Kyle Stapleton, an M.B.A. student and graduate assistant for the Rialto Center for the Arts, has finally met the woman whose life he saved when he donated bone marrow to her almost five years ago.
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A handful of GSU alums are taking a bite out of the local food scene.
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Georgia State University has awarded six new proposed research clusters with new faculty hires in the third round of a university initiative aiming to bolster a higher level of research and academic excellence.
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LaShawnDa Pittman-Gay grew up poor, and she was determined during her time as a Georgia State undergraduate to make a difference among low-income African-American communities.
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A 10-year study published in the journal
Pediatrics has found that the SafeCare program, aimed at reducing child abuse and neglect, reduced child maltreatment by 26 percent among parents of children aged 5 and younger.
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Despite upticks in GDP growth, job creation and auto sales in the last few months – a welcome relief from the dreariness of last fall – the economy cannot sustain such momentum moving forward this year, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting Center.
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On Feb. 21, representatives from the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, GSU athletes, coaches and members of the Athletic Department braved chilly temps, shed their shoes and walked through the streets of downtown Atlanta for charity.
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Every year, the Georgia General Assembly culls a cohort of interns from state colleges and universities through the Georgia Legislative Internship Program. Georgia State University, administrative home to the GLIP under the direction of Dr. BillThomas since 1987, has been sending exceptional students through the program since it began in 1969.
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Georgia State University President Mark Becker will have a public conversation about the future of academic libraries Feb. 22 with Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Michigan.
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Wars. Sanctions. Political repressions. For all these reasons and more, Iraqi universities have not had regular contact with the larger world of academia for decades.
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An Atlanta woman, caring for her 19-year-old son with a severe form of autism, was unable to work, faced eviction and having her utilities shut off. Enter GSU Senior Paula Wilson.
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So there I sit, back straight, arms to the side. I’m dressed to impress in a double-breasted dark grey suit. My eyes are fixed on a woman in a business suit sitting behind a desk. She smiles back at me and fidgets with a pen. Then, the questions begin.
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Researchers at GSU have discovered more about how enzymes work in cancer cells – work that expands understanding of how scientists might be able to target and kill cancer cells while avoiding the destruction of healthy tissues.
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The Atlanta-based Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation recently gave $212,000 to the Georgia State University Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, its latest gift in a long legacy of support. In the past 31 years, the foundation has given more than $2.7 million to GSU.
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Georgia State University showed off its Capitol connections Feb. 2, as lawmakers declared GSU Day at the Gold Dome. Faculty, staff and students were on hand to show off their school spirit, as the marching band played the GSU fight song. President Mark Becker led a GSU delegation including Mrs. Laura Voisinet, Athletic Director Cheryl Levick, Head Football Coach Bill Curry, Senior Advisor to the President Tom Lewis, and our mascot, Pounce, as GSU was honored in both the House and Senate Chambers.
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On the wall of G. Davon Kennedy’s office in the Parker H. Petit Science Center is a map of the world filled with stickpins.
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