
Mike Royal has been selected as the speaker for Georgia Southern University’s 25th annual Fall Commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 9. A Georgia Southern alumnus, he is the chairman of the State Board of Education.

This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Hayden Wimmer, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology. Wimmer is fascinated with the potential of big data, and how it intersects with various parts of business and society. He is presently researching the ways that rural areas such as Statesboro and Bulloch County can make use of big data in the healthcare field.

The Georgia Southern University Army ROTC Eagle Battalion program earned first place in the Task Force Georgia Ranger Challenge Competition on Oct. 21.

Touch Light Innovations has been named the winner of the second annual BIG Pitch Competition, hosted by Georgia Southern University’s Business Innovation Group (BIG) in conjunction with Ocean Exchange.

Noted Cuban-American poet, novelist and professor Virgil Suárez will offer a poetry reading on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in the IT Building, room 1005.
A call for papers is now open for the 5th Annual Critical Media Literacy Conference, a multidisciplinary conference that is designed to aid current educational leaders, future teachers, youth and other concerned citizens in their understanding of the mass media and its impact on the events that shape our daily lives.

Georgia Southern University will participate in International Fraud Awareness Week, Nov.13 – 20, 2016. It is part of an effort by the University System of Georgia to promote an ethical culture and to bring awareness to the common and uncommon instances of fraud or ethical violations within the campus community.

Georgia Southern alumna and English Language Fellow, Deborah Rodriguez Garcia (‘10, ‘12), has spent the last three weeks traveling and fighting against illiteracy.

Georgia Southern’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Science’s (CLASS) faculty members, Jonathan M. Bryant, Ph.D., and Sue Moore, Ph.D., were honored at the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council’s (GHRAC) 14th Annual Archives Awards on Oct. 26 at the Georgia Archives.

When Hurricane Matthew displaced hundreds of thousands of people and left behind a trail of destruction in the coastal regions of Georgia, many families, organizations and people in need were left relying on the help of others. That’s where Georgia Southern University stepped in.