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Trucking firm to pay millions in crash that killed 5 Georgia Southern students
http://savannahnow.com/news-latest-news/2016-04-20/trucking-firm-pay-millions-crash-killed-5-georgia-southern-students
By RUSS BYNUM The Associated Press
The employer of a tractor-trailer driver blamed for a fiery interstate crash that killed five Georgia nursing students has agreed to settle wrongful death lawsuits for large sums, with at least one victim’s family receiving $14 million, attorneys in the case said Wednesday. The settlements were announced just before the April 22 anniversary of the crash last year. A tractor-trailer traveling on Interstate 16 slammed into stop-and-go traffic that had backed up because of an unrelated wreck. The big truck smashed two vehicles in which nursing students from Georgia Southern University were commuting to work at a Savannah hospital.
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Chance to study gravitational wave detection excites GGC physics professor, students
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/cities/lawrenceville/chance-to-study-gravitational-wave-detection-excites-ggc-physics-professor/article_5d612ff6-0ab6-5a15-9218-29d683f6ac6d.html
By Keith Farner
LAWRENCEVILLE — Before a couple months ago, college-level physics classes typically discussed issues that address problems from 100 or more years ago. That changed in February when Georgia Gwinnett College Associate Professor Lior Burko and the rest of the science world learned what Albert Einstein predicted. Scientists detected gravitational waves or ripples in space-time that was the final test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. With the significant news, Burko used it to add an element to his Principles of Physics I class as a way to increase student engagement. Burko created a project for students to analyze the actual data of the first gravitational wave detection so that students could get important results about the waves and the black holes that emitted them. “I think it is an exciting activity for students, because it is related to cutting edge science, and a very hot topic at that,” he said. “Students can work not just on problems from 100 or even more years ago, but on science that was announced (in February).”
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UGA to dedicate cabins at Wormsloe
http://www.effinghamherald.net/section/1/article/34272/
Staff report
SAVANNAH—The University of Georgia will hold a dedication ceremony for its newest facilities, the Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe cabins, on Friday, at 4 p.m. at Wormsloe, 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah. Nestled among the palm trees and Spanish moss-draped oaks, two new three-bedroom cabins, measuring roughly 1,450 square feet each, will provide lodging for students and faculty immersed in experiential learning programs on site. “UGA’s Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe is situated on one of the most significant historical, cultural and natural sites on the Georgia coast,” said Sarah Ross, president of the Wormsloe Foundation and director of the UGA site. “UGA and the Wormsloe Foundation have partnered to support student and faculty research since 1938. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is now an important part of this public-private partnership which fosters interdisciplinary research and education involving a dozen academic units across campus.” The event’s speakers include UGA President Jere W. Morehead; Don L. Waters, regent of the University System of Georgia; Daniel J. Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design; and Ania A. Majewska, Ph.D. student in the Odum School of Ecology.
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Lawsuit Takes Aim at Education Dept.’s Title IX Guidance
An accused student blames federal pressure for how his university treated him
http://chronicle.com/article/An-Accused-Student-s-Lawsuit/236190?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=3955dbba87e94ad9ac6172ff01b6c2fd&elq=97061c30f2d54117b014c8bdd0528eee&elqaid=8765&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2965
By Katherine Mangan
A student at Colorado State University at Pueblo sued the university and the federal government this week, contending that he had been suspended indefinitely for a sexual act that he says both he and his partner considered consensual. Grant Neal, a sophomore who was attending Colorado State on football and wrestling scholarships, was found responsible for sexual misconduct in a case with an unusual twist: the accuser was a third party who didn’t witness the alleged assault but who believed the act was coerced. Mr. Neal joins the growing list of accused rapists who are suing their colleges. His case, however, is among the first to also take on the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over the guidance it has issued to colleges on how they should handle sexual-assault complaints.
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Senate OKs Bill to Allow Gun Carry on Tennessee Campuses
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by Erik Schelzig, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― The state Senate on Tuesday voted to allow faculty and workers with handgun carry permits to be armed on the campuses of Tennessee public colleges and universities. The bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Bell passed on a 28-5 vote, and the House was expected to take up the measure Wednesday. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam raised concerns about the measure for not giving institutions the power to opt out of allowing more guns on campus. Bell, R-Riceville, was dismissive of the results of a survey of faculty at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville that largely opposed to measure.