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Selected Works: The Next Academic Step to Graduate Studies: The Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni

Graduation cap decorated with a checklist of bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees

Georgia State, known for helping undergraduate students from all backgrounds succeed, and an institution serving an increasing number of graduate students from racial or ethnic minority backgrounds, is elevating its focus on student success in graduate and professional degree programs.

One new approach is housed in the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA), recently established to help encourage and support students from underrepresented populations to enter advanced degree programs that can lead to academic and professional careers.

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Selected Works: Georgia State Marks Opening of LaunchGSU, An Incubator for Student Entrepreneurship

LaunchGSU, open to students with ideas for startup businesses, provides space to work, meet and hold events. For students accepted to the program, LaunchGSU offers technology, 24/7 access, a mailing address for their startup businesses, workshops, panels, talks and tours of other downtown Atlanta startup spaces, and connections to successful entrepreneurs in Atlanta. (Feb. 22, 2018 at provost.gsu.edu)

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Selected Works: Lessons in Grit from the World of Ballet

Patrick Turner kept his passion for ballet a secret for years. Now he uses the lessons he learned from dance to help first-generation college students find their way in the world.

(Originally published at the Georgia State University News Hub, Oct. 21, 2015)

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Selected Works: Atlanta’s Fight Against Modern-Day Slavery

Atlanta has become a national hub for human trafficking, but efforts to combat the trade are gaining steam.

(Originally published at the Georgia State University News Hub, Oct. 15, 2015. Archived at https://newsarchive.gsu.edu/2015/10/15/atlantas-fight-against-modern-day-slavery/.)

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Selected Works: CHARA Captures Rare Stellar Eclipse

Artist’s depiction of a stellar eclipse
In this artist's concept, Epsilon Aurigae (the supergiant star at right) is starting to be eclipsed by the dust disk circling a single, much dimmer B star. A new model explains the decades-old paradoxes of this system by assuming that its stars are relatively old, not young. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

For the first time ever, scientists working with Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) array have captured very high resolution images that shed new light on what causes the mysterious stellar eclipses of the double star system Epsilon Aurigae. (Originally published April 8, 2010)