
Georgia Southern University College of Education (COE) was represented with nine presentations during the Georgia Science Teachers Association (GSTA) conference held in Columbus, Georgia. Students representing the Statesboro and Armstrong Campuses attended the conference and presented a wide array of topics. Armstrong Campus presentations included: “Investigating the Use of Individual Student-Nurtured Plant Specimens (ISNPS) as a Tool for the Promotion of Self-Efficacy in the Secondary Science Classroom,” presented by MAT candidate Lindsay Norcross “Utilizing Game Strategies to Increase Student Participation and Learning in 8th Grade,” presented by MAT candidate Lorna Smith “Using Academic Language to Enhance Student Understanding,” presented by…

What if you had to choose between feeding your family and keeping the power on in your home? What if you lost your job and spent hours, days and even weeks trying to figure out how to receive assistance to help keep a roof over your family’s head? Students in the Georgia Southern University College of Education were asked to put themselves in scenarios like these during a recent poverty simulation hosted by the College’s faculty and staff.

A team of Georgia Southern University logistics students placed third out of 14 schools and received $1,000 in the first-ever FreightTech Innovation Challenge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in March.
Georgia Southern University Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Assistant Professor Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Ph.D., has been accepted into the 2019 Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE). She will be a part of the Functional and Translational Genomics of Blood Disorder Program.

Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host a workshop for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day at the Armstrong Campus Fine Arts Hall in Savannah on April 28 from noon to 3 p.m. The workshop is free and open to all ages and skill levels.

Georgia Southern University’s Model United Nations delegation has been selected as an Outstanding Delegation at the annual National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. This is the ninth consecutive year that Georgia Southern has been recognized as an Outstanding Delegation and the 11th time in 12 years that it has been accorded this distinction. Georgia Southern also was recognized for Outstanding Position Paper writing — its 14th such award in 15 years — and four student delegates were recognized as outstanding within their individual committees. This year marks Georgia Southern’s 48th consecutive year of Model UN participation —…

Betty Foy Sanders recently sent 14 art students on a 2-day art museum tour in north Georgia and added new work to the Smith Callaway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection.
Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of German, Jolyon Timothy Hughes, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2019-20 Fulbright U.S. International Education Administrators (IEA) seminar in France. Hughes is one of only 12 winners selected from a large pool of U.S. applicants. As a participant in the program, which is primarily in Paris, Hughes will take part in activities like briefings, campus visits, appointments with selected government officials, networking, cultural activities and meetings with French international education professionals. The IEA seminar is designed to expand and strengthen relationships between the people of the United States and…