You might think a neutron star or black hole is nothing but empty darkness and, thus, immeasurable. But they’re not vacant. Matter is squeezed tightly into a small space creating a gravitational pull so strong even light can’t escape. They come in different sizes and move about in space, consuming their twin star and anything else in their path as fuel. Now, Georgia College & State University Physics Professor Dr. Arash Bodaghee and Cody Cox of Milledgeville—a recent physics graduate...
Nicole Snyder, senior chemistry major and dance minor, spent her summer working toward cancer solutions at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She studied in the lab of Dr. Jeff Aubé, professor in the UNC Department of Chemistry, within the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery. She worked directly under Ryan Sherrier, her graduate student mentor, as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates or REU. “We were working on synthesizing something being...
Morgan Collins, a first-year chemistry student, is the first from Georgia College & State University to receive an American Chemical Society Project SEED Scholarship. This year, this competitive research funding opportunity was awarded to 45 students nationwide with Collins the only recipient from Georgia. The Eatonton, Georgia, native was awarded the scholarship’s maximum amount of $5,000, which covers his tuition—leaving him to conduct research. The Project SEED Scholarship assists...
Few today in the United States have borne the kind of scars Dr. George Kieh has for freedom. Born and raised on a rubber plantation in Liberia, Georgia College & State University’s latest Coverdell Visiting Scholar learned about injustice firsthand. His father worked the plantation 35 years, and treatment for laborers could be harsh. By middle school, Kieh had organized his first social-justice movement. He later became president of the University of Liberia’s Student Government...
Eight Georgia College & State University students—majoring in biology, chemistry, math and environmental sciences—expanded their horizons this summer at Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs). Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), REUs and International Research Experience for Students (IRES) provide Georgia College students the chance to professionally network while working on algebra and graph theory, synthesizing molecules, investigating fatty acid proteins, researching...
Thanks to this past summer’s Georgia College & State University Chile Study Abroad program—where students participated in an internship while learning about Chilean culture and enhancing their Spanish language skills—program participants are one step closer to getting the jobs they desire. The Chile Study Abroad program also demonstrates the strength and importance of Georgia College’s liberal arts experience in preparing students for today’s complex and increasingly globalized working...
Junior Parker Luke Wilson can tell you firsthand how after-school jobs and study abroad help you zero in on a correct career path, boost your skills and put you ahead of others in the job market. Growing up with a love for animals, Wilson got his first crack at being a veterinarian assistant as a senior in high school working at Gadd’s Animals Doctors of Gray. Since then, he’s been on track to double major in biology and Spanish at Georgia College & State University, while getting...
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...
Joel Saucedo’s head is full of nuclear fusion, clean energy, fractional calculus, radioactive particles—and all that jazz. The jazz part? When he’s not studying physics, he plays saxophone in Georgia College & State University’s Jazz Band. These elements all weave together into a liberal arts education at Georgia College that Saucedo credits for helping him win a prestigious nuclear physics traineeship at Duke University this summer. “This is an environment that's ripe for cultivating...
Thanks to Georgia College & State University’s new medical physics program, this graduate’s future is off to a healthy start. Kaylee Kallam of Cumming was Georgia College’s first student to complete its new medical physics pathway. Now, she’s been accepted into the University of Tennessee’s Medical Physics master’s program with a full assistantship teaching position, tuition waived and a monthly stipend. “I feel very prepared based on the classes I took and the resources I was given...
