YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, Aug. 31 -- Antioch University issued the following news: Juantisa Hughes, a 2024 graduate of the PhD in Leadership & Change program, has written and published her dissertation titled, The Lived Experience of African American Women Leaders in Georgia Law Enforcement: Advances, Barriers, and Impact on Performance. Law enforcement is a male-dominated field that has been slow to accept and promote African American women to positions of authority. The purpose of Hughes' quali  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health issued the following news release: People living in neighborhoods with higher levels of structural racism are at a significantly greater risk of exposure to traffic-related air pollutants than those in neighborhoods with low structural racism, researchers at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health found in a new study published in Cancer. The study explores how multidimensional structural racism c  more

KENNESAW, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: Kennesaw State University published the video game Corporation, Inc. on Friday, marking the university's first game distributed by the KSU Game Studio. Assistant Professor of Game Narrative Victoria Lagrange designed the game to foster empathy for marginalized communities by creating a protagonist who recently emigrated from Colombia. Users are tasked with performing the character's work duties while als  more

COLUMBUS, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Columbus State University issued the following news: Columbus State University is now home to the nation's first Campus Club of the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA). The chapter hosted its inaugural meeting on Thursday, Aug. 29. Founded in 2017, KDVA is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization that aims to strengthen the U.S.-South Korea alliance and provide resources and assistance to its members. It also supports veterans who served in the Korean War and   more

KENNESAW, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: Celina Duong is a sophomore finance major who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), researching why public restaurant firms have opted to shift to private ownership. Under the mentorship of Professor of Hospitality Melih Madanoglu, Duong investigated how the wealth of shareholders influences the size of bid premiums for restaurant firms and uncovering the characteristics that   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Constangy, Brooks, Smith and Prophete, a law firm, issued the following news release: Constangy partner and Cyber Team member Melissa Sachs will present at the inaugural Navigating Artificial Intelligence and Its Emerging Risks ExecuSummit. This conference will take place from September 10th - 11th in Uncasville, CT. Constangy is also a proud sponsor of the event. The ExecuSummit is a two-day event with programming dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and specifica  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Mercer University issued the following news: By Jennifer Falk The pixelated graphics, electronic music and joystick controls of Starship Showdown make it feel like a classic arcade game. But the two-player shooting game was actually created in 2024 by two Mercer University students who weren't even alive during the arcade's heyday. Juniors Rajwol Chapagain and Maret McWhorter created the game from scratch as part of the communication theory research lab in the De  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Aug. 31 -- Piedmont issued the following news release: Atlanta, Ga. (August 30, 2024) - Piedmont Atlanta Hospital has maintained an elite three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for patient care and outcomes in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the national TVT Registry. This is the second year in a row the program has received this elite rating, and puts the program in the 95th percentile   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- Emory University's Humanities Division issued the following news: By Anna Chapman Bias in writing museum artifact descriptions. Support for advising Goizueta Business School students. Protection of artistic copyrights. Car accidents at dangerous intersections. Obesity in Atlanta. These topics may seem to have little in common on the surface. But in the Center for AI Learning's AI.Xperience program, they each converged with artificial intelligence (AI) as  more