GPC nursing alumna Stephanie Wright Pefinis has received the national Daisy Foundation Award for Extraordinary Nurses.  Pefinis, a 2009 graduate of GPC’s nursing program, works at The Cancer Center of America in Newnan. The award honors the “super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day.”

Her nominator, one of her patients, wrote this about Pefinis: “Stephanie is one of a kind, and nursing is her calling—she is an angel on earth. CTCA hit the jackpot when they hired Stephanie, and I am honored to call her my friend. She will forever be a Godsend to me and my family and for that, I would like to thank her. If anyone is deserving of this award, it is Stephanie; she is the best nurse I have ever had the privilege of knowing.”

GPC science major Sheena Vasquez was among 54 undergraduates from across the country to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s annual Quantitative Methods Workshop during the first week in January.  The weeklong workshop, sponsored by MIT’s Department of Biology and the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, focused on how computer programming can apply to problems in biology and neuroscience.

“I didn’t realize how important it is, as a bio and chemistry major, to also have a background in programming,” said Vasquez in a Jan. 13 story posted in the online MIT News.

Georgia Perimeter College has released its Dean’s List for fall semester 2014. The list recognizes students with outstanding scholastic achievement each term. Students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better while carrying an academic load of nine semester credit hours or more of courses numbered 1000 or higher are named on the Dean’s List.