As national experts continue to decry the need for more science and math education, a fun math contest Web site is doing its part to keep interest alive. Respondents from more than 213 different countries are finding their way to the contest every month at www.colstate.edu/mathcontest. The site is expected to get 1 million hits this year. Search Google for "math contest" and it's the top site listed.
When Comet Lulin crossed the skies last week, more than 42,000 people around the globe watched the trip online. The comet's journey was documented by an observatory in southwest Georgia, inside Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center. The center's computers logged almost 5 million hits from 50 different countries.
Columbus State University in Georgia is part of a $1.2 million grant to improve astronomy teaching in Georgia's high schools. The goal of the Georgians Experience Astronomy Research in Schools (GEARS) project is to use innovative, rigorous, NASA-research-infused astronomy curriculum to transform the way high school astronomy is taught.
A Columbus State University nursing professor has been tapped by the American Red Cross as a national “subject-matter expert” to lead its educational response to the growing threat of H1N1 flu across the U.S.
In what may be the first of its kind in the country, Columbus State University in Georgia has created a cell phone and PDA application that allows students real-time access to academic and financial aid information, as well events around campus.
More than $17 million worth of NASA Space Shuttle parts are scheduled for donation to Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Georgia.
Fossilized feces and ancient bite marks discovered in Georgia are providing new details about a giant crocodile – so big it could take down dinosaurs as big as a T-rex – that roamed the Southeast United States about 79 million years ago.
A recent Columbus State University study shows that students who consistently use laptops with interaction software to enhance or supplement their classroom notes outperform their counterparts.
Columbus State University will use a $1.6 million federal grant to establish a Games, Education, Modeling, and Simulation Institute as a model project in support of tactical defense efforts at Fort Benning and elsewhere in the region.
Talk about motivation. Columbus State University's 1-year-old club football team this week faces a team from the U S Army that was formed in 120-degree heat of Iraq, with the promise that anyone who made the team was able to come home a month early to prepare for the game.
Columbus State University will mark the birthday of legendary author Carson McCullers by hosting an international gathering of scholars, writers and performers, including singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. The Feb. 17-19 Carson McCullers Interdisciplinary Conference and 94th Birthday Celebration is presented by CSU’s McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, McCullers' childhood home.
Columbus State University in Georgia offers several sources on the Japan earthquake, recorded the quake on a seismometer, and has students there now (all are OK).
Columbus State University will receive nearly $1.2 million to help recruit, develop and graduate more high school science and mathematics teachers over the next five years. The funds complement a $1.4 million UTeach grant awarded to CSU in July to also increase the number of science and math education majors who become STEM teachers.
A national expert and frequent author on political debates says American voters are seeing “game-changing primary debates” that are different from any we’ve seen before.
After initially planning to retain all shuttle nozzles for use in their next generation of space vehicles, NASA is allowing one to go on display, and it is coming to Columbus State University’s Coca Cola Space Science Center in Georgia.
Columbus State University and noted American painter Bo Bartlett announced Thursday the creation of a gallery and learning center in Bartlett's hometown of Columbus, Ga. that will house more than $10 million in artwork. The center will house the world’s largest collection of Bartlett’s monumental paintings.
Partnering with NASA, researchers from Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center will be set up at locations around the world to document Venus’ trip between the Earth and sun, a celestial event that won’t occur again for another 105 years. Stationed in Utah and Columbus, Ga. in North America, Alice Springs in Australia and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, space science center staff will photograph, shoot video and webcast Venus as it moves across the face of the sun in during the 2012 Transit of Venus on June 5.
Outstanding debate performances have made a difference in past years and the upcoming presidential debates may well have a similar impact, says said David J. Lanoue, Columbus State University political science professor and co-author of The Joint Press Conference: The History, Impact, and Prospects of American Presidential Debates.
David Houston, director of curatorial at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will be moving to Georgia to spearhead the opening of The Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University’s College of the Arts in downtown Columbus. The Bo Bartlett Center will house the largest single holding of Bartlett’s paintings, including several grand scale works such as the iconic “Leviathan.” Bartlett, a PEW fellow and one of today’s foremost American painters, is helping Columbus State University establish the center in his hometown. The Bo Bartlett Center will be a permanent gallery and learning center with a focus on contemporary art.
The first cartographic works to delineate Georgia and the first rendering of the state on a wall map scale are among a comprehensive collection of the early maps of Georgia that a supporter is donating to Columbus State University.
A recent study of physical attractiveness and how it impacts real estate brokers’ pay and productivity shows that the more attractive the real estate agent, the higher the listing price of the home for sale.
New online degree programs target under-served populations, allowing them to affordably earn a bachelor's degree in just 3 years from a respected comprehensive university.
When the federal government 'shut down' last month, many military students receiving federal education assistance wondered what to do. Columbus State University in Georgia told its students to stay in school, and now the university is covering $33,000 in tuition costs.
For the third year in a row, Columbus State University has a cadet in the nation's Top 20 on the Order of Merit List -- this time at the top -- in rankings that factor in academics, leadership and physical fitness.
Columbus State University in Georgia has acquired Carson McCullers’s adult home in Nyack, N.Y., an estate addition that means Columbus State University now holds one the world’s most impressive McCullers research and artifacts repositories.
Columbus State University is finalizing plans to move its College of Education and Health Professions to downtown Columbus, a move that will further expand the university’s popular RiverPark campus with an extra 1,800 students, faculty and staff.
Columbus State University and the Muscogee County School District are proving their passion about getting students interested in STEM. They have partnered on a contract that will give every elementary student in every school a chance to interact with the university’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center.
Columbus State University today officially announced its “First Choice Campaign,” a comprehensive effort designed to raise at least $100 million to create an academic and collegiate environment that will cement CSU’s status as a favored destination for top students and faculty.
Columbus, Ga.-based TSYS, a leading global payments provider, and Columbus State University have entered into a unique partnership to develop a new, innovative program within the CSU computer science department specifically designed to prepare students for careers in cybersecurity both in Georgia and throughout the nation.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) announced today Kimberly Shaw is 2015’s Georgia Professor of the Year, which is the association’s most prestigious award honoring undergraduate teaching. Dr. Shaw is a professor of physics and co-director of UTeach Columbus, an innovative mathematics, science and education teaching program
Columbus State University students are busy cataloguing and analyzing one of the oldest and best-preserved Peruvian archeological collections in the world thanks to Facebook and the hard work of a tech-savvy anthropology professor.
A quarter-scale prototype of a NASA Space Shuttle is headed for permanent display at Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center in downtown Columbus, Ga. NASA recently gave Columbus State University the one-of-a-kind artifact from the Space Shuttle Program: a quarter-scale engineering prototype of the Space Shuttle that served a vital function in the development of America’s space program.
During a spring break expedition to the Amazon, a scientific team from Columbus State University collected the first-ever flowering samples of a new tree species in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park.
During a spring break expedition to the Amazon, a scientific team from Columbus State University collected the first-ever flowering samples of a new tree species in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park.
Estella’s Brilliant Bus made a stop at Columbus State University Saturday, July 16, where 100 middle school students from across the nation competed in an engineering activity sponsored by CSU’s UTeach and Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship programs.
Columbus State University Assistant Professor of English Joe Miller will conduct research in Lyndon B. Johnson’s Presidential Library this August thanks to a $1,560 Moody Research Grant.
A team of Columbus State University researchers has developed a new tool for training military and emergency personnel, a process that led to the university’s first-ever patent.
Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center has entered into a new partnership with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to develop a program that will teach high schoolers how to design and manufacture vehicles for Mars.
Ambassador and American media mogul Walter Annenberg commissioned renowned artist and Columbus native Bo Bartlett for an official portrait during the 1990s.
A new study by Columbus State University’s Ben Blair explores the key election issue of income inequality
William “Billy” Mixon, a career law enforcement official who has spent 25 years in academy operations, has been named the new director of Columbus State University’s Command College.
A $50,000 NSA grant allows Columbus State Univeristy and the local school system to create what may be the state's first course in cybersecurity education specifically designed for 7th and 8th grade middle school students. The curriculum will be available to be copied for any district interested. “We do not think that a cybersecurity curriculum of this magnitude has been attempted at the middle school level in Georgia,”
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, honored Georgia’s ongoing commitment to close the achievement gap and provide all students with high-quality teachers on Thursday, June 29, recognizing the third class of Woodrow Wilson Georgia Teaching Fellows, 12 of which are coming to Columbus State University.
CSU alumnus and actor Michael Stiggers Jr. has become the university’s first-ever graduate to perform on Broadway.
Columbus State University is now accepting applications for its first study abroad experience in Cuba. The spring break trip is scheduled for March 16 – 24, 2018.
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