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Nov 25, 2009 – Georgia State University - ARCHE News Service
Georgia State University experts to weigh in on health care reform
With health care reform taking shape in Congress, how do you determine the facts from fiction, and determine how much it will really cost? Georgia State University will host an interactive discussion entitled, “Perspectives on Health Reform: Science, Fiction and Fantasy,” on Monday, November 30, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, 14 Marietta St., 7th floor seminar room. Experts will weigh in on who pays, who is likely to benefit from the reform, and how potential health reform proposals might impact health equity.
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Nov 17, 2009 – Georgia State University - ARCHE News Service
Symposium to present 2009 Metro Atlanta Homeless Survey
As the recession impacts the social and economic fabric of communities, local governments and agencies will present the results of the 2009 Metro Atlanta Homeless Survey during the 2009 Homeless Symposium Nov. 20 at Georgia State University. The symposium will be held at 8:30 a.m. in the Speaker’s Auditorium at the GSU Student Center, 44 Courtland St. S.E., and will include a summary of the survey and a panel discussion about its results. The fourth-annual survey represents examines homelessness in the city of Atlanta and Fulton and DeKalb counties. The symposium is open to the public.
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Nov 11, 2009 – Georgia State University - ARCHE News Service
High school students to participate in Georgia State’s Model UN
This week, Georgia State University will welcome more than 450 high school students to step into the shoes of United Nation’s delegates and experience the inner workings of the world’s most influential governmental organization. The College of Education and the Department of Political Science will host the 15th annual Model United Nations Conference from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday (Nov. 11), and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday (Nov. 12) in the Georgia State Student Center. The event is open to the public to observe. High school students from across the state, as well as their teachers and advisors, will be participating in the two-day conference.
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Nov 6, 2009 – Emory University - ARCHE News Service
Luncheon Series Highlighting Children's Health Issues Co-Sponsored by Emory
Emory University pediatric researchers have partnered with Atlanta natives Laura Seydel and Lisa Tush to present a series of enlightenment lunches on environmental health issues facing children. The first lunch in the series will take place Tuesday, Nov. 10, Noon-2 p.m., at the Biltmore Ballrooms Georgian Room, 817 W. Peachtree St. in midtown Atlanta. Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Anila Jacob, MD, MPH, EWG senior scientist will discuss industrial chemicals and pollutants. In addition to the Nov. 10 lunch, two additional lunches are planned for 2010. Tickets for the Nov. 10 meeting are $40 and may be purchased by calling 404-727-5713.
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Nov 3, 2009 – Mercer University - ARCHE News Service
New Mercer Law School book urges changes in Georgia laws, policies affecting ex-offenders
Existing state law and policy in Georgia creates crippling barriers for ex-offenders who try to get their lives back on track, increasing the rate of recidivism and producing unreasonable social and economic strains on Georgia taxpayers, according to a new book published by Mercer Law School examining the issue. The book, Collateral Consequences of Arrests and Convictions: Policy and Law in Georgia, is the first comprehensive study of its kind to examine the impact of state law and policy on ex-offenders reentering society after serving time.
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Oct 28, 2009 – Scott for GA
Rep. Scott Breaks National Walking Record
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rep. Austin Scott announced that he now holds the record for the longest walk by an American politician, taking the record previously held by former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles since 1970. "I'm surprised that the "Walkin’ Lawton" record stood as long as it did," said Scott. "I guess there just aren't that many politicians who want to walk throughout their states the way I did."
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Oct 24, 2009 – Emory University - ARCHE News Service
Emory Law to host lecture on counterterrorism
Emory Law's International Humanitarian Law Clinic will host a lecture titled, “Counterterrorism and the Dilemma of the Decision Maker: U.S. Challenges in Afghanistan and Israeli Experiences,” with Amos Guiora at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the law school's Tull Auditorium. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel and the Emory Jewish Law Students Association.
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Oct 16, 2009 – Scott for Georgia
Austin Scott to discuss Georgia’s water crisis in Columbia County
State Representative and Republican candidate for governor Austin Scott will formally unveil his plan for how to deal with Georgia’s ongoing water crisis on Thursday, October 22nd at 6 p.m. at the Jabez Sanford Hardin Performing Arts Center in the Public Library building in Evans. Rep. Scott is Chairman of the State House’s Governmental Affairs Committee and will be making his third visit to the Columbia/Richmond County area.
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Oct 14, 2009 – University of Georgia - ARCHE News Service
UGA to host national conference on water, drought and environmental justice
The University of Georgia will host a conference called “Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought and Environmental Justice,” on Nov. 9-12. The conference is being co-chaired by Ted Gragson, head of the department of anthropology at UGA, and Steward Pickett of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, which is in Millbrook, N.Y. It will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. While attendance will be primarily by invitation, live webcasts of all keynote speakers will be available at www.esa.org/millenniumconf/2009/index.php, the website for the conference.
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Oct 9, 2009 – Scott for Georgia
Scott: Calling The Water War As I See It
Rep. Austin Scott writes, The new War Between the States, the Water War that is, comes down to one thing: economic opportunity. How can metropolitan areas around Georgia attract industry if we cannot guarantee that industry will have the water it needs to operate? And how can our rural areas produce agricultural commodities if we cannot irrigate our crops? We are all employed either directly or indirectly by one of these two economic sectors, and Georgia regularly competes with Alabama and Florida for the jobs that these areas provide.
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Oct 6, 2009 – Emory University - ARCHE News Service
Emory Researchers to Evaluate Childhood Obesity Interventions
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, has selected Emory University’s Institute for Advance Policy Solutions to conduct a process and outcomes evaluation of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthcare Initiative, launched earlier this year. This is the nation’s first comprehensive research study evaluating clinical interventions for childhood obesity. The study will help inform the science base and uncover effective clinical solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic.
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Oct 5, 2009 – University of Georgia
UGA School of Law to host Legal Ethics & Professionalism Symposium
The University of Georgia School of Law is hosting the 10th Annual Legal Ethics & Professionalism Symposium, titled “Drawing the Ethical Line: Controversial Cases, Zealous Advocacy, and the Public Good.” This day-long event will take place on Friday, Oct. 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Classroom A of Hirsch Hall on UGA’s North Campus. The symposium will examine the difficult ethical issues encountered by attorneys in defending and prosecuting controversial or high-profile cases. In addition to addresses by former U.S. Attorney General W. Ramsey Clark and former U. S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico David C. Iglesias, there will be three panel discussions featuring an array of notable practitioners and academics. Registration for the symposium is limited.
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Oct 5, 2009 – Emory University
Economic Migration in Georgia Focus of Emory Law Conference
The Emory Public Interest Committee (EPIC) of Emory Law School will host its sixth annual conference, titled "Expendable People?: A Human Rights Perspective on the Impact of Global Economic Migration on Georgia," at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in Emory Law’s Tull Auditorium, 1301 Clifton Rd. The conference will examine the human rights issues that accompany global economic migration and how these issues affect the greater Georgia community. Speakers and panelists will focus on three key aspects of economic migration: human trafficking, the guest-worker program and the undocumented workforce. The conference is free and open to the public, though registration is required.
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Oct 2, 2009 – Scott for Georgia
Scott For Georgia adds four new campaign team members in September
Scott For Georgia is proud to announce the addition of four new members to its campaign team: Lee C. Benedict Jr., M.Ed., J. Earle Shivers, P. Ashby Foltz III, J. Barton Reising. “We believe in continual progress,” said Rep. Scott. “These new additions to our team deliver a wealth of political expertise to our organization. They share my belief that we will win this election through our hard work and dedication.”
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Sep 16, 2009 – Georgia State University
Georgia State to establish nursing leadership and informatics concentration
The Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing at Georgia State University received more than $800,000 in a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a new master’s degree concentration in Nursing Leadership and Health care Innovations. By offering a degree concentration in nursing leadership and informatics, Georgia State is helping to fill a gap in the health care system. Georgia State will become the only university in Atlanta to offer the nursing informatics curriculum and the second statewide.
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Sep 15, 2009 – University of Georgia
UGA to host second annual report on state of education in Georgia Oct. 1
More than 100 of Georgia’s top education leaders and policymakers are expected to attend the University of Georgia College of Education’s second annual Education in Georgia: A State of the State Report on Thursday, Oct. 1, at UGA’s Gwinnett Campus. The theme of the conference, co-sponsored by UGA’s Education Policy and Evaluation Center, is Emerging Educational Priorities During the Period of Economic Recovery. The keynote speaker will be former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, and a nationally recognized adviser in high school educational policy.
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Sep 2, 2009 – Morehouse School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine Hosts Health Disparities Symposium
Each day, 3,400 people in America are diagnosed with cancer and another 1,500 die of the disease. In spite of advances in research, treatment, and outcomes, African Americans and other minority groups continue to contract and subsequently die from the disease in disproportionate numbers. The burden of cancer is undeniably greater for poor, ethnic minorities and the uninsured. To help understand how, why and what’s being done about it, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), in conjunction with the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer III (NBLIC), will host “Health Disparities Symposium on Cancer: Addressing the Issues,” Sept. 21-22 at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown.
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Aug 28, 2009 – Austin Scott for Governor
Gubernatorial Candidate Austin Scott Completes 1,050-mile Walk of Georgia
State Representative Austin Scott (R-Tifton), a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2010, will complete his 1,050-mile Walk of Georgia tour on Saturday, August 29th at approximately 10 a.m. The walk will conclude with remarks from Representative Scott on the Washington Street steps of the State Capitol. “This is as grassroots as it gets,” said Scott. “The other candidates are all talking but we're literally walking the walk--showing commitment, persistence, and that we have a perspective no other candidate can have in this race.”
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Aug 12, 2009 – Interdenominational Theological Center
ITC President Michael A. Battle accepts post as U.S. Ambassador to the African Union
Dr. Michael A. Battle, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), will leave that office after an exemplary six-year term to become the U.S. representative to the African Union with the rank of ambassador. The Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-based organization integrates the political interests of 53 African nations. The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on August 7, 2009. The swearing in ceremony is scheduled for Friday, August 21, 2009, Washington, D.C.
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Aug 11, 2009 – Georgia State University
Financial health of new Georgia charter schools falters
Charter schools in Georgia, the majority of which are in metro Atlanta, may be outscoring their public school peers on testing but many are not making the grade when it comes to financial health, according to a new Georgia State University study. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Professor Cynthia S. Searcy, co-author of the study, said that more than 40 percent of start-up charter schools in Georgia operated with deficits or in the red during the 2006-2007 school year, the latest dates the data was available at the time of the study.
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