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Student-directed black box show, ‘No Exit,’ opens on Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus on Oct. 3
Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus’ student-run theater group, The Masquers, will present “No Exit,” its first black box show of the season. The show will run Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $12 for general admission and discounts are available for military, seniors and children. Georgia Southern students, faculty and staff attend for free.
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Georgia Southern hosts 2019-20 A Moveable Feast lecture series in Savannah
Georgia Southern University will host the 2019-20 Moveable Feast lecture series, featuring lectures and performances by distinguished faculty from the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses. The sixth annual series is presented by the College of Arts and Humanities, in cooperation with the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and will kick off Oct. 10. All events will take place in historic venues throughout Savannah and are free and open to the public.
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Georgia Southern’s Master of Public Health program ranked No. 1 in nation
The Master of Public Health program in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University has been ranked #1 in the nation by SR Education Group.
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Georgia Southern History Department displays traditional style birch-bark canoe
Georgia Southern University’s History Department has a traditional style birch-bark canoe on display on the Armstrong Campus through Spring 2020 in Hawes Hall. The canoe, named Muskeego, was built in 1998 and has been used to travel between Minnesota and Canada the same way that Ojibwa Natives have done for hundreds of years. After a long career of being used, it was placed on display in Ely, Minn. The Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) in Savannah acquired Muskeego as part of its small boat collection. MUA Board member and Assistant Professor of History Kurt Knoerl, Ph.D., has gained access to…
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Parker College of Business to host IANA Applied Research Competition
The Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Georgia Southern University’s Parker College of Business has partnered with the Georgia Ports Authority and TCW Inc., to host the first-ever GS-IANA Logistics Applied Research Challenge. The competition is made possible through support and funding from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). The GS-IANA Logistics Applied Research Challenge will allow junior and senior undergraduate logistics students to gain professional development experience and a deeper understanding of the intermodal freight transportation industry. The Fall 2019 business case for which students will create solutions will be developed by the Georgia Ports Authority…
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Georgia Southern plans to refocus university sustainability efforts
Building on a decade of success, Georgia Southern University plans to enhance its Center for Sustainability by better pairing it with new academic programs and focusing its resources on larger projects.
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Georgia Southern Child Development Center employee named educator of the year
Jessica DeLaigle, a child development specialist at the Georgia Southern Child Development Center on the Statesboro Campus, has been named the Georgia Association for the Education of Young Children (GAEYC) Educator of the Year for a large center. DeLaigle, who also teaches in some Child and Family Development labs, said she is honored to receive the award. “I have the best job because I get to teach the little children, and I also get to teach the big children (college students) how to teach the little children,” DeLaigle said. “I am so passionate about teaching, and I work really hard…
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Southern Chorale brings home awards from Austria, Germany
Georgia Southern University’s Southern Chorale recently completed an 18-day tour of Austria and Germany, where they competed in two international choral competitions.
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Georgia Southern faculty edits essays challenging eighteenth century culture
Jeffrey D. Burson, Ph.D., associate professor of French history, co-edited The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason, a recently published collection of essays that examines the process by which skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. This work shows how doubt and anxiety about the limits of human understanding were at the very heart of the early Enlightenment. Burson is the author of The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France and the Culture of Enlightening and…
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Georgia Southern faculty present research in Canada
This past July, four Georgia Southern University faculty members presented at the 30th International Nursing Research Congress in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Conference, presented by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, is held annually in different countries to provide attendees with the opportunity to learn from and exchange evidence-based research. Helen Taggart, Ph.D., RN; Pamela Mahan, Ph.D., RN; Trina Embrey, RN, from the School of Nursing and Haresh Rochani, DrPH, from the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, presented research. Taggart, Mahan and Rochani presented “Changes in Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Perceptions about Caring for Dying Patients.” Embrey, Taggart…