Fall 2025

  • Soaring by Example: Georgia Southern Alumnus Presented with 2025 Talon Award

    tephen Milner (‘96) still remembers the crisp, fall evening he held his daughter in his arms with his son in tow, at his first Eagles game at the Prettiest Little Stadium. “Our kids never stood a chance,” he said. “My wife, Sharon (‘94), and I are both diehard Eagles; we always have been. There’s only…

  • Chronicles

    Meg Heap (’86) has been appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. The district covers 43 counties and includes the cities of Statesboro, Savannah, Augusta, Dublin and Brunswick. Jennifer Bowcock (’94) has been named to the prestigious Ragan’s Top Women in Communication for 2025. Throughout her public relations career in the tech industry,…

  • In Memoriam Fall 2025

    Trailblazing Journalist and Founder of Boston’s Rose Brigade Dies At 93 China Altman (’54), a longtime journalist and founder of Boston’s Rose Brigade, died Feb. 2, 2026, in hospice care. Altman was just 16 when she left her family’s home in Waycross, Georgia, to attend what was then Georgia Teachers College (TC), even though she…

  • How Georgia Southern Is Leading AI Integration Into Higher Education Policymaking

    “Everybody freaked out about the calculator when the calculator came out,” said Robert Terry, Ph.D., associate professor of English and Faculty Senate president. “They freaked out when the internet came out. They freaked out when Wikipedia came out. The same kind of binary is true for what generative AI is doing.” In the last year,…

  • Two Georgia Southern Students Among Few Chosen for Rotary International Award

    Business Scholars Engage in Nordic Culture and Global Business Perspectives Two Georgia Southern University students spent their summer exploring Denmark and Norway, thanks to the Georgia Rotary Student Program and its partners in Scandinavia. Parker College of Business students Alana Milner and Claire Jerguson were recipients of the highly sought-after Rotary International award, which provided…

  • Radiology Graduate’s Career Coming Into Focus at Piedmont Henry Hospital 

    Genesis Horton’s (‘25) shift as an X-ray technologist at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Georgia, starts at noon. But the Georgia Southern University radiologic sciences and Honors College graduate says the real day begins the moment she sets her bag down on the floor of the radiology department. “Typically, I walk into work for the…

  • Fall 2025 Enrollment Breaks Records

    Georgia Southern University is celebrating a major achievement for the Fall 2025 semester as enrollment soared to an all-time high of 29,633 students. The 7.7% increase over the previous fall reflects the growing demand for a Georgia Southern education. The University’s first-year class is also breaking records. The University welcomed 5,946 freshmen, making it the…

  • Designing Confidence

    Georgia Southern Students Reimagine On-Campus Clothing Closets for Career Readiness On a quiet December morning, first-year interior architecture and design students at Georgia Southern University stood in the lobby of the Interdisciplinary Academic Building ready to present their visions for a real client and real project: a reimagined Suited for Success Career Closet for the…

  • Convent Renovations to Provide Student Housing in Wexford, Ireland

    Georgia Southern is expanding its global presence with a major redevelopment project that will create housing for students at the University’s Wexford Campus in Wexford Town, Ireland. In partnership with the Wexford County Council, the historic 1886 Adoration Convent is being transformed into modern accommodations for up to 56 Georgia Southern students studying abroad in…

  • Honors Global Scholars Explore Sustainable Agriculture And Well-Being in Georgia and Ireland

    When Amy Potter, Ph.D., attended a panel discussion in Ireland about environmental changes in the summer of 2023, she didn’t expect to be inspired to create a cross-disciplinary learning experience for students in Georgia Southern University’s Honors College. The geography professor had already been guiding her students through the history of Irish farming and agriculture…