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Literary Reflections

“How Georgian do you have to be?” It’s a question the judges at the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, housed at the University of Georgia, ask themselves many times each year as they contemplate the nominees. It’s one for which…

A Focus On Technology

Bud Peterson, who has been at Georgia Tech since 2009, presides over one of the country’s most prestigious technical institutes, engaged in far-reaching research and innovative economic development activities. It has changed dramatically in the last few years, moving well…

Oooh Baby Baby

In 2014, the number of babies being born in the United States rose for the first time since 2007. Some say its another sign of an improving economy, and here in Georgia, many hospitals are certainly seeing an uptick in…

Public-Private Progress

“What happens when you invest with vision?” ask banners slung across chain-link fences beside Cobb Parkway in northwest Atlanta. While the banners mask the construction along the busy roadway, the question serves to highlight an estimated half-billion dollars’ worth of…

2015 Silver Spoon Awards

No doubt about it, I’ve got a pretty sweet gig. Still, when the Silver Spoon Awards roll around and I look forward to recounting the past year’s dining successes and excesses, I also worry about what I’m leaving out. It’s…

High-Tech Spark

Georgia has long been known for cotton and peaches, but a better symbol might soon be stem cells. From Athens to Atlanta, the state is rapidly becoming a center for the high-tech innovation known as bioscience. This broad term includes…

Medicine with a Mission

Macon native Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, a graduate of Georgia Tech and Harvard Medical School, last year became the sixth president of Morehouse School of Medicine, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2015. An OB-GYN by training, she presides…