
A team of Georgia Southern University logistics students placed third out of 14 schools and received $1,000 in the first-ever FreightTech Innovation Challenge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in March.
Georgia Southern University Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Assistant Professor Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Ph.D., has been accepted into the 2019 Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE). She will be a part of the Functional and Translational Genomics of Blood Disorder Program.

Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host a workshop for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day at the Armstrong Campus Fine Arts Hall in Savannah on April 28 from noon to 3 p.m. The workshop is free and open to all ages and skill levels.

Georgia Southern University’s Model United Nations delegation has been selected as an Outstanding Delegation at the annual National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. This is the ninth consecutive year that Georgia Southern has been recognized as an Outstanding Delegation and the 11th time in 12 years that it has been accorded this distinction. Georgia Southern also was recognized for Outstanding Position Paper writing — its 14th such award in 15 years — and four student delegates were recognized as outstanding within their individual committees. This year marks Georgia Southern’s 48th consecutive year of Model UN participation —…

Betty Foy Sanders recently sent 14 art students on a 2-day art museum tour in north Georgia and added new work to the Smith Callaway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection.
Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of German, Jolyon Timothy Hughes, Ph.D., has been awarded a 2019-20 Fulbright U.S. International Education Administrators (IEA) seminar in France. Hughes is one of only 12 winners selected from a large pool of U.S. applicants. As a participant in the program, which is primarily in Paris, Hughes will take part in activities like briefings, campus visits, appointments with selected government officials, networking, cultural activities and meetings with French international education professionals. The IEA seminar is designed to expand and strengthen relationships between the people of the United States and…
The 2019 Georgia Southern University Alumni Association Awards were presented Saturday, April 13 to eight distinguished alumni at the Nessmith-Lane Center on the Statesboro Campus.
The 2019 Southeast Conference on Positive Behavior Interventions (PBIS) and Support will be held June 3 through 5, featuring five strands of targeted, evidence-based training for schools and school districts at each stage of the PBIS implementation process. The conference is hosted by the Georgia Southern University College of Education at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah.