
Georgia Southern University will host Col. Frederick “Fred” Gregory, the first African American man to pilot and command a space mission and serve as the deputy administrator of NASA, as the 2017 Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series speaker at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center Assembly Hall, 847 Plant Drive.

The Georgia Southern University Bachelor in Nursing (BSN) was ranked third in the 30 Best Online Bachelor’s in Nursing for 2017 by Best Degree Programs.

For Chad Asplund, M.D., medical director of sport medicine at Georgia Southern University, life is all about the mission. Whether he’s aiming to complete a triathlon, heal a wounded athlete or save a dying soldier, Asplund will do whatever it takes to see his mission through to the end.

Anyone can now have the latest information from the Georgia Southern College of Business at their fingertips by downloading the brand new mobile app, Georgia Southern (GS) Business.
A recent study in the Journal of Education for Business ranked Georgia Southern’s College of Business No. 3 in the nation for productivity in business and management education (BME) research.

Several departments at Georgia Southern University have teamed up to host the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, Georgia, on Sept. 15-16.

Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education will host the sixth annual Rural HIV Research and Training conference at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, Georgia, Sept. 8-9.

The Georgia Southern University Counseling Center’s Doctoral Internship in Professional Health Service Psychology has been granted full accreditation by the American Psychological Association (APA) for the next eight years and is one of only a few Counseling Centers in the Southeast to receive this title.

Georgia Southern University alumnus Robert “Bob” Mikell (‘07), eighth generation Bulloch County resident and 2017 Alumnus of the Year for the University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, will serve as the community chair of the University’s 44th annual community A Day for Southern campaign Sept. 6-11. The official donation total will be announced on Tuesday, Sept. 12.

More than 300 community leaders, political dignitaries, faculty, staff and students attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the $22 million state-of-the-art facility.