert system. Using GPS coordinates, the system, costing about $4,000 a year, allows the school to place a virtual barrier around a particular location and monitor the social media chatter of people in the area attending the event. The “geofencing” system does allow UGA officials to monitor for key words, said Steve Harris, UGA’s director of emergency preparedness, but one of the best uses is to refute rumors that may be circulating about safety risks. Georgia Tech, chose not to discuss with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the work it is doing in this area.
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Georgia State students, protesters clash on campus
http://www.wbtv.com/story/30220156/protesters-and-students-clash-at-rally-on-gsu-campus
By Melinda Roeder
ATLANTA (CBS46) – Anti-gay protesters and college students clashed Thursday afternoon on the Georgia State University campus. Hundreds of people packed the student plaza downtown and police had a tough time managing the crowd at times.
It began with a couple dozen anti-gay protesters that were granted a permit to rally on GSU’s student plaza. They told CBS46 they weren’t with a particular church, but were in Atlanta for a street preachers’ conference. This weekend is also Atlanta’s Gay Pride festival.
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How Fafsa’s New Reliance on Older Tax Data Could Affect Colleges
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Fafsa-s-New-Reliance-on/233701?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=c652ae0cda5647558821fc0a7416eb1b&elqCampaignId=1571&elqaid=6489&elqat=1&elqTrackId=8d017ced68a5439cab429a552c19daea
By Beckie Supiano
The change in the federal student-aid application process that the Obama administration announced last month may at first sound arcane. Students will be able to apply earlier for aid, and to use older tax data, a practice with the requisite wonky name “prior prior year” or PPY. But the change, observers say, could have big implications — and not only for financial-aid offices. The change won’t take effect until around this time next year, so no one knows for sure how it will play out. Here’s what we can tell you so far:
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Wells Fargo Faces CFPB Inquiry on Student Loan Servicing
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/09/wells-fargo-faces-cfpb-inquiry-student-loan-servicing?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=49e358182c-DNU20151009&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-49e358182c-197515277
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating Wells Fargo over its student loan servicing practices, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Citing multiple anonymous sources, the Journal reported that the consumer bureau’s inquiry into the bank goes back at least to late last year. It’s not clear what loan-servicing issues the CFPB is investigating.
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A multigenerational hit: student debt traps parents and kids
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20151005/WIRE/151009846/1003/NEWS?Title=A-multigenerational-hit-student-debt-traps-parents-and-kids&tc=ar
By Josh Boak
AP Economics Writer
America’s crushing surge of student debt, now at $1.2 trillion, has bred a disturbing new phenomenon: School loans that span multiple generations within families. Weighed down by their own loans, many parents lack the means to fund their children’s educations without sinking even deeper into debt. Data analyzed exclusively by The Associated Press, along with surveys about families and rising student debt loads, show that:
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As Federal Investigations of Sex Assault Get Tougher, Some Ask if That’s Progress
http://chronicle.com/article/As-Federal-Investigations-of/233698?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=c652ae0cda5647558821fc0a7416eb1b&elqCampaignId=1571&elqaid=6489&elqat=1&elqTrackId=75df9eeac6ec46d5b69a4fb89ae19c95
By Robin Wilson
When it investigated a complaint of a sexually hostile environment at Yale University, the U.S. Department of Education seemed to give the institution a break. The agency’s Office for Civil Rights said in 2012 that Yale had made some mistakes but praised it for “voluntarily and proactively” changing its ways to create a “culture that is safe for all students.” That was three years ago. Recent investigations of how institutions handle students’ reports of sexual assault haven’t been nearly as generous or hopeful. …”The government has gone from issuing love letters to universities who agreed to straighten up and comply with Title IX, to these letters where the university really gets whacked,” says Wendy Murphy, a lawyer who has helped students file federal discrimination complaints against Virginia, as well as Harvard and Princeton Universities.
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California Court Says College Students Cannot Expect Protection From Classroom Crimes
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/california-court-says-college-students-cannot-expect-protection-from-classroom-crimes/105715?elq=c652ae0cda5647558821fc0a7416eb1b&elqCampaignId=1571&elqaid=6489&elqat=1&elqTrackId=acad612bcbf24f74b10d7fe55cb1d64d
by Don Troop
A division of California’s Second District Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that a woman who was attacked six years ago by a classmate wielding a kitchen knife in a UCLA chemistry lab cannot hold the university responsible, the Associated Press reports. Public colleges have no obligation to protect students from crimes committed by other students, the court ruled. In its 2-to-1 ruling on Wednesday, the appellate panel overturned a lower court’s ruling. Katherine Rosen, the student who was allegedly attacked, sued the California regents and employees of the University of California at Los Angeles in the wake of the attack. Her accused assailant, Damon Thompson, was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Associate Justice Laurie Zelon said students in lower-level schools could expect protection from crimes in the classroom, but California courts have found that colleges are not responsible for protecting adult students.