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Samantha (Sam) Paton   Town/state: Marietta, Georgia   Major/minor: I’m double majoring in political science and criminal justice with a minor in economics. I’ve always been interested in government and law since I was a kid. History and government have been my strongest subjects in school. It’s in my best interests to study something I enjoy and am good at.      Why Georgia College? I like GCSU because of the small environment and smaller class sizes. I’d like to be able to get to...

Georgia College’s Young Scientists Academy (YSA)—a six-week program that gives high school youth from disadvantaged, rural areas a crack at university-level research—returned this summer in a big way. It was the first YSA since the pandemic and, because of COVID, its seven high school participants had little or no lab experience. They’d only taken chemistry online. Their first real lab experience was in Georgia College’s state-of-the-art Integrated Science Complex (ISC) with everything...

 When creativity strikes, art major Lizzy Crump of Alpharetta, Georgia, draws her thoughts down on paper. The scope of her artistic subjects is limitless—as far as her imagination takes her.     Crump has always liked to draw, but her passion to illustrate was truly awakened in middle school. She started drawing more and continued through her senior year of high school. “I remember getting in trouble with some of my teachers for drawing on my homework,” Crump said. “That’s what inspired...