
An interdisciplinary team from Georgia Southern University was awarded more than $465,000 from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to foster the development of scientific and environmental skills that are critical to solving complex issues in the Gulf of Mexico region now and into the future. The award is part of an initiative with the Gulf Research Program that awarded $2 million to eight projects that engage children and youth in place-based educational activities.

A Georgia Southern graduate engineering student from Brunswick, Georgia, won first place in the master’s degree students’ category at the recent Georgia Environmental Conference (GEC)

Georgia Southern University President Kyle Marrero delivered a State of the University Fall 2023 address to faculty and staff in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus on Sept. 5 and in the Performing Arts Center on the Statesboro Campus on Sept. 7.

The Georgia Southern University Retiree Association, which includes nearly 2,000 retirees from Georgia Southern and Armstrong State University, now offers a website to honor former employees from the Statesboro, Savannah and Liberty campuses.

Patenting an invention and trademarking a product name can be challenging, yet protecting intellectual property is vital. To that end, Georgia Southern University Libraries will celebrate the grand opening of its Patent and Trademark Resource Centerwith ribbon-cutting events at the Armstrong Center in Savannah on Sept. 27 at 9 a.m. and at the Henderson Library in Statesboro on Sept. 28 at 10 a.m. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Derrick Brent and Georgia Southern President Kyle Marrero, will attend the ribbon-cutting in Savannah.

Georgia Southern University is gearing up to celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 18 on the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses, during its annual event that delves deep into the heart of American democracy. This event aims to shed light on the Constitution’s significance in American society and government, emphasizing both our rights and responsibilities as citizens.

Georgia Southern University’s Business Innovation Group (BIG) in partnership with the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority and The Creative Coast will host the inaugural BIG Expo for Entrepreneurship & Innovation on Sept. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. at “The Alley,” located at 58 E. Main Street in downtown Statesboro, Georgia.

Is too much of a good thing actually a bad thing? That’s what researchers in Georgia Southern’s Biodynamics and Human Performance Center aim to find out through a recent study of 75 ultramarathon runners during the 50th anniversary of the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run (WSER) in California.

Benjamin Roberts, a Georgia Southern University senior with a double major in theater and computer science, was named the second place Young Actor at the 2023 Black Theatre Network (BTN) Conference held this summer in St. Louis, Missouri.

A new program established in the Georgia Southern University School of Nursing aims to address a gap in the nursing industry by training students to become certified sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE).