
Georgia Southern civil engineering graduate student Mariah Peart has been selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as one of 10 New Faces Of Civil Engineering for 2019 — Professional Edition. Engineering professor Gustavo Maldonado, Ph.D., said it’s the first time a Georgia Southern student has received this recognition.
The Georgia Southern University Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) will be partnering with the Chautauqua School of Art in New York. Joining other Chautauqua partner schools such as Marshall University, the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute, the partnership will bring mutual benefits to both Georgia Southern and Chautauqua.
Award-winning trombonist and Georgia Southern University alumnus Eric Spencer will be back on campus March 4 as a member of the orchestra during a performance of “Legally Blonde, the Musical.” The show will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center on the Statesboro Campus.
The Savannah Wind Symphony will hold its annual spring concert on the Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus in Savannah on Tuesday, March 5. The 41st spring concert will feature works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Kenneth Hesketh, Julie Giroux and Rossano Galante.
Renowned classical pianist Benjamin Warsaw, DMA, assistant professor of music on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus, and jazz pianist virtuoso, Joe Alterman, will join for a mixed-genre Piano in the Arts concert series performance, “Crossroads, Jazz Meets Classical.” The event will be held on March 3 at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
Kania Greer, Ed.D., and Lisa Stueve, Ed.D., of Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Interdisciplinary STEM Education (i2STEMe), recently traveled to India to continue work that began in 2016 as a partnership with the STEM Academy of USA.
Georgia Southern University’s Senior Art Exhibition, “Reflections,” featuring pieces by five senior artists, will run from March 11 to 22 at the Fine Arts Gallery on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah. A reception will be held on March 15 at 5:30 p.m., and admission is free and open to the public.
Approximately 300 of the best and brightest high school seniors from Georgia and across the nation will visit Georgia Southern University to interview for prestigious academic scholarships during Scholar’s Day interviews.


Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing’s RN-BSN program, designed exclusively for registered nurses who wish to earn a B.S. in nursing (BSN), was recently named one of the most affordable of its kind in the nation by GreatValueColleges.net. Of of 50 schools included on the 2019 list, Georgia Southern took the No. 27 spot.