Georgia College & State University will hold its seventh annual William Harvey Address at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium. The lecture—“Breast Cancer Treatment in 2023: Is Less More?”—will be given by Dr. Monica Rizzo, professor of surgery in the division of Surgical Oncology at Emory University’s School of Medicine. This free talk is part of an endowed lecture series on Medicine and Society and is open to the public. William Harvey (1578-1657) was a distinguished...
Georgia College & State University will hold its seventh annual William Harvey Address at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium. The lecture—“Breast Cancer Treatment in 2023: Is Less More?”—will be given by Dr. Monica Rizzo, professor of surgery in the division of Surgical Oncology at Emory University’s School of Medicine. This free talk is part of an endowed lecture series on Medicine and Society and is open to the public. William Harvey (1578-1657) was a distinguished...
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...
Imagine being up-close and personal with Costa Rican rainforest wildlife. Georgia College & State University senior biology major Amelia Pound of Savannah did just that. For two weeks, she worked alongside veterinarians in Costa Rica, helping its native creatures stay healthy. Pound was selected as part of a small team of students who volunteered to care for sloths, peccaries (pigs), kinkajous (squirrel-like creatures), capuchin and spider monkeys, macaws and other colorful parrots,...
Dr. Dominic DeSantis, assistant professor of biology, and 12 students took their snake-sleuthing abilities to the coast this summer to get a better understanding of ways humans affect snake numbers on Jekyll Island. The group collaborated with the Jekyll Island Authority to especially study the movement ecology of Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes. Snakes have been individually tracked on the island for more than a decade. But DeSantis was asked to introduce his new technology that...
American naturalist Roger Tory Peterson called birds “indicators of the environment,” saying “if they are in trouble, we know we’ll soon be” too. That’s one reason Dr. Katie Stumpf has her biology students research various aspects of bird life. Studying the health and wellbeing of birds can warn of environmental challenges—some yet unknown—we might face with a changing climate. “Birds are an excellent indicator of ecosystem health since they’re able to leave quicker due to their...
It looks like the water tables toddlers play at—only this 300-gallon aquarium is home to newly-caught translucent blue crabs, hermit crabs, mantis shrimp and miniature starfish that like to bury themselves in the sand. Georgia College & State University Associate Professor of Biology Dr. David Weese took his Intro to Marine Biology class on a recent research trip to experience the thrill of the open sea and salty breezes. They used trawling nets to capture multiple ocean dwellers and...
Humans think a snake’s life is simple. They slink. They slither. They bask. They bite. But a Georgia College & State University vertebrate biologist says we don’t really know much at all about what snakes do and why. Using the latest, state-of-the art technology, Dr. Dominic DeSantis and his students are keeping an eye on these coiling creatures—where they go, what they eat and how they interact—hoping to learn their serpentine secrets. “The role of snakes, especially the large-bodied...
Story developed by University Communications. Dr. Amy Amundson Smith, ’93, is a board-certified pediatric hematologist-oncologist with neuro-oncology. She serves as the division chief of the Haley Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program—one of the largest pediatric neuro-oncology services in the southeast. Smith traces the start of her journey toward becoming a medical...
