For years, Georgia College students have been selected for valuable REUs (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) that help broaden their skills and enhance future opportunities. They’re chosen for their knowledge, lab experience, ability to work in teams and experience with undergraduate research. This summer is no different. Six students—four biology majors, a physics major and chemistry major—have accepted REUs at a variety of schools in the United States and abroad. They’ll work...
Senior Libby Bochniak knew she wanted to play volleyball at the collegiate level. When it came time to start visiting colleges, she decided to take a closer look at Georgia College. “My family had a house on Lake Sinclair, so I’d been here a lot over the years,” she said. “I’d just never seen campus or gone into the heart of Milledgeville.” After talking with the coach, meeting the players and visiting campus, she knew she’d found her home. “The team and atmosphere that our coach...
Dr. Dennis Parmley’s close encounter with a shark didn’t happen at a crowded beach or the ocean—but in a kaolin mine in Wilkinson County. He was never in danger. It’d been dead 35 million years. But the shark—or rather some fossils of its teeth—recently earned Parmley the rare honor of having a prehistoric and previously unknown species named after him. The news has been celebrated on science websites, TV news and even in Newsweek—giving Parmley and Georgia College the kind of acclaim...
It was along the banks of the mighty Volga River—a waterway that flows through much of Russia to the Caspian Sea—where Dr. Andrei Barkovskii learned to swim as a toddler. His father, “with an attentive eye,” simply dropped his son off the boat to see if he would tread water. Since then, Barkovskii and water have been in a love affair that has followed him from his childhood, growing up in the southwestern city of Saratov, Russia, to the red-clay shores of Lake Sinclair and science...
Dr. Ellen France has a hobby that allows her to ‘go with the flow.’ The flow of water, that is, creating amazing effects almost as if by chance. France paints watercolors in her spare time—a delicate art that has won her ribbons and local praise. Mastering watercolors is more an act of ‘letting go,’ giving pigmented water the freedom to creep and seep on its own, winding and dripping in unintended directions. It’s a world completely different from France’s day job, teaching and guiding...
A Georgia College environmental science major is one of only two students in the state to win a distinguished national science scholarship named after the late Senator Ernest F. Hollings, who supported ocean policy and conservation. Junior Nadya Gutierrez of Johns Creek was recently selected as a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hollings Scholar. This honor includes a two-year academic award of $9,500, a 10-week paid summer internship at a NOAA facility...
Colin Calvert, a senior environmental science major researching the length of ancient sea snakes, was unable to present his findings at the Georgia Academy of Science at Valdosta State University in March due to the virus that causes COVID-19.But Calvert quickly switched gears at home in Roswell, where he’s finishing a presentation poster for next week’s annual undergraduate research conference at Georgia College—which will be streamed online this year.“I was going to do an oral presentation...
Morgan 'Raine' Foulkes From: I’m from Macon, Georgia, but I live primarily in Milledgeville. Major/minor: Premed and biology major with a minor in chemistry. Why Georgia College: GCSU is a good fit for me for many reasons. Once I was accepted into GCSU and decided that I wanted to go to medical school, I picked biology, because I knew I could satisfy my premed requirements without a lot of extra classes. Activities: I tutored chemistry at the Learning Center, and I absolutely loved...
