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Georgia Southern alumni pledge $125,000 for Tormenta FC Endowed Scholarship

On Tuesday, May 24, Tormenta Futbol Club co-owners and Ƶ alumni Darin H. Van Tassell (’89) and Netra R. Van Tassell (’90) pledged a $125,000 Tormenta FC Endowed Scholarship to the Ƶ Foundation, Inc.

Georgia Southern students expand communication disorder awareness amidst Deaf Culture Renaissance

At Georgia Southern, a group of students is taking courses to grow the number of interpreters in their communities and their fields.
Each student comes to class with their own motivations to learn ASL.

Georgia Southern launches Asian Studies Digital collection, celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May

Ƶ Libraries and Nalanda Roy, Ph.D., recently launched a digital collection, “An Integral History: Asian Studies Digital Archive,” to coincide with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May.

Georgia Southern graduate credits independent study and mentor for success in public health

Many students strive to make a significant impact on their communities before they graduate. Jordan Bordeaux is one of them.

As an undergraduate student at the University of Wyoming, Bordeaux worked in health promotion and wellness. That experience prompted her to look into graduate programs for public health.

Georgia Southern graduate spreads wings, lands new production career

Samuel Schwartz knew from the moment he set foot on campus that Ƶ would be his home for the next four years.
The first person he connected with on his journey was Dean Cummings, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Approximately 4,300 degrees conferred during Georgia Southern’s 2022 Spring Commencement ceremonies

Last week, approximately 4,300 undergraduate and graduate students from Ƶ’s Statesboro, Armstrong and Liberty campuses received associate, baccalaureate, masters, specialist and doctoral degrees in five Spring 2022 Commencement ceremonies.

‘Rising star’ graduate: Sylvia Ofori’s journey from Ghana to Georgia Southern to Harvard

On her first flight from Ghana to the United States, Sylvia Ofori arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, at 1 a.m. By 4 o’clock the next afternoon, Ofori was in her first American classroom in Ƶ’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health on the Statesboro Campus.

Jet-lagged and attempting to absorb a foreign campus and classroom procedures, Ofori was out of sorts when her professor, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ph.D., encouraged her to apply for a student research position following class introductions.

Today, Ofori will earn a DrPH in public health with a concentration in epidemiology as she crosses the stage in one of two Savannah commencement ceremonies. In June, she’ll begin as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard University to continue global public health research she began at Georgia Southern.

Georgia Southern graduate flourishes through change

Accepting change is one of the greatest lessons that civil engineering graduate Eman Woods learned during his time at Ƶ, and it is something he will carry with him as he begins to navigate his future.

From high-stakes fashion to a special education classroom

Long Island, New York, native Celia Ayenesazan graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology almost 30 years ago and spent more than two decades working for Federated Department Stores, Inc., one of America’s largest operators of premier retail chains including Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. But nothing brings her more joy than leading her own special education classroom. 

This week, Ayenesazan walks across Ƶ’s commencement stage to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching, and a second chance at a fulfilling career.

‘I don’t like quitting’: Double education major beats Hodgkin lymphoma to cross the commencement stage this week

Kimberly Dawn, or “Kimmy” as her friends know her, started her journey at Ƶ because it was a place of comfort. A native of Ellabell, Georgia, Dawn grew up only 25 miles from the Statesboro Campus. When her stepmother suddenly passed away during her senior year of high school, Dawn’s decision was final. She would stay close to family and attend the university she always cared for as an almost local.

It was during her first school observations that are required of Georgia Southern’s education students that Dawn met a paraprofessional who inspired her to pursue a dual certification degree in both elementary and special education.