Spring 2026

  • A Professor’s Call to Service and Teaching

    Shaped by Family, Fueled by Service: Harry Hunter Jr.’s Journey from Armstrong to USC Faculty When Professor Harry Hunter Jr., Ph.D., DSW (’75), talks about his life, he starts with Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up with four sisters and one brother. He speaks about his parents, who instilled the values that led to his…

  • Georgia Southern Nursing Alumna Honors Colleagues with Nursing Honor Guard

    Nursing instructor Jennifer Heyer (’94) was looking for a way to honor her fellow nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I had several fellow nurses pass away during the pandemic,” she said. “And I knew I had to do something that would commemorate their nursing legacy. So I started researching.” That’s how she discovered the National…

  • From Competitor to Coach: Danny Varnadore Spurs on the Next Generation of Rodeo

    Danny Varnadore (’11, ’15) has a unique office at South Georgia State College, just a short drive from the Florida border. As the head coach of the college’s new rodeo club, his days are spent in barns more often than in classrooms. His journey from professional bull rider to college coach is a winding tale…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…