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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.

Research News

Researcher Gets $552,000 Grant To Study How Dietary Fiber Can Protect Against Diabetes

Researcher Gets $552,000 Grant To Study How Dietary Fiber Can Protect Against Diabetes

Dr. Jun Zou, a research assistant professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year, $552,000 grant to study how dietary fiber can protect against diabetes and other disorders associated with metabolic syndrome.

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects 30.3 million adults in the United States and is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled, and this increase is partially due to the consumption of modern diets that lack dietary fiber.

Zou’s Junior Faculty Development Award from the American Diabetes Association will be used to increase understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which dietary fiber prevents the development of metabolic syndrome, a collection of disorders that includes high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol. This knowledge could enable harnessing of these pathways to safely treat and prevent type 2 diabetes.

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Early-Career Faculty, Postdocs Invited to Apply for the Thomas Jefferson Fund

Early-Career Faculty, Postdocs Invited to Apply for the Thomas Jefferson Fund

Early-career, Georgia State University assistant or associate professors, as well as postdocs, are invited to apply for the FACE Foundation’s Thomas Jefferson Fund, an opportunity to foster international research in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Humanities and Social Studies (HSS), and interdisciplinary STEM-HSS between American and French researchers.

Featured News, News and Announcements, Student Success, Teaching and Learning

State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has received a $55,000 award from State Farm to expand programs and events to promote digital literacy.

The award will fund increased access to workshops and events held by two organizations sponsored by CETL, the Digital Learners to Leaders program and PantherHackers student organization. Both organizations encourage students to explore technology through project-based and experiential learning.

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