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DID YOU KNOW? Tri-Cities Safe Center Launch
Just in time for the Holiday Break, Tri-Cities High School recently celebrated the grand opening of its Unidos Center, the newest S.A.F.E Center operating in Fulton County Schools (FCS). S.A.F.E stands for Student And Family Engagement, and free services in the center are supported by federal funds from the FCS Bridge to Success Plan, as well as grants and donations.
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DJJ and Georgia Tech Hold Graduation Ceremony in Chatham County
The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s (Georgia Tech) Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, and the Georgia Tech Professional Education Department, held a graduation ceremony for DJJ youth who completed the Georgia Tech Logistics Education and Pathway (LEAP) training program on Nov. 17 in Savannah, Ga.
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Walton Robotics Team to Continue Legacy of Community Outreach Thanks to Ed-SPLOST Funded Robotics Center
As members of Walton High School’s award-winning robotics team, Walton students have impacted students throughout their community and as far away as Brazil.
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Fulton Connect Gives Culinary Students a View into Their Future
A class must be really special for a group of 17 high schoolers to get up early each Saturday morning for a month and show up to school. Fulton Connect and Chef Simone Byron have developed a class just that special.
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Emory heart team implants 500th lifesaving left ventricular assist device (LVAD)
On July 29, a team from Emory’s Heart and Vascular Center completed its 500th continuous flow, durable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, further affirming Emory Healthcare’s status as a national leader in the life-saving procedure.
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Milton High Student is World Champion Power Lifter
Milton High School student Dave Githutu is an athlete, having competed in the Georgia Special Olympics in track and field and bowling. However, now he has a new title to add to his name -- world champion powerlifter.
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Fulton County Schools Posts Highest Recorded District Graduation Rate in 2022
In 2022, Fulton County Schools’ (FCS) achieved its highest-ever graduation rate and exceeded state scores by 5.2 points according to a report by the Georgia Department of Education.
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Cobb Outpaces State and National SAT Average Once Again
Every September, the Georgia Board of Education (GADOE) releases the final numbers for that year's graduating class's performance on the SAT. For the fifth year in a row, Georgia public school students outperformed their counterparts in the nation’s public schools on the SAT with a mean score of 1052, which is 24 points higher than the national average of 1028.
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Agnes Scott College Appoints Chicora Martin Vice President for Student Affairs
Agnes Scott College yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. Chicora Martin as the college’s vice president for student affairs and dean of students, effective November 1. Dr. Martin comes to Agnes Scott after seven years at Mills College in Oakland, California, where they served as vice president of student life and dean of students.
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U.S. News ranks Emory among top national universities
Emory University is among the nation’s top universities, coming in 22nd in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 rankings.
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Agnes Scott Ranked First in Town-Gown Relations by The Princeton Review
Agnes Scott College was again named to The Princeton Review’s Best 388 College rankings for 2023.
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Emory University, Emory Healthcare ranked among Georgia’s best employers by Forbes
Emory University and Emory Healthcare are among Georgia’s best employers, according to Forbes’ fourth-annual list of “America’s Best Employers By State.”
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Falcon Softball and Baseball Teams Receive Major Equipment Donation
It's difficult to keep good news quiet, especially when the Atlanta Braves' Heavy Hitters are involved in the announcement. Thanks to the Braves Foundation and Academy Sports, the softball and baseball teams at Pebblebrook are the proud owners of $6000 worth of new equipment.
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Faculty Friday Spotlight: August 2022
Professor of classics and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Megan O. Drinkwater’s work on Ovid’s “Heroides” will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press at the end of summer 2022. Drinkwater illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an expression of the crisis of civic identity in Rome at a time of extreme and permanent political change.
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Woodruff Foundation gift focuses on strengthening nursing workforce and advancing nursing education at Emory
As the nationwide nursing shortage lingers and as nurse staffing challenges grow, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation hopes to bolster the nursing workforce and advance nursing education at Emory with an $8.5 million grant to Emory Healthcare and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University.
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Emory student seeks the cell of origin for childhood leukemiav
Emory University student Ben Babcock has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to participate as one of seven graduate students in the 2022 ASH Graduate Hematology Award (AGHA). This award aims to encourage graduate students in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology.
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U.S. News and World Report ranks three Emory hospitals as best in Georgia and Atlanta
For the eleventh year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Emory University Hospital the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta in the regional rankings in U.S. News Best Hospitals issue. (Emory University Hospital includes Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital and Emory University Hospital at Wesley Woods.)
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WABE: College Leadership Joins ‘A Closer Look with Rose Scott’ to Discuss Mellon Grant
On Friday, July 22, President Leocadia Zak and Dr. Yves-Rose Porcena, vice president for equity and inclusion, joined “A Closer Look with Rose Scott” on Atlanta’s National Public Radio (NRP) station WABE 90.1 to elevate Agnes Scott College’s plans for its recent Mellon Foundation grant.
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Back to School: All About Buses
The Cobb Schools fleet of yellow buses will roll out for the first day of school on August 1.
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Researchers develop protein labeling method to study cellular mechanisms of neurological disorders
A recent study in Nature Communications, by scientists at Emory University and Georgia Tech researching the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease, describes and validates an innovative protein labeling method recently developed by the researchers.