Summer 2021

Kylee Colby’s Big Idea

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the lack of direct contact with friends and loved ones was hard on older veterans staying in the community living center units (CLC) at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia.
A Year Later

As news of the COVID-19 outbreak intensified in early 2020, Gabi Wiggill, a sophomore in Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), was rattled yet unaware of the international crisis to come or that her line of study would soon take center stage on an epic scale.
BIG is Getting Bigger

Did you think businesses could grow and expand during the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s exactly what’s been happening with the Business Innovation Group (BIG) at Georgia Southern University.
Behind the Scenes with Gabrielle Scott

Gabrielle Scott is living her dream as a student in the Georgia Southern theatre program.
Bonds Family Honored with Education Scholarship for Undergraduates

Members of the College of Education and the Bulloch County community have donated funds to endow an undergraduate education scholarship in the name of two exceptional Georgia Southern University alumni. The Dr. Charles and Dr. Lella Bonds Scholarship, is available to students pursuing degrees in education. Professor Emeritus Charles Bond was the first African American…
Student Wins $25,000 Chick-fil-A Scholarship

Rising junior Trevor Sconyers had no idea how a job at Chick-fil-A would change his life. Sconyers is from Lyons, Georgia, and is a front-of-house team leader and back-of-house team member at the Chick-fil-A in neighboring Vidalia. On March 17, he was a participant in what he thought was a virtual retreat with 11 other…
Students Learn the Business of Music

Beginning fall 2021, the first cohort of students in the Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in music industry will begin their studies at the Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus in Savannah. The program emphasizes both music technology and music management skills, with flexibility for students who are more interested in one area than…
Researching Salt Marsh Habitat Loss

Salt marshes in south Georgia are in constant need of restoration due to rising sea levels. Georgia Southern University graduate student Alexander Gregory is leading a project on the Armstrong Campus to address the loss of marsh habitats by researching Spartina alterniflora, the dominant plant in Georgia salt marshes.
2021 Averitt Award Winners

Four Graduate Students Receive Top Honor Georgia Southern graduate students teach, grade assignments, run laboratories, conduct their own research, and write and publish complex papers. But too often their academic achievements go uncelebrated. Meet the four graduate students who won the Averitt Award this year. It is the highest honor presented to graduate students within the…
Alex Troutman

As an undergraduate, Alex Troutman (‘14) was unsure of his future career field. Little did he know that professors Ray Chandler, Ph.D., and Michelle Cawthorn, Ph.D., would have an impact on his destiny.