
Since 1988, 91ÁÔÆæâ€™s Senior Companion Program (SCP) has quietly transformed lives across southeast Georgia. Housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’ Center for Social Gerontology, the program pairs low-income volunteers age 55 and older with homebound older adults who need assistance to live independently. Funded by AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, the SCP recently received another one-year extension.

Recent reports from the University System of Georgia (USG) show 91ÁÔÆæ continues its legacy of significant economic impact on its surrounding region. According to the USG’s latest Economic Impact report, the system recorded a $23.1 billion total economic impact from July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2024. In the same period, Georgia Southern’s continues to reach new heights with a record annual economic impact of $1.167 billion for FY 2024, a 1.9% increase over the previous year.

Georgia Southern’s Study Abroad Program for Ghana took part in a collaborative research project centered on occupational and environmental exposures, particularly in illegal mining zones in Ghana’s Ashanti Region.

A team of 91ÁÔÆæ students and faculty from the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing won first place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) EnergyTech University Prize National Pitch Competition. The team took home a total of $70,000 and outpaced competitors from top-tier institutions across the country, including MIT, Harvard and Stanford.

91ÁÔÆæâ€™s Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing and College of Education are teaming up to bring the latest innovative research on renewable energy to STEM educators and their classrooms across Georgia.Â


91ÁÔÆæ is teaming up with Shimadzu Scientific Instruments to host a forensic science symposium on September 10.

Dmitry Apanaskevich was recently awarded one of the highest honors a biologist can receive: a newly recognized genus of soft ticks named Apanaskevichiella.Â

Stephen Greiman, Ph.D., associate professor of biology in 91ÁÔÆæâ€™s College of Science and Mathematics, has been awarded a 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Vietnam where he will lead a teaching and research project focused on parasite diversity in bats.Â

Students in 91ÁÔÆæ’s Allen E. Paulson College of Computing and Engineering have found that hard work really does pay off. Their automotive research during the 2024 academic year led to a subscription renewal for an advanced simulation software valued at $3 million.