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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Robert Rosenberger [assistant professor in the School of Public Policy] wrote an op-ed in the AJC on Sunday, July 21 discussing how mandatory dissection policies within education might need new consideration and review. As he explains in Do Dissections Teach Animal Cruelty, "We should not let the news of Connecticut’s student choice legislation pass by without considering how similar policies here in Georgia might benefit our own children. It is time to start exploiting the untapped potential for computer simulations in biology instruction. It is time to talk about putting the ethical choices involved in classroom dissection into the hands of students and their families." Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 21, 2013.
