Annual Walk for RiteCare raises $5,000 for Georgia Southern’s RiteCare Center
The RiteCare Center at Georgia Southern University received a $5,000 donation from the Valley of Savannah Scottish Rite Masons after their second annual Walk for the RiteCare at Lake Mayer Park in Savannah, Georgia.
Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus students and staff were among the 80 participants in the walk. Held in October, the walk featured trick or treating along the walking trail for children, a children’s costume contest and a team costume contest.
Students from the communication sciences and disorders class of 2021 team won the trophy for the costume contest, and the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association team winning second place.
About the RiteCare Center on Armstrong Campus
The RiteCare Center is a teaching communication disorders center for students in the graduate Communication Sciences and Disorders program. Under the supervision of experienced licensed and certified speech-language pathologists, graduate students in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program provide low-cost services to include assessment and intervention services for children and adults with communication delays or disorders.
About the RiteCare and Scottish Rite Masons
The RiteCare Center at Georgia Southern University is supported by the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite – Savannah Valley, in keeping with the national philanthropic program of the Scottish Rite Masons to support speech and hearing clinics. Today there are numerous RiteCare clinics, centers and special programs operating or planned throughout the United States. Through this philanthropic effort, RiteCare Centers have significantly helped tens of thousands of children across the United States improve their communication skills in order to improve their lives.
Georgia Southern graduate students help increase awareness of brain injuries
Graduate student Caroline Steed aspires to work full time with brain injury survivors, which is why she enjoyed representing Georgia Southern University’s Communication Sciences and Disorders program in the seventh annual Brain Injury Awareness Walk in Savannah, Georgia.
New garden on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus a tribute to medicinal plants
The area around Ashmore Hall on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus has a facelift thanks to a new physic garden full of plants that are historically and currently used for medicinal purposes.
Georgia Southern University works with local soccer team on player performance
Georgia Southern graduate student Drew DeJohn has spent the last five months working with soccer players from the university’s men’s team and the Statesboro-based professional soccer organization South Georgia Tormenta Football Club (FC) to research and improve player performance.
Georgia Historical Society, Georgia Southern University recognize Armstrong State University with historical marker on Savannah campus
In recognition of Armstrong State University’s contributions to the city of Savannah, its students and its legacy in Georgia Southern University’s history, the Georgia Historical Society and Georgia Southern dedicated a new historical marker today. The historical marker, located on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus in the quad behind Burnett Hall, commemorates Armstrong State University’s history from its beginning as a two-year college through its consolidation with Georgia Southern University.
Georgia Southern alumna named one of 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain
With the passion that alumna Stephanie Powell Thomas has for helping women succeed in the supply chain industry, it’s no surprise she was recently named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain by B2G Consulting’s list of Women Supply Chain Leaders for 2020.
Georgia Southern graduate dedicated to giving back, will join Peace Corps in May
Georgia Southern University graduate student Selmman Padridin believes in the importance of giving back, which is why he’s using the skills he has learned through the Master of Health Administration program and the Army to help others by joining the Peace Corps.
From apartheid to academia, Georgia Southern graduate student beats odds to earn degree
Born during apartheid in South Africa, Debra Rudge beat unsurmountable odds to earn a master’s degree in adult education from Georgia Southern.
