Giving Back: Distinguished Alumnus a Pillar of His Community

Dr. Ben W. Jernigan Jr. has been on the fast track most of his life. “I think I was born to be a dentist,” says Jernigan (’76), who grew up in the Atlanta area. “I’ve been very fulfilled my entire career. I’ve never regretted a single day.” That being the case, he was a prime candidate when DCG...

Wide Open: Endodontic Research has Countless Applications

Drs. Franklin Tay and Fucong Tian have cumulatively traveled tens of thousands of miles to get where they are today, but the journey has been well worth the effort. Tay, chair of the Department of Endodontics, left Hong Kong 16 years ago to join the DCG faculty. Prior to that, he spent eight years...

A Heart for Service

“I believe we are all leaders, if not leaders of people or projects, then of our own lives.” This is Dr. Scott T. Wallace’s summation of one of the most vital lessons he believes educators can impart to students. And he thinks the philosophy should be reinforced both in and out of the classroom. As...

History with a Mission

Guardhouse Museum renovation breathes new life into an original Arsenal building.

Following the Frontline

Yearlong study of coronavirus in frontline workers underway Fifteen hundred frontline workers are being recruited for a yearlong study to find what percentage are positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, what percentage become positive and whether the antibodies they produce — naturally and in...

Latest Articles

BUYING TIME

Lisa Churchill didn’t realize until later what this really was. On September 26, 2021, her friend arranged a visit to the crowded ICU as her chance to say goodbye to the love of her life. Craig and Lisa had met at their...

PUTTING ON THE BRAKES

Antiretroviral cocktails can make human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, undetectable and untransmittable, but both the virus and its treatment can also accelerate aging of bone and muscle. Now Medical College of Georgia...

CALMING DIABETIC GASTROPARESIS

Magnetic stimulation of a group of nerves key to how our gut and brain communicate may help correct the conversation that goes awry in painful, debilitating diabetic gastroparesis, researchers say. Patients come to Amol...

ELIZABETH GRAY, MD, NAMED FOUNDING DEAN

Elizabeth Gray, MD, associate dean at the Southeast Campus of the Medical College of Georgia, based in Savannah and Brunswick, has been named founding campus dean of the Augusta University/Medical College of Georgia...

Secret Lives

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Angela Morgan

“I saw a sign for dog agility lessons, and I thought, ‘You know — that would be fun.’”

In the Field

Donna Martin meets President Obama

In the Field: A Bountiful Harvest

After the 2010 census revealed Burke County had one of the highest child poverty rates in the country, with 48 percent of children living below the poverty line, CBS was interested in filming a special about poverty in...

Magazines

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In Memoriam: July-December, 2021

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