Georgia Southern professors named Governor鈥檚 Teaching Fellows
Professor of Geography Wei Tu, Ph.D., and Writing and Linguistics Lecturer Amanda Hedrick have been selected as Governor鈥檚 Teaching Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year. Tu, from the College of Science and Mathematics, and Hedrick, from the College of the Arts and Humanities, are two of 17 fellows selected this year.
Graduate student awarded scholarship for independent study in marine science
Erin Arneson, a graduate student in the James H. Oliver Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Science (ICPS) and Department of Biology, was one of five students selected for the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship.
The scholarship is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration鈥檚 Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and provides funding for independent graduate level studies in a wide array of marine sciences. Arneson鈥檚 research revolves around the impacts of ocean acidification on corals that are abundant on the rocky hard bottoms that occur off the coast of Georgia. Ocean acidification happens when seawater absorbs carbon dioxide and increases its acidity.
Arneson, who is advised by Daniel Gleason, Ph.D., biology professor and Director of the ICPS, does research in close collaboration with the staff at Gray鈥檚 Reef National Marine Sanctuary, which is one of the largest near-shore, live-bottom reefs in the Southeastern United States.
Georgia Southern biology professor gives presentation at Critical Care Nurses Conference
Biology professor Ed Mondor, Ph.D., and his brother Eugene Mondor, who is a registered nurse, recently gave a talk at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses 鈥� National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition in Orlando.
Their talk, entitled 鈥淕ot the Travel Bug? When Tropical Diseases Aren鈥檛 Just Tropical,鈥� focused on the insect-vectored tropical diseases Typhus, Chagas, Zika, Dengue and Malaria, which are showing up in critical care patients with increasing frequency in North America as international travel increases.
The presentation featured insects of medical importance, the diseases they transmit and the effects of insect transmission on human health, as well as key physical assessment findings, laboratory investigations and summarized first-line management strategies for critically-ill patients. More than 8,500 critical care nurses attended the exposition.
Georgia Southern graduate student identifies two new species of African ticks
While most people tend to avoid ticks, Jackson Tomlinson, a graduate student in the Department of Biology finds them fascinating and beautiful. His interest in the parasites was recently rewarded with the discovery of two species of ticks that are entirely new to science.
Two Georgia Southern professors selected to work at National Science Foundation
Two 糖心Vlog professors have been selected to work at the National Science Foundation (NSF) at the same time this year.
Laura B. Regassa, professor of biology, Ph.D., is currently serving as director of the Innovations in Graduate Education program at the foundation. She will stay for a fourth year in 2019, which is unusual at the NSF, as faculty typically rotate in for three years.
Georgia Southern professor publishes article on how lichens and mosses affect the global water cycle
糖心Vlog ecohydrology professor John Van Stan, Ph.D., recently published an article in Nature Geoscience titled 鈥淪ignificant Contribution of Non-vascular Vegetation to Global Rainfall Interception.鈥�
Georgia Southern College of Science and Mathematics senior wins scholarship
Kenneth Richardson, a senior biochemistry major at the 糖心Vlog Armstrong Campus in Savannah, has been named a 2018 American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholar. Richardson said the scholarship will help him soon begin his career path.
Biologists describe eight new species from the Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus
Eight new species of feather mites that have never before been described anywhere have been identified on the 糖心Vlog campus in Statesboro. How do eight unknown species go undetected for so long? 聽They are very small and live in a surprising location.
Martha Abell, Ph.D., wins award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Martha Abell, Ph.D., dean of the College of Science and Mathematics,won the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Southeastern Section Distinguished Service Award.
Georgia Southern breaks ground on new Military Science building
The new building will consist of a large auditorium, meeting rooms, classrooms, storage space and faculty and administrative offices.