2010 Profiles

Honors Program Director to Retire in July

On his desk, Regents' Professor Robert Sattelmeyer has a wood block with a quote by author Henry David Thoreau that reads, "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.' More »

Law Innovator

Doctors and lawyers might seem like natural adversaries, but under a program launched by Georgia State professor Charity Scott, they are working as allies to help fix legal issues affecting disadvantaged children who have health problems. More »

Searching for Life in the Cosmos

Georgia State’s Cassy Davison thinks that we’ll find life outside of our solar system — even within the next few decades. More »

Cycling Ahead

Growing up, Oscar Clark used to hang out at a local bike shop in hopes the owner would give him a job. He wasn’t old enough to work at the time, but he was passionate about cycling More »

Hooked on Fisheries

It was Kurt Schnier's love of fly fishing that led him to become a resource economist and learn more about how fishermen in Alaska harvest their catch. More »

Fighting Cancer In and Out of the Lab

Valerie Levy has seen the toll breast cancer takes on patients and loved ones through her own eyes — having lost a grandmother to the disease, and watching her mother go through the physical and emotional struggles that cancer inflicts. More »

Helping Iraq's Children

Watching a child run and play after hours of surgery and weeks of recovery, Ben Landis got a glimpse of the impact life-saving heart surgeries can have on the lives of children in Iraq. More »

Becoming 'Carmen'

In everyday life, GSU senior Caitlin Andrews is a polite young woman with blue eyes, blond hair and fair skin.  More »

Bringing Light to Children's Rights

While in law school, a mural painted outside Jonathan Todres' apartment window was a stark reminder of just how fragile a child's life can be. The colorful graffiti was a memorial in remembrance of a child who had been killed in the neighborhood. More »

Breaking Down Health Barriers

Rueben Carter doesn’t have many memories of his late uncle who died of AIDS when Carter was very young, but he does remember his relatives who spoke of him with a sense of disgrace. More »

Capitol Gains

As a sixth grader in a Seattle public school, Jonathan Miller came face-to-face with activism and grassroots politics. He won an school essay contest, earning him a chance to cover the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle as a student correspondent in 1999. More »

Instincts Help Law Student Free an Innocent Man

Through her work with the Georgia Innocence Project, College of Law student Christina Rupp used DNA evidence and her instincts to help free a man from jail for a crime he did not commit. More »

Law Prof Works to Save Wetlands

Julian Juergensmeyer has spent a lifetime studying land use planning law and when the chance came up to help save a bog in a remote part of Poland, he jumped in – literally. More »

Preserving the Past

On the outside of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., sits a statue with an inscription at its base that reads, "What is past is prologue." More »

Running Down Obesity

Cynthia Searcy preaches what she practices. With a research agenda focused on adolescent obesity and school policies related to adolescent eating and exercise behaviors, she is active in every sense. More »

Reaching new heights

Georgia State basketball fans can be thankful that Danyiell McKeller is a twin. More »

Recovering language

For associate professor Jacqueline Laures-Gore, her first job as an aide in a nursing facility in rural Iowa introduced her to her life's passion - the field of communication disorders. More »

The hurricane hunter

Flying into the eye of a hurricane and hanging from the ceiling during a zero gravity airplane flight are just a few ways Nicole Mitchell spends her free time while studying law at Georgia State. More »

Writing a new chapter in science

Growing up, Casonya Johnson wanted to be a science fiction writer. Now, the associate professor of biology is authoring a new study that could unravel some of the real mysteries of human development.  More »

Film ambassador

Lydia Sue-Ellen Chitunya’s skills behind a video camera have taken her from football fields to France. The film and video major will be able to share her experiences this year as a student ambassador for Women in Film and Television Atlanta. More »

Graduating to new heights

Terrance Rogers hasn't even graduated but already he's defying the odds. In the midst of a recovery from the nation's worst economic downturns in generations, the Georgia State University finance major lined up a job on Wall Street with one of the world's largest financial institutions - Deutsche Bank. Rogers also is a first generation college student and will be first in his family to graduate when he walks during commencement this spring. More »

Sparking science

Children are born scientists and are innately inquisitive. Exploring the world comes naturally. But at sometime during childhood, interest in science can slip away. More »

Tackling microinsurance

Many families in third world countries build their lives around farming and livestock. When disaster strikes, it can devastate progress. Insurance expert Richard Phillips sees this firsthand. More »