Community garden idea readies MPA students for career, earns first place in policy competition
Ikeoluwa Akanmu, Melinda Roell, Jennifer Morgan, William Golden
‘The Eagle Experience’ wins national award for excellence
‘The Eagle Experience,’ a collaborative cross-university effort to ensure new students’ successful transition into their college years, grabbed the attention of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and won a 2021-22 NASPA Excellence Bronze Award.
Georgia Southern now one of nation’s Top Ten Military Friendly® Schools
Georgia Southern University has now earned a 2022-2023 Top Ten Military Friendly® distinction by Viqtory. Georgia Southern ranked at number nine on the Top Ten list. Being named a Military Friendly school is nothing new for Georgia Southern University, having earned a gold-level distinction for the past 10 years.
High school students dive into public health, one of the nation’s top fields of study, at Georgia Southern institute this summer
In the wake of the pandemic there has been an explosion of interest in public health as a field of study in universities around the country.
In response, Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health will host the inaugural Rising Scholars Public Health Summer Institute for high school juniors and seniors June 22–24 on the Statesboro Campus. The program will expose students to the breadth and depth of the public health discipline.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown coming to Georgia Southern University March 9-10
The Georgia Southern University Department of Literature will host Jericho Brown, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and National Book Award Finalist, for two events on March 9-10. Both events are open to the public.
Local economic surge through year-end, states Georgia Southern’s Q4 Economic Monitor
Savannah metro area economy remained on a remarkable path of rebound growth as 2021 ended, according to Georgia Southern University’s latest Economic Monitor, which reflects Q4 2021.
Georgia Southern leads preservation efforts for a nearly endangered tree species
The Mexican oaks are a quickly-disappearing species of trees, and are sparse on this side of the southern border. In Mexico, many of the oaks are being torn down for agriculture and other deforestation efforts.
Hammond for Hope Scholarships uplift graduate students, hearing loss community
Receiving $10,000 and $5,000 Hammond for Hope Scholarships were life-changers for Kayla Pope and Caroline Davis, respectively, who are both second-year graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program at Georgia Southern University.
Georgia Southern University professor wins national Student Impact Award from Top Hat
Georgia Southern biology lecturer Elizabeth Sargent, Ph.D., won the 2022 Student Impact Award from Top Hat, a digital platform for teachers and professors to connect with students online, distribute assignments and give in-class quizzes and exams.
Georgia Southern receives Tree Campus Higher Education recognition from Arbor Day Foundation
Thanks to a collaboration among students, faculty and staff, Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus and Armstrong Campus in Savannah have been recognized for the first time in the Tree Campus Higher Education program through the National Arbor Day Foundation.