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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 Georgia State professor.

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.

Researchers in Georgia State University’s School of Public Health and Emory University’s School of Medicine will help nursing homes implement practices to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

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 developing 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.

Suburbia has very much become the dominant face of metropolitan areas, according to geographer Jan Nijman, director of the Urban Studies Institute.

Can in-home piano therapy help homebound stroke survivors achieve better motor skills outcomes? Georgia State University researchers, Yi-An Chen of occupational therapy in the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions and Martin Norgaard of the School of Music, found in preliminary results that piano therapy was enjoyable and effective.

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

How rural health organizations are adapting their program strategies.

The team will develop an open-source deep learning framework to integrate machine learning into neuroimaging research and clinical applications.

The Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) received nearly $300,000 for a mentorship program teaching students advanced research skills.

University faculty set an institutional record, earning $150.2 million in research funding in fiscal year 2020.

In a recently-published collection of papers, Associate Professor Michelle Zoss and other educators explain how incorporating the arts in their English language arts classrooms can help high school students better connect with the material they’re learning.

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

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

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

An interdisciplinary team of business and legal researchers at Georgia State University is working to build a more open justice system with easily accessible public data.

Dr. Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $2.94 million federal grant to study unique features of Ebola and Marburg viruses that control how the virus family expresses its genes and escapes immune responses.

A new antiviral drug that is effective against a broad range of human pathogens in the paramyxovirus family, such as the human parainfluenzaviruses and measles virus, has been discovered by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

The program is designed to educate incoming freshmen and others on how to prevent and intervene against sexual assault.

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.