During the dog days of summer, the temperatures soar, and so do electric bills. At Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), the buildings remain comfortably cool thanks to a project that started 10 years ago.

Georgia Gwinnett College counselors traveled to Collins Hill High School on March 2 to offer Instant Decision Day to high school seniors. College hopefuls met with admissions counselors, who helped them fill out GGC application forms and evaluated their transcripts. Students who met GPA requirements were provided an admissions decision on the spot. Twenty-one students were admitted to GGC at the event.

GGC has offered more than 50 IDD events to schools in Gwinnett County and Metro Atlanta since September with more to come, according to Lisa Boone, associate director of admissions.

When she was just eight years old, Ruby Hernandez, 21, of Lawrenceville, was diagnosed with the rare and incurable autoimmune disease that causes excruciating flare-ups.

Stories of perseverance from a Gwinnett County State Court judge and a U.S. Army veteran were among the highlights of Georgia Gwinnett College’s fall commencement, which took place Dec. 7 at the Gas South Arena in Duluth. Keynote speaker Gwinnett County State Court Judge Veronica Cope knows perseverance. Cope, who is the second person of color on the Gwinnett state court bench, said she grew up “on the wrong side of the tracks” in a segregated small town in North Carolina.

Anyone who lives in or near Atlanta has been intimately acquainted with traffic jams more times than they’d like to recall. On January 28, 2014, what is usually an infuriating annoyance became a life-or-death situation.

Thanks to the efforts of two faculty members in its School of Business, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) has achieved an impressive, worldwide ranking for research in accounting education.