The Georgia Southern University Parker College of Business and the Business Innovation Group (BIG) awarded a grand prize of $10,000 to Vita Inclinata Technologies LLC, a team of innovators from Seattle University, for the 2018 BIG Pitch Award.
Registration is open for the 8th annual Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, hosted by Georgia Southern University and taking place March 21 through 23 at the Georgia Tech Savannah Campus.
Early bird registration is open for the 32nd annual Southern Conference on Children, featuring keynote speaker Vernon Mason Jr., founder of Directors Leadership Solutions and president of the WEE SCHOOL Child Development Center, serving children in four locations across North Carolina. The conference is set for Jan. 26 at the Nessmith-Lane Center on the Georgia Southern University Statesboro Campus.
TimMarie Williams, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology at Georgia Southern University, has been named a 2018-2019 Governor’s Teaching Fellow for the academic year symposium program.

Georgia Southern University offers the most affordable online Masters of Science in Nursing and one of the most affordable online Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs, according to OnlineU.org.
The Georgia Southern University Foundation, Inc. received a $5 million gift, the single largest gift in University history, for the College of Business from Greg Parker, president, founder and CEO of The Parker Companies in Savannah. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the name of the Gregory M. Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University.
Internationally renowned paleoanthropologist and Georgia Southern University alumnus Lee Berger, Ph.D., along with leaders of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), have made it possible to delve deep within a South African cave to discover and recover some of the most famous ancient human fossils in scientific history by creating a world-first virtual reality (VR) app.
Savannah Wind Symphony, a community symphony serving the Coastal Empire, will hold its first concert on the Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus in Savannah. The symphony is comprised of musicians from the greater Savannah area.
Georgia Southern University’s online Master of Science in Sport Management has been named one of the most affordable online sport management master’s degrees in the country, according to OnlineU.org.
A team of Georgia Southern University professors led by College of Education’s Lacey Huffling, Ph.D., has been awarded a $763,897 grant from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.