Friday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. Blackbird Coffee, The Birdhouse Theater, 114 W Hancock St., MilledgevilleGeorgia College & State University is pleased to host an evening of poetry with Alice Friman, newly inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and Kerry James Evans, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Georgia College. Both poets will read from their recent collections.Alice Friman is the author of eight full-length collections, most...
Congratulations to Professor Peter Selgin on the publication of his latest book, "Painting Stories: a Life in Pictures and Words," just out with Serving House Books. "PAINTING STORIES: a Life in Pictures and Words" is a unique memoir of an artist’s life. For decades, Peter Selgin struggled to reconcile his two great passions, writing and visual art, feeling that he had to choose between them or fail at both. In this unique memoir pairing pictures with mini-essays, Selgin unites those...
By Ian Wesselhoff Georgia College & State University mass communication students organized a three-week battery recycling competition, culminating on Earth Day, across all five public Baldwin County K-8 schools. This is the second iteration of the “Battery Hero” project that Georgia College seniors debuted at Midway Hills Academy last semester. This semester, a new group of 24 students in a public relations planning class helped add four more schools: Lakeview Primary, Lakeview Academy,...
Students in ANTH 4950 Ethnographic Methods have completed original ethnographic research projects exploring the different ways public spaces in Milledgeville, Georgia, facilitate community building for students and locals. Looking at downtown, the Oconee River Greenway and public libraries specifically, students have studied how activities like karaoke, trivia, maintenance work, dog walking, book clubs and story time bring people together, and the ways in which people create meaning...
Students in ANTH 4950 Ethnographic Methods have completed original ethnographic research projects exploring the different ways public spaces in Milledgeville, Georgia, facilitate community building for students and locals. Looking at downtown, the Oconee River Greenway and public libraries specifically, students have studied how activities like karaoke, trivia, maintenance work, dog walking, book clubs and story time bring people together, and the ways in which people create meaning...
Raisa Martinez, BS (’13) was honored as an Alumnus of Distinction at the Department of Psychological Science’s annual recognition ceremony, PSYC-CON, held this past Friday. Last year, Dr. Rebecca Free, BS (’14) received the same distinction. Notably, both alumni were recognized as high-performing undergraduates, and, in their senior year, each earned the prestigious Bill McDaniel Undergraduate Research Award, named for Professor Emeritus Dr. Bill McDaniel. Martinez went on to earn...
By Ian Wesselhoff On April 17, Georgia College & State University ornithology students were at Andalusia Farm monitoring the nesting success of prothonotary warblers – using nest boxes that the students built and installed themselves. The session was part of their ongoing project to track the birds’ migration habits, funded by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The prothonotary warbler is a species of high conservation concern in Georgia, and their migration has never been...
Please join us this Wednesday, April 22, in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room of Russell Library from 12 to 12:50 p.m. for the last Times Talk of the semester facilitated by Madelyn Jones, Riley Burns and Dr. Stephanie McClure on "Does it matter who goes where to college?"The following articles may be referenced during the discussion: "College Can't Be Only for Rich Kids"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/opinion/pell-grants-college-universities.html?smid=url-share "Rich Kids...
Please join us this Wednesday, April 22, in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room of Russell Library from 12 to 12:50 p.m. for the last Times Talk of the semester facilitated by Madelyn Jones, Riley Burns and Dr. Stephanie McClure on "Does it matter who goes where to college?"The following articles may be referenced during the discussion: "College Can't Be Only for Rich Kids"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/opinion/pell-grants-college-universities.html?smid=url-share "Rich Kids...
Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 6:30 p.m.Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Russell LibraryGeorgia College & State University’s MFA in Creative Writing is proud to present its Spring 2026 Graduation Reading. Join us on Thursday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room at Russell Library to celebrate five graduating writers as they read from their culminating thesis work in poetry and fiction.Kai Elliot Beck, a poet from Northwest Arkansas, crafts portraits of masculinity...
