Summer 2020

  • The Eagle Has Landed

    Georgia Southern Alumni Reflect on Work with NASA Space Program In the summer of 1967, Georgia Southern graduates Bob Pound (’67) and Charlie Abner (’67) hopped in a car and headed for Cape Canaveral with one mission — to “fix NASA.” In January of that year, NASA was conducting a pre-flight check for the crew of Apollo…

  • To the Moon and Back Again

    Alumnus Helping NASA Return to the Moon by 2024 No one on Earth has stepped foot on the Moon since Apollo 17 landed there in December 1972. But NASA is relying on the new space exploration program, Artemis, to change history and take the first woman and the next man to the moon by 2024. Georgia Southern…

  • The Call To Public Service

    An Alumna’s Journey to the Bench Rachel Ross Krause (’96) has an easy answer for why she became a lawyer. “I’d like to say that I was inspired by Perry Mason or ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’,” she said. “But really it’s because my mom used to tell me I could argue with a brick wall and…

  • Georgia Historical Society President W. Todd Groce; Regent Don Waters; Former Savannah mayor and alumnus Otis Johnson; Georgia Southern President Kyle Marrero in front of the Armstrong Historical Marker

    An Important Story That Needs to Be Told

    New Historical Marker Celebrates Armstrong State University History A new historical marker honors Armstrong State University’s contributions to the city of Savannah, its students and its legacy in Georgia Southern University’s history. In December, Georgia Historical Society and Georgia Southern dedicated the marker, located on the Armstrong Campus in the quad behind Burnett Hall. The…

  • Professor John Weaver meets the Dalai Lama

    A Visit with the Dalai Lama

    Education Professor Joins Conference in India for Human Education in the Third Millennium Project If you received an email one day with Russian characters in it, you would probably think it was a scam. That’s what John Weaver, Ph.D., professor of education first thought. “I got an email from Russia,” said Weaver. ”It was from the…

  • Anthony Paderewski

    Armstrong in Prime Time TV

    Health Professions Academic Building Becomes ‘Savannah General’ in NBC’s Drama ‘Council of Dads’ When location scouts for NBC’s new television series “Council of Dads” combed Savannah for a realistic venue to shoot multiple hospital scenes, they knew they had found something special in the Health Professions Academic Building on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus. “I…

  • Jaw-Dropping Changes

    Georgia Southern Museum Reopening after Major Renovation What began as a simple project to repaint the Georgia Southern Museum turned into a two-year undertaking to renovate the entire building. Built in 1937 as the original library, the building was seriously suffering from old age. ‘The painters told me they thought there was something going on…

  • Eagles in Demand

    First Graduating Manufacturing Engineering Class Rapidly Finds Jobs Jesse Davis (’19), one of the first graduates from Georgia Southern’s Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering, didn’t have to wait long to find a job. “When I woke up the day of graduation, they called me at eight in the morning and told me I had…

  • Escape from the Okefenokee Swamp

    Library Special Collections HostsEscape Room Experience Zach S. Henderson Library invited visitors to embark on a spooky adventure to the Okefenokee Swamp, without even having to go outside or apply insect repellent. Last October, the library created an Okefenokee escape room experience, an interactive game where a small group of players find clues, solve puzzles…

  • Making History

    Alumna and Literature Professor Wins State Election Ghazala Hashmi (’86) comes from a family of educators and always knew she would teach. “I think since I was 12 years old, I knew that I wanted to be a professor of English,” she said. “Both my father and mother always encouraged academics and a love of…