Students’
successes
are George’s
rewards
Dr. Bagie George stands among the college’s collection of instructional models in the Anatomy and Physiology Prep Room. Because of her varied interests, her research papers and presentations have been about innovative instruction, invertebrates and even hormones. George also advises the registered student organization Starting Careers and Research Using a Bachelor’s of Science, or SCRUBS.
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W
hen Dr. Bagie George was only four years old,
she dreamed of being a doctor when she grew up. She held tight to that dream as she earned a
bachelor’s degree in biology and then went to graduate school.
Yet, when she began receiving acceptance letters from prestigious medical schools, she had second thoughts.
George recalled a moment of indecision during a graduate
school research excursion. Why, when she had always wanted to be a doctor, was she in a boat 10 miles deep into the Okefenokee Swamp, with a stalled motor jammed full with water lilies and surrounded by dozens of alligators?
“I was slowly beginning to gravitate away from medicine and
toward my true calling … teaching,” she said.
