Electric scooters are coming to Downtown Athens This is beneficial to the businesses and the individuals within the city of Athens because it’s another mode of transportation, said Johnson.
Posted: Jun 30, 2021 6:58 PM
Updated: Jul 1, 2021 9:45 AM
Posted By: Olivia Schueller
Athens city council approved bringing in 25 Bird electric scooters to Downtown Athens.
City planner, Lakeisha Johnson, said it will give residents another form of transportation and help grow local businesses. This is beneficial to the businesses and the individuals within the city of Athens because it’s another mode of transportation, said Johnson.
Dawne Douthit, the owner of Epiphany Boutique and Square Clock Coffee, said electric scooters could definitely help surrounding businesses, including her own.
“The Uncanny Chronicles,” a comic book focused on the realities of dyslexia will soon be available nationwide as a graphic novel thanks to an agreement between Florida State University and Ventris Learning.
“The Uncanny Chronicles” is an eight-issue comic book series created by faculty from the Florida Center for Reading Research and the FSU College of Social Work. The story follows Kayla, a young reader who confronts issues related to reading difficulties and illustrates how she interacts with the world and how the world interacts with her.
Each issue presents Kayla with new obstacles, such as struggling with reading, the challenges of sharing her struggles with friends and adults and learning how to accept who she is.
An off-duty Pentagon police officer charged with murder in the shootings of two men outside a condominium building in Takoma Park, Maryland, is facing separate.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Joseph A. Schwartz, Ph.D. (College of Criminology & Criminal Justice) was awarded the Early Career Award from the BioPsychoSocial Division of the American Society of Criminology. This prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to scholarly knowledge on BioPsychoSocial criminology within six years of receiving their doctoral degree.
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Jason Pappas, Ph.D. (College of Education) and doctoral students Carter Floyd and Susmit Gulavani received the Atlantic Coast Conference Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics Award for their research project “A Tale of Two Cities: COVID-19 and Student-Athletes’ Psychological Well-Being.” The four will present their findings to ACC athletics administrators in 2021 during the conference’s fall meeting.