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Georgia State Astronomers’ Software Helps Capture Unprecedented Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io from Earth

Georgia State Astronomers’ Software Helps Capture Unprecedented Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io from Earth

Stuart Jefferies, a professor in Georgia State’s Physics & Astronomy Department, is part of a team of scientists from around the world that captured a volcanic event on Jupiter’s moon Io at a resolution never before achieved with Earth-based instruments. The observations were made possible by a new high-contrast optical imaging instrument, dubbed SHARK-VIS, and a new software called Kraken created by Jefferies and Georgia State Adjunct Senior Research Associate Douglas Hope.

Capturing clear images of objects in our solar system from Earth is challenging due to light distortion from our turbulent atmosphere. While SHARK-VIS helps to partially correct light distortion, the Kraken software is used to make the images even clearer.

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Georgia State Researcher Receives $6.9 Million in Grants to Develop and Test Tobacco Education Strategies

Georgia State Researcher Receives $6.9 Million in Grants to Develop and Test Tobacco Education Strategies

With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considering landmark regulations that would significantly limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and ban menthol flavoring, a Georgia State University researcher is proactively developing and testing targeted messages to improve public health.

Funded by a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute and the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, a team led by Associate Professor Lucy Popova in the GSU School of Public Health will develop and test messages that can accompany the policy of reducing nicotine in combusted cigarettes by 95 percent to minimally or non-addictive levels. Because smoking is more common among those with psychological distress and those with low socioeconomic status, this project will specifically focus on these groups.

In a separate five-year, $3 million project that was recently funded by the National Cancer Institute, Popova will develop and test messages that aim to reduce tobacco use among menthol cigarette smokers with low socioeconomic status.

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Georgia State Political Scientist Earns Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Georgia State Political Scientist Earns Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Jennifer McCoy, a Regents’ Professor in Georgia State’s Political Science Department, has been named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

McCoy is one of 28 to receive the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, which is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Fellows will receive stipends of $200,000 each for research that seeks to understand how and why our society has become so polarized, and how we can strengthen the forces of cohesion to fortify our democracy.

The funding will support McCoy’s project titled “Mitigating Pernicious Polarization Through Innovative Civic Educational Interventions.” McCoy’s project aims to build student civic skills and dispositions to navigate the growing challenges of disinformation, distrust in government, divisive political rhetoric and social fragmentation. McCoy and co-investigator Michael Evans, a senior lecturer at GSU, will measure the impact of innovative civic education assignments given to over 16,000 students over two years.

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Study: Humans Rate Artificial Intelligence as More ‘Moral’ Than Other People

Study: Humans Rate Artificial Intelligence as More ‘Moral’ Than Other People

A new study has found that when people are presented with two answers to an ethical question, most will think the answer from artificial intelligence (AI) is better than the response from another person.

“Attributions Toward Artificial Agents in a Modified Moral Turing Test,” a study conducted by Eyal Aharoni, an associate professor in Georgia State’s Psychology Department, graduate students Daniel Brady and Caelan Alexander, and other co-authors was inspired by the explosion of ChatGPT and similar AI large language models (LLMs) which came onto the scene last March.

To test how AI handles issues of morality, Aharoni designed a form of a Turing test.

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Georgia State University Launches South’s First Hip-Hop Studies Consortium

Georgia State University Launches South’s First Hip-Hop Studies Consortium

For more than 50 years, hip-hop has not just influenced music, but it’s created an entire culture. Which is why universities like Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles have set up research institutes and initiatives centered around hip-hop studies. These universities hope to bring hip-hop artists and scholars together to share their knowledge on the culture and learn from one another.

Georgia State University’s Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) and the Africana Studies Department are looking to make GSU the Southern leader in the study of hip-hop culture through the new Hip-Hop Studies Consortium (HHSC).

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Georgia State University Research Expenditures Top $215.9 Million

Georgia State University Research Expenditures Top $215.9 Million

Georgia State has set another university record for research expenditures, according to data from the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

The survey, the primary source of information on research and development expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities, shows that Georgia State invested $215.9 million in fiscal year 2022, more than $9 million more than the previous year. It was also ranked No. 125 out of the 642 participating schools nationwide, putting it among the top 20 percent of universities in research expenditures for the sixth year in a row.

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