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Unifying the Biochemistry Program of a Consolidated University through an ASBMB Student Chapter
Author(s) -
Davis Nicole
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.456.2
Subject(s) - outreach , library science , consolidation (business) , sociology , political science , engineering , computer science , law , business , accounting
In January 2017, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents announced and voted to consolidate two of its member institutions: Georgia Southern University (in Statesboro, GA) and Armstrong State University (in Savannah, GA). As of July 1, 2018, the two universities have fully merged. With the consolidation, the Biochemistry program on the Armstrong campus (formerly Armstrong State University) expanded to the Statesboro campus (Georgia Southern University). In an effort to unify the Biochemistry program and the two campuses, it was decided to create one student chapter of ASBMB. The campuses are 60 miles apart and there was little interaction between the student bodies. Here is presented how the chapter has organized and structured itself to be a single, unified chapter that bridges the physical gap and the cultural gap. We have used technology to allow students to participate in chapter meetings without needing to travel from their home campus and used both combined and campus‐separate social and outreach activities. We documented what we have done as a chapter, showing our successes, failures, student member feedback, and how we will move forward into the next academic year. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .