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By Margaret Schell Dorothy Vinson Hull (’93) was appointed April 20 by Gov. Brian Kemp as District Attorney for the Towaliga Judicial Circuit, serving Butts, Lamar and Monroe Counties. Hull began her career as a law clerk for the Superior Court judges of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit before beginning her career as a prosecutor in the Macon Judicial Circuit where she handled violent crimes and crimes against children for 29 years. She served as an assistant district attorney in Bibb...

By Anna Gay LeavittSenior Hanna Sowers is double majoring in history and geography. While she developed a passion for history early in life, attending Georgia College & State University helped Sowers fully realize a career path to include both disciplines.Sowers initially came to GCSU as solely a history major. Once she began taking classes, Sowers quickly learned having a geographical understanding is critical to understanding the world from a historical standpoint, and that adding...

By Cindy O'Donnell Just in time for ‘All Soul’s Day’ and the Hispanic ‘Day of the Dead’ — a time of year when the departed are remembered — two Georgia College & State University history students completed research on more than 3,700 patients who died at Central State Hospital.Junior history majors Alex Gray and Evelyn Evans of Monroe, Georgia, signed up for the internships at Georgia’s Old Capital Heritage Center in Milledgeville to fulfill GC Journeys requirements.But they walked...

Senior geography major Chris Garrett is getting paid to map fire hydrants and water meters for the City of Gainesville Department of Water Resources this summer. He’s geotagging water infrastructure, updating maps and helping the department conduct an Environmental Protection Agency study of Gainesville water pipes.“If there’s a leak, something breaks or a sinkhole collapses, it’s easier to look on a map that’s updated and know everything that’s going on,” Garrett said. “It makes it...