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Georgia Southern welcomes high school students for Governor’s Honors Program
By Dal Cannady
Hundreds of high school scholars from around Georgia will call Statesboro home for the next month. They’re studying at Georgia Southern through the Governors Honors Program. For Georgia Southern, it’s the chance to host roughly 700 potential students who’ll soon be deciding where they’ll go to college. High school juniors and seniors from across Georgia filed into the library as part of four weeks of academic, social, and cultural enrichment. Students apply for a spot in Governors Honors in a host of focuses, from academic subjects to the arts, and more. University leaders see this as a chance to make a first impression on “the best and brightest” and introduce them to Southern.
WGAU Radio
UNG students land spots in National Science Foundation summer programs
By Clark Leonard, UNG
Seventeen University of North Georgia students secured the chance to participate in National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates or similar opportunities this summer. Lexi Atilano, a senior from Cartersville, Georgia, pursuing a degree in chemistry, is heading to Mississippi State University to research catalysts that can speed up the decline of toxicity in substances in the atmosphere. She is eager to get a taste of what graduate school might be like, and Atilano aims to one day work for the Food and Drug Administration. Atilano has conducted research with Dr. John Leyba, dean of UNG’s College of Science & Mathematics, and said her classes with chemistry faculty members Dr. Ryan Meier and Dr. Levi Miller helped her prepare for the REU.
Aiken Standard
Committee names 2023 Schofield Scholarship winners
The Schofield Scholarship Fund has assisted African American students seeking higher education since its inception in the 1950s. When Martha Schofield came to Aiken in the late 1800s with the express mission of educating formerly enslaved people, she could never have dreamed of the far-reaching impact of her work. To date, over a thousand students have fulfilled their dream of a college education with assistance from the Schofield Scholarship Fund. …The selection committee is proud to announce the 2023 recipients of the Schofield Scholarship: Ayonna Butler, Augusta University; Stephaun Cullum-Jackson, Georgia State University; … .
Coosa Valley News
ADVENTHEALTH GORDON AWARDS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP
Posted by Staff Reports
Earlier this month, the AdventHealth Gordon Foundation awarded scholarships to four local nursing and allied health students. The AdventHealth Gordon Foundation established the Nursing/Allied Health Scholarship Endowment Fund for students interested in the health care field to pave the way for future generations of nurses and health care professionals right here in our community. Scholarship recipients, family members, foundation board members and AdventHealth Gordon team members gathered at AdventHealth Gordon for a breakfast and awards ceremony. …Naidia Rodriguez – Rodriguez graduated from Adairsville High School in 2022 on the A Honor Roll and is currently attending the University of West Georgia. She has been accepted into the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program starting summer of 2023.
11Alive
UGA receives million-dollar federal grant to improve food production in Peach State
The $1.5 million grant is supposed to help advance agricultural initiatives and food production in the Peach State, officials said.
Author: Akilah Winters
University of Georgia has received more than a million dollars in grant money from the United States Department of Agriculture. The $1.5 million grant is supposed to help advance agricultural initiatives and food production in the Peach State, officials said. “This grant is an opportunity for UGA to put its strengths in community engagement and agricultural innovation to use in important ways for our home state,” said University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead.
EurekAlert!
The American Society of Plant Biologists names 2023 award recipients
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023 awards, which honor distinction in service, outreach, education, and research. Fellow of ASPB Award
Wayne Parrott, University of Georgia, Athens
The Laker/Lutz News
By Mike Camunas
Georgia Gwinnett College senior and former Carrollwood Day School standout player and captain Sydney Pelaez was named the 2023 Diamond Sports/NFCA NAIA Catcher of the Year on June 6, capping off a stellar four year collegiate career. …Pelaez ended GGC career with a .390 average and school-record 247 hits, 156 RBI and 62 doubles. Pelaez is second in program history with 220 games played and her 21 home runs are tied for second in the school’s record book.
Albany Herald
UGA Center for Food Safety student wins Jim Ayres Young Investigator Award
By Jennifer L. Reynolds UGA/CAES
University of Georgia Center for Food Safety doctoral student Jouman Hassan has been named the first-place winner of this year’s Jim Ayres Young Investigator Award by the Georgia Association for Food Protection. To compete, Georgia students submit research abstracts in hopes of winning one of three awards. All three of this year’s winners are UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences students.
Henry Herald
Ag museum to host Wiregrass Freedom Fest
From staff reports
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College’s Georgia Museum of Agriculture will be decked out in red, white, and blue on July 1 for the Wiregrass Freedom Festival. Visitors can celebrate their patriotic pride as they ride the 1914 Vulcan Steam Train into the Historic Village and enjoy numerous games and contests representative of the Wiregrass region of Georgia during the early 20th century. Guests also will enjoy a game of baseball, sample delicious watermelon slices, and challenge their historic vocabulary knowledge with trivia in the Wiregrass School House. Cane pole fishing in the Grist Mill Pond and Victorian-era paper firework crafts will add to the atmosphere.
Southeast AgNet Radio Network
Storm Aftermath: Diseases a Concern for Georgia Peanuts
By Clint Thompson
The Georgia Peanut Commission and University of Georgia (UGA) Peanut Extension Team advise growers to be wary of disease development following the recent storms across the Southeast last week. Bob Kemerait, UGA Extension plant pathologist, discusses the potential for diseases in South Georgia peanuts. “Much of our crop is 30 days after planting or beyond. We are in a critical period now as far as initiating fungicide programs. The issue we’ve got right now is the weather is absolutely conducive, high humidity, warming up temperatures, not hot but warm. We’ve got abundant rainfall and moisture to where we have the possibility from everything to white mold to leaf spot getting started,” Kemerait said. “It’s a double-edged sword for growers right now.
The Times and Democrat
As winter warms, Southern farmers find ways to adapt
Melina Walling Associated Press
When Pam Knox walked into the peach orchard at the University of Georgia horticulture farm this spring, there was nothing on the trees except leaves and a couple of brown fruits — the result of one of the state’s warmest winters ever followed by two nights of freezing weather in March. “It’s just really odd, because over the course of one night, they lost their entire crop and their entire production here,” said Knox, an agricultural climatologist with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, which shares research and expertise with farmers and others. Commercial peach farmers in the state lost as much as 95% of their yield, she estimated. …Farmers are contending with those warming winters by using new or improved agricultural techniques, trying out new crop varieties and even growing crops that were previously less common in their regions.
Global Atlanta
Governor’s Mission to Israel Opens Doors in Country of Outsize Impact, Officials Say
Trevor Williams
When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made his first overseas trip to South Korea in 2021, the rationale was clear: influential Korean companies like Kia and SK had already spent billions in the state, and more investment and jobs were there for the taking. Two years, billions of dollars and thousands of jobs later, the logic of that trip would be hard to assail. Choosing Israel for his first official post-pandemic mission, meanwhile, led some to suggest the governor was more interested in bolstering his U.S. political aspirations than acting in the state’s economic interests. …It may have been a tense time in Israeli’s domestic politics, but the trip came at what the consul general described as an opportune moment for economic ties with Georgia. Delta Air Lines last month launched daily nonstop flights from Atlanta to Tel Aviv, the country’s commercial center, reopening a vital conduit for business and tourism after 12 years. That was followed by agreements between Israel’s Cinema South Festival and the Rome, Ga.’s International film festival — the first bilateral partnership of its kind — and an intensified partnership between Ben Gurion University and Augusta University. The schools already work together on cybersecurity initiatives — Augusta’s Fort Gordon is home to U.S. Cyber Command — but they also committed to deepen academic and research partnerships, the consul general said.
Albany Herald
Students practice surgical procedures with a bird’s-eye view in UGA class
By Amanda Budd UGA/CAES
Clustered around a surgical table, students carefully perform procedures on their patients, carefully monitoring every vital sign to ensure a successful outcome. This may sound like a scene from a medical school or residency, but it describes the experiences of undergraduate students in “Avian Surgical Techniques,” a course offered by the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In the course, students have the unique opportunity to practice several surgical procedures and general care techniques on chickens.
WTOC
University System of Georgia cuts $3.8 million from Georgia Southern’s 2024 budget
By Camille Syed
Georgia Southern will be running off a $480 million budget this coming school year. But they are one of many colleges facing state funding cuts. A $3.75 million decrease in their 2024 fiscal year budget. That’s what Georgia Southern University is working with after the University System of Georgia cut more than $3.8 million from their pockets. “We’re able to absorb those cuts internally with one time use of funds for this next fiscal year. So, employees, faculty and staff and especially our students won’t see the impact of that this coming year.” Vice President of Communications John Lester says state funding is calculated in part by enrollment rates from the fall semester two years prior. Fall 2021 Georgia Southern only saw a .5 enrollment increase. In fall 2022, they saw a 5.9 percent decrease in enrollment. And now along with many other colleges. “The economy is so good right now. Students can get a job right out of high school but we are trying hard to make sure they understand going to college still ends up earning you more over a lifetime.”
WTOC
University System of Georgia cuts funding for Savannah State due to decline in enrollment
By Camille Syed
Savannah State University is facing yet another setback going into the next school year. …Tuition costs will stay the same, however. …According to the Board of Regents’ recently passed budget, Savannah State’s budget is dropping from nearly $90 million to a little over $79 million. This comes after years of declining enrollment, an $11 million deficit and nearly two dozen layoffs. …Right now it’s based partially on enrollment
WGAU Radio
UNG accounting lecturer takes part in tax conference in Puerto Rico
By Clark Leonard, UNG
Lisa Nash, senior lecturer of accounting at the University of North Georgia, presented at the inaugural VITA U 2023 conference in June at the University of Puerto Rico. The University of Georgia served as the conference co-host. The conference provides a forum to share scholarship stemming from university-affiliated Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) activities. … Nash is a certified public accountant. The VITA program she oversees at UNG normally serves more than 100 taxpayers each filing season. The UNG program is looking to expand the facilitated self-assist option to serve more taxpayers in the next filing season.
BioSpace
Bionano Genomics Inc. (BNGO), today announced the publication in Cancers of a peer-reviewed study from Augusta University on the utility of combining optical genome mapping (OGM) and a 523-gene next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel for the standard evaluation of myeloid cancers. Medical society guidelines recommend the use of karyotyping (KT), fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) and sequencing to perform cytogenetic and molecular analysis of patients. The study describes myeloid cancers as posing a significant challenge to manage, with approximately 50% of cases displaying cytogenetically normal genomes, which can confound traditional analysis approaches.
ResearchLive
MEN HAPPIER WITH MARKET RESEARCH CAREERS THAN WOMEN, FINDS RESEARCH
The research, compiled by Market Research Institute International, a market research industry non-profit consortium and the University of Georgia Centre for Continuing Education, found that 67 per cent of males were happy with their careers in market research, compared to 59 per cent of women. Overall, it found nearly two-thirds (( 63 per cent) of market research professionals surveyed say they are “very” or “completely” satisfied with their jobs in market research, in a study based on nearly 500 market researchers globally.
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Cybersecurity Dive
US puts $10M bounty on Clop as federal agencies confirm data compromises
Additional private sector companies have disclosed attacks after multiple vulnerabilities were found in MOVEit Transfer software.
David Jones, Reporter
The U.S. State Department is offering a $10 million bounty related to information on the Clop ransomware gang, which is attributed to broad exploits of the MOVEit transfer vulnerabilities with victims that include federal agencies. The Department of Energy confirmed data was impacted by an attack, and reports from CNN indicate a possible attack is being investigated against the Office of Personnel Management. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is also dealing with a third-party vendor data breach.
Higher Ed Dive
AASCU pitches competitive grant program for regional public universities
Natalie Schwartz, Editor
Dive Brief:
The federal government should create a competitive grant program for regional public universities to enhance their surrounding communities, according to a new report from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. AASCU recommends a required state match for the federal grants, with states not permitted to lower their appropriations for participating colleges and universities’ budget items like operations and financial aid. Regional universities could apply for the grants based on specific projects to promote regional stewardship, AASCU suggests. These matching grants would spur states to continue funding community development initiatives, especially during economic downturns, the association said.
Inside Higher Ed
Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning Differ
A new report shows misalignments in institutional and student views on preferences for virtual instruction and experience with generative AI.
By Jessica Blake
More than half of faculty members say they prefer face-to-face classes over hybrid or online delivery, but nearly seven in 10 students say they prefer an instructional model with at least some virtual component. Three-quarters of students favor digital course materials over print, while professors are split 50-50. And 60 percent of faculty instructors opt to send students to the traditional bookstore as their primary method of course material access, though barely 15 percent of students say they prefer to purchase new print materials. Those findings, drawn from a report released Tuesday by Tyton Partners, show that even as digital learning becomes a fundamental feature of today’s higher education landscape, student, faculty and administrative perspectives about it don’t always align.
Higher Ed Dive
Duke will cover tuition for Carolina students from low- and middle-income households
Laura Spitalniak, Associate Editor
Dive Brief:
Beginning in fall 2023, Duke University will cover the tuition of undergraduate students from North Carolina and South Carolina whose families earn $150,000 or less a year. This includes students from military families whose legal residence is in the Carolinas, regardless of where they are stationed. The private nonprofit university in North Carolina will also provide financial assistance to cover housing, food and other expenses for residents of the two states whose households make $65,000 or less annually. Around 340 of Duke’s more than 6,500 undergraduates are expected to receive roughly $2 million in grant assistance, according to a Tuesday news release. Duke said it expects the number of eligible students to rise over the next five years, increasing the program’s price tag by $6 million to $7 million each year.
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Inside Higher Ed
Dissolving a DEI Office to Save DEI
The University of Arkansas is reallocating all DEI staff and resources to other campus offices. Is it a capitulation to right-wing demands or a savvy defense tactic?
By Liam Knox
Lawmakers in Florida, Texas and Ohio have passed bills this year requiring their public institutions of higher education to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion offices. The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville didn’t wait on legislative mandates; last week, the university dissolved its DEI division on its own. But the DEI office’s staff and resources will be retained and reallocated to other offices, primarily in human resources and student success. Mark Rushing, associate vice chancellor for university relations, said administrators were discussing what that relocation would look like with the affected employees, including the current vice chancellor of diversity, equity and inclusion, Angela Mosley Monts. In a letter announcing the decision, Chancellor Charles Robinson stressed that it was made not in response to political pressures, but as the first step in a strategic plan to emphasize student success and faculty recruitment.
Inside Higher Ed
Report Provides Snapshot of Borrowers Behind Bars
By Katherine Knott
A majority of student loan borrowers who are incarcerated have likely defaulted on their loans and would benefit from President Biden’s debt-relief plan, a new report from the Student Borrower Protection Center argues. “Without student loan cancellation, most incarcerated borrowers will be locked out of higher education and the improved post-release outcomes it brings,” the report says. All of the 57 borrowers in the center’s case study of more than 300 incarcerated students had defaulted on their loans while more than 90 percent of them had balances of less than $20,000. Borrowers in default won’t be eligible for the Pell Grant when it becomes available to incarcerated students this summer.
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Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Education Partnering Organization Launches Digital Community Platform for International Students
Arrman Kyaw
Global education partnering organization INTO University Partnerships has launched a digital community platform for international students. The INTO Community platform will give international students the opportunity to obtain information and support, learn more about events and job opportunities, and interact with colleagues and faculty live regardless of location. Students will be able to get personalized assistance on visa requirements and housing arrangements.
Higher Ed Dive
Deadline drama: How will the Education Department’s delay of Title IX rules affect colleges?
First expected last month, final regulations would dictate how institutions investigate sexual violence and accommodate transgender athletes.
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Senior Reporter
For the past several months, higher education pundits prophesied that the U.S. Department of Education wouldn’t meet its own deadline to issue final versions of two high-profile regulations. The agency originally intended in May to publish rules on Title IX, the law banning sex-based discrimination in federally funded schools. One regulation is broad and would dictate how schools must investigate sexual violence, while the other would prevent blanket bans on transgender athletes participating in sports aligned with their gender identities. But the regulatory process is time intensive, and, as expected, the rules’ final iterations are now planned for October.