Science Education Center

Every now and then you come across a situation that really warms the heart.   But few people—let alone an international student continents away from home—get to directly affect another person’s life, altering their path to greatness. Rihito Uda was privileged to be that person recently for a little boy from Japan. Sosuke Nishimiya, a fifth grader from Springdale Elementary School in Macon, almost pulled out of the recent K-5 State Science and Engineering Fair at Georgia College & State...

Sarah Fix graduated from Konos Academy in Fayetteville with 30 other students. There weren’t any clubs or science labs. Now she’s graduating Georgia College & State University with a biology major, chemistry minor and a foundation in pre-med mentoring. Fix hopes to become a pediatrician in a rural area. “Frequently, I sit back and think about who I was freshman year, and it’s kind of crazy how much I’ve grown and changed,” Fix said. “I was very shy, and I think I’d never been given...

  Story and Photos by University Communications. Thunder is safe, and his kidnappers are in custody. Thanks to a team of dedicated crime scene investigators, the Forensics Night mystery is solved. Volunteer investigators of all ages collected trace evidence of tire tracks, blood samples, shoe prints, uniform scraps, fingerprints, paw prints and fur. They processed it through a series of five forensic lab stations to narrow the suspect pool and help Georgia College & State University...