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Using a new grant, environmental health researchers at Georgia State are examining the effects of air pollution in metro Atlanta childcare centers.

Using a new grant, environmental health researchers at Georgia State are examining the effects of air pollution in metro Atlanta childcare centers.

Georgia State researchers are teaming up with industry in new ways to help bring their innovative breakthroughs to the marketplace.

Georgia State researchers dispel some common myths about aphasia after a high-profile diagnosis for actor Bruce Willis put the language disorder in the spotlight. 

The newly designed artificial vision device could have far-reaching applications for the fields of medicine, artificial intelligence, and microrobotics.

Distinguished University Professor Dr. Alessandra Raengo of the School of Film, Media & Theatre is the recipient of the prestigious 2022-23 Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Georgia State University Library has received a CLIR grant to digitize audio holdings of the historical voices of labor rights movements in the South.

State and local governments struggling to address the nation’s trillion-dollar deficit in infrastructure financing will find help in a new book co-authored by Georgia State University scholar Can Chen.

Graduate students across disciplines took top prizes Wednesday in the final round of Georgia State’s 2022 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, where they were charged with explaining their research in language appropriate for a non-specialist audience in three minutes or less.

Drugs for inflammatory bowel disease are ineffective and have serious side effects. Professor Didier Merlin is developing a better treatment approach using nanotechnology.

Professor Gary Bingham co-authored an article in American Educator that details specific practices that early childhood educators can incorporate into their teaching to support literacy development for children ages 3-5.

Joyce King, the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Society of Professors of Education’s William H. Watkins Award.

Research involving a Georgia State University course using a chatbot to keep students connected showed improved grades and retention rates. 

A new study led by public health researchers at Georgia State has found that mental health status significantly affects whether adolescents who use e-cigarettes will begin using cannabis.

Kolawole Arowoogun is helping the agency analyze satellite data that track land use and document changes due to climate change, urbanization, drought and wildfires.

Professor Javier Stern and colleagues recently uncovered surprising new information about how salt intake affects the brain — findings that could have major implications for how we think about cardiometabolic health.

A new report ranking economics departments for their published research ranks Georgia State University’s among the top 50 in the world and best in Georgia.

Two biomedical science innovations from Georgia State University have been chosen to compete in STAT Madness 2022, a contest to select the top innovation or discovery in biomedical science from last year.

A new book by associate professor Vonetta Dotson explains how to help keep your brain in fighting shape throughout your life.

In their new book, “Housing Market Response to Sea Level Rise in Florida,” professors Risa Palm and Toby Bolsen examine whether projections on flooding in South Florida — made public via flood maps — result in greater market awareness and responses to this environmental risk.

Charleese Williams wants to be a role model for other minority youth interested in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Georgia State researchers say the study is the first to explore whether other species experience pressure to perform.

Professor and legal historian Paul Lombardo on the continued legal and ethical significance of the American eugenics movement.

The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) at Georgia State University has received a $524,300 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a three and a half-year project that will establish an intersectional studies collective with a focus on the American South.

An influenza vaccine constructed with nanoparticles that enhance immune response offers strong protection against different influenza virus strains, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

The initiative aims to foster an innovative research ecosystem at the university and leverage the strengths of the Georgia State research community to address complex problems.

Researchers found the secret seems to lie in the merging of medium-mass stars.

Assistant Professors Lauren Margulieux and Ben Shapiro and their colleagues have proposed a new teaching theory called “multiple conceptions theory,” which they presented at the 17th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on International Computing Education Research.

Shorter winter seasons, less snowfall and melting ice caused by climate change will have major implications for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the future of winter sports, as outlined in a new report co-authored by Georgia State University associate professor Tim Kellison.

Earned Income Tax Credit Day and a new report from Georgia State University build awareness and offer action steps to increase the use of EITCs.

The grant will fund a project that aims to address the growing need for a highly skilled national cybersecurity workforce.

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.

A first-of-its-kind study led by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies found significant variability in state- and nationwide policies on end-of-life decision making in U.S. prisons.

Over the past decade, Georgia State’s research expenditures have increased 150 percent, making the university one of the nation’s fastest-growing research institutions.

A new course offered in the Biomedical Enterprise master’s program in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences teaches students about scientific commercialization.

The working paper found that state-level legalization of abortion produced a 30 to 40 percent decline in non-white maternal mortality, with little impact on overall or white maternal mortality.

Dr. Didier Merlin, a Distinguished University Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University and a Senior Research Career Scientist at VA Medical Center, is available to discuss his research on developing new drug delivery platforms to treat intestinal bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer using nanotechnology approaches.

Georgia State University economist Tim Sass has been ranked among the nation’s top education scholars, according to the 2022 “Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings” released today by Education Week blogger Frederick M. Hess, the American Enterprise Institute’s director of education policy studies.

Years of collaboration and hard work lay the groundwork for the university’s transformation into a leading research institution. Here, a look back at a few of the defining moments in Georgia State’s research history.

Increased collaboration among Atlanta’s universities and hospitals, Eds and Meds, will make a larger contribution to the economy than its Fortune 500 headquarters.

Veda C. Storey, Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems, has received a 2021 INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to the Information Systems (IS) Discipline.

The College of Education & Human Development’s Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence received a $361,000 AmeriCorps VISTA grant to launch a street outreach program for homeless and runaway LGBTQ+ youth in downtown Atlanta.

The new insights will help engineers and bridge designers build safer structures.

The project seeks to “reveal Black women’s important contributions to religious thought and activism,” said Monique Moultrie, associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State.

Professor and economic forecaster Rajeev Dhawan on inflation, supply chain issues and what the future holds.

A medicinal chemist, Wang is focused on tackling pressing health issues, including cancer, inflammation, antibiotic resistance and rare diseases.

The pandemic has had a massive impact on violent crime. Here, three Georgia State criminology experts weigh in on why it’s happening — and what we can learn.

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 Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development will be the first be the first umbrella organization to house GA-AIMH.

In Georgia State’s Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, faculty are researching the most effective channels for upward economic mobility in Atlanta and across the globe.

Assistant Professor Chavez Phelps co-authored a new book entitled, “Building Great Mental Health Professional-Teacher Teams,” which details how educators and school mental health professionals can work together as a team to better support students.

Joyce King’s newest book, “We Be Lovin’ Black Children: Learning to Be Literate About the African Diaspora,” shares what she and other researchers have learned about preparing teachers for diverse classrooms and celebrating African Diaspora literacy and heritage knowledge.

New clinical research indicates that a widely used food additive, carboxymethylcellulose, alters the intestinal environment of healthy persons, perturbing levels of beneficial bacteria and nutrients. These findings, published in Gastroenterology, demonstrate the need for further study of the long-term impacts of this food additive on health.

Dr. Lanying Du, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has been ranked in the top 0.1 percent of scientists in the world for having multiple highly cited papers based on field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index.

A new national center based at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health offers hope for victims of child trafficking.

New research led by associate professor Lucy Popova examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected tobacco use in America.

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

Professor Gary Bingham and colleagues from Michigan State University and Texas A&M University have received a four-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to support preschool-aged children’s early writing development.

Law professor Erin Fuse Brown studies the many ways in which Americans are ill-served by the nation’s healthcare system. But change could be on the horizon.

The analysis contradicts the conventional wisdom on the assumed benefits of collegiate conference switches, such as increases in athletic revenue, improved athletic performance, and enhanced university branding.

The first-of-its-kind study reveals new information about the relationship between neuron activity and blood flow deep in the brain, as well as how the brain is affected by salt consumption.

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies will receive a grant from New America to fund the work of its Data Science for Public Service Consortium.

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.

The new technique could have applications such as better monitoring of space junk that can pose a threat to U.S. satellites and keeping an eye on foreign satellites.

Georgia State University has received a transformational $5 million gift from Snap Inc. to support the preparation of educators to integrate computer science across the curriculum and continue to diversify the computer science education field.

Astronomer and Perimeter College assistant professor Jay Dunn helps his students achieve career liftoff by drawing them into research.

Associate Professor Feng Yang co-authored a study to determine whether vibration training – an intervention used to improve physical function for people with MS – could also improve cognitive function and overall quality of life.

A new research center led by Richard Plemper in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences will develop critical antiviral drugs to meet the challenge of existing and newly evolving threats, such as coronaviruses.

Professor Christopher Basler has spent his career stalking Ebola, and recently he hit upon a surprising discovery that could suggest new ways to treat the deadly infection.

Georgia State University’s Prevention Research Center is partnering with the City of Clarkston and others to provide access to preventive care with the Health for All campaign.

New research shows how environmental policy could affect employment and whether measures intended to reduce climate change cause job losses.

Three Georgia State University faculty members have received $1 million grants from two philanthropic foundations to better collect and disseminate educational assessment data.

Caroline Williams earned her Ph.D. in Translational Biomedical Sciences by embarking upon studies of two newly emerging viruses, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and Mengla virus, a newly identified filovirus.

Assistant Professor Renata Love Jones is one of two researchers nationwide chosen for the 2021 Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Literacy Research Association’s Reading Hall of Fame.

New research finds that adopting advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation can produce mixed or negative effects on worker well-being.

The training will emphasize new trauma-informed approaches and reducing the use of antipsychotic drugs to manage residents’ symptoms.

A new cancer treatment co-developed by associate professor Maged Henary is one of the first Georgia State-based technologies to enter clinical trials.

Associate Professor Jerry Wu has received a two-year, $429,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study motor, cognitive and language development in infants with Down syndrome, a genetic condition that causes physical and cognitive developmental delays.

The study, led by Regents’ Professor of Chemistry Jenny Yang, could aid in better understanding of the molecular basis of human diseases.

Risk of racialized fatal encounters with law enforcement impacts a broader profile of racial, ethnic and gender subgroups according to new research.

The study analyzes brain connectivity during real-time production of creative output and provides new insight into jazz musicians at work.

Professor Beth Cianfrone co-edited a book that highlights how universities and their athletic departments can collectively create nationally-recognized brands.

Associate Professor Yinying Wang created a workbook that leaders in education and other fields can use to identify and understand biases that affect their work.

Distinguished University Professor Deron Boyles wrote a book that delves into key themes of John Dewey’s philosophy and how those can be applied to both educational policy and teaching practices.

Assistant professor Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz uses documentary filmmaking to complicate the narratives we have around immigration.

Using the grant, Georgia State will establish the Center for Dynamic Multiscale and Multimodal Brain Mapping Over the Lifespan (D-MAP).

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.

Associate professor of physical therapy Yuping Chen is using virtual reality to improve the lives of kids with cerebral palsy.

College of Education & Human Development Assistant Professor Erin Mason was awarded a $2,259 research grant from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision to study how affinity groups – groups of people who come together around a shared interest – may make anti-racism training more effective.

The grant supports a mental health awareness training program to increase community capacity to identify mental health concerns in children ages 12 to 18 and improve their access to needed supports and services.

The intervention targets binge drinking and sexual assault among college students and is tailored by gender and sexual orientation.

Drs. Adrienne Lester King and Laura Salazar were awarded Responsible Innovation research grants to study the impact of augmented reality, virtual reality, and smart device technology.

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.

The grant funds the project “Innovative Mentoring Plus Academic Success Coaching Transforms Success” (IMPACTS), which targets African American males enrolled in introductory mathematics courses.

Khadijah Ameen, Tyler McCoy Gay and Keiwana Glover were recently named participants in the prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars program, which equips doctoral students with the skills to influence public policy and create a culture of health.

The NCSVP was established after a second year of federal funding from the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

A new study conducted by Georgia State University researchers examining the risks of adolescent suicide by guns found that the teens did not display typical suicidal behaviors. These findings increase the need for strong gun safety measures in homes where teenagers live.

Martin Padgett’s book explores Atlanta’s role as the mecca for the gay rights movement in the South during the 1970s.

Georgia State University Professor Cynthia Puranik and Distinguished University Professor Daphne Greenberg have received a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to support teachers and students in adult secondary education.

Associate Professor David Johnson co-authored a book on atheist scientists’ religious views, and how leaders in science and religion can discuss the connections between their two fields.

Launched in 2016, the Center created a space within the University to focus on how lower-income and other marginalized people navigate the civil and criminal legal systems in the South.

The award from SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative will establish the National Center on Child Trafficking (NCCT) in the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development at Georgia State.

Iris Feinberg, research assistant professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and associate director of the College of Education & Human Development’s Adult Literacy Research Center, published an article in Perspectives in Adult Education on building a culture of health literacy in the midst of a global pandemic.

Treatments for pediatric cancer can leave kids devastated for years. Georgia State University professor Tricia King is working to change that.

Associate Professor Thomas Crisp co-edited a new book that will serve as a resource for scholars of children’s literature, librarians, media specialists, teachers and teacher educators who are interested in incorporating authentic nonfiction literature into their work.

College of Education & Human Development doctoral students Glenda Chisholm, Caleb Collier, Claudia Hagan, Laura Peña-Telfer and Ethan Trinh have been chosen for the Center for Equity and Justice in Teacher Education’s inaugural research initiation grant program.

Assistant Professor Jessica Scott co-authored a book offering research and guidelines for faculty in university-level deaf education programs, examining teacher preparation for the deaf community at a time when more researchers are studying how various communication approaches impact students’ language and literacy learning.

Vice president Tim Denning discusses the state of research at the university and the challenges — and opportunities — ahead.

Michal Kuczma, a research assistant professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, has received a Career Development Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation to study environmental influences on gut microbiota, immunity and inflammation.

Jennifer Esposito, chair of the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, co-authored a new book to help students understand how to incorporate intersectionality into qualitative research.

The impact of COVID-19’s delta variant will delay but not diminish growth prospects, and a current surge in inflation will recede in 2022, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

A National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests the Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 may not benefit public health, particularly in young e-cigarette users.

College of Education & Human Development Associate Professor Andy Roach and Emily Graybill, director of Georgia State University’s Center for Leadership in Disability, are co-principal investigators on a new five-year, $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to study a professional development program for special education teachers.

Faces that are judged as being stereotypically Black are also more likely to be judged as dominant and threatening, according to a new study by Georgia State.

College of Education & Human Development Assistant Professor Min Kyu Kim and College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor Daniel Takabi received a three-year, $399,681 grant from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary project on artificial intelligence and privacy.

The researchers will develop new methods of capturing dynamic connectivity in the brain and use them to identify biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.

New research from the Georgia Policy Labs finds that students spend less than half their normal classroom time on virtual learning during the pandemic.

The Center for Leadership in Disability (CLD) in Georgia State University’s Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development will lead a Disability and Health State Program.

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.

As millions of kids head back to the classroom, Erin Mason, assistant professor of school counseling, discusses how schools can support mental and emotional well-being.

With a fully vaccinated rate of nearly 42%, Clarkston is outpacing neighboring communities that are similarly stressed, with low household income, low literacy and language ability, high density housing, and limited transportation.

A new book advances understanding of how people and organizations across health systems and social services can work together in new and sustainable ways.

Gerontology researcher Antonius Skipper hopes that better understanding successful married Black couples can help their younger counterparts in their quest for happy and lasting relationships.

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

Chemical Insights nonprofit and the School of Public Health have launched a research initiative on the harmful effects of vaping and e-cigarettes.

The award will support interdisciplinary research to build causal learning models that can produce a blueprint of how brain regions interact.

GSU professor Dan Immergluck co-edited a special journal publication on the consequences of eviction and how housing policy can impact individuals.

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.

Developed by Georgia State’s School of Public Health and Adult Literacy Research Center at the College of Education & Human Development, the toolkit contains videos and brochures on diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and healthy eating published in 13 languages.

Courtney Anderson’s research centers around health equity for the lower-class and people of color, an area where many health issues were exacerbated because of the pandemic.

The Center for Translational Antiviral Research has been established in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University to fill the gap for developing affordable, much-needed antiviral drugs that will reduce severe viral diseases and meet the threats imposed by existing and newly evolving viruses.

Scientists in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences have shed light on how cells can slow replication of the Ebola virus, preventing infection. “We hope these findings will enable us to develop new ways to prevent or treat Ebola.”

Georgia State will be responsible for the learning analytics portion of the project, a collaborative effort by Georgia universities and other partners.

Georgia State University faculty have earned $142 million in research funding in fiscal year 2021, the third highest total in university history.

Compounds targeting two key enzymes are potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study led by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State.

New research finds that video footage captured by police-worn body cameras is closing racial gaps in police misconduct investigations.

For the past five years, Regents’ Professor Binghe Wang and his collaborators have worked to design a safe way to deliver CO to human patients.

The award honors the achievements of distinguished investigators in the field of behavioral neuroendocrinology. 

Education professor Chara Bohan on how the Lost Cause narrative came to dominate U.S. history books — and the lingering effects of our miseducation.

Sudeall came to the College of Law in 2012 and is the founding faculty director of the Center for Access to Justice, where she conducts research on access to justice issues and teaches an Access to Justice course.

The Federal Reserve and the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group are forming a three-year partnership to address online financial fraud.

Dr. Christina H. Fuller, an environmental health scientist, was selected by the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency to serve as a charter member on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.

Dr. Matthew Hayat was selected for his transdisciplinary biostatistics research, collaborative efforts in the dissemination and application of statistical methods in the health sciences, and scientific leadership and mentorship in the field of statistics education.

The research team aims to identify behaviors and solutions to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence in the city’s African American and refugee, immigrant and migrant (RIM) community.

A new study aims to demonstrate the resilience of LGBTQ+ individuals during the coronavirus pandemic through a combination of diary entries and surveys.

In a new book, Georgia State University professor Stephanie Y. Evans uncovers the history and importance of self-care in Black women’s lives.

Dr. Sang-Moo Kang, professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $2.7 million federal grant to study seasonal and universal vaccination in elderly populations with pre-existing immunity to influenza viruses.

Georgia State University faculty members Tonia Durden and Stacey French-Lee have received a two-year, $800,000 grant from the Early Educator Investment Collaborative to expand and diversify Georgia’s early childhood education workforce.

Two rising seniors in the Honors College have been named Georgia State University’s inaugural Beckman Scholars.

The therapy is effective at treating a broad spectrum of cancers, including those at advanced stages, according to a groundbreaking study led by biology professor Yuan Liu.

The disruptions caused by the pandemic have exposed pre-existing gaps in access, equity and quality of education in the region.

Absentee property ownership in college football towns has a negative impact on those communities, according to a study by Georgia State University.

A new study finds that health care providers who include the community voice in collaborative activities will improve health equity for their constituents.

Georgia State’s School of Public Health has been awarded a $75,000 grant from Facebook Reality Labs, to create a narrative film that will be an immersive and interactive online platform for combatting racial injustice.

Consistent messages about the safety and need for COVID-19 vaccines are key to overcoming young people’s reluctance to get inoculated, researchers at Georgia State and New York universities say.

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

The Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group will use a $1.4 million federal Minerva Research Initiative grant to examine conspiracy theories.

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

Harcourt Fuller, an associate professor of History, will use the funding to support expansion of the Black Money Exhibit, which uses paper money as a lens to examine 10,000 years of Black history and culture across the globe.

Twins lag behind single children in producing and using gestures which are a precursor to the development of speech, according to two studies by Georgia State University psychology researchers.

Georgia State researchers on the factors driving polarization and extremism in America — and what it would take to set the country on a different course.

An influenza vaccine that is made of nanoparticles and administered through the nose enhances the body’s immune response to influenza virus infection and offers broad protection against different viral strains, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

In a new book, English professor Randy Malamud explores the history and cultural significance of fresh-cut flowers.

Georgia State’s CREATE program aims to build better, more equitable schools by giving teachers the tools they need.

ARCTIC is aimed at investigators not traditionally served by high-performance computing, such as psychologists or public policy researchers.

Associate Professor Laura Shannonhouse conducted a study about the links among undergraduate students’ individual experiences with trauma, their lifetime suicide risk and their reporting of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Over the next 10 years, the new Institute will help college and universities nationwide graduate an additional half-million students with a focus on better supporting students from low-income and underserved backgrounds.

Processed diets, which are low in fiber, may initially reduce the incidence of foodborne infectious diseases such as E. coli infections, but might also increase the incidence of diseases characterized by low-grade chronic infection and inflammation such as diabetes, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences.

The 15th annual Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference highlighted 150 student research and creative projects in 35 academic disciplines.

Dr. Jian-Dong Li, professor and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $2.3 million federal grant to study how overactive inflammatory response is caused in infectious diseases and to further develop novel anti-inflammatory therapeutics.

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

Using big data analysis, associate professor Charlotte Alexander is decoding #MeToo defenses.

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.

A new Georgia State lab is focused on how e-scooters and other forms of micromobility are remaking the landscape for commuters in Atlanta and beyond.

Nutrition and physical therapy graduate students took the top placement in the sixth annual Lewis College Graduate Research Conference. More than 58 students submitted individual and group research projects and gave presentations via a virtual platform.

The Georgia Policy Labs received a grant to investigate how credentials factor into the placement of early care and education professionals in Georgia.

A new Georgia State project aims to understand why some Black Atlantans are hesitant to participate in COVID-19 research.

Georgia State s Libraries have received a $350,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to digitize and provide access to AFL-CIO Civil Rights Southeast Division and national-level records from the AFL, CIO and AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department.

The project could provide new mechanisms for understanding well-known sex differences in the incidence of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The Technical College System of Georgia has entered a strategic research-practice partnership with the Georgia Policy Labs’ Child & Family Policy lab.

The researchers will use the approaches they develop to identify new clues about how mental illness presents in the brain.

Assistant Professor Natalie R. Davis and colleagues from Northwestern University analyzed three years’ worth of data from an after-school program to better understand how and when students demonstrated moments of self-determination.

Researchers will deploy a network of sensors to gather data that could help builders know how to reduce the risk of radon before construction starts.

Graduate students across disciplines took top prizes in the final round of the 2021 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

New research shows allowing physicians to offer apologies to patients and their families following errors helps prevent future malpractice lawsuits.

The study offers initial findings as part of a five-year project being led by the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University.

Ph.D. student Joon Suh Choi and professor Scott Crossley were among 18 international teams recognized for innovations in helping K-12 students make up for lost learning due to the pandemic.

Renowned investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of practice Douglas Blackmon leads Georgia State students to examine some of American history’s most difficult chapters and bring to life the stories of the people who suffered through them.

School-based mental health programs have a positive impact on overall school climate, including decreases in discipline incidents, according to a new study.

Dr. Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year federal grant just over $2 million to study how inflammation and altered gut microbiota, the microorganisms living in the intestine, influence the development of a group of diseases referred to as metabolic syndrome.

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.

Sociology professor Deirdre Oakley on how women’s status in the state has evolved over the past 50 years.

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

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Georgia State University’s School of Public Health a $3.5 million grant to help eliminate child secondhand smoke exposure and reduce cancer disparities.

To gain a better understanding of expert-recommended science trade books and how they may support science learning, a team of College of Education & Human Development faculty and students studied 400 books from the National Science Teachers Association’s 2010-2017 book lists.

With vaccine rollout underway and picking up steam concurrent to emerging virus variants, Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business said recovery remains “an economic tango led by the virus. Reaching a sustained recovery by early 2022 is contingent on the speed and efficacy of vaccinations by mid-2021.”

A scientist at heart, Nitheyaa Shree is a campus standout. The senior neuroscience major is a Presidential Scholar, Barry Goldwater Scholar and Georgia State’s very first Marshall Scholar.

When older adults are viewed as cognitively or physically impaired, they perform below their abilities on tasks, according to research from a Georgia State professor of psychology and gerontology.

COVID-19 has sparked a surge in cyber threats. Here, cybersecurity expert and associate professor David Maimon discusses how the crisis has been a gift to online criminals.

The drug targets a cell surface receptor that is expressed on cancer-associated fibroblasts, cells that generate collagen and other fibrous molecules and can be mobilized into service by a tumor.

Faculty in the College of Education & Human Development’s Adult Literacy Research Center received a $15,000 grant from the Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative to adapt a trauma intervention program for culturally- and linguistically-diverse communities.

CEHD Associate Professor Stephanie Cross received a $2.5 million grant renewal and a $10.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to redesign and expand a teacher residency program.

CEHD Associate Professor Chenyi Zhang received a $50,000 grant from the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy to incorporate trauma-informed practices into early childhood literacy instruction.

Assistant Professor Ben Shapiro is part of an interdisciplinary team that received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant to create a new type of training model for universities to employ and help people in underserved communities pursue careers in data science.

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

CEHD Associate Professor Tim Kellison published a new article on the trend of elected officials approving public funding for professional sports stadiums and its implications for voters, political leaders and sports teams.

Terrorism scholar and Distinguished University Professor John Horgan on the threat of growing political extremism in the U.S. 

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.

Compared to standard machine learning models, deep learning models are largely superior at discerning patterns and discriminative features in brain imaging.

As the Senate runoff election draws national attention, Georgia State researchers have identified trends in how media coverage impacts the success or failure of a candidate’s campaign.

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

Studying this phenomenon in animals can teach us about how their minds — and ours — work, the researchers said.

Professor Michael Landau previously would have suggested people limiting their online presence if they don’t want to be tracked. Because the pandemic now requires most people to login to different websites for work or school, that’s not possible.

An interdisciplinary team from the Andrew Young School received a grant to conduct an evaluation of the Second Chance Act prisoner reentry grant program.

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.

The College of Education & Human Development’s Urban Child Study Center has been awarded a five-year, $750,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Education to study the state of Georgia’s implementation of a federally-funded literacy initiative.

The research team reports this is the first study that has examined neural activity in the brain in response to cross-linguistic differences related to motion.

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

The Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) at Georgia State University has partnered with software developer Reallusion to establish real-time animation and motion-capture lab software for students and studios.

Georgia State University assistant professors Claire Donehower and Sarah Hansen have received a five-year, $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support social-communication learning for elementary-aged students with intellectual disabilities.

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.

Assistant Professor Jonte Myers was chosen for the American Educational Research Association’s Fellowship Program on the Study of Deeper Learning.

Assistant Professor Min Kyu Kim and Department of Learning Sciences alumnus Tuba Ketenci developed and tested a learner profiling model to better understand students’ interactions in online discussion settings.

Jennifer Esposito, chair of the College of Education & Human Development’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, is working with Tisha Lewis Ellison from the University of Georgia to better understand what training and support teachers received when they had to shift to online teaching due to the COVID-19 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.

Immigrant entrepreneurship has emerged as an important urban phenomenon in cities around the world according to Cathy Yang Liu’s new book.

A pair of Georgia State researchers shares lessons about communicating the growing threat of climate change.

With the Black Money Exhibit, associate professor Harcourt Fuller explores Black history through the lens of legal tender.

Moderately increasing prescription drug prices did not affect the hospitalization risk of Medicare recipients with heart failure also enrolled in Medicare Part D pharmacy plans, according to researchers at Georgia State University.

Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy will take part in collecting and analyzing data from a recent survey of hundreds of thousands of low-mass stars.

Georgia State University’s Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group will examine the supply chain supporting underground markets in a new project designed to disrupt such operations.

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.

Assistant professor Richard Milligan was part of a team that recently helped develop a new vision for the Chattahoochee River.

Faculty have received $3 million to further develop a tool that will allow researchers to participate in brain imaging analysis without sharing protected patient data.

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.

Georgia State computer scientist Juan Banda is tapping into Twitter data to learn more about people’s experiences during the pandemic.

The College of Law Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth received a grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation to research legal issues related to right-of-way land acquisition for highway projects crossing navigable waterways.

Sean Richey, associate professor of political science, on vote-by-mail and the importance of trust in government.

Georgia State University’s School of Public Health has received federal funding to help build a workforce of trained professionals to implement sexual assault prevention practices and activities in the military.

Researchers from around the world built models that could assist with predicting the course of disorders like schizophrenia and depression.

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

The world is increasingly filled with discarded plastic, and recycling alone won’t cut it. At Georgia State, biology professor Eric Gilbert is using tiny microbes to make a big dent in our plastic problem.

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.

Imaging using the agent could help researchers diagnose liver disease earlier and identify disease regression during treatment.

Georgia State researchers say this will be the first systematic study of whether beaver ponds may be just as beneficial as man-made retention ponds in urban areas.

In an article published in Teaching and Supervision in Counseling, Professor Catharina Chang and doctoral student Ashlei Rabess consider whether the counseling profession as a whole has a signature pedagogy for multicultural and social justice knowledge.

Dr. Timothy Denning, associate director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has been named the university’s vice president for research and economic development.

The Urban Studies Institute recently launched the Micro-mobility Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub examining micro-scale transportation policy.

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

After narrowly surviving a massive wildfire, the CHARA Array will soon be an even more powerful instrument for observing the stars.

Professors Charlotte Alexander and Anne Tucker received funding from the NSF for their research into the use of computational methods and data science to improve legal transparency.

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.

A combination of two substances secreted by the immune system can cure and prevent rotavirus infection, as well as potentially treat other viral infections that target epithelial cells.

Assistant Professor Lisa Domke is one of two researchers nationwide chosen for the 2020 Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Literacy Research Association’s Reading Hall of Fame.

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

The team aims to use fMRI data to help psychiatrists predict response to medication, helping get patients on the right prescription sooner.

Associate Professor Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad and CEHD alum Sherell McArthur (Ph.D. ’14) co-authored a study highlighting the history of Black female writers and investigating how Black women today use their voices to make sense of the difficulties they face.

The University Council for Educational Administration has selected Georgia State University as the next host of its Center for the Study of Leadership in Urban Schools, one of eight UCEA centers nationwide.

The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora, the Georgia State University Library and the AJC Decatur Book Festival have teamed up for the series.

CEHD Professors Jeff Ashby and Ken Rice were part of an international team who conducted a study focused on COVID-19 traumatic stress, which is unique compared to other traumatic stresses.

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Stevens has received two grants to support her research on mathematics vocabulary instruction and word-problem solving.

Georgia State Law faculty members have responded to the pandemic’s legal issues through policy development, research and advocacy.

Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State, will study how changes in the microorganisms in the gut, referred to as intestinal microbiota, cause the immune system to decline as organisms get older.

In a report recently published by the National Education Policy Center, Associate Professor Kristen Buras outlines how Black communities in New Orleans were disproportionately impacted by Hurricane Katrina and how those same issues are playing out nationally during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Assistant Professor Jennifer Darling-Aduana co-authored a book entitled, “Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K-12 Education,” which outlines recent research findings and offers digital learning strategies and practices that schools can consider.

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

Twenty Georgia State University and Georgia Tech faculty and graduate students, were named Public Interest Technology – University Network Fellows.

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.

The Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) opened in 2009 as a joint venture between Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Working with a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, professor Cynthia Puranik and colleagues are developing a writing-focused intervention program for students who have language-based learning disabilities.

An international team of experts, including researchers from Georgia State, have revealed that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disk, leaving it warped and with tilted rings.

The CHARA Array, the largest optical interferometer in the world, provides a detailed, high-resolution view of the stars.

A new study finds that eliminating disparities in SAT retakes could close up to 10 percent of income-based gaps and up to 7 percent of race-based gaps in college enrollment.

Armin Mikler is founding director of the Center for Computational Epidemiology and Response Analysis (CeCERA), which he is relocating to Georgia State.

The collaborative partnership seeks to raise the profile of Atlanta region as a hub for global education and research.

Master’s and doctoral students took top prizes in the finals of the 2020 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, where they were challenged to explain their research and scholarship to a general audience in a short time.

Assistant Professor Naomi Jessup encourages teachers to facilitate more conversations among students about how to solve mathematical problems and how that knowledge can be applied to students’ lives outside of the classroom.

Ann-Margaret Esnard is collaborating on two National Science Foundation funded research projects on the intersections of pandemics and natural hazards

The team is working to harness deep learning and artificial intelligence to learn more about how mental illness and other disorders affect the brain.

Clinical professor Brian Williams, also known as “Dr. Science,” on his work to ensure all students can see themselves in science.

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.

Sudeep Lama, a master’s degree student in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, spent his summer working with an international medical device company to market a new diagnostic tool that will soon be available to help epilepsy patients.