GSUMLK25 Updates
GSUMLK25 Updates
Click here for updates about Georgia State University's MLK Commemoration Week 2025.
Click here for updates about Georgia State University's MLK Commemoration Week 2025.
Learn more about events across the university celebrating Juneteenth, Caribbean American Heritage Month and Pride at Georgia State during the summer of 2024.
My Brother's Keeper at Georgia State University served the community at the Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) 6th Annual Thanksgiving Mobile Food Pantry on Nov. 19, 2022, supporting the distribution of hundreds of meals to metro Atlanta families during the holiday season.
The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents unanimously approved honorary degrees for Georgia State’s “Ground Crew” – the three women who worked tirelessly to desegregate Georgia State University.
Georgia State University’s Department of Africana Studies will commemorate and celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1992 sit-in on campus that led to the creation of the department and other efforts to embrace diversity on campus. The department will host a series of virtual and in-person events from Monday, Oct. 31 through Sunday, Nov. 6 that are free and open to the campus community and public at large. The first panel will feature a conversation with some of the student activists.
The historic investiture of Dr. M. Brian Blake, the eighth president of Georgia State University and its first African American president, is taking place Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 at the university's new Convocation Center. During the celebration week, Our Place, Our Time, events have taken place surrounding strategic pillars upon which Georgia State is building its plans and strategic vision: research and innovation, student success, college to careers and identity and placemaking.
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support the start of a new program to increase the recruitment, retention, engagement and support of women faculty in STEM fields, especially for women from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Edvige Jean-François, an award-winning global journalist and producer, has been named as the inaugural executive director of the Center for Studies on Africa and Its Diaspora (CSAD) at Georgia State University. Jean-François assumes the leadership position at CSAD, a key research and community outreach unit of the university’s College of Arts & Sciences, July 1.