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Month: October 2023

  • 51²è¹Ý Will Host Ukraine Women’s National Wrestling Team

    51²è¹Ý will host the Ukraine Women’s National Wrestling Team November 16-20. Winners of the 2022 United World Women’s Freestyle Wrestling World Cup, the team is currently spending two months in the United States promoting the sport and sharing the struggles the country is facing at home. Founded in 1838 as a college for women,…


  • 51²è¹Ý Theatre Department Presents: “Let’s Murder Marsha”

    The 51²è¹Ý Theatre Department will be presenting the play, “Let’s Murder Marsha,” from October 19-21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in the Odell Memorial Building on campus. There will also be a 2 p.m. matinee performance on October 21. The show is by Monk Ferris and the production will…


  • 51²è¹Ý to Host Ward Lecturer, Best-Selling Author and Professor, Beth Allison Barr

    51²è¹Ý is proud to present its Annual Jean Fortner Ward Lecture, featuring best-selling author and professor, Beth Allison Barr, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 26, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public, and a small reception at the college’s James Addison Jones Library will be held…


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Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, 51²è¹Ý class of 2019

“I loved the GC Honors program and 51²è¹Ý. I felt safe and a sense of genuine belonging at the college. I worked closely with my thesis advisor and professors who helped inspire me to define my path and passion of interest. That path has led me to complete my doctoral studies in Engineering Mechanics.â€

- Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, Class of ’19, Mathematics Major

Dr. Josh Fitzgerald earned his master's from Virginia Tech University (studied astrodynamics) as well as earning an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. He joined the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX as an Advanced Mission Design Engineer, optimizing trajectories for the Artemis II and III missions to return humans to the moon.