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  • The Call To Public Service

    An Alumna’s Journey to the Bench Rachel Ross Krause (’96) has an easy answer for why she became a lawyer. “I’d like to say that I was inspired by Perry Mason or ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’,” she said. “But really it’s because my mom used to tell me I could argue with a brick wall and…

  • Making History

    Alumna and Literature Professor Wins State Election Ghazala Hashmi (’86) comes from a family of educators and always knew she would teach. “I think since I was 12 years old, I knew that I wanted to be a professor of English,” she said. “Both my father and mother always encouraged academics and a love of…

  • Protecting the Nest

    Georgia Southern Plays Role in Growing Sea Turtle Populations It’s before dawn on St. Catherines Island in Liberty County, Georgia, but Sydney Davis is already wide awake and ready to embark on an adventure through the uninhabited island.  Davis joins a group of students and researchers by climbing onto an ATV to navigate through unsettled…

  • Caring for Orphaned Wildlife

    Georgia Southern Interns Learn the Ways of the Wild Rescuing a baby raccoon from a trash can turned Alexis Neal into a wildlife rescue advocate. A junior health science major on the Armstrong Campus, Neal saw a photo that someone had posted online of a baby raccoon in the Gamble Hall trash can.  “I was…

  • Her Beacon of Hope

    Why Birds Inspire Biology Major An ornithology class in college transformed Corina Newsome’s life.  A junior at the time, she’d always considered birds “pretty mundane” until a professor’s passion and enthusiasm caused her to take another look. “They were all just little brown birds to me,” she says, “and what’s exciting about that? He basically…

  • Doing the Right Thing

    Georgia Southern Alumnus Appointed Georgia’s Top Cop Vic Reynolds (‘79), director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), says one of the most valuable lessons he ever learned about law enforcement came from Richard Waugh, a beloved former criminal justice professor at Georgia Southern. “He always emphasized that law enforcement was one of those careers…

  • Meet Our 40 Under 40

    Of Georgia Southern’s 126,000-plus living alumni, more than 50,000 are under 40 years of age.  The Alumni Association recently honored its Class of 2019 40 under 40, representing the excellence of the University’s young alumni and demonstrating the positive contributions and achievements for which University graduates are known. Rahman Anjorin Georgia Southern University2009 B.S. Health/Kinesiology,…

  • Georgia Southern Welcomes Kyle Marrero as Its 14th President

    On April 1, 2019, Georgia Southern welcomed Dr. Kyle Marrero as the 14th president of the University. Marrero hit the ground running and spent his first few days visiting each campus, dining with students, meeting the University’s bald eagle mascot, briefing Faculty Senate, learning more about various initiatives, finalizing the university’s budget, reviewing campus efficiency…

  • Georgia Southern in the Fastlane

    Whether it’s behind the scenes or on the track, Georgia Southern students and alumni love the world of racing. What draws them to this fast-paced career path? We found a few people to talk about their need for speed. Jordan Feider DIRT TRACK RACER AND NURSING STUDENT “I was raised in the racing world” Jordan…

  • Revitalizing Statesboro – Double Eagle Mayor Leads Community to New Era

    It’s an exciting time to be mayor of Statesboro, Georgia. Mayor Jonathan McCollar (’03, ’07) is busy with his “day job” as assistant director of the Liberty Campus plus his many mayoral duties. But he doesn’t mind all the work. Being at the helm for some of that largest development projects in Statesboro’s history is…