Georgia Southern anthropology professor appointed to Georgia Department of Natural Resources board
Anthropology professor M. Jared Wood, Ph.D., has a passion for archeology and preservation, and he will play a large role in the preservation of historic resources in Georgia as a member of the Georgia National Register Review Board for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Wood was appointed to the board in July.
Georgia Southern music professor holding trumpet performance
Tim Kintzinger, D.M.A., a music professor on the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus, will go back to his roots when he performs “Standards” on the trumpet on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Statesboro Campus and on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus.
Georgia Southern philosophy professor invited to India to discuss research on emotion
While the word emotion dates back to 16th century France, the examination and study of its cognitive and biological complexity within humans dates back to ancient Greece and China. Georgia Southern Philosophy Associate Professor Maria Magoula Adamos, Ph.D., continued those studies on a recent trip to India, where she shared her research on the philosophy of emotion.
Blind Willie McTell statue placed in front of Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau a symbol of working together
William Samuel McTell may have lost his sight during childhood, but that didn’t stop him from becoming one of the most influential blues musicians of his time — and a local hero. While his impact on Statesboro is evident all over town, his likeness has finally been immortalized with a bronze statue created by Georgia Southern University art professor Marc Moulton, M.F.A.
Republic of Moldova presents Georgia Southern foreign languages faculty member with medal
Hard work translates across all languages and cultures. Georgia Southern Foreign Languages Professor Olga Amarie, Ph.D., discovered this after being awarded the Alexie Mateevici Commemorative Medal in July from her home country, the Republic of Moldova, a landlocked country located between Romania and Ukraine.
Georgia Southern history professor named editor of Modern War Studies series
Georgia Southern Department of History Professor Bill Allison, Ph.D., will be able to help history buffs dive deeper into the past after being named editor of the acclaimed Modern War Studies series by the University Press of Kansas.
Georgia Southern professor publishes article on how lichens and mosses affect the global water cycle
Georgia Southern University ecohydrology professor John Van Stan, Ph.D., recently published an article in Nature Geoscience titled “Significant Contribution of Non-vascular Vegetation to Global Rainfall Interception.”
Criminal Justice and Criminology faculty to travel to Finland on Fulbright scholarship
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently awarded Georgia Southern Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology Associate Professor Bryan Lee Miller, Ph.D., a grant to travel to Finland.
Librarian named president of the Georgia Library Association executive board
Professor and Interlibrary Loan Librarian Fred Smith, was voted president of the Georgia Library Association (GLA) by members for 2018.
Local organizers create Beloved Community in Bulloch County
“What can we do to keep Ferguson from happening here?” That was the question asked by a diverse group of people in Statesboro and Bulloch County who came together in 2015 around the issue of relations between law enforcement and some African-American communities. Their gathering was in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the uprising that followed.