Children are born scientists and are innately inquisitive. Exploring the world comes naturally. But at sometime during childhood, interest in science can slip away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Georgia State University is being touted as a national model for graduating minority and low-income students. Education Trust, announced this week that GSU boosted its minority graduation rate by 18.4 percentage points in last five years.
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Diverse voices will address the many issues surrounding Georgia’s disputes about water resources during an upcoming lecture series at Georgia State University.
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Thanks to a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program award, mathematics professor Frank J. Hall will visit the Czech Republic this spring to collaborate with a renowned mathematician in research in an area that impacts computer science, economics and other fields.
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Georgia State will kick off its final winter homecoming this week, as the university transitions to festivities centered on football in the fall. Homecoming 2010 will be held Jan. 26 to Feb. 6 and includes events for students, faculty and staff members, as well as alumni and community supporters.
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Indonesia's next generation of fiscal policy experts will earn dual master's degrees in applied economics at Georgia State University and Gadjah Mada University in the province of Yogyakarta on Java Island.
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Georgia State is launching a visiting scholars program with Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. The first group of 24 visiting scholars will arrive in Atlanta on Feb. 15 and pursue professional development at GSU for five months.
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Six Georgia State University professors in the department of computer information systems (CIS) in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business received top recognition in a recent peer report.
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A renowned expert and author of an award-winning book on the science of climate change will focus on one of the world’s most challenging issues during a Georgia State University seminar Friday, Jan. 22.
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Life's most urgent and persistent question is: What are you doing for others?" Georgia State students take King's call to action seriously. Rayna Plummer, for example, organized a group of GSU students to spend Jan.18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, helping the elderly with housework and making meals for the homeless.
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Georgia State University students are pitching in to help the victims of this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti.
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With health care reform dominating the headlines, Georgia State University's Center for Law, Health & Society in the College of Law will host a lunchtime speaker program focusing on key issues and updates of the proposed legislation.
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Georgia State University has signed agreements with institutions in China and Taiwan forming partnerships that open up opportunities for joint research, study abroad, academic staff/student exchange and other programs.
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In a sign that the institution is becoming more competitive, Georgia State University accepted for the first time an early admission class for fall 2010.
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Georgia State University economist Rajeev Dhawan says national job growth will be non-existent until mid-2010 due to the lack of business investment, especially in the technology sector.
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Kristy Joseph gained real world experience in economic development thousands of miles away from her classrooms at Georgia State University. While in the Peace Corps, Joseph (left) worked in San Juan Ermita, Guatemala, where she split her time between improving the town's municipal government and the overall health of the community.
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Professor Ken Bernhardt of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business was named chairman of the board of directors for the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau for 2010.
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Georgia State University’s Margo Brinton, a Regents’ Professor of biology, received a $289,000 federal stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her research on West Nile virus.
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Researchers with the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, headquartered at Georgia State University, are developing research ideas to investigate the fundamental neuroscience of positive emotions and social traits.
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The College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University has established the Byrdine F. Lewis Endowed Chair of Nursing in the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and appointed Michael J. Decker as the first chair holder.
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Not far from where Georgia State stands today, Sam Richards set up shop during the tumultuous years of the Civil War in a city whose fall marked a major turning point in the conflict.
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Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are well known advocates of civil disobedience. Each refused to obey certain governmental laws, demands or commands in a non-violent and collective way.
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Georgia State University and the University of Venice were recently awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education and the European Union to offer a transatlantic dual degree program for undergraduates in international economics and modern languages.
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