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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...
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...
Story and photos developed by University Communications. The Georgia College & State University Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy purchased a sophisticated high-field 400 megahertz (MHz) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrum Meter in its efforts to give students the best possible training. “This is top of the line. That’s a Cadillac. It’s like going from riding a bicycle to driving a Mercedes Benz,” said Dr. Sayo Fakayode, chair of chemistry, physics and astronomy,...
Story and photos developed by University Communications. Starting this fall, a new concentration in medical physics will prepare students to get a master’s degree for careers in radiation therapy. It’s the second opportunity for students in recent years—following a new physics education pathway in 2021 to stem the shortage of physics teachers nationwide. Other initiatives in the works are a dual-enrollment partnership with Auburn University in engineering and opening talks with Georgia...
Dr. Susan Daneman Richardson, ’84, and Andy Richardson, ’83, are each on a mission. Susan’s striving to make drinking water safe, and Andy’s offering scholarships to Georgia College & State University (GCSU) chemistry students. Susan’s been the recipient of several national awards and international recognition. She developed an interest for chemistry in high school, which grew from there and matured at Georgia College. Dr. John Hargaden helped inform that growth. He taught physical...
Georgia College’s Young Scientists Academy (YSA)—a six-week program that gives high school youth from disadvantaged, rural areas a crack at university-level research—returned this summer in a big way. It was the first YSA since the pandemic and, because of COVID, its seven high school participants had little or no lab experience. They’d only taken chemistry online. Their first real lab experience was in Georgia College’s state-of-the-art Integrated Science Complex (ISC) with everything...
