Please join us Saturday, April 1, 1 pm in Max Noah Recital Hall for a Senior Recital featuring Taylor Luiz, soprano and Lina Williams, soprano, accompanied by pianist Dr. Lev Ryabinin. Their selections include pieces by Edmund Goulding, Henry Purcell, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Fernando Obradors, Enrique Granados, Reynaldo Hahn, André Campra, Gabriel Fauré, Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Wolfang A. Mozart, Andrew Lippa, Sara Bareilles, Benny Anderson,...
Under the direction and guidance of Dr. Min Kim, Vivian Cassaniti presented her research paper, “Gender Gap in Social Welfare Policy Attitudes,” at the 2023 Georgia Academy of Science conference (March 3-4) and won the award for Best Student Paper. Ms. Cassaniti's study explores the dynamics of gender differences in attitudes to public policy issues and how they shape American politics. This study sheds light on what gendered patterns of public opinion look like in the United States,...
Dr. Arnab Sengupta, Assistant Professor of Biology, and his students returned from spring break excited to set up the Illumina iSeq next-generation sequencer in the Integrated Science Complex. Students, Alexandra Furney, Brittany Benner, Jin Yeong Kim, and Jonathan Hoffman, came in on a Sunday to help unpack and set up the new sequencer. This instrument boosts the department's capacity to conduct cutting-edge biotechnology research entirely in-house. Next-generation sequencing (NGS)...
Dr. Stephanie Opperman, associate professor of history at Georgia College & State University, won a grant of nearly $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a faculty/student project collecting oral histories on the life and works of alumna and author Flannery O’Connor. The funds were part of $28.1 million in grants awarded recently by NEH for more than 200 humanities projects nationwide. These were given for initiatives at colleges and universities, conservation...
The Department of Art and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies Program Present: Ruben Yepes Munoz--Affecting the Conflict: Art, Film, and War in Colombia Wednesday, March 29th, 1:00 PM, Peabody Auditorium For nearly 60 years, Colombia was in the grip of a harrowing internal armed conflict. By the time the peace treaty between FARC—the largest of the country’s guerrilla groups—and the government was signed in 2016, nearly 17% of the population had been a direct victim...
Students in Dr. Steve Elliott-Gower’s Politics of Climate Change class are participating in the 2023 Up To Us Case Competition, a national competition by organized Up to Us in partnership with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Bipartisan Policy Center. The sixteen students, divided into four teams, are researching and writing policy memos that outline fiscally sustainable policy solutions to get the United States to net zero greenhouse gas emissions...
Please join us Sunday, April 2, 3 pm in Max Noah Recital Hall for a Senior Recital featuring Campbell Ransom, soprano, accompanied by pianist Dr. Lev Ryabinin. Her selections include pieces by Henry Purcell, Manuel de Fall, Fernando Obradors, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré and Giacomo Puccini. Campbell is a student of Dr. Youngmi Kim. This recital will also be live streamed on facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment.
You can’t get there by GPS. There are no signs to direct you. But just yards from Hwy 49 in Milledgeville, a little hillside with a great view is abuzz with the sounds and smells of rotating and baking leftover food. An all-female team works this spot and plans to sell their compost, starting this fall. Not many universities have a student-led compost program. The site diverts about 1,000 pounds of food waste from the Georgia College & State University dining hall every week. That’s...
About 65 first and second graders will attend Georgia College & State University’s 5th Renewable Energy Day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today—Tuesday, March 21 at Centennial Center—as physics students demonstrate the power of sun, wind, water, biofuel and other sustainable sources. It’s the first Renewable Energy Day since the COVID-19 pandemic. “Even if they cannot fully comprehend the ideas of climate change or global warming, it’s important to expose children at very young ages to these...
GC Department of Art alumnus Sophia Daniel will be speaking via Zoom on Thursday, March 23, from 5:30-6:30 PM. Please join as she shares her insights on creating a career in the arts. Sophia earned her BA in Art from Georgia College and State University in Spring 2020. Her undergraduate studies were focused on museum studies, chemistry, theater, and art. Sophia’s undergraduate Capstone thesis project was a co-curated exhibition and fashion show titled Unhindered Spirit: Embracing...
