Come, volunteer at Lockerly Arboretum April 20 from 8:30 a.m. until noon with Gardening Club and Botany Club for service credit. This is a great way to start off the weekend before Earth Day.
Come, volunteer at Lockerly Arboretum with Gardening Club and Botany Club for service credit. This is a great way to start off the weekend before Earth Day.
They don’t sting, and they don’t bite. They don’t suck blood. They won’t make you itch. And your garden is safe. But miniature exoskeletons might be attached to your house. You might see flickers of red-and-black buzz by. Over the weekend, you might’ve heard a monotonous droning begin. No, your eyes are not deceiving you, and your ears are just fine. They are cicadas, part of the Great Southern Brood XIX that reemerge every 13 years. And, despite some maps showing their arrival only...
Three undergraduate students and one faculty member from the Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences attended the Regional Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society District Convention at the 85th Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, over Spring Break. Elizabeth Seidita won an Excellent Oral Presentation award for her talk and Heather Vincent and Sarah West co-presented a poster. The work presented was supported by Beta Beta Beta...
The Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences is pleased to announce a position for Office Coordinator, starting in June 2024. For more information regarding the job responsibilities, please refer to the position posting on Georgia College & State University's Employment page and submit your application.
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. Ahmed Al-Bayati, ’12, has come a long way from growing up in war-torn Baghdad where he served as a translator to reaching the peak of his education as a medical school graduate and soon will be wrapping up his surgical residency. His journey began in Baghdad when he was a teenager. At that time, very few town people knew English, but Al-Bayati did. So, he became a local translator for the U.S. Army stationed in Baghdad during the war. A few years later the war escalated; his uncle...
Over 25 Georgia College & State University students from biology, environmental sciences and psychology presented their research at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science at Kennesaw State University on March 1-2. The meeting included 150+ oral/poster presentations with most of the USG institutions represented. In biological sciences, Sally Sir was awarded Best Graduate Oral Presentation. In earth sciences, Tori Morgan won Best Graduate Oral Presentation and Shannon...
On Feb. 22, 2024, seven Georgia College & State University biology students and Dominic DeSantis attended the annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter of The Wildlife Society at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega. Undergraduate student attendees were Amber Stubbs, Danielle Bartlett and Ziv Moench. Biology graduate student attendees were Jack Powers, Elizabeth Noble, Mathew Gordon and Ashley McMahon. All seven students, from the research labs of DeSantis and Katie Stumpf, delivered...
Georgia Power Endowment lecture "From liquid to liquidity: How water risk became a capital markets risk" Presented by guest lecturer Peter Adriaens, Ph.D., PE, BCEEM Member of the Academy of Applied Science and the Arts (Belgium) Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Environment and Sustainability; Entrepreneurship and Strategy (2006-2016); Director, Center for Digital Asset Finance, University of Michigan
