
The Georgia Southern Model African Union (MAU) competed and took home several awards in the 2017 National Model African Union Conference in Washington, D.C. at Howard University on Feb. 23-26.
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ (CLASS) 2017 Great Minds Lecture Series continues with Robert Batchelor, Ph.D., on Tuesday, March 7 at 5:30 p.m. as he discusses, “Plantation Dreams: Locke, Confucius and the Making of the Low Country.” The lecture will take place in the Russell Union, room 2047.

If you’ve been on campus recently, you’ve certainly noticed the new metal sculptures, engraved with the names of planets, along the Pedestrium and other locations.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University’s student newspaper, earned seven awards in categories such as writing, photography and advertising in the Georgia College Press Association’s 2016 Better Newspaper Contest.
Earlier today, the Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University Consolidation Implementation Committee (CIC), met and approved four recommendations submitted by various Operational Working Groups (OWG).
Faculty, alumni and students in the College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS), whose research focuses on the effects of concussions, recently had a study published in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Georgia Southern faculty Daniel Gleason, Ph.D., and Risa Cohen, Ph.D., spent years planning and building their research of the Altamaha River’s flow patterns, and the results show the man-made impacts along Georgia’s coast.

Kitty Pruitt, senior lecturer of physical activity and dance was awarded the 2017 Puckett-Merriman Award at the 30th annual Share the Wealth Physical Education Conference at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on Jan. 26-28.

Georgia Southern professor Marla Morris, Ph.D., is combining music and education during “Educating the Inner Ear,” a free lecture and piano performance set for Friday, March 3, at 7 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, 847 Plant Drive.

Georgia Southern University is making way for a new Interdisciplinary Academic Building, for which University officials broke ground during a ceremony today.