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Catch up on the latest about accomplishments and activities related to the university's Strategic Plan during its second phase.

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Georgia State Research Expenditures Top $200 Million For The First Time

Georgia State Research Expenditures Top $200 Million For The First Time

Georgia State University’s total research expenditures exceeded $200 million for the first time in fiscal year 2017, the National Science Foundation reports in the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey.

The university ranks 108th out of 902 universities in the U.S. for research expenditures, and rose 15 spots from last year.

From fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2017, expenditures increased by 248 percent, making Georgia State one of the nation’s fastest-growing research universities. For the past two years, Georgia State has been the highest-ranked institution without an engineering or medical school.

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Student Success: Political Science Department Wins National Digital Learning Award For Work With Adaptive Learning

Student Success: Political Science Department Wins National Digital Learning Award For Work With Adaptive Learning

The Department of Political Science was recently awarded with the Digital Learning Innovation Award by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) for its work using adaptive learning courseware to assess and improve individual students’ performance in an introductory class on global issues.

The Georgia State team, which included Chris Brown, senior lecturer, Jeannie Grussendorf, senior lecturer, and Ph.D. candidate Michael Shea, conducted a full-scale academic study to assess students’ engagement with adaptive learning software in both face-to-face and online classes, and compared their performance in the course to a control group of students receiving a traditional, non-adaptive presentation of the course using the same software platform. Among students receiving the adaptive version of the course, rates of grades of D or F or withdrawal from the course decreased by 20 percent in one semester measured by the trial study.

The global issues course is offered by more than 15 instructors, typically in large classroom settings, and is taken by about 2,500 students at Georgia State each year.

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Launch Into Leadership: Advancing Undergraduates to Graduate and Professional Programs

Launch Into Leadership: Advancing Undergraduates to Graduate and Professional Programs

Georgia State University students attended the first-ever Launch Into Leadership event this October at the Rialto Center for the Arts, sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni into Graduate School and Professional Programs (CASA) and the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD) Area of Focus.

As part of Goal 2 of the university’s Strategic Plan, CASA serves as an institutional hub that supports the progression of students from all backgrounds into Ph.D. programs, medical school, law school, or related pathways. Ultimately, the center will help to develop a diverse population of leaders in academic and professional positions in the U.S. and beyond.

The event included a professional development panel, which included leaders in business, biotechnology and academic deans. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. Laura R. McNeal, J.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of law at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.

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Student Success: Digital Literacy at Georgia State

Student Success: Digital Literacy at Georgia State

The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. Computers are being integrated into devices ranging from stoplights to smart speakers. Sensors collect immense amounts of data providing insights into everything from our health to what motivates us. Robotics and 3D printing are reshaping manufacturing processes. Renewable energy and artificial intelligence are reinventing industries from transportation to telecommunication.

These fast-paced changes are ushering in what many refer to as a Fourth Industrial Revolution, profoundly altering how we live, work and interact. This oncoming revolution makes it imperative that educational institutions consider how best to prepare students with an understanding of the complex impact these technologies have. How can automated decision-making be implemented ethically? How can students be ready for a world in which their co-worker could be a machine? At Georgia State, our goal is to ensure every student is ready to flourish in this world of the future.

While digital skills are a crucial piece of educating students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we cannot lose sight of the human element and the increasing importance of collaboration, communication and compassion as technology advances. Several years ago, Georgia State started a digital literacy initiative, incorporating digital competencies into class activities in the university’s core curriculum. Learn more about how Georgia State’s digital literacy efforts have blossomed by clicking the link.

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Research: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Neuroscience Institute

Research: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Neuroscience Institute

Georgia State University is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Georgia State Neuroscience Institute, among the first such centers in the country as an independent neuroscience department or institute. Having become one of the most interdisciplinary research centers at the university, faculty represent 17 departments.

Their research — an estimated 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals — has made the Institute a leader in the fields of behavioral neuroscience, neuroinflammation and sex differences in the brain.

Among their biggest discoveries is that serotonin, long believed to decrease aggression, has the opposite effect in women. Faculty in the Institute have also revealed that women metabolize morphine differently from men and thereby require higher doses for pain relief. More recently, NI researchers found that social stress — such as discrimination — alters bacteria in the gut. Looking ahead, the faculty anticipate a new focus on translational research.

Read more about the founding of the institute by clicking the link.

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Esports & the Creative Media Industries Institute: Georgia State Hosts Inaugural PantherLAN Esports Tournament

Esports & the Creative Media Industries Institute: Georgia State Hosts Inaugural PantherLAN Esports Tournament

The PantherLAN tournament was held Oct. 20, with 7 universities participating. Participating institutions included Georgia State, Georgia Gwinnett College, Georgia Southern University, Kennesaw State University, Oglethorpe University, the University of Georgia and the University of West Georgia.

Georgia State’s varsity esports team was founded in 2017, and is among the more than 30 colleges and universities nationwide participating in the National Association of Collegiate Esports and other Georgia academic institutions in the Georgia Esports League.

Esports at Georgia State are administered through the university’s Creative Media Industries Institute, an initiative under the institution’s Strategic Plan.

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Georgia State Signs Licensing Agreement With DaZen Theranostics Inc.

Georgia State Signs Licensing Agreement With DaZen Theranostics Inc.

Georgia State University has signed a licensing agreement with DaZen Theranostics Inc., a Delaware-based start-up company, to develop a product that can target cancer cells, function as a contrast agent to improve the visibility of cancer cells during diagnostic imaging and deliver a therapeutic drug to destroy cancerous cells.

The product will be based on a chemical compound that was created by Dr. Maged Henary, associate professor of chemistry at Georgia State. Henary’s chemical compound, a heptamethine cyanine also known to the scientific community as MHI-148, is already being used internationally in cancer imaging research. Henary developed the compound at Georgia State in collaboration with Dr. Leland W. K. Chung, formerly of Emory University and now founder of DaZen Theranostics Inc., and other scientists.

The product will simultaneously detect, image and treat any type of cancer cells based on the attached drug, making it uniquely effective for cancer therapy and diagnosis. DaZen will pursue clinical trials in humans to test the product’s effectiveness.

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A Second Century Initiative Faculty Q&A: Laura Salazar

A Second Century Initiative Faculty Q&A: Laura Salazar

The Second Century Initiative (2CI) brought more than 80 leading scholars and researchers across a diverse array of disciplines; its successor program, the Next Generation Program, continues to do so. Each faculty member has provided the university with their unique perspectives and leadership in their fields. Their work moves forward important and innovative research and scholarship, while lifting the reputation of Georgia State University and its colleges/schools for work addressing the challenges of the 21st century.

This article on the Next Generation Program site is part of a series highlighting individual faculty members and their perspectives through a question-and-answer format. Dr. Laura Salazar came to Georgia State under the first round of 2CI, and is a professor in the School of Public Health. Click the link to read the profile.

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Digital Learners to Leaders Program Named as Finalist for Prestigious Technology Association of Georgia Award

Digital Learners to Leaders Program Named as Finalist for Prestigious Technology Association of Georgia Award

A program developed by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Georgia State University was named as a finalist for a Technology Association of Georgia Diversity Leadership Award.

The program, Digital Learners to Leaders (DLL), was developed by CETL to address underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM careers and the technology industry. DLL works to advance student understanding of digital literacy by encouraging program participants to create digital solutions to urban challenges.

With the help of professionals in Atlanta, DLL is designed not only to teach students STEM topics, but also to mentor and provide students with necessary skills for successfully entering the workforce. The program was nominated for the leadership award just one year after its implementation by CETL.

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Research: Founding Director Named for the New Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)

Research: Founding Director Named for the New Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)

Vince Calhoun, one of the world’s foremost experts in brain imaging and analysis, has been named the founding director of the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) at Georgia State University.

TReNDS will be a tri-institutional effort supported by Georgia State, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, with a focus on increasing cooperation among Atlanta brain imaging researchers.

Calhoun will be professor of psychology at Georgia State, with secondary appointments in the departments of Computer Science and Physics and in the Neuroscience Institute. Calhoun will have appointments at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He will have additional appointments at Emory in the departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Radiology and Imaging Sciences. Calhoun is joining the university as a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Brain Health and Image Analysis, becoming the first eminent scholar with appointments at three institutions.