UWG Forms RISE Program to Aid Small Businesses
The University of West Georgia, along with the Carroll County Economic Development Foundation and the UWG Small Business Development Center, is creating the Resource for Innovation, Small business and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Program. The RISE program will create an online “incubator village” to assist entrepreneurs in Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, Heard and Polk counties.
Aug 28, 2010 - Southern Polytechnic State University - ARCHE News Service
SPSU has nearly 1,200 new students this fall pushing enrollment over 5,500
Although the numbers won’t be finalized until late fall, Southern Polytechnic State University has 1,190 new undergraduate students so far this fall, including 570 new freshmen and 620 new transfer students. More than 44 percent of SPSU’s students identify themselves as non-Caucasian, compared with 42 percent in fall 2009.
Aug 23, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Book-lovers to descend on Decatur
Georgia Crossings
Book-lovers to descend on Decatur
Linda Erbele writes, if you crane your neck to see what the person at the next table is reading, or tend to browse bookstores just to see what’s new – you’ll find yourself in paradise at the AJC Decatur Book Festival this Labor Day weekend. In five short years, this festival has grown to be the largest independent book festival in the world.
Aug 16, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Historic Warm Springs opens for Labor Day Swim
Georgia CrossingsHistoric Warm Springs opens for Labor Day Swim
Linda Erbele writes, Most people remember the exact moment they heard about 9/11/01. Baby boomers generally remember where they were when President Kennedy was shot. But the people classified by Tom Brokaw as the Greatest Generation often have lasting memories of the day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
Aug 9, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Powers Crossroads celebrates 40 years
Georgia CrossingsPowers Crossroads celebrates 40 years
Linda Erbele writes, Labor Day is the un-official start of country fair and festival season. Powers Crossroads Country Fair and Art Festival, held in Coweta County on the three-day weekend, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The festival is held under the trees of the Powers Family Plantation and includes over a hundred juried exhibitors from around the country.
Aug 7, 2010 - University of Georgia - ARCHE News Service
UGA report finds that 2009 journalism and mass communication graduates entered a “very bad job market”
Graduates of the nation’s journalism and mass communication programs confronted a spring 2009 job market unlike any seen in the nearly 25 years for which comparable data are available. All indicators of market health in 2009 and early 2010 showed declines from a year earlier, which already had produced record low levels of employment. Salaries remained unchanged for the fourth consecutive year. These are the key findings from the Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates, conducted each year in the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at UGA.
Aug 2, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
The Mystical Mark of the Potter
Georgia CrossingsThe Mystical Mark of the Potter
Linda Erbele writes, nestled along the picturesque Soque River in a century-old-grist mill is a little studio with one-of-a-kind pottery. Mark of the Potter celebrated its 40 birthday last year. “It’s the kind of place you don’t forget,” says Potter Mary Weese.
Jul 31, 2010 - Georgia State University - ARCHE News Service
Georgia State College of Education to promote service learning in schools and communities
Faculty from all six departments in Georgia State University’s College of Education will be working together over the next three years to increase service learning throughout metro Atlanta. The college received a $654,000 grant this month from a non-profit organization, Learn and Serve America. GSU’s education faculty will use the grant to integrate service learning activities into teacher preparation courses. They will also increase students’ civic engagement and academic learning through service learning activities in metro Atlanta schools.
Jul 28, 2010 - Georgia State University - ARCHE News Service
New Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar to establish GSU research center in inflammation and infectious diseases
A Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar will establish a Georgia State University center that will focus on discoveries in inflammation and infectious disease treatments. Dr. Jian-Dong Li, M.D., Ph.D., who is currently with the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, will lead the new Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection (CIII) at GSU, to be launched in January 2011 and housed in the new state-of-the-art Parker H. Petit Science Center.
Jul 28, 2010 - Emory University - ARCHE News Service
Emory invests in facilities improvements to reduce energy, water consumption
Emory University has engaged Siemens Industry, Inc., to retrofit campus buildings in order to improve their energy efficiency and decrease water consumption. Phase 1 of the project includes five campus buildings and highlights Emory’s commitment to sustainability, to its green building practices, and its overall goal to reduce energy use 25 percent per square foot by 2015 from 2005 levels.
Jul 26, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
When Voice Control Meant Whoa
Georgia CrossingsWhen Voice Control Meant Whoa
Linda Erbele writes, in a world where high-speed rail is the next expectation and Broadband speed is the norm for communications, it’s hard to imagine that going somewhere once meant leading the horse over to a buggy.
Jul 21, 2010 - Clayton State University - ARCHE News Service
Supply chain management now a major in Clayton State School of Business
The School of Business’ already-acclaimed Supply Chain Management program has been approved as a major for the University’s School of Business, with an official start date of August 2010. Last November, while global technology giant NCR was in the process of moving its corporate headquarters from Dayton, Oh., to Suwanee, Ga., CEO Bill Nuti has the supply chain management programs at Clayton State and Georgia Tech as one of the reasons the company is relocating to Georgia.
Jul 20, 2010 - University of Georgia - ARCHE News Service
UGA receives $700,000 National Science Foundation grant to create new Professional Science Master’s program in biomanufacturing; first of its kind at UGA
The University of Georgia has been awarded federal stimulus funding to launch an innovative new program that will help meet the workforce needs of Georgia’s growing biotechnology industry. The three-year, $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will create a new Professional Science Master’s program in biomanufacturing and bioprocessing that capitalizes on UGA’s academic strengths, facilities and industry ties. Only 21 of 210 universities were selected to receive the highly competitive award.
Jul 19, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Scarlett's Mountain Getaway
Georgia Crossings
Scarlett’s Mountain Getaway Linda Erbele writes, Many people come to Georgia expecting to see scenes from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. There are museums in Marietta and Jonesboro dedicated to the movie and the novel, and the Margaret Mitchel House in Atlanta displays a little about the life of the famous author.
Jul 14, 2010 - University of Georgia - ARCHE News Service
UGA education researcher receives $1.5 million grant to explore reading instruction
Many elementary schools today use repeated readings to increase the reading fluency of students, but a University of Georgia educational psychologist wants to find out if using a wider reading approach might increase fluency while also providing greater vocabulary and content. Scott Ardoin, an associate professor in the College of Education’s department of educational psychology and instructional technology, has received a $1.5 million federal grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to do a four-year study of the two instructional methods—repeated readings and guided wide readings.
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Jul 12, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Kid-friendly Moccasin Creek
Georgia CrossingsKid Friendly Moccasin Creek
Linda Erbele writes, one of Georgia’s smallest state parks is also one of its most popular. Moccasin Creek State Park is less than 35 acres – and consists mostly of campground. But it is located in the foothills of the mountains in North Georgia, with access to beautiful Lake Burton.
Jul 6, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Georgia Crossings: Old lunchboxes hold interest
Georgia CrossingsOld lunchboxes hold interest
Linda Erbele writes, did you have a favorite lunchbox in elementary school? You can renew your acquaintance with that squeaky latch and white-bread-and-mayonnaise-aroma at the Lunchbox Museum in Columbus. Allen Woodall has a collection of over 2,000 of the embossed and lithographed boxes with matching thermos bottles that so many children carried to the bus stop all those years ago.
Jun 29, 2010 - Kennesaw State University - ARCHE News Service
Kennesaw State launches entertainment and music management program
President Daniel S. Papp announced that Kennesaw State University will launch an Entertainment and Music Management Certificate Program in fall 2010, thanks to a generous private gift that will underwrite the program. Prominent Atlanta entertainment attorney Joel A. Katz of Greenberg Traurig LLP has made a significant and undisclosed contribution to the KSU Foundation that provides initial funding for an innovative academic certificate program targeting business majors and music students who want to develop proficiency in the business side of the entertainment industry.
Jun 28, 2010 - Georgia Crossings
Georgia Crossings: Seeing a place beyond the tours
Georgia CrossingsSeeing a place beyond the tours
Linda Erbele writes, once you’ve visited a place, seen its attractions, shops and galleries – don’t you wish there was a way to see what the real stories are, behind the touristy smiles and the have-a-nice-days? One way to do that here in Georgia is to attend a folk-life play, based on oral-histories and generally performed by the locals.
Jun 25, 2010 - University of Georgia - ARCHE News Service
First published study of 2009 Atlanta floods may hold clues to recent urban flooding in other U.S. cities—warnings, too
September is normally a hot, dry month around Atlanta. So it was a surprise last fall when record rainfall turned much of the metro area and north Georgia into a lake -- in places exceeding flood levels expected only once every 500 years. Now, in what is likely the first scholarly published study of the floods, a team of climatologists, meteorologists, geologists and hydrologists, led by the University of Georgia, has shown that a convergence of record-setting events, perhaps unprecedented in the area’s history, combined to cause tens of millions of dollars in damages and at least 10 deaths.
