The Masquers bring razor-sharp drama ‘Clybourne Park’ to Armstrong Campus
The student theater group, the Masquers, present their main stage show of the year, “Clybourne Park,” at Jenkins Hall Theatre on the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University. The play will run March 5 through 7 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 8 at 3 p.m. General admission tickets to the show cost $15. Seniors, children and military members can take advantage of a discount. Georgia Southern students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their Eagle ID.
Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art students present senior art exhibit, ‘Perspective’
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host its senior art exhibition “Perspective,” from Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 13 at the Fine Arts Gallery on the Armstrong Campus. Admission is free and open to the public.
Longest-running international history film festival returns for fourth season
Georgia Southern University will open the fourth season of the Ogeechee International History Film Festival (OIHFF) on Thursday, Feb. 27 on the Statesboro Campus at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center. The festival concludes on Feb. 29 at the Ogeechee Theater on the Armstrong Campus.
Center for Sustainability seminar series opens with former NFL player
Two-time All-Pro and former NFL player Ovie Mughelli will be a featured speaker at this year’s Sustainability Seminar Series hosted by Georgia Southern University’s Center for Sustainability (CfS). Mughelli will present his lecture, “Empowering the Next Generation through Greening Sports,” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 3 in the Performing Arts Center on the Statesboro Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
31st annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference to be held in Savannah
The Georgia Southern University College of Education is hosting the National Youth-At-Risk Conference March 8 through 11 at the Hyatt Regency in Savannah.
The conference will include keynote presentations from Marcia Tate, Ed.D., former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System; Ron Clark, author and founder of the Ron Clark Academy; and Laura Reiffel, Ph.D., director of Behavior Doctor Seminars, which serves as a resource center for educators.
There will also be a musical performance by local middle school students, introductions by State Superintendent Richard Woods, a meet-and-greet poster presentation, and a poverty simulation.
For more information about the conference, visit academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ce/conferences/nationalyouthatrisk/
Two Georgia Southern faculty appointed to editorial board of new interdisciplinary focused international journal
Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies at Georgia Southern University has been named the founding special issues editor of Local Development and Society, a new refereed journal being launched by the Community Development Society International and Taylor and Francis Publications. An editorial board of international scholars and practitioners is being assembled, including Candice Bodkin, Ph.D., who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies.
Local Development and Society will support theoretical and empirical research in a diversity of local contexts, with the aim of strengthening universities and organizations that produce research about community development and society.
While this journal builds on community development, it is interdisciplinary in scope and seeks to encourage scholarship on the broad expanse of local development and society. Initially, the journal will publish two issues per year.
Georgia Southern to host Sexual Assault Awareness Week on Statesboro Campus Feb. 24-28
The Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and Sexual Assault Student Educators at Georgia Southern are working together with the University’s Counseling Center, Student Wellness and Health Promotion and the Office of Public Safety to help raise awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence while educating the campus community through Sexual Assault Awareness Week on the Statesboro Campus Feb. 24 through 28.
Piano in the Arts presents season-ending concert on Georgia Southern’s Armstrong Campus
Georgia Southern University’s Piano in the Arts presents “Showtunes and Classics,” March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus. Admission to the concert is $15 with discounts available for military, seniors and children. Georgia Southern students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their Eagle ID.
