Georgia State University

Georgia State University student Anastasiia Grigoreva was awarded the Ralf F. Munster Fellowship for Outstanding First-Year Graduate Student. The Munster Fellowship is awarded based on academic excellence, including coursework and participation in other academic activities. Grigoreva has presented her work at multiple conferences, including Catcalling as dispositional misogyny: Locating catcalling within the discourse on patriarchy-enforcing speech, presented online at the Social Ontology 2021 Conference of the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS). Grigoreva is pursuing a master's in Philosophy with the Philosophy Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The College of Arts and Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Maximiliana Rifkin presented her paper "What Counts as Ideological Domination?" at the Georgia Philosophical Society's Conference on Rights, Obligations, and Freedom in December. She also had a paper, "On the Construct Stability of Gender Identity in Neuroscience," accepted to the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Session' Philosophy of Neuroscience Graduate Student Showcase' in April. Rifkin, a resident of Fairport, New York, is a master's degree student in the Philosophy Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The College of Arts and Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Monisha Jackson recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Jackson is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Jackson is a Ph.D. student whose research was awarded first place by the National Geographical Society. Her current thesis focuses on queer women of color's experiences in LGBTQ+ night-time spaces. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University graduate student Oluyemi Farinu recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance.

Georgia State University graduate student Calvin Townsend recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Townsend is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Townsend's current research focus is on systemic racism and urban inequality. His dissertation will explore white identity, issues of morality and racism, and religious placemaking. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University graduate student Celessia Cannon recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Cannon is a graduate student in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Cannon is a joint M.A./Ph.D. student and instructor of Sociology at Georgia State, whose research focus include mass incarceration, race, sexuality, gender, and urban sociology. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University graduate student George Greenidge Jr. recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Greenidge is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Greenidge's research focuses on the economic development of cities and the impact of displacement and gentrification on residents. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University graduate student Jenna-Ashley Lee recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Lee is a joint M.A./Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Lee is a 3rd year student whose research focuses on sex work criminalization and the mechanisms by which panic is weaponized to the detriment of marginalized laborers. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Tyler McCoy Gay recently co-authored the sociology textbook Alternative Urbanisms & Social Deviance. Gay is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State. The textbook, a collaboration between former and current M.A. and Ph.D. students from the Sociology Department, serves as a framework to view more clearly the fluidity and intersectionality of socially deviant labels and their consequences. Sociology professor Deirdre A. Oakley is using the textbook in her upper-level course, Deviant Behavior. Gay earned an M.A. in Sociology from Georgia State in 2021. He is a Graduate Research Assistant and focuses on the areas of gender, sexuality, and social movements. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University Ph.D. student Xiulong Yang presented a research paper at the ICCV 2021 Conference in October. The conference focused on computer vision received a "record number of 6,236 submissions this year," according to Yang's advisor Dr. Johnathan Shihao Ji. Yang is pursuing a doctorate in Computer Science from the College of Arts & Sciences. His paper was titled "JEM++: Improved Techniques for Training JEM." Yang co-authored the paper with Ji, an associate professor of Computer Science, and presented it virtually. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

The two-year, predoctoral fellowship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) is given for research training and dissertation work. The fellowship is part of the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Education and Workforce Development program, producing future research leaders in food and agricultural sciences.

The award goes to a graduate student who intends to pursue the master's program with a concentration in southern history. Ethel Illges Woodruff, a native of Columbus, Georgia, was keenly interested in the history of Georgia, eastern Alabama, and the Chattahoochee Valley. This fellowship in honor of Woodruff was established in 1995 in the Department of History at Georgia State by the J.W. and Ethel I. Woodruff Foundation of Columbus. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

The fellowship is awarded to exceptional graduate students who have been accepted into the M.F.A. or Ph.D. degree programs in creative writing, with a specialization in fiction writing. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

The fellowship is awarded to exceptional graduate students who have been accepted into the M.F.A. or Ph.D. degree programs in creative writing, with a specialization in fiction writing. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

The Fulbright fellowship gives students an opportunity to immerse themselves in a host country's customs and culture while they conduct individually designed research projects or serve as English teaching assistants. Fellows in this competitive program receive grants that allow them to participate in a cultural exchange through interactions based in the classroom, home and community.

College of Education & Human Development doctoral student Quintin Bostic is one of two students across the country chosen for the National Association of Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Emerging Professional Development Schools (PDS) Leaders Award.

The Lewis College Graduate Research Conference, which is sponsored by the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions Office of Research, provides graduate students in nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and respiratory therapy the opportunity to exhibit their research in a poster presentation to colleagues in the university. First, second, third place and honorable mention are selected by a panel of judges from disciplines across the university.

The Lewis College Graduate Research Conference, which is sponsored by the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions Office of Research, provides graduate students in nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and respiratory therapy the opportunity to exhibit their research in a poster presentation to colleagues in the university. First, second, third place and honorable mention are selected by a panel of judges from disciplines across the university.

The Lewis College Graduate Research Conference, which is sponsored by the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions Office of Research, provides graduate students in nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and respiratory therapy the opportunity to exhibit their research in a poster presentation to colleagues in the university. First and second place are selected by a panel of judges from disciplines across the university.

The Lewis College Graduate Research Conference, which is sponsored by the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions Office of Research, provides graduate students in nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and respiratory therapy the opportunity to exhibit their research in a poster presentation to colleagues in the university. First and second place are selected by a panel of judges from disciplines across the university.

Georgia State University student Xiaonan Deng has earned the Ambrose H. Pendergrast Fellowship in Chemistry. The Pendergrast Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding doctoral student in medicinal chemistry or biochemistry in honor of former Georgia State chemistry professor Ambrose Pendergrast.

Georgia State University student Anne Werkheiser has received the Brains and Behavior Fellowship, awarded for research contributing to the field of neuroscience. Through the Brains and Behavior program at the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State, graduate students are granted the opportunity to collaborate with others across departments. They are also encouraged to hold student leadership positions and attend developmental lectures.

Georgia State University student Marilyn Millett has received the Donald Ahearn Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The Donald Ahearn Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is awarded to students who are selected by the Biology Department Awards Committee based on merit. The fellowship provides support for scholarly activities and teaching, research, service and administrative activities of the Program in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Georgia State University student Brooke Martin has received the Donald Ahearn Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The Donald Ahearn Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology is awarded to students who are selected by the Biology Department Awards Committee based on merit. The fellowship provides support for scholarly activities and teaching, research, service and administrative activities of the Program in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Georgia State University student Tomaya Carpenter has received the David W. Boykin Graduate Fellowship in Medicinal Chemistry. The Boykin Fellowship was established in 1999 to honor the former chair of the Department of Chemistry, David W. Boykin. It is awarded to an outstanding Ph.D. graduate student in medicinal chemistry. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Mohammad Ghane has received the Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship. Ghane, of Atlanta, is a neuroscience master's degree student in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship provides a three-year fellowship for students in the doctoral program in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State. Students are selected for the fellowship by a committee established by the Dean and the Director of the Neuroscience Institute. To be eligible for the fellowship, students must successfully pass the neuroscience doctoral programs qualifying exam and be ready to advance to their dissertation work. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Arlene George has received the Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship. George, of Lawrenceville, is a neuroscience Ph.D. student in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship provides a three-year fellowship for students in the doctoral program in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State. Students are selected for the fellowship by a committee established by the Dean and the Director of the Neuroscience Institute. To be eligible for the fellowship, students must successfully pass the neuroscience doctoral programs qualifying exam and be ready to advance to their dissertation work. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Nicole Rigney has received the Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship. Rigney, of Atlanta, is a neuroscience Ph.D. student in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship provides a three-year fellowship for students in the doctoral program in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State. Students are selected for the fellowship by a committee established by the Dean and the Director of the Neuroscience Institute. To be eligible for the fellowship, students must successfully pass the neuroscience doctoral programs qualifying exam and be ready to advance to their dissertation work. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

Georgia State University student Connor Kianpour has received the Friedrich William Ralf Munster Fellowship in Philosophy for Excellence in Research. Kianpour, of Great Falls, Va., is a Philosophy master's degree student in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Friedrich William Ralf Munster Fellowship in Philosophy is given to an outstanding graduate student in Philosophy in honor of Ralf F. Munster, who served as the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State from 1955 to 1976. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a skills-based liberal arts and sciences education for Atlanta's diverse, next-generation workforce.

The Honors Thesis Pitch is a contest, challenging undergraduate students to articulate their research projects in a compelling and engaging way in just three minutes or less.