In 1983, when BR broke up, Greg was super bummed but he moved back to his home state of Wisconsin and went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He didn’t want to say goodbye to BR completely, so he treated the band as a fun hobby. But then the school found out that he wasn’t a resident of Wisconsin anymore (he had been living in California for a while) and they kicked him out. So he went back to California, where he was a resident, and started school at UCLA. In 1987, he got a master’s degree in Geology from UCLA (he had already gotten a BA in Anthropology and a BSc in Geology there too, and he was really into studying fossils). After that, he did some field work in North, Central, and South America. By the end of 1990, he transferred to Cornell University in Ithaca to get his PhD. His PhD is in Biology, but he focuses on studying fossils. Specifically, he studies evolutionary biology and paleontology. By 1996, all he had left to do for his PhD was write his thesis on bone tissue and take the “A” exam, which is a super intense exam where a committee of five people asks him a bunch of tough questions about fossilized bones. But his PhD got put on hold for a while in the late 1990s because he was busy touring with STF, TGR, and NS. He also worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Evolutionary Biology department at Cornell, mainly teaching pre-med students about comparative anatomy. By 1999, he was working on the Geneva campus, which is right next to Ithaca but is part of Cornell. In 1989, he said that he gets the same good feeling from fans of BR and students who like his teaching, but it’s rare for those two worlds to mix. His PhD is in Evolutionary Biology, but he considers himself a doctor of Zoology because he studies vertebrate fossils. He’s actually one of the top five experts in the world when it comes to bone tissue paleontology. He’s given conferences and even published a paper in a scientific journal. Both of his parents were professors, so he plans to stay involved in science for the rest of his life. He once said that if he made a million dollars with Bad Religion, he would start an institute for researching early vertebrates, which is his area of expertise.
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