Georgia Southern University named Gold Campus by Exercise is Medicine
Collaboration among the Waters College of Health Professions, Campus Recreation and Intramurals (CRI) and University Health Services has garnered Georgia Southern University a fourth Gold Level Campus by Exercise is Medicine® on Campus (EIM®-OC) designation.
The designation honors college campuses for their participation and engagement in the EIM®-OC program. Schools earn gold, silver or bronze status based on their activities related to physical activity promotion, education and EIM®-OC integration into campus health services.
Recognition provides an opportunity for campuses to enhance their image as a healthy academic environment and highlight their commitment to creating a culture of wellness.
“This is a campus-wide effort,” stated Bridget Melton, Ed.D, professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology. “CRI offers physical activity opportunities on campus and the Waters College of Health Professions provides physical activity education. In addition, Health Services is key in prescribing medicine.”
John Banter wins award from Association of Leadership Education
John Banter, Ed.D., associate director of the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, recently won the Robin Orr Outstanding Practitioner Award from the Association of Leadership Educators (ALE).
Given annually during the ALE national conference, this award recognizes a distinguished practitioner for their significant accomplishments and contributions to leadership education and related fields.
The award is named in memory of Robin Orr, a longtime member and past president of the ALE.
Public health professor awarded $250,000 grant for sickle cell research
Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Ph.D., has been awarded a $250,000 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute grant for her project, “Capacity Building to Create a Patient-Centered Research Dissemination Model.”
Mayo-Gamble will use the grant to work with sickle cell patients to increase knowledge and awareness of useful interventions on chronic disease management; increase their recognition of their role in the translation of research to practice; train partners to become patient activists in the process of research dissemination; and engage stakeholders as partners in the design and development of a patient-centered, scalable dissemination model.
Mayo-Gamble is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Community Health in Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health.
Debra Hagerty advances to Fellow in American College of Health Care Administrators
Debra Hagerty, DNP, associate professor in the School of Nursing recently advanced to Fellow in the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA).
The Fellow distinction is the highest membership status one can gain in recognition of professional achievement and continuous adherence to the ethical and professional standards of ACHCA. In addition, the nationally recognized Fellow status confirms an individual’s dedication to the post-acute and aging services community.
To be honored with this professional credential, an individual has to demonstrate a record of participation in professional continuing education, suitable formal education, community service and at least two years of voting membership.
JPHCOPH professor one of four in world awarded cancer grant
Yelena Tarasenko, DrPH, an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences in Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, is one of four awardees of a 2020 Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grant by the Union for International Cancer Control.
As part of the fellowship, Tarasenko will work with colleagues from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, on the ongoing Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5) project.
The project is intended to impact implementation, capacity building and quality of cancer screening programs around the world. Project activities include delivery of tailored regional educational curriculum and content to country representatives through webinars and online training platforms, collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data on barriers to cancer screening access from the country representatives, and development of roadmaps with feasible interventions.
Waters College of Health Professions programs garner national recognition
Three master’s and a bachelor’s degree program in the Waters College of Health Professions at Georgia Southern University have garnered national recognition from ranking platforms in their respective areas.
Georgia Southern Department of Writing and Linguistics will present poetry reading, Q&A
The Georgia Southern University Department of Writing and Linguistics and the Georgia Poetry Circuit will present poet David Kirby for a Q&A and reading on Thursday, April 8.
“David Kirby is a wildly funny, accessible and renowned poet who blends narrative storytelling with wry observation and dark humor,” said associate professor of writing and linguistics, Christina Olson. “If you’ve never been to a poetry reading, this one is a great place to start. And if you have, then you know how important it is to engage with the arts, even if it’s just an hour chat with one of the best poets currently working in America today.”
Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He has received many honors for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work appears frequently in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize volumes.
The Q&A will take place at 2 p.m. and the reading at 6:30 p.m. Both events will be streamed via Zoom. For more information and to register for the events, visit cah.georgiasouthern.edu/writling/2021/03/22/georgia-poetry-circuit-presents-david-kirby/
Georgia Southern University, Wexford Arts Centre partner on presentation by leading scholar on black abolitionists in Ireland
In the spirit of equity, diversity and inclusion, Georgia Southern University and the Wexford Arts Centre in County Wexford, Ireland, will present “Black Abolitionists In Ireland,” featuring Christine Kinealy, Ph.D., the leading expert in the field and professor of history at Quinnipiac University on March 23 at 3 p.m Eastern or 7 p.m. in Ireland.
In the mid-19th century, Frederick Douglass, Sarah Parker Redmond and other Black American abolitionists conducted speaking tours of Ireland. According to Douglass, his many months in Ireland defined him “not as a color but as a man.”
Kinealy is an Irish-British historian, the founding director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and the author of multiple scholarly books, including three about Frederick Douglass’s time in Ireland. This webinar is based on her latest, much acclaimed book, “Black Abolitionists in Ireland.” For more information and to view the webinar, visit irishgeorgia.com/abolitionists.
‘Africans in America’ event to explore what it means to be African American
Georgia Southern University will host Nemata Blyden, Ph.D., history professor at George Washington University, for a virtual presentation on the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present. The presentation will be held March 31 at 5:30 p.m. on Zoom.
Blyden will examine the diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery and immigration to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.
For more information and to register, visit georgiasouthern.edu/casregistration.