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Locals Rule at College Oscars
 ARCHE member universities dominated Campus MovieFest 2007, the world's largest student film festival. Of the top 15 short movies, five were by students at Emory, Georgia State, Georgia Tech and UGA. Best Picture went to "Fanya Kaplan," a Russian-language film by Tech students.
Moviemaking is increasingly important in Georgia, and Campus MovieFest is the home-grown product of four Emory students who started it in 2000. CMF now partners with companies such as TBS, Coca-Cola and Apple to provide laptops, camcorders, and training. This year 30,000 students made short movies in just one week. Watch the movies online >
Morehouse Names New President
 Robert M. Franklin Jr. has been named president of Morehouse College. He will take office July 2, after Walter E. Massey retires. Franklin currently serves as presidential distinguished professor of social ethics at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He was president of the Interdenominational Theological Center from 1997 to 2002 and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Morehouse. Inside Higher Ed story >
KSU Advocates for Abused Children
Kennesaw State University has joined with Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia to improve the lives of Georgia children who have suffered abuse or neglect. A new center at KSU will create an education program to improve the skills of child advocates; conduct applied research on best practices in investigation, intervention and advocacy for children; and promote a multidisciplinary approach to investigation and services. More >
Southern Poly Goes Greener
Southern Polytechnic State University is doing its part to fight global warming. Southern Poly has signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, a nationwide pact of higher ed leaders pledging to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from their campuses. SPSU has also made environmentally sensitive design a guiding principle in its facilities master plan and incorporated real-world climate change problems into its courses. More >
Supercomputer Will Speed Emory Research
This summer, Emory joins the ranks of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputing sites when it adds a high-performance computer cluster that will accelerate the pace of discovery in fields including chemistry, neurology, genetics, library science and pharmacology. More >
May Means Commencement
Commencement season is a busy time for the Atlanta region, which ranks 6th among major U.S. urban areas in the number of degrees conferred annually. To congratulate the grads, friends and family converge on campuses, boosting local hotel, restaurant and retail business. Speakers from as far as Liberia include elected officials and college presidents, plus the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in ceremonies that range in size from more than 4,900 at the University of Georgia to 117 at Columbia Theological Seminary. AJC commencement listing> Read the perspectives of two of this year's grads:
> Flying through GeorgiaWebMBA at Kennesaw State
> Finding an academic voice at Agnes Scott
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Photo credits: Campus MovieFest, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, Oglethorpe University, University of Georgia.
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Atlanta University Center's Dual Degree Engineering Program, which works to boost the number of minority engineers, has graduated more than 1,000 since 1969. Students attend three years at Clark Atlanta, Morehouse or Spelman, then two years at one of 10 universities including Georgia Tech, to earn two full degrees. Know more >
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