The Atlanta-based Carter Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its affiliated CDC Foundation are supporting a 10-week training program with 4,000 chiefs and community leaders in Liberia as […]
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EU Studies the Focus of a Georgia Tech Grant for a ‘Jean Monnet Centre’
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded by the European Commission a $125,000, three-year grant to further its studies of the roles of Europe and the U.S. and their […]
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Nearly a Third of Georgia’s Foreign Students Are Mainland Chinese
While some countries’ tallies have ebbed and flowed, the number of mainland Chinese students attending universities in Georgia has been on a steady upward trajectory since 2000, with the country’s […]
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Georgia Tech Honors Defense Attorney and Activist From Zimbabwe
The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology awarded Beatrice Mtetwa, a human rights activist and lawyer from Zimbabwe, its “Prize for Social Courage” Thursday, […]
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Agnes Scott Grad a Candidate for National Geographic’s ‘People’s Choice Award’
Wasfia Nazreen, the Agnes Scott College graduate from Bangladesh, who is preparing to climb Carstensz Pyramid in the Papua Province of Indonesia, has been selected by National Geographic to be […]
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Atlantans Tied In With Taiwan’s Ebola Response
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Steve Kuo had worked at the U.S. CDC in Atlanta. Taiwan has donated $1 million in cash and 100,000 pieces […]
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Canada’s CG Remains Loyal Hockey Fan While Gamely Studying Football
Less than a month into her post as Canada’s Atlanta-based consul general to the Southeast, Louise Blais received an invitation to attend the Mercer-Western Carolina football game in Macon. The […]
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UGA to Host West African Journalists
Fourteen French-speaking journalists from West Africa are due to arrive at the University of Georgia Monday, Nov. 3, to participate in a discussion of election coverage and the role of […]
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Agnes Scott Grad a Guiding Light for Female Empowerment Through Sports
Once she stepped beyond 26,000 feet on the way to the top of Mount Everest, Wasfia Nazreen, the Bangladeshi mountain climber who graduated from Agnes Scott College in 2006, entered […]
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The Future of MOOCs on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Continuing innovations in technology around the world are bound to make massive open online courses, so-called MOOCs, more sustainable than traditional college and university system campus offerings. But how soon […]