Abdoullah El Assri has been teaching for more than 20 years in his native country of Morocco, but he knows that even experienced educators can still learn and improve their teaching. El Assri, pictured with Maria Strzelecki, a geography teacher at Cross Keys High School in Atlanta, is one of 22 teaching fellows from 10 different countries visiting the College of Education for seven weeks as they participate in the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program.
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High oil prices, cautious consumer sentiment and fiscal cutbacks at all levels of government continue to hamper the nation’s economic recovery, said Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at GSU's J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
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Georgia State’s Gerontology Institute and the North Fulton Hospital are sponsoring a day of health screenings, research presentations and educational sessions aimed at adults aged 50 or older on Feb. 25.
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Cadets in Georgia State University's ROTC Battalion took home the "Iceberg Trophy" Sunday, Feb. 20, for having the most members jump into the Indian Creek Pool during the annual Polar Bear Plunge. The purpose of the event, hosted by the GSU Student Recreation Center, is to increase awareness about endangered polar bears while providing students a fun packed preview of the Indian Creek Pool.
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Forgive Victor Valente for being just a little bit homesick. Like any college student, he misses his family, sure, but he’s able to talk to them back in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at least once a week via Skype. What he says he
really misses here in landlocked Atlanta is the beach.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, will serve as Georgia State University’s spring commencement speaker, the university announced Tuesday, Feb. 15.
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More and more, businesses and other organizations have made the switch from using their own computing resources, such as servers and software on individual machines, and have moved into cloud computing. With cloud computing, resources like data and processing power reside elsewhere. Now, GSU researchers like Yi Pan (left) and Art Vandenberg are working to make the clouds more efficient and less prone to errors, helping to save time and money.
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Georgia State University’s College of Law was one of two schools selected by the Law School Admission Council and the DiscoverLaw.org Subcommittee to receive $300,000 to establish a Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program.
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A Thursday night season opener, games against two 2010 playoff teams and two trips to Texas highlight Georgia State's 2011 football schedule.
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Humans often work together toward a common goal. Now, Georgia State University researchers and their colleagues have found that humans aren’t the only ones to work together for a bigger payoff.
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Thousands of photographs captured through the lens of Doris Derby’s cameras in the 1960s are still captivating audiences almost 50 years later.
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Reid Stegall and John Merizalde were among more than 100 aspiring filmmakers in line to pick up video cameras, microphones and laptop computers at Georgia State University last Wednesday. The students are part of teams who had one week to write scripts, edit and film a short movie to enter into Campus MovieFest.
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Alton Brown, a chef and Food Network star, will speak at Georgia State University at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8 in the Student Center Ballroom.
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