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Second-Chance Pell Opens Up Aid for Prison Education

Second-Chance Pell Opens Up Aid for Prison Education

An increased number of students will be able to take advantage of the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP), thanks to a federal grant program.

The GSUPEP has been invited to participate in the federal Second-Chance Pell — Pell for Incarcerated Students Experiment. The program is under the U.S. Department of Education’s Experimental Sites Initiative.

The university is one of five postsecondary institutions in Georgia invited to join the grant initiative, which allows incarcerated individuals to receive federal funding to enroll in postsecondary programs offered by local colleges and universities or distance-learning providers.

Featured News, News and Announcements, Research News

Georgia State Will Acquire 7-Tesla MRI With National Institutes of Health Grant

Georgia State Will Acquire 7-Tesla MRI With National Institutes of Health Grant

A $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with matching funding from Georgia State University, will bring a 7 Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine to Georgia State.

MRI scanners use powerful magnets to produce three-dimensional images of anatomical structures. High-field instruments such as the 7T are distinguished by the strength of the magnetic field, which allows much clearer resolution for research and disease diagnosis. Compared to the more common 3T MRI imager, the 7T produces an unprecedented level of detail and allows researchers to perform non-invasive imaging of microscopic structures inside the bodies and brains of living animals.

The addition of this new technology, used in a handful of universities in the Southeast, will make Georgia State a hub for MRI research, allowing faculty to conduct animal research using one of the world’s strongest imaging machines available for the detection of disease.

Belonging@GSU, Featured News, News and Announcements, Research News

Faculty Selected for National Science Foundation Early Career Development Program

Faculty Selected for National Science Foundation Early Career Development Program

College of Education & Human Development Assistant Professors Natalie King and Lauren Margulieux have been chosen for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program.

King will receive $1.1 million for a five-year project entitled, “Black Girl Brilliance and STEM Identity Development,” which will allow her to continue her work with students at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy, an all-girls, STEM-certified middle and high school in Atlanta. She’ll explore how Black girls excel in STEM learning spaces and the factors that may predict whether or not a student declares a STEM major in college.

Margulieux will receive $486,631 for a five-year project entitled, “Spreading Computational Literacy Equitably via Integration of Computing in Preservice Teacher Preparation.” This project will integrate computing coursework into all teacher preparation programs at Georgia State University with the goal of preparing teachers across disciplines to be comfortable incorporating computing-integrated activities in their lessons.

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School of Public Health Receives $3.15 Million Grant to Enhance Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Treatment Using mHealth

School of Public Health Receives $3.15 Million Grant to Enhance Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Treatment Using mHealth

Researchers in Georgia State University’s School of Public Health have been awarded a five-year, $3.15 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Cancer Institute to further develop and evaluate a text messaging program to help people quit smoking.

The program, iQuit Mindfully, combines mobile health technology (mHealth) with mindfulness training to provide round-the-clock smoking cessation support for low-income smokers. The study will be led by Claire Spears, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health.

The grant will fund a study to test the effectiveness of personalized and interactive iQuit Mindfully text messages among this demographic compared to in-person mindfulness-based addiction treatment and usual care. The researchers will also investigate the mechanisms through which both methods affect smoking cessation.

News and Announcements, Research News

Researcher Awarded $3 Million Federal Grant To Study Writing Intervention

Researcher Awarded $3 Million Federal Grant To Study Writing Intervention

Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development associate professor Cynthia Puranik has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to study a writing intervention program.

The grant project, entitled, “Peer Assisted Writing Strategies (PAWS): Efficacy,” will test the effectiveness of the PAWS writing intervention in improving writing outcomes for young, beginning writers.

The PAWS intervention pairs students together to work on various writing lessons, which include writing letters, punctuation, spelling and sentence construction.

Appointments and Faculty News, Featured News

Faculty Fellows Selected For College to Career Initiative

Faculty Fellows Selected For College to Career Initiative

Georgia State University has selected faculty fellows for the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan, College to Career: Career Readiness through Everyday Competencies.

The College to Career initiative at Georgia State reinforces the strategic commitment Georgia State has made to “become a national model for undergraduate education by demonstrating that students from all backgrounds can achieve academic and career success at high rates.” The initiative is part of Georgia State University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), a requirement for reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and Universities.

Through College to Career, faculty and staff will help students become aware of career competencies, ensure students connect those competencies to the work they complete in their respective majors, and encourage students to demonstrate and share their understanding of career competencies in coursework and co-curricular programs through Portfolium, a career e-portfolio.

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