Georgia Southern University’s Southern Leaders Program was recently selected as a gold level Excellence Award recipient from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). The team will be further judged for the designations of grand gold, grand silver and grand bronze.

Michelle DiMeo, Ph.D., director of the Hagley Heritage Curators Program at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, is coming to Georgia Southern University to speak on the work of 17th-century English philosopher Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh on Feb. 11 and 12. Both events are free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, Feb. 12, Georgia Southern University College of Education will host a free screening of “Bully,” a film documenting the effects of bullying on school-aged students and their families. The screening, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. in University Hall, room 156, located on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.
To provide unprecedented educational opportunities for the region, Georgia Southern University and Savannah State University (SSU) will host a joint open house on Georgia Southern’s Liberty Campus in Hinesville on Feb. 7 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Military members and their families, and other prospective students, will have the chance to learn more about career-enhancing programs where they live and work. During the event, SSU President Cheryl Davenport Dozier, and Georgia Southern Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Carl L. Reiber will discuss the universities’ strategic partnership and share more about the importance of making these programs available to…

Georgia Southern University senior Jessica Riley Martinez was recently awarded the 2019 Jordan Smith Undergraduate Fellowship and will represent Georgia Southern at the 38th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in February.
Artist and urban explorer Marie Lorenz has spent her life working on a project that has merged the tools of science and art, while underlining the relational nature between the environmental elements of the river (currents, ecology, flotsam and pollution) as well as the people who live, work and play in that environment.

The Georgia Southern University’s Theater and Performance Program fall 2018 season opener on the Statesboro Campus, “Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight,” has been selected to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Region IV on Feb. 7 at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The Georgia Southern University Counseling Center was awarded Clinical Program of the Year for its Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology program at the Georgia College Counseling Association 26th Annual Conference in St. Simons Island. In addition, Counseling Center Executive Director, Jodi K. Caldwell, Ph.D., was awarded College Counseling Director of the Year.

Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus faculty member Emily Grundstad-Hall, D.M.A., and Professor of Piano Jens Marggraf of Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, will present Crossing Borders, a collaborative concert Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be at the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus.
The work of 28 art students on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus has been hand selected by Assistant Curator at the Telfair Museums Erin Dunn for the 2019 Student Juried Exhibition.