Summer 2024

  • Statesboro Steps into the Future with Grand Opening of BIG Conference Center

    It’s beginning to look a lot different when you come into downtown Statesboro, Georgia on Highway 24. The Business Innovation Group (BIG) at the Innovation Incubator (I2) is getting ready to open the new Conference Center. The new space is adding office suites and over 14,000 square feet of new space to BIG. “Our first…

  • Georgia Southern awarded $600,000 to lower equity gaps, increase graduation rates for low-income students

    Students at Georgia Southern University now have even more opportunities to excel with the help of two new grants from the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University totaling up to $600,000. The first is a $500,000 Acceleration Grant that will be distributed to Georgia Southern over the next two years to…

  • Georgia Southern art professor wins global COVID-19 monument design contest, unveiling in Chicago in 2025

    Menacing spiked images of the coronavirus have been reimagined with a gentler profile for a global design contest, which was recently won by Georgia Southern University Art Professor Casey Schachner.  In honor of the five-year marker of the pandemic, Schachner’s winning design for the COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, and Resilience, selected by the COVID-19…

  • The Ultimate Global Harmony

    The second Sustainability in the Arts Festival took place last month across the Waterford, Carlow, and Wexford campuses following the launch by South East Technological University (SETU) President Veronica Campbell, Ph.D. Several Georgia Southern University Honors Global Scholars were able to participate, showcasing their research and ideas about sustainability.

  • Georgia Southern Triumphs at VIP Consortium 2024 with Outstanding New Site Development Award

    Georgia Southern University brought home the award for “Outstanding New Site Development” at the 2024 Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Consortium hosted by Georgia Tech. This international award recognizes Georgia Southern’s efforts to create VIP teams and projects. Started in 2022, the University’s VIP teams went from 4 teams and 17 students to 12 teams and…