Since the dawn of time, people have feared, fought and sought to control fire.According to USA Today, fires are currently burning in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Just last week, 5,000 people fled the west Canadian town of Jasper. Before summer began—almost 90,000 acres of Californian grassland burned—15 times more than a year ago.Even in Russia’s far east, a jaw-dropping 12.8 million acres of forest today are being scorched.Fortunately, no wildfires...
Please help us celebrate the culmination of GCSU's free certificate course in solar business at 11 a.m. in Magnolia Ballroom at the Student Activities Center. The event marks completion of four cohorts of classes, which provided free instruction and training to residents in green technology, solar power and next-generation business tactics. The solar/business course was funded by a PIN grant and culminated in a final project last week. Ten PIN participants helped install $20,000 worth...
Please help us celebrate the culmination of GCSU's free certificate course in solar business at 11 a.m. in Magnolia Ballroom at the Student Activities Center. The event marks completion of four cohorts of classes, which provided free instruction and training to residents in green technology, solar power and next-generation business tactics. The solar/business course was funded by a PIN grant and culminated in a final project last week. Ten PIN participants helped install $20,000 worth...
The final project for a free certificate course blending business and solar physics at Georgia College & State University will provide $20,000 worth of solar panels to Baldwin County’s Water Treatment Facility. Ten residents who took classes last spring were selected to install 38 solar panels on an EcoFoot2+ Saturday, July 27, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Lamar F. Hamm Water Treatment Plant at 510 East Montgomery Street in Milledgeville. The project is the completion of a new grant...
Most internships are pretty cool. They give students hands-on experience and a chance to see if a career field really suits them.But John Hollis’ three-part internship was much more than that. It was an adventure. A real expedition—trekking past hot springs; vast fields of spikey purple flowers, forests of towering pines, barren ravines, rocky-cliff beaches and spectacular waterfalls. He even visited the volcanic eruption site that caused the town of Grindavík to be evacuated in Nov...
Not only did Junior Ivan Yuan Chu get offered an REU this summer—a Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the National Science Foundation—he got six.The biology major from Hazelhurst, Georgia, chose the 10-week, 2024 Bio REU Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to work on possible pancreatic cancer treatments. He chose Notre Dame, because the atmosphere there was much like his experience at Georgia College & State University—rigorous...
In this six-week YSA program, academically motivated rising seniors conduct research under the guidance of Dr. Catrena Lisse and undergraduate chemistry major mentors. The students tackle an individual research project and acquire valuable technical and analytical skills, culminating in data analysis and a YSA poster symposium. In some cases, YSA interns submit their work to national science conferences like the annual American Chemical Society’s National Conference. Throughout...
In this six-week YSA program, academically motivated rising seniors conduct research under the guidance of Dr. Catrena Lisse and undergraduate chemistry major mentors. The students tackle an individual research project and acquire valuable technical and analytical skills, culminating in data analysis and a YSA poster symposium. In some cases, YSA interns submit their work to national science conferences like the annual American Chemical Society’s National Conference. Throughout...
Mass communication major Avery Jones jumped hurdles and tons of paperwork to make her study abroad dreams come true.She just returned from a month-long trip to Florence, Italy, where she was immersed in learning filmmaking techniques and directing films with the New York Film Academy.“I really wanted to go on this trip to learn and get some hands-on set experience, because that’s how I learn best,” Jones said. “The class got the opportunity to work with camera equipment in ways I wouldn’t...
Dr. Stephanie McClure, a professor of sociology at Georgia College & State University for 20 years, was recently named a Governor’s Teaching Fellow in the state’s Academic Year Symposium program. This selective, yearlong programs consists of monthly sessions lasting two to three days in Athens, Georgia. Unlike the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Summer Symposium, which has yearly themes, the academic year program primarily focuses on course design and redesign. “I was excited to hear the...
