
The Georgia Science Teachers Association (GSTA) selected Georgia Southern alumna Tamra Lamb (‘14,’16) as its 2017 Georgia Science Teacher of Promise at the elementary school level.

The Center for Sustainability (CfS), Division of Facilities Services and the campus community celebrated the fifth annual Arbor Day tree planting at the Shooting Sports Education Center on Wednesday, Feb. 15.

The student cast of the Georgia Southern Opera (GSO) and student members of the Georgia Southern Symphony will offer a free public performance of Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize-winning American opera “The Crucible” on Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, 847 Plant Drive.

RecycleMania, the premier collegiate recycling competition managed by Keep America Beautiful, is currently underway at Georgia Southern University, and is encouraging students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost the most on campuses across the country.

The U.S. Army Cadet Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, has announced Georgia Southern University’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program is one of eight schools to receive the prestigious MacArthur Award for the 2015-2016 school year. This is the second consecutive MacArthur Award for the Eagle Battalion and is the fourth overall since 2009. The Eagle Battalion previously received the award in 2009, 2010 and 2015.

A call for proposals is now open for the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, that will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah Sept. 15 to 16.

Georgia Southern University’s Eagle Battalion Ranger Challenge team placed second overall at the 6th Brigade Army ROTC Ranger Challenge competition held at Camp Blanding, Florida on Jan. 21-22.

Statesboro native and Georgia Southern University alumnus Seth Orme (‘14) will return to campus to share his experiences about raising awareness of littering at 7 p.m., Feb. 15 in the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center, 847 Plant Drive, Statesboro.
Georgia Southern University’s College of Education and The Division of Continuing Education will host the 28th annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference March 5-8 at the Hyatt Regency in Savannah.
The Division of Continuing Education at Georgia Southern University will host two conferences focusing on literacy and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah.