While an undergrad studying political science at Cairo University, Mahmoud Elsayed explored how to pursue his deep interest in improving education and labor outcomes throughout the developing world. His passion eventually brought him to Georgia State University for his advanced degrees and will lead him to the World Bank as a Young Professional this fall.
The School of Public Health at Georgia State University celebrated its largest class of Master of Public Health and Ph.D. students, as well its first-ever class of graduating bachelor's degree students, during its convocation ceremony on May 10, 2018.
The largest class in the history of the DeKalb Early College Academy (DECA) graduates during the Georgia State University Perimeter College commencement Friday.
Tirzah Brown was 11 and living in Ft. Myers, Florida, when a trip to Romania with her father brought her face-to-face with the horrors of sex trafficking. “My dad had been invited by an organization to counsel individuals with trauma issues. I was tagging along and volunteered with a drop-in center that helped street children,” she said. “I met a girl there my age who had been forced into prostitution. It shook me up a lot, meeting a child with such a different life.”
Meklit Gebru, a junior studying international economics and Spanish at Georgia State University, is one of over 1,201 American undergraduate students from 363 colleges and universities across the U.S. selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study or intern abroad during the Summer 2018 Application cycle.
Paola Montalvo Ayala believes if you are passionate about what you are doing, you will want to keep learning about it forever. She credits her mother with instilling this love for ongoing education in her during middle and high school, when they would spend evenings together studying – Montalvo for her classes, and her mother for various certificates in her career field, human resources.
Jasmin Ngene, B.S. in Public Policy ‘18, has a schedule that is so full she barely has time to start the countdown to graduation. While she is excited about getting her degree, she is already looking forward to post-graduation plans that will begin almost immediately.
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