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Students help bike program gain some traction: Class develops business model

The mentee becomes the mentor. Junior Lexi Anderson began Dawgbike as an eco-friendly class project last year that would allow students to rent bikes at an affordable cost. But the initiative has since been deadlocked while being channeled through several layers of committees and departments. Now, a social media class is getting the wheels rolling [...]

Graduate creates reefs from ashes

You could call it a paradox to die and be a part of something that fosters life, but University graduate Don Brawley calls it a service. He co-founded Eternal Reefs — a company memorializing loved ones by molding their remains in artificial reefs. It didn’t take much for the avid scuba-diver and college student to [...]

Holocaust survivors share stories

Arbeit macht frei. Ben Walker first heard this phrase aboard a sweltering confined compartment of a coal-fueled train at the age of six. He stood in human feces clinging to his 2-year-old sister amidst sardine-packed passengers — most appearing skeletal and starved. Every few hours, the Nazi soldiers would make room by disposing of the [...]

Student finds music hidden in HIV genome

C in the key of A minor — that’s the note that infects millions of people every year. It’s one of seven actually. University graduate student Alexandra Pajak assigned pitches to the amino acids and proteins that define HIV and, as it turns out, the virus is shockingly soothing. “It just sounds nice,” Pajak said. [...]

CREEPY CAMPUS: “Ghosts of Students Past” tour tells terrifying tales of students past

Guillotines during the French Revolution have nothing on the decapitations at the University. The University Student Alumni Association revealed an ominous side of the University Tuesday night on its “Ghosts of Students Past” ghost tour. Tonight at 8 will be the last chance to confront the ghouls and goblins haunting the campus. Participants are encouraged [...]

University alumni create scholarship

Michael Fenton was lucky. Traveling the world with his two childhood friends, the University graduates knew they wanted to give back to the state that taught them so much. Fenton and his friends founded the Atlanta-Latin America Scholarship, a nonprofit organization increasing student ties to Latin American countries and providing foreign language training in Guadalajara, [...]

Graduate’s mission saves lives

University alumnus Matt Turner has saved hundreds of lives. He’s not a doctor or nurse or paramedic. Instead, he purifies water and is leading a new movement in nonprofits. Turner co-founded Defy Thirst, a nonprofit keen on rescuing communities from malnutrition in Ghana, Haiti and Ecuador. What began as a charity to implement water filtration [...]

Professor doubles as magician

When Turf Grass Management Professor Keith Karnok visits magic shops, he buys surprises to hand out smiles. Karnok considers himself to be in a transition phase between finishing his career as a University professor and taking his hobby as a magician and ventriloquist to a whole new level. Karnok, who is officially retired, was asked [...]

After six decades, legend Tony Bennett refuses to slow

Frank Sinatra once said he wished somebody would learn his art so it doesn’t die where it is. Luckily, Tony Bennett was able to follow in his legendary footsteps. Bennett, entering his sixth decade of professional singing, will perform at the Classic Center Wednesday to help bridge the generation gap for those unfamiliar with jazz [...]

Online journalism hinders communication

I always get a good feeling deep down when I see someone read a newspaper, especially if they are reading one of my stories. Call me narcissistic, but having a visual of people reading the news humanizes my profession. Sometimes, people who don’t even know each other will start discussing something they read in the newspaper. [...]

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