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Biology student wins prestigious ACS Award

Evelyn Calina, ’21, biology, received the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Student Award for excellence in undergraduate studies. She is the fifth GGC student in the GGC Environmental Research Cluster to win the prestigious award, which is given to only about 20 students per year. Her research involved a continuation of the research cluster’s work on biodiesel fuel production from waste oil and grease collected from campus dining facilities.

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To be added to or removed from the Engage mailing list, email engage@ggc.edu or call 678.407.5549. Diondra Burgess, ’21, human development and aging services, received the 2020-21 Georgia Association of Colleges and Employers’ Jack Mangham Experiential Learning Award. She is the first GGC student/alum to receive this award.

Dr. Joseph Ametepe, professor of physics, and Dr. Neelam Khan, associate professor of physics, published “Teaching physics during COVID-19 pandemic: implementation and report of teaching strategies to support student learning” in the “International Journal of Physics Education.”

Dr. Dovile Budryte, professor of political science, recently presented the Annual Lithuanian Program Lecture at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Georgia Gwinnett College was awarded a $249,000 National Science Foundation grant for undergraduate research that could lead to new chemical products like insecticides and antibiotics that have a more benign environmental impact.