Axel Hawkins named Truman Scholarship finalist
Georgia College & State University junior Axel Hawkins has been named a finalist in the 2024 Truman Scholarship competition. Hawkins, a history major from McDonough, Georgia, will interview with the regional review panel in Atlanta on March 15. The Truman Scholarship Foundation will announce the 2024 Truman Scholars on April 19.
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Three-year project kicks into high gear: Students work to purify toxic soil from mining in Zambia
Georgia College & State University students are sowing the seeds of change. Funded through a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), an environmental science professor is leading this transformation in the central-southern region of Africa.
Mentorship helps lead alumnus to medical school and beyond
Dr. Ahmed Al-Bayati, ’12, has come a long way from growing up in war-torn Baghdad, where he served as a translator, to reaching the peak of his education as a medical school graduate and beginning his surgical residency. Georgia College's premedical mentoring program was one of the most important steppingstones to his career in medicine.
Addressing global health problems from Milledgeville
In 2020, about 18.8 per 100,000 men in the U.S. died of prostate cancer (American Cancer Society). But this rate is doubled for non-Hispanic Black men, who die from the same disease at a rate of 37.5 per 100,000 men. Dr. Ernest Kaninjing is working to find out why.
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GCSU ecologist and students spotlight the unknown underworld of millipedes
Millipedes have been around forever. Thought to be earth’s first creature to leave water and breathe on land—the creeping, burrowing arthropods are essential for healthy soil and forests. Yet, despite this critical contribution to the environment, only a handful of scientists in the world study the lowly, multi-segmented invertebrate.
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Colin Hall earns Georgia College & State University’s first-ever Truman Scholarship
Colin Hall, a political science major from Jones County, is Georgia College & State University’s first-ever Truman Scholar. The Truman Scholarship is a highly competitive national award given to exceptional college juniors who demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to public service and academic excellence.
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Graduates are the first GCSU Doctors of Education
In 2023, April Dockery and Daymond Ray became the first graduates of Georgia College & State University’s doctoral program in Curriculum and Instruction (C&I). Dockery and Ray were each awarded an Ed.D. – a Doctor of Education degree – during the December commencement ceremony held in the Centennial Center.
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GCSU professor becomes national go-to for AI in higher ed
These days, the subject of artificial intelligence is rife with the headiness of what it can accomplish versus people’s fear of the unknown. Will this rapidly evolving technology take over, destroying jobs and shoving humans aside? In particular, how will it impact higher education? Universities nationwide are turning to Georgia College & State University’s Professor of Secondary Education Dr. Cynthia Alby for answers.
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GCSU alumnus presents $100,000 check to GCSU on behalf of Aflac
Virgil R. Miller, ’92, is the president of Aflac U.S. He jumped on that prestigious path as an accounting major and mathematics minor at Georgia College & State University. Outfitted in an Aflac-blue blazer lined with both Aflac and Georgia College logos, Miller recently presented a $100,000 Aflac CareGrant to the university’s College of Health Sciences—the first of its kind in the state of Georgia. The money will support implementation of COHS’ newest initiative: a mobile health clinic.