Spring 2019
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Professor Named Governor’s Teaching Fellow
TimMarie Williams, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, has been named a 2018-2019 Governor’s Teaching Fellow. She is one of just 18 faculty members across Georgia who was chosen after a highly competitive application and selection process. The Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program provides higher education faculty with expanded opportunities…
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Georgia Southern Gains Higher Status as Research University
Georgia Southern University has been elevated to an “R2” high research institution in the revised 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. It is the second-highest classification for research institutions in the country. Carnegie ranked 4,424 universities and colleges – public and private, both for profit and not for profit. Of those, 120 were …
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Filling the Stem Gap for Girls: Visibility, Outreach, Connection
The Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing is focusing on initiatives to encourage young women’s interest in STEM opportunities. STEM integrates four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Celine Manoosingh, Ph.D, is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction. In the essay below, she explains why she…
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Hooked on Technology – Women in Tech Scholars Are Breaking the Mold
Angel VanEllison and Alajia Colon are new Georgia Southern University graduates. Chidera Obinali graduated in December. All three are information technology (IT) majors — a field that is vastly underrepresented by women and minorities. Last year, each received $5,000 scholarships from Women in Technology (WIT) — an organization that promotes the advancement of women in…
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College News
College of Behavior and Social Sciences PROFESSOR’S BOOK EXAMINES POLITICAL OVERSIGHT OF U.S. ATTORNEYS A new book co-authored by Professor Brett Curry, Ph.D., takes an in-depth look at the work of United States Attorneys (USAs). Although they are the chief federal prosecutors in their judicial districts, the book, U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition,…
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Breakthroughs Every Day – Camp RAD Provides Pivotal Experiences for Children with Disabilities
Ascending a rock wall for the first time when your young life has been spent in a wheelchair. Cutting up fruit or eating spinach when you previously couldn’t due to food aversions caused by major sensory issues. Playing basketball, swimming, or simply meeting new people when you’ve never done anything like that before. These are…
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Creating ‘opportunity’ – Georgia Southern Engineering Students Design Animatronic Eagle
When most people see him, they stop at least a few feet away. The pause allows them to consider how close they should get. His eyes open and his head turns, scanning the room as if he’s looking for prey. His body stoops and rises, and his wings open and close. At times, he’s looking…
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Research Notes
College of Arts and Humanities PROFESSOR’S BOOK EXPLORES MARILYN MONROE’S FILM ROLES Department of Literature Assistant Professor Amanda Konkle’s new book offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, examines how her performances united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Although she…
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Broadcasting Eagles – Former Student-Athletes Find Success in TV News
Laura Harris (‘08), former soccer player, and Leslie Almond (‘07), former basketball player, were captains at Georgia Southern. Although Harris and Almond played two different sports, they had one big thing in common, they were both sports fanatics. That love of sports led them into sports broadcasting and eventually a seat at a TV news…
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Anatomy of an Elbow Drop
If you’re on social media and follow Georgia Southern, you’ve probably seen Eagles’ Head Football Coach Chad Lunsford perform an elbow drop on a metal folding chair, followed by a frenzy of stomping by the players. The ritual has become a mainstay of Eagle football after important wins, and both players and fans are whipped…
