Board of Regents Chair Kessel Stelling Jr. and University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby have announced the name of the finalist for the Georgia Southern University presidency.

The College of Business at Georgia Southern University is excited to announce Building A Legacy, an initiative to renovate and expand its 89,000-square-foot building.

The inaugural Diversity, Inclusion & Fairness (D.I.F.) Conference, hosted by the Georgia Southern University Multicultural Student Center, will take place in the Russell Union on Saturday, April 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Last week a group of Irish government officials met with leaders across the state of Georgia, including interim Georgia Southern University President Jean Bartels, Ph.D., RN, thanks to the work of the Wexford-Savannah Axis Research Project, which is a partnership between the Center for Irish Research and Teaching (CIRT) and Waterford Institute of Technology.
Tom Szaky, co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, will be the keynote speaker for the Center for Sustainability (CfS) and Business Innovation Group’s 2016 Sustainability and Entrepreneur Lecture Series on Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Georgia Southern University will host several events March 28-31 including Walk A Mile in Her Shoes®, guest speaker Tim Mousseau and the Red Flag Campaign to educate students and raise awareness of sexual and dating violence.

This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Asli Aslan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Aslan says that Georgia Southern offers her and her students an abundance of water sources for her water microbiological research, and enjoys teaching them the fundamental research skills that will benefit them long after their years at the University.
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host emerging gallerist and curator Bridget Donahue on March 24 at 5 p.m. in Visual Arts Building, room 2071, as part of the department’s Professions in Practice lecture series.
Georgia Southern University’s College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) will soon offer a Master of Science degree program with a major in Applied Geography (MS-AG) after the program was unanimously approved at the March 9 meeting of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Nearly 300 people, including former students, teachers and staff members from the Marvin Pittman Laboratory School (MPLS) came together for a reunion on Sunday, March 6, at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center.