
Georgia Southern will once again celebrate the spring season at the second annual Holi Festival on March 24, 6-8 p.m. in front of the University Store and Dining Commons. Participants will smeared and sprinkled in colors while enjoying live music and dancing. In addition, Dining Commons will serve Indian cuisine in celebration of the event.
In its third year, Georgia Southern’s Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health will sponsor the 2016 Healthcare Symposium. “Truths and Myths behind Childhood Vaccinations,” on March 24, 10 – 11:30 a.m., in the University’s Performing Arts Center (PAC). The symposium is free and open to students, staff, faculty and the community.

Students anywhere can take advantage of the opportunities offered through summer school at Georgia Southern. By choosing Southern for summer, students may take advantage of fully online courses, campus housing at University Villas, more than 100 on-campus job opportunities, shorter semesters and the opportunity to study abroad. In addition to the nearly 300 online courses, the University is offering a total of 1,600 summer classes to ensure students stay on track this May, June and July.
The 27th Annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference, hosted by Georgia Southern University’s College of Education and the Division of Continuing Education, will be held in Savannah March 6-9. The conference trains adults who serve youth to create safe, healthy, caring and intellectually empowering educational environments that foster the well-being of children and adolescents by offering more than 120 sessions with nationally and internationally recognized presenters to more than 1, 200 conference participants from across the United States.

James Farmer, popular designer, author and master of the finer things will serve as the 2016 Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecturer on Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern.

“My Guardian Angel,” a business idea that could help save children’s lives, was selected by judges to move on to the FastPitch competition in Savannah, Georgia, during the third annual 3 Day Startup (3DS) held Feb. 19-21.

When actors starring in the Theatre & Performance program’s production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” take the stage March 3-5 at the PAC, they’ll be under the direction of alumnus Gage Crook, who began work on the play as a student.

The Moscow Festival Ballet, one of the most renowned ballet troupes in Russia, will present the romantic fairytale classic Sleeping Beauty at the Georgia Southern Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Tuesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Southern University graduate and bestselling author Cassie Beasley will be on campus for a book reading Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the Information Technology Building, room 1005.

Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art presents Allison Tierney’s “The Things We Keep,” through March 25 in the University’s Contemporary Gallery of the Center for Art & Theatre.