Waters College of Health Professions faculty inducted into alma mater’s Hall of Fame
Douglas E. Masini, Ed.D., chair of the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences at Georgia Southern University, was recently inducted into the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences (CCRHS) Hall of Fame at his alma mater, East Tennessee State University (ETSU).
Masini was honored at a special ceremony with a commemorative gift. In addition, a plaque with the names of distinguished alumni and hall of fame awardees will be placed on the Wall of Recognition in Lamb Hall on the campus of ETSU.
To be inducted into the CCRHS Hall of Fame, the individual had to be nominated and chosen by a selection committee consisting of two CCRHS faculty members, the chair of the Philanthropy Board or representative, an alumni member, one associate dean and a member of the ETSU Alumni Board of Directors.
Proposals open for Georgia Southern Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literature
Proposals are being accepted for Georgia Southern University’s Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures until Nov. 15. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and will be held at the Embassy Suites and Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Savannah April 9 through 10.
Proposals are accepted on a range of topics from Afro-Hispanic studies to second language acquisition, Spanish, Arabic, French and others. A comprehensive list of guidelines and possible topics can be found at GeorgiaSouthern.edu/conted/seccll/callforproposals. Those interested in attending may register at the early bird rate until Jan. 9.
Georgia Southern senior art exhibition on Armstrong Campus opens Nov. 4
“Thalia Melpomene,” a collaborative senior art exhibition, will be showcased in Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus Fine Arts Gallery Nov. 4 through Dec. 6. A reception, free and open to the public, will be held on Dec. 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The exhibit will feature work from T’Keyah Sutton, Justin Ball and Robert Ewbank, who each focus on personal growth, and negative and positive emotions integral to their journeys. Through various mediums, including painting, digital illustration, fabric design and drawing, each artist will present part of a story that shares an experience molded by those who have impacted their lives to communicate a larger shared narrative.
Faculty research to be published
Three faculty members from Georgia Southern University will have their manuscript, “The Epidemiology of Pedestrian Fatalities and Substance Use in Georgia, United States, 2007-2016” published in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.
Research by McKinley Thomas, E.D., and TimMarie Williams, Ph.D., from the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, along with Jeffery Jones, Ph.D., from the Department of Health Policy and Community Health, explores the epidemiology of pedestrian fatalities over a 10-year period with an emphasis on reported substance use among cases.
Georgia Southern History Department receives Georgia honors
Georgia Southern University History Department has created two projects related to the local history of Savannah. These projects are being honored by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council and the USG Chancellor’s Office.
History professor Robert Batchelor, Ph.D., alongside local authors Susan Earl and Tom Kohler, have received the 2019 Award for Excellence in Local History Advocacy for the “Waddie Welcome Archive — Savannah Signs Project.”
The archive contains more than 700 pictures of hand-painted African American signs from Savannah dating from the 1970s to the present time. Georgia Southern special collection librarian Autumn Johnson and Sulfur Studios photographer Emily Earl helped to enable these recent public exhibitions.
Retired professor of history John Duncan, Ph.D., will also receive an award for his book, The Showy Town of Savannah: The Story of the Architect William Jay.
Georgia Southern welcomes back Raku Pizza Night
The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art at Georgia Southern University will host Raku Pizza Night on Oct. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Armstrong Campus in the Annex II Courtyard. Raku firing is an ancient Japanese ceramics technique in which pottery is removed from a kiln while it’s red hot and placed into a container with combustible materials to create colorful glazes. There will be free refreshments and door prizes.
The night will feature students presenting their work, viewing of a Raku firing technique and a demonstration by ceramics professor John Jenson throwing a large pot.
“I started doing Raku Pizza night when I first started teaching here,” said Jenson. “This is like an open house that gives our students an evening to learn about different types of pottery, working on the wheel, firing and finished pieces. It is educational and entertaining.”
Graduate students present on age-related hearing loss
Georgia Southern University graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program recently partnered with Georgia Relay and Georgia Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing for a Bingo Bash Hearing Loss Lunch and Learn in Port Wentworth, Georgia, to address hearing loss in the aging population.
Graduate students provided attendees with hearing screenings, discussed hearing loss prevention and provided a presentation on age-related hearing loss. Participants of this event enjoyed bingo, prizes and lunch while learning about the many services Georgia Relay, Georgia Center of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Georgia Southern University have to offer.
Georgia Southern History Department displays traditional style birch-bark canoe
Georgia Southern University’s History Department has a traditional style birch-bark canoe on display on the Armstrong Campus through Spring 2020 in Hawes Hall. The canoe, named Muskeego, was built in 1998 and has been used to travel between Minnesota and Canada the same way that Ojibwa Natives have done for hundreds of years. After a long career of being used, it was placed on display in Ely, Minn.
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) in Savannah acquired Muskeego as part of its small boat collection. MUA Board member and Assistant Professor of History Kurt Knoerl, Ph.D., has gained access to use the canoe at Georgia Southern. This will provide students and the public an opportunity to see an artifact that played an important role in North American history.
“The collection is being used to educate Georgia Southern students about maritime history in the United States and the world,” said Knoerl. “Our position here in Savannah, as a port city, makes Georgia Southern the perfect place to teach maritime history, archeology and material culture.”
Muskeego is being used this semester in Knoerl’s class, Introduction to United States History, to teach about Native American history as well as the fur trade. Students in the graduate program in public history will also have the opportunity to benefit from studying small boat documentation and preservation.
Parker College of Business to host IANA Applied Research Competition
The Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Georgia Southern University’s Parker College of Business has partnered with the Georgia Ports Authority and TCW Inc., to host the first-ever GS-IANA Logistics Applied Research Challenge. The competition is made possible through support and funding from the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA).
The GS-IANA Logistics Applied Research Challenge will allow junior and senior undergraduate logistics students to gain professional development experience and a deeper understanding of the intermodal freight transportation industry.
The Fall 2019 business case for which students will create solutions will be developed by the Georgia Ports Authority and TCW Inc. leadership teams, along with faculty from the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Students will earn valuable exposure to highly relevant, important and complex business challenges faced in intermodal supply chains, and it will offer an opportunity for student teams to research, solve and present solutions to a panel of judges comprised of industry executives, government officials and logistics faculty members.
Georgia Southern Child Development Center employee named educator of the year
Jessica DeLaigle, a child development specialist at the Georgia Southern Child Development Center on the Statesboro Campus, has been named the Georgia Association for the Education of Young Children (GAEYC) Educator of the Year for a large center. DeLaigle, who also teaches in some Child and Family Development labs, said she is honored to receive the award.
“I have the best job because I get to teach the little children, and I also get to teach the big children (college students) how to teach the little children,” DeLaigle said. “I am so passionate about teaching, and I work really hard to ensure that children’s first experiences in school are positive ones. It makes me really happy to know that my hard work and dedication to our field is being recognized.”
The GAEYC gives awards to educators who are “outstanding employees at a child care center or school who demonstrate exemplary work with children.” DeLaigle will receive her award at the GAEYC Quality Service Awards Luncheon later this fall.