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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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The Senate and House of Representatives of the State Legislature declared March 30 as Georgia State University Day. Approximately 35-40 representatives of Georgia State, led by GSU President Mark Becker and Director of Athletics Cheryl Levick, walked to the Gold Dome to meet and greet the members and participate in the reading of the resolutions.
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Georgia State's College of Arts and Sciences will award its first Outstanding Alumni Awards to Lee Armstrong and Dr. Peggy Duke at the college’s Honors Night Ceremony at 6 p.m. April 20 in the Student Center Ballroom.
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Georgia State chemists W. David Wilson and David W. Boykin are using a recent $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work in the search for more effective drugs to treat a deadly parasitic disease.
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Unil Perera holds in his hand a tiny device with big potential. Resembling a computer chip and no larger than a fingernail, the black and gold object can detect invisible light waves emitted by cancerous tumors, or even the unique signatures of enemy firearms on the battlefield.
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On March 29, Georgia State University opened its new Parker H. Petit Science Center, a 350,000 square-foot facility that will advance scientific understanding, health innovation and education. The science center is named for Parker. H. "Pete" Petit (at podium) in recognition of his leadership gift to GSU.
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Georgia State University will host the 4th annual Italian Film Festival on campus March 29 through April 4, featuring films, documentaries and shorts that are free and open to the public.
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A team of five students representing the J. Mack Robinson College of Business was first runner-up in the final round of the Americas Regional competition of the Global Investment Research Challenge held March 18 in New York.
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Georgia State University will celebrate the dedication of its state-of-the-art 350,000 square-foot Parker H. Petit Science Center at 10 a.m., Monday, March 29 at the intersection of Decatur Street and Piedmont Avenue.
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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will speak at Georgia State at 3 p.m., Thursday, March 25 in the Student Center ballroom.
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Five Georgia State undergraduates took top honors in demonstrating their academic and scholastic prowess during the 2010 Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference March 24. Students from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the Robinson College of Business, the College of Health and Human Sciences and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies presented at the conference.
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With a performance next week, Georgia State will explore the ways the art, literature and music of Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, has been shaped in recent history.
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The National Association of Convenience Stores has named the Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality as its academic partner in the development of the Center for Achieving Foodservice Excellence.
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Atlanta native Jasmine Guy, an actress, singer, dancer, author and producer, will speak and perform at Georgia State University on Wed. March 17 in a program in honor of Women’s History Month.
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In 2005, Hans Rueffert's life took an amazing turn when he went from a virtually unknown chef to a popular reality show finalist on the Food Network's "Next Food Network Star." Then, just two weeks after his top-three finish in the competition - and one day before his 33rd birthday - he was diagnosed with stage 3 stomach cancer. His doctor delivered the blow that he had a less than 5 percent chance of survival.
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Scientists believe that, for a few microseconds at the beginning of the universe, a type of extremely high temperature plasma would cool to become the basis for all matter. To help explain this theory, physicists from GSU and scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., used a huge particle accelerator to collide gold particles traveling at nearly the speed of light.
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Georgia State's Center for International and Collaborative Arts (CENCIA) is hosting two upcoming events highlighting the artistic cultures of India and Greece.
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A Georgia State chemist and his colleagues have been given access to powerful supercomputers by the U.S. Department of Energy to model the mechanisms surrounding the replication and repair of DNA.
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Instead of traveling to a beach destination or relaxing at home this week, a cadre of Georgia State students are using their spring break to build stronger communities and touch the lives of those in need. From tutoring at-risk students in New Orleans to helping the homeless right here in Atlanta, they are tackling social issues through several service learning opportunities.
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Georgia State University law students have won two regional championship titles in mock trial competitions and will advance to the national finals in late March.
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Georgia State President Mark P. Becker won the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy's friendly competition among Georgia executives to raise money for childhood literacy.
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When Sgt. Mark Sanders returned from Iraq in 2006, he thought he could pick up where he left off in his studies. So the brawny 6-foot soldier enrolled at Georgia State where, at first, he did well in his business classes.
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The moves of ice dancers Meryl Davis (left) and Ben Agosto (right) impressed the judges and garnered them high rankings during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. But to do their best, it took energy. Nutrition professor Dan Benardot (center) helped to refine the energy needed to help Davis and her partner, Charlie White win the silver, while also boosting the performance of Agosto and his partner, Tanith Belbin, who came close to winning bronze.
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