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Georgia State University’s College of Education & Human Development is partnering with four Georgia school districts to help reduce the teacher shortage in Georgia.

The Pathways to Teacher Credentialing Project creates a partnership between the college and Atlanta Public Schools, Gwinnett County Public Schools, the Newton County School System and Rockdale County Public Schools to prepare educators and help the districts retain teachers.

Provisionally licensed teachers who are currently in the classroom and paraprofessionals with bachelor’s degrees in these four districts will earn a Master of Arts in Teaching degree, which will prepare them to become certified teachers of record.

After working 23 years as a school custodian, Tylan Bailey (B.S.E. ’21) has the degree and the job he’s always wanted — as a classroom teacher.

Catherine West (B.S.W. ’23) was born in China when the government’s one-child policy — aimed at addressing the country’s rapid population growth — was in effect. On what she estimates to be near her first birthday, she was adopted by a loving couple from Forsyth County, Ga.

“My parents told me about my birth when I was growing up, but I didn’t understand what it meant to be abandoned or born as a female in China until I was in middle school,” she said.

As a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, continues pushing hospitals to capacity across the U.S., researchers at Georgia State’s Institute for Biomedical Sciences are working to develop vaccines and other forms of treatment to fight this and other serious respiratory viruses.

RSV is a common virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms in adults, but the past two years have seen a dramatic rise in unseasonably early cases that can be life-threatening to infants and older adults. It’s also a leading cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children less than 1 year old, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Georgia State University faculty earned $164.2 million in research funding in fiscal year 2022, the highest total in university history.

This is the eighth consecutive year research awards have topped $100 million. This year’s record surpasses the previous high of?$150 million?set in fiscal year 2020 and is $22 million higher than the previous year’s total. In the past three years, externally funded research activity at the university has climbed 9.5 percent. “This level of research activity is certainly a testament to our outstanding researchers at Georgia State,” said President M. Brian Blake.

Grady Health System and Georgia State University’s Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions announced a formal partnership that will expand the nursing education pipeline and strengthen nursing recruitment at Grady. The partnership enables a greater number of qualified students to fulfill their educational and career aspirations and addresses the critical nursing shortage at Grady, exacerbated by the 正版bbin平台下载 pandemic. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation committed a combined $23.6 million to launch the joint nursing education program.

Total research expenditures at Georgia State University rose to $202.4 million in fiscal year 2020, a new institutional record, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Science Foundation.

On a hot South Georgia summer night, farmworkers line up across the grass at an outdoor clinic waiting area. The workers are waiting for a few minutes of individual care from third-year Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students, possibly the only healthcare these workers will get all year. The clinic is part of the interdisciplinary, multi-university Farm Worker Family Health Program, organized by Emory University School of Nursing and supported locally by the Ellenton Clinic.

Riuki Gakio (B.A. ’21) combined his creative talent with the resources of Georgia State to produce the award-winning film “Our Plastic World.”

Georgia State University has been named a winner of a Virtual Innovation Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) for its virtual student support services 正版bbin平台下载 the 正版bbin平台下载 pandemic.

Joshua Fife, an alumnus of Georgia State University who graduated in 2019 with a degree in journalism, has received the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.

November 11, 2020 – It’s Friday midday, and four Georgia State University nursing students set up tables outside a large lecture hall. Armed with contactless forehead thermometers and a stack of screening questionnaires, Morgan McEntire and Audrey Tomlinson stop each nursing student before they enter the classroom, complete the screening survey and scan the forehead for a temperature reading.