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Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology
Faculty Member Wins Outstanding Engineering Educator
Fernando Rios-Gutierrez, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been selected as the Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award was given in recognition of Rios-Gutierrez’s “teaching excellence and the development of the College of Engineering & IT at Georgia Southern,” and he is the first faculty member from the University to receive the prestigious honor. Rios-Gutierrez was selected from more than 30,000 educators in Region 3, which includes the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi.
College of Business Administration
COBA Named Best Business School for Veterans
The Georgia Southern University College of Business Administration (COBA) has been honored by Military Times as being one of the best business schools for veterans in the United States. In the first-ever survey, COBA received the “Best for Vets: Business Schools” seal. Georgia Southern has been singled out for its online and part-time MBA program and for having staff dedicated to veterans’ issues.
College of Education
COE Launches Youth At-Risk Center
The College of Education has established the National Youth-At-Risk (NYAR) Center which develops, coordinates and extends the ongoing efforts of the College to foster the intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being of youth placed at risk. The Center will provide professional development, research support and resource assistance for educators serving these youth within the geographical service region of Georgia Southern and beyond. Through cutting-edge research efforts, the Center also makes it possible for Georgia Southern and the COE to play important roles in enabling educators to find research-based solutions to what is both a regional and national educational problem.
College of Liberal Arts and Social Science
Professor awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Netherlands
Larry J. Griffin, Ph.D., professor of sociology, CLASS research scholar and the director of the University’s Center for American Studies and Faculty Research and Writing Workshop, will spend the fall semester at the Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands studying the American national identity through international social surveys. Griffin will also lecture at Dutch universities speaking on the American South.
College of Science and Mathematics
COSM Leads Research Mission
The new James H. Oliver, Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Sciences Director Daniel Gleason and Biology Associate Professor Risa Cohen, have completed a research mission within Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, located off the coast of Sapelo Island, Ga. Students also participated in various projects, including a fish census, conducted aboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster.
College of Health and Human Sciences
Fashion Merchandising ranked #49 in US
The College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) School of Human Ecology has been ranked #49 in a list of the top 75 Fashion Merchandising schools in the U.S. More than 200 institutions offering Fashion Merchandising were evaluated for academic reputation, admission selectivity, depth and breadth of the program and faculty, and geographic location by fashion-schools.org. In the review that examined the institutions, Georgia Southern’s ranking at #49, placed it among the top 25 percent in the nation. The University was also ranked ninth on the list of Top 15 Fashion Schools in the South.
“This ranking says a lot about what we are doing, and more people are learning about our academic reputation,” said CHHS Dean Barry Joyner, Ph.D. “It is good to see the program getting this recognition, and a lot of the credit goes to our faculty. Our students appreciate how their professors are dedicated to help them by staying late, answering questions and coming in on weekends to open the design lab.”
Jiann-Ping HSU College of Public Health
Professors Publish Book on Statistical Thinking
Dr. Karl E. Peace along with Dr. Ding-Geng (Din) Chen has published a new book titled Applied Meta-Analysiswith R . In biostatistical research and courses, practitioners and students often lack a thorough understanding of how to apply statistical methods to synthesize biomedical and clinical trial data. Applied Meta-Analysis with R shows how to implement statistical meta-analysis methods to real data using R, helping fill this knowledge gap.