Fall 2019

Georgia Southern Interns Learn the Ways of the Wild Rescuing a baby raccoon from a trash can turned Alexis Neal into a wildlife rescue advocate. A junior health science major on the Armstrong Campus, Neal saw a photo that someone had posted online of a baby raccoon in the Gamble Hall trash can.  “I was…

Why Birds Inspire Biology Major An ornithology class in college transformed Corina Newsome’s life.  A junior at the time, she’d always considered birds “pretty mundane” until a professor’s passion and enthusiasm caused her to take another look. “They were all just little brown birds to me,” she says, “and what’s exciting about that? He basically…

Georgia Southern Alumnus Appointed Georgia’s Top Cop Vic Reynolds (‘79), director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), says one of the most valuable lessons he ever learned about law enforcement came from Richard Waugh, a beloved former criminal justice professor at Georgia Southern. “He always emphasized that law enforcement was one of those careers…