Features

Global Healer

Posted On September 15, 2012
Categories 2012 Fall, Features Tags

Story by Michelle Hiskey, Photography by Meg Buscema Nairobi, December 1967:

Iqbal Paroo, a willful achiever who had climbed Kilimanjaro and captained the cricket team, was home on leave from his training as an 18-year-old Kenyan military pilot. He had no idea that on this afternoon his life was about to change forever. Out for… more »

Staying Ahead of the Storm

Posted On September 5, 2012
Categories 2012 Fall, Features Tags

Story by Jeremy Craig, Photography by Steven Swigart To better prepare coastal Georgia for the worst, a GSU researcher digs to uncover clues from hurricanes of the past

CUMBERLAND ISLAND, NATIONAL SEASHORE, Ga. — “Nature writes a book for you,” says assistant professor of geosciences Lawrence Kiage while at the wheel of a pickup truck bouncing… more »

The Precedent

Posted On September 4, 2012
Categories 2012 Fall, Features Tags

Story by Kathleen Poe Ross, Photography by Meg Buscema For four years, GSU has championed the cause of higher education in a landmark copyright lawsuit. The university prevailed in a U.S. district court, blazing a trail for fair use in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Georgia State University achieved a victory for educational institutions around the… more »

Brains in the Family

Posted On August 24, 2012
Categories 2012 Fall, Features Tags

Inspired by their daughter, a couple gives to support the minds behind Neuroscience

By Michelle Hiskey

No parent wants the phone to ring late at night. When Georganne Honeycutt (M.B.A.’80) went to bed that evening in 2008, she knew her adult daughter, Claire, had left for a conference for doctoral students, feeling like her research… more »

A Better Way

Posted On August 21, 2012
Categories 2012 Summer, Features Tags

Researcher Discovers the Humble Sweet Potato Plant May Lead to Kinder, Gentler Ways to Fight Cancer

Story by Jeremy Craig Photography by Meg Buscema, Carolyn Richardson and Steve Thackston

Ritu Aneja is a scientist who lives off the beaten research path. While Aneja’s focus has been and continues to be research in mitosis — the… more »

The Panther Bridge

Posted On August 21, 2012
Categories 2012 Summer, Features Tags

Student Alumni Association Builds Ties to GSU, Connects Current Students and Alumni

Story by William Inman Photography by Carolyn Richardson

Brad Ferrer (B.B.A. ’81) was like just about every other student on the GSU campus in the late 1970s and the early 80s —  he held a full-time job and drove downtown every morning for… more »

The Policy of Andrew Young

Posted On June 11, 2012 by Kathleen Poe Ross
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Atlanta icon lends his legacy to GSU

From the window of his 44th floor office on the northern end of downtown Atlanta, Andrew Young has a panoramic view of the city. With Freedom Parkway to the east and Centennial Olympic Park to the west, he can look down Peachtree Street, out over Georgia State University,… more »

History in Hand

Posted On March 10, 2012 by Jeremy Craig
Categories 2012 Spring, Features Tags

GSU team brings the Gold Dome to life with new app

Photography by Meg Buscema

For more than a century, the wood and marble halls of Georgia’s state Capitol building have thrummed with legislators and leaders, lobbyists and citizens, all with the aim of shaping Peach State policy.

In a state that has undergone massive… more »

Business Etiquette

Posted On March 10, 2012 by Molly Badgett
Categories 2012 Spring, Features Tags

Here to Stay, So Take Note. Manners never go out of style

Illustrations by Elizabeth Landt

Etiquette is such an old-fashioned word, inviting visions of pinky fingers properly perched by porcelain cups, and haberdashery held patiently in chivalrous hands. Of French origin, the word can seem hoity-toity and off-putting.

But make no mistake. Despite decades… more »