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Arts & Culture

Urban Video Project Presents Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Cemetery of Splendor’ as Part of Film Festival

Wednesday, October 19, 2016, By News Staff

Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization Light Work are presenting a special screening of acclaimed Thai filmmaker and installation artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent feature film, “Cemetery of Splendor,” followed by a Skype Q&A with the filmmaker and reception…

Arts & Culture

DK Summer Institute Focuses on Knowledge Production to Create More ‘Just Academy’

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Rob Enslin

LeConté Dill’s grandparents were part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West, where, during the 1940s, they put down roots in South Los Angeles. Today, the once-vibrant neighborhood is plagued…

Media, Law & Policy

Avoiding Conflicts By Improving Cultural Understanding

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

When the Red Cross sent food to drought- and conflict-ravaged Somalia, military personnel distributed the supplies on a first-come, first-served basis. People who didn’t receive food responded by starting a riot. “The military didn’t understand that the local politics of…

STEM

Theoretical Physicist Elected American Physical Society Fellow

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Elizabeth Droge-Young

Professor of Physics Simon Catterall was recently elected as an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. The APS Division of Computational Physics nominated Catterall for his contributions to lattice field theory, a framework used to explore how subatomic particles interact, yielding…

Campus & Community

Life Skills Taught at End of School Day

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, By Eileen Jevis

The South Side Communication Center is much more than a safe place for middle school and high school students to gather after the school day ends. The center, opened in January 2011 through a partnership with the Southside Community Coalition,…

Health & Society

BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for Southeast ADA Center

Monday, October 17, 2016, By Robert Conrad

Based in Atlanta, the Southeast ADA Center provides information, training and guidance about the ADA throughout the eight-state Southeast region.

STEM

Sixth Annual It Girls Retreat Brings 94 High Schoolers to Campus

Friday, October 14, 2016, By Renée K. Gadoua

Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly led an information technology pep rally recently at a dinner for 94 potential School of Information Studies (iSchool) students. “You’ve all made a really great choice to come to the It Girls retreat because…

STEM

Multidisciplinary Team Wins NSF Award to Study Distributed Energy Markets

Friday, October 14, 2016, By J.D. Ross

As the traditional, centralized way of producing and distributing electricity gives way to a future of decentralized, “smart” energy production and consumption, policymakers, producers and regulators must understand the security and privacy risks inherent in “distributed” energy production and in…

Media, Law & Policy

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Giving University Lecture Oct. 18

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By Kevin Morrow

Acclaimed international photojournalist Lynsey Addario—renowned for her striking images of war zones and displaced refugees—is the next speaker in the University Lectures series on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Her appearance is co-sponsored by the S.I….

STEM

Wang to Discuss Drone Privacy Issues at FTC Workshop Thursday

Wednesday, October 12, 2016, By J.D. Ross

As the technology has improved for unmanned aerial drones over the past several years, they have become more popular with, and accessible to, the general public. With this growth has come the need for regulation, both for operation of the…