College of Business

By Ian Wesselhoff Dr. John Swinton, professor of economics at Georgia College & State University, has always liked to swim against the tide.Through Georgia College’s GC2Y seminar program, Swinton saw an opportunity to showcase economic thinking in a way that no one else was. He took a semester-long sabbatical to develop the course ‘Global Perspectives: Shrimp Economy,’ designed for students of any major.“When I put this together, it wasn’t like I was just nuts about shrimp,” Swinton...

By Gil PoundWorld War II, the Pope and artificial intelligence are not topics one generally hears mentioned together, but all three are at the center of a unique presentation taking place at Georgia College & State University’s Magnolia Ballroom Tuesday, Sept. 30, from 5 to 6 p.m.Drs. Armin Stein and Katrin Bergener – visiting scholars from Germany’s University of Münster – are using AI technology to examine over 56,000 pages of correspondence sent to Pope Pius XII from Jewish families...