Dr. Kim Reimann, Director
The Asian Studies Center promotes scholarly and academic activities related to Asia and Asian Americans. To this end, the center focuses primarily on research activities and learning opportunities for faculty and students pertaining to South Asia, China and Inner Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and Americans of Asian descent. A variety of programs are supported by the Center, which works to develop and advance a strong awareness of Asia's contributions and importance to the university, the United States, and the world. For more information: www.gsu.edu/~wwwast/.
Drs. Phang C. Tai, Director; A. L. Baumstark, Co-director
The Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design consists of an interdisciplinary group of faculty members from the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science. The center supports faculty research and graduate student training, and collaborative efforts with biotechnology firms in Georgia. Core facilities, supported in part by Georgia Research Alliance, house state-of-the-art research equipment, including high-field NMR spectrometers, nucleic acid/protein sequencers, cell sorters, DNA thermocyclers, RT-PCR, Affimetrix Gene Chip arrays, Mass Spectrophotomer, BiaCore and phosphoimagers. The center provides research opportunities for M.S. and Ph.D. students in biotechnology and related fields. For more information: www.biology.gsu.edu/bio/BDD/index.html.
Dr. H. Elliott Albers, Director
The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, is an award-winning, interdisciplinary research consortium composed of more than 150 neuroscientists from institutions throughout the Atlanta area. The center conducts innovative research in behavioral neuroscience, educates a new generation of interdisciplinary investigators, and promotes an increased public awareness of the interaction of brain function and behavior. Faculty from Georgia State's Neuroscience Institute and the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology play important roles in the work of the center. For more information: www.cbn-atl.org.
Dr. Walter Wilczynski, Director
Brains & Behavior (B&B) is a multi-departmental umbrella program that promotes research broadly related to the Neurosciences. It sponsors student fellowships, provides seed grants for research and promotes collaborations across departments. For more information: www.neuroscience.gsu.edu/3650.html.
Ralph Gilbert, Director
The Center for Collaborative and International Arts (CENCIA) brings together creative writers, visual arts, composers, musicians, actors and playwrights, filmmakers, and scholars engaged in arts-related research at Georgia State University. This cutting edge union of arts-related disciplines is helping to guide the trajectory of the fine arts in the 21st century as boundaries between traditional disciplines give way to exciting new partnerships. As part of and in addition to these activities, CENCIA coordinates the Internationalizing the Arts Area of Focus for the university. For more information visit: arts.gsu.edu.
Dr. David Cheshier, Director
CCSH showcases research in the humanistic disciplines. The main project work of the center is focused on the creation of multi-year research teams, each charged with soliciting external financial support for collaborative scholarship. Center activity also aims to publicize outstanding humanistic work already underway by GSU faculty and students, to provide online resources for those seeking enhanced support for their work, and to establish and strengthen partnerships with local and regional organizations and institutions engaged in related activity. For more information visit: humanities.gsu.edu.
Marilyn Seelman, Interim Director
The Center for Educational Partnerships in Music (CEPM) promotes excellence in music teaching and learning through partnerships among the university, P-12/continuing education, and community arts organizations. In support of this mission, CEPM develops model programs, serves as a resource for existing partnerships, and conducts research on the educational effectiveness of partnership programs. For more information: www.cmp.music.gsu.edu.
Dr. Sidney Crow, Director
The Center for Environmental Research provides diverse research activities at Georgia State University concentrating on environmental issues and problems. By offering undergraduate and graduate research opportunities, the center prepares students for environmentally oriented careers in regional, state, and local governmental agencies and industries. The center is composed of interdisciplinary faculty from the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Geosciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, and Public Administration.
Dr. Andrew I. Cohen, Director
The Center for Ethics supports research on contemporary ethical issues and serves the university and the Atlanta community by sponsoring symposia, lectures, and other programs on ethics in areas such as health care, business, and government. Center affiliates include faculty from several fields in the humanities and social sciences. For more information: www.gsu.edu/ethics.
Dr. Nickitas J. Demos, Director
The Center for Hellenic Studies has the mission of expanding and disseminating knowledge of ancient and contemporary Hellenic cultures. The center achieves this aim through interdisciplinary research, university courses, and community events that focus on Greek history, philosophy, religion, language, society, and arts. The center also supports greater interaction between American and Greek institutions. For more information: www.cas.gsu.edu/hellenic_studies_center.html.
Dr. Harold McAlister, Director
The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) conducts research involving very high resolution imaging of astronomical objects. The center has designed and built the CHARA Array, an optical/interferometric array of six 1-meter telescopes capable of achieving resolution down to 0.0002 arcsecond. This is 50 times greater resolution than that of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Array is located on the grounds of Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California. Georgia State is the only university in the world to have such a uniquely powerful instrument. Faculty, staff, and graduate students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy utilize the CHARA Array for a variety of research programs. For more information: www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA.
Drs. William Downs and Fernando Reati, Co-directors
The Center for Human Rights and Democracy was established in the spring. The mission of the center is to create a major interdisciplinary, collaborative program focused on the contemporary and comparative study of human rights and democracy. Efforts focus on cities, post-colonial nations, post-Soviet regions, post-dictatorship societies, and democracies with high rates of immigration. For more information: www2.gsu.edu/~wwwpol/6131.html
Dr. Leonard Ray Teel, Director
The Center for International Media Education was established in 1997 to assist in the development of media education, professionalism and and research in various parts of the world. The principal focus currently is on the Middle East, North Africa and China. The Center concentrates on curriculum development, student publications, academic and professional internships, and international communication research. It currently publishes two journals, the Journal of Middle East Studies and the Atlanta Review of Journalism History. For more information: www.gsucime.org
Dr. Hector Fernandez-L'Hoeste, Director
The Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies addresses issues of Latin American and Latino culture, economics, and politics through interdisciplinary research, education, and community outreach. Faculty from a variety of departments, including Anthropology, Art History, Communication, Geosciences, History, Modern and Classical Languages, Political Science, and Psychology, examine the opportunities and challenges presented by the emerging Hispanic presence in the Atlanta area and the increasing importance of Latin American culture in the United States. For more information: www2.gsu.edu/~wwwcla/.
Dr. Teryl K. Frey, Director
Molecular Basis of Disease is a multi-departmental program in biomedicine that includes faculty in six departments engaged in interdisciplinary research: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics and Statistics, and Computer Information Systems. The program provides both graduate and undergraduate fellowships as well as support for the state-of-the-art facilities in these departments. For more information: biology.gsu.edu/mbd.
The Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies is an interdisciplinary group created to focus academic research, teaching, and service on the needs of neighborhoods where people live and confront localized issues. Created from a recommendation made by Georgia State University's Arts and Sciences Urban Group, the Center also addresses the whole of the metropolis to allow the study of problems that affect all cities and encourage a comparative focus. For more information: www2.gsu.edu/~wwwnms/.
Dr. Paul S. Katz, Director
The Center for Neuromics fosters research on the fundamental unit of the brain, the neuron. Just as genomics is the characterization of all the genes in an organism, neuromics is the study of neurons and the interconnectivity. The center sponsors research seminars and provides some research support for students working in the field of neuromics. For more information: neuroscience.gsu.edu/neuromics.html.
Dr. MaryAnn Romski, Director
The Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning (CRADL) coordinates scholarly efforts that focus on gaining a fuller understanding of atypical developmental and learning processes from birth through adolescence. An interdisciplinary center, CRADL supports basic and applied research in three primary areas: developmental disabilities, including autism; developmental learning and attention disorders; and acquired brain damage. The center also facilitates educational and outreach efforts. For more information: www.gsu.edu/~wwwaty/.
Dr. David Washburn, Director
The Language Research Center, located on a 55-acre tract of forest in southeast Atlanta, studies the nature of language and the emergence of symbolic-communication skills. Its research concentrates on the advanced cognitive processes of the great apes and monkeys. The center provides graduate research opportunities for students and faculty from the Departments of Psychology, Anthropology, Computer Science, Counseling and Psychological Services, and Biology. For more information: www.gsu.edu/lrc.
Dr. Mary Morris, Director
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has established three centers for the provision of assessment, resources, and research related to students within the University System who have learning disorders. The Regents' Center for Learning Disorders at Georgia State University has been assigned to serve 14 institutions in the Northwest Georgia area. For more information: www.gsu.edu/rcld/.
Drs. Rose Sevcik and Paul Alberto, Co-Directors
The goals of the L&L program are to integrate and build on our current nationally recognized individual research programs to create a world-class interdisciplinary research and doctoral training program focused on the acquisition of language and literacy. The L&L Program includes faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, including the departments of Educational Psychology and Special Education, Psychology, Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Communication, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy Studies, and Philosophy. It also involves partnership with the Center for Research on Atypical Development and Learning, the Language Research Center, and the Regents' Center for Learning Disorders. For more information email palberto@gsu.edu or resevcik@gsu.edu.
Dr. Michael Eriksen, Director
The goal of the Georgia State University Urban Health initiative is to become nationally recognized as a center of excellence in urban health research. The program involves multiple partners from the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Health and Human Sciences, and Law. For more information: urbanhealth.gsu.edu/