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

Congratulations to Dr. Dawn Aycock, one of 11 nurse scientists accepted to the first class of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. The fellowship recognizes nursing scholars/innovators with high potential to accelerate leadership in nursing research, practice, education and more.

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

Professors Lauren Sudeall and Daniel Pasciuti are working with Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice and a number of other organizations to track eviction proceedings in courts across the state in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Richard Plemper, Distinguished University Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $3.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop antiviral therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections.

CEHD faculty members Brendan Calandra and Lauren Margulieux have established a new project to increase computational literacy among K-12 students in rural and low-income communities.

A study by Cathy Yang Liu highlights the increasing number of cities nationwide implementing policy providing resources to support immigrant entrepreneurs.

Studying sex differences in capuchin brains can help scientists learn about the evolution of sex differences.

These designations place Georgia State among an elite group of universities that meet the federal government’s criteria for demonstrating a commitment to cybersecurity research and training.

A report from the Fiscal Research Center provides an early estimate of the economic impact of COVID-19 across several hard-hit industries in Georgia.

Associate Professor Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad and Assistant Professor Yinying Wang are 2020 recipients of the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award.

The center’s activities will include supporting innovative scholarship, fellowships and visiting scholars, as well as convening academic gatherings and community conversations.

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

Alberto Chong co-edited the new book, Information Technologies in Latin America, with Mónica that explores Latin America’s expansion of modern technologies.

Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Wade Morris and CEHD Professor Chara Bohan analyzed history textbooks published between 1870 and 1920 and found that over time, Southern accounts of Civil War events influenced those published in Northern history books.

Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Cassandra Hinger explores social justice advocacy, or the ways psychologists can promote policies and practices that give disadvantaged groups the tools and support they need to improve their lives.

Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Meredith Wells conducted a study published in Sports Biomechanics focused on female distance runners and how running downhill affects their chances of sustaining injuries.

Part of a research team that uses mathematical models to study how the environment affects transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, Gerardo Chowell is helping to produce daily forecasts of the virus’ trajectory.

Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Meng-Wei Lin and Assistant Professor Feng Yang conducted a study to better understand gait stability for people with MS and use this knowledge to design more effective interventions for preventing falls.

Dean’s Doctoral Fellow Scott Cohen and Assistant Professors Jessica Scott and Patrick Enderle conducted a study to gauge ASL resources available for educators and how well they communicated nuanced scientific concepts.

Assistant professor K. Jurée Capers discusses how policy has built — and can dismantle — systemic racism and inequality.

Systemic changes may be needed to improve the relationship between police detectives and the families and friends of homicide victims, study finds.

Four Georgia State University faculty established an initiative to increase the number of elementary mathematics specialists in high-need urban schools.

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.

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.

Assistant Professors Natalie King and Lauren Margulieux have been chosen for the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.

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

The addition of this new technology, which is used in a handful of universities in the Southeast, will make Georgia State a hub for MRI research.

College of Education & Human Development faculty members Brian Williams, Nancy Schafer and Diane Truscott established a new project to provide access to quality science instruction at Title I elementary schools in Atlanta.

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

New research finds that a student’s access to Georgia’s public four-year universities leads to substantial economic benefits later in life.

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.

Georgia State University has joined a national partnership with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and two other universities aimed at building a pipeline of diverse candidates who can contribute to behavioral and social science research and application.

Georgia State criminologist Marie Ouellet is bringing computer scientists together with social scientists to study the online ecosystem of cybercriminals.

Foods, such as French fries, cheese, cookies, soda, and sports and energy drinks, are commonly found in the diets of United States adults with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a new study by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

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

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.

Assistant Professor Chenyi Zhang has received a $3,000 Natural Hazards Center grant to study the quality of parent-child relationships during a pandemic.

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.

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.

Research reveals that racial disparities in the U.S. prison population have declined, but blacks are still serving longer sentences than whites.

What causes the body to attack itself? Professor Leszek Ignatowicz is challenging scientists’ understanding of how these conditions take root.

In the College of Education and Human Development, associate professor Gholnecsar Muhammad has developed a better way to teach youth by giving voice to their own identities and experiences.

The Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement hosted a discussion of research showing links between homelessness & racial inequities in Atlanta.

At the School of Public Health, researchers are studying how vaping got a new generation addicted to nicotine, and what’s needed to combat the growing epidemic.

Georgia State researchers have examined how to diminish economic losses from hurricanes. One solution: More mangrove trees.

Georgia State epidemiologist Gerardo Chowell on what makes the coronavirus pandemic unique and what still needs to happen as the global outbreak unfolds.

In a new book, Georgia State anthropology professor Frank L’Engle Williams chronicles the evolution of dad.

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.

Could humility be the solution to our partisan divide? Associate professor Don Davis investigates whether it may help mitigate an antagonistic political culture.

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.

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

The Georgia Health Policy Center celebrates 25 years in 2020. Here, CEO Karen Minyard discusses the organization’s impact and shares her vision for the future.

Researchers in the School of Public Health are helping stabilize Georgia families affected by substance abuse.

Most U.S. students struggle to meet grade-level writing standards. Georgia State education researcher Cynthia Puranik is working to improve children’s performance on the page.

The faculty of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business are the most productive researchers in Georgia and fourth in the Southeast, according to 2020 rankings from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).

Georgia State Law research centers collaborate on micromobility research with a focus on the pervasiveness of e-scooters in Atlanta.

Tim Sass, economist & faculty director of the Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education, was named as a top-200 education influencer.

According to a new study increasing taxes on e-cigarettes in an attempt to cut vaping may cause people to purchase more traditional cigarettes.

Not wanting to substitute one addictive product for another was cited as a major reason why U.S. smokers who have never used electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) rejected them as a means to quit cigarettes, according to a new study by tobacco researchers.

The discovery could have wide-ranging impacts, including more effective diagnosis and precision treatment, and less risk to patients.

Dr. Tim Denning, professor and associate director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $1.67 million federal grant to study how an immunological pathway influences inflammatory signaling in the intestine that can lead to chronic human diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease.

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. 

New research from Risa Palm and Toby Bolsen finds that coastal residents’ public attitudes about climate change differ by political party.

Georgia State researchers have developed a new framework for understanding changes in the brain’s activity and connections.

In Atlanta, home of the world’s busiest airport, Georgia State professor Eric Friginal is working to improve communication and safety in global travel.

The Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) finds that conditions preventing recreational hackers from defacing websites do not deter politically motivated hackers.

A novel nanoparticle vaccine that combines two major influenza proteins is effective in providing broad, long-lasting protection against influenza virus in mice, showing promise as a universal flu vaccine, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

New research finds that ridesharing services, which keep drunk drivers off the road, are also likely to increase excessive levels of alcohol consumption.

New study finds that creative placemaking can help focus urban planning on collaborations and community needs rather than resource challenges.

Targeted immunization against bacterial flagellin, a protein that forms the appendage that enables bacterial mobility, can beneficially alter the intestinal microbiota, decreasing the bacteria’s ability to cause inflammation and thus protecting against an array of chronic inflammatory diseases, according to a new study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences and the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University.

Researchers at Georgia State’s School of Public Health will coordinate a regional partnership with universities and state agencies to help parents with addiction issues improve their lives and the lives of their children.

Michaels has been named director of Georgia State University’s Office of Technology Licensing & Commercialization, which helps university scientists bring their inventions and discoveries from the lab into the marketplace.

Georgia State researchers have found that earlier intervention may reduce the number of homeless youth at risk of human trafficking in Metro-Atlanta.

Jenny Yang is the first Georgia State researcher to receive the honor. Her work focuses on protein engineering and diagnostic imaging.

Georgia State professor Yuan Liu has developed a novel form of immunotherapy that has the potential to provide long-lasting protection against any type of cancer.

Researchers find that a well-designed game can show students how complex economic theory is applied in the field of climate change policy.

The deadly childhood disease known as rotavirus produces a staggering annual death toll, but Georgia State researchers have just discovered a way to fight it — with bacteria.

David Iwaniec of the Urban Studies Institute will lead Atlanta’s contribution in the National Science Foundation’s “Growing Convergence Research” project.

Assistant professor Claire Spears is using mindfulness to help low-income Americans kick the habit.

The ongoing global slowdown and the U.S.-China trade spat are fostering a deteriorating business investment climate, and a slowdown in job growth has made consumers wary of spending, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business.

The number of U.S. adults who perceive e-cigarettes to be at as harmful as, or more harmful than, cigarettes has increased between 2017 and 2018, even prior to the national outbreak of vaping-related lung disease and deaths, a study by tobacco researchers from Georgia State University’s School of Public Health has found.

Over the past decade, research expenditures at Georgia State have shot up by more than 153 percent.

Law professor Clark Cunningham is using linguistic analysis to shed light on the original meaning of America’s founding documents.

Georgia State University’s College of Education & Human Development is expanding its teacher residency programs to rural districts in Georgia with its new Network for Urban and Rural Teachers United for Residency Engagement (NURTURE) Project.

Faculty members Christopher Tullis, Sarah Hansen and Claire Donehower have established a new initiative to combat the shortage of educators and behavior analysts who can support young children with high-intensity needs.

Georgia State University Professor Terri Pigott will coordinate a five-day research institute designed to teach early career STEM educators important data analysis skills necessary for high-quality STEM education research.

The colleges and universities are working together on research and teaching to improve understanding of the physical, economic and social impacts of climate change in Georgia.

The findings could help scientists develop more energy-saving and environmentally sustainable production processes for industries including petroleum, plastics, paper, pharmaceuticals and brewing.

Meet the Georgia State scientists who are using big data to help transform the way we think about mental illness.

The findings by a Georgia State biologist and his research group could present new treatment strategies for viruses that can infect the central nervous system, triggering an immune response.

The gravest health threats facing developing countries are not viral outbreaks or parasites, but chronic conditions such as heart disease and cancer. Professor Collins O. Airhihenbuwa has pioneered a culturally informed approach to confront the global spread of these diseases.

Associate professor Regena Spratling is helping parents care for children with extraordinary medical needs.

Associate professor Martin Norgaard studies how jazz improvisation affects the brain.

E-cigarette taxes will increase the purchase and use of cigarettes, a study by Georgia State University economist Michael Pesko and his colleagues.

The protein-based MRI contrast dye is also effective at lower dosage than conventional dyes, reducing the risk of metal toxicity.

In his new book, law professor Timothy Lytton examines the history and complex workings of the country’s food safety system.

Professor Sang-Moo Kang may have found a way to make a safe vaccine for RSV, an infection that hospitalizes more than 50,000 infants every year.

At the Center for Research on Interpersonal Violence, Georgia State faculty are helping to stop assaults.

Across the nation, the mortality rate of women with aggressive triple-negative breast cancer is 39 percent higher for African Americans. Biology professor Ritu Aneja wants to know why.

Biomedical sciences professor Cynthia Nau Cornelissen on the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea and her work to develop the world’s first vaccine against the superbug.

A team of Georgia State economists finds that cleaning up school buses pays dividends in the classroom.

Metro Atlanta needs more science and math teachers. It also needs more diverse teachers. A new Georgia State project aims to deliver both.

A new antiviral drug that induces mutations in the genetic material of influenza virus is highly effective in treating influenza infection in animals and human airway tissue and could be a groundbreaking advance in influenza therapy, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Professor Eric Wright recently led a study of homelessness and human trafficking among metro Atlanta youth.

The study found that Atlanta’s homeless youth, especially minority and LGBTQ, are more likely to be trafficked against their will for labor than commercial sexual exploitation.

The Center for Sport and Urban Policy is honored for its work helping sports organizations become leaders in sustainability.

A new partnership is connecting Georgia State social scientists with Georgia Tech computer scientists in a unique collaboration to address historic social inequities.

“I think we’re less and less surprised when primates outsmart humans sometimes,” researcher notes.

The presence of specific microbiota, or microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, can prevent and cure rotavirus infection, which is the leading cause of severe, life-threatening diarrhea in children worldwide, according to a new study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Political science researchers found that the impact of emotions was stronger for women viewers of the first presidential election debate of 2016 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton than it was for men.

The stress of racism can influence both mental and physical health symptoms at an early age in life, according to a new Georgia State psychology study.

Understanding the relationship between growth, aging infrastructure and vulnerable watersheds is critical for urban planners.

Research from Ross Rubenstein and his colleagues found that programs providing tuition guarantees can increase student enrollment rates and retention.

Research by Stefano Carattini finds that when people take action on climate change, their friends and neighbors are likely to as well.

Creating mutations in a key Ebola virus protein that helps the deadly virus escape from the body’s defenses can make the virus unable to produce sickness and activate protective immunity in the infected host, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Professor Vince Calhoun and associate professor Jean Liu will use advanced machine learning to identify and separate subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.

College of Law professor, Erin Fuse Brown, received a grant to study policy and regulation of air ambulance bills in order to protect consumers.

Psychology researchers at Georgia State University are using large-scale imaging analysis to study how symptoms associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression relate to changes in the brain.

Harnessing the energy-burning potential of white fat could lead to new therapies in the fight against obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a study by Georgia State University researchers.

Georgia State University’s College of Education & Human Development, Clayton County Public Schools and Curriculum Associates will work together on a new $1.2 million grant program to support Clayton County middle school teachers implementing the county’s math curriculum in their classrooms.

Trade tensions, a reduction in business investment and an earlier than usual presidential election swoon are contributing to a lowered growth path for 2020-21, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.

Professor Vince Calhoun is using data to transform the way we think about mental illness.

Jean-Paul Addie co-founded the Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms, to bring together experts concerned with urban infrastructure.

A unique formulation of multiple amino acids inhibits the replication of Zika virus by up to 90 percent in human and non-human primate cells, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

A new will allow the Georgia Policy Labs to examine how access to and enrollment in four-year universities impact students’ financial well-being.

A study by the Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education shows that chronically absent students return to school when parents receive personalized messages.

Targeting specific areas of the measles virus polymerase, a protein complex that copies the viral genome, can effectively fight the measles virus and be used as an approach to developing new antiviral drugs to treat the serious infectious disease, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University published in PLoS Pathogens.

CEHD professor Joe Magliano and assistant professor Kathryn McCarthy are co-principal investigators in a research project that will analyze students’ reading comprehension through a two-year, $599,973 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

College of Education & Human Development professor David Houchins has received a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Center for Special Education Research to study a blended learning literacy program in juvenile justice schools.

Blocking the ability of the bacterial pathogen that causes gonorrhea to uptake the mineral zinc can stop infection by this widespread sexually transmitted infection, according to a study by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

A new study lead supports findings that passage of e-cigarette regulation specifying a minimal legal sale age may increase cigarette use by teen smokers.

Women of color and young women may face elevated risks of developing triple-negative breast cancers, a type of cancer that spreads more quickly than most other types and doesn’t respond well to hormone or targeted therapies, a study published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, shows.

The shape and connectivity of brain networks — discrete areas of the brain that work together to perform complex cognitive tasks — can change in fundamental and recurring ways over time, according to a study led by Georgia State.

The Georgia Health Policy Center received a $925,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundationto advance local wellness funds.

Influenza remains a major public health risk, and Dr. Baozhong Wang, associate professor in Georgia State University’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences, has received a five-year, $3.26 million federal grant to combat this threat by developing a universal vaccine that offers more protection against influenza than seasonal vaccines.

Small molecules found in fecal matter could provide clues to the early inflammation found in chronic gut conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and serve as new biomarkers for diagnosis, according to a study led by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

The research will focus on the evolution and spread of the growing movement referred to as Incel.

Arnold Ventures has awarded Georgia State University a $1 million grant to launch the Georgia Child and Family Policy Lab within the Andrew Young School.

Women who had radiation to treat childhood brain tumors struggle more with basic life skills, according to a study by Georgia State University researchers.

James Marton and his team received a grant to evaluate the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on food security for the elderly.

Psychology professor Vince Calhoun and his team plan to develop novel algorithms to study individuals with mood and psychosis disorders.

A unique adjuvant, a substance that enhances the body’s immune response to toxins and foreign matter, can prevent vaccine-enhanced respiratory disease, a sickness that has posed a major hurdle in vaccine development for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), according to a study led by the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Researchers in Georgia State University’s School of Public Health have been awarded a five-year, $3.15 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute to further develop and evaluate a text messaging program to help people quit smoking.

Georgia State joins the CDC’s Prevention Research Center network with a new Clarkston-based office focused on migrant health.

In his new book, “Grey Area,” Scott Jacques examines Amsterdam’s “coffeeshops”, marijuana, and drug policy with an eye for its usefulness elsewhere.

The Green Sports Alliance named the College of Education & Human Development’s Center for Sport and Urban Policy one of its 2019 Environmental Innovators of the Year, a designation given to both individuals and organizations for their tremendous work in the sports greening movement.

The technology was developed by Yi Jiang, professor of mathematics and statistics, and is based on a machine-learning algorithm that interprets data from ultrasound scans.

The U.S. economy is transitioning to a new growth path and production-level shocks in the system can derail its momentum, according to Rajeev Dhawan of Robinson’s Economic Forecasting Center.

Associate Professors Nadia Behizadeh and Stephanie Cross and CEHD doctoral student Clarice Thomas recently published a case study about critical friendship groups in the Journal of Teacher Education.

The research provides new insights into how genetic mutations lead to three inherited genetic diseases, potentially stimulating discovery of new treatments.

Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development associate professor Cynthia Puranik has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to study a writing intervention program.

The Urban Studies Institute was awarded $250,000 to study mobility challenges limiting low-income patients in accessing healthcare and related resources.

The computer program can help identify patients who are more likely to have a genetic disease that can lead to heart attack or stroke.

Better community education and communication are critical for increasing levels of blood donation among minorities, according to a study by researchers at Georgia State University and Georgia Southern University.

The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) has named the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (GA-DFCS), Georgia State University and the University of Georgia one of eight national NCWWI Agency-University Partnership Workforce Excellence sites.

Dr. Cynthia Nau Cornelissen, a leading researcher in the study of infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), has been named director of the Center for Translational Immunology in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development faculty members Christine Thomas and Natalie King have received a six-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address the shortage of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in urban schools, especially Black and Latinx men.

Geosciences professor and outgoing provost Risa Palm investigates how to reach those who oppose action on global warming.

The timing of a hurricane is one of the primary factors influencing its impact on the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases such as West Nile Virus, dengue, chikungunya and Zika, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Georgia State physicist Mark Stockman is developing new technology to make computers run faster — a lot faster.

What does a good life look like for people with dementia? Gerontology professor Candace Kemp is working to find out.

Professor Patrick Freer is working to help choral teachers guide boys through the voice change.

Research finds there may be short-lived fallout in the number of applications submitted for universities indicted in the college admissions scandal.

Female presidents have less power to shape policy and are held to higher standards in key policy areas than male presidents, according to a new study led by a Georgia State political science researcher.

In Costa Rica, Georgia State scientists and students are studying how continental crust is formed.

Your body is much more than just flesh and bones. It’s a complex ecosystem teeming with trillions of microorganisms, which — as Georgia State scientists are finding — may be the key to understanding and treating all kinds of disease.

Two Georgia State economists have found a small change could go a long way toward addressing the student loan crisis.

Wildfires have changed. Georgia State computer scientist Xiaolin Hu is working to change how we combat them.

Social work professor Elizabeth Beck has long grappled with the question: how can we solve America’s homelessness problem? In a new book, she looks to the past for answers.

Georgia State researchers worked hand-in-hand with residents of Atlanta’s Westside to map environmental health threats in the Proctor Creek Watershed.

Asia Johnson, an ultramarathon runner and second year Ph.D. student at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, is racing toward her mission to improve human health.

What if you could turn back the clock on your circulatory system? A Georgia State professor may have found a way.

Georgia State neuroscientist and physical therapist Andrew Butler discusses how he is mobilizing the healing power of brain plasticity.

As cyber threats ramp up at home and around the world, Georgia State researchers are working to uncover how online criminals operate — and how to keep people, businesses and governments safe.

The Georgia Health Policy Center will lead a national initiative to share guidance about ways to coordinate health care, public health and social services.

Georgia State geoscientists dig up a connection between climate change and evolution.

Psychologists at Georgia State University have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Alzheimer’s disease across ethinic groups.

An increasing number of American adults believe e-cigarettes are as or more harmful to health than cigarettes, according to a study by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Georgia State University a five-year, $3.75 million grant to establish a Prevention Research Center that will focus on the health and health disparities of refugees and migrants.

At Lake Magadi in Kenya, Georgia State geoscientists drilled through 200 meters of sediment and rock to discover a connection between climate change and human evolution.

Georgia State University has selected three new research clusters as part of the fourth round of its ambitious Next Generation Program, dedicated to boosting the university’s reputation for pioneering, interdisciplinary research and scholarship.

With flu vaccines often unreliable and many antiviral drugs no longer effective, a Georgia State professor has developed a new way to fight the ever-evolving, omnipresent threat of the flu — by tricking it.

Exposure to microbiota, or microorganisms such as bacteria, in the early stages of life plays a crucial role in establishing optimal conditions in the intestine that inhibit the development of colon cancer in adulthood, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Youth living in the slums of Uganda who are infected with both HIV and sexually transmitted infections are more likely to engage in problem drinking, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Dr. Richard Plemper, a professor in Georgia State University’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences (IBMS), has received a five-year, $5 million federal grant to develop an antiviral drug to treat influenza virus infections.

New research conducted by the Evidence Based Cybersecurity Research Group reveals a thriving marketplace for certificates used to reveal machine identities.

James A. Weyhenmeyer, vice president for research and economic development at Georgia State University since 2011, will join Auburn University as vice president for research on April 1.

Recent research by Georgia State University economist Carlianne Patrick found that properties rose 13-14 percent in value after being designated as part of historic districts.

Dr. Rafaela G. Feresin, assistant professor of nutrition at Georgia State University, has received a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in the U.S. Department of Agriculture to examine how berries improve cardiovascular function and gut health.

The faculty of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business are among the most productive researchers in the world, according to 2019 rankings from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).

Young adults who were raised by parents who were supportive of them expressing emotions tend to be more emotionally healthy and report lower levels of depression and anxiety, according to a study led by a Georgia State psychology researcher.

The 35-day partial government shutdown was likely economically insignificant except for those who suffered delayed paychecks, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business.

Georgia State University is one of 15 universities selected to participate in a national three-year program to increase the diversity of its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty through improved recruitment, hiring and retention practices.

Dr. Baozhong Wang, associate professor in Georgia State University’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences, has received a five-year, $3.86 million federal grant to develop a universal flu vaccine using a microneedle patch that will protect against any strain of the influenza virus.

New HIV infections in the United States could be substantially reduced by up to 67 percent by 2030 if ambitious goals for HIV care and treatment are met and targeted prevention interventions for people at risk for HIV are rapidly scaled up, according to a study by Georgia State University and the University at Albany-SUNY.

Terror attacks carried out by Muslims receive on average 357 percent more media coverage than those committed by other groups, researchers have found.

Dr. Jun Zou, a research assistant professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $552,000 grant to study how dietary fiber can protect against diabetes and other disorders associated with metabolic syndrome.

Exposure to political rap music can affect listeners’ attitudes about women and black feminism, a new study by a Georgia State University political scientist has found.

Females find same-sex social interactions to be more rewarding than males, and females are more sensitive to the rewarding actions of oxytocin (OT) than males, according to a research study led by Georgia State University on the brain mechanisms that determine the rewarding properties of social interactions.

A Georgia State computer science researcher and his collaborators have been awarded a $1.2 million federal grant to develop the use of drones in wildfire management.

Brain cells involved in memory play an important role after a meal in reducing future eating behavior, a finding that could be key in understanding and fighting obesity, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Food additives known as dietary emulsifiers, commonly found in processed foods to improve texture and extend shelf life, may adversely affect anxiety-related and social behaviors in mice, Georgia State researchers have found.

There is a consistently high level of public support across nations for a global carbon tax if the tax policy is carefully designed, according to a recent survey led by a Georgia State Economist.

A pioneering new instrument that can produce the sharpest images of young stars is now available for use by scientists worldwide.

Ivaylo Ivanov, associate professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, will be among the first scientists to perform research using Summit, the world’s most powerful scientific supercomputer, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Skin vaccination using a microneedle patch that contains the inactivated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and a compound that stimulates immune responses to the virus has been found to enhance protection against this serious disease and reduce inflammation in the body after exposure to the virus, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

The high-density minerals in the Georgia kaolin mines are potential sources of rare-earth elements, including the heavy rare-earth elements that are in high demand for many important uses and are mostly imported to the United States from China, according to a study led by Georgia State University and Thiele Kaolin Co.

Several new connections have been discovered between the proteins of the Ebola virus and human host cells, a finding that provides insight on ways to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from reproducing and could lead to novel ways to fight these lethal viral infections, according to a study led by Georgia State University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Gladstone Institutes.

Studying oxytocin may help scientists understand the biological mechanism underpinning the tendency to live in groups and foster cooperation in social animals, including humans.

Proda BioTech, a pharmaceutical research company founded by Zhi-Ren Liu, a biology professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a two-year, $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop an effective therapy for pancreatic cancer.

Georgia State University’s total research expenditures exceeded $200 million for the first time in fiscal year 2017, the National Science Foundation reports in the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey.

Early detection of the most common form of epilepsy in children is possible through “deep learning,” a new machine learning tool that teaches computers to learn by example, according to a new study that includes researchers from Georgia State University.

The study will focus on how to help assisted-living residents with dementia remain as fully engaged in life as they can be, for as long as they can be.

Dr. Gangli Wang, professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $485,263 federal grant to study how nanostructured materials, or materials with hollow structures on the nanometer scale, affect how other substances pass through them.

Dr. Benoit Chassaing is embarking upon a new field of research to understand how the gut and brain communicate.

The force of the South Asian Monsoon – a weather pattern that affects the lives of several billion people – is more sensitive to warming in the southern hemisphere than scientists previously thought, according to a new study by an international team of climate researchers.

The wide-ranging study found that the most common forms of discrimination for LGBTQ people in the South were being subject to slurs and jokes, rejection by friends and family and places of worship, and poor service at places of business.

Dr. Marise Parent, professor and associate director of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $1.2 million federal grant to study how brain areas involved in memory control eating behavior.

Georgia State is leading the way in training teachers for dual-language classrooms.

The Aneja Lab is studying cell division to identify new biomarkers for cancer.

How do cells repair damaged DNA? A Georgia State chemist finds it’s as simple as pinch, push, pull.

With Black Girls WRITE, assistant professor Gholnecsar Muhammad recreates a 19th-century literary tradition for modern-day students.

The Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR) at Georgia State University has received a $640,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to promote career readiness through language study and the development of global skills vital to academic and career preparation for students.

The university’s Neuroscience Institute celebrates a decade of discovery.

In physical, biological and technological systems, the time that a system’s components take to influence each other can affect the transition to synchronization, an important finding that improves understanding of how these systems function, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Respiratory syncytial virus sends thousands to the hospital every year and can be fatal for the very young and old — but there is no treatment. Professor Richard Plemper is working to change that.

Denish Shah, director of the Social Media Intelligence Lab, talks about how social media insights are changing the way companies — even cities — operate.

Leaking from a faulty furnace or fireplace, carbon monoxide gas can kill. But scientists are finding that — given in small, targeted doses — it also has the power to treat illnesses ranging from cancer to sickle cell disease to traumatic brain injury. How one Georgia State professor is working to unleash the molecule’s healing benefits.

In a new book, law professor Eric Segall examines the contentious doctrine of “originalism” — the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution that claims to follow the document’s original meaning — and how it’s evolved from judicial theory to political weapon.

Rent-to-own financing practices have long preyed on minority homebuyers. And according to professor Dan Immergluck, they’re making a comeback in African-American neighborhoods.

How the big data revolution has changed the way Georgia State scientists make discoveries about weather, faraway planets and the history of the universe.

Georgia State scientists have identified a chemical compound that may work against the lethal Ebola virus.

In two new studies, Georgia State researchers upend traditional thinking on e-cigarettes.

Adding highly refined fiber to processed foods could have negative effects on human health, such as promoting liver cancer, according to a new study by researchers at Georgia State University and the University of Toledo.

Samples of ancient sediments from a lake basin in East Africa have revealed that arid conditions developed in the area around half a million years ago, an environmental change that could have played a major role in human evolution and influenced advances in stone technology, according to an international research team that includes geologists from Georgia State University.

Cesarean-born mice show altered patterns of cell death across the brain, exhibiting greater nerve cell death than vaginally delivered mice in at least one brain area, a finding by Georgia State University researchers that suggests birth mode may have acute effects on human neurodevelopment that may lead to long-lasting changes in the brain and behavior.

Assistant professor Laura Shannonhouse will be the principal investigator on a two-year, $699,362 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct research on preventing suicide and promoting life with older adults.

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) possess optical properties that could be used to make computers run a million times faster and store information a million times more energy-efficiently, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Georgia State University has signed a licensing agreement with DaZen Theranostics Inc., a Delaware-based start-up company, to develop a product that can target cancer cells, function as a contrast agent to improve the visibility of cancer cells during diagnostic imaging and deliver a therapeutic drug to destroy cancerous cells.

Vince Calhoun, one of the world’s foremost experts in brain imaging and analysis, has been named the founding director of the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) at Georgia State University.

Commitment to democratic values is the strongest predictor of climate change concern globally, Georgia State University faculty have found in a new study comparing climate change attitudes across 36 countries, including the U.S.

Sociologist David Maimon’s earliest research examined the effects neighborhoods have in determining why some people in neighborhoods engage in crime and deviant behaviors. In 2010, he turned his focus to cybercrime and the unique online ecosystem in which cybercriminals thrive.

Researchers have identified how a viral protein, which plays a major role in causing deadly Nipah and Hendra virus infections, targets a critical function in human cells to suppress immune responses and promote fatal disease.

White men earn significantly more than blacks, Latinos and Latinas and white women in all areas of state government, according to Georgia State University faculty members Greg Lewis and Jonathan Boyd with alum Rahul Pathak (Ph.D. ’17) of Baruch College.

A molecule produced during fasting or calorie restriction has anti-aging effects on the vascular system, which could reduce the occurrence and severity of human diseases related to blood vessels, such as cardiovascular disease, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

Dr. Ming-Hui Zou, director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $2.4 million federal grant to study cardiovascular complications in diabetes.

Participation in extracurricular activities improves educational outcomes among older youth transitioning out of the foster care system, research conducted by Georgia State University professor of social work Lionel Scott and his colleagues has found.

Charter schools led by for-profit and nonprofit management organizations have more turnover and attrition than other charter schools, according to new research by Christine Roch of Georgia State University and Na Sai of Bridgewater (Mass.) State University.

Georgia State University has received a five-year, $2.2 million grant to develop combination therapies for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and related respiratory viruses.

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.

The critical, structural changes that enveloped viruses, such as HIV, Ebola and influenza, undergo before invading host cells have been revealed by scientists using nano-infrared spectroscopic imaging, according to a study led by Georgia State University and the University of Georgia.

Autoimmunity plays a role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study led by Georgia State University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center that analyzed human genome information stored in Vanderbilt’s DNA biobank.

Georgia State University has received two four-year grants totaling almost $3 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to research the epigenetic mechanisms that may fuel obesity.

College students who receive dean’s list recognition and those put on academic probation both improve their academic performance in subsequent semesters, according to a working paper by Georgia State University economist Nicholas Wright.

Smokers who never plan to quit are less likely than other smokers to agree that cigarettes cause lung cancer, heart disease and other serious health problems, according to a study by a group of tobacco researchers at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

A new, double-layered nanoparticle vaccine made with peptides has been found to effectively protect mice against influenza A virus, according to a study led by Georgia State University.

A Georgia State University nurse researcher receives a $423,314, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research (NIH, NINR) grant to develop Web-based intervention for the caregivers of medically fragile children who are dependent on medical technology.

A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of all maps in stellar astronomy, a finding that provides new information about the interior structures of low mass stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to a study led by astronomers at Georgia State University.

A gene from the deadly Ebola virus that allows the virus to escape from the human immune system has been identified in the genome of a group of bats that is found worldwide, including North America. The gene appears to have been stolen from the virus by the bats and adapted to regulate their own immune response, according to a recent study led by Georgia State University.

Exposure to traumatized client populations can have an indirect negative influence on the physical health of clinical social workers through secondary traumatic stress, Georgia State Distinguished University Professor Brian Bride revealed in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Advac, LLC, a vaccine research company founded by Sang-Moo Kang, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received $225,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a safer, more effective vaccine for human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Users of tobacco products are less likely than the public to agree that nicotine exposure is dangerous for children, according to a study by a group of tobacco researchers at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director of the university’s Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Microbial Pathogenesis, has received a two-year, $419,100 federal grant to study a virus similar to Ebola virus that causes disease in animals but not in humans.

Georgia State University has received $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to lead a four-year research initiative that will evaluate the effects of early attempts to regulate electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes).

An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that may predict the five-year survival rate of patients suffering from this cancer, now at 16 percent, researchers at Georgia State University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have concluded.

Users of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the United States are no more likely to quit smoking cigarettes than people who don’t use such devices, according to a study by a group of tobacco researchers at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

Chimpanzee personality traits are correlated with the size of the brain’s hippocampus, according to research led by Georgia State University. The study has implications for understanding the foundation of human personality structure, which is known to be similar to that of chimpanzees and also known to underlie mental illness.

Humor allows drug dealers to cope with threats posed by police, informants and other dangers of the field, according to research by Georgia State University Regents Professor Richard Wright and Timothy Dickinson of the University of Texas at El Paso.

ATLANTA—Low-income individuals tend to be more supportive of strong leadership and more suspicious of democracy than the rich, according to research by Georgia State University professor of economics Alberto Chong.

As natural disasters unfold at an ever more rapid clip, professor Ann-Margaret Esnard is researching how cities can prepare better and bounce back faster.

The Phoenix Project, more than 100,000 artifacts collected by a team of Georgia State archaeologists in the late 1970s, tells Atlanta’s story through unearthed historical objects.

Georgia State’s World Heritage Initiative is working to create global recognition for significant sites associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

Individuals with schizophrenia, on average, have a thinner cerebral cortex, the largest part of the brain that controls higher intellectual functions and motor activity, compared to healthy people, according to an international study co-led by Georgia State University and the University of California, Irvine.

Reports that use of electronic cigarettes is declining may not have accounted for explosive growth in sales of the JUUL device, a novel product that has benefited from social media marketing campaigns to reach young consumers, according to a study led by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

An important breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms in the brain that control cognitive flexibility has been made by an international team of scientists.

The process a key enzyme uses to recognize and repair genetic damage in mammals has been described by researchers at Georgia State University.

Regents’ Professor Binghe Wang is developing drugs that take advantage of the healing properties of carbon monoxide, a gas that is typically misunderstood. He’s studying how the gas can be used as a therapeutic agent to treat diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and cancers.

Stock market portfolios containing high-risk stocks generate about the same return as portfolios containing low-risk stocks in the long run, according to researchers at the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Attending a Georgia start-up charter high school increases the likelihood of graduation, and those students are more likely to enroll and persist in college, according to a new study by Georgia State University’s Center for State and Local Finance.

The Cox Lab is illuminating how neurons process sensory information by studying fruit flies.

With CREATE, assistant professor Stephanie Behm Cross is changing the way Georgia State prepares and supports new teachers.

Inspired by nature, associate professor Gary Hastings works to build a better solar cell.