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Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program

Georgia State University Receives Mellon Grant to Create Innovative Gullah/Geechee Heritage Research and Preservation Program

Georgia State University has received a $500,000 grant to develop archival, historical and cultural research to preserve and protect the heritage and sacred land of Gullah/Geechee communities in Georgia and South Carolina.

The grant will help establish the Gullah/Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP) dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors. With the Mellon Foundation’s support, GGSLP will create undergraduate and graduate humanities curricula and foster research, heritage preservation and community engagement to create new knowledge about the history and significance of Black sacred land traditions and protect ancestral burial grounds.

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Truist Foundation Supports Georgia State Entrepreneurs with Grant

Truist Foundation Supports Georgia State Entrepreneurs with Grant

Georgia State University student and recent alumni entrepreneurs are receiving new support thanks to a $307,500 grant from Truist Foundation to the GSU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI).

The grant will enhance the ENI’s award-winning business accelerator program, the Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF), which provides entrepreneurs in the university community with mentorship and seed funding to help start and grow new business ventures.

The Truist Foundation grant will strengthen the MSESF program and its ability to help a cohort of emerging entrepreneurs in the metro Atlanta area from Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2027.

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National Institute for Student Success Receives $2 Million Grant From Ascendium Education Group

National Institute for Student Success Receives $2 Million Grant From Ascendium Education Group

The National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University has received a $2 million grant from Ascendium Education Group to help 6 Georgia colleges and universities identify and resolve institutional barriers to equity and college completion.

The Ascendium grant will allow the NISS to work with a diverse cohort of higher-ed institutions to complete extensive diagnostics, identify high-impact practices and provide coaching and implementation support.

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Ph.D. Candidate Receives NIH Grant to Study Effects of E-Cigarette Policies on Youth Tobacco Use

Ph.D. Candidate Receives NIH Grant to Study Effects of E-Cigarette Policies on Youth Tobacco Use

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded Ph.D. candidate Christian Saenz a three-year, $194,457 grant to support research that examines the effects of e-cigarette policies on youth tobacco use.

The overall goal of the study is to learn how e-cigarettes impact smoking and health, and how policymakers should think about regulating e-cigarettes. His work will support a larger, multiyear NIH-funded project led by economist Michael Pesko, Saenz’s dissertation chair who is now at the University of Missouri.

Under the grant, Saenz will contribute to the research as a co-author. He will help write the manuscripts, conduct the empirical regressions and present the research at conferences.

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$3.5M Grant to Georgia State Will Fuel Space Research Across the Globe

$3.5M Grant to Georgia State Will Fuel Space Research Across the Globe

A new three-year, $3.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will foster new research at Georgia State’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array by astronomers from around the world.

The grant will fund open-access time at the CHARA Array through the NSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NSF NOIRLab). The program offers astronomers the opportunity to apply for observing time at the CHARA Array to investigate all kinds of objects in the sky. Research conducted at the array is focused on studying the astrophysical properties of stars in extremely fine detail.

The demand for time on the CHARA Array has been extremely high due to its significance as a resource for the international research community. With the new National Science Foundation grant, the program will make 100 nights per year available to the global research community.

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2024 Faculty International Research Engagement Program Awardees Announced; New FIRE Speaker Series Launched

2024 Faculty International Research Engagement Program Awardees Announced; New FIRE Speaker Series Launched

The Office of International Initiatives (OII), a unit of the Provost’s Office, has announced the 19 awardees of the 2024 Faculty International Research Engagement (FIRE) mini-grant. The goal of FIRE mini-grant funding is to provide seed funding for internationally engaged faculty research.

In this year’s competition, OII particularly encouraged faculty working in the social sciences and the humanities to apply; OII also received and was able to support excellent proposals from other disciplines.

Additionally, OII has launched the new FIRE Speaker Series, highlighting Georgia State faculty working in an international capacity, with the first lecture planned for Sept. 19. Click on the posting link to learn more.

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