

Georgia Southern University’s College of Education will host the 34th annual National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah March 5-8. The conference brings together more than 1,200 professionals in education, social work, law enforcement, counseling and other child and family advocacy entities from around the country for quality, relevant training to better serve youth.

Jordan Moreno, a junior in the College of Education at Georgia Southern University, recalls not having a Black teacher until the 7th grade. Since then, he’s dreamed about being a part of a paradigm shift in education while pursuing his passion for teaching and mentoring elementary students. As a member of the inaugural 2022-2023 cohort of Georgia Southern’s Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program, Moreno is doing just that.

A pair of New York Times bestselling authors will appear at Georgia Southern to read passages from their new books. The Georgia Southern Department of English will be hosting both events.

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded Georgia Southern University’s Dongyu Jia, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biology, a federal grant totaling $426,000 to fill in the gaps of learning the steps of tumor formation at the beginning stages and what initially triggers their epithelial cell shape change before becoming invasive.

Georgia Southern’s work to support students in their college journey is once again receiving national recognition. The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Excellence Awards has included two of the University’s collaborative projects, The Eagle Experience and the student-initiated Period Equity Movement, in its 2022-2023 list of winners.

Georgia Southern University has ranked in the top providers nationally for degrees conferred to diverse students among higher education institutions. For several years, Diverse Issues In Higher Education has produced the Top 100 Degree Producers rankings of the institutions that confer the most degrees to diverse students.

Craig M. Harvey, Ph.D., has been selected to serve as the new dean of the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing beginning July 1.

Georgia Southern University is undergoing organizational realignment of several divisions to support its strategic enrollment initiatives and has tapped a consultant and experienced enrollment management professional to lead the effort as the university’s executive vice president for enrollment management, marketing and student success. Alejandra “Ale” Sosa Pieroni currently serves as a vice president for Ruffalo Noel Levitz, working with colleges and universities across the country to help them optimize their marketing, admissions, financial aid and student success practices. She will bring that expertise to Georgia Southern to lead a single unit combining the areas of Enrollment Management, University Communications and…

The Georgia Southern Military and Veterans Services Department will award Military Spouse Scholarships provided by the Landings Military Spouse Academic Assistance Funds in February.