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Whitten Named President at Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University has a new person in place to guide the school.
ATLANTA (AP) — Kennesaw State University has a new person in place to guide the school. The Board of Regents this week named Dr. Pamela Whitten president of its campuses in Kennesaw and Marietta. Officials say Whitten, who currently serves as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Georgia, will begin her new post July 16. She replaces Sam Olens, who resigned in February.
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Whitten named president at Kennesaw State University
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Whitten named president at Kennesaw State University
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How this 23-year-old became the only full-time woman trader at the New York Stock Exchange
Courtney Connley
Working in an industry where you are one of very few women can be challenging enough — but imagine what it’s like to be the only woman on staff. That’s the case for New York Stock Exchange trader Lauren Simmons. The 23-year-old is an equity trader for Rosenblatt Securities, and she is both the youngest and the only full-time female employee to hold that position at the NYSE. …Simmons moved to New York after graduating from Kennesaw State University in December 2016. The Georgia native had interned at a local clinical treatment center in college while earning a BA in genetics with a minor in statistics. She had planned to pursue a career in the medical field, but after realizing that medicine wasn’t her passion, she started searching for opportunities in other industries.
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Georgia gets mixed grades for college grad rates of black, Latino students
By Eric Stirgus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia earned its highest mark for the percentage of African-Americans who earned a degree since 2000, ranking seventh nationally. The Peach State got its lowest mark in that same category for Latinos, ranking 31st nationally. The percentage of African-American and Latino students in Georgia’s public colleges and universities has increased in recent years. Dalton State College recently became the first Georgia college to be a Hispanic-Serving Institution, which makes it eligible for federal grants for Latino students. Georgia has nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The Education Trust, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., defines its mission as closing the education gap for students of color. The organization said in a statement that states need to do more to close the gap as more older whites leave the workforce and companies need skilled, well-educated workers to fill those positions.
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Meet Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2018 Power 100
By David Allison – Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Welcome to Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2018 Power 100 annual special report naming Atlanta’s 100 most influential people of 2018, as selected by the Chronicle’s editors. You will find many familiar names on this year’s list, but also plenty of new faces. … Mark Becker …Paul Bowers …G.P. “Bud” Peterson …Kessel Stelling
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Georgia Tech researchers to work on $72M DOE solar project
By Mark Meltzer – Executive Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech researchers will be part of a $72 million government project involving a different type of solar power. The U.S. Department of Energy initiative is to develop the next generation of concentrated solar power, which uses the sun’s heat to drive power-generating turbines. It differs from photovoltaic technology, which produces electricity directly from sunlight. Six Georgia Tech researchers will work on the project, whose goal is to eventually develop a concentrated solar power generating facility. The researchers will “collect information on the thermophysical properties of molten salts” used in such facilities and “study particle flows and heat transfer that may be part of thermal storage applications,” according to the university.
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Foster students get first-hand look at college at KSU event
Alex Patton MDJ Contributor
For young students experiencing food insecurity or homelessness, a higher education can seem unattainable. Victoria Miller, 17, is one of more than 100 students enrolled in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Potential program, a federal program that encourages at-risk youth to stay in school and better themselves through higher education. …The U.S. Department of Education awarded Georgia its first statewide GEAR UP Grant of $21 million in October 2016, to be administered over seven years. The statewide project is intended to serve more than 12,000 high-need students at more than 40 schools, providing resources and encouragement to better their education through rigorous class work and college preparation. A special GEAR UP “signing day” was held at Kennesaw State University on June 9 to give students a sense of what it feels like to enroll in college. The event was kicked off by “Mr. I’m Possible” Keith Brown, an energetic motivational speaker and author in matters of individual and family support as well as social justice for the less fortunate.
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Georgia College fraternity brothers’ house explodes. Now their friends are raising money
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BY LIZ FABIAN
As former Georgia College fraternity brothers Brendan Morton and Pat Sammons lie in hospital beds, their friends are raising thousands of dollars for their recovery. Morton and Sammons had just moved into a house in Roswell with Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brother Win Reid when an explosion destroyed the house Tuesday night, according to media reports. They had bought a washer and dryer off Craigslist and noticed a “funky smell,” so they lit a candle, and the house exploded, Reid told Fox 5 in Atlanta.
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Georgia Tech backs transportation innovations in Gwinnett, Chamblee
By Tyler Estep, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett County and the city of Chamblee were among the recent winners of a “smart communities challenge” led by Georgia Tech. The communities will get seed funding and help from a Georgia Tech researcher for their winning projects, which involve exploring connected vehicle (Gwinnett County) and autonomous vehicle (Chamblee) technologies.
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Former Savannah St. chief violated harassment policy, report finds
By Eric Stirgus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The conduct of Savannah State University’s former police chief with three female officers violated the school’s sexual harassment policy, according to a state investigative reports released Thursday. The officers said they feared retaliation if they told others about his conduct, the reports say. …The investigator could not determine whether the sexual assault accusation was true. But after interviewing the female officers, Barnwell and others, the investigator concluded Barnwell violated the University System of Georgia’s sexual harassment policy.