Driving Momentum
Driving Momentum
As Georgia State’s Atlanta Campus undergoes a historic transformation — creating a "College Town Downtown” — it’s cementing its status among the most consequential and enduring parts of the city's fabric.


As Georgia State’s Atlanta Campus undergoes a historic transformation — creating a "College Town Downtown” — it’s cementing its status among the most consequential and enduring parts of the city's fabric.

Georgia State University startup Da Zen Theranostics has reached a key milestone in developing a targeted treatment with the potential to transform cancer care.

Phillip Grovenstein, a Ph.D. student in the Translational Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program, has received a two-year, $89,658 predoctoral fellowship grant to address the urgent need for a more effective universal influenza vaccine.

The university also supported 21,013 full- and part-time jobs across the state, underscoring its role as one of the state’s most significant economic engines.

So, what does research at Georgia State look like in today’s changing environment? How will it continue to impact students, businesses and innovation in this region and beyond? Here, VP for Research and Economic Development Donald Hamelberg shares his vision for the university’s robust research community.

With the opening of the new Student Success Center at Georgia State University, many student services have been consolidated under one roof.

In the fiscal year that ended June 30, individual donors and Georgia State’s corporate and foundation partners helped power the university to a new one-year fundraising record.

The TReNDS Center has hit a new stride, earning dual National Institutes of Health grants aimed at tackling Alzheimer’s disease progression and advancing multimodal brain imaging techniques in neuropsychiatric disorders.

Why does downtown Atlanta have so many bridges, overpasses and viaducts? Georgia State University Library’s new online exhibit, "The Elevated City: Atlanta, a new city of raised streets, platforms and plazas, rises from its railroad past," answers that question by tracing the fascinating history of the city’s infrastructure.

Research, Science & Technology
The first findings from Georgia State University’s CHARA Array at the Mount Wilson Observatory appeared 20 years ago this month.