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Music Across the Curriculum with Georgia State
 Georgia State University is helping local schools use music in lessons across the curriculum. Sound Learning, a partnership of Georgia State's School of Music and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, brings in university students and symphony artists to work with students and mentor teachers. On Monday, they visited Clairemont Elementary in Decatur to help students explore friendship and trust. In 2006-07, Sound Learning reached 1,000 children and 60 teachers at local schools to discover how music functions in culture to tell stories and conjure scenes. Atlanta Partners for Education honored the program at Centennial Place Elementary with a 2007 A+ Collaborative Partnership Award. Find other collaborations among the region's colleges and K-12 schools >
Tech Snaps Up Smart Camera Expert
The newest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar is Wayne Wolf, a leading expert in embedded computing systems and smart cameras, who joins the Georgia Institute of Technology in July. His distributed smart-camera systems can be used in security and medicine. He comes to Tech from Princeton University, where he founded Verificon Corporation to commercialize his discoveries. Verificon is already hiring programmers in Atlanta and will expand over the next year. More >
New Deans on Campus
 Robert T. Sumichrast, dean of Louisiana State University's business college, has been chosen as dean of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. An authority on management and operations science, he increased private financial support for LSU's b-school, which moved up in academic quality rankings under his leadership. More >
 Paul Houston, a Cornell University chemistry professor and administrator, has been named dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Sciences. Known as a researcher who seeks interdisciplinary collaboration, he plans to continue positioning Tech's core science departments to meet modern challenges in fields such as bioinformatics, photonics and nanoscience. More >
Colleges Gather to Sharpen Crisis Response
In the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, more than 300 representatives from over 25 Georgia colleges and universities – public, private and technical – attended a "Crisis on Campus" workshop in Atlanta May 11. Sponsored by the Atlanta Police Department in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, the training focused on how to identify predictive behaviors, use the campus incident command system, and work together to respond to an active incident. Attendees heard experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Emory, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw State, Fulton County Sheriff's Department and Atlanta Police Department.
University Labs Yield New Medical Findings
- Georgia State University scientists have decoded the secrets of West Nile Virus reproduction, a step toward an effective antiviral treatment and a promising lead that may one day help stop the deadly disease. More >
- Morehouse School of Medicine researchers have found that gene therapy can halt tumor development in certain types of aggressive breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, offering hope for new treatments for these cancers which are particularly deadly for young African-American and Hispanic women. More >
- A study by Emory University researchers has found that giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly after brain injury may reduce the risk of death and the rate of disability. More >
- Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that a gene thought to help chemotherapy kill cancer cells may actually help them thrive, raising the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer: drugs that will disable this gene in tumors. More >
Outdoor Art Adorns Peachtree at SCAD-Atlanta
 This summer, "Alternative Land Art" is turning heads on Peachtree as an outdoor installation by Dennis Oppenheim graces the front lawn of the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta at 1600 Peachtree St. The work integrates sculpture, landscape architecture and design. Selected SCAD-Atlanta sculpture students worked with the artist on the installation as part of a class on art in public places. Inside, a gallery exhibition through August 5 explores Oppenheim's work through photo montages. More >
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Photo credits: Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Oglethorpe University, Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, University of Georgia, University of West Georgia.
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