Up Front

  • Day 1 Access

    Big Savings on College Textbooks

    Georgia Southern students are saving money through the University’s Day1Access program. Instead of buying traditional textbooks, the program offers students digital course materials at a reduced cost. Last school year, the program helped students save more than $1.7 million. They have saved more than $4.2 million in required course materials costs since the program’s inception…

  • Eagle Legends and Lore

    Babe Ruth teaches the Teachers a lesson, and Hester Walton Newton, namesake of the Newton Building, boasts an interesting side profession.

  • U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Donaghe (L) receives award from Brig. Gen. Mark Thompson

    A Warrior for the Warriors

    Alumnus U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Donaghe cares for more than 700 paratroopers, making sure they’re ready for rapid deployment around the world.

  • Celebrate Armstrong

    Celebrate Together at Armstrong

    Nearly 2,000 Georgia Southern students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the local community came together for the Celebrate Together festival at the Armstrong Campus.

  • Homecoming: Back to the 2000s

    Georgia Southern hosted a poppin’ week full of events and fun Sept. 18-24 during Homecoming. Eagles on the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses celebrated with events like Latin Night, PJ Party, Sidewalk Chalking Competition, the Do-Dah Step Show and much more. The Eagles football team capped off the week with a 34-23 win over Ball State.…

  • Students on campus

    Up Front

    The latest news and notes from around campus.

  • “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit

    Zach S. Henderson Library Hosts a Traveling Exhibit on the Holocaust

    Georgia Southern University’s Henderson Library hosted the “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit on the Statesboro Campus for more than a month beginning Feb. 1 and ending March 11. The exhibit is an educational initiative of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. It examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’…

  • Military student

    Georgia Southern One Of Nation’s Top Ten Military Friendly® Schools

    Georgia Southern University has earned a 2022-2023 Top Ten Military Friendly® distinction by Viqtory, publishers of Military Spouse, GI Jobs and Military Friendly magazines. Georgia Southern ranked at number nine on the Top Ten list. Being named a Military Friendly School is nothing new for Georgia Southern, having earned that distinction for the past five…

  • Tutor

    Georgia Southern College of Education Awarded More Than $500K to Train Literacy Tutors

    The Georgia Southern College of Education (COE) was awarded $517,575 to train elementary education literacy tutors who will work in select schools in Chatham and Bulloch counties. Modeled after a program the COE piloted last summer, funded by the CARES Act, the enhanced program is funded by Gov. Brian Kemp’s second installment of the Governor’s…

  • Brian Bush

    Biology Major Receives Inaugural Fellowship to Research Ogeechee River

    Graduate student Brian Bush is the first recipient of a major fellowship — the annual Ogeechee Riverkeeper research fellowship. The fellowship is funded by investments secured from a settlement reached from the huge fish kill in the Ogeechee in 2011. That settlement called for a more frequent and transparent water-testing protocol and an endowment to continue efforts…