
Thomas R. Koballa Jr., Ph.D., dean of the College of Education at Georgia Southern, will be the keynote speaker at the Georgia Educational Research Association (GERA) 2016 Annual Conference, which will take place Oct. 7 at the Marriott at the Convention Center in Augusta, Georgia.

Faculty and alumni from Georgia Southern University attended and presented research at the 26th Annual European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Conference that was held in Dublin, Ireland, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.

Robert Mayes, Ph.D., director of Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education, and Lisa Stueve, Ph.D., executive director of STEM InK, from Georgia Southern University attended and addressed the conference “STEM, the Global Dream,” on Sept. 13 in Hyderabad, India.
A call for proposals is now open for the the 16th Annual Cross-Cultural Counseling and Education Conference that will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah Feb. 17-18, 2017.
Third semester nursing student Retha Rowe and second semester nursing student Jessica Hartzog, both in the College of Health and Human Sciences, have been awarded the St. Joseph’s/Candler Georgia Southern University Nightingale Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 each.
A call for proposals is now open for the 10th Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons, an international conference hosted annually by the Centers for Teaching and Technology at Georgia Southern University.

The Innovation Studio in the College of Education is offering area schools the chance to win a 3-D printer in order to integrate the technology into their class curriculums.

Georgia Southern University’s Center for Sustainability is gearing up for its fourth annual GreenFest event, set for 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 in downtown Statesboro.

John Schenk, Ph.D., curator of the Georgia Southern Herbarium in the Georgia Southern University Department of Biology, received notification that his National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Research Collections grant has been funded in the amount of $280,798 to integrate uncatalogued plants into the Herbarium.

Georgia Southern University alumnus Charles A. Abner (‘67) was presented the 2016 National Space Club Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Space Florida Committee.