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  • Diya Patel

    Eager to become a physician, ʳɫÊÓÆµ State psychology student graduating at age 19

    December 05, 2024

    Diya Patel knows she has a long road ahead to achieve her dream of becoming a physician, so she decided to sprint through the work needed to earn her undergraduate degree at ʳɫÊÓÆµ. At 19, she will graduate with honors on Dec. 10 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

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  • Coles College of Business

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State offers first rural management MBA in the country

    December 05, 2024

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ is launching a new Rural Management concentration for its Evening Master of Business Administration program in Fall 2025. The program, which is the first rural management MBA program in the country, will empower rural communities to create economic opportunities and improve the quality of life for their residents.

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  • Awatef Ergai

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State researchers are reshaping healthcare with innovative technologies in the HOPE Lab

    December 04, 2024

    Researchers in ʳɫÊÓÆµâ€™s Human Factors, Operations Optimization, and Ergonomics (HOPE) Lab, are aiming to improve healthcare by integrating advanced technologies like eye-tracking sensors and wearable exoskeletons to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and enhance care quality.

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  • Banks family

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State honors inaugural Family of the Year

    December 03, 2024

    Recognizing the vital role families play in the lives of their college students, ʳɫÊÓÆµâ€™s Division of Student Affairs (DSA) recently awarded the Banks family of ʳɫÊÓÆµ the inaugural Family of the Year distinction. Following a monthlong nomination and review process, first-year anthropology student Julia Banks and her family were selected by DSA staff to be honored during Family Weekend.

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  • walens signing ceremony

    Walens family commits $4M to ʳɫÊÓÆµ State Athletics

    November 26, 2024

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  • Olivia Walker

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State biology student studies links between soil and tree health

    November 22, 2024

    Olivia Walker grew up with a love of hiking in the woods, not realizing at the time she might be walking among endangered species of trees. After graduation from Dunwoody High School, she arrived as a freshman at ʳɫÊÓÆµ with a strong interest in environmental science, where she was accepted into the First-Year Scholars Program to study longleaf pine forest ecosystems with biology professor Paula Jackson.

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  • Todd Pierson

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State researcher earns NSF grant to study urban amphibians, create undergraduate research opportunities

    November 21, 2024

    A ʳɫÊÓÆµ researcher recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the evolution of salamanders’ behavioral habits in urban streams, which will in turn fund more undergraduate research opportunities for ʳɫÊÓÆµ students. Assistant professor of biology Todd Pierson has received a three-year, $380,238 grant from the NSF through a program called Building Research Capacity in Biology (BRC-BIO). The program is designed to broaden research participation at minority-serving universities and Carnegie-designated R2 institutions like ʳɫÊÓÆµ.

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  • Austin Brown

    ʳɫÊÓÆµ State researchers take big steps in obesity research with NIH grant

    November 19, 2024

    As our population continues to age, the need for accessible health solutions is more urgent than ever. A recent grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting ʳɫÊÓÆµ faculty members, including principal investigator Bob Buresh and co-principal investigators Brian Kliszczewicz and Austin Brown, in investigating how walking can be a transformative and cost-effective approach to fighting obesity.

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  • Siam Sarower

    First-generation student follows physics curiosity to ʳɫÊÓÆµ State

    November 18, 2024

    Equipped with an insatiable curiosity, Siam Sarower has set his sights on learning as much about his world as possible. In his pursuits, Sarower has landed himself on the President’s List, earned a Coca-Cola First-Generation Scholarship, and joined the ʳɫÊÓÆµ Journey Honors College. He credits his parents and older brother, now a civil engineer, for supporting his journey as one of the first in his family to seek a degree.

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  • Kerrigan Larkin

    Early childhood experiences set ʳɫÊÓÆµ master's student on right path

    November 14, 2024

    An animal lover from a young age, Kerrigan Larkin found her calling long before enrolling at ʳɫÊÓÆµ. During walks in Marietta’s Laurel Park with her grandmother, Larkin learned about the plants and animals she saw. She applied that knowledge first as an Honors biology major at ʳɫÊÓÆµ, and now as a second-year student in the Master of Science in Integrative Biology program.

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