ATLANTA—Eighteen Georgia police chiefs, sheriffs, and public safety commissioners and officials—along with a senior corporate security manager—spent an intensive two weeks of public safety leadership training with Israel’s top policing executives in June.
When civil unrest in Nicaragua interrupted a fourth planned Doctor of Physical Therapy study abroad trip, students and faculty traveled to the north coast of the Dominican Republic (D.R.) instead. Comunidad Connect, an in-country partner from Nicaragua, made the last-minute switch possible. Settled in the new country, PT students absorbed the unique tropical setting, working with patients and staff in a rural nursing home.
Ten students in Georgia State University's Perimeter Academy were named State Farm Scholars and will receive scholarships and leadership training.
Hospital staff and physicians who are willing to explain, apologize for and resolve adverse medical events significantly reduce legal defense and liability costs, according to a study led by Dr. Florence R. LeCraw, an Atlanta anesthesiologist and adjunct professor at Georgia State University.
Veronica Macias (J.D. ’21) sorted through books with a group of incoming first-year Georgia State Law students while volunteering at Books for Africa. During their community service project, the students reminisced about the books they read as children.
ATLANTA—A three-year multi-state research project evaluating the effectiveness of career and technical education (CTE) policies will enter its second year poised to pursue key research questions. Georgia State University’s CTEx laboratory is a consortium of researchers and state and local partners working to inform the future of career and technical education policy with advanced research. Celeste Carruthers of the University of Tennessee and Shaun Dougherty of Vanderbilt University are research partners with Georgia State economist and CTEx founding director Dan Kreisman. It is housed in the new Georgia Policy Labs at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Kenneth Heaghney, the state of Georgia’s fiscal economist, has been named the new director of Georgia State University’s Fiscal Research Center (FRC). Heaghney succeeds Sally Wallace, who had served in the position since 2011. She became dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in April.
ATLANTA–Georgia Policy Labs has completed its first year of operations with new partners, staff and projects funded by a nearly $3.9 million start-up grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The new research unit is a collaboration among the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, various government agencies and school districts. Through this partnership, they aim to promote evidence-based policy development and analyze existing policies.
Despelado Alexandre, is a freshman, first-generation college student and a Georgia State football player.
Susannah Darrow (M.A. ’13), a lecturer in the College of the Arts, is teaching for the first time at Georgia State.
