
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Southeast Chapter, has recognized Georgia Southern University’s Multimedia Development Center (MDC) and Department of Music with an Emmy® Award for Best Live Audio.

Georgia Southern College of Health and Human Sciences graduate students and professors received the Clinical Biomechanics Award for their research abstract during the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) annual meeting.
A new Georgia Southern study published in the International Journal of Obesity suggests only a third of the parents of overweight and obese children are being notified about their kids’ unhealthy weight.

The Georgia Southern University Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Student Chapter received its 10th annual Merit Award for 2015-2016.


This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Jonathan Hilpert, Ph.D., associate professor of curriculum, foundations and reading in the College of Education. Hilpert says that Georgia Southern is a great school, where he can pursue both his love of research in a wide range of areas and his love of teaching in the classroom.
Wayne Williams, 57, began pursuing his bachelor’s degree in 2009 at Georgia Southern University after retiring in 2005 from a 25 year career in the Army.

This year’s Spring commencement at Georgia Southern was a special time for mother and son Beckie Lee May and Austin May, both of whom graduated with degrees from the University.
Georgia Southern student Katie Yancey was recently awarded a $5,000 2016 NBCC Foundation rural scholarship by the NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors Inc.

The School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has been ranked 39th nationally for the Best Online Doctoral Nursing Degrees for 2016 by Affordable Colleges Online.