KENNESAW, Georgia, Aug. 26 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: * * * AI expert Kathy Pham speaking at Kennesaw State to begin Presidential Lecture Series Kennesaw State University is launching its Presidential Lecture Series on Sept. 8 with artificial intelligence expert Kathy Pham as the speaker. Pham will discuss "AI Across Boundaries: The Only Way Forward" at 2 p.m. at the Dance Theater on KSU's Marietta Campus. What: Kennesaw State's Presidential Lecture Serie  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 26 -- Georgia State University issued the following Q&A on Aug. 25, 2025, with Donald Hamelberg, vice president for Research and Economic Development: * * * Georgia State Research: What's New and What's Next? As Georgia State University's newest vice president for Research and Economic Development, Donald Hamelberg (Ph.D. '01) has a lengthy to-do list. He helps lead a community of hundreds of researchers and a program that's invested more than $1.88 billion in research   more

KENNESAW, Georgia, Aug. 26 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: * * * Kennesaw State researcher taps engineering background to discover solutions for stomach diseases For many people, gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are chronic and life-altering conditions. Yet despite their prevalence, doctors are often challenged by patients experiencing persistent symptoms with no way to accurately identify and diagnose diseases. Kennesaw State University's Lei Shi, an assistant  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 26 -- Mercer University issued the following news: * * * Georgia aerospace firms launch Georgia Aerospace & Defense Alliance Mercer University to house the Alliance; backed by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce, FlightSafety International and RTX Georgia public policy leader Ember Bishop Bentley named GADA executive director; Jay Neely, Georgia aerospace industry veteran, appointed chair * MACON, Ga. -- Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Lockheed  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Aug. 26 [Category: BizHealth Care] -- Piedmont posted the following news release: * * * Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Performs Its First Rare Joint Liver-Heart Transplant Atlanta, Ga. (August 25, 2025) - Piedmont Transplant Institute and Piedmont Heart Institute surgeons have performed a rare joint liver-heart transplant. The joint transplant for an adult patient is the first one of its kind in Georgia in a decade - and only the second adult procedure performed in the state  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 25 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news: * * * Recent Books by Alumni 2025 * Trials and Triumphs of a Plague Doctor (independently published, 2025) by Thomas C. Butler, MD'67 Living in the Light (Lighthouse Publishing, 2022) by Byron Edwards, PhD'77 Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion (University of Virginia Press, 2025) edited by Charles H. Ford, MA'88, PhD'92, and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn Heroes and Other Mortals (University of Georgi  more