快猫app短视 announces Fulbright US Scholar Award for 2023-2024
A noted 快猫app短视 public health professor has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in All Disciplines to Latvia for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Yelena N. Tarasenko, DrPH, is a professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences at Georgia Southern鈥檚 Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Her Fulbright project is titled 鈥淪trengthening research and teaching capacity in cancer prevention globally.鈥�
Beulah Narendrapurapu, Ph.D., and Eric Johnson, Ph.D., named Governor鈥檚 Teaching Fellows
Two faculty members from 快猫app短视’s College of Science and Mathematics have been selected by the Governor鈥檚 Teaching Fellows Committee for the 2023 Summer Symposium Program.
快猫app短视鈥檚 Urkovia Andrews, DrPH, receives national Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award
快猫app短视鈥檚 Assistant Director of Service-Learning Urkovia Andrews, DrPH, is this year鈥檚 recipient o the national Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award. This recognition is courtesy of Camus Compact, which is a network of colleges across the country dedicated to promoting and recognizing public work in higher education.
Taboo no more: Wikipedia moves from secondary source to teaching tool in Georgia Southern history professor’s class
快猫app短视 history professor Kathleen Comerford, Ph.D., turned to an unlikely source for her students鈥� research projects after access to primary sources was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students were tasked with writing Wikipedia articles as their projects, which changed the way the students and Comerford looked at Wikipedia鈥檚 usefulness in higher education.
Writing and Linguistics faculty member, student researching inclusive technical editing practices
快猫app短视 associate professor of writing and linguistics Joanna Schreiber, Ph.D., and senior Sedona Benjamin are working together to highlight trends in professional and technical editing to figure out the best inclusive editing practices.
Georgia Southern immunology expert to give presentation, hold Q&A on Coronavirus vaccines for 鈥楽cience on Tap鈥� series to build vaccine confidence
快猫app短视 professor of biology and immunology expert, Traci Ness, Ph.D., will host a presentation and virtual Q&A session titled, “COVID Vaccines Unmasked: Questions and Answers from an Immunologist,” on the coronavirus vaccines. The virtual event is part of the College of Science and Mathematics 鈥淪cience on Tap鈥� series and is free and open to the public.
Georgia Southern professor to host virtual program on ancient Jerusalem
快猫app短视 associate professor of religious studies Dan Pioske, Ph.D., will host an hourlong virtual learning experience that will retrace Jerusalem鈥檚 history from its earliest settlement until its destruction by the Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE.
Georgia Southern professor featured in 2021 Ogeechee International History Film Festival
快猫app短视 professor Matthew Hashiguchi鈥檚 film 鈥淕ood Luck Soup,鈥� is the feature of the 2021 Ogeechee International History Film Festival, the longest-running film festival of its kind in the world. 鈥淕ood Luck Soup鈥� and the other films in the festival will be available to stream through March 5.
Georgia Southern professor awarded grant to study African American museums
快猫app短视 Associate Professor of Geography, Amy Potter, Ph.D., has been awarded a $75,000 National Science Foundation grant for the project, 鈥淭he Role of Museums in the Landscape of Minority Representation.鈥�
Georgia Southern students get glimpse of disability complications through simulation
Recently students on the 快猫app短视 Armstrong Campus experienced first-hand the obstacles and issues disabled and elderly adults go through after participating in a series of simulations of various disabilities. The event was organized by the Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) National Leadership Society and the Armstrong Campus chapter of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).