For many low income couples with a new baby, or one on the way, the struggle of day-to-day life not only strains relationships but threatens bonds and undermines the nurturing of children. For the past three years, Georgia State's Building Strong Families intervention program has successfully helped young families by teaching them survival skills through interactive group counseling sessions.
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Representing the interests of Sudan and Iran, two countries often criticized on world stage, is no easy task. But Georgia State University students excelled at foreign diplomacy for these and other countries at the Southern Regional Model United Nations conference, held Nov. 19 -22 in Atlanta.
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With health care reform taking shape in Congress, how do you determine the facts from fiction, and determine how much it will really cost?
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James C. Cox, director of the Experimental Economics Center at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and Prof. Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University - the Nobel Prize winner for economics - were recently awarded $800,000 in collaborative grants by the National Science Foundation.
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The sun isn't up, and the vast majority of their college classmates are still in bed, but the football team at Georgia State knows they have to rise early to stay ahead of the countdown clock. That's the clock that ticks down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until Sept. 2, 2010, when the GSU Panther football team will play its first game.
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The Georgia State University School of Music and the Rialto Center for the Arts present the 12th annual Gala Holiday Concert at 8 p.m. on Dec. 5 and 3 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the Rialto Center for the Arts.
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Season tickets for the inaugural 2010 Georgia State football season at the Georgia Dome will go on sale on Monday, Dec. 7 at 8 a.m. The 2010 schedule also now includes seven home games with the addition of Lamar.
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Unless the economy can find a spark, the current recovery will be slow and drawn out through 2011 and beyond according to Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University.
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Since taking Spanish classes in high school, Greg Jarvis has been intrigued by Hispanic culture and filled with a desire to travel to Latin American countries. So the GSU senior was thrilled to study abroad last spring in Argentina, where he not only satisfied his "wanderlust" but gained valuable career experience by studying virology. Jarvis was one of roughly 600 Georgia State University students who studied abroad last year.
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Local governments and agencies will present the results of the 2009 Metro Atlanta Homeless Survey during the 2009 Homeless Symposium Nov. 20 at Georgia State University.
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Laboratory advances in cancer research will take center stage at the seventh annual Georgia State University Biotechnology Symposium Nov. 23-24.
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Georgia State University this week launched an ambitious faculty hiring initiative to recruit 100 additional faculty members to the university over the next five years.
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This week, Georgia State University will welcome more than 450 high school students to step into the shoes of United Nation's delegates and experience the inner workings of the world's most influential governmental organization.
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Georgia's own Johnny Mercer is credited with writing more than 1,700 songs, including 100 hits and 18 Academy Award-winners that have been featured in movies, television shows and throughout pop culture. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Mercer's birth, and Georgia State University, home of the Johnny Mercer Papers, is presenting a centennial celebration to highlight his music and life.
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Georgia State University is poised to launch its first virtual computer lab, allowing students access to educational and research resources 24 hours a day.
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Digital duo Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant of the popular Website HowStuffWorks.com and hosts of "Stuff You Should Know" podcasts, will headline the Georgia State University College of Law Financial Literacy Series on Thursday, Nov. 5, from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Performance artist and writer Karen Finley will present her one-woman show, "The Jackie Look," at Georgia State University this week, in which she will assume the persona of the former first lady and consider memory, gender, race, loss and hope in America.
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There will be murder afoot in a laboratory of Georgia State this week. But don't worry - it will be all part of a play that will help educate teachers about the biology and physics of forensics, providing information about a field which is getting high school students excited about science.
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In an age of budget deficits and national testing standards, school districts across the nation are cutting back on music programs. But that's not the case at Charles Drew R. Charter School in the East Lake neighborhood of Atlanta. Thanks to a recent grant, GSU's School of Music has expanded its presence at the charter school, maximizing K-8 students' potential for academic learning through music.
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