
91ÁÔÆæ announced today the establishment of the Yamaha Rightwaters™ Conservation Scholarship. Supported by an ongoing endowment from Yamaha Rightwaters, the scholarship awards $5,000 annually to a student who exhibits outstanding efforts and commitment to improve coastal sustainability.

Six new members recently joined 91ÁÔÆæ’s Alumni Association Board of Directors. Founded in 1933, Georgia Southern’s Alumni Association’s Board of Directors is made up of alumni volunteers who are leaders in their communities and who have given tirelessly of their time in order to promote Georgia Southern.

91ÁÔÆæ biology professor and researcher Christine Bedore, Ph.D., is helping National Geographic explore the mysteries of shark attacks by sharing her expertise and years of fieldwork as part of the six-part series, “When Sharks Attack 360,” this month.Â

Karelle Aiken, Ph.D., and Jannet Kocerha, Ph.D., are using a $424,000 grant to pursue new cancer drug treatments. The goal is to overcome various barriers that impact the effectiveness of cancer therapeutics by exploiting a cancer cell’s dependency on unusually high levels of amino acids nutrients.Â

On July 1, the College of Science and Mathematics at 91ÁÔÆæ will launch a new School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability. The SEES will bring together the geosciences program and the James H. Oliver, Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Science.

91ÁÔÆæâ€™s Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center will officially open its doors with a grand opening and ribbon cutting on June 19. Coinciding with the Center’s Juneteenth celebration, the public is invited to attend the festivities at 13040 Abercorn Street in Savannah from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Â

Michael Huggins, Ph.D., will join 91ÁÔÆæ on August 1 as the Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics.


As part of World Ocean Day on June 10, 91ÁÔÆæ will display sculptures in 16 exhibit tanks at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium in Savannah. The pieces are part of an exhibit at the aquarium titled “SUBMERGED: An Underwater Exhibition of Bioceramic Artwork.â€�

A noted 91ÁÔÆæ public health professor has earned a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in All Disciplines to Latvia for the 2023-2024 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Yelena N. Tarasenko, DrPH, is a professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences at Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Her Fulbright project is titled “Strengthening research and teaching capacity in cancer prevention globally.â€�