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  • Health Professions Academic Building Ribbon-Cutting

    Waters College of Health Professions A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Health Professions Academic Building was held on the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus in Savannah on Jan. 3, 2019. The 63,000-square-foot building houses the Waters College of Health Professions and provides a home to a variety of academic programs that prepare students for careers…

  • Aspiring Diplomat Wins Prestigious Fellowship

    Georgia Southern University alumna Carolynn Nixon (’17) is one of only 30 students and university graduates to win the highly competitive 2019 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. The national scholarship is a U.S. Department of State program that prepares young Americans for careers in the U.S. Foreign Service. It funds a two-year master’s degree…

  • Georgia Southern Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Nine Line Foundation

    Aquaponics Research Center will Provide Educational and Training Opportunities to Homeless Veterans. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl Reiber, Ph.D., and Megan Hostler, Nine Line Foundation president, publicly signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 29 to further enhance the institutions’ commitment to improving educational and training opportunities for the veterans in…

  • Vibrant and Colorful Makeover – Community Service Project on Display in Bulloch County School

    Walk into the bathrooms at Langston Chapel Middle School in Statesboro and it would be hard to miss the recent art project by students and faculty in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art. The inspirational messages and murals decorating stalls, mirrors and walls are the handiwork of art volunteers from the Statesboro and Armstrong…

  • Armstrong Campus Arboretum Now Has Map and Database

    Did you know that one of our campuses is officially an arboretum? The Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus Arboretum is a treasure of calm inside the busy southside Savannah area.  The arboretum encompasses the entire 268-acre Armstrong campus and displays a wide variety of shrubs and other woody plants. Several major plant collections have been…

  • Georgia Southern Breaks Ground for Engineering and Research Building

    Late last year, the University hosted former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and other key partners for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new Engineering and Research Building on the Statesboro Campus. The facility will be used to train future engineers, computer professionals and build partnerships with companies in the region.  “Bridging theory and practice, this new…

  • Grad Student Honored as One of 10 New Faces of Civil Engineering

    Graduate Student Mariah Peart has achieved a first for Georgia Southern. The American Society of Civil Engineers has recognized her as one of the 10 New Faces of Civil Engineering for 2019 — Professional Edition. Each year, the recognition goes to students and professionals whose early career accomplishments mark them as the profession’s future stars.…

  • True Blue Spotlight – Alumnus Appreciates Life as Small-Town Police Chief in New Jersey

    It might be difficult to find someone with more True Blue spirit than Nicholas Peditto (’94), the police chief in Lumberton Township, New Jersey. Walk into his office and his love for Georgia Southern University is obvious. It’s decorated with college memorabilia, from hats and banners to old Coke bottles when the Eagles won national…

  • What’s in A Name? – Burnett Hall

    Burnett Hall is one of the eight original buildings constructed when Armstrong’s southside campus was completed in 1965. Many alumni remember it as the Administration Building; however, in 2005, it was formally dedicated as Robert Adair Burnett Hall to honor the service and memory of the fifth president of Armstrong State College. Joe Buck, the…

  • Introducing the Parker College of Business

    $5 Million Gift—the Single Largest in University History— ‘Signifies New Partnership’