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Political commentator, journalist and author Roland Martin was the keynote speaker at Georgia Southern University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. His appearance on both the Statesboro Campus and Armstrong Campus helped kick off the University’s Black History Month observance.

Professor Emeritus Robert Strozier is remembered as a poet, distinguished speaker, mentor and larger-than-life English professor on the Armstrong Campus. He passed away April 28, 2019, in Savannah. Dr. Strozier graduated from   Armstrong Junior College in 1949 with a degree in liberal studies. After completing his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at other institutions, he…

TimMarie Williams, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, has been named a 2018-2019 Governor’s Teaching Fellow. She is one of just 18 faculty members across Georgia who was chosen after a highly competitive application and selection process. The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program provides higher education faculty with expanded opportunities…

Georgia Southern University has been elevated to an “R2” high research institution in the revised 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. It is the second-highest classification for research institutions in the country. Carnegie ranked 4,424 universities and colleges – public and private, both for profit and not for profit. Of those, 120 were …

The Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing is focusing on  initiatives to encourage young women’s interest in STEM opportunities. STEM integrates four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Celine Manoosingh, Ph.D, is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil  Engineering and Construction. In the essay below, she explains why she…

Angel VanEllison and Alajia Colon are new Georgia Southern University graduates. Chidera Obinali graduated in December. All three are information technology (IT) majors — a field that is vastly underrepresented by women and minorities. Last year, each received $5,000 scholarships from Women in Technology (WIT) — an organization that promotes the advancement of women in…

College of Behavior and Social  Sciences PROFESSOR’S BOOK EXAMINES POLITICAL OVERSIGHT OF U.S. ATTORNEYS A new book co-authored by Professor Brett Curry, Ph.D., takes an in-depth look at the work of United States Attorneys (USAs). Although they are the chief federal prosecutors in their judicial districts, the book, U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition,…