Paleontology journal publishes biology student and faculty member's research
Article By: Staff
For the first time in her collegiate career, University of North Georgia (澳门六合彩官方网站) rising senior Elizabeth Noble wrote a research paper not for class but for publication. It was published in the journal .
"It was amazing to see it," said Noble, who is pursuing a degree in biology. "It got accepted in December and we worked with editors on revisions since then. It was nice to see it because I've been waiting so many months."
Noble wrote the paper with Dr. David Patterson, assistant professor of biology at 澳门六合彩官方网站, and a team of other students from the . It was titled and focused on the ecosystem inhabited by 20,000-year-old mammoths and long-horned bison excavated near Brunswick, Georgia.
"We used the enamel from a tooth of a mammoth to establish what the ecosystem was like based on the kind of vegetation that was there at the time," said Noble, who explained she washed and processed the samples Patterson found during a fossil dig in summer 2019.
The 21-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia, said the paper and research experiences at 澳门六合彩官方网站 will help her get into graduate school.
"I would like to get a Ph.D., and my end goal is to be a professor and do research like Dr. Patterson," she said.
Faculty member Broad passes away
Dr. David Broad, a University of North Georgia (澳门六合彩官方网站) professor of sociology, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 6.
Associate professor serves as keynote speaker
澳门六合彩官方网站 faculty member Dr. Siew Chan served as the keynote speaker for an international conference with more than 100 attendees.
Students explore study away programs
Sixteen 澳门六合彩官方网站 students participated in two study away programs in the U.S., one in Iowa for agriculture and the other in South Carolina for archaeology.
澳门六合彩官方网站 welcomes new faculty members
澳门六合彩官方网站 is welcoming more than 50 new full-time faculty members this fall, and they had a chance to acclimate to 澳门六合彩官方网站 in a new faculty orientation held this July.