Georgia Southern University has had another successful year with the 43rd annual A Day for Southern fundraising campaign, which has raised $1,945,416. A Day for Southern has raised more than $1 million dollars for the past 19 years.
Georgia Southern University is scheduled to test all components of the Eagle Alert system on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The Eagle Alert system is designed to play a key role in keeping Georgia Southern’s students, faculty, staff and campus visitors safe during emergency situations.
One day may not seem like much time to make a difference, but for Georgia Southern, it can. Just ask Aleyna Rentz and Dylan John — two Georgia Southern students who have directly benefited from funds raised during the annual A Day for Southern (ADFS) giving campaign. Now in its 43rd year, the one-day campaign, set for Tuesday, Sept. 13, helps raise funds for the University to help cover costs not funded by state dollars such as scholarships, faculty development, championship athletics and cultural programs.

Area businesses and entrepreneurs now have access to office and meeting spaces, computers and software, 3-D printers and other tools through the Georgia Southern University Business Innovation Group’s Innovation Incubator and Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab) located in downtown Statesboro at the University’s City Campus.

On Sept. 9, an unveiling ceremony was held at Howard Lumber and Hardware on Gentilly Road in Statesboro for the newest addition to the Eagle Nation on Parade (ENOP) project.
In August, thirteen Georgia Southern University students and faculty member, Lisa Abbott, took their production of “Do Not Open,” a student devised piece, to the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The show was nominated for the Fringe Sustainable Practice Award based on a review of the content of the show and responses to a questionnaire.
Professor Lori Amy, Ph.D., department of writing and linguistics, has co-founded a new International non-governmental organization (NGO), OTTOnomy, which provides unique interdisciplinary internship opportunities for Georgia Southern students in Albania and the western Balkans. OTTOnomy was created with a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to build a regional center for cultural heritage in the western Balkans, and currently works with interns in social media, public history, art, journalism, film, writing and linguistics, anthropology and sociology, and marketing and communications. Interns began their ground-breaking work with the foundation in Summer 2016.

This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Lori Amy, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Amy has spent a great deal of time in Albania, where she has researched the ways that its people have survived war and trauma under a communist regime. Amy has also co-founded a new non-governmental organization called OTTOnomy, which will allow Georgia Southern students to experience Albanian culture.
Georgia Southern University will host Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., a Dutch/American ethologist and biologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates, as the 2016 Norman Fries Distinguished Lectureship Series speaker on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m., in the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center, 847 Plant Drive.

Georgia Southern student military, veterans and their family members now have a new space to call home on campus with the official opening of the Military and Veteran Student Center, located in Fielding D. Russell Union on campus.