Georgia Southern Celebrating Military Appreciation Day, Family Weekend
The Georgia Southern Eagles’ key Southern Conference showdown with Wofford at Paulson Stadium Saturday night is just part of a busy weekend on campus. Saturday’s game is part of the University’s Family Weekend festivities as well as Military Appreciation Day. The pre-game military salute will include one of Georgia Southern’s own Scott Courdin, the curator […]
Georgia Southern Professor Maps Method to Help Protect Health of Population
Thomas Kollars put several days of work into projects for this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions and was glad they were never needed. Kollars, the Director of the Biodefense and Infectious Disease Laboratory in Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, created bioterrorism threat maps for both conventions. The maps identified how […]
Festival of Trees to Make Christmas Brighter for Families in Need
The Statesboro/Bulloch County community can get an early start on its holiday spirit, and make Christmas brighter for less-fortunate families in the area. Individuals and companies throughout Southeast Georgia are invited to participate in Georgia Southern University’s first Festival of Trees, a fund-raising and friend-raising event set for Nov. 17-22 in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education […]
Performing Arts Center ‘Steps’ Into New Season
The Georgia Southern University Performing Arts Center will open its sixth season on Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. with the renowned political commentators The Capitol Steps. The Capitol Steps were created in 1981 when three staffers for Sen. Charles Percy were planning entertainment for a Christmas party. They set out to satirize the very people […]
Georgia Southern University Introduces RideShare Web Site
Georgia Southern University is helping students, faculty, and staff save some green at the pump through a new online car pooling and parking permit program that encourages everyone to share a ride. ‘With the price of gas continuing to rise, we want everyone to be aware of this opportunity not only to reduce their expenses, […]
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Gordon Wood to present Fries Lecture Sept. 23
Author and historian Gordon S. Wood will visit Georgia Southern University Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., to present this year’s Norman Fries Distinguished Lecture. His presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be at the Performing Arts Center, located on the corner of Chandler and Plant Roads. Wood will present a […]
Civil Rights Leader to Speak at Georgia Southern
Georgia Southern University will welcome Morris Dees as its Fall Civic Engagement Speaker on Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. The speech is free and open to the public. Dees is a civil rights leader who is the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit group specializing in lawsuits involving civil rights violations, domestic […]
Georgia Southern University Hosting Corporate Seminars
Business professionals are invited to develop their interpersonal skills through Georgia Southern University’s Corporate Education Wednesday Series, with half-day seminars running most Wednesdays in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building on campus this fall. One intriguing new topic is “The Power of Working with Others,” scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 8 a.m. to noon. Participants will learn how to improve […]
