Third semester nursing student Retha Rowe and second semester nursing student Jessica Hartzog, both in the College of Health and Human Sciences, have been awarded the St. Joseph’s/Candler Georgia Southern University Nightingale Scholarship in the amount of $1,500 each.
A call for proposals is now open for the 10th Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons, an international conference hosted annually by the Centers for Teaching and Technology at Georgia Southern University.

The Innovation Studio in the College of Education is offering area schools the chance to win a 3-D printer in order to integrate the technology into their class curriculums.

Georgia Southern University’s Center for Sustainability is gearing up for its fourth annual GreenFest event, set for 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 in downtown Statesboro.

John Schenk, Ph.D., curator of the Georgia Southern Herbarium in the Georgia Southern University Department of Biology, received notification that his National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Research Collections grant has been funded in the amount of $280,798 to integrate uncatalogued plants into the Herbarium.

Georgia Southern University alumnus Charles A. Abner (‘67) was presented the 2016 National Space Club Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Space Florida Committee.
The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Foundation has awarded three faculty members in the Georgia Southern School of Nursing with a 2016 NAPNAP Foundation research grant in the amount of $5,000.
The Center for Social Gerontology at Georgia Southern University will host its inaugural Social Gerontology Conference Oct. 15 from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Nessmith-Lane Center.

The Georgia Southern University Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will present work by the late sculptor Lew Alquist, Sept. 26 – Oct. 28, in the Contemporary and University Galleries at the Center for Art and Theatre.
Hui Feng of China and Zakaria Hatarbach of Morocco have been awarded a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program grant to serve as teaching assistants in Chinese and Arabic, respectively, and to study at Georgia Southern University for academic year 2016-2017.