Giving
It’s an exciting time for the College of Arts and Sciences. We are building new interdisciplinary programs, and strengthening our existing departments. Our faculty are receiving national recognition for the quality of their research and the excellence of their teaching. And our students are taking their place on the national stage – winning competitions, receiving prestigious scholarships, and finding new ways to connect their learning with the world around them.
Your generosity makes this vital work possible. Alumni and friends support every aspect of college life, making it possible for us to deal with present needs, and to plan for the future. Please read on to learn how you can help us build the future of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University.
Fellowships Attract Students to Georgia State
Establishing a graduate student fellowship allows the College of Arts and Sciences the ability to attract the most promising young scholars throughout Georgia and the nation. Fellowship awards ensure educational opportunity and make a difference in a graduate’s career by alleviating some of the financial pressures graduate students encounter, while allowing them to focus on research and their intellectual growth during their time at Georgia State. These exceptional students are the next generation of artists, scientists, researchers, teachers, and business leaders. For more information on Graduate Student Fellowships and other ways to give, click here.
Catharine Collar - Ph.D. - Chemistry
Catharine Collar is working on an experimental compound called DB75 for treating sleeping sickness, a deadly disease that infects some 300,000 new people in-sub-Saharan Africa each year. Collar, whose specialty is Biophysical Medicinal Chemistry, uses research data to build computer models of the compound, and to predict how effective different versions will be. Collar says she came to Georgia State from Seattle, Washington, because she was attracted by the university's funding and research support for computational drug design. Collar was awarded a fellowship in Chemistry.
Kerin Flatley - Ph.D., A.B.D. - English
Kerin Flatley is finishing her first novel, titled Granite Hill, for her Ph.D. in Creative Writing. It's going well, thanks to the Paul Bowles Graduate Fellowship in Fiction Writing, which has given her the financial support she needs to focus on her writing. "As a fiction writer, I need blocks of uninterrupted time more than anything else in order to complete my work, and the Paul Bowles fellowship gave me just that: much-needed time to write and revise during my first year as a Ph.D. student," Flatley says. Flatley came to Georgia State from Massachusetts, where she earned a B.A. from Fairfield University in Connecticut, and an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University. She is already an award-winning writer, having received both an Agnes Scott College Writer's Award in Fiction and first place in Creative Loafing's 2005 Fiction Contest. Flatley also spent a summer working as an assistant to poet Maya Angelou.
Emily Harris - Ph.D., - A.B.D. - Psychology
How do apes know things, and what can we learn about ourselves from studying them? Emily Harris is driven to answer these questions, and has a unique opportunity to do so at Georgia State's Language Research Center. Harris, a graduate student who works with chimpanzees, rhesus macaques and capuchin monkeys at the center is particularly interested in the way primates understand numbers, and in the relationship between emotion and cognition. Harris says that the Duane M. Rumbaugh Fellowship "has given me the freedom to delve deeper into my research and pursue all the promising avenues, rather than focusing solely on my thesis and dissertation projects." Harris graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in biological anthropology and anatomy, a minor in psychology, a certificate in neuroscience, and received her M.A. from Georgia State.
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