
This installment of Faculty Spotlight features Asli Aslan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Aslan says that Georgia Southern offers her and her students an abundance of water sources for her water microbiological research, and enjoys teaching them the fundamental research skills that will benefit them long after their years at the University.
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host emerging gallerist and curator Bridget Donahue on March 24 at 5 p.m. in Visual Arts Building, room 2071, as part of the department’s Professions in Practice lecture series.
Georgia Southern University’s College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) will soon offer a Master of Science degree program with a major in Applied Geography (MS-AG) after the program was unanimously approved at the March 9 meeting of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Nearly 300 people, including former students, teachers and staff members from the Marvin Pittman Laboratory School (MPLS) came together for a reunion on Sunday, March 6, at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center.

Georgia Southern will once again celebrate the spring season at the second annual Holi Festival on March 24, 6-8 p.m. in front of the University Store and Dining Commons. Participants will smeared and sprinkled in colors while enjoying live music and dancing. In addition, Dining Commons will serve Indian cuisine in celebration of the event.
In its third year, Georgia Southern’s Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health will sponsor the 2016 Healthcare Symposium. “Truths and Myths behind Childhood Vaccinations,” on March 24, 10 – 11:30 a.m., in the University’s Performing Arts Center (PAC). The symposium is free and open to students, staff, faculty and the community.

Students anywhere can take advantage of the opportunities offered through summer school at Georgia Southern. By choosing Southern for summer, students may take advantage of fully online courses, campus housing at University Villas, more than 100 on-campus job opportunities, shorter semesters and the opportunity to study abroad. In addition to the nearly 300 online courses, the University is offering a total of 1,600 summer classes to ensure students stay on track this May, June and July.
The 27th Annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference, hosted by Georgia Southern University’s College of Education and the Division of Continuing Education, will be held in Savannah March 6-9. The conference trains adults who serve youth to create safe, healthy, caring and intellectually empowering educational environments that foster the well-being of children and adolescents by offering more than 120 sessions with nationally and internationally recognized presenters to more than 1, 200 conference participants from across the United States.

James Farmer, popular designer, author and master of the finer things will serve as the 2016 Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecturer on Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern.

“My Guardian Angel,” a business idea that could help save children’s lives, was selected by judges to move on to the FastPitch competition in Savannah, Georgia, during the third annual 3 Day Startup (3DS) held Feb. 19-21.