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Avant South Fuels Atlanta’s Growing Tech Ecosystem
While honoring Atlanta’s legacy as a crossroads of the South, this year, Avant South will explore innovation and growth through the lens of transportation. In its third year as a conference exploring Atlanta’s potential as a top tech and entrepreneurship hub, Avant South joins forces with Atlanta Tech Week to present a two-day showcase of…
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SaportaReport is proud to present the latest in Thought Leaders from across Georgia. SaportaReport Thought Leadership is sponsored by various industry leaders from the Atlanta area. In this column, Emory University, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University explore opportunities for degree seeking students. Emory University, a top-ranked private institution recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts colleges, graduate and professional schools, and one of the world’s leading healthcare systems. The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is one of the top public research universities in the U.S., developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. Georgia State University, one of the largest, most innovative multi-campus public research universities, transforms the lives of students, advances the frontiers of knowledge and strengthens the workforce of the future.
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Emory will be tuition-free for students whose families earn $200,000 or less
Students whose families earn $200,000 or less will attend Emory University tuition-free starting in fall 2026. This transformative scholarship, Emory Advantage Plus, represents a significant expansion of the university’s financial aid program and continues Emory’s longstanding commitment to support talented students by making a preeminent education more attainable. All new and returning domestic undergraduate students who…
Breakthrough Cancer Therapy Moves to Phase 2 Trials
A promising cancer therapy developed by Georgia State University researchers and biotech startup Da Zen Theranostics is taking a major step forward, entering Phase 2 clinical trials. The treatment, which harnesses targeted radiation to destroy tumors with precision, could mark a turning point in how cancer is treated — and in the lives of patients…
Alumnus Leaves Entire $100M Estate to Georgia Tech
A historic $100 million bequest from the late Georgia Tech alumnus John W. Durstine will forever transform the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. The landmark gift — the largest single gift in Tech’s history — will establish endowed chairs, professorships, and faculty awards, ensuring that the Institute continues to recruit, develop, and retain…
Ideas Festival Emory returns Oct. 18 with Rosanne Cash keynote
Ideas Festival Emory, the flagship event of Emory University’s Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement (CPSE), returns for a second year on Saturday, Oct. 18, with a keynote conversation with Rosanne Cash. Building on the success of the inaugural Ideas Festival Emory in September 2024, this year’s edition will share the wisdom of more than 30 scientists, scholars, musicians,…
Georgia State Physicist Helps Lead Major International Experiment Studying Moments After Big Bang
Megan Connors, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University, has been elected co-spokesperson of a major international physics experiment designed to uncover new clues about how the universe began. Connors is helping to lead sPHENIX, a large scientific collaboration based at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y. She shares the…
Emory hosts global university network meeting, showcasing leadership in artificial intelligence
Emory University recently welcomed senior leaders from four international institutions for the annual Global Universities for Societal Impact (GUSI) board meeting, hosted by Emory Global Engagement and the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning in late June. The hybrid event brought together representatives from the University of Bonn, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of St Andrews…
Atlanta is Home to One of Higher Education’s Best Investments
Ensuring the value of a degree is a key component in restoring public trust in the higher education system, following a period of fluctuation — 42% of Americans express confidence in the system today compared to nearly 60% a decade ago. The value of a Georgia Tech degree continues to be demonstrated through a strong…
Psilocybin delays aging, extends lifespan, new Emory study suggests
As revenues from the anti-aging market — riddled with hope and thousands of supplements — surged past $500 million last year, Emory University researchers identified a compound that actively delays aging in cells and organisms. A newly published study in Nature Partner Journals’ Aging demonstrates that psilocin, a byproduct of consuming psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, extended…
Atlanta’s Brainpower Hub: How Georgia State Is Rewiring the Future of Neuroscience
At a university known for innovation, Georgia State’s Brains & Behavior (B&B) area of focus is making its mark by connecting research from across the institution into a powerful, collaborative hub free from traditional silos. At the program’s recent annual retreat, at which it celebrated its 20th anniversary, more than 250 experts and students showcased…
New Graduates and a New Neighborhood: Start:ME Accelerator Expands in 2025
Another cohort of Atlanta micro-business owners has graduated from Goizueta Business School’s Start:ME Accelerator. This free, four-month intensive program provides business training and mentorship, culminating in the award of grant investment capital. This year, 68 ventures completed the accelerator. The May graduation ceremony featured catering, photography, music, and other services provided by program alumni. The ceremony also included…
Engineering Medical Advancements
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the largest biomedical engineering program in the country, began as a partnership between Georgia Tech and Emory University intended to maximize research and educational opportunities in fields of intersecting biomedical interest. Today, its labs are producing innovative technology with the potential to change lives while fostering the…
Emory researchers discover promising treatment for epileptic seizures
Epilepsy is a persistent brain disorder that produces hard to control seizures and cognitive impairments in 1.2% of the U.S. population. It can be treated and sometimes controlled but never cured. Now, Emory University researchers have discovered genetic pathways to address the stubbornly difficult challenge of alleviating epileptic seizures. The researchers were part of a…
Georgia State University Is Ensuring Tomorrow’s Workforce Is Career-Ready
At Georgia State University, instilling the skills and competencies that employers value is baked into its DNA. And just as Georgia State pioneered the tools and techniques that have made it a national leader in getting students from all backgrounds to graduation day at equal high rates, it’s also focused on ensuring those graduates are…
Georgia Tech Shaping Atlanta’s Future as Top Tech Hub
For Atlanta to be considered among the nation’s top tech hubs, its higher education system must play a pivotal role in unlocking its potential technological advancement and entrepreneurial investment. A study by the Boston Consulting Group revealed that increasing the number of local startups while retaining the talent graduating from Georgia Tech and other research…
Children as Young as Five Can Navigate a ‘Tiny Town’
Many behavioral studies suggest that using landmarks to navigate through large-scale spaces — known as map-based navigation — is not established until around age 12. A neuroscience study at Emory University counters that assumption. Through experiments combining brain scans and a virtual environment the researchers dubbed Tiny Town, they showed that five-year-olds have the brain…
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