As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, scientists around the world and at Georgia State are working tirelessly to outsmart new variants and plan for the next virus with pandemic potential.

The pandemic has produced a mental health crisis with effects that may reverberate for years — even decades — to come. At Georgia State, researchers are working to gain insights into the emotional toll and identify how people are finding hope even as the threats persist.

The research revealed a positive and significant association between COVID traumatic stress and PTSD symptoms, suggesting that the pandemic is a unique traumatic stressor.

The results highlight the potential for the virus to replicate and mutate in rodents, which often live in close proximity to humans.

In a study published online on Dec. 2 in Science, researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University report a new candidate that has potent antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 when administered orally once-daily.

The novel algorithm can help scientists explore how a virus is evolving in real time and inform decision-making by government leaders.

To better reach outpatients early after a COVID-19, infection, Gilead Sciences Inc. has partnered with researchers in Georgia State University’s Center for Translational Antiviral Research to test a modified version of remdesivir that can be taken orally.

New Georgia State University nursing graduate Kanika Coburn had reasons to be anxious about finishing her nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, thanks to the private 4 South Scholarship, money for school wasn’t a concern. The scholarship, established by an anonymous Georgia State alumna, led Coburn to her dream job as a nurse in the high-risk perinatal unit of Northside Hospital-Atlanta.

Fifty fully vaccinated members of the Georgia State community recently won $1,000 in the university’s first vaccine raffle, a thank you to faculty, staff and students for getting vaccinated.

Georgia State University was highlighted in a press briefing Oct. 6 by the White House COVID-19 response team, which recognized the university’s contribution to groundbreaking research that led to the development of molnupiravir.

A new antiviral drug tested in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State against influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 has been recommended for emergency use authorization to treat COVID-19 in the United States by pharmaceutical companies that completed a Phase 3 clinical trial and achieved promising results.

Few previous studies have examined functional abnormalities in the brain, which might reveal the physiological processes that underlie prolonged mental health symptoms in COVID-19 survivors.

The study found that the pandemic resulted in a six-to-eightfold increase in rates of intimate partner aggression across the U.S.

Professor Christopher Basler has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health to study two coronaviruses that cause human disease: Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2.

Onika Anglin (B.A. '12) draws from her background as an anthropology and philosophy major in her public health work.

An analysis conducted by the Metro-Atlanta Policy Lab for Education has found substantial impacts on student achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain.

Amid soaring gun sales and the pandemic, researchers at Georgia State are uncovering new solutions to protect young people from accidental shootings and suicides.

Viruses have an amazing capacity to mutate. But what if we could turn that against them? Richard Plemper, professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, is working to exploit this rapid evolution.

Gerardo Chowell, a professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Georgia State, reflects on his work, what experts have learned about COVID-19 in the past year and what to expect for the future.

New research finds that rural communities across the nation are undertaking innovative strategies to address challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Mass vaccination efforts against COVID-19 allow Georgia State nursing students to be part of health care history and get much-needed vaccines into the arms of the most vulnerable members of society.

The university earned the honor from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for its virtual student support services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New research found that Americans are more likely to get the COVID-19 vaccines when its safety and efficiency is emphasized.

New study finds that COVID-19 testing and vaccination policies focusing on “hot spot” neighborhoods will better serve the virus’s hardest-hit populations.

The study has implications for understanding the wide range in symptoms and severity of illness among humans with COVID-19.

Early in the U.S. coronavirus pandemic, unemployment claims were largely driven by state shutdown orders and not by the virus, according to new research.

Georgia State’s respiratory therapy program earned the 2021-22 American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Apex Recognition Award, given to departments that demonstrate high-quality care. This is the second time the department has received this award.

Assistant professor of education Jennifer Darling-Aduana on how online learning can become part of a quality, equitable education system.

Tammy Hughes (B.S.W. ‘16, M.S.W. ‘17) delivers COVID-19 test results and other services to individuals experiencing homelessness throughout downtown Atlanta.

A new study finds the holistic measure of social connection is the best way to assess how older adults are faring during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study finds that concentrated centralized national leadership is the most effective way countries are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beginning January 2021, Georgia State will offer a new streamlined L.P.N. to B.S. degree program, leveraging the nursing programs in Perimeter College and the Atlanta Campus. This new program is a unique solution to the nursing shortage for one Atlanta area healthcare organization.

Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University have discovered.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, associate professor Holley Wilkin discusses the importance of effective public health messaging and why it’s been largely ineffective at flattening the curve.

The NIH has awarded an interdisciplinary public health team a grant through its RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program to study COVID-19 research participation in Black communities in Atlanta.

Professors Courtney Anderson and Lauren Sudeall along with law student Lisa Hwang (J.D. ’21) discussed the importance of secure housing to public health in the midst of a global pandemic.

COVID-19 has heightened housing insecurity in the U.S. Here, Georgia State faculty share eight research-backed ways to help keep Americans off the streets.

Georgia State faculty have come together to study how the pandemic is affecting refugees in Clarkston — and help address the community’s unique needs.

Researchers are developing the Belonging and Empathy, With Intentional Targeted Helping (BE WITH) project, which is designed to reduce social isolation, loneliness and elevated suicide risk in racially diverse older adults, the demographic hardest hit by COVID-19.

As Black communities are being devastated by COVID-19, Georgia State researchers are working to illuminate the ways systemic racism drives health disparities, harming and even killing African Americans.

The Prevention Research Center at Georgia State has teamed up with the city of Clarkston, Ga., to distribute multilanguage lawn signs on COVID-19 protections in high-pedestrian areas to help curb the spread of the disease.

New research finds that exposure to conspiracy theories suggesting COVID-19 was human-engineered can have a powerful impact on a person’s beliefs.

Using an innovative strategy he developed against influenza, professor Baozhong Wang is working on a universal vaccine to protect against all coronaviruses.

There are common vulnerabilities among three lethal coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, such as frequently hijacked cellular pathways, that could lead to promising targets for broad coronavirus inhibition, according to a study by an international research team that includes scientists from the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

A national organization is offering free coronavirus tests to the public on Georgia State University’s Clarkston Campus Oct. 8-10.

Professor Beth Cianfrone and Associate Professor Tim Kellison published an article in the International Journal of Sport Communication about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four tournament cancellation and how the related community events had to adapt during a sudden public health crisis.

Contemporaneous exposure to air pollution may increase the likelihood people will die from the disease.

Organizational psychologist and Georgia State associate professor Songqi Liu discusses how workers and organizations can adapt to the “new normal.”  

For more than 25 years, Georgia State University’s Project Healthy Grandparents has assisted grandparents who are raising grandchildren in parent-absent homes through home visitation services. But since the COVID-19 virus outbreak began, the PHG nurses and social workers found inventive new ways to support the families in a virtual environment.

Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a $100,000 COVID-19 Fast Grant to study enzymes that are critical for the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The students collected masks, financial donations and food, and developed and distributed health and safety fliers to support efforts to help residents in Atlanta's westside.

A Georgia State University researcher is documenting the experiences of long-haulers, people who remain sick long after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

How rural health organizations are adapting their program strategies.

Anna Foote (B.I.S. '83) helps clients learn financial survival skills and get access to financial resources that are often lacking in communities of color.

The technology is anticipated to provide several benefits, including fast turnaround time and greatly decreased false negative outcomes.

Arts & Sciences alumnus Rodney James Nash, a molecular geneticist and biochemist, is looking for a solution to allow faster, cheaper testing.

Associate professor Tomeka Davis discusses how COVID-19 is compounding disparities in education.

Three Georgia regions experienced double-digit declines in sales tax distributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fiscal Research Center.

While the COVID-19 pandemic required many aspects of life to be shut down or put on hold, the Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Legal Services Clinic has learned how to transform to continue representing its clients.

A year-long study funded will allow researchers to examine threats related to the sale of critical COVID-19 supplies via darknet markets.

Interdisciplinary researchers studying micromobility, including electric scooters and bicycles, were forced to develop new techniques in light of COVID-19.

Ackeem Evans (B.A. ’15) is the Georgia team leader for World Central Kitchen, which has been helping feed thousands in Atlanta, Athens and Augusta during the pandemic.

Georgia State University and Augusta University will provide grants totaling nearly $200,000 to support four research collaborations among faculty from both institutions.

Perimeter College student Tiffany Watts-Ferguson spends her workdays calling those who have taken a COVID-19 test to tell them the results.

With his food distribution business facing the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, René Diaz (B.B.A. '87) still finds ways to serve customers and those in need.

With a lengthy resume that includes service in local and federal law enforcement, three terms in the Georgia House of Representatives, and service as a Marine officer and a judge, J. Alexander Atwood (B.S. '76) is leading a state agency with a crucial role in Georgia’s COVID-19 response.

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 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.

Psychology researchers at Georgia State University found that attitude translated into taking fewer precautions against infection.

Georgia State experts offer strategies to help families stay healthy and connected through the summer months.

A new Georgia State University study finds that paid sick leave mandates like those in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act may be helping to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Georgia State researchers are operating what will be one of the largest coronavirus testing operations in the state.

How does the Panther’s Pantry meet the needs of more than 845 food-insecure Georgia State students during the COVID-19 pandemic campus closure? By compiling contact information on clients and sharing information on available area food banks.

Economic forecaster and professor Rajeev Dhawan discusses the lasting impact that COVID-19 could have on the economy.

Ebonee Gresham juggles two jobs – incident commander for COVID-19 testing and Health Department clinical nurse coordinator – while raising a family of 10 children and pursuing an intense doctorate degree.

Courtney Anderson, associate professor in the College of Law, studies the intersection of health equity and the law.

Georgia State researchers have measured antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, in self-collected blood samples from Metro Atlanta residents.

Workers in the U.S. moved to unemployment by the COVID-19 pandemic may find themselves displaced by automation according to research by GSU economists.

Caleb DeLong, a Georgia State University alumnus who will graduate from Georgia State's Perimeter College in May with his nursing degree, has seen the COVID-19 pandemic up close while working in a Rockdale County hospital emergency room.

Georgia State University assistant professor Laura Shannonhouse has research-based COVID-19 guidelines for caregivers, volunteers and individuals who are supporting the older adult populations in their areas.

Georgia State University talked to experts on its campuses for firsthand knowledge of what ventilators do and how respiratory therapists use them to care for patients.

As students finishing the semester face new challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia State is uniquely positioned to ensure they succeed.

Jeff Ashby, professor and co-director of the college's Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma and Resilience, has eight tips for people managing stress in the face of shelter-in-place orders and social distancing.

Georgia State scientists are joining the race to unravel how the new coronavirus operates — and find effective treatments.

The researchers tested the drug as part of a project to screen FDA-approved medications for their potential use against SARS-CoV-2.

The team’s analysis allows them to determine where the virus has peaked, is peaking or is yet to peak.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, teachers — and parents — have converted their computers and homes into classrooms. College of Education & Human Development assistant professor Chad Killian shares tips to connect with remote instruction.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences is combining their expertise to develop therapeutics and vaccines to fight COVID-19.

Researchers at Georgia State University have released a trove of data from the social media site Twitter to help represent the spread and impacts of the global coronavirus outbreak.

Students already in tenuous circumstances may find themselves under even more financial strain in the coming weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Georgia State’s Emergency Assistance Fund was created to help relieve some of that strain.

Georgia State’s respiratory therapists (RTs) combat COVID-19 at its worst. Part of a healthcare specialty which focuses solely on the lungs and heart, RTs provide bedside treatment for patients using a mechanical ventilator.

Dr. Gerardo Chowell, a mathematical epidemiologist in the School of Public Health, is producing daily 10-day forecasts of the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in China.