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The past sports season has been the best in Georgia State history, and the future is looking bright for Panther athletics.


The past sports season has been the best in Georgia State history, and the future is looking bright for Panther athletics.

Viviana Cortes, associate professor of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language, and Allen Fromherz, professor of Middle Eastern, Gulf, and Mediterranean History, have received prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in applied linguistics and in history, respectively.

They will join CMII this summer as artists-in-residence and, over the course of the next academic year, mentor students and share firsthand knowledge of their industries.

The Belgian Economic Mission to the United States toured the Creative Media Industries Institute in an event highlighting the video gaming industry in Belgium and Atlanta.

The new university initiative establishes interdisciplinary research hubs to address some of society’s most pressing issues, including pandemic preparedness, climate solutions, crime victim protection, equity and access, and public health.

Georgia State mathematician Igor Belykh has spent more than a decade studying how bridges become unstable. Now he’s devising ways to improve their safety.

A nanoparticle vaccine that combines two proteins that induce immune responses against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the global pandemic, has the potential to be developed into broader and safe SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, according to researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Cancer has given Hans Rueffert (B.S. ’95) a new recipe for success.

Campus News, Health & Wellness
The new center at Emory and Georgia State is led and co-founded by researchers with a history of collaborating on successful antiviral drugs, including molnupiravir, which was one of the world’s first antiviral pills approved for use against SARS-CoV-2.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Georgia State University health economist Michael Pesko a $1.8 million grant to study the effects of state mandates requiring insurance companies to cover hearing aids.