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GPC’s interim president works to steer college through rough financial waters

Like many institutions of higher learning, Georgia Perimeter College is facing significant financial challenges, but interim President Rob Watts wants to assure prospective students and the community at large that, in spite of the difficulties, it’...

Local sportscasters find niche in growing webcast trend

Tom Whitfield, left, and John Morgo, right are area pioneers in the online sportscasting business. Photo by Wade Marbaugh
by Wade Marbaugh   Once again footballs fill the air, a sure sign of the onset of autumn with its ecstatic play-by-play calls over the airwaves. But nowadays not all exclamations of “Touchdown!” emit from radio and television stations. Many are ...

Emory HIV research program awarded $9 million grant

HIV—the virus that causes AIDS—continues to afflict the United States three decades after scientists first recognized the disease. At the end of 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the South accounted for 45 percent...