“I chose education to educate others,” stated Alexis N. Washington, who will proudly walk across the commencement stage this weekend — 21 years after she first began her studies on the Armstrong Campus — to earn a bachelor of liberal arts and a minor in sociology.
The Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Parker College of Business has moved up in its world ranking to No. 14 by SCM Journal List™. The Department was ranked No. 15 in 2018.

Janna Hines, senior communication sciences and disorders major from Columbia, South Carolina, has been honored with the Southern Talon Award. The award is presented annually to students with more than 60 credit hours who have demonstrated a significant commitment to enhancing campus life at Georgia Southern University. “Receiving the Southern Talon Award means that I made an impact on the Armstrong Campus during my time here as a student,” said Hines. “Being chosen to receive the award is something that my family and I are very proud of. I am thankful for the committee who chose me and the organizations…

The Georgia Southern University Online Master of Science in Applied Economics (MSAE) was recently ranked No. 11 out of 25 programs across the country by the organization Best College Reviews on its list of Top Online Master’s Degrees.

Georgia Southern University Counseling Center mental health counselor Angela Landers has been invited to speak at the 2019 Caribbean Well-Being Conference, which will be held in August in St. Maarten. Landers was asked to present the applications of a therapeutic program, Mindful Yoga, which she developed for Georgia Southern’s Counseling Center. Her presentation is titled, “Building Resiliency with Mindfulness.” Landers developed Mindful Yoga as a means to reach a broad number of students who are looking to create proactive, healthy lifestyles, as well as students looking for a non-traditional, non-talk therapy model. Mindful Yoga incorporates empirically supported breathing exercises, yoga…
Georgia Southern journalism student Brendan Ward will take part in the American City Business Journals Business Reporting Program at New York University as a part of a Dow Jones News Fund Internship. “I’m honored to have been selected as a a Dow Jones intern this summer,” Ward said. “This is a huge opportunity, and I’m excited to represent Georgia Southern University. I want to thank the amazing journalists at The George-Anne and the Georgia Southern journalism professors for helping me grow as a journalist.” Ward is one of only 79 students nationwide who will work this summer in a paid…

Georgia Southern University Assistant Professor of Film Studies Amanda Konkle, Ph.D., who recently had her book “Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe” published by Rutgers University Press, will be at E. Shaver Booksellers in Savannah on May 18 for a signing event.

Georgia Southern alumna and Read Woke creator Cicely Lewis is making a name for herself as an innovator in the field of education, as she’s named a Library Journal 2019 Mover & Shaker, Gwinnett County Public Schools’ 2019 Library Media Specialist of the Year and 2019 Metro Georgia Library Media Specialist of the Year.
Graduate student Zachary Wu had never studied in the United States before coming to Georgia Southern two years ago. At commencement on May 10, Wu will become one of the first-ever graduates at Georgia Southern to receive a master of science in applied geography as part of the program’s inaugural graduating class.

Georgia Southern faculty and staff members Christy Mroczek and Lan-Anh Vo have been honored by the National Academic Advising Association with Certificate of Merit Awards.