Atlanta Business Chronicle
USG names interim president finalist for top post at Kennesaw State University
By Maegan Smith – Digital Editor
The University System of Georgia has announced a finalist for president of Kennesaw State University. Kathy Schwaig, currently serving as the university’s interim president, has been named the sole finalist, USG Board of Regents Chairman Harold Reynolds and University of Georgia Acting Chancellor Teresa MacCartney announced in a news release Tuesday. “Dr. Schwaig has spent the past 20 years teaching at KSU while building relationships and gaining administrative experience that ultimately led her to become provost and then interim president,” MacCartney said. Schwaig has served as interim president since July 1, 2021, after the departure of former university President Pamela Whitten. Whitten served in the role since 2018 and left to become president at Indiana University.
Connect Savannah
UGA breaks ground on Experiential Learning Center at Wormsloe
Noble Jones descendant Elfrida De Renne Barrow and her family established foundation to foster preservation and support research
By Camie Williams
A new University of Georgia facility will enhance research, education and public outreach at one of the most ecologically and historically significant sites along Georgia’s coast. The university broke ground Thursday, March 3, on the $1.8 million Experiential Learning Center to expand educational opportunities at the Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe. CREW, a unit of the UGA Libraries, supports the work of graduate students and faculty investigating a host of environmental and sociological questions in a broad range of disciplines including ecology, archaeology, geology, landscape architecture, historic preservation, environmental planning and more.
Cision
Online MBA Coach Publishes Ranking of 100 Most Affordable Online MBA Programs for 2022
Online MBA Coach, a website coaching students through choosing, applying, and succeeding in an Online MBA program, has published their ranking of the Most Affordable Online MBA Programs for 2022. Online MBA programs have become increasingly popular during the pandemic. However, many prospective MBA students find themselves concerned about the affordability of these programs. Online MBA Coach makes this information accessible by ranking affordable online MBA programs and highlighting their strengths. …The Top 10 Most Affordable Online MBA Programs of 2022 are:
Augusta University – James M. Hull College of Business
Georgia Southwestern State University – College of Business and Computing
Miss EGSC visits Swainsboro Primary School for Read Across America Day
To celebrate Read Across America Day, Miss East Georgia State College (EGSC) Anita Cerpovicz visited two second grade classes at Swainsboro Primary School. Dr. Paul Cerpovicz, a professor at EGSC, also visited with Anita on March 1. Anita read “The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive” to the students. She and Dr. Cerpovicz had an observation hive with them for students to view and gave each student pollinator activity sheets, stickers, and honey sticks. …The visit was in conjunction with the Swainsboro Kiwanis Club, the EGSC Bee Campus USA affiliation, and the Miss EGSC Scholarship Pageant.
Fox28 Savannah
Savannah State University providing mentorship opportunities for young entrepreneurs
by Destiny Wiggins
Savannah State University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has partnered with SCORE to provide SSU students with entrepreneurship mentorship and opportunities. “We are grateful for the relationship with SCORE and the valuable expertise they are sharing with our students,” said Nicole Cannonier, Ph.D., Savannah State University’s associate professor of management. “It is an enriching partnership, one which provides students the one-on-one attention of a mentor and the resources to make business ownership a reality, even before they graduate.” Through the program and partnership, students went through a series of workshops, as well as working with business professionals to create and develop their own business model.
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The Current
Mentor program at Savannah State aims to boost Black-owned business creation
SCORE teams with university to coach student entrepreneurs.
Athens CEO
Pamela A. Keene
What do a sixth grader with a prize-winning cow, a home-schooled forestry enthusiast, a singer who aspires to a medical career and a teenager who enjoys dance and choreography have in common? They’re all members of the largest youth leadership organization in the country: 4-H. In Georgia, more than 240,000 youths ages 9 to 19 participate in the program in an average year through University of Georgia Cooperative Extension under the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Marietta Daily Journal
Forces of Change: Kennesaw State STEM leaders champion gender diversity in industry
Though they compose nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women only represent about 27% of the science, technology, engineering and math industry, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. What those numbers don’t reflect, however, is the steady rise of women launching careers in STEM since the 1970s. Leading the tides of change are institutions like Kennesaw State University, where women are provided the tools and support that guide them in the pursuit of fruitful careers in STEM. Whether it’s through student-run organizations that build a sense of community among students or National Science Foundation-funded initiatives offering scholarships and wraparound services to aspiring women engineers, architects, data scientists and educators, efforts at KSU follow a certain trend: They were launched by women who have overcome their own obstacles.
Emanuel County Live
2022 Economic Outlook Luncheon scheduled for March 31 at EGSC
East Georgia State College is hosting the 2022 Economic Outlook Luncheon on Thursday, March 31. The luncheon will be held in the Jean Anderson Morgan (JAM) Student Center Multipurpose Gym. The event is sponsored by the Swainsboro-Emanuel County Chamber of Commerce & Joint Development Authority. A networking session and check in will begin at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch and the presentation at noon. The guest speaker for the event will be Taylor Worley. Mr. Worley is a Research Professional II at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, Simon S. Selig Jr. Center for Economic Growth.
Valdosta Daily Times
VSU Chamber Singers to play Carnegie Hall
Clell Wright will lead the Valdosta State University Chamber Singers March 19 as they lend their voices to a choir of 100 to perform Poulenc’s “Gloria.” The performance is set to open the first concert for MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage since 2019, and it will be the Carnegie Hall debut for both Wright and his choir, university officials said in a statement. “This performance is my debut as a conductor at Carnegie Hall and is the debut for my students as well,” he said. “This trip is especially exciting for us because many of our students are first-generation university students, and many have never traveled outside the South. To travel to New York and then have the opportunity to perform in such an historic venue is truly an excitement for our students.”
Savannah Tribune
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Jericho Brown Coming To Georgia Southern March 9-10
By Savannah Tribune
The Georgia Southern University Department of Literature will host Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and National Book Award Finalist, for two events on March 9-10. Both events are open to the public. Georgia Southern graduate student LaVonna Wright will introduce Brown, an honor she didn’t expect. Wright has been studying Brown’s work throughout her time as an undergraduate English major at Georgia Southern. She is also writing about him as part of her thesis for her master’s degree.
WGAU Radio
A-CC firefighters train today at UGA
Drills continue through Friday
By Tim Bryant
You will see Athens-Clarke County firefighters at the UGA Intramural Fields Parking Deck for the next few days: Fire and Emergency Services is conducting training exercises today through Friday, 8 til 5 each day.
WRDW
Local medical student reflects on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Maria Sellers
Local doctors have been working double duty to keep the public safe during the pandemic. But what’s the impact on our future doctors? Like everything, the pandemic forced medical schools to adapt and change the way they did education. We spoke to staff and a student at the Medical College of Georgia who tell us what the last two years have been like for our future health care leaders. Amanda Delgado was in her first year of medical school when COVID-19 began, and she is now a third-year student.
yahoo!news
Omega High graduate to join ABAC Athletics Hall of Fame
The Albany Herald, Ga.
One of the favorite T-shirts at the Stallion Shop at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College has always been the one that reads, “ABAC Football, Still Undefeated.” The implication was that ABAC doesn’t have a football team and has never had a gridiron squad. If Clayt Hurst was alive today, he would beg to differ. Hurst, an Omega High School graduate, will be inducted posthumously into the ABAC Athletics Hall of Fame on April 1. He played on the ABAC football team in 1934 and 1935. ABAC Athletics Director Alan Kramer said the 2022 class also includes the 2002 women’s state championship basketball team; tennis player German Dalmagro; softball player Lee Davis Watson; soccer standout Nikita Morris; tennis player, coach, and contributor Margaret Treadway; contributor and volunteer assistant softball coach James Winfred “Vic” Vickers; contributor and volunteer assistant softball coach Jimmy Spurlin, and Director of Public Relations Emeritus Mike Chason.
KJCT News
The Home Depot Adds Workshops for Pros to Roster of Livestreams
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business to Co-Host March Workshop on Business Cash Flow Management
The Home Depot® is launching a series of virtual workshops designed to help Pro contractors manage and grow their businesses. The retailer is hosting free, interactive livestreams offering expert lessons taught by industry experts. The workshops will run every other month. …The March 8th workshop “Money in. Money Out. Manage Your Cashflow to Boost Your Business’ Success” is focused on managing expenses and maximizing net operating income. Dr. Jonathan Clarke from The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and The Home Depot Credit team will discuss cash flow management tips to boost business success.
WGAU Radio
UGA researchers: physical activity might protect brainpower
Study published in Sport Sciences for Health
By Leigh Beeson, UGA Media Relations
We all know we should exercise and eat healthy. But doing that isn’t just good for maintaining your figure as you age. New research from the University of Georgia shows that physical activity could help protect your cognitive abilities as you age. And it doesn’t have to be intense exercise to make an impact.
MedicalXpress
Unusual partners aid blood vessel growth
Insufficient oxygen to an area like the heart or legs, called hypoxia, is a cue to our bodies to make more blood vessels, and scientists have found some unusual partners are key to making that happen. The endothelial cells that line existing blood vessels are essential to making new blood vessels, and they’ve found that two receptors on the surface of those cells come together then dive inside to enable the new growth, called angiogenesis, the Medical College of Georgia scientists report in the journal Nature Cell Biology.
accessWDUN
Co-Researcher at UGA predicts Eastern Seaboard Joro spider spread
By Natalie Sadler Anchor/Reporter
Chances are you’ve seen webs from the large, bright Joro spiders, an invasive species of orb-weaving spiders that come from Japan. The first Joro spider in the United States was spotted in 2013 in Hoschton and they will continue to rapidly spread across the Eastern Seaboard, according to new research from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology. Benjamin Frick is a co-author of the study and an undergraduate researcher from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology. He spoke on WDUN’s Newsroom about what the southeast can expect from these intimidating but mostly harmless spiders.
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The Washington Times
Large invasive Asian spiders could spread along East Coast
Inside Higher Ed
An ‘Audacious’ Merger or a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Mistake?
Connecticut’s community colleges get the go-ahead from their accreditor to merge. Administrators celebrate while faculty members mourn.
By Sara Weissman
The merger of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges can move forward after the regional accrediting commission approved a plan by the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system to merge the community colleges and transform them into one college with a dozen campuses. Under the proposed plan—approved Tuesday despite long-standing and vehement opposition from some faculty and staff members—the two-year colleges in the state’s public higher education system will become Connecticut State Community College by July 2023. …Many faculty and staff members remain unconvinced by assurances that the merger is the right solution and submitted testimony about the merger in a prescheduled public hearing held by state lawmakers Tuesday. …Michael B. Horn, co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank, said the Connecticut system is “unique in that it’s the first of the New England states to move forward with such an expansive consolidation” among community colleges. Nonetheless, Horn, who regularly writes about innovation and disruption in education, sees the merger as part of a trend in higher education. He noted that states like Louisiana and Georgia have merged community colleges in the past.
MSNBC
Fears of larger Russian cyber-attacks loom
Russia has yet to use the full extent of its cyber capabilities to launch a cyber-attack against Ukraine amid its invasion. Cyber security experts are trying to figure out why. Georgia Institute of Technology assistant professor Dr. Nadiya Kostyuk joined American Voices to discuss. She has been analyzing Russian cyber operations in Ukraine for the past eight years.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated March 8)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,916,379
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 30,183 | This figure does not include additional cases that the DPH reports as suspected COVID-19-related deaths. County is determined by the patient’s residence, when known, not by where they were treated.
MSN
Jamie Ducharme
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, questions about Long COVID still outnumber answers. Why do some people develop long-lasting symptoms—often after a mild case of COVID-19, sometimes even after being vaccinated—while others fully recover from their brushes with the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Why does Long COVID seem to disproportionately appear in women? How can one condition affect numerous bodily systems, causing symptoms ranging from brain fog to joint pain to total exhaustion? Is Long COVID a single diagnosis, or is it better understood as an umbrella term for a spectrum of disease, caused by a range of biologically diverse effects of the virus? Or could it actually be a new manifestation of post-viral illnesses that have been around for decades? A flurry of recent studies, some of which have been peer-reviewed and published, and others that are currently going through that process, seek to explain why millions of people suffer from Long COVID. Each one contributes a small piece to the larger research puzzle, helping to build scientific understanding of the disease, little by little.
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Inside Higher Ed
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Tops 100,000 Borrowers
By Scott Jaschik
The Education Department will announce today that it has identified 100,000 borrowers with approximately $6.2 billion in loans to be erased by the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. In January, the total was 70,000 borrowers and more than $5 billion in debt relief.
Inside Higher Ed
For so long, higher ed could rely on faculty and staff to prioritize working with students, advancing knowledge and serving the greater good to compete with the higher salaries offered by other colleges and the for-profit sector to gain and retain top talent. But what about now? With workers quitting at or near record levels in almost every sector, can and will higher ed make the needed pivots to meet institution employee recruitment and retention goals? Join us for this presentation if you have been missioned to meet employee demographic objectives and minimize the Great Resignation’s impact on your team and institution.
The Washington Post
By Taylor Lorenz
When Joss Robinson, 18, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, wants to catch up on what his friends are talking about, he often turns to Twitter. “It’s a cool way to see what people are thinking,” he said. “Going on other forms of social media is a lot of work. Twitter, it’s not.” He likes how you don’t have to plug in headphones to watch video content or scroll through shopping ads just to see a few photos of friends. Robinson is exactly the type of user Twitter is moving aggressively to court. Teenagers have flocked to TikTok in recent years, abandoning apps like Facebook and Instagram. Twitter is stuck somewhere in the middle. Despite its large cultural relevance, Twitter has repeatedly failed to gain mass adoption, and its forays into new formats like short-form video and live-streaming have flopped. But cultivating a young, hyper-engaged user base could be a key step toward becoming a platform as influential as its power users believe it to be. …Haley Johnson, 20, downloaded Twitter in high school to participate in the One Direction fandom but has found the app useful as a college student keeping up with what’s happening on campus.
CBS News
Florida Senate passes controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill despite protests
By Zoe Christen Jones
The Florida Senate has passed the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, known by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, despite staunch criticism from Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ+ advocates. The bill passed Florida’s Republican-controlled Senate 22-17 Tuesday and will now make its way to the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis. Under its final wording, the bill would restrict teachers and school districts from discussing gender identity and topics surrounding sexuality in the classroom from kindergarten through the third grade, with the goal of reinforcing the “fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing and control of their children.”
Inside Higher Ed
Few institutions are heavily invested in Russian assets, but college officials say divestment is one symbolic step that institutions can take to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
By Emma Whitford
The Arizona Board of Regents announced Monday it would exit all investments in Russian assets, adding the three-university system to a small but growing list of institutions that have severed economic ties with Russia as the country continues its invasion of Ukraine. The board “condemns in the strongest possible terms Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine and apparent targeting of civilian populations, with one million refugees already in its wake,” Lyndel Manson, chair of the board, said in a statement. “With today’s action, the board repudiates Putin’s aggression and ensures Arizona’s public university enterprise divests of any Russian assets.” The university system has about $4 million invested in Russian assets, which is just a small fraction of its $1.2 billion endowment, according to Fred DuVal, chair-elect of the board. Because of this, the move to divest is “meaningful, but not impactful,” DuVal said, and he encouraged other colleges, universities and pension funds to do the same.