ATLANTA—Students from across Georgia State University’s graduate programs have earned an increasing number of prestigious national fellowships this academic year.
ATLANTA—Dr. Jian-Dong Li, director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) at Georgia State University and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, has been appointed to serve on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils (CoC).
ATLANTA—Georgia’s Division of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS) has contracted with Georgia State University to train child welfare caseworkers and their supervisors statewide on how to prevent depression, anxiety, burnout and turnover due to secondary traumatic stress (STS).
ATLANTA—When young people consider the potential harm of tobacco and marijuana products, their assessment may be based on mistaken beliefs about the risks of various ingredients and methods of ingesting the substances, according to a study led by a tobacco researcher from the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.
ATLANTA—Georgia State University President Mark Becker and his wife, Laura Voisinet, have made a $500,000 gift to the university in support of student scholarships, Athletics and the Rialto Center for the Arts.
ATLANTA—Public safety and criminal justice professionals in police departments, the U.S. military, Homeland Security and other federal, state and local organizations can earn an advanced degree in criminal justice administration online beginning this fall.
ATLANTA—Georgia State University has received a $3.1 million grant to test the effectiveness of combining two programs in a mobile phone application to decrease maternal depression and build parenting skills that promote infant social communication and emotional competencies.
ATLANTA—The School of Public Health at Georgia State University has established a new lecture series to honor the career of Dr. John R. Lutzker, founding director of The Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development and a Distinguished University Professor.
ATLANTA—Georgia State University and neighborhood associations representing communities surrounding the Turner Field site have reached an agreement on a long-term plan for the university’s engagement with area residents.
ATLANTA—The nonwhite population has doubled and segregation has decreased as the Atlanta metropolitan region has grown by more than 300 percent over the past 45 years, according to new research by the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State University.
