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Augusta University/UGA celebrate 100% medical match rate
From staff reports
Resident applicants at the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership gathered in George Hall on the UGA Health Sciences Campus Friday for Match Day, an event celebrating the next step in their medical careers. “This is the 10th successful match at the Medical Partnership, and we are pleased to announce that every student from the Class of 2023 matched into a residency program,” campus dean Shelley Nuss said. “The accomplishments of these 37 MCG students have landed them at top-tier residency programs across the nation. The students will be going to 16 different states in 14 different specialties, with 54% staying in the southeastern United States and 54% joining primary care programs.
Marietta Daily Journal
In Kennesaw, exuberance followed by dejection
By Stuart Hendrick
Hundreds of Kennesaw State University students and Owl fans poured into the Convocation Center to cheer on their team for the school’s “March Madness Watch Party” Friday afternoon. Jubilation eventually turned to disappointment, however, as the Owls fell to the Xavier Musketeers, 72-67. Fans on campus watched a live telecast of the game as it was played in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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How a UGA professor is leading research on the plastic pollution crisis from source to sea
Marisa Mecke
Jenna Jambeck is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a continuation of Women of the Century, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Meet this year’s honorees at womenoftheyear.usatoday.com.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect the destination of Jambeck’s sailboat trip to Martinique.
Scientists are usually not squeamish by practice, but Jenna Jambeck has a special appreciation for garbage. Jambeck is a Ph.D. environmental engineer at the University of Georgia researching where plastic pollution comes from and how it ends up in the world’s oceans to tackle the pollution crisis. In 2010, Jambeck co-founded the Marine Debris Tracker with Kyle Johnson. Supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program, the tracker is an app that crowdsources data on pollution and shares that as open data. And in 2015, she published a paper calculating for the first time ever the quantity of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, estimating a gobsmacking 275 million metric tons of plastic as of 2010.
Albany Herald
36 finalists advance to final round of Flavor of Georgia contest
By Lillian Dickens UGA/CAES
Judges tasted their way through 124 products entered by 82 Georgia businesses in the first round of judging for the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ annual Flavor of Georgia food product contest this week, selecting 36 finalists who will compete in the final round of competition on March 28. Since its inception in 2007, the competition has acted as a launching pad for small businesses around the state. Including this year’s group, as many as 1,650 products have been entered.
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Matt Bishop on the Youth LEAD Georgia Program
Matt Bishop of the J.W. Fanning Institute talks about the recent announcement of a new program called Youth LEAD Georgia, which is funded and sponsored by Chick-fil-A.
Earth
Bald eagles are threatened by avian influenza
By Chrissy Sexton
Earth.com staff writer
After their near extinction in the 1960s, bald eagle populations rebounded significantly – a phenomenon considered by many scientists a massive conservation success story. However, a recent study led by the University of Georgia (UGA) has found that a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza – known as H1N1 – is currently killing an unprecedented number of bald eagles, thus endangering once more this species.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State faculty pairs lunch and learning
Albany State University was the site this week of a lunch and learn session for staff members.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State holds spring retreat
Albany State University’s Enrollment Management and Student Success recently held its 2023 spring retreat.
Albany Herald
PlantTel Museum exhibit to open at Georgia Museum of Agriculture
By Carlton Fletcher
A unique collection of more than 538 artifacts, including antique telephones of every variety imaginable, forms the heart of a new exhibit at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s Georgia Museum of Agriculture. A grand opening for the GMA’s new PlantTel Museum exhibit will take place at 3 p.m. on April 15 during ABAC’s 2023 Homecoming weekend. The grand opening will include guided tours of the exhibit, a “cord cutting” and a reception.
Connect Savannah
Equality Evolving: Womanpower in the U.S. Military from the Cold War to the Present
When: Thu., March 23, 6-7 p.m.
In recognition of Women’s History Month, the Armstrong campus of Georgia Southern University presents award-winning historian Tanya Roth, PhD speaking on the history of women’s involvement in the U.S. military from the Cold War to the present.
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Inside Higher Ed
Despite TikTok Bans, Colleges Are Thriving on the App
Several campuses have restricted their use of TikTok. For those still using the app, it’s proven a successful way to reach prospective students and leverage current students’ skills.
By Johanna Alonso
Higher ed institutions are beginning to get the hang of TikTok. Many college and university marketing teams are now taking advantage of the short-form video application to show off hidden study spots, dispel campus misconceptions—such as that the dining hall food is lousy—share glimpses of the average day in the life of a student and more. According to a 2022 Pew Research study, two-thirds of teenagers use TikTok, making it a vital recruiting tool for colleges. In recent months, however, some state governments and university systems have banned TikTok, restricting student and employee access to the app—typically by blocking it on campus Wi-Fi networks and university-owned devices. Now the Biden administration is threatening to ban the app in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese owner, sells it, NPR reported.
Inside Higher Ed
Senate Republicans Seek to Block Biden’s Debt-Relief Plan
By Katherine Knott
House and Senate Republicans are planning to introduce a resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan after the Government Accountability Office determined that the plan meets the definition of a rule under the Congressional Review Act. That means that a simple majority of lawmakers in the House and Senate can vote to block the administration from carrying out the rule, though a Congressional Review Act resolution is subject to a presidential veto. “This resolution prevents these Americans, whose debts look different from the favored group the Biden administration has selected, from picking up the bill for this irresponsible and unfair policy,” said Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, ranking member of the Senate education committee, in a statement.
Inside Higher Ed
Professor Fired for Teaching About Race
By Scott Jaschik
Sam Joeckel said Palm Beach Atlantic University “made the disappointing decision to terminate my contract early,” The Palm Beach Post reported. The move came a month after administrators told Joeckel they were investigating a concern raised by a parent that he was “indoctrinating” his students by incorporating lessons about racial justice into his writing composition course. “They did this for a clear reason: my decision to teach and speak about racial justice,” Joeckel said. “The timing of this is not a coincidence as we are dealing with an ‘anti-woke’ crusade from Governor [Ron] DeSantis and other far-right politicians and activists. PBA was clearly influenced by this toxic political ideology.”
Inside Higher Ed
Women in STEM Experience Higher Rates of Sexual Violence
By Johanna Alonso
Women majoring in science, technology, engineering and math fields are subjected to sexual violence at higher rates than their non-STEM counterparts, a new Georgia State University study suggests. Additionally, it showed that women in STEM fields that have equal numbers of men and women—such as chemistry, biology and math—faced more sexual violence than those in disciplines that are not gender balanced. Women in gender-balanced STEM disciplines reported 3.4 times as many attempted rapes—not necessarily by the men in their department—as the average female undergraduate. The study surveyed 318 undergraduate STEM majors at five U.S. institutions.
Inside Higher Ed
Chicago Will ‘Bargain in Good Faith’ After Grad Workers Vote to Unionize
By Ryan Quinn
University of Chicago graduate student workers have voted 1,696 to 155 to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board announced Thursday evening. On Friday, Ka Yee C. Lee, Chicago’s provost, said in a statement that “the university will bargain in good faith with” the union. The NLRB said there were 3,200 eligible voters. Lee said in her statement that, “Of the 9,904 graduate students at the university, 3,287 were eligible to vote based on their current or recent appointments under the election petition” the union filed.