Georgia State University has awarded Jonathan Smith the prestigious 2025 Ignite Award. Smith is an associate professor of economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and a faculty fellow at the Georgia Policy Labs.
Smith received the Faculty Research Partnership Award, which recognizes an individual or a team of Georgia State researchers who, in partnership with an external, non-academic entity, has made significant contributions to a research, scholarly or creative field, a specific outstanding discovery, the development of innovative technology, scholarly or creative work, or a practice that has a significant impact locally, nationally or globally.