Georgia Tech Named Member Of New Faa Center Of Excellence For General Aviation
Posted On Saturday, November 17, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Aviation Safety, Federal Aviation, Georgia Institute of Technology, PEGASAS
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration as part of a multi-university team for the new Center of Excellence for General Aviation.
Called Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility, and Sustainability (PEGASAS), the Center of Excellence will concentrate research and development efforts on general ...
Georgia Tech Awarded $1.2 Million Diabetes Training Grant
Posted On Thursday, November 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, insulin-dependent diabetes, post-doctoral
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded $1.2 million by the National Institutes of Health for a training program for post-doctoral fellows to develop bioengineering skills and leadership applicable to research into type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The Innovation and Leadership in Engineering Technologies and Therapies (ILET2) for ...
Corals Attacked By Toxic Seaweed Use Chemical 911 To Summon Help
Posted On Thursday, November 15, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Bodyguard Fish, noxious alga, Seaweed
Corals under attack by toxic seaweed do what anyone might do when threatened – they call for help. A study reported this week in the journal Science shows that threatened corals send signals to fish “bodyguards” that quickly respond to trim back the noxious alga – which can kill the coral if ...
Hawaii CC Carpentry Program Builds Futures
Posted On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: arpentry students, Hawaiʻi Community College, Jacob Ramos, Kai Respicio
Every year, like clockwork, the carpentry students at Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo, are hard at work, in and out of the classroom.
“We get the hands-on and class assignments. We learn inside the class and then come outside and do it step by step,” said carpentry student Kai Respicio.
“High school you learn the basics, but ...
Tickets for Paul Simon's Ellmann Lecture series available Dec. 3
Posted On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Paul Simon's, Richard Ellmann Lectures
Tickets for the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, featuring award-winning musician/songwriter Paul Simon, will be available beginning Monday, Dec. 3.
Simon will be appearing in four public events at Emory, including:
Two lectures at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, and 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, both in ...
Georgia Tech Posts Near Record Philanthropy
Posted On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Council for Aid to Education, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology posted the second best year-to-year philanthropy results in the Institute’s history for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012. Private gift income to the Institute and its associated foundations totaled $118.4 million, as reported to the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), which measures only ...
Blood Testing Predicts Level Of Enzymes That Facilitate Disease Progression
Posted On Monday, November 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: atherosclerosis, cancer, degrading enzymes, diseases, ENZYMES, Keon-Young, osteoporosis, protein
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Predicting how atherosclerosis, osteoporosis or cancer will progress or respond to drugs in individual patients is difficult. In a new study, researchers took another step toward that goal by developing a technique able to predict from a blood sample the amount of cathepsins'e2'80rdblquote protein-degrading enzymes known to accelerate these diseases'e2'80rdblquote ...
Reagan and Clinton Rate Best Among Recent Presidents
Posted On Friday, November 2, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: ECONOMY, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mark Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B., Warren G. Harding, William McKinley
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On a newly-released report card that grades presidents on their economic performance, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warren ...
Higher-Math Skills Entwined with Lower-Order Magnitude Sense
Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Lourenco, National Academy of Sciences, Psychologist
In a previous study, Emory University psychologist Stella Lourenco found that even before babies learn to speak, they are organizing information about numbers, space and time in more complex ways than previously realized.
The ability to learn complex, symbolic math is a uniquely human trait, but it is intricately connected to ...
Superintendent Barge Names 2012-2013 Student Advisory Council
Posted On Saturday, October 20, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Dr. John Barge, Student Advisory Council
October 19, 2012 -- State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge today named 50 students from around Georgia to serve on his 2012-2013 Student Advisory Council. As members of the council, these students will meet two times throughout the school year to advise Superintendent Barge on how state policies are having an impact ...
UGA Performing Arts Center presents the Capitol Steps
Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Hodgson Concert Hall, presidential election, University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will present a return engagement of America's equal opportunity offenders, the Capitol Steps Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Back by popular demand from last season's sold-out performance, the political satire troupe makes a perfectly timed appearance ...
Memory Screening Day Offers Early Detection of Memory Issues
Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Alzheimer's, Memory Screening Day
Keep losing your keys? Forget why you walked into a room? For anyone who might be thinking their memory isn't quite what it used to be, a Free Memory Screening will take place on Thursday, October 18 at Emory's Wesley Woods Outpatient Clinic, 1821 Clifton Road, Atlanta, 30329. The free, ...
FRANCE-ATLANTA Events Begin Oct. 25
Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: FRANCE-ATLANTA, Georgia Tech-Lorraine, LeCraw Auditorium
This fall, members of the Tech community will have an opportunity to learn more about French culture — without having to spring for a trip across the Atlantic.
Oct. 25 through Nov. 10, the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and Georgia Tech will jointly host “France-Atlanta 2012: Together Towards Innovation,” ...
The course explores the benefits of an integrated approach for improving both production processes and safety outcomes.
Posted On Friday, October 12, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Tim Israel, Value Stream Mapping
Georgia Tech Professional Education will conduct a Lean and Safe: Safety-Integrated Process Improvement course (MFG 2003) Nov. 6-8, 2012 at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus. Participants will learn about the importance of developing an integrated approach for production processes and safety outcomes. When utilized together, companies can see increased benefits in ...
New Application Helps Make Physics Interactive
Posted On Friday, October 12, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: blackbody, electromagnetic, Georgia Tech Research Institute, radiation
Understanding the phenomenon of blackbody radiation – electromagnetic emissions that play a role in a broad range of physical systems – is an important part of physics instruction at both the high school and college levels. Thanks to researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), explaining this to students ...
World’s No. 9 engineering and technology university
Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Engineering, Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology ranked 25th among the top 100 universities recognized in Times Higher Education’s2012-2013 World University Rankings. The Institute was the top-ranked public university from the southern United States and ranked No. 5 in the world among its U.S. public institution counterparts.
In addition, Georgia Tech ranked ninth on the ...
Growing Recreation and Tourism in North Idaho
Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA, IDAHO Tags: Growing Recreation, Tourism in North Idaho
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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Idaho overnight visitors statewide spent more than $1.8 billion in 2008, and in Kootenai County alone, recreation and tourism employs nearly 14 percent of the work force.
To support this growing sector of the region’s economy, University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene is introducing a Recreation ...
Scholar to discuss public perceptions of President Obama on Oct. 9
Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2012 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Franklin Visiting Scholars program, Mark P. Orbe, Post-Racial
October 3, 2012
Athens, Ga. - Mark P. Orbe, a leading scholar of the intersection between race, politics and communication, will deliver a lecture at the University of Georgia titled "‘Post-Racial' Politics: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama," on Oct. 9 at 12:30 p.m. in room 142 of the Tate Student Center.
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