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Alan Shaw

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State professor changing lives of the underrepresented

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State professor changing lives of the underrepresented. Born at the height of the Civil Rights movement as the son of one of the nation’s first black physicists, Alan Shaw stands on the shoulders of giants who changed the course of history. 

Now an associate professor and... 

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Making Math Matter: A District Leader’s Mission

Tonya Clarke has always loved math. But the students she taught during her first year in the classroom 25 years ago decidedly did not. The class of juniors and seniors in Georgia’s Clayton County public schools had been told they weren’t on a college track. They couldn’t see how... 

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²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State ranked among nation’s best in undergraduate teaching, first-year programs

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State University has earned national recognition for its undergraduate instruction and first-year student initiatives in the U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Colleges rankings, released today.

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State is ranked among the top 40...

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Local teachers tap into ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State for cybersecurity instruction

Faculty members from ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State University’s College of Computing and Software Engineering and Bagwell College of Education are helping metro Atlanta middle and high school teachers educate their students about cybersecurity.

Through a grant they received from...

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Brian Lawler

NSF grant to help ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State address need for computer science teachers

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ State University computer science professor Dan Lo and mathematics education associate professor Brian R. Lawler have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to help meet the increasing demand for computer science teachers in grades 6-12.

The College of Computing and Software Engineering will partner with...

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Culturally Relevant Integration CS Mathematics

This symposium aimed to bring scholars and researchers from diverse backgrounds to consider ways in which culturally relevant approaches might enhance integrated approaches to learning computation and mathematics.