ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 10 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release on Sept. 9, 2024: Attorney General Chris Carr has filed an amicus brief in support of a Tennessee-led lawsuit challenging the Biden-Harris administration's revised Title IX rule, which upends the foundation of women's sports and mandates that males and females share bathrooms. Carr previously filed suit against this same rule in April 2024, and he successfully blocked its implementation in Georg  more

KENNESAW, Georgia, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: Researcher Linglin Zhang believes that data science, boosted by artificial intelligence (AI), can improve the detection of breast cancer and develop more effective treatments. Zhang, who recently defended her dissertation to earn a Ph.D. in Data Science and Analytics from Kennesaw State University, delves into the detection of abnormalities in screening mammography, which can help find breast c  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- Mercer University issued the following news: By Andrea Honaker A prestigious fellowship is helping a Mercer University professor to expand upon research exploring the literary and emotional history of Civil War soldiers and their families. Dr. Sarah Gardner, Distinguished University Professor of History, is the recipient of the 2024-25 Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, Its Origins and Consequences. Awarded to only one scholar each year, the fellowship   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sept. 10 (TNSres) -- Mercer University issued the following news: By Andrea Honaker A Mercer University professor is spending the academic year at one of the nation's most popular gardens, where she will further her research related to garden and landscape studies. Dr. Abigail Dowling, assistant professor of history, is taking a yearlong sabbatical to be a part of the 2024-25 cohort of Dumbarton Oaks Fellows. Dumbarton Oaks, located in Washington, D.C., is a Harvard Univer  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Sept. 11 -- Piedmont issued the following news release: Athens, Ga. (September 10, 2024) - Kent Nilsson, M.D., and Trent Magruder, M.D., Piedmont Heart Institute physicians who are based at Piedmont Athens Regional, are among the first surgeons in Georgia to successfully implant a novel extravascular defibrillator to treat patients with dangerously fast heart rhythms, a condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The Medtronic Extravascular Implantable Cardiov  more