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Students preparing for enrollment in Move On When Ready program
By LAUREN MCDONALD
Registration is now open for the Move On When Ready program, which offers local students the opportunity to earn college credit before graduating high school. “Students at the high schools are now going through the process of picking out classes for the fall semester next year,” said Linell Bailey, the Move On When Ready coordinator at College of Coastal Georgia. “They’re starting to talk with their guidance counselors at the high schools, and students are able to select the Move On When Ready program, if they want to participate.” …The Move On When Ready program allows Georgia students to dual enroll in high school and a postsecondary institution. The students take postsecondary coursework for credit that applies to both their high school graduation and college requirements. The program is offered during summer, fall and spring semesters.
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Best in Atlanta Real Estate Visionary Award: Tech Square fosters innovation, entrepreneurship
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Over the past decade, Midtown’s Technology Square has blossomed into one of the nation’s top innovation districts, with a cluster of startups and research and development labs, street-level retail, apartment towers and the new Atlanta headquarters of tech giant NCR Corp. … The success of Georgia Tech’s vision for Technology Square, carried out over nearly two decades, is this year’s recipient of the Visionary Award in Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2017 Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards. Technology Square has become Georgia Tech’s highest-profile project. Its first phase, completed in 2003, was a $256 million mixed-use development with a hotel and conference center, the Advanced Technology Development Center(ATDC) and Georgia Tech VentureLab … Under Peterson, Technology Square continues to evolve … “Tech Square will continue to be a hub of innovation for the Southeast, and I think we’ll see continued strong growth as the word gets out that it is the place to be,” Peterson said. “We are grateful to those who first saw the potential of Tech Square before the first shovel full of dirt was moved, and to those who have worked to create one of the most vibrant and creative innovation regions in the southeastern United States.”
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Georgia Tech Wins Real Estate Visionary Award
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Staff reports that Georgia Tech was honored Thursday evening for the innovative and successful development of Technology Square. The Institute received the Visionary Award in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2017 Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards. Tech Square officially opened in 2003, and today the area is a thriving innovation ecosystem thanks to a vibrant network of students, faculty, researchers, startup entrepreneurs and global corporations.
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KSU student from Gwinnett killed after being ejected from car in Cobb crash
Lauren Foreman Raisa Habersham The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Kennesaw State University student was killed Friday morning after he was ejected from a car in a rollover crash, Cobb County police spokesman Officer Alicia Chilton said. Police say a man driving a 2003 Acura lost control on I-75 north at the Chastain Road exit ramp. Three of his friends were inside. One of the passengers, Colin Ruland, 19, of Sugar Hill, was ejected and died from his injuries at WellStar Kennestone Hospital, police said. He and the three other men in the car all attended Kennesaw State, Channel 2 Action News reported.
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Editorial: Progress on Armstrong, Georgia Southern merger
Armstrong State University alumni, students and faculty were handed welcome news last week by the committee working on consolidating Armstrong with Georgia Southern University. The group agreed that the Savannah location of the merged university should be named the Armstrong Campus of GSU, not the Savannah campus. The committee tackled another tricky issue, too, regarding student-athletes. The group decided it would recommend that all athletic scholarships be honored, assuming grade standards are met. And Armstrong student-athletes will be offered open transfer status to GSU immediately, except softball players, who will have to wait until the current season is over. These are sound decisions that might take some of the sting out of the merger for Armstrong loyalists who fear their university will be subsumed by the larger university in Statesboro. The committee has shown sensitivity to those concerns. But it will be up to the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents to decide whether to accept the committee’s recommendations. Much progress was made last week concerning the planned merger.
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Stem cell treatment may restore vision to patients with damaged corneas
Researchers working as part of the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center have developed a new way to identify and sort stem cells that may one day allow clinicians to restore vision to people with damaged corneas using the patient’s own eye tissue. They published their findings in Biophysical Journal. The cornea is a transparent layer of tissue covering the front of the eye, and its health is maintained by a group of cells called limbal stem cells. But when these cells are damaged by trauma or disease, the cornea loses its ability to self-repair. “Damage to the limbus, which is where the clear part of the eye meets the white part of the eye, can cause the cornea to break down very rapidly,” said James Lauderdale, an associate professor of cellular biology in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and paper co-author. “The only way to repair the cornea right now is do a limbal cell transplant from donated tissue.”