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Slave Trade Database Brings History Online
 Emory University launches "Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" today. The Web site presents searchable maps, images and a database that identifies 67,000 Africans by name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation. The site documents nearly 35,000 voyages that forcibly transported slaves from Africa over a period spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. Scholars from across the globe will see the site when they converge at Emory this weekend for a conference. More >
MSM, 100 Black Men Launch Health Challenge
 In January, with the help of Morehouse School of Medicine, local chapters of 100 Black Men across the country will begin mentoring their communities in how to live healthier lives. With a grant from MetLife Foundation, MSM developed the interactive toolkit, which includes "train-the-trainer" DVDs and other user-friendly materials. 100 Black Men chapters in cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, and New York will use the tools to show people how to increase physical activity, eat more fruits and vegetables, avoid tobacco and alcohol, maintain a relationship with a primary care provider, and serve as role models themselves for family, friends and youth. More >
What Makes a Vaccine Effective?
 In the first study of its kind, Georgia Tech and Emory researchers collaborated on a multidisciplinary approach to predict how well a vaccine will work. The strategy combines immunology, genomics and bioinformatics and could speed better vaccines against global pandemics and emerging infections. It could also identify individuals who are unlikely to be protected by a vaccine.This step forward in vaccine immunology and predictive health addresses a long-standing challenge: Until now, researchers could only know how much immunity a new vaccine passes on long after a population received the vaccine, and often only after exposure to infection. More >
Georgia Outlook is Grim, Says UGA Forecast
 "Georgia's recession will be severe rather than mild and prolonged rather than short," said University of Georgia Terry College of Business Dean Robert Sumichrast at the Georgia Economic Outlook luncheon this week. Sumichrast anticipates an 18-month recession, "the longest downturn since the Great Depression." UGA's forecast sees the state's economy growing 1.0 percent for 2008, then shrinking 1.4 percent in 2009 and beginning a slow turnaround third quarter 2009 toward 2.5 percent growth by mid-2010. The forecast says Georgia's unemployment rate will continue to rise, peaking at about 9 percent in early 2010. Publisher Steve Forbes spoke about the national economy to the audience of about 1,000 at the annual event. More >
Singing in the Holidays on Atlanta Campuses
  Spelman and Morehouse join voices this weekend for their combined glee clubs' free annual Christmas carol concerts, which NPR called "spine-tingling" last year. The Brenau Chamber Choir performs at Asheville's Biltmore Estate today and then returns to campus for a free holiday concert Monday evening. At Clayton State, Spivey Hall's holiday series starts Sunday and features brass, big band and the region's best young singers. Interdenominational Theological Center hosted an Advent cantata yesterday. Also this weekend, Georgia State University presents a program ranging from grand opera to cool jazz by more than 200 student and faculty members of the university's choral, opera theatre, brass and percussion ensembles as well as its symphony orchestra. It all ends with an audience sing-along.
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Three times as many students in Georgia's public colleges and universities are studying abroad as 10 years ago. For example, study abroad enrollment has doubled at Georgia Tech, and 2,000 University of Georgia students studied abroad in 2006-07, three times the number a decade ago. At Kennesaw State, study abroad is up 142 percent over five years ago.
Nationally, women far outnumber men in study abroad courses. Know more >
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