|
|
Robots Invade Atlanta Next Week
 Can robots thump humans on the soccer field? Developing a team that can is the goal of RoboCup 2007, which the Georgia Institute of Technology hosts next week in Atlanta. SpelBots, Spelman College's history-making all-female, all-Black, all-undergraduate team, will be among 300 teams competing in events ranging from search-and-rescue to the Nanogram League of microscopic robots. All told, 1,700 students and faculty from universities, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools in 33 countries will face off throughout the week. More >
Getting Ahead with Project GRAD Atlanta
 More than 700 at-risk high school students are getting ahead this summer on Georgia college campuses, including Clark Atlanta, Emory, Georgia State, Morehouse, Oglethorpe and University of Georgia. This GRAD Summer Institute, which closes today with a ceremony at Morehouse, is one way Project GRAD Atlanta helps kids in several Atlanta Public Schools finish high school and go on to college. "It's a win-win partnership," says Project GRAD Atlanta Executive Director Kweku Forstall. "Our kids become familiar with life on a college campus, and our partners have a chance to interest them in a place in their future classes."
School's (Not) Out for Summer
Project GRAD Atlanta is just one of many ways youngsters are experiencing the region's many colleges and universities this summer. A few other examples:
Clayton State University is hosting Youth University and sports camps.
Emory University taught Georgia teens with metabolic disorders how to eat right and hosted Communities in Schools of Georgia's Leadership Institute.
Georgia State University brought Falcons star Warrick Dunn to Parks Middle School through After-School All-Stars.
Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta helped teach Art Smarts to the Lovett School.
Spelman College is teaching middle school kids robotics.
University of Georgia is helping Greene County middle schoolers dream of college.
Corporate Director Job Is Harder, Pay Higher
A University of Georgia study finds that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 dramatically altered the composition of corporate boards, making them larger and more independent. The legislation also had the unintended effect of increasing director pay by more than 50 percent. More >
NIH Kidney Transplant Chief Will Move to Atlanta
Emory University and the Georgia Research Alliance have recruited Allan D. Kirk, the National Institute of Health's kidney transplant chief, to Atlanta as scientific director of the Emory Transplant Center and surgeon at Emory Hospital and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Kirk is the 57th scientist attracted to Georgia as a GRA Eminent Scholar. More >
25 Years of The Carter Center
 "Beyond the Presidency: 25 Years of The Carter Center" opens tomorrow at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum. Through Nov. 25, the exhibit will give visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the work of former President Carter and wife Rosalynn to advance peace, health and hope worldwide through the nonprofit they founded in 1982. The Jimmy Carter Library is ARCHE-affiliated library.
Leaving a Legacy at Morehouse
"My life would have been very different," Walter Massey told National Public Radio, if he had not attended Morehouse College, from which he retires tomorrow after 12 years as president. Robert M. Franklin Jr. takes office Monday as the 10th president of Morehouse. Listen >
Please share this issue with your colleagues, who may subscribe via the link below. And let us know what you think.
Photo credits: Georgia Department of Economic Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Project Grad Atlanta, University of West Georgia.
|
|
 |
| ARCHE's cross registration program allows students at member colleges and universities to broaden their academic horizons through courses at other member institutions. Students may enroll in a course not offered at their home institution or experience a different campus environment. Know more > |
|