Tuesday, Sept. 19 Guest Artists Lindsay Leach Sparks, flute, and Joshua K. Pifer, piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. in Georgia College & State University’s Max Noah Recital Hall. Faculty members at Valdosta State University, the musicians hope to depict different scenes and images through compositions they’ve chosen. Soviet composer Otar Taktakishvili wrote his “Sonata for Flute and Piano” in 1966 with repeating diatonic melodies and rhythm. Other works include American composer John...
Monday, Sept. 18 as part of Georgia College & State University’s annual “Constitution Week,” the music department will host a lively production of political campaign music with a lecture at 6 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom. The concert, “Tunes from the Trail: A program featuring music from U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1840-1964,” will feature well-known campaign songs like “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too,” “Modern Democracy” and “Hello Lyndon.” The lecture, “Clashing Political Values and American...
From the book’s synopsis: “In How to Think Like a Woman, Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography and criticism to tell these women’s stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy, as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest and wickedly intelligent, this is a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia and a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.” Penaluna is a writer and...
From the book’s synopsis: “In How to Think Like a Woman, Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography and criticism to tell these women’s stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest and wickedly intelligent, this is a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia and a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.” Penaluna is a writer and...
At her North Carolina internship this summer, Anna Agi was able to introduce the water-quality company to a few things about diatoms—a form of microscopic, single-celled algae with glass cell walls that converts light into energy. Diatoms generate up to 25% of the earth’s oxygen and are found in almost every aquatic environment from freshwater to the ocean. “It’s important to get involved in research if you’re in a science background, because it opens your mind and doors to so many...
Dr. Arash Bodaghee, associate professor of Physics and Astronomy, and his Scholar, Cody Cox, '22, published an article in The Astrophysical Journal: the top-rated peer-reviewed journal devoted solely to Astronomy and Astrophysics. Using X-ray observations from NASA's NuSTAR space telescope, Cox and Bodaghee studied a high-mass X-ray binary in which a star several times more massive than the sun is paired with a neutron star (i.e., the remnant core of a massive star after its supernova)...
Dr. Scott Buchanan, professor of Political Science, was recently quoted in two media outlets—one domestic and one international. Both articles are focused on former President Trump's recent indictment in Georgia. The links to both stories are below. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/q1Mnr1/de-som-elsker-trump https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4159319-georgia-indictment-sharpens-rift-between-trump-and-the-peach-state/
Dr. Chad Whittle, assistant professor of Mass Communication, contributed a podcasting script from his podcast, "The Chad Whittle Podcast," to a new textbook, "Scripting Media." The new textbook, published by Routledge, combines professional standards, practices, and jargon from across the media industry to provide a complete overview of writing for divergent forms of media for students and readers.
Thursday, Sept. 28 The Georgia College & State University Music Department presents The Allen Duo—an ensemble featuring saxophone and flute professors Andrew and Elise Allen with pianist Lev Ryabinin—for “Staying the Night” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. The recital title is taken from music for flute and saxophone by contemporary composer David Biedenbender that will close the performance. Biedenbender is an associate professor at Michigan State University. This version of...
Thursday, Sept. 28 The Georgia College & State University Music Department presents The Allen Duo—an ensemble featuring saxophone and flute professors Andrew and Elise Allen with pianist Lev Ryabinin—for “Staying the Night” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. The recital title is taken from music for flute and saxophone by contemporary composer David Biedenbender that will close the performance. Biedenbender is an associate professor at Michigan State University. This version of...
