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Georgia State 2CI Fellow Researches Impact and Consequences of Tobacco Use, Vaping in United States

Georgia State 2CI Fellow Researches Impact and Consequences of Tobacco Use, Vaping in United States

Robert Fairman is a 2CI Fellow at Georgia State in the Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science. Regulatory science is an arm of research that aims to develop new tools, standards, and to assess the safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of FDA-regulated policies—tobacco regulatory science helps the FDA inform regulations and policies they create regarding tobacco products. Fairman works within the health behavioral area of this informative process.

“I am a social and behavioral epidemiologist. Epidemiology is the study of diseases: how they spread, what causes them, and their outcomes. Simply, social epidemiology is looking at what social structures are more or less likely to cause an outcome.”

Arriving this past summer, Fairman did research on the modification of vaping devices—now he does research at Georgia State on the implications of vaping, and the use of other tobacco products. The recent headlines regarding vaping-related illness or death is a cause of concern for Fairman.

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Lisa Armistead Appointed Inaugural Dean of Georgia State’s New Graduate School Effective Sept. 1

Lisa Armistead Appointed Inaugural Dean of Georgia State’s New Graduate School Effective Sept. 1

I am pleased to announce that Lisa Armistead, associate provost for graduate programs, has accepted an appointment as the inaugural dean of Georgia State’s Graduate School, effective Sept. 1.

This academic year, the Office of Graduate Programs will transition into the Graduate School, building upon programs in admissions, marketing and professional development activities for the university’s graduate students. The school also will coordinate university-level policies for graduate students and collaborate with the university’s colleges and schools to strengthen interdisciplinary academic programs.

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Georgia State Students Earn Record Number of Fulbright Fellowships

Georgia State Students Earn Record Number of Fulbright Fellowships

Georgia State Students have earned a new record number of Fulbright Fellowship opportunities this year. A total of five students received the award directly and an additional two students will be included in the Fellowship provided there is available funding. This will be the largest amount of representatives from Georgia State University to go abroad with the program simultaneously, a program which operates in 140 countries, focusing on cultural ambassadorship and scholarly development.

Aside from funding for the trip, award recipients are granted a variety of benefits throughout their time abroad. Students also have the advantage of round-trip travel, insurances throughout their time of study, as well as room, board, and cost of living coverage supplied through their fellowship.

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Georgia State Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Psych Science-in-3 At American Psychological Association Conference

Georgia State Ph.D. Student Wins First Place in Psych Science-in-3 At American Psychological Association Conference

CHICAGO – Mary Fernandes, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical neuropsychology at Georgia State University, won first place in the 2019 Psych Science-in-3 Competition Aug. 9 at the American Psychological Association’s (APA) annual conference.

Fernandes gave a three-minute presentation entitled, “The Associations Between Pupillary Response Patterns to Emotional Faces and Self-Reported Social Anxiety,” competing against more advanced doctoral students as well as postdoctoral contestants.

The competition required participants to explain their thesis or dissertation research succinctly, in a compelling way that non-specialists can understand. Fernandes mastered these skills at Georgia State through the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held at the university in March, where she won first prize in the doctoral student category. She also won the People’s Choice award in the category.

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Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious Fellowship at Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Ph.D. Student Receives Prestigious Fellowship at Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

When Megan Piorko enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) art history at her Pennsylvania high school, she had no idea the class would be the catalyst to her career. After graduating, she attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and pursued a bachelor of art history degree. Upon completing the program, Piorko took a year off to volunteer with AmeriCorps VISTA. She credits her assignment as a grant writer with providing the foundation she needed to craft successful applications for fellowship and grant opportunities, including short-term research fellowships with the Renaissance Society of America and the Science History Institute.

During Piorko’s search for a graduate program, she took interest in Georgia State University. Piorko was thrilled to discover the university offered funding at the master’s level, a rarity in higher education. After working with a particular adviser on her thesis committee, Georgia State’s Dr. Nick Wilding, a historian of Early Modern Europe, the history of science and the history of the book, Piorko decided to remain at the university for her doctorate. This is where her true passion began to materialize–literally. “I realized I was more interested in the materiality of book culture,” Piorko explained. “I enjoy how books are made, used and produced. I like to study them as a medium and not simply just focus on the literature within the pages.”

Now in Philadelphia, Piorko has embarked upon a well-deserved, nine-month research fellowship at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The doctoral fellowship provides her with the history-of-science community she desires. “I can think of very few institutions, in terms of scholarly resources and intellectual community, more suited than the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, for completing dissertation research and writing,” remarked Dr. Wilding. “This fellowship places Piorko at the center of her growing field of study.”

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College Of Law Ranks No. 1 In Bar Passage Rate

College Of Law Ranks No. 1 In Bar Passage Rate

Georgia State University’s College of Law had the highest bar passage rate in Georgia for the February 2019 exam.

The College of Law’s pass rate for first-time takers was 88.9 percent, ahead of all other Georgia law schools and the state average of 65 percent. The University of Georgia School of Law had a pass rate of 85.7 percent, followed by Emory University School of Law and John Marshall Law School, each with 54.5 percent.

For repeat takers, Georgia State’s rate of 63.6 percent exceeded the University of Georgia’s 42.1 percent and Emory’s 35.3 percent.

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