The cochlear implant is widely considered to be the most successful neural prosthetic on the market. The implant, which helps deaf individuals perceive sound, translates auditory information into electrical signals that go directly to the brain, bypassing cells that don't serve this function as they should because they are damaged.
According ...
Improved Hearing Anticipated for Implant Recipients
Posted On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: cochlear implant, Implant Recipients, Rube Goldberg machine, School of Electrical and Computer
The cochlear implant is widely considered to be the most successful neural prosthetic on the market. The implant, which helps deaf individuals perceive sound, translates auditory information into electrical signals that go directly to the brain, bypassing cells that don't serve this function as they should because they are damaged.
According ...
Georgia Tech Programs Place Eighth in World University Rankings
Posted On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, GEORGIA Tags: Georgia Tech, Ranking of World Universities, Science Citation Index-Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, Times Higher Education
The Georgia Institute of Technology garnered the No. 8 spot on the 2012 list of the top 100 world universities in engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
ARWU ranks major institutions according to their academic or research performance in each of ...
Studies Find Strong Links Between Food Insecurity, Health Care Among Elderly
Posted On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Geriatrics, Gerontology, Health-care, Jung Sun Lee, University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. - A fear of going hungry may be leading many older Georgians to skip medications and cancel doctors' appointments as they juggle limited incomes with prescription costs and out-of-pocket copayments required by Medicare, according to two new studies by University of Georgia researchers.
The first study, available online and ...
2013 Flavor Of Georgia Contest Judges Select 25 Finalists
Posted On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: 25 finalists, Food Product Contest, Georgia, Georgia Food Product, University of Georgia's
Athens, Ga. - The best sauces, jams, meats, snacks and sweets in Georgia will duke it out March 11-12 at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in Atlanta as part of the University of Georgia's Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest. Judges have selected 25 products to compete in the contest's ...
Dare to Care: Improve Society, Environment with Ideas to SERVE Competition
Posted On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Environment, Georgia Tech’s, Ideas to SERVE (I2S) Competition, Improve Society
Rolls of tubing, uncoiling from helicopters, creating new pipelines in mere minutes; human waste, treated by the sun instead of an expensive sewer system. Is this the infrastructure of the future? If some recent Georgia Tech grads have anything to do with it, the answer will be yes.
Each spring, dozens ...
Open House Scheduled For New Pharmaceutical Sciences Program
Posted On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: College of Pharmacy, degree program, pharmaceutical sciences, University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy is hosting an open house for all students interested in its new degree program, the bachelor of science in the pharmaceutical sciences. The event will take place on Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in room 101 of the Pharmacy South ...
Newly Discovered Plant Structure May Lead To Improved Biofuel Processing
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: BioEnergy Science Center, Debra Mohnen, Energy-funded research centers, University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. - When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply didn't make any sense.
Tan was examining some of the sugars, proteins and polymers that ...
Manufacturing Brown Bag Seminar: Steve Corley, Deutz CEO, on “Clean Diesel”
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Clean Diesel for a Sustainable Future, Deutz AG, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, Stephen Corley
The Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI) welcomes President and CEO of Deutz Corporation Stephen Corley to campus on Monday, February 4, 2013. Corley's seminar on "Clean Diesel for a Sustainable Future" will begin at Noon in Room 114 of the Callaway Manufacturing Research Building.
Stephen Corley is President and CEO for Deutz ...
Sign of empathy: bonobos comfort friends in distress
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Animal Research, Department of Psychology, develop in humans, Health Sciences Research, Living Links Center, Lola ya Bonobo, psychology, Research
Comforting a friend or relative in distress may be a more hard-wired behavior than previously thought, according to a new study of bonobos, which are great apes known for their empathy and close relation to humans and chimpanzees. This provides key evolutionary insight into how critical social skills may develop ...
Congressman John Lewis to Receive Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage
Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Congressman John Lewis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ivan Allen Jr., Social Courage, Voting Rights Act
Congressman John Lewis – an icon of American civil rights – has been named a recipient of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage, Georgia Institute of Technology President G.P. “Bud” Peterson announced today. Lewis will be honored during events at the Institute’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts ...
Small Town Engineering Program Founded By Tech Graduate Impacts Rural Communities
Posted On Saturday, January 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Caitlin Henegar, Georgia Tech, mechanical engineering degree, northwest Georgia, Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Small Town Engineering, Trenton
In 2007, Caitlin Henegar left her small hometown of Trenton, Georgia, to come to the big city and earn a Georgia Tech mechanical engineering degree. Although she’s still in Atlanta working on her Ph.D. in Bioengineering, she hasn’t forgotten northwest Georgia. In fact, she’s hoping to inspire young students in ...
Farrokh Ayazi Named 2013 IEEE Fellow
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Computer Engineering, Dr. Ayazi, Farrokh Ayazi, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical
Farrokh Ayazi, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is among the 298 individuals worldwide named a 2013 IEEE Fellow. Dr. Ayazi is being recognized for contributions to micro-electro-mechanical resonators and resonant gyroscopes.
A vast majority of microsystems used in computers ...
Newark Man Arrested For Graffiti Vandalism
Posted On Monday, January 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Crimes Unit, Felix J. Smith, graffiti vandalism, University of Delaware
An 18-year-old Newark man has been arrested in connection with graffiti vandalism amounting to thousands of dollars in damage throughout the city of Newark and on the University of Delaware's Newark campus.
As a result of ongoing graffiti investigations by the Newark Police Department Street Crimes Unit, Felix J. Smith has ...
Emory Cardiologist Helps Rank The Nation’s Top Diets
Posted On Monday, January 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Center for Heart Disease Prevention, healthy eating goals, Laurence Sperling, plant-based diets rankings
To help the thousands of Americans who start the New Year with weight loss and healthy eating goals, U.S. News & World Report released its 3rd annual Best Diets 2013 rankings this week, featuring expanded coverage of a variety of weight loss programs, including new plant-based diets rankings.
Emory Heart & ...
Activities Fair Encourages Student Involvement In Clubs And Organizations
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: college careers, Joshua Podvin, Tate Student Center Grand Hall
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Center for Student Organizations will hold its annual winter activities fair on Jan. 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall. The fair is designed to encourage students to become involved in campus clubs and organizations.
Nearly 140 ...
Birdsong Study Pecks Theory That Music is Uniquely Human
Posted On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Birdsong, Music, study pecks, uniquely human
The study, co-authored by Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney, is the first to compare neural responses of listeners in the long-standing debate over whether birdsong is music.
A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, ...
