The Consulate General of Ireland and the Rose Library at Emory University collaborated Nov. 27 on a ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, which drew almost 400 attendees to fill Emory’s Cannon Chapel. The event featured Emory’s foremost scholars of African American history to provide context and readings from some Read more
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Metro Chamber Annual Meeting: Workforce Key to City’s Global Growth, Local Prosperity
If there’s one word beyond all the sloganeering that defined the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s annual meeting Thursday, it might be “mirror.” Representatives of a range of companies, from BlackRock to Pandora, intimated on stage that they located in Atlanta partly because it’s an emerging tech hub, but mostly because they could see their culture and Read more
Home Schooled Winner of WWI Centennial Commission Prize in D.C. for Armistice Day
When Daniel Wright hears the bells ring at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11th at the National Cathedral in Washington this weekend, he’ll be fully aware of their significance — that the bells are ringing for all veterans who have given their lives for their country, and more particularly that they also are ringing on behalf Read more
Pitch Day at Atlanta’s ‘The Farm’ Accelerator to Showcase Global Reach
With its second cohort this year, Comcast NBCUniversal’s The Farm startup accelerator program is taking its commitment to founder diversity to a cross-border level. Among the 10 companies set to pitch Friday, Nov. 9, at “Demo Day,” 18 percent of founders are female, and 77 percent are minorities. And beyond that, a few have international roots — Read more
Georgia Tech Scholar Applies Computer Science to Economic Development
Dr. Michael Best‘s latest initiative at the Georgia Institute of Technology is to launch a Center for Computing and Society that will continue his work applying computer science to international development. As a member of Georgia Tech’s faculties of both the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing, he is Read more
‘Bells of Peace’ to Toll on 11/11 for Both White and Black Georgian WW1 Dead
At precisely 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11, bells and carillons across Georgia will be slowly ringing in commemoration of the 3,700 Georgians who died in World War One, “the War to End All Wars.” Virginia Dilkes, the daughter of a WW1 sergeant engineer, has spent countless hours contacting churches, legionnaire posts, universities, cemeteries and Read more
Metro Export Challenge Is Back: 30 Companies Take Home $5,000 Grants
The Atlanta Metro Export Challenge has returned yet again this year, increasing the number of recipients of the $5,000 first-round grant funding to 30. The awardees were announced Monday by ORBATL, an entity created to bring together a group of local organizations and trade resources to help (mainly) small and medium-sized companies looking to expand Read more
30-Plus Countries Represented at Atlanta International School’s Worldfest
Attendees sampled food and enjoyed cultural offerings from more than 30 countries at the Atlanta International School’s Worldfest, an annual on-campus event aimed at celebrating its diverse community. The Oct. 28 event organized the world in stalls, with food being the main attraction for parents, students and friends of the AIS community. Many consulates were Read more
GSU Center Improving Access to Language Instruction Sees Grant Renewed
A Georgia State University center that helps improve equitable access to world-language instruction has had its funding renewed for the next four years. The Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research, or CULTR, will see $640,000 disbursed by the U.S. Department of Education from 2018 through 2022. CULTR is one of 16 National Foreign Language Read more
Georgia State, Tech Win Prestigious International Education Grants
For years, Atlanta has enjoyed an embarrassment of riches when it comes to university research on international business education. That trend is set to continue thanks to revelation that both Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology have once again won prestigious federal CIBER grants. The U.S. Department of Education grants establish and maintain Read more
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