Academics
• Georgia Southern University’s College of Information Technology, the only one of its kind in the Southeast United States, is now one of only 10 universities in the world to teach the cutting-edge technology of virtualization on VMware software. Now designated a VMware Academy, the college may teach VMware courses and certify students as Virtualization Certified Professionals. This certification saves future employers thousands of dollars in training costs and makes Georgia Southern graduates much more competitive in the job market.
• The College of Education has attained accreditation by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) in the three specialty areas of community counseling, school counseling and student affairs. Georgia Southern is the only institution in the state to be CACREP accredited in the area of student affairs, and the only one in southeast Georgia CACREP accredited in community counseling and school counseling. The accreditation will allow Georgia Southern students concentrating in those fields to be nationally certified when they graduate.
• Greg Brock, Ph.D. of the University’s College of Business Administration’s School of Economic Development, was awarded the Fulbright Specialists grant in Economics at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Brock will leave for Mexico in May 2010, where he will spend three weeks working with college professors and teachers to bring age appropriate economic education to children in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
• A record number of graduates received online degrees in May 2009. Georgia Southern’s online degree programs continue to gain in popularity because of their quality, flexibility and affordability. The University offers online degree programs in the areas of healthcare, education, and business.
• Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health now offers a Master of Healthcare Administration degree. The degree is designed to prepare professionals for some of the top jobs in healthcare administration. Founded in 2004, the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health was the first school of public health in the University System of Georgia. Today and is nationally recognized for its efforts to enhance health and eliminate health disparities of rural communities worldwide.
• The 2010 edition of America’s Best Colleges, published by U.S. News and World Report, included Georgia Southern in the national university category.
• Kiplinger’s named Georgia Southern to its “Top 100 Best Values in Public Colleges” list in the fall of 2008.
• The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has ranked Georgia Southern University’s Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology and Civil Engineering Technology among the nation’s leaders in enrollment and degrees awarded.
• Georgia Southern’s College of Information Technology is one of the rare universities in the country, and the only in the state of Georgia, that includes a SAP® Certificate as part of its curriculum. This provides a major competitive edge for graduates as they begin their job search.
• Internationalization efforts continue to expand for Georgia
Southern students. The number of countries to which students studied
increased to 21, and the Center for International Studies plans added
offerings for summer abroad programs.
• Georgia Southern University is a leader in the record number of University System of Georgia (USG) students studying abroad. The University’s most popular programs take students to Costa Rica, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, and Mexico.
• The University’s Master of Business Administration and the Master of Accounting are featured in Best 301 Business Schools published by The Princeton Review.
Research
• Georgia Southern University received a $2.3 million National Science Foundation K-12 grant that will benefit the University’s biology graduate students as well as local high school students and teachers.
• Faculty in the College of Science and Technology are researching ways to make energy sources like wind and bio-fuels a practical alternative to traditional energy sources.
• Georgia Southern University is part of the “Georgians Experience Astronomy Research in Schools” (GEARS) project. As part of the project, a 1 million dollar NASA grant will fund the development of a curriculum that will completely change the way astronomy is taught in Georgia’s public high schools.
•Graduate Seminar in Sustainability students researched ways to make campus more energy efficient and proposed putting energy-saving devices on vending machines. As a solution, the students turned to the EMS-55, a device from the Coca-Cola Company that powers vending machines down to standby mode when they are not being used.
• Dr. Bill Allison, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, presented his paper to the annual meeting of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. "War and Memory in American since World War II” focused on the controversies surrounding building war memorials to commemorate veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
• College of Liberal Arts and Social Science professors Charles Crouch and John Steinberg were awarded a two-year $180,000 Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand the University's focus on international teaching and learning both at home and abroad. For eighteen days, the group traveled through China attending faculty development seminars conducted by Chinese specialists in their fields of study.
• Physics professor Mark Edwards collaborates with a Nobel Prize-winning
physicist on laser cooling of atoms and was honored by selection as
a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• Robert Cook, Yamacraw professor of computer sciences, judged
the finals of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Computer Society International Design Competition.
• Biological sciences professor Lance Durden received the Henry
Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society of Parasitologists, the
highest honor from that organization.
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Facilities
• A four- year, $22.75 million dollar project to expand and renovate the Zach S. Henderson Library tripled the size of the facility. The library now houses more than 1 million items in its collection.
• The $7.8 million dollar renovation and extension of the Foy Building added 3,599 square feet of space and included a major enhancement of the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall.
• The Wetland Preserve at Georgia Southern University’s Center for Wildlife Education and the Lamar Q Ball, Jr. Raptor Center is a 12-acre addition that includes a small pond and capture basin that houses a beaver lodge, a cypress pond that is home to a variety of wading birds like herons and egrets, and a waterfowl pond. The Center is a popular attraction for thousands of families, school children and University students and is home to three bald eagles.
• Centennial Place serves as Georgia Southern’s newest residence hall. Constructed in 2009, the residence hall is the most modern on campus featuring apartment style living, wireless internet access, and even a Coldstone Creamery and Einstein Bros. Bagel restaurant.
• Georgia Southern University launched a unique project in 2009 to replace incandescent bulbs across campus with energy-saving, environmentally friendly Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs). The project is the first of its kind in the University System of Georgia. When complete, the project will have the same environmental impact as taking eight cars off the road.
• The University’s state-of-the-art student Recreation Activity Center became certified as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design facility. The Center is one of the premier facilities of its kind, featuring a rock climbing wall and cave, indoor and outdoor pools, racquetball courts, personal trainers, and even massages.
Outreach
• The College of Health and Human Sciences is partnering with the Bulloch County Health Department to curb childhood obesity through a community wide initiative called Project CHILD.
• The psychology department in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences recently expanded the services at its psychology clinic to include children.
• Georgia Southern University students volunteered almost 8,000 community service hours to the Statesboro/Bulloch County community during the 2008-09 academic year.
• The 825-seat Performing Arts Center, a state-of-the-art entertainment venue, provides world-class cultural arts programming to residents of the Coastal Southeast.
• The 11-acre Georgia Southern University Botanical Garden is a research and educational resource for faculty and students as well as continuing educational programs for the community.
Athletics
• Former Georgia Southern All-America quarterback Jayson Foster was named the winner of the Walter Payton Award for the 2007 season, honoring the most outstanding player in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Foster was Georgia Southern's second Payton Award winner -- Adrian Peterson, now a running back with the Chicago Bears, received the award in 1999.
• Georgia Southern’s football team is one of the most successful in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, winning six national titles since 1985.
• In 2009, Georgia Southern University's baseball team secured the Southern Conference baseball championship on its way to playing in the NCAA Regionals. It marked Georgia Southern baseball’s 12th NCAA Regional appearance and 4th Southern Conference Tournament title.
• Georgia Southern's 2008-09 golf team advanced to the NCAA Regionals, the program's 10th regionals appearance.
• Georgia Southern University's baseball team set a new NCAA all-divisions record for home runs in a single game when it belted 14 in a 26-8 win over Columbia on Saturday, March 15, 2008.
• The Eagles football team has advanced to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs 16 times since 1985.
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