Georgia Southern chemistry professor earns USG Hall of Fame Faculty Award
¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ’s Beulah Narendrapurapu, Ph.D., won a 2023 Felton Jenkins, Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award presented by the University System of Georgia. This system-wide award recognizes faculty and staff for their commitment to teaching and student success.
Youth mental health issues on the rise: National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Research Center awards seed grants for faculty research in support of local youth advocacy and resiliencyÂ
Youth across the U.S. are increasingly at risk for mental health issues, and ¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ is directly responding to the needs of local youth.
The University’s National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Research Center, which promotes scholarly and collaborative research with community partners to assist young people in overcoming conditions that may threaten their safety, health, emotional needs or intellectual development, recently awarded three seed grants to faculty for research that support youth advocacy and resiliency.
It’s a good day to plant a tree: Georgia Southern celebrates Arbor Day
¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ’s campuses are a little greener after students, faculty and staff came together to celebrate Georgia’s Arbor Day by planting longleaf pine and dogwood trees on the Armstrong and Statesboro campuses, respectively.Â
Georgia Southern Business Innovation Group client awarded runner-up prize at Savannah pitch competition
A ¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ Business Innovation Group (BIG) client and Statesboro-based business won $2,500 and claimed the runner-up spot at the 2023 GRIT Conference Startup Stage Pitch Competition held in January.Â
¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ hosts 34th annual National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference March 5-8
¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ’s College of Education will host the 34th annual National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah March 5-8.
The conference brings together more than 1,200 professionals in education, social work, law enforcement, counseling and other child and family advocacy entities from around the country for quality, relevant training to better serve youth.
Call Me MISTER: Georgia Southern junior Jordan Moreno is passionate about teaching, changing the education paradigm
Jordan Moreno, a junior in the College of Education at ¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ, recalls not having a Black teacher until the 7th grade. Since then, he’s dreamed about being a part of a paradigm shift in education while pursuing his passion for teaching and mentoring elementary students.
As a member of the inaugural 2022-2023 cohort of Georgia Southern’s Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program, Moreno is doing just that.
New York bestselling authors coming to Georgia Southern
A pair of New York Times bestselling authors will appear at Georgia Southern to read passages from their new books. The Georgia Southern Department of English will be hosting both events.
National Institutes of Health awards ¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ $426,000 to study tumor formation
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded ¿ìèapp¶ÌÊÓ’s Dongyu Jia, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biology, a federal grant totaling $426,000 to fill in the gaps of learning the steps of tumor formation at the beginning stages and what initially triggers their epithelial cell shape change before becoming invasive.
Georgia Southern receives more national recognition for student support programs
Georgia Southern’s work to support students in their college journey is once again receiving national recognition. The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Excellence Awards has included two of the University’s collaborative projects, The Eagle Experience and the student-initiated Period Equity Movement, in its 2022-2023 list of winners.