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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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Georgia State University Earns More Than $185M in Grants in FY ’24

Georgia State University Earns More Than $185M in Grants in FY ’24

Georgia State University earned $185.72 million in research awards in fiscal year 2024. This is the second-highest total in university history, and the fifth year in a row the university has topped $140 million in grants.

More than 1,300 projects were funded over the course of the fiscal year, and 26 investigators earned awards of $1 million or more. Of the university’s top 10 grant recipients, half are women.

Georgia State is one of the largest public research universities in Georgia and one of a handful of institutions in the state with an R1 designation from the Carnegie Foundation. Outgoing research expenditures have doubled in the last decade and topped $1.2 billion over the last six years.

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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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University Research Funding Sets Record for Third Year in a Row

University Research Funding Sets Record for Third Year in a Row

Georgia State University’s research community has set a new funding record for the third year in a row, with $224.72 million in grants earned in fiscal year 2023. The university has now topped $125 million in grants each of the past five years.

A total of 1,351 projects were funded over the course of the year, and 20 investigators earned awards of $1 million or more. Of those 20, more than half are women.

Multiple colleges within the university also set records for total awards. Click the story link to learn more.

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Georgia State’s CHARA Array Detects Elusive, Dusty Inner Region of Distant Galaxy

Georgia State’s CHARA Array Detects Elusive, Dusty Inner Region of Distant Galaxy

An international team of scientists has achieved the milestone of directly observing the long-sought, innermost dusty ring around a supermassive black hole, at a right angle to its emerging jet. Such a structure was thought to exist in the nucleus of galaxies but had been difficult to observe directly because intervening material obscured our line of sight.

Now the inner disk is detected using the highest spatial resolution in the infrared wavelengths ever done for an extragalactic object. The new discovery was just published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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