Research

  • Creating ‘opportunity’ – Georgia Southern Engineering Students Design Animatronic Eagle

    When most people see him, they stop at least a few feet away. The pause allows them to consider how close they should get. His eyes open and his head turns, scanning the room as if he’s looking for prey. His body stoops and rises, and his wings open and close. At times, he’s looking…

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    College of Arts and Humanities PROFESSOR’S BOOK EXPLORES MARILYN MONROE’S FILM ROLES Department of Literature Assistant Professor Amanda Konkle’s new book offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, examines how her performances united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Although she…

  • A Professor’s Journey to Connect With His Past

    Professor Matthew Hashiguchi has a complicated relationship with his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Yet he treasures growing up as a multiracial Asian-American in a neighborhood of Irish Catholics and Italian-Americans. “I live in Georgia but Cleveland will always be my home,” he said. “I am grateful that I had the experiences that I had. I…

  • Averitt Award Winners 2018

    Gustavo Silveira (‘18) is a renaissance man when it comes to music technology. He’s the winner of the 2018 Averitt Award for Excellence in Instruction.

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    Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing Professor Lands $300,000 Grant for Power System Research Professor Masoud Davari, Ph.D., has been awarded a grant of $299,850 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research. Davari submitted the proposal, “Collaborative Research: Fully Integrated Power and Energy Systems with Multi-Infeed AC/ DC Architecture: Developing Advanced…

  • A Mindful Approach

    Counselor Educator Brings Federal-level Training to Statesboro-Bulloch County Law Enforcement  While completing his undergraduate degree, counselor education professor Richard Cleveland, Ph.D., worked as a campus officer to help pay for school. “I remember one of my first calls was a response of an elderly woman who fell down a flight of stairs and cracked her…

  • Averitt Award Winners 2017

    John David Curlis Animals Speak in color Growing up, John David Curlis (’17) had a number of pets, yet frogs intrigued him the most. As a Georgia Southern graduate student, he turned his attention to the ground snake. His research focused on the evolution of multiple color patterns in this harmless snake species that mimics…

  • Helping Soldiers

    Nancy Henderson, an assistant professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program who has also worked with soldiers as a part-time federal employee for 12 years, compares active duty soldiers to professional athletes who push physical limits every day. In correlation, there are roughly 300,000 musculoskeletal injuries—which may include ankle sprains, knee injuries and shoulder…

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     College of Science and Mathematics Campus Wildlife catalog Department of Biology faculty and students have completed a two-year study to document all vertebrate species on the Statesboro Campus. The study, organized by Professors Michelle Cawthorn, Ph.D., Ray Chandler, Ph.D., Lance McBrayer, Ph.D., and Jamie Roberts, Ph.D., was funded by the University’s Center for Sustainability. With…

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