
Georgia Southern’s Office of Public Safety is the first public safety force in Bulloch County to incorporate body cameras and in-car recording systems into the daily work of its officers. The University has equipped each of the Police Department’s 34 patrol officers with body cameras and four marked patrol cars with video equipment.

Georgia Southern’s 2015-2016 visual art scholarship and award recipients in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) will showcase their work in the “Ovation,” exhibit at the Blick Gallery in Savannah, Georgia. The exhibit, open to the public, is on display Saturday, Sept. 5, through Thursday, Oct. 1.
This fall, Georgia Southern University’s Division of Continuing Education is offering career-building certified fiber optic technician and specialist fast-track courses at the Coastal Georgia Center, in Savannah, Georgia. Participants are provided the option to take two or three fiber optics courses during the weeklong training.

Georgia Southern alumnus Anthony Waters, Bulloch County native and familiar name in the community, will serve as the community chair of the University’s 42nd annual community celebration of A Day for Southern on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

Georgia Southern University has received a gift from East Georgia Regional Medical Center toward the School of Nursing Students’ Memorial Fund established in memory of the five nursing students who lost their lives in a tragic accident on April 22, 2015.

Researchers from the James H. Oliver, Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Science (ICPS) at Georgia Southern teamed up with Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to release 50 gallons of a non-toxic red dye into the Altamaha River.
Georgia Southern researchers say that while the United Nations (UN-Water) met its recent goal to provide clean water and sanitation to global communities, these numbers might not account for the difficulties in providing these life-saving resources to women.
Georgia Southern University is scheduled to test all components of the Eagle Alert system on Wednesday, Aug. 26.