

This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Jonathan Hilpert, Ph.D., associate professor of curriculum, foundations and reading in the College of Education. Hilpert says that Georgia Southern is a great school, where he can pursue both his love of research in a wide range of areas and his love of teaching in the classroom.
Wayne Williams, 57, began pursuing his bachelor’s degree in 2009 at Georgia Southern University after retiring in 2005 from a 25 year career in the Army.

This year’s Spring commencement at Georgia Southern was a special time for mother and son Beckie Lee May and Austin May, both of whom graduated with degrees from the University.
Georgia Southern student Katie Yancey was recently awarded a $5,000 2016 NBCC Foundation rural scholarship by the NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors Inc.

The School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has been ranked 39th nationally for the Best Online Doctoral Nursing Degrees for 2016 by Affordable Colleges Online.

The National Rural Health Association presented Georgia Southern’s Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI) with the “2016 Outstanding Rural Health Program Award” for its DESRE program, which trains undergraduate and graduate students in rural health.
The Office of Pre-Law Advising at Georgia Southern is raising the bar for students. Since the establishment of the office in the 2003-2004 academic year, the acceptance rate to law school for Georgia Southern students has climbed every year.

Daniel J. Cox, Ph.D., has joined Georgia Southern University as the founding chair of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology.

The 2016 Southeast Emmy® Award Nominations, a chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has recognized Georgia Southern University’s Multimedia Development Center (MDC) and Department of Music with two professional Emmy® award nominations for Best Live Audio.