Fall 2025

  • Olivia Carr Edenfield Earns National Mentorship Honor

    When it comes to helping undergraduates publish and present their research, English Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, Ph.D., is a standout mentor. As such, she has been named the 2025 Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Award winner by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The national recognition is for faculty who go above and beyond to…

  • Investigator Earns Statewide Officer of The Year Recognition

    Congrats to Georgia Southern’s own investigator, Samuel Derr, who has been honored as Officer of the Year by the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police (GACP). The Marine Corps veteran joined the University in 2017 as a police officer. He’s since become an investigator assigned to the criminal investigation unit, where he works to keep…

  • A Def Education: Georgia Southern Alumnus Uses Hip Hop Music to Inspire Curiosity and Learning in Students

    “Def,” for those unfamiliar, is an informal adjective, born out of ‘80s hip hop culture, meaning “cool” or “excellent.” For André Benito Mountain (’98,’24), however, “def” is not simply cultural slang. It is the foundation of his pedagogy. From his days as a Georgia Southern University student, spinning records on the student-run radio station WVGS,…

  • Freedom II Revealed as Eagle Nation’s New Bald Eagle Mascot

    Training is Underway for Future Public Appearances Georgia Southern University’s new mascot, Freedom II, made her debut at the football game against Coastal Carolina at Allen E. Paulson Stadium on Nov. 15, 2025. Freedom II is a rescue from Maitland, Florida, where experts at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey discovered she had West…

  • Georgia Southern’s Economic Impact Soars to All-Time High

    Georgia Southern continues its legacy of making a significant economic impact on its surrounding region, accordingto findings released by the University System of Georgia (USG). The University’s annual economic impact grew to a new high of $1.167 billion for fiscal year 2024, an increase of 1.9% over the previous year.  “Georgia Southern’s record economic impact…

  • 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…

  • Legacy of A Legend

    LEGACY OF A LEGEND The night the eagle hatched, it almost brought the house down. It was a chilly evening in January 1982, but the brothers of Georgia Southern University’s Delta Chi fraternity were sweating as they rushed across campus to the homecoming basketball game. Pulling up in front of Hanner Fieldhouse, they ignored the…

  • Together We Soar Campaign Overview

    CampaignOverview $300 Million by December 31, 2030 $151.8 Million as of April 30, 2026. 112 New EndowmentsCreated $44.4M Student Success $22.3M Campus & Community Projects $33.3M Teaching & Research $46.1M Athletic Initiatives How Can You Help? Create a Scholarship Support Capital Projects Make a Planned Gift Give Online Corporate Matching Gifts Join the 1906 Society

  • Behind the Scenes of Artemis II with a Georgia Southern Graduate

    The astronauts had just made their final speeches. As they began to head to the crew transport that would take them to the Artemis II spacecraft, cryogenic propulsion software engineer Auston Netcher (‘21) put on his headset and settled into his workstation in the control room at Cape Canaveral, Florida.  The past few days in…

  • Only for Southern: 24 Hours of Eagle Giving

    Eagle Nation proved, once again, that there’s No Place Else like Georgia Southern during the University’s third annual Only for Southern giving day held on March 5, 2026. Donors set a single-day giving record, with 2,171 generous Eagles contributing more than $764,000 to areas across the University. Gifts came in from 49 states — only…