
Georgia Southern University’s Faculty Service Committee has presented a faculty service award to be used to provide support staff, a student camp coordinator and materials needed to operate Camp RAD: Recreation for Adolescents with Disabilities.

Olivia Carr Edenfield, Ph.D., was presented with the Wells/Warren Professor of the Year Award at the Georgia Southern University 2016 Honors Day Convocation held at the Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, April 6.

Undergraduate and graduate collegiate innovators who have creative and sustainable solutions are invited to submit their ideas for the second annual BIG Pitch Competition, hosted by Ocean Exchange and Georgia Southern University’s Business Innovation Group.

Georgia Southern Opera and the Georgia Southern Symphony will present a full production, Le nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on April 22 and 23 at the Georgia Southern Performing Arts Center. Both performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art student Allison Mueller is gearing up to introduce printmaking to the community in a big way — using a steamroller — during this year’s ArtsFest on April 23 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Sweetheart Circle at Georgia Southern University.
Georgia Southern University has selected Stephen Harmon, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Learning Technologies Division in the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University, and Carol H. Burrell, president and CEO of Northeast Georgia Health System, as the speakers for the 2016 Spring Commencement ceremonies on May 6 and 7.

The Georgia Southern University Office of Public Safety has received a grant for $10,000 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, with which the department has purchased Watchguard 4RE in-car camera systems for additional patrol vehicles.

The James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science (ICPS) at Georgia Southern University has awarded Lauren Neel and Matthew Scanlon the 2016 ICPS Summer Graduate Student Research Assistantships.

Martha Abell, Ph.D., dean of the College of Science and Mathematics,won the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award.

Georgia Southern continues the celebration of No Impact Week with the unveiling of the University’s first electric vehicle (EV) charging station located at the University’s Office of Parking and Transportation. The dual head EV charging station will provide students, faculty, staff and the general public with an accessible charging station, free of charge, that provides a complete charge of two electric vehicles in under four hours.