MyNews: March 26, 2018
Georgia Southern Staff Council recognizes employees for years of service, dedication to University
Faculty and staff gathered Thursday, March 22, at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Georgia Southern’s Statesboro Campus to recognize employees during the annual Staff Years of Service & Merit Awards of Excellence Ceremony.
Biologists describe eight new species from the Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus
Eight new species of feather mites that have never before been described anywhere have been identified on the Georgia Southern University campus in Statesboro. How do eight unknown species go undetected for so long? They are very small and live in a surprising location.
The new species are feather mites of the genus Amerodectes, and they live only on the feathers of birds. These tiny mites – an adult is only a little larger than the period at the end of this sentence – cling to the feathers of birds. They feed on oil and other body secretions of their hosts. Once the discovery was made, Sergey Mironov, Ph.D., of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an international authority on feather mites, along with professor Ray Chandler, Ph.D., of the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern, collaborated in order to describe the species in a recent issue of the journal Zootaxa, making their findings available to all scientists.
Anonymous donors to match up to $750,000 for athletics endowments
An anonymous family has committed to match up to $750,000 in gifts made to the Georgia Southern Coaches Continuity Fund or the scholarship endowments that support student-athletes who play in one of the University’s 17 Division-I varsity programs.
Criminal Justice and Criminology faculty to travel to Finland on Fulbright scholarship
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently awarded Georgia Southern Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology Associate Professor Bryan Lee Miller, Ph.D., a grant to travel to Finland.
Miller was awarded the Fulbright-University of Tampere Scholar Award 2018-2019, which is funded jointly by the University of Tampere and the Fulbright Finland Foundation in Helsinki. For five months, Miller will teach a graduate-level qualitative methods course and an undergraduate drugs and society course. He will also conduct research on Finnish practitioner responses to emerging drug problems.
Georgia Southern celebrates Student Eagle Week across three campuses
Last week, Georgia Southern celebrated Student Eagle Week as a means of increasing engagement and pride in the Eagle Nation. Thank you to all of the University faculty and staff who helped make this initiative a great success on across all three campuses.
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On-Campus News
- College of Education professor earns lifetime mentor award at national conference
- Exercise is Medicine On Campus names Georgia Southern Gold Level Campus
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- STEM Institute team travels to Australia to share knowledge
- Georgia Southern Model Arab League earns top awards at Florida Regional Model Arab League competition
- Digital Commons@Georgia Southern reaches two million downloads
- Georgia Southern students help restore oyster reefs in South Carolina
- Georgia Southern University online MBA ranked in top 20 by Poets&Quants
- Jody Langdon wins second Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
- Nominations are open for the annual Green Eagle Awards
- Annual juried exhibitions to showcase artwork of BFSDoArt students
- Georgia Southern art students win Gold and Silver ADDY awards
- College of Business to host MBA Open House on Armstrong Campus
In the Media
- Georgia Southern shows off True Blue in a sea of green at St. Patrick’s Day Parade — WTOC
- Georgia Southern receives grant for more than $8,500 through Governor’s Office of Highway Safety — All on Georgia Polk County
- Savannah, Wexford create new bridge for trade — Savannah Morning News
- Georgia’s working forestry benefits both rural and metro Georgia — Middle Georgia CEO
- Scientists identify mysterious dead coastal ‘Sea Monster’ in Georgia — Florida Times-Union
- Operation Empower Health Greater Savannah coming in May — Savannah Tribune
- Georgia Southern University online MBA ranked in Top 20 by Poets&Quants — Savannah CEO
- Georgia Southern University to host MBA Open House on Armstrong Campus — Public Now
- Georgia Southern athletes take spring break mission trip to Cuba — WSAV
- Georgia Southern students celebrate the Holi Festival — WSAV
- Larry Futch named 2018 Statesboro Police Officer of the Year — Statesboro Herald
- Nine Line Foundation’s next initiative is Veterans Village in Savannah — Savannah Business Journal
Last updated: 4/5/2018