University System News: MSN AU sees successful first day of COVID-19 saliva testing Brady Trapnell Getting tested for COVID-19 is becoming a lot less uncomfortable as Augusta University Health started saliva testing at its drive-thru testing site downtown. That means fewer nasal swab tests and that’s an important switch. If you go to the AU […]

University System News: Fox28 Media Georgia Southern sees decrease in COVID-19 cases since students’ return by Cody Thomas Officials on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong campus say things are looking positive since students returned to class. They say there was an expected spike in COVID-19 cases when students first returned. But in the past three weeks, they […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC On Campus: Ga. schools take center stage in COVID-19 research By Eric Stirgus Georgia colleges and universities have spent much of their time this fall semester working to reduce the spread of COVID-19 on their campuses. There was some attention this week on their work on treatments and […]

University System News: Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC College COVID Tracker: UGA reports another drop in new cases By Eric Stirgus The University of Georgia released data on its website Wednesday showing 163 new positive COVID-19 cases last week, its lowest total since before the start of the fall semester. The total is a major decline from […]

University System News: WGAU UGA Medical Oversight Task Force updates campus COVID status By Tim Bryant The University of Georgia’s Medical Oversight Task Force says it is “encouraged” at the results of the most recent round of coronavirus testing at UGA. The panel released the following statement… As members of the University of Georgia’s Medical […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC On Campus: Dueling views of pandemic, Remembering Mark Ivester By Eric Stirgus It’s been about a month since the first of Georgia’s colleges and universities reopened their campuses for students for the fall semester. The different viewpoints about how the process has gone were on display at Tuesday’s […]

University System News:   The Union Recorder COVID cases leveling out at GC By Gil Pound After making a few national and statewide headlines for the wrong reasons, Georgia College is experiencing a leveling out when it comes to COVID-19 cases among students and staff. Numbers were at their worst the week of Aug. 20-26, […]

University System News: The Augusta Chronicle Augusta University to offer saliva COVID-19 test Miguel Legoas Augusta University Health will start offering coronavirus testing via saliva for children Tuesday and for adults Monday, Sept. 28. Spokeswoman Danielle Harris said the new test was developed by a team of researchers at the Medical College of Georgia led […]

University System News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AJC College COVID Tracker: UGA reports large decline in new cases By Eric Stirgus Here are the latest developments of COVID-19 cases on metro Atlanta’s college campuses and in other parts of Georgia: University of Georgia The university on Wednesday released its weekly update on COVID-19 cases among its […]

University System News: Athens CEO Board of Regents Elects Officers for ‘21 The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) today elected Regent Sachin Shailendra to a second one-year term as the Board’s chair and Regent Cade Joiner to a one-year term as the Board’s vice chair. Regent Shailendra will serve as […]