Georgia State's Internal Dissertation Grants Support Early Career Researchers

ATLANTA - Georgia State is pleased to announce the most recent recipients of the university's internal grant awards for dissertations. These awards are given jointly once a year by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development with the goal of investing in full-time doctoral students and helping them meet the costs associated with completing their dissertations.

Congratulations to the following awardees:

• Rebecca Ban, Kinesiology & Health, College of Education and Human Development, for Treadmill Training with Concurrently Controlled Speed and Cadence in Parkinson's Disease
• Kevin Giang Barrera, Marketing, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, for Managing crowding in hedonic service settings: Evidence from a longitudinal field study
• Alexis Branch, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, for Zur-dependent regulation of znuCBA during metal limitation in Neisseria
• Erica Cross, Neuroscience, College of Arts and Sciences, for Mesolimbic Dopamine Coding of Social Valence and Salience
• Laiyang Ke, Public Management & Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, for Three Essays on Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance
• Fallon Konow, Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, for A New Instrument for Synoptic Space Weather Observations
• Michelle Marcus, School of Public Health, for Community-Academic Partnership Approaches in Atlanta
• Deepa Muralidhar, Computer Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, for Operationalizing Transparency in AI Systems
• Ebru Pinar, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, for Multi-modal communication in early parent-child interactions: Effect of sex, play partner, and play context on speech and gesture production
• Rachelle Udell, Applied Linguistics & ESL, College of Arts and Sciences, for Needs Analysis of English Language Use in an Aviation Maintenance Training Program:  A focused ethnographic case study
• George Usmanov, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, for Social Support and Mental Health: The Role of Social Media
• Peter Wysocki, Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, for Using Spectra and Interferometric Observables to Discover the Fine Structure of Disks and the Nature of their Asymmetries

In addition to these awards, applicants for the internal dissertation grant may also apply for a Suttles Fellowship, an award given in memory of President Emeritus William M. Suttles, who served Georgia State for over 40 years. This year’s Suttles Fellowship winner is Rachelle Udell.

We wish these individuals – and all of the outstanding doctoral students at Georgia State – much success as they pursue new knowledge and make an impact in our community and beyond.

For more information about Georgia State University research and its impact, visit research.gsu.edu. For more information about the Graduate School, visit graduate.gsu.edu.