The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
Solar eclipse glasses for viewing the April 8 solar eclipse will be available in limited quantities courtesy of the Georgia College & State University Science Education Center and Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy Kaolin Endowed Chair from one of three options. 1) Students living in campus housing will have access to eclipse glasses as distributed by housing supervisors. 2) Students and staff members not affiliated with GCSU housing may obtain eclipse glasses at the Russell...
A total solar eclipse will happen in parts of the U.S. Monday, April 8 2024. While the total eclipse can be viewed on a path from Texas to Maine, the view from the Georgia College & State University campus will be a partial solar eclipse from 1:47 p.m. to 4:21 p.m. EDT. Maximum sun coverage by the new moon will occur at 3:05 p.m. The face of the sun will be 81% obscured by the moon at that time. Safe viewing of the eclipse will be possible with eclipse glasses or telescopes designed...
Several of Dr. Mariana Stoyanova's SPAN 3020 students recently spent a morning participating in Read Across America Day. The students read two bilingual stories—Goldilocks & the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs—to several second grade classes at Midway Hills Primary School. Programs like these provide a mutually beneficial partnership where Georgia College & State University students get real-world, hands-on experience using the language they are studying, and local public school...
The Georgia College & State University chapter of Sigma Delta Pi Hispanic Honor Society recently held an induction ceremony to welcome eight new members. The new inductees include: Lynda Gulledge, Annabel Hirst, Grant Jones, Rachel Lumpkin, Paola Martinez, Charlotte Parker, Morgan Uesseler and Syndey Underhill. The Department of World Languages & Cultures would like to congratulate these exceptional students for their dedication to the study of the Spanish language.
Dr. Wayne Clough, secretary emeritus, Smithsonian Institution (2008-2014) and president emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology (1994-2008), recently visited the William P. Wall Museum of Natural History at Georgia College & State University. Dr. Clough was on campus completing research for a book detailing the scientifically important fossil discoveries from the state. He was hosted by Dr. Al Mead and the museum staff, and met with Provost Spirou and Dean Tenbus during his visit...
Dr. Volkmann is chair of the Institute of English and American Studies at the FSU Jena and a well-published expert in Pedagogy. He earned his doctorate from The University of Erlangen in 1989. Some of his most recent accomplishments are: PILOTS-Partnerschaften International im Lehramt durch Online-Tandem-Seminare: Virtual Exchanges des Jenaer Lehramtes. Published October 2023. This poster presents the PILOTS project, which aimed to organize and investigate virtual exchanges in teacher...
Georgia College & State University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures will host Dr. Laurenz Volkman from the Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany, as the Provost’s visiting scholar. Dr. Volkmann is chair of the Institute of English and American Studies at the FSU Jena and a well-published expert in Pedagogy. He earned his doctorate from The University of Erlangen in 1989. Some of his most recent accomplishments are: PILOTS-Partnerschaften International im Lehramt...
Are you over the age of 21 with full range of motion in hands and arms? You are invited to participate in this study. The purpose of this study is to compare and examine the effectiveness of the flute on individuals with long-COVID breathlessness vs. individuals without long-COVID breathlessness. Within this study, you will be asked to attend 15 sessions total, three times a week for one month. This study will take place April 1 - May 5, and these group sessions will consist of a breath...
