
91ɬÂþ’s Business Innovation Group (BIG), a place where innovators and entrepreneurs in southeast Georgia can gain skills and training to transform their businesses, has teamed up with one of its own clients to offer enhanced resources to the community.Â

For more than a decade, there has been an increase in the demand for public health workers, and a shrinking public health workforce, exacerbated by pandemic burnout. To meet educational and workforce needs, 91ɬÂþ is expanding its offerings in public health at multiple degree levels.Â

91ɬÂþ’s College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) now offers a master’s degree in environmental science and will begin recruiting for the inaugural class of doctoral students in environmental science for the fall 2023 entering class. The post-graduate degrees supplement the recently approved bachelor’s degree in sustainability science. Housed in the James H. Oliver, Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Science, every department in the college will play a role in this interdisciplinary trio of programs.

91ɬÂþ special education faculty created an Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s program to assist undergraduate special education students with earning an advanced degree in special education in less time.

Over the summer, seven Georgia Southern athletic training graduate students have been helping the hometown Savannah Bananas. In addition to acquiring hands-on experiences with the local ball club, students are having the most fun summer with the most fun team in baseball.

For the second year in a row, 91ɬÂþ set a record for private fundraising, according to figures from the last fiscal year.

Whitney Nash, Ph.D., APRN, has been selected as Dean of 91ɬÂþ’s Waters College of Health Professions and will begin leading the college on Aug. 1. Â

For Savannah doctor Timothy Connelly earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree wasn’t about advancing his career in the business world. Instead, he saw it as an opportunity to grow in his current career.

The Georgia Southern Chorale, a choir of 30 students from 91ɬÂþ’s Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music, earned top spots in an international choir competition this week in Germany. The group’s scores were nearly perfect, and the highest scores in the Chorale’s history in this particular competition.

91ɬÂþ’s latest Economic Monitor, which reflects Q1 2022, reports that growth in the Savannah metro economy moderated during the opening quarter of the year