Going bananas for the summer
First-year athletic training students from Georgia Southern University’s Department of Clinical Sciences played a vital role in supporting youth athletes from across the nation during the 2025 Banana Ball Tournament this summer. More than 750 athletes, ages 9 to 12, participated in the weeklong event in Savannah.
First-generation graduate Jazmine Jenkins’ fierce focus helps her soar to degree in nuclear medicine
Jenkins’ endurance paid off this spring as she crossed the commencement stage to earn her bachelor’s in radiologic sciences with a concentration in nuclear medicine.
Georgia Southern names Scott Gordon as new Dean of the Waters College of Health Professions
Georgia Southern University has named Scott Gordon, Ph.D., FACSM, as the new Dean of the Waters College of Health Professions, who brings decades of experience in academic leadership, interdisciplinary health education and student-focused innovation.
Georgia Southern graduate students perform more than 6,000 hearing screenings during Fall 2024 semester
Georgia Southern University students got out of the classroom during the Fall 2024 semester to perform more than 6,000 crucial hearing screenings for Chatham and Effingham County K-12 students.
Georgia Southern students saddle up to help special needs children at local equine therapy academy
Two Georgia Southern University students worked closely with the horses and riders, assisting in the session process to enhance the patient’s therapeutic experience. They left the sessions with new, valuable insights emphasizing the intersection between healthcare and animal therapy.
Lindsey Breaux: Inspiring leadership in communication sciences and disorders
Lindsey Breaux is from the coastal town of Beaufort, South Carolina. For most of her life, she’s kept herself busy. She discovered her passion for service and helping those with communication disorders early in her educational career.
Burgers, beans and benevolence: Georgia Southern student spends summer in Belize offering speech therapy
Breaux is a communications sciences and disorders student going into her senior year. As part of her big finale as an Eagle, she wanted to spend her last summer as an undergraduate doing something special for those in desperate need of speech therapy. She always wanted to travel outside the country, which was something she hadn’t done much of.
Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia to open new four-year campus at Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University in Savannah
Georgia’s only public medical school has received funding approval to open a new four-year campus in Savannah, an expansion that will provide greater access to education and training for medical students and ease the state’s ongoing shortage of physicians.
Meet Joseph Vondrasek, an award-winning graduate student whose unwavering determination led him on the academic journey of a lifetime
Joseph Vondrasek, a graduate student majoring in health science and kinesiology, is one of the winners of the 2023 Averitt Award for Excellence in Research. Vondrasek, who will receive his Master of Science and Sports Medicine on May 13, hails from Owosso, Michigan.
Nontraditional student returns to Georgia Southern University to chart new career path
For years, Khristine Clark Hammond believed she had a solid professional career. She was an exercise physiologist, a health coach and a manager of wellness and fitness programs. But she found herself at a crossroads during the COVID-19 pandemic. After working in Savannah hospitals for more than two decades, she lost her job. The hospital fitness facility she managed closed during the pandemic.