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December 11, 2024
From the moment she arrived at ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, Jazmin Dozier knew she wanted a science-based career. Now, she’s an aspiring researcher on the rise. Through undergraduate research with assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology Brandon Carpenter, she learned about careers in science while conducting groundbreaking research in epigenetics, resulting in conference presentations and publications in scientific journals.
November 22, 2024
Olivia Walker grew up with a love of hiking in the woods, not realizing at the time she might be walking among endangered species of trees. After graduation from Dunwoody High School, she arrived as a freshman at ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ with a strong interest in environmental science, where she was accepted into the First-Year Scholars Program to study longleaf pine forest ecosystems with biology professor Paula Jackson.
November 21, 2024
A ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ researcher recently earned a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the evolution of salamanders’ behavioral habits in urban streams, which will in turn fund more undergraduate research opportunities for ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ students. Assistant professor of biology Todd Pierson has received a three-year, $380,238 grant from the NSF through a program called Building Research Capacity in Biology (BRC-BIO). The program is designed to broaden research participation at minority-serving universities and Carnegie-designated R2 institutions like ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥.
November 18, 2024
Equipped with an insatiable curiosity, Siam Sarower has set his sights on learning as much about his world as possible. In his pursuits, Sarower has landed himself on the President’s List, earned a Coca-Cola First-Generation Scholarship, and joined the ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ Journey Honors College. He credits his parents and older brother, now a civil engineer, for supporting his journey as one of the first in his family to seek a degree.
November 14, 2024
An animal lover from a young age, Kerrigan Larkin found her calling long before enrolling at ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥. During walks in Marietta’s Laurel Park with her grandmother, Larkin learned about the plants and animals she saw. She applied that knowledge first as an Honors biology major at ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, and now as a second-year student in the Master of Science in Integrative Biology program.
October 25, 2024
The word is out about ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥â€™s Department of Physics, and Matthew Garwacke heard it loud and clear. The junior physics major transferred to ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ last year for the opportunity to conduct research with renowned physics researcher Marco Guzzi, and then took on a prestigious research opportunity over the summer – the latest step in his journey.
October 17, 2024
Lyric Gordon found life-changing research at ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ – twice. After launching her student research career in an organic chemistry lab, she has shifted her focus to a biochemistry lab where she works with protein blockers that can help patients with dementia-related brain maladies, a major change in the final year of graduate study.
October 16, 2024
Progressing toward its goal of accelerating research innovation and impact, ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ on Monday unveiled a newly renovated Crawford Lab Building on the Marietta Campus.
October 14, 2024
Inspired by his two brothers who attended ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥, biochemistry major Jacob Erasmus has wasted no time getting involved on campus. Through ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥â€™s First-Year Scholars program, Erasmus found a laboratory and a research project within his first month on campus and parlayed that work into a summer internship at a nature-based ingredient company. Now he has continued his research and has shown no signs of slowing down as a Sophomore Scholar.
October 04, 2024
Having long been interested in science and the outdoors, Adamina Bilbrey recently leveraged her participation in the Birla Carbon Scholars program to study the conservation of an endangered plant native to Georgia. The ³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ environmental science major spent most of her summer studying a beneficial native plant called the royal catchfly in a field in Dade County, Georgia, and discovered the plant flourishes best in areas that experience both sun and shade.