Department of Chemistry & Physics

301 Herty Hall | Campus Box 82 | Georgia College & State University | Milledgeville, GA 31061

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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry & Physics

The Department of Chemistry and Physics provides a comprehensive major program in Chemistry, minor programs in Chemistry and Physics as well as disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses in the core curriculum. For more information about our program view our recruitment video.

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National Chemistry Week was a great success. Thank you to everyone who helped with the activities and donated sports equipment!

If you would like instructions to the Family Fun Night Hands-on Activities click here.

Department News

GCSU Chemistry Club Wins Outstanding Chapter Award

The 2007-2008 GCSU Chemistry Club: Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society has been selected to receive an “Outstanding Chapter” Award for its activities conducted during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The chapter will be honored at the 237th ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT on Sunday, March 22, 2009. Student Affiliates Chapter Awards Description The Society Committee on Education selects Student Affiliates chapters to receive special recognition on the basis of their programs and activities as described in their chapter reports. Awards are classified as outstanding, commendable, and honorable mention. Chapters that do not qualify for either of these awards, receive a certificate of achievement for the meritorious service. For the 2007-2008 academic year, the Society Committee on Education presented 40 outstanding, 71 commendable and 96 honorable mention awards.

GCSU Physics Professor's work with White Dwarfs in Science News

Our newest physics professor, Dr. Agnes Kim is quoted in the October 11th Edition of Science News. Congratulations Dr. Kim!

....When the material “splashes” together on the star’s surface and that region becomes hot, astronomers see the pulsations as a brightening, Kim says. Where the stellar material pulls apart, the temperature drops, and astronomers see the region dim... Read the entire Article

GCSU Chemistry & Physics Department may soon reinstate the physics Major

In the early 1970s Georgia College's mission was not supportive of the physics program, and the long-existing major was discontinued and relegated to the status of a minor. Today, Georgia College & State University has a new mission and a new student body. As Georgia's Public Liberal Arts University the mission of the university clearly supports a vigorous B.S. physics program. The department proposes a fresh approach to develop a greater interest in physics. We propose to apply many of the same techniques that have worked for our chemistry program that in the past six years has grown from conferring 4 degrees in chemistry to conferring 14. The state of Georgia ranks 48th in the number of per capita degrees conferred in physics in the nation. The infrastructure at GCSU is in place to address the shortfall of physics graduates, by following the faculty-student research scholars program that has been successful in raising the number of chemistry majors. Our proposed program will be a significant effort towards addressing these critical state needs. Our target numbers are low, 6 to 12 graduates per year with an average of 10, but they are realistic. Given the number of current physics graduates in the state of Georgia these low numbers will have a large impact, and rank GCSU as the second largest program in the state for both public and private institutions. The program proposal has passed through the University Senate, with a unanimous vote, and has been approved by the president. The program proposal is on its way to the BOR, and hopefully will be approved soon.

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sharon.johnson@gcsu.edu
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