Features

  • Brig. Gen. Brown and her family

    A Call to Serve

    Brig. Gen. Brown says this is one of her favorite photos. It was taken after she reunited with her family from a deployment to Afghanistan.

  • Ayana Ross

    Recognition for Emerging Figurative Artist

    Ayana Ross (’00) is having a breakout moment as an emerging artist.

  • Kylee Colby

    Kylee Colby’s Big Idea

    Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the lack of direct contact with friends and loved ones was hard on older veterans staying in the community living center units (CLC) at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia.

  • A student holds their hands over a glowing globe

    A Year Later

    As news of the COVID-19 outbreak intensified in early 2020, Gabi Wiggill, a sophomore in Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), was rattled yet unaware of the international crisis to come or that her line of study would soon take center stage on an epic scale.

  • Chris Hill, a Master of Public Health student from Valdosta, Georgia, makes contact tracing calls at the CARES Center on the Statesboro Campus.

    Tracking an Invisible Enemy

    For the past few months, Georgia Southern public health students have been tracking an enemy so small it’s invisible to the naked eye.

  • Skyler Henry

    Rising Star

    From the Busiest Man on Campus to National Television Correspondent When news breaks on Capitol Hill or at the White House, Skyler Henry (’11) is there to cover it. The Georgia Southern alumnus reports some of today’s biggest stories as a correspondent for CBS Newspath, a 24/7 newsgathering service for more than 250 CBS affiliate…

  • Mackenzie Anderson

    Best Foot Forward

    Alumna Mackenzie Anderson Leads Global Purpose Communications and Engagement at Nike When Nike tapped Mackenzie Anderson to become the company’s global purpose communications and engagement director last year, she packed more than her bags for the move to the corporate giant’s headquarters in Portland, Oregon. The Georgia Southern University 2007 public relations graduate and former…

  • Through the Storm Covid-19

    Through the Storm

    Georgia Southern Adapts and Excels in Wake of Pandemic Some of Georgia Southern’s greatest stories describe how the Universityweathered storms. From winning a difficult bid in Savannah in 1906 to establish the First District A&M School, to transitioning from a secondary school to a teachers college, to reviving a football program with a visionary coach…

  • The Eagle Has Landed

    Georgia Southern Alumni Reflect on Work with NASA Space Program In the summer of 1967, Georgia Southern graduates Bob Pound (’67) and Charlie Abner (’67) hopped in a car and headed for Cape Canaveral with one mission — to “fix NASA.” In January of that year, NASA was conducting a pre-flight check for the crew of Apollo…

  • To the Moon and Back Again

    Alumnus Helping NASA Return to the Moon by 2024 No one on Earth has stepped foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 landed there in December 1972. But NASA is relying on the new space exploration program, Artemis, to change history and take the first woman and the next man to the moon by 2024. Georgia Southern…