JOB POSTING – Senior Level Faculty Position in Experimental Nano-Optics
The newly organized Center for Nano-Optics (CeNO) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University (GSU) are seeking to fill a faculty position at a senior tenured faculty position (Full Professor) in experimental nanooptics and nanoplasmonics.
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ATLANTA—Dr. Ming-Hui Zou, director of the Center for Molecular & Translational Medicine and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Medicine, has received a five-year, $2.3 million federal grant to study how to reduce lung cancer tumor growth.
MAY 8, 2017
People across the country will participate on April 22 in the March for Science, a display of public support for the value of scientific research and the need for a continuing strong investment in it by the federal government.
APRIL 21, 2017

Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh, Ph.D. student and the fellow member of the Center for Nano-Optics, has been recognized as the Outstanding Graduate Student of the year 2017, by the Executive Committee at Georgia State University Physics Department.
MARCH 28, 2017
ATLANTA—Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $4.1 million federal grant to develop a drug targeting Ebola virus.
MARCH 10, 2017
ATLANTA—The Institute for Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) at Georgia State University is offering two new graduate degree programs designed to prepare students for careers in the biomedical sciences that will enhance human health and bring scientific discoveries to market.
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
ATLANTA—Dr. Stuart Jefferies, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University, will lead a multi-institutional team in opening the South Pole Solar Observatory in Antarctica and installing and operating instruments that will record high-resolution images of the Sun.
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
ATLANTA—Scientists at Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) have been awarded a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide scientists greater access to the CHARA Array telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
ATLANTA—Georgia State University has set a research funding record, receiving awards of $120.2 million in fiscal year 2016. The total exceeds the previous record set last year when faculty earned $101 million in research support. Georgia State’s research funding has grown by nearly $40 million in the past two years.
JULY 26, 2016
A minimally invasive screening for ulcerative colitis, a debilitating gastrointestinal tract disorder, using emerging infrared technology could be a rapid and cost-effective method for detecting disease that eliminates the need for biopsies and intrusive testing of the human body, according to researchers at Georgia State University.
APRIL 26, 2016
Think of the universe as a flat sheet stretched out and held at four corners. Now put a bowling ball in the middle.
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
A Georgia State research lab has developed an innovative voice therapy app that could dramatically improve patients’ recovery after vocal injuries.
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Two Georgia State University scientists were among experts invited by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to discuss space weather events related to science and technology efforts, and national preparedness on Thursday, Oct. 29.
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution has been awarded a three-year, $1,118,493 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the second phase of the development of Adaptive Optics (AO) for its six-telescope CHARA Array.
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Researchers at Georgia State and New York University have teamed up to create a school of robotic fish with a big mission.
OCTOBER 19, 2015
The sky could soon be full of thousands of pilotless drones making deliveries, surveying property, even measuring air quality. Is that a good thing?
OCTOBER 2, 2015
Computer science student Gene Chorba makes a living by conquering hackathons across the country.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Georgia State University has been awarded a Campus Technology Innovator Award by Campus Technology magazine for its Collaborative University Research & Visualization Environment (CURVE), a massive, interactive video wall used for big data research and instruction.
JULY 13, 2015
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email ATLANTA–An executive doctorate in business student at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business […]
APRIL 14, 2015
In an age of rapid technological change, Georgia State educators are re-imagining teaching and learning.
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
ATLANTA–Caitlin McMunn Dooley, associate professor in the College of Education at Georgia State University, has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a curriculum for integrating computer science into urban elementary school classrooms.
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Scientists will use ambient noise to image the subsurface of geysers in Yellowstone National Park. ATLANTA—Dr. […]
OCTOBER 6, 2014
Physics professor Mark Stockman’s work could help develop computers that are 1,000 times faster than those we use today.
DECEMBER 12, 2013

The Center for Nano-Optics, a research center whose focus on the science of developing tools and instruments as small as 1,000 times thinner than a human hair could lead to major breakthroughs in technology and biomedicine, has been created at Georgia State University.