Renewed software donation fuels Georgia Southern’s mechanical engineering department’s research
Students in Georgia Southern University’s Allen E. Paulson College of Computing and Engineering have found that hard work really does pay off. Their automotive research during the 2024 academic year led to a subscription renewal for an advanced simulation software valued at $3 million.
Georgia Southern University awarded nearly $530,000 to launch statewide recovery-ready workplace initiative
Georgia Southern University’s Center for Addiction Recovery (CAR) has been awarded a $529,144 grant from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) to launch the Georgia Recovery-Ready Workplace (GROW) Initiative.
Maxine Bryant and Amir Jamal Touré bring cultural, historical relevance to TIME feature
Africana Studies, and visiting professor and Gullah Geechee Dieli Amir Jamal Touré, J.D., are featured in a TIME video that accompanies the Nov. 24 online piece, “What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Has Meant for the Place Where He Lived.”
To watch the video, visit https://time.com/6121300/ahmaud-arbery-brunswick-georgia/.
Celebrate Together brings festivities and fun to the Armstrong Campus
Last Thursday, more than 1,000 people came out for Celebrate Together, a festival celebrating the Georgia Southern University community on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
Visiting artist Andrew Kuebeck’s ‘MANual Labor’ on display at Center for Art & Theatre on Statesboro Campus
“MANual Labor,” an exciting exhibition from artist Andrew Kuebeck featuring small metal and wood sculptures, prints and functional jewelry that highlight the male body, will be on display through Oct. 15 at Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus in the University Gallery, located in the Center for Art & Theatre.
An artist talk and reception will be on Sept. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m., with the talk beginning at 5:15 p.m. Guests may attend the artist talk in person or virtually. Guests may register to attend via Zoom. Both the exhibition and artist talk are free and open to the public.
“I look forward to Andrew Kuebeck’s exhibition for a number of reasons, not least of which is his ability to meld the medium of small metals to a range of social issues and to personal expression,” said gallery director Jason Hoelscher, Ph.D. “Andrew served as a visiting artist at Georgia Southern in early 2020 and was a real hit with the students, who appreciated not only his incredible technical know-how but also his ability to explore complex themes through a medium sometimes focused more on visual richness than on thematic intensity. Both Andrew’s exhibition and artist talk are not to be missed.”
Kuebeck is an assistant professor and area head of the jewelry/metals/enameling program at Kent State University. Kuebeck works in a variety of formats ranging from functional jewelry to sculptural objects and vessels. He has lectured and taught workshops nationally on the incorporation of photographic images into jewelry pieces and vessels. Kuebeck has also exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work has appeared in numerous publications including 500 Enameled Objects, 21st Century Jewelry, Wrap, Stitch, Fold, and Rivet, and Metalsmith and Niche magazines. He was also a 2012 SNAG Emerging Artist.
Tilicia Mayo-Gamble earns National Institute of Health award
Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Community Health in Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, has received a Loan Repayment Program (LRP) financial award from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Mayo-Gamble’s award is from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute branch of the LRP program, designated for investigators conducting research that focuses on one or more of the minority health disparity populations.
The LRP program was established by Congress to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. The escalating costs of advanced education and training in medicine and clinical specialties are forcing some scientists to abandon their research careers for higher-paying private industry or private practice careers.
The LRP awards counteract that financial pressure by repaying up to $50,000 annually of a researcher’s qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research.
College of Engineering and Computing programs receive reaccreditation
Three bachelor’s programs in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing have recently received reaccreditation status.
The Bachelor of Science in Construction degree program received reaccreditation from the American Council for Construction Education. David Scott, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction, and David Williams, associate dean for students and curriculum, co-chaired the accreditation team.
Additionally, the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET has awarded reaccreditation to the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree programs.
Faculty who contributed to the accreditation process include Gursimran Walia, Ph.D., department chair of Computer Science, Hong Zhang, Ph.D., Yiming Ji, Ph.D., department chair of Information Technology (IT); Cheryl Aasheim, Ph.D., assessment team chair for IT, and David Williams, Ph.D., associate dean for Students and Curriculum, and chair of the ABET accreditation team.
Michael Pemberton named distinguished fellow by national writing organization
Michael Pemberton, Ph.D., was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) at the 2021 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Pemberton holds the rank of professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics, and he directs the University Writing Center in Statesboro.
This award recognizes distinguished scholars who have been in the field for more than 10 years and have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship, service or innovative program administration.
Pemberton was recognized for his many scholarly publications about writing in the disciplines, and for co-founding and editing the first national WAC journal, Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, in 1994. Additionally, he was recognized for editing the field’s flagship journal, Across the Disciplines, for more than 15 years and founding the peer-reviewed book series, “Across the Disciplines Books,” in 2014.
Pemberton was also commended for his ongoing leadership in the field, notably as the associate publisher for scholarly journals at the WAC Clearinghouse—an international repository of open-access journals, book series and scholarly resources for WAC and writing studies researchers.