Summer 2020

The Armstrong Campus features a new garden of plants useful for medicinal purposes in historical and even contemporary times. Rosemary, parsley, castor beans and foxglove are just a few of the plants with healing properties that fill the physic garden, a type of herb garden. “Physic gardens are obviously not a new idea, and our…

First-year student Jaiden Thompson was Congressman Buddy Carter’s guest at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address in February. “The event was surreal,” said Thompson, a student on the Liberty Campus. “I remember watching past State of the Union addresses on the television with my grandfather, so seeing them in person was mind-blowing.” Thompson…

Joseph Telfair, DrPH, has been appointed to the National Mental Health Advisory Committee (NAMHC). He is the associate dean of public health practice and research in Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Telfair’s advisory role pertains to public health research and practice, community-based research, and issues of health inequities and translational research…

This summer, Georgia Southern University is hosting the first scholars to study at its new Irish learning center. Georgia Southern President Kyle Marrero led a delegation of higher education and business officials to Wexford County, Ireland, last fall for the ceremonial opening of the international facility. Ireland’s deputy prime minister attended the event, which also…

Georgia Southern is planning a partnership with Junior Achievement of Georgia (JA) that could bring thousands of middle school students to the Armstrong Campus every year. The project calls for retrofitting the Student Recreation Center into a JA Discovery Center. The center would educate middle schoolers in such areas as career readiness, personal finance and…

A team of Parker College of Business students won this year’s National Retail Federation (NRF) Foundation Student Challenge competition. For their case study, Cayley Creekmore, Shannon Foote, Anna Tiller and Woodley White created a jewelry line that empowers women in Uganda by providing them with the skills to earn a living wage to support their…

Students on the Armstrong Campus enjoyed savory foods and activities from around the world during a celebration of International Education Week on Nov. 13, 2019. The Taste of the World festival has been a staple on the Savannah campus since 2002. It’s a chance for attendees to sample traditional foods from other countries and learn…

Georgia Southern University alumnus Stuart Tedders, Ph.D., (’87) is the new dean of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. The native of Perry, Georgia, began his career at Georgia Southern University as an assistant professor in 2000 and was an original member of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, which was founded on…

True Blue is more than just a phrase for Georgia Southern alumnus Vincent E. Buggs, a brigadier general with the U.S. Army Reserve. It’s a mindset. “To be ‘True Blue’ means to give,” he said. “The one thing that Georgia Southern as an institution teaches everyone, if you embrace it, is that you have to…