Violent Crime is Rising. What Can Cities Do?
Violent Crime is Rising. What Can Cities Do?
The pandemic has had a massive impact on violent crime. Here, three Georgia State criminology experts weigh in on why it’s happening — and what we can learn.


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

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

The program addresses the workforce needs of the growing film industry in Georgia.

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

Nearly three dozen Georgia State students have been working this semester on a 12-episode TV series filmed at the famous southwest Atlanta studio once owned by Tyler Perry.

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

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

Susan Caolo (M.A. ’15) blends her skills in applied anthropology and her passion for documenting stories in her work on the Veterans History Project for the Library of Congress.

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

Longtime Atlanta Braves organist and Georgia State grad Matthew Kaminski (B.Mu. ’00, M.Mu. ’12) provides the team’s often hilarious in-game soundtrack and clever walkup tunes directed at opposing batters.