Fall 2022

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’…
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…
Heartbreak to Hope

Alumni form The Brett Boyer Foundation, Brett’s Barn to shed light on congenital heart defects There’s a place just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where the sun shines a little brighter and its rays are a little warmer. There is a palpable sense of love and cheer in the air. An afternoon there can turn even…
From Hinesville to Sesame Street

Deborah Marie Rodríguez García embraces cultural identity, emerges as global leader As the senior manager of education for Sesame Workshop’s humanitarian programs, Deborah Marie Rodríguez Garcia (’10, ’12) reaches some of the planet’s most remote communities to provide education to refugee children while promoting the power of play-based learning to their caregivers. Sharing relatable stories and…
Edible Engineering

Georgia Southern Engineering Student Brings Unique Skills to Netflix Georgia Southern mechanical engineering student Hannah Walden has spent years building interesting — sometimes wacky — projects with her father, Chuck. Those unique skills served her well in an equally unique Netflix show that combines engineering and baking. Hannah began working on projects with her father…
Creating a Community

Students Organize Asian Pacific American Initiative at Armstrong Campus As a student on the pre-nursing track, Maria Hagy has found the Armstrong Campus to be an ideal fit. It’s near downtown, and close to her family and Hunter Army Airfield, the location of her Air National Guard unit. “I love that it’s a small campus…
Through Wide Open Doors

Ava Bullard, Namesake of Ava’s Law, Navigates New Experiences in Dual Enrollment at Georgia Southern When she was just a toddler, Georgia Southern University dual enrollment student Ava Bullard couldn’t stand to go through a doorway — any doorway. She would writhe and scream as if she were being tortured. Ava was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder…
A Musical Love Story

Music Faculty David Murray and Arikka Gregory Make a Beautiful Duet Sometimes on a hectic day you can find a musical interlude when you enter the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Statesboro Campus. Sometimes you can even see a true love story play out right before your eyes. So it was on a late…
Efforts to Preserve A Threatened Tree Species

The Armstrong Campus features a wide variety of unusual plants, including several species native to Mexico. There are 109 native species of oaks in Mexico but many are threatened with extinction for a variety of reasons including climate change and increased human use. Philip Schretter, the superintendent of grounds operations for the Armstrong Campus, oversees…
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…