Atlanta’s air pollution is notorious, with numerous air quality alert days every summer, affecting human health.
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Sang-Moo Kang, associate professor at Georgia State University’s Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection, has received a federal five-year, $3.4 million grant to bolster research that will lead to better flu vaccines.
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The Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality Administration celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, marking its inception in 1973 when Georgia State introduced an associate of science degree in hotel-motel management.
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Georgia State President Mark Becker will host a conversation with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. in the Georgia State Student Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
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Disrupting a key interaction between two types of proteins in cells inhibits the spread of cancerous cells, providing researchers with a new pathway toward developing cancer-fighting drugs.
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Words in a textbook, magazine or journal can teach and explain many concepts. But photos display examples and evoke thoughts and feelings that plain text often can’t.
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The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN), a research endeavor of seven metropolitan Atlanta colleges and universities, has been elevated to the newest university level research center at Georgia State University.
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Michael Eriksen, dean of Georgia State University’s Institute of Public Health, will outline the global picture of tobacco usage and control at a federal meeting on Jan. 29.
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Four preeminent Atlanta religious leaders will come to Georgia State Feb. 6 to address the role of religion in working to solve issues and problems facing the city in the 21st century.
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As a room full of families watched, Brian Williams demonstrated how easy it is to turn water to snow during the “Science Wondershop” at the Children’s Museum of Atlanta.
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The Georgia State University Marching Band performed in the parade for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on Jan. 21.
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Georgia State University is paving the way for students to receive class credit for taking massively open online courses (MOOCs) under a newly adopted university policy.
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Megan Thomas was born into a family of jocks. But deep inside she always knew that she wanted to rock.
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Steve Perry, CNN education contributor and best-selling author, will speak at Georgia State University at 4 p.m., Jan 24 in the Student Center Main Ballroom as part of the university’s 30th Anniversary Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation.
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Georgia State University College of Law has received a $557,571 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish a fellowship program and supporting online resources to strengthen the practice of public health law by expanding the scope of public health law instruction.
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Helen Aderhold, community leader and higher education philanthropist, has given Georgia State a $500,000 gift for scholarships in memory of her late husband, John.
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The Georgia State University Confucius Institute, established two years ago, was named a 2012 Confucius Institute of the Year in December.
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Children by age 5 are able to understand two types of linguistic metaphors for time based on their experience, a Georgia State University researcher has found.
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Georgia State University’s Christopher Morehart and his wife walked about an excavation area in winter 2007 at Lake Xaltocan, a drained lake in the northern basin of Mexico where he was studying ancient agriculture and how people interacted with their environment.
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For Georgia State Economics Professor Paula Stephan, 2012 was a landmark year.
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Touch the Earth, Georgia State's outdoor recreation program, operates around 100 excursions each year. The journeys range from jaunts to nearby parks such as Cloudland Canyon in northwest Georgia, to extended spring break and summer excursions to the Everglades and Costa Rica. The program offers up trips for all experience levels and provides equipment, transportation and leadership and handles all the logistics.
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