Education

Virtual Vitality: International Business Research Center Sees Opportunity in Online Shift

Editor’s note: This sponsored post was written by Tamer Cavusgil, Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, and Executive Director of Georgia State CIBER, a national resource center in international business. During the global pandemic, flexibility has become a byword for those in the business community, particularly for firms managing […]

United Nations Internships Bring Diplomacy, Leadership to Life for Kennesaw State Students

Editor’s note: This sponsored article is provided by Kennesaw State University’s Division of Global Affairs and was written by Dave Shell. Vanessa Godinez and Hayley Englund wanted to experience the world. They both had their chance during a unique internship at the United Nations headquarters in Switzerland. Ms. Englund, who graduated from Kennesaw State University […]

North Georgia Gets $1.2M to Continue Chinese Flagship Program

A Mandarin Chinese program underwritten by the U.S. Department of Defense has renewed its commitment to the University of North Georgia with another $1.2 million grant over four years. The Georgia military college is one of 13 institutions across the country selected to offer the Chinese Language Flagship, a five-year program intended to develop professional-level […]

For German Cultural Center, Leadership Shift Follows Transition to Online Learning

The Goethe-Zentrum in Atlanta is undergoing a leadership transition even as it continues a shift into the digital age accelerated by COVID-19. Director Jennifer Gerndt, who took up the post in 2017, has been replaced by Cassidy Chreene Whittle, who started at the center in 2018 as educational outreach assistant. Ms. Whittle has been tapped […]

Commentary: Saving DACA Permanently Means Setting Georgia Up for Recovery

Editor’s note: This post by Charles Kuck is published as part of Kuck Baxter’s annual sponsorship of Global Atlanta and was provided to the publication by New American Economy, which advocates for immigration policies that will drive economic growth. As if Georgia didn’t have enough to worry about with coronavirus recovery, tens of thousands of […]

Solving for 5G: How Math Modeling Can Improve Modern Communications

Editor’s note: This commentary, written by Assistant Professor Eric Stachura, is published as part of an annual sponsorship of Global Atlanta by Kennesaw State University’s Division of Global Affairs. Mathematical modeling sounds intimidating and complicated, but also vague. What does it really mean, and more importantly, what does it mean for the world? According to the Society […]

Birds: The Original Globalists, Through the Eyes of a Naturalist

For 30 years Stan Tekiela has been studying the flight patterns of birds around the world. Inspired by the work of living English naturalists Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, and Sir David Attenborough, the broadcaster, as well as their forebear John James Audubon, Mr. Tekiela told Global Atlanta, “I haven’t met a bird that I didn’t think […]

Locust Plague Prompts GSU PhD Student to Consider Alternative Food Source

A new generation of locusts will be hatched in just a few weeks, which will mature into ravenous teenagers possibly sweeping across East, Central and West Africa as well as turning eastward toward Pakistan. Their parents have accosted northern Kenya and the Horn of Africa already, devouring hundreds of thousands of acres of crops including […]

COVID-19 Provides Opportunities and Challenges for African Universities

COVID-19 has forced African universities to re-imagine their futures and seek out ways of adopting blended curriculums that utilize on-line learning formats but don’t entirely sacrifice classroom instruction, according to university officials brought together by the Atlanta-based IUGB Foundation for a Trans-Atlantic webinar May 20. The IUGB Foundation is an outgrowth of an historical relationship […]

Georgia Tech President: Early Adoption of Online Programs Aids COVID-19 Transition

Ángel Cabrera, Georgia’s Tech’s new president, revealed the university’s updated mission statement and contents of its new strategic plan to the attendees of the May 19 virtual session of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta while acknowledging that the COVID-19 outbreak had underscored the university’s adaptability. Georgia Tech is to be committed “to developing leaders who advance […]

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