National Academy of Inventors and Emory Announce NAI Charter Fellows
Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Emory University, James W. Wagner, National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named James W. Wagner, president of Emory University, and Raymond I. Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, as Charter Fellows.
Election to NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction accorded to academic inventors ...
Career-Oriented UD Certificate Overview Set At Doubletree In Wilmington
Posted On Friday, January 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Clinical Trials Management, Financial Planning, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Optimizing Big Data, Paralegal and Advanced Paralegal, University of Delaware, usiness Analyst
A free information session about spring professional development certificates offered by the University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Doubletree Hotel, 700 N. King St., Wilmington.
Certificates to be featured include: Business Analyst, Clinical Trials Management, Financial Planning, ...
New UGA Research Helps Explain Why Girls Do Better In School
Posted On Friday, January 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Christopher Cornwell, Columbia University, Human Resources, standardized tests, Terry College of Business
Athens, Ga. - Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys-even when they perform worse on standardized tests?
New research from the University of Georgia and Columbia University published in the current issue of Journal of Human Resources suggests that it's because of their classroom behavior, which may ...
Method To Make One-Way Flu Vaccine Discovered by Georgia State University Researcher
Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: flu viruses, Georgia State University, Molecular Therapy, Sang-Moo Kang, universal influenza vaccine
ATLANTA – A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered by a researcher at Georgia State University’s Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection and his partners.
Associate Professor Sang-Moo Kang and his collaborators have found a way to make the one-time vaccine by using recombinant genetic ...
Statement From State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge on the NRA’s Call for Armed Guards in Schools
Posted On Saturday, December 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Dr. John Barge, guards in schools, NRA's call
Unfortunately, some have taken my comments about "armed guards" in schools out of context.
My practical experience as a high school principal taught me that School Resource Officers - who are uniformed and well trained - can be a deterrent for senseless acts of violence like what we saw in Newtown, ...
Anthropologist Receives National Awards For Outstanding Teaching
Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Academics, anthropology, awards and distinctions, Faculty, journalists, Peter Brown, Teaching
Someone once videotaped Emory anthropologist Peter Brown teaching a class. One of his sons, who was around 4-years-old at the time, was shocked when he saw the video.
“He asked me, ‘Daddy, why are you yelling at all those people?’” Brown recalls, laughing. “Sometimes I can get really worked up while ...
Early Action Admission Decisions Drop Saturday
Posted On Monday, December 24, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: 12/12/12, Admission Decisions, College Confidential, Rick Clark, SAT score, Undergraduate Admission
The date 12/12/12 held an ominous significance for some, and many still have their eyes on the world’s potential end on 12/21/12. But for 9,000 high schoolers across the globe, it’s 12: 15 p.m. EST on 12/15 that’s the life-changing moment of the month – the moment when early admission ...
Nobel Laureate Will Deliver Breinin Lecture At Emory
Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Breinin Lecture, Bruce Beutler, Cancer Research, Emory, Emory University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nobel Laureate
Bruce Beutler, MD, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the annual Goodwin and Rose Helen Breinin Lecture in Basic Sciences at Emory University.
The lecture, entitled “Forward genetic analysis of immunity,” will take place Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 at 4 p.m. in the Woodruff Health ...
Georgia Tech Police Work With Crime Stoppers to Locate And Identify Suspects
Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Crime, Georgia Tech Police, Georgia Tech Police Department, Suspects
The Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) has issued a warrant for the arrest of a suspect involved in last week’s Love Building robbery and released photos to help identify suspects connected with the armed robbery that occurred near Harrison Residence Hall.
On Dec. 5, Corey Johnson entered two unsecured offices in ...
Provost Named to Coursera’s University Advisory Board
Posted On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Coursera’s University, Dr. Rafael L. Bras, MOOCs
Dr. Rafael L. Bras, provost and executive vice president of Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named to Coursera’s University Advisory Board. Bras is one of nine senior academic officials named to the panel, the company’s first advisory board. Each member represents a university partnered with ...
Dogs to Bring Stress Relief to Students at Woodruff Library During Exam Time
Posted On Thursday, December 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, GEORGIA Tags: Canine Assistants, MacMillan Law Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Students stressed out by exams can take a break and play with a pooch on Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.
Canine Assistants, a service dog organization in Milton, will bring service dogs in training for two-hour shifts that day from noon to 6 p.m. in the ...
Georgia Tech's VIP Program Recognized For Education Innovation
Posted On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Brain Beats team, Georgia Tech, National Academy of Engineering, undergraduates, Vertically Integrated Projects
Georgia Tech's Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as a cutting-edge way to add real-world experience into engineering training.
VIP was selected by the NAE as one of 29 programs that "have successfully infused real-world experiences into engineering or engineering technology undergraduate education."
Undergraduates ...
Seven Named Fellows Of The American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS)
Posted On Monday, December 3, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: AAAS, Advancement of Science, American Association, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
Seven Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. They were awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
This year’s AAAS ...
Emory's TravelWell Clinic; A National Resource for Patients with Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
Posted On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Hansen's Disease, Kozarsky, Leprosy, medical, School of Medicine
Emory Healthcare's TravelWell clinic, a specialty clinic designed to care for patients pre- and post-traveling abroad, has been awarded a contract by the National Hansen's Disease Program (NHDP) to treat patients suffering from Hansen's disease, otherwise known as leprosy. That makes TravelWell one of just 16 federally supported outpatient clinics ...
Helpful Hints For Healthy Holiday Eating
Posted On Sunday, November 25, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Cornell University, Healthy Holiday Eating, Illinois University
The average person consumes about 4,000 calories on Thanksgiving, two times the amount that an average person needs. And that’s just the start of a holiday season full of parties, dinners and get-togethers.
If you’re counting calories or looking to stay trim over the next six weeks, consider using the research ...
Students Use Disability Services With Increasing Frequency
Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Denise Johnson-Marshall, Disability Services, FASET orientation
As the Institute’s student population grows, the use of its student services grows also. But one area of growth that has outpaced enrollment is the number of students registered with the Office of Disability Services.
Normally, the summer months provide a lull in activity for the office, but this summer, the ...
Georgia Tech Collaborates With Ge, Ford On Alternative Fuel Vehicle Research
Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: FUEL VEHICLE RESEARCH, Georgia Tech
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering with GE and Ford Motor Co. to study ways to add greater efficiencies to electric driving and charging performance.
GE recently announced its plans to purchase 2,000 new Ford C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrids for its fleet. As part of the collaboration, Ford ...
Improving Voting Accessibillity For Injured Veterans
Posted On Saturday, November 17, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Afghanistan, Brad Fain, BRAVO Foundation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Iraq, military service, Research Institute, voting independently
More than 50,000 men and women have been wounded in military service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many of these recently injured veterans are in rehabilitative centers where they face barriers that prevent them from voting independently, securely and privately.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with the Information Technology and ...