
This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Alan Harvey, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biology in the College of Science and Mathematics. Harvey has a wide range of scientific interests, and his most recent research demonstrates how plants recruit ants as bodyguards by providing sweet treats in return for protection. Harvey is also a documentary filmmaker, creating short films for many of his own research projects as well as those of his students and colleagues.
Today, the Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University Athletics Operational Working Group announced that it will recommend to the Consolidation Implementation Committee (CIC) that intercollegiate competition end at Armstrong State University following the current 2016-17 athletic year.

The Centers for Teaching and Technology at Georgia Southern will host the 10th Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference from March 29 to 31 at the Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm Street, Savannah, Georgia.

Next week, amid a sea of green, Georgia Southern will stand out as the Best and Brightest in the 193rd Savannah St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Friday, March 17.
When Georgia Southern students leave for Spring Break, it isn’t often that nearly 2,200 students and professionals from more than 80 universities in ten states then converge on the University’s campus.

The Georgia Southern Model African Union (MAU) competed and took home several awards in the 2017 National Model African Union Conference in Washington, D.C. at Howard University on Feb. 23-26.
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ (CLASS) 2017 Great Minds Lecture Series continues with Robert Batchelor, Ph.D., on Tuesday, March 7 at 5:30 p.m. as he discusses, “Plantation Dreams: Locke, Confucius and the Making of the Low Country.” The lecture will take place in the Russell Union, room 2047.

If you’ve been on campus recently, you’ve certainly noticed the new metal sculptures, engraved with the names of planets, along the Pedestrium and other locations.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University’s student newspaper, earned seven awards in categories such as writing, photography and advertising in the Georgia College Press Association’s 2016 Better Newspaper Contest.
Earlier today, the Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University Consolidation Implementation Committee (CIC), met and approved four recommendations submitted by various Operational Working Groups (OWG).