Georgia Perimeter’s Hoai Thuong Nguyen, the top-scoring female participant in the Southeast region of the 2013-14 American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Student Math League, has been invited to join the Association for Women in Mathematics. The GPC team finished eighth overall in the national tournament and first in the Southeast. Nguyen’s teammates, Trung Quach, Bo Guo and Thong Pham finished second, third and fourth respectively in the Southeast division.

Former GPC student Jean Bastia’s lilting accent is a calming balm to the patients he sees while working as a charge nurse in two metro Atlanta hospitals. His lingual patois of French, Creole and Cajun is a sound that also has graced the airwaves in Haiti, where his catchy tunes are being used as part of a nationwide campaign to eradicate the spread of cholera and other diseases. Bastia’s story was featured in the Fall 2013 issue of GPC's magazine, The Chronicle. Now his music and work to help educate others is highlighted in a video by the Better Health for Haiti organization. View video.

DeKalb Early College Academy students Phillip Polite, Mikyas Bezabih and Lee McArthur, who had the top three science projects during the year, presented their findings to visiting Georgia Perimeter College professors Diane Lahaise, biology, and Melissa Schoene, chemistry, and Cynthia Lester, director of STEM Initiatives at GPC. Lehaise, Schoene and Lester judged the DECA’s Science Fair Poster Contest. GPC’s Office of Early College Programs supported the science fair using funds from a RGK Foundation grant awarded to the DECA program.