After several concussions forced EJ Mitchem to walk away from the game he loved, Georgia Southern helped him to rediscover sports in a new way.
The RiteCare Center at Georgia Southern University received a $5,000 donation from the Valley of Savannah Scottish Rite Masons after their second annual Walk for the RiteCare at Lake Mayer Park in Savannah, Georgia. Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus students and staff were among the 80 participants in the walk. Held in October, the walk featured trick or treating along the walking trail for children, a children’s costume contest and a team costume contest. Students from the communication sciences and disorders class of 2021 team won the trophy for the costume contest, and the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association team…
Graduate student Caroline Steed aspires to work full time with brain injury survivors, which is why she enjoyed representing Georgia Southern University’s Communication Sciences and Disorders program in the seventh annual Brain Injury Awareness Walk in Savannah, Georgia.
The area around Ashmore Hall on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus has a facelift thanks to a new physic garden full of plants that are historically and currently used for medicinal purposes.
Georgia Southern graduate student Drew DeJohn has spent the last five months working with soccer players from the university’s men’s team and the Statesboro-based professional soccer organization South Georgia Tormenta Football Club (FC) to research and improve player performance.
In recognition of Armstrong State University’s contributions to the city of Savannah, its students and its legacy in Georgia Southern University’s history, the Georgia Historical Society and Georgia Southern dedicated a new historical marker today. The historical marker, located on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus in the quad behind Burnett Hall, commemorates Armstrong State University’s history from its beginning as a two-year college through its consolidation with Georgia Southern University.
With the passion that alumna Stephanie Powell Thomas has for helping women succeed in the supply chain industry, it’s no surprise she was recently named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain by B2G Consulting’s list of Women Supply Chain Leaders for 2020.
Georgia Southern University graduate student Selmman Padridin believes in the importance of giving back, which is why he’s using the skills he has learned through the Master of Health Administration program and the Army to help others by joining the Peace Corps.
Born during apartheid in South Africa, Debra Rudge beat unsurmountable odds to earn a master’s degree in adult education from Georgia Southern.

Family is at the forefront of Georgia Southern computer science major Tracy Bridges’ life, and his upcoming commencement is no different. Bridges’ family, all 60 of them, can’t wait to see their graduate walk across the stage.