Alumni

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    Flower Power

    Everything’s coming up roses for recent graduate (’16) Mindy Lord.

  • Making It Legal

    Alumna fulfills childhood dream.

  • A Great Start

    An internship at Milliken & Company Longleaf Plant in Sylvania, Georgia, paid off for freshly minted college graduate Dominique Appling (’16).

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    Still Going Strong

    He’s 84 years old and small in stature, but in the weightlifting world, Howard Cohen (‘61) is a giant.

  • A Seat on The Bench

    Alumnus — the Honorable Michael Boggs (’85) — ascends to Georgia’s highest court.

  • Predicting the Election with Twitter

    Want to know who’s going to win the presidential election? A Georgia Southern study suggests you might find the answer on Twitter. Georgia Southern data science graduates Garrett Neidlinger, Chris Bergin and Jacob Dahlberg created a capstone senior project that analyzed the political opinions of Twitter users against Democrat and Republican Primary results. They captured…

  • Why College Students’ Votes Matter

    Influential Journalists Challenge Students to Focus on Political Process Three prominent journalists encouraged Georgia Southern students to become more involved in the political process by showing up to vote on Election Day. Former ABC News “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson and NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson addressed the students as…

  • Two Eagle Millennials Weigh in on the Election

    In November, many students on our campus will vote for the first time in a presidential election. Millennials, or people born between 1982 and 2000, now number 83.1 million. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, millennials are more diverse than previous generations, with 44.2 percent representing a minority race or ethnic group. Young Americans will…

  • Don’t Talk About It — Do Something!

    School choice crusader Steve Perry challenges students to be agents of change — ‘You can’t hashtag your way through a social movement’     Long before he was standing in front of crowds as a school choice crusader, Steve Perry used to sit alone in his room, listening to the taped speeches of Martin Luther…

  • On Capitol Hill

    Meet Annalee Ashley