Free HIV testing Oct. 3
Health Services at Georgia Southern University and the Health Department in Statesboro are sponsoring free HIV testing Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Russell Union Room 2080.
For more information, contact La’Shanda Johnson, assistant director in Health Services, at ljohnso2@georgiasouthern.edu.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Georgia Board of Public Safety to hold public meeting in Statesboro Oct. 11
Georgia Southern University will host a meeting of the Georgia Board of Public Safety on Thursday, Oct. 11, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building, corner of Plant and Chandler Roads, in Statesboro. It is open to any member of the public.
‘By holding its meetings in communities around the state, the public can learn more about the activities of the three agencies overseen by the Board of Public Safety,” said Ken Brown, director of Public Safety at Georgia Southern and host for the meeting. The three agencies reporting to the board are the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), the Georgia State Patrol, and the Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.
Ellis Wood of Statesboro, a new member of the Georgia Board of Public Safety, will be on hand for the meeting. Statesboro’s mayor and other city officials and Bulloch County officials have been invited to attend.
Following the meeting in Statesboro, board members will travel to Glenville to take part in a Firefighter Appreciation Cookout that begins at 5 p.m. The event will honor not only the firefighters, but all agencies involved in fighting this summer’s devastating fire in Ware County. At the cookout, Board of Public Safety Vice Chair James Donald, commissioner of the Department of Corrections, will acknowledge the many inmates who participated in fighting the Ware County fire.
For more information about the Georgia Board of Public Safety, call 404-656-6002.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Irish Folk Music Nights Sept. 24-25
Irish Folk Music Nights will be held on Monday, Sept. 24, and Tuesday, Sept. 25. Popular and acclaimed Celtic folk musician Harry O’Donoghue will perform two shows each evening at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the French Quarter Cafe in downtown Statesboro.
O’Donoghue, who is no stranger to the Georgia Southern, Statesboro and Savannah communities, has anchored Irish Folk Music Nights for a decade and uses his wit to bring the spirit of Ireland to life in music that appeals to people of all ages. He combines superb vocal and instrumental talents with a charismatic stage presence. O’Donoghue also hosts the popular radio show, The Green Island, broadcast weekly statewide on Georgia Public Radio.
Irish Folk Music Nights are sponsored by Georgia Southern’s Center for Irish Studies in cooperation with the French Quarter Cafe. Admission is $2 per person and reservations are recommended. Reservations can be made by calling (912) 489-3233. Due to high demand for Irish Folk Music Nights, reservations not honored 15 minutes into the show may be lost.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Philadelphia Dance Company will appear at Performing Arts Center on Oct. 5
A professional dance company that has been praised as ‘a miracle of skill and energy” is coming to the Performing Arts Center (PAC) at Georgia Southern University.
The Philadelphia Dance Company will perform at the PAC on Friday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Also known as Philadanco, the company has taken its modern contemporary repertoire to millions of people around the world via television appearances and international tours.
Tickets for Philadanco’s performance at Georgia Southern are $30 per person for the general public. Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students will receive a $5 discount for each ticket.
In addition, if any tickets are available 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the performance, any Georgia Southern student with a valid University I.D. can purchase one ticket for $10.
Philadanco was founded by Joan Myers Brown in 1970. The company includes a professional performing company, a 40-week instruction and training program, a six-week summer training program, and an apprentice group.
The professional company that will appear at Georgia Southern typically gives more than 50 performances and 45 residencies each year. According to Dance Magazine, ‘Philadanco’s dancers are a miracle of skill and energy. They work in a range of idioms most companies don’t even try to possess � (It is) a company that can do more than just anything. It can represent the possibilities of human spirit through dance.”
The PAC is located on the Georgia Southern campus at the corner of Chandler Road and Plant Drive. The box office is open every Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The box office is also open one hour prior to the start of each performance.
To purchase tickets or obtain additional information, call (912) 486-7999 or toll free (866) PAC-ARTS, or visit the PAC Web site at http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/pac
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Inaugural “Walk for Wishes” to benefit Make-A-Wish
The Office of Student Activities and the Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement at Georgia Southern University are sponsors of the inaugural Statesboro Walk for Wishes to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama. The event will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Recreation Activity Center (RAC).
Walkers can participate individually or team up with family, friends, classmates and co-workers. The course is a 1.07 mile loop around the multiplex, starting and finishing at the RAC Pavilion. A finish line celebration will feature refreshments and activities for children.
The goal of the Walk for Wishes is to raise money to grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
‘The Walk for Wishes fundraiser is an easy way for student organizations to come together and support one cause,” said Bill Pickett, director of student activities.
Pre-registration is encouraged. Pre-registration requires a donation of at least $10 per student, $15 per person or $30 for a family of four. Registration is also welcome at the event for an additional $5 per person donation.
To register, contact Jean Doliber with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama at 912-330-0476 or jdoliber@ga-al.wish.org.
For more information about the Make-A-Wish Foundation or the Walk for Wishes, visit www.ga-al.wish.org.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
“Southeast Georgia on our Minds” continues Sept. 25 in Millen with detective fiction writers
Mary Hadley and H. Charles Martin will present ‘Writing Detective Fiction Where We Live: Confessions of a Statesboro Couple” Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 7-9 p.m. at Jenkins County Memorial Library, 223 Daniel Street in Millen. Their presentation continues the ‘Southeast Georgia on our Minds” series, an eight-part series of community programs on the people, history, culture, and literature of southeast Georgia.
Hadley is an associate professor of writing in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. She and her husband, writer and art restorer H. Charles Martin, write detective fiction under the nom de plume ‘Mary Charles.” Some of their novels include ‘Nightmare in Savannah,” ‘The Reluctant Corpse,” and ‘Savannah Scores.”
Each ‘Southeast Georgia on Our Minds” session includes a presentation by a Georgia Southern Humanities faculty member followed by audience interaction and discussion.
The sessions begin at 7 p.m., but refreshments are available beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Sept. 25 session focuses on themes in the Humanities through contemporary regional writing and writers.
The ‘Southeast Georgia on Our Minds” series is sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council and facilitated by Georgia Southern University in partnership with Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System. It is free of charge and open to the general public, with refreshments provided by the Friends of the libraries involved. For more information about the series, contact the project director, Martha Pennington, at Georgia Southern University, (912) 871-1326.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Spanish class for health care professionals will start on Oct. 1
Infants can develop iron-deficiency anemia unless they are breastfed or drink iron-fortified bottle formula for their first 12 months.
As a medical practitioner, you know this. But do you know how to explain it to a worried couple who speak only Spanish and don’t understand why you want to test their baby’s blood?
Georgia Southern University is offering an eight-week course to give health care professionals practical experience of conversing in Spanish, using key words and phrases common to a medical setting.
‘Spanish for Health Care Professionals” will run on eight consecutive Monday evenings from Oct. 1 through No. 19. The course is designed for nurses, personnel at hospitals, medical offices, pharmacies and health care centers, and nursing students.
Instructor June Spencer has 30 years experience in teaching, often to the Latino population in Central America, Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Teaching assistant Mirna Cabrera de Young is a Bolivian preparing to work in the health care profession.
Each session of the class will meet from 5:30 p.m. until 7:15 p.m. in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building on the Georgia Southern campus in Statesboro.
The fee for the course is $125 per person. To register, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/spanishhealthcare.html or call (912) 681-5551.- For more information, e-mail CED-Conference3@georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Department of Chemistry climbs to No. 13 in national rankings
For the fourth time in five years, the Department of Chemistry at Georgia Southern University boasts one of the most productive degree programs in the United States.
According to the latest rankings by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Professional Training, Georgia Southern is No. 13 in the nation for the number of graduates who earned a certified bachelor’s degree in chemistry.
In addition, Georgia Southern is the highest-ranked institution in the state.
‘I am delighted that we continue to be recognized at a national level for our outstanding undergraduate program as well as our commitment to the profession,” said Mary Boyd, the chair of the Department of Chemistry.
To compile the rankings, the ACS surveyed the more than 640 colleges and universities that have a bachelor’s degree program which has been certified by the ACS.
The institutions are ranked based on the number of graduates they produce in a given academic year. Thirty-four Georgia Southern students earned certified degrees in 2005-2006, the year used by the ACS for its most recent survey.
The University was tied for No. 19 in the previous national rankings, which covered the 2004-2005 academic year. Georgia Southern was No. 22 in the 2003-2004 rankings, and also No. 22 in the 2001-2002 rankings.
The ACS is comprised of more than 158,000 individual members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. The organization provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development.
The ACS Committee on Professional Training has been assessing, approving and monitoring undergraduate chemistry programs since 1941. Students in approved programs can earn certified degrees by completing a rigorous curriculum that satisfies ACS requirements.
According to the ACS, some employers offer higher starting salaries to graduates who have certified degrees. Also, a certified degree can be beneficial in obtaining admission to graduate school.
‘Our graduates typically attend graduate, dental or medical school, or find employment in the chemical industry,” Boyd said.
The latest ACS survey revealed that 12,120 students received their bachelor’s degrees during the 2005-2006 academic year from institutions that offer a certified degree program. However, only 4,252 of these graduates (35.1 percent) earned certified degrees. The study also showed that 6,291of the certified degrees (51.9 percent) were awarded to women.
The top five institutions in the ACS rankings for certified bachelor’s degrees are, in order: the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The national rankings also include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in a four-way tie at No. 16) and the U.S. Naval Academy (in a four-way tie at No. 21).
The Georgia Institute of Technology – which is among the schools tied at No. 21 is the only other Georgia university to appear in the national rankings for certified bachelor’s degrees.
For more information on the Department of Chemistry at Georgia Southern, visit http://cost.georgiasouthern.edu/chemistry or call (912) 681-5681.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
