The Brunswick News
College grad ends senior year with NASA internship
By Lauren McDonald
College of Coastal Georgia alumna Lily Heidger capped off her time at the college with an internship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Heidger, who graduated in May with a degree in environmental science with a concentration in sustainability, policy and management, participated last summer in the International Collaborative Multidisciplinary Investigations Through Undergraduate Research Experiences (I-CEMITURE) program hosted by Georgia Southern University. …Heidger presented her summer research at the American Geophysical Union conference in New Orleans in December 2021, where an unexpected opportunity was proposed. …Less than a week after her interview, she was informed that she had gotten the internship.
Georgia Trend
Georgia excels in advanced manufacturing for industries from aerospace to agriculture.
Randy Southerland
…Manufacturing of all types is soaring in the state, with over 11,000 companies employing an estimated 393,500 workers in 2021 – about 9% of Georgia’s workforce. Approximately three-quarters are production workers. …Georgia Institute of Technology has been at the forefront of research and development in this area. Its Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF) is a 20,000-square-foot, reconfigurable R&D facility in Midtown Atlanta that provides space for industrial, academic and government agencies to develop innovative manufacturing projects. It also serves as a teaching laboratory for Tech graduate students. Made possible by a $3 million donation from the Delta Air Lines Foundation, AMPF is a flexible facility that can house all kinds of advanced manufacturing innovation projects, including industrial robotics and additive, hybrid, composite and digital manufacturing. Companies use the space to test new designs and get feedback about new ways of producing products, according to Aaron Stebner, associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, who is working on research integrating data informatics and machine learning for development of new manufacturing processes.
The Financial
Wellness programs help employees and their companies
By The Financial
Workers reported better health while their organizations saw the benefits. Most Americans now have one or more chronic health conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety or depression, and more than half of Americans have multiple conditions. That adds thousands of dollars — sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars — per employee per year to companies’ annual health care costs. Beyond that, poor long-term health influences a person’s ability to manage stress, fatigue, work-life balance and overall well-being. However, more than 20 years of research at the University of Georgia indicates workplace-based health and wellness programs can offer a variety of positive effects for both workers and their employers.
Griffin Daily News
GSC staff members recognized for leadership programs
By Karolina Philmon Marketing Manager Gordon State College
Gordon State’s Montrese Adger Fuller, Dr. Matthew K. Robison, Dr. Tonya Y. Moore, Angiah L. Davis and Shalanna Banks are recognized for their community leadership.
Gordon State College acknowledges five of its staff members for their community leadership dynamism.
Montrese Adger Fuller, college vice president of advancement, external relations and marketing, was named to the 2022 American Association of State Colleges and Universities Millennium Leadership Initiative.
Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw State marketing professor to attend exclusive Faculty Fellowship in Israel
Kennesaw State University marketing professor Prachi Gala has been invited to participate in the Jewish National Fund USA’s 2022 Summer Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel, where she will work with university faculty across Israel in the hopes of establishing new academic partnerships. Gala, an assistant professor of marketing in the Michael J. Coles College of Business, is one of 33 college and university faculty from across the U.S. selected for this highly competitive program. Fellows will participate in an all-expense-paid academic trip to Israel where they will meet and network with Israeli professors from institutions across the country.
Union Recorder
A STORY OF SURVIVAL: WWII veteran Jim Garland is a real American hero
Rick Millians
In the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, deep into World War II, Jim Garland and his five-man aerographical crew circled an area within a radius of 50 miles near Guam, recording weather data and “bird dogging” any activity of Japanese ships, subs or planes. They were aboard a PCE-842 class patrol craft that had been developed by the U.S. Navy during WWII and had a total crew of almost 100. It was the first line of defense against the Japanese kamikaze pilots. …In charge of the weather crew, Garland was the last man to cross. With his aerographical equipment and his personal gear draped over his shoulder, Garland was half way across when the cable snapped. Down he plunged into the Pacific Ocean, 30 to 35 feet. “The boys jumped in and pulled me out,” says Garland, now 95 and living at a retirement facility in Gray. …People like Jim Garland are the reason we celebrate Memorial Day. His accident in the Pacific is the reason he lost his hearing in one ear and the reason he still is having trouble with his lungs. But it certainly didn’t keep him from going on to have a very active and productive life. He came home, found a wife, had children, earned a pharmacy degree from the University of Georgia, worked for Culver Kidd’s drugstore (“Oh Lord, yes” Culver was a character, he said.) and was a pillar of Milledgeville and the other communities where he lived and worked.
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Gwinnett College class seeks volunteers for free physical assessments
From staff reports
Summertime is almost here, and with it comes a renewed interest in health and wellness. Georgia Gwinnett College’s School of Science and Technology is offering a chance for several individuals to work on their personal fitness. The exercise science program at GGC seeks volunteers to participate in a six-week exercise program. The purpose of the program is to help exercise science students sharpen hands-on skills while gaining experience in a practical fitness setting. Volunteers will undergo a pre-training and post-training fitness assessment, which will include:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia students’ private battle: Anxiety disorders in the classroom
By Vanessa McCray, Eric Stirgus
… During the pandemic, rates of anxiety disorders and depression among young people doubled to 1 in 5, according to JAMA Pediatrics data. The social isolation of virtual learning, social media pressures and academic expectations are primary contributors. …While everyone gets anxious occasionally, for some students it’s a crippling disorder that disrupts home, school and social activities. Left untreated, it can lead to depression, suicidal thoughts and other mental health issues into adulthood. Georgia schools and colleges are now spending more money for mental health services. But the state is far below recommended standards for the ratio of mental health providers to students on the K-12 and college level. …The University of Georgia has 20 full-time clinicians in its counseling center — about one for every 2,000 students. That’s less than the ratio of one staff person for every 1,000 to 1,500 students recommended by the International Accreditation of Counseling Services. In addition, UGA has clinicians in some academic departments.
Times-Georgian
Burton named UWG softball coach
By UWG SPORTS
A national search has yielded a championship-level head coach for the UWG softball program, as Jason Carmichael, Director of Athletics at the University of West Georgia, announced Tuesday the hiring of Kristy Burton as the seventh head coach in the history of Wolves softball.
Marietta Daily Journal
Ledford named new KSU deputy athletic director
Staff reports
Kennesaw State University announced Tuesday that Brad Ledford has been named as its new deputy athletic director, effective June 13. …As deputy athletic director, Ledford will lead Kennesaw State’s external units within the athletic department, including marketing, communications, fan engagement, revenue generation, sponsorships, ticket operations, video production, creative services, licensing, and athletics development in coordination with the University Advancement Office.
WGAU Radio
UGA takes advantage of summer slowdown to advance campus construction projects
Students start fall semester in August
By Tim Bryant
While the University of Georgia is open and active with Maymester and summer session classes, the majority of students are off campus until the mid-August start of a new fall semester. UGA is taking advantage of the reduced student population and activity to work on a variety of campus construction projects.
Business Insider
Erica Sweeney
Atlanta has been embracing smart city technology, such as interactive kiosks and an artificial intelligence-centric non-emergency 311 system, and growing its tech sector for years. Now many local tech leaders see the city’s new mayor, Andre Dickens, as a “visionary” who will advance that mission. Dickens, who took office in January, is a Georgia Tech graduate and was an executive at TechBridge, a nonprofit dedicated to training organizations and individuals in technology. He also founded a home furnishing retail startup and was an assistant director at Georgia Tech’s Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which helps ensure that the university is recruiting, engaging, and retaining a diverse group of faculty, staff, and students. …AIM created the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Advisory Board in 2019 to advance innovation in Atlanta’s technology infrastructure. It’s comprised of members from the public and private sectors, including Georgia Tech, the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC), Delta Air Lines, and Cox Enterprises.
yahoo!news
Georgia Tech development center expands into Albany
The Albany Herald, Ga.
Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center, the internationally recognized, state-funded technology business incubator, has expanded its reach into southwest Georgia with the hiring of Albany native Jud Savelle as the new catalyst for ATDC@Albany. ATDC is a part of Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the nation’s largest, most comprehensive, university-based program of entrepreneurship and startup development, business and industry growth, and international outreach. Through the ATDC@ program, the incubator’s expertise and resources are available around the state, with catalysts seeking out tech entrepreneurs in Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, Forsyth County, Macon, Peachtree Corners, Savannah, and now, Albany.
Legal Insurrection
Public Universities in Georgia Embrace New Free Speech Policy
“The state Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s 26 public universities, voted Tuesday to change their institutions’ free speech policies”
Posted by Mike LaChance
When Georgia college students return to their campuses in the fall, they could be in for more spirited intellectual debate than they’re used to. The state Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s 26 public universities, voted Tuesday to change their institutions’ free speech policies to bring them in line with newly-signed state legislation. The new policy largely does away with so-called campus free speech zones, areas of the campus open to protests and rallies. The zones are a relatively new concept in Georgia that has come under fire in recent years, especially with religious and conservative groups, who say the idea curtails First Amendment rights and opens the state up to lawsuits.
WGAU Radio
UGA economists assess inflation causes, impact
“If you spend a dollar on a bag of corn chips, only about 8 cents goes to the corn producers”
By Maria Lameiras, UGA Today
A dollar spent at the supermarket pays for more than what you see in your cart. And what you can get with that dollar has changed a lot since this time last year due to inflation. Global issues driven by the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the current crisis in Ukraine are driving costs higher for food and many other goods. “Every food dollar you spend at the grocery store or restaurant pays for a bundle of goods and services — farm production, processing, transport, marketing and advertising, and more,” said Gopinath Munisamy, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Marketing at the University of Georgia. “Costs at each stage influence the purchasing power of a dollar
Reporter Newspapers
Thousands of Atlanta streetlights installed, repaired
by Dyana Bagby
Nearly 3,000 streetlights have been installed, repaired or upgraded in Atlanta since last year as part of a partnership between the city and Georgia Power to improve safety and visibility and reduce crime and traffic crashes. The city’s “Light Up the Night” project was announced last year to increase its street lighting footprint by 10,000 energy-efficient LED lights, according to a city news release. …The purchase agreement and “Light Up the Night” initiative follow a streetlight inventory and assessment conducted by the Atlanta Department of Transportation and a team of industrial engineering students at Georgia Tech. The audit prioritized lighting needs based on crime rates, crash severity and current lighting coverage. The south and west sides of the city were the areas determined to have the highest need for streetlights.
TBR News Media
Hostile architecture: The blurring line between public and private space
By Raymond Janis
During our investigation of seating shortages at Port Jefferson train station, TBR News Media took a closer look at the emerging field of hostile architecture, a design movement that employs subtle and often harmful means to alter public spaces. Robert Rosenberger, associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is an expert on the subject of hostile design. He said through architecture, urban designers today can manipulate the environment to ward off certain populations.
Savannah Morning News
University of Georgia startup company engineers solutions to recycling confusion
Marisa Mecke
With curbside pickup and conveniently located recycling centers, for many Georgians delivering their recyclables isn’t the challenge — it’s knowing what items can even be recycled that causes confusion. Recycling is hyper-local, and municipalities across the state have different guidelines and capacities for what can be recycled. For households, though, there can still be a lot of puzzling over how items are sorted and if they are taken by local recycling services that can prevent items from reaching the next step in the reuse cycle. At the University of Georgia, environmental engineer Katherine Shayne is the co-founder and president of Can I Recycle This, a startup company which is working on a solution to help people, governments and businesses figure out what products or packaging are locally recyclable and how to get them to where they need to go.
LabMedica
Tear Fluid Collected Using Noninvasive Technique Could Help Diagnose Diseases
By LabMedica International staff writers
The protective outer layer of our eyes, called the tear film, contains thousands of proteins, which provide clues about wellness and disease, and scientists have fine-tuned what they say is a non-invasive and efficient way to look at those clues. They anticipate that one day a tear fluid workup could be as routine as bloodwork during a physical exam as well as in diagnosing a myriad of conditions from dry eye disease to Alzheimer’s. However, while there are a lot of proteins present, getting an adequate volume of tear fluid to analyze them has been technically difficult. Researchers have now found that the same tissue paper, called a Schirmer strip, already placed painlessly against the eye to measure tear production in patients, can also capture a sufficient volume of tear fluid for a detailed protein analysis. The Schirmer strip is placed on the far corner of the eye, away from the tear ducts, for about five minutes until it gets moist with the tear fluid that covers and protects our eyes. At that point, the paper has collected about 10 to 15 micro liters of tear fluid, far less than a drop, according to scientists at Augusta University (Augusta, GA, USA) who made the discovery.
NewsNation
Active shooter trainings: Are there unintended consequences?
Keleigh Beeson
We’ve seen the drills, the staged simulations and the actual fear. The overwhelming majority of states now require school shooting drills, most with a goal of trying to better equip students, teachers and staff in case the unthinkable should happen. The American Academy of Pediatrics, National Education Association and Sandy Hook Promise all said that the protection of classrooms is critical. Still, there’s a real push to make certain all the practice is helpful and not hurtful. The worry is that all the practicing in U.S. schools is having a serious impact on mental health. A Georgia Tech study found that after a school shooter drill, students reported a 39 percent increase in depression and a 42 percent increase in stress.
Higher Education News:
The Atlantic
Rather than wiping the slate clean on student debt, Washington should take a hard look at reforming a broken system.
By Ben Sasse (Ben Sasse, a former university president, is a United States senator from Nebraska.)
American higher education is the envy of the world, and it’s also failing our students on a massive scale. How can both be true simultaneously? Our decentralized, competitive system of research institutions is a national treasure, unparalleled in human history. We have the best universities, best professors, and best systems of discovery, and we attract the best talent. But the American educational system leaves many high-school graduates woefully unprepared for work or for life, whether or not they go to college. We leave behind more souls than we uplift. Most young Americans never earn a college degree, and far too many of those who do are poorly served by sclerotic institutions that offer regularly overpriced degrees producing too little life transformation, too little knowledge transmission, and too little pragmatic, real-world value. Well-meaning and incredibly gifted members of faculties, administrations, and boards of trustees genuinely want to help students move up the ladder, but the current incentives don’t encourage the kind of programmatic innovation and pluralism that can help poor and middle-class Americans build a sufficiently durable foundation.
Inside Higher Ed
EAB survey finds that they are more important in the admissions process than in the past, especially for white and Asian students. Being test optional matters the most for Black and Hispanic students.
By Scott Jaschik
Parents matter more than in the past in the college admissions process, according to a survey by EAB, being released today, of 4,848 high school seniors who graduated in 2021. Of those students, 48 percent ranked “parental influence” as one of their top five sources of information on the admissions process. That figure compares to 34 percent in 2019 and 37 percent in 2020. But a report by EAB indicated that not all parents are relied on in the same way.
Inside Higher Ed
Study: Parent PLUS Loans Increase Racial Debt Burdens
Black parents are disproportionately burdened by Parent PLUS borrowing, a new study finds, leading to deeper racial inequities in student loan borrowing and higher education at large.
By Meghan Brink
President Biden might cancel $10,000 of student debt, but civil rights advocates are worried that this figure is not enough to address core racial disparities seen in student debt burdens. A new study released Tuesday by the Century Foundation found that it is not just Black students who are hurt disproportionately by student debt, but also Black parents through federal Parent PLUS borrowing, a new finding on a federal program loan that has been mostly excluded from the student debt relief debate.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
On Tenure: What 4-Year Campuses Can Learn From 2-Year Colleges
Four ways that institutions could simplify the tenure system and preserve academic freedom.
By Rob Jenkins
It’s no secret that tenure has come under attack — not just by red-state politicians but also from within academe itself. A majority of faculty members these days are not on the tenure track and feel marginalized, disenfranchised, and abandoned by a system to which they cannot seem to gain access. There are also more than a few chancellors, presidents, vice presidents, provosts, and deans who wouldn’t mind seeing the whole tenure edifice come crashing down, whether they’re willing to admit it publicly or not. The result: Many senior professors now fear losing tenure — both their own and as a concept — while a growing number of up-and-coming academics view the faculty-employment system as antiquated at best and exploitative at worst.
Inside Higher Ed
With Facebook on the decline, some institutions are turning to a third-party app to foster connection among new first-year students. Faculty, administrators and current students are also welcome.
By Maria Carrasco
Incoming first-year students have always found ways to connect with each other before they start college, especially through social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Now a new app is trying to enter that market, fostering connections among incoming students while simultaneously letting administrators join their conversations. Unibuddy, a student recruitment platform for higher education, launched a new product last month called Community, which is an app that connects admitted and incoming first-year students to group chat rooms devoted to different interests or identities, including sports, music, race and sexuality. A community is formed when an institution’s admission officers invite newly admitted or committed students to download the Unibuddy app. Once students sign up for Community, they can add their interests and find relevant groups they want to join—groups that were either created by the institution or added by other students.
Higher Ed Dive
Criminal marketplaces are selling university login credentials online, FBI warns
Natalie Schwartz, Editor
Dive Brief:
The FBI has found college and university login credentials listed for sale on public forums and online criminal marketplaces, it informed higher ed institutions late last week. The exposure of this information could lead to future cyberattacks against individuals and organizations, the FBI warned. For instance, cybercriminals can use the information to attempt to log in across various internet sites, taking advantage of users who recycle the same login credentials. The FBI recommends higher education institutions review and update their plans to respond to a cyberattack. They should also continuously update operating systems and software, train students and faculty to recognize phishing attempts, and require strong and unique passwords for all accounts.