A professor of epidemiology, Monica Swahn was closely monitoring the unfolding pandemic when her father fell ill with COVID-19. Here, she remembers him and discusses his death against the backdrop of various global responses to the crisis.
A graduate student and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellow at the CDC, Eileen McGowan (M.P.A. ’21) is helping coordinate staff responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With her sophomore season scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic, outfielder Gabby Benson was looking for a way to make a difference by giving food to the needy. When head coach Roger Kincaid heard what she was doing, he found a way to help her efforts.
Dr. Heval Kelli (B.S. '08) and his family sought refuge in the U.S. after fleeing Syria in 2001. Now a cardiologist, he’s stepping up to help during the COVID-19 pandemic in the community that took them in.
A nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital, Lauren Skinner is also pitching in to help keep her co-workers safe in the time of coronavirus. She's taken to designing and sewing N95 mask covers and leading a Facebook group to show others how to do it, too.
A professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Georgia State, Chris Basler is studying how the novel coronavirus interacts with the cell it infects.
Detailed methods on how to perform research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, including procedures that effectively inactivate the virus to enable safe study of infected cells have been identified by virologists in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.
Kwaneya Black is keeping her commitment to help Floating Doctors provide healthcare to people in remote communities in coastal Panama.
Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $1.95 million federal grant to study what causes autoimmunity in the human body.
Psychology researchers at Georgia State University found that attitude translated into taking fewer precautions against infection.
