Fall 2019

  • 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,…

  • New Steps in Sustainability

    Sustainability is a top priority among today’s students, and Georgia Southern is planning new initiatives to help them address the impact of complex environmental issues. The University plans to enhance the work of the Center for Sustainability by pairing it with new academic programs and focusing its resources on larger projects.  In 2012, 74.7 percent…

  • Scholar Earns Fulbright to Teach in Spain

    University Honors Program student Emily Pressler (’19) graduated in May and is spending this academic year teaching English in Galicia, Spain. She was awarded an English Teaching Assistantship from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The modern languages Spanish and French major from Long Island, New York, described the experience as “a real chance to see…

  • Site-synchronous Classrooms Connect the Three Campuses

    Georgia Southern University is showing that the distance between its three campuses is just a number for students. After a pilot program of three site-synchronous classrooms last spring, the University expanded it to 12 more for the fall semester. These classrooms use state-of-the-art technology to connect students to a class being taught on another campus. …

  • Big Incubator Expanding to Hinesville and Metter, Georgia

    The Business Innovation Group (BIG) is expanding its business incubators to Hinesville and Metter, Georgia. BIG, at the Parker College of Business of Georgia Southern, is focused on providing students with the skills and training necessary to understand business principles, to experience how businesses operate and to successfully launch a new business enterprise. Currently BIG…

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    Lending a Helping Hand

    Georgia Southern students took a break from their busy schedules to volunteer for Treasure Savannah held on Oct. 5. The biannual day of service on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah and Liberty Campus in Hinesville is a way for volunteers to show compassion and give back to the local communities. Students and alumni cleaned city…