On average, teachers across the U.S. spend approximately $479 on classroom supplies each year, according to a 2018 study by the National Center of Education Statistics. The Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education at Georgia Southern University is helping reduce this burden for teachers in southeast Georgia with the School Outreach Program, a lending membership program that provides STEM and social studies materials for K-12 classrooms.
Beginning in Fall 2020 Georgia Southern University will offer its first fully online Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in applied public health.
Exceptional teacher candidates studying in Georgia Southern University’s College of Education will soon have the opportunity to apply for a paid residency program with Savannah-Chatham County Public School System starting as early as Fall 2020.
“Bedtime Stories,” a multimedia visiting artists exhibition from the Widow Maker Collective in Savannah, Georgia, is currently on display at Georgia Southern University’s Center for Art and Theatre on the Statesboro Campus through Feb. 7. On Jan. 16, the center will host an artist’s talk at 5 p.m. in the Arts Building followed by a reception in the Contemporary Gallery from 6-7 p.m.
Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art senior Kimberly Barron was one of 21 artists selected for a national juried exhibition titled, “Pretty and Peculiar,” hosted by the Fe Gallery in Sacramento, California.

Since the fall 2013 launch of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern, an open-access digital repository that collects, archives and disseminates the intellectual and creative output of the university’s faculty, staff, students and community partners, more than 3 million items have been downloaded by visitors from around the world. New to the collection is From the Mansion to the University, a historical book about Armstrong State University, authored by former professor emeritus Janet Stone, Ph.D. The book, which was originally published in 2010 by the Armstrong Foundation as From the Mansion to the University: A History of Armstrong Atlantic State University, 1935-2010, documents…
Jerry Burke, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Marc Scott, Ph.D., assistant professor of logistics and supply chain management and director of the Southern Center for Logistics and Intermodal Transportation, contributed to the Georgia Supply Chain and Logistics technology ecosystem report by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). “We contributed to the report to highlight how Georgia Southern connects employers with students who are readily capable to tackle dynamic challenges faced by logistics and supply chain organizations,” said Burke. “We also wanted to enhance awareness of the expertise that faculty in the…
Gregory Grosicki, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology, and colleagues from San Francisco State University, recently published their research titled, “Rapid Gut Microbiome Changes in a World-Class Ultramarathon Runner” in the journal Physiological Reports. Their work focused on the physiological characteristics of a world-class ultramarathon runner before and after competing in the Western States Endurance Run, an invitation-only, 100-mile trail race in Northern California.

The arts community continues to grow in Savannah and Georgia, and is bringing with it a new slate of related jobs. To capitalize on these opportunities, and to bolster arts enrollment in Savannah, Georgia Southern University is developing a new academic program — exclusively on the Armstrong campus — focused on the music industry.