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WCHP Students Awarded ADF Scholarships
The Abbie DeLoach Foundation (ADF) awarded 17 scholarships with five of the scholarships going to students in the Waters College of Health Professions (WCHP) during its 7th annual scholarship class luncheon held April 14 at the Savannah Golf Club. The event celebrated recipients’ academic excellence, exemplary service work and/or athletic commitment. The following WCHP students […]
HSK Faculty Receive Grant for New Equipment
Two Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology faculty, Li Li, Ph.D. and Barry Munkasy, Ph.D., have noted a major challenge in the classroom as students not having easy access to tools that will help them analyze movement patterns and the joint forces accompanying human movement. With the awarding of a Student Technology Fee grant in […]
HSK Faculty Develop No-Cost HAP Library Guide
In 2021, five Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology faculty members received a $30,000 Affordable Learning Georgia Transformation grant targeting the Human Anatomy and Physiology (HAP) laboratory courses at Georgia Southern University. Team members included Diana Botnaru, M.D., Jody Langdon, Ph.D., Matthew Syno, M.S., Nicholas Siekirk, Ph.D., and Sam Wilson, Ph.D. HAP labs are two-semester […]
Interprofessional collaboration
This past November, Waters College of Health Professions (WCHP) faculty lead an hour-long workshop on how health professions faculty at Georgia Southern University developed and implemented interprofessional learning activities through the years at the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference in Kelowna, Canada. Shaunell McGee, MHA, Debra Hagerty, DNP, Yvonne Dillon, M.Ed., […]
Georgia Southern named a top school by EduMed.org
Georgia Southern University has been ranked one of the nation’s best schools for online healthcare degrees and certificates for 2023 by EduMed.org. Georgia Southern’s online nursing programs as well as the online Coaching Education program have earned top honors for their overall quality, affordability and commitment to student success. The online RN to BSN program ranked […]