GCSU HISTORY/FUN FACTS
This is the year that GCSU was founded.
What is 1889?
This GCSU faculty member is a William Harvey endowed professor and known for their involvement in the pre-med mentorship program.
Who is Dr. Hedge?
This naturalist wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859 discussing the evolution of species over time by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
In Ice Age the character Manny is one of these extinct relatives of elephants.
What is a mammoth?
Sharks don’t have bones. Instead, their skeletons are made entirely of this flexible material.
What is cartilage?
The official mascot of Georgia College is this bobcat, named after a former president’s pet.
Who is Thunder the bobcat?
This professor is well known for their love of snakes.
Who is Dr. DeSantis?
This microbiologist is known for their accidental discovery of penicillin, the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
In Jurassic Park, scientists bring back dinosaurs using DNA from this animal found in amber.
What is a mosquito?
This insect is the strongest animal in the world relative to its size.
What is an ant?
Students often take photos at this famous Milledgeville landmark, located across from front campus and once home to Georgia governors.
What is Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion?
This professor is commonly seen in a tie-dye lab coat.
Who is Dr. Pillay?
This chemist is known for their X-ray diffraction images that revealed DNA’s structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
In Avatar, many plants and animals glow in the dark because of this trait.
What is bioluminescence?
This bird is known for being the only one that can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?
This building is named after a graduate from Johns Hopkins who developed UGA's athletic department and organized UGA's first football team.
What is Herty Hall?
This professor earned both their bachelor's and master’s degrees at GCSU and their Ph.D. from UGA.
Who is Dr. Burt?
This biologist is the “father of modern genetics” given he established the fundamental laws of inheritance from his pea plant experiments.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
In The Last of Us, people turn into zombie-like creatures because of an infection caused by this type of organism.
What is a fungus?
This creature has three hearts, blue blood, and can regrow its arms if they are lost.
What is an octopus?
Before becoming GCSU, the university was originally founded as an institution for women with this name.
What is GN&IC (Georgia Normal and Industrial College)?
This GCSU faculty member is in a blacksmith guild and is commonly seen driving a golf cart around campus.
Who is Brady Bennett?
This Dutch scientist was the first to observe and draw tiny, moving organisms in pond water which he described as “animalcules.” He later became known as the “father of microbiology.”
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
In Finding Nemo Nemo’s species, the clownfish, lives safely among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone. What is the name given to this type of relationship?
What is mutualism?
This mammal has fingerprints so similar to humans that they could confuse crime scene investigators.
What is a koala?