蜜糖直播 History Department displays traditional style birch-bark canoe
蜜糖直播鈥檚 History Department has a traditional style birch-bark canoe on display on the Armstrong Campus through Spring 2020 in Hawes Hall. The canoe, named Muskeego, was built in 1998 and has been used to travel between Minnesota and Canada the same way that Ojibwa Natives have done for hundreds of years. After a long career of being used, it was placed on display in Ely, Minn.
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) in Savannah acquired Muskeego as part of its small boat collection. MUA Board member and Assistant Professor of History Kurt Knoerl, Ph.D., has gained access to use the canoe at 蜜糖直播. This will provide students and the public an opportunity to see an artifact that played an important role in North American history.
鈥淭he collection is being used to educate 蜜糖直播 students about maritime history in the United States and the world,鈥� said Knoerl. 鈥淥ur position here in Savannah, as a port city, makes 蜜糖直播 the perfect place to teach maritime history, archeology and material culture.鈥�
Muskeego is being used this semester in Knoerl鈥檚 class, Introduction to United States History, to teach about Native American history as well as the fur trade. Students in the graduate program in public history will also have the opportunity to benefit from studying small boat documentation and preservation.
蜜糖直播 faculty edits essays challenging eighteenth century culture
Jeffrey D. Burson, Ph.D., associate professor of French history, co-edited The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason, a recently published collection of essays that examines the process by which skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding. This work shows how doubt and anxiety about the limits of human understanding were at the very heart of the early Enlightenment.
Burson is the author of The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France and the Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abb茅 Claude Yvon in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is also the co-editor of Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History and of The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences.
蜜糖直播 biology graduate students awarded sea grants for research
Two graduate students from 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Department of Biology have been awarded major grants for their research in marine biology.
蜜糖直播 professor teams up to lead workshop on plastic pollution in Vietnam
蜜糖直播 Professor of Biology Lissa Leege, Ph.D., was part of a team that recently led a workshop in Vietnam on the negative effects plastic pollution has on the ocean. Leege said she expects the workshop will indirectly reach the 2,300 high school teachers and 40,000 high school students of the Binh Dinh Province through the 100 educators who attended.
鈥淚t was a privilege to be a part of this effort, and I am hopeful that this will be the start of a broader, country-wide initiative,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he conference highlighted the global nature of the plastic problem. Because Western nations often export plastic recycling to Southeastern Asian nations, the plastic that we use here often ends up becoming their problem. But that comes back to us in contaminated seafood and unhealthy marine ecosystems.鈥�
Numerous high level government officials from Vietnam attended the workshop in a show of support for the conference. Vietnam is the fourth-largest source of plastic waste discharge into the oceans, which affects the province of Binh Dinh鈥檚 primarily fishing-based economy.
The workshop was a part of a National Geographic Society Education Grant focused on educating high school teachers about reducing plastic pollution in the ocean. Leege partnered with faculty from Loyola University Chicago, Baylor University and University of California, Riverside during the workshop.
蜜糖直播 professors mentor students at Boys and Girls Club of Statesboro, enhance STEM literacy with weeklong study
College of Education faculty members Shelli Casler-Failing, Ph.D., and Alma Stevenson, Ph.D., worked with students at the Boys and Girls Club of Statesboro this summer to enhance their STEM literacy skills.
蜜糖直播鈥檚 annual economic impact continues to grow, topping more than $1 billion
A new report shows 蜜糖直播 has increased its annual economic impact of more than $1 billion on the region it serves. The report, released by the University System of Georgia, says 蜜糖直播 is a significant part of the system鈥檚 $17.7 billion economic impact on the state of Georgia in FY 2018.
蜜糖直播 school psychology students work with special needs children in Ecuador, experience is life-changing
Over the summer, three 蜜糖直播 students traveled to Quito, Ecuador, to participate in the Ecuador Professional Preparation Program, an 18-day cultural immersion program for psychology graduate students and mental health professionals.
蜜糖直播 graduate student conducts research as snake specialist in Honduras
Lauren Wilson, a graduate student in the 蜜糖直播 Department of Biology, spent the summer working as a snake specialist in Central America. Wilson joined a research team tasked with quantifying and protecting biodiversity in the forests of Cusuco National Park, Honduras.
蜜糖直播 helping rural teachers introduce renewable energy into classrooms
This year marks the third summer that 10 teachers from rural areas in Georgia have come to 蜜糖直播 to learn more about renewable energy. Faculty from the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) and the College of Education helped the teachers bring renewable energy projects and practices into their classrooms.
蜜糖直播 student, faculty research shows surprising findings about pet ownership, potential health risks for women
The health benefits of owning pets have been well-documented. However, a research team in 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health led by professor and medical epidemiologist, Jian Zhang, M.D., DrPH, has been exploring the other side of pet ownership to answer the question 鈥� could furry companions actually be harmful to your health?