Middle Georgia CEO
Albany State, South Carolina State, & Paine College Named Home Depot Retool Your School Winners
The Home Depot awarded 42 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with nearly $3 million in grants for campus enhancements at the annual Retool Your School Awards Celebration. Albany State University, South Carolina State University and Paine College placed first in their respective clusters, each winning a $150,000grant. Since its inception in 2009, The Home Depot Retool Your School Program has invested more than $12 million in financial support, providing HBCUs with needs-based grants for campus renovations.
Dalton Daily Citizen
Dalton State College event focuses on entrepreneurship
By James Swift
Donna Lowry, host of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Lawmakers: Beyond the Dome,” served as moderator for a “Financially Fit” panel discussion at Dalton State College on April 4. The “Fearless Fundraising for Your Small Business” event was hosted by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office and featured five guest commentators. Among the speakers was Tyler Hudson, head coach and founder of Shankly Elite Training LLC. He launched his limited liability company close to two years ago. Born in Liverpool, England, Hudson certainly knows the campus well — he graduated from Dalton State College with two bachelor of science degrees in biology and health and wellness. …Also participating in the panel discussion was Peter Matthews, area director of the University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center.
Atlanta News First
Georgia Tech students use solar power to help Atlanta animal nonprofit
“It just depends on what the sun gives us”
By Sawyer Buccy
What if you could use your passion to help others? A group of Georgia Institute of Technology students are using solar power to help an animal welfare organization. The five students are ambassadors with RE-volv; an organization that helps nonprofits go solar. They reached out to LifeLine Animal Project in February 2023 about using renewable energy to help them save millions of dollars. Dollars that could go back to helping Atlanta’s animals find their forever homes. “It helps the animal shelter, it helps the students and it also helps the environment as well,” said Julia Fleischman, a student at Georgia Tech. “A success story here is a home, getting healthy enough to be in a home,” said Tracey Thompson, Executive Director with Lifeline Animal Project.
The City Menus
UWG to unveil two new Wolf statues for community partners
By Julie Lineback
The University of West Georgia will host two ribbon-cutting ceremonies for Wolf statues created by student-led teams of artists. …Both events will feature remarks from UWG leadership and community partners. UWG is dedicated to being a proactive point of connection in the community – developing, fostering, maintaining and strengthening relationships, goodwill and connectivity via brand placement through various outreach avenues.
Butler Stories
Butler University’s Institute for Well-being Announces Winners of the Inaugural Well-being Awards
By: Katie Palmer Wharton
Butler University’s Institute for Well-being (IWB), a pioneering center dedicated to enhancing holistic support for student, faculty, and staff well-being, proudly announces the winners of its inaugural well-being awards. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in well-being initiatives across higher education institutions. … Institute for Well-being Campus of the Year: University of West Georgia, under the leadership of Chief Wellness Officer Bridgette Stewart, has implemented a comprehensive wellness program that integrates well-being into the university’s strategic planning. This program’s broad initiatives, including mental health support, food insecurity programs, and a mobile wellness unit, underscore UWG’s commitment to fostering a holistic, healthy community.
WSB-TV
Metro cities, Georgia Tech competing to devise clean-energy solutions for the community
By WSBTV.com News Staff
Atlanta is partnering with Decatur, Savannah, and Georgia Tech to win a competition to devise clean-energy solutions for the community. Channel 2′s Richard Elliot reported Thursday that Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the college Thursday morning to announce that Atlanta was one of 40 finalists. They are competing in the clean Energy competition for $20 million. The competition focuses on solutions such as micro power grids, virtual power grids, and utility-scale solar. …Granholm toured some of Georgia Tech’s labs Friday to get a closer look at what it can do to assist Atlanta.
Grice Connect
Growth creates strong economic position for Bulloch
Synovus financial expert Cal Evans provided a look at the U.S. economy and how Statesboro and Bulloch County compares. In his annual economic forecast, he said the future economically is very bright for Bulloch.
DeWayne Grice
In business and in life, it is often said that if you are not growing, you are dying. Bulloch County’s continued growth has helped insulate our community from much of the economic turbulence other communities have experienced. This growth, which comes with its challenges, has positioned Bulloch County and our region to an envious position of having a very strong local economy. …Bulloch consistently outperforms Over the past decade that Evans has been presenting in Bulloch, he said that our community always outperformed other communities our size. Much of this is because we are fortunate to have major economic hedges. One of the biggest has been and continues to be Georgia Southern University’s economic impact. “Just in the past decade, the impact that I have seen with the growth of GS that has led to an influx of students, which has driven the total redevelopment of the campus area,” said Evans. “The student housing build has been phenomenal, and along with it all, the supporting elements that have followed, including restaurants and service industry growth.”
The West Georgian
Wolves Don’t Waste Provides Food 24/7 For UWG Students
By Keshawn Allen
With over twelve thousand students enrolled at the University of West Georgia, 21% live on campus in one of the residential halls. This is because the university is in charge of providing students with housing and food. Housing is not typically an issue regarding on-campus living since the housing department here at the University of West Georgia works hard to ensure that each resident has a room with working appliances and furniture. Given that everyone needs to eat at some time of the day, relying on swipes and business hours for the dining hall doesn’t always work for every student attending UWG. To ensure that every student has a chance to get food at any time of the day, the university has provided a service called “Wolves Don’t Waste” that helps take care of the issues relating to food here at UWG.
The Cyber Edge
Small Data May Have Big Impact on Artificial Intelligence at the Edge
Warfighters may benefit from AI systems fed smaller bites of data.
While big data has garnered much attention in recent years, small datasets and artificial intelligence (AI) can provide valuable benefits on the battlefield, according to Margaret Loper, associate director of operations for the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL). “There was a period of time where everything was about big data, big data, big data. We need lots of data. You have to have big data to learn over, to predict from. But the reality is, with this kind of proliferation of intelligence and computation at the edges, what we really have is a lot of small data, and small data can be very informative, Loper, who has also been serving as the ICL’s acting director, told SIGNAL Media.
yahoo!finance
Agrify Corporation (Nasdaq: AGFY) (“Agrify” or the “Company”), a leading provider of innovative cultivation and extraction solutions for the cannabis industry, today announced the celebration of newly published research on leafy green production in vertical farms by University of Georgia’s (“University of Georgia” or “UGA”) Controlled Environmental Agriculture (“CEA”) program under Agrify’s Model R Horticulture LED lights (“Model R”).
The Augusta Chronicle
It’s National Pecan Day: Learn more about the nut that’s so important to Georgia
Erica Van Buren
Georgia is the largest pecan producing state in the nation, experts say. Making Georgia the right place to be for National Pecan Day. “We produce somewhere around 100 million pounds annually,” said Lenny Wells, professor of horticulture and extension pecan specialist at the University of Georgia based in Tifton. “But we’ve been as high as 150 pounds. So we’re the largest producer.” An average pecan harvest in Georgia is about 88 million pounds, enough to make 176 million pecan pies, according to experts. April 14 is National Pecan Day It was created by the Shellers Association in 1966 to recognize and honor the workforce behind the cultivation of pecans in America.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SARE Delivers for Farmers. Will Congress Deliver for SARE?
Last week, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), alongside 97 food, farm, conservation, and rural organizations, delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators urging them to fully fund the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) at $60 million in fiscal year (FY) 2025. …However, after more than 35 years of proven on-the-ground results, the program has yet to reach its fully authorized funding amount of $60 million. …Key Projects Funded by SARE in each Region …Southern SARE, Georgia Small Farms and Big Market Barriers, Dr. Niki Whitley of Fort Valley State University, an 1890-Land Grant HBCU, is currently using a SARE Research and Education Grant to Research to identify barriers for small-scale farmers to market sustainable food products (meat, veggies, fruits) into large markets using surveys (multiple implementation methods), focus groups, and personal interviews, to investigate/determine the feasibility (for farmers/farm cooperatives/groups) of methods for overcoming those barriers and entering into larger markets (conduct feasibility studies). Through this grant they provide education, demonstrations, and resources for methods/processes to overcome barriers and enter into larger markets, sustaining and expanding the number of small-scale farmers marketing into larger markets and increasing available local, sustainable foods.
Specialty Crop Grower
Pecan Water Needs: Extension Specialist Highlights Irrigation During UGA School
By Clint Thompson
One of the most significant investments a pecan producer can make with their crop is with irrigation. If a grower cannot water their trees regularly, especially during times of the season when the trees need it the most, they will not be able to capitalize with high yields. It is a message that Lenny Wells, University of Georgia (UGA) Extension pecan specialist, highlighted during the UGA Pecan School on March 20 in Perry, Georgia.
USA TODAY
Yellow-legged hornets, murder hornet’s relative, found in Georgia, officials want them destroyed
Georgia officials are ramping up the hunt for yellow-legged hornets, a species that preys on honeybees and threatens the state’s agriculture.
Natalie Neysa Alund
Authorities in Georgia are asking the public for help tracking a growing invasive hornet species that preys on honeybees and other pollinators and, if allowed to continue to flourish, could threaten agriculture − the state’s main economic driver. The move comes after the Georgia Department of Agriculture eradicated a yellow-legged hornet’s nest reported by a resident at a home in greater Savannah on Monday, state DOA spokesperson Matthew Agvent said Thursday. The insect is a close relative of the “murder hornet”. …When was the first yellow-legged hornet nest found? The first yellow-legged hornet nest was spotted in August by a Savannah beekeeper who reported the sighting to the state agency. The agency, partnered with the University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), said the finding marked the first detection of the non-native species in “the open United States.”
Scientific American
AI Chatbots Will Never Stop Hallucinating
Some amount of chatbot hallucination is inevitable. But there are ways to minimize it
By Lauren Leffer
Last summer a federal judge fined a New York City law firm $5,000 after a lawyer used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to draft a brief for a personal injury case. The text was full of falsehoods—including more than six entirely fabricated past cases meant to establish precedent for the personal injury suit. Similar errors are rampant across AI-generated legal outputs, researchers at Stanford University and Yale University found in a recent preprint study of three popular large language models (LLMs). …Hallucination is usually framed as a technical problem with AI—one that hardworking developers will eventually solve. But many machine-learning experts don’t view hallucination as fixable because it stems from LLMs doing exactly what they were developed and trained to do: respond, however they can, to user prompts. …Another cause of hallucination is calibration, says Santosh Vempala, a computer science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Calibration is the process by which LLMs are adjusted to favor certain outputs over others (to match the statistics of training data or to generate more realistically human-sounding phrases).
The George-Anne
Hannah Clay, Multimedia Journalist
At Georgia Southern University, sexual violence awareness raises an additional level with the clothesline project. The Clothesline project takes place annually every April which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As an effort across the entire university, the Clothesline Project seeks to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual assault and give survivors a platform to express their experiences. …The Clothesline Project involves more than awareness-raising as it also promotes action. The Student Health and Wellness Promotion Office have tables set up at the Henderson Library and the Russell Union where students may make their own t-shirts.
The Stute
An inside scoop on Gateway’s new “Just Walk Out” technology by Amazon
By Tanya Avadia
As a technology-centric university, Stevens has found ways to incorporate innovative technologies into various aspects of the student experience, with the latest addition being the “Just Walk Out” technology provided by Amazon. …When asked about the thought process behind having an on-campus location featuring this unique Amazon technology, Stevens Dining shared that many campuses already have Amazon Go locations. Marymount University, Bowling Green State University, and Georgia Southern University have all implemented these technology-powered convenience stores at their schools.
WGAU Radio
UGA’s spring plant sale is underway at state Botanical Garden
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia’s annual Spring Plant Sale is underway today, 2 til 6 at the State Botanical Garden on South Milledge Avenue in Athens. The sale continues Saturday from 8 tomorrow morning through 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
From the UGA master calendar…
The spring plant sale is a great way to get wonderful plants, receive expert advice and support the garden. Staff from both the horticulture and conservation departments will be at the plant sale, along with many Master Gardeners to help answer gardening questions and make recommendations for specific needs. All proceeds from the April plant sale go directly to the operational costs of the horticulture department.
Med School Watercooler
Fleck inaugurated as first female president of AUA’s Southeastern Section
Lorie Fleck, M.D., a board-certified urologist at USA Health University Urology, continues to blaze a trail for women in the field of urology. She recently was inaugurated as the first female president of the Southeastern Section of the American Urological Association (AUA) at the group’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas. …In 1992, Fleck became the first female urology resident at the Medical College of Georgia, where she also earned her medical degree. She said she was drawn to urology because of the practice’s wide range of opportunities – a blend of patient visits, office procedures and surgeries. Fleck says one of her favorite roles is mentoring medical students and residents.
The Times Online
Terrebonne General Health System Announces the Opening of its Sleep Disorders Center
Terrebonne General Health System is excited to announce the opening of its Sleep Disorders Center, which will assume operations in partnership with SSM Management. The spacious three-bed Sleep Center located on the campus of Terrebonne General will offer diagnostic testing services for various sleep disorders under the guidance of our team of licensed and Registered Sleep Technologists with over 50 years of clinical experience. Terrebonne General’s Dr. Peomia Brown, a board-eligible sleep medicine specialist who also holds board certifications in pulmonology and critical care, will serve as the primary consulting physician for the Sleep Center. …She completed her internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Medical Center, where she served as chief medical resident.
Chattanoogan
Statewide Winners Announced In Give Wildlife A Chance Poster Contest
Twelve schoolchildren have been announced as statewide winners in the Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest. Almost 3,500 kindergarten through fifth-grade students from 24 public, private and homeschool groups took part in the 34th annual conservation art competition held by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. …Entries were judged on aspects such as theme relevance, originality and the quality and impact of the artwork. First-place school-level entries proceeded to the state contest at the State Botanical Garden, a unit of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Athens Banner-Herald
G-Day traffic patterns to mirror real game day traffic in Athens
Wayne Ford
Folks in Athens generally know the rule on University of Georgia football Saturdays. Avoid driving into or around town the hour before the game and especially after the game. The same holds true for Saturday’s G-Day game in Sanford Stadium, when the UGA Bulldogs put on a show for their fans. Athens-Clarke police Lt. Jody Thompson said Thursday that police working traffic will use traffic patterns used during regular football games in the fall. “I’d expect delays on the thoroughfares going out of the stadium at the end of the game,” he said.
BVM Sports
Wolves Pick up Road Sweep over Hawks
The University of West Georgia Tennis team picked up their second conference win of the season on Wednesday after a 7-0 sweep over the Shorter Hawks.
The Tifton Gazette
ABAC’s Wimberly sees much progress as jump to NAIA nears
Becky Taylor
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College athletic director Chuck Wimberly is dealing with the nuts and bolts of transitioning his sports programs from NJCAA to four-year NAIA. Some of those nuts and bolts have been literal lately. Gressette Gymnasium has a pair of new scoreboards, backboards, rims and new side goals. While some tasks would be quite mundane to most people, Wimberly thrills at each and every detail. “To be honest,” said Wimberly, “it has been a lot of fun watching something happen and unfold in front of your face.” Every last bit of the process thrills Wimberly. It’s another step towards their goal. and that goal is approaching fast. Beyond the most visual aspects, he mentioned new water fountains, lights and ceiling tiles. …Brundage, ABAC’s President, has not only been supportive of everything, but Wimberly said she has been just as excited to see it happening, right down to the new handrails for the bleachers. The intriguing thing for him coming to ABAC, Wimberly said, was Brundage’s desire for a four-year school, wanting to grow the school and athletics.
Georgia Trend
Unprecedented health equity initiative for HBCU athletes launches in Georgia
CareSource partners with Who We Play For to provide lifesaving ECG screenings
Sheryl-Anne Murray
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 2,000 young people die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) each year – many without previously known heart issues. …In fact, SCA is the number one medical cause of sudden death in athletes in the U.S. Young Black athletes are particularly at risk, tending to have higher rates of SCA and SCA death compared to White individuals. …To help support the health and well-being of HBCU athletes, including band members, CareSource partnered with Who We Play For to offer advanced heart screenings on their campuses. …Albany State University was the first school CareSource partnered with in Georgia to bring screenings to HBCU athletes, and we have plans to serve other Georgia HBCUs in 2024. …The partnership with Who We Play For furthers CareSource’s existing commitment to HBCUs in Georgia. This overall commitment includes scholarship dollars, health initiatives, employee volunteerism and recruitment efforts. We have provided $100,000 to support scholarships at Fort Valley State, Morehouse, Morris Brown College, Paine College and Savannah State University.
The Georgia Virtue
Georgia Southern Clay Target Team clinches national titles in San Antonio
The Georgia Southern Clay Target Team soared to victory at the 2024 ACUI/SCTP Collegiate Clay Target Championship by earning the Division II Classic All-American (CAA) and the All-Division American Skeet champion titles in a historic first for the University.
Inside Higher Ed
Georgia University’s Decision to Close Prison Program Prompts ‘Heartbreak’
Professors and students want Georgia State University to keep its college-in-prison program open. The institution’s leaders say new federal standards make it too costly to do so.
By Sara Weissman
Perimeter College, a community college that’s part of Georgia State University, celebrated its first graduating class of incarcerated students last year. Nine students at Walker State Prison, clad in caps and gowns, earned associate degrees in general studies through the university’s Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). The program, which started eight years ago, currently operates in two state prisons and one federal prison and serves a total of roughly 60 students. University officials are planning to shut down the program over the next few years to the shock and dismay of professors and students who thought the program was thriving. Cynthia Lester, interim dean of Perimeter College, sent a November message to faculty and staff members involved in the program explaining that it couldn’t afford to maintain the program after the restoration of Pell Grants to incarcerated students. The reinstatement of the grants, which officially took effect last July after a 26-year ban, requires college programs in prisons to meet strict federal standards to ensure their students can receive the funding.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia joins GOP states’ lawsuit over Biden’s college debt relief plan
By Ty Tagami
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has signed onto a lawsuit with six other states in an attempt to stop another federal effort to provide student loan debt relief to millions of borrowers nationwide. The lawsuit by Republican-led states seeks to block a second attempt by President Joe Biden to wipe out debts for lower-income borrowers who have fallen behind on repayments and reduce debt for others. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision with conservative justices in the majority, ruled against the first effort last year. The latest lawsuit is similar to one filed last month by 11 states and follows the one that led to the high court’s ruling in Biden v. Nebraska.
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Inside Higher Ed
Report: Biden’s New Debt Relief Plan Estimated to Cost $84 Billion
By Katherine Knott
President Biden’s new plan to forgive some or all student loans for 26 million Americans would cost about $84 billion over 10 years, according to economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organization at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. When combined with the administration’s income-driven repayment plan, known as Saving On a Valuable Education, the total cost would be $559 billion. The administration, which this week previewed its plan to provide debt relief for borrowers who fall into five discrete categories, has not yet released a cost estimate. More details about the expected cost should be included in the proposed regulatory changes that will be published in coming weeks.
Higher Ed Dive
Harvard University revives standardized testing requirements
With the reversal, the top-ranked college becomes the latest Ivy League school to shed test-optional policies for applicants.
Natalie Schwartz, Senior Editor
Dive Brief:
Harvard University will once again require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, it said Thursday, reversing a test-optional policy that it implemented during the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy will take effect for the class of 2029, whose members will apply to Harvard during the upcoming fall and winter. If they can’t access the exams, they can instead submit alternatives such as Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate scores. The surprise announcement reverses Harvard’s earlier policy, which had extended test-optional admissions through the class of 2030. With the change, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League institution to switch back to standardized testing requirements in the past few months.
Inside Higher Ed
Traction for the Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree
A group of college leaders strategize about how to design a new undergraduate experience—and get an unexpected boost from an accreditor.
By Doug Lederman
The stagnation and disinclination to experiment that many critics believe is rife in higher education may loom over some gatherings of campus leaders. The College-in-3 event here this week wasn’t among them. Several dozen college administrators, faculty leaders, accreditors and others gathered at Merrimack College to share progress reports on, and commiserate about, common roadblocks in their efforts to create three-year bachelor’s degrees. The gathering was organized by the College-in-3 Exchange, which has been working for several years to encourage institutions to design and build academic programs that deliver faster, less expensive, and—ideally—better degree programs for learners. Most of the institutions in the fledgling consortium, striving to redesign their way to a more secure future, would do so by reducing the number of academic credits they require from the typical 120 to as low as 90.
Inside Higher Ed
Roadmap of College Credit for Military Experience
University of North Carolina’s new tool translates military occupations and the training that comes with them to nearly 7,000 college courses across its 16 universities.
By Jessica Blake
A new credit transfer tool for military service members enrolling in the University of North Carolina System is helping a target group of adult learners translate their technical on-the-job experience into college-level academic credit. Launched in late February, the UNC System Military Equivalency System builds on a pre-existing guide from the American Council on Education (ACE) to provide a user-friendly database that spans all 16 of the system’s institutions and could aid their more than 21,000 military-affiliated students.
Inside Higher Ed
4 More Universities Under U.S. Review for Alleged ‘Shared Ancestry’ Bias
By Doug Lederman
The U.S. Education Department is investigating four more universities for possible violations of federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on shared ancestry. Lehigh, Princeton and Youngstown State University and the University of Michigan were added in the last 10 days to a list the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights maintains of such inquiries. The agency has seen an influx of complaints alleging antisemitism or Islamophobia since the war between Israel and Hamas began in early October, and it started publicly listing institutions under investigation in mid-November.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Panelists Discuss Antisemitism on College Campuses and Responsibilities of University Trustees
Arrman Kyaw
What constitutes protected free speech and antisemitism on college campuses were key topics discussed Thursday during a webinar hosted by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). The event, “Antisemitism, Academic Freedom, and Board Leadership,” brought multiple scholars and higher ed leaders together to offer their thoughts on the current state of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses and what university trustees can do in the face of it.
Inside Higher Ed
OCR: Hinds Community College Failed to Support Pregnant Student, Violated Title IX
By Katherine Knott
A pregnant student at Hinds Community College in Mississippi was repeatedly denied supports she needed to prepare for and parent her new child in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced Thursday. The student who filed the OCR complaint was told to withdraw for the semester when she asked for flexibility to leave a class early in order to get to her doctor’s appointment on time, the agency found. The student became pregnant during her final semester of a redacted program at the college which entailed working in the community under an instructor. Students additionally attended lectures and took six tests as well as a final exam as part of the program. She was penalized for missing 20 minutes of a lecture while hospitalized after giving birth early.
Inside Higher Ed
National Protest Day Planned Against ‘Attacks’ on Higher Ed
By Ryan Quinn
Faculty members and students plan to hold events across numerous campuses Wednesday, April 17, to kick-start a movement against what they consider concerted attacks on quality higher education for all. They’re opposing academic freedom restrictions, defending protest rights, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, calling for free public education, and advocating for more secure faculty jobs, among other things. More than 75 American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapters, higher education unions, student groups and anti–student debt organizers have come together since December to organize the national Day of Action for Higher Education, said Amy Offner, president of the University of Pennsylvania’s AAUP chapter. “The list of participating campuses is still growing,” she said at an online news conference Thursday. “I think it’s going to go beyond 75, actually, by a considerable amount.”
Cybersecurity Dive
FBI director echoes past warnings, as critical infrastructure hacking threat festers
Chris Wray says adversaries from China, Russia and Iran are ramping up cyber, espionage and other threat activity against key sectors, including water, energy and telecommunications.
David Jones, Reporter
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said state-linked threat groups are ramping up threat activity against the U.S. and pose a continued risk to key critical infrastructure sectors, in a speech Tuesday before the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security. Threat actors linked with the People’s Republic of China are continuing to build out offensive capabilities, setting up access to various sectors such as the water, energy and telecommunications industries, according to Wray. “We’re seeing hostile nation states become more aggressive in their efforts to steal our secrets and our innovation, target our critical infrastructure, export their aggression to our shores and front and center is China,” Wray said.