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Georgia State Team Receives Fulbright-Hays Grant to Support Immersive Seminar Abroad on Afro-Brazilian Culture

Georgia State Team Receives Fulbright-Hays Grant to Support Immersive Seminar Abroad on Afro-Brazilian Culture

A team from Georgia State University has garnered a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a four-week seminar next summer, where Georgia State will take 16 educators and students in the humanities and social sciences to study Afro-Brazilian culture.

Participants will travel to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where they will study Portuguese, and learn about the culture, art, history, politics, and community of Afro-Brazilians. Activities will include lectures, seminars, cultural events, and culturally relevant excursions to become fully immersed in the culture of Salvador da Bahia, located in a country that has the second largest population of Black people outside of the African continent.

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High School Students Solve Real-World University Challenges

High School Students Solve Real-World University Challenges

Students of the Veritas School of Social Sciences came together at Georgia State University on Wednesday (June 28, 2023) to learn more by tackling challenges that corporate and institutional leaders face — including at the university itself.

The Veritas Corporate Immersion Day brought more than 35 students ages 14 through 17 to Georgia State, where they heard from university leaders and were tasked with forming potential solutions to issues ranging from cybersecurity training, student engagement and operational matters to student involvement, enrollment and course success.

The Veritas School provides access to academic and professional skills training that places students on pathways to excellence at colleges and universities, and toward high-earning careers. The aim is to close academic opportunity and economic inequality gaps for Black and brown students through programs like Veritas Corporate Immersion, a debate institute, a global travel program and programs in career readiness along with K-12 teacher training.

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Binghe Wang Named Inaugural Dr. Frank T. Hanna Chair in Medicinal Chemistry

Binghe Wang Named Inaugural Dr. Frank T. Hanna Chair in Medicinal Chemistry

Regents’ Professor of Chemistry Binghe Wang has been appointed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia as the inaugural Dr. Frank T. Hannah Chair in Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University.

The endowed chair was established through a gift from Hannah, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Georgia State in 1960.

The chair, which sits in the Department of Chemistry, has a five-year term and was established to support high-impact research advances in medicine, strengthen the department’s existing graduate curriculum and help attract top candidates to the graduate program.

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In Case You Missed It: Journalist Suzanne Malveaux Interviews Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard for the Inaugural CSAD Read-a-Thon

In Case You Missed It: Journalist Suzanne Malveaux Interviews Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard for the Inaugural CSAD Read-a-Thon

In case you missed it: Journalist Suzanne Malveaux interviewed GSU Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard to help kick off the inaugural CSAD Global Read-a-Thon, sponsored by The Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora of the Georgia State University College of Arts & Sciences in February 2023.

In this clip, Dr. Parsons-Pollard discusses her favorite books, the importance of Black history in the telling of American history, and the importance of literature in our culture.

Click posting link to watch!

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Cirleen DeBlaere Appointed Director of Faculty Development

Cirleen DeBlaere Appointed Director of Faculty Development

Dr. Cirleen DeBlaere has been selected as the Director of Faculty Development in the Office of Faculty Affairs, effective July 10.

Dr. DeBlaere currently serves as a Senior Faculty Associate for Mentoring in the Graduate School as well as the Faculty Associate for Professional Development in the Office of Faculty Affairs. In these positions, she has been responsible for the oversight of mentoring programs, writing accountability groups, and workshops in support of faculty development and success.

Dr. DeBlaere was recently promoted to the rank of professor in the College of Education and Human Development and has served as Program Coordinator for the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program since 2018. She is a highly productive scholar with more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, two coauthored books, more than 100 presentations at national and international conferences, and multiple invited keynote addresses.

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From the Provost: College of the Arts Leadership Announcement

From the Provost: College of the Arts Leadership Announcement

Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard has appointed three faculty members to important leadership positions within the College of the Arts, including Chester Phillips as interim dean and Susan Richmond as interim associate dean of the college, and Michael White as permanent director for the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design.

Dr. Phillips will serve as interim dean from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 during the American Council on Education fellowship of Dean Wade Weast. Dr. Richmond will also serve from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 as interim associate dean. Director White, who served from 2012 to 2018, became permanent director on May 1, 2023.

Read the Provost’s message here.

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