
Brent Feske, Ph.D., has been named associate vice president for Research in the Office of Research and Economic Development, effective March 1.


Students from Georgia Southern’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’ psychology program have won nationally competitive travel awards for their research two years in a row. Heaven Divinity (’24) and Carmen Ford (’24) won the Council on Undergraduate Research’s (CUR) Social Science and Psychology Conference Travel Awards in 2025 and 2024, respectively.

A new exhibit, “Interconnected: A One Health Exploration,” from Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Health Logistics & Analytics (IHLA) opens at the Georgia Southern Museum today, March 25, and runs through January 2026. The public is invited to join the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight, with remarks at 5:30 p.m. by featured speaker Bruce Conn, Ph.D., from the One Health Center at Berry College.

For Shainaz Landge, Ph.D., pushing boundaries in the classroom and the laboratory isn’t just a professional pursuit, it’s a passion. As an associate professor of organic chemistry at Georgia Southern University, Landge has spent more than a decade inspiring students to soar beyond traditional learning by blending research, mentorship and hands-on experiences that extend far beyond textbooks.

Georgia Southern history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating an exhibit honoring the African Americans from Bulloch County who made the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War. “More than a Name: Commemorating Bulloch County’s African American Fallen Soldiers of the First World War” will debut at Georgia Southern’s Henderson Library in March 2025 and run until July.

For the first time in its history, the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern University will be open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. beginning March 22.

Georgia Southern University recently introduced the REACH for Southern program, a co-curricular program that complements the REACH Georgia need-based scholarship and mentoring program, which offers high school students support to achieve postsecondary success.

Georgia Southern University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics has launched the Emerging Researchers Program, a new initiative offering undergraduate students the opportunity to be paid for hands-on research.

Erica Bartels’ passion for design and teaching has found its home at Georgia Southern University, where she began lecturing in 2020. Drawing on her extensive experience in the industry, she encourages her students to appreciate every aspect of their environment through the critical eye of interior design and develop other skills vital to their success as future designers.