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MyNews: February 11, 2019

Georgia Southern University celebrates 2019 Black Heritage Month

Georgia Southern University celebrates 2019 Black Heritage Month

Georgia Southern University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs announces the schedule for the 2019 Black Heritage Month celebration, featuring a series of lectures, panel discussions, performances and more throughout February. Most events will take place on the Statesboro, Armstrong and Liberty campuses and are free and open to the public.

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Georgia Southern Counseling Center, director honored by Georgia College Counseling Association

GCCA 26th Annual Conference attendees, from left, Assistant Director/Training Director Katie Bigalke Jones, Ph.D., current counseling center Intern Deonna Kitwana, and counseling staff members Angela Landers, and Nikita Robinson.

The Georgia Southern University Counseling Center was awarded Clinical Program of the Year for its doctoral internship in Health Service Psychology program at the Georgia College Counseling Association 26th Annual Conference on St. Simons Island, Georgia. In addition, Counseling Center Executive Director, Jodi K. Caldwell, Ph.D., was awarded College Counseling Director of the Year.

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Georgia Southern student one of five in nation to garner leadership fellowship

Georgia Southern student one of five in nation to garner leadership fellowship

Georgia Southern University senior Jessica Riley Martinez was recently awarded the 2019 Jordan Smith Undergraduate Fellowship and will represent Georgia Southern at the 38th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience this month.

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Museum director to speak on groundbreaking philosopher on Statesboro, Armstrong campuses Feb. 11 and 12

Museum director to speak on groundbreaking philosopher on Statesboro, Armstrong campuses Feb. 11, 12

Michelle DiMeo, Ph.D., director of the Hagley Heritage Curators Program at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, is coming to Georgia Southern University to speak on the work of 17th-century English philosopher Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh on Feb. 11 and 12. Both events are free and open to the public.

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Georgia Southern offers archaeological field school at Confederate POW camp

Ryan McNutt, Ph.D., and some students work with a metal detector at Camp Lawton.

Georgia Southern University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology will continue its spring and summer archaeological field schools held at Camp Lawton, a former Confederate prisoner of war camp, located in Magnolia Springs State Park in Millen, Georgia.

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Georgia Southern economics students top performers in national trading competition

Parker College of Business students (l-r) Nathan Insel, Layke Touchet, Shaye Escritor and Angel Lopez-Akiyama were top performers at the national TD Ameritrade’s thinkorswim Challenge

A team of four economics majors at Georgia Southern University’s Parker College of Business recently took fourth place at TD Ameritrade’s thinkorswim Challenge, a real-world cash trading experience, after going head-to-head with 500 college teams from around the country.

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Last updated: 2/22/2019