AASU News & Headlines

(November 4, 2009)  AASU will host top collegiate computer programmers from surrounding areas during regional competition of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

(November 3, 2009) Phi Kappa Phi (PKP), which is co-sponsor of the event, also will host an induction ceremony for new members on Sunday, November 8, at 3 p.m. in the Armstrong Center.

(October 29, 2009) The grant will support “Let the Games Begin,” a pilot program to help at-risk high school students develop basic computer programming skills.

(October 29, 2009) Freshman chemistry labs at AASU are going green next year thanks to a $192,595 grant from the NSF. Will Lynch is principal investigator for the project.

(October 22, 2009) The AASU master’s program in sports medicine has received special recognition from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Bryan Riemann is program director.

(October 19, 2009) AASU’s College of Education is scheduled for a spring 2010 accreditation review by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

(October 14, 2009) Kristin Stout, a reference and instruction librarian at the Lane Library, was chosen to participate in the American Library Association’s 2010 Class of Emerging Leaders.

(October 9, 2009) Data for second quarter 2009 show that the Savannah economy appears to begin stabilizing, but underlying economic indicators are sending mixed signals.

(September 29, 2009) The Garden Club Council of Chatham County has awarded a scholarship to Tito Dixon, a sophomore majoring in theatre.

(September 28, 2009) AASU has received $1,534,100 under the State Facilities Retrofit Program to fund an energy-conservation project in its 126,000 square-foot Science Center.

(September 16, 2009) June Hopkins will deliver a keynote address on October 3 to kickoff Soul of a People, a series of programs about the Federal Writers’ Project and the New Deal era.

(September 11, 2009) Preliminary data show fall enrollment at 7,500 students, an increase of between 5 and 6 percent over last fall’s enrollment of 7,067 students.

(August 24, 2009)  Christina Nieves, a sophomore enrolled at the AASU Liberty Center campus in Hinesville, GA, has been selected for a Regents’ Foundation Scholarship.

(August 21, 2009) A new First-Year Experience (FYE) Resource Center is helping freshmen students get a leg up on college life.

(August 13, 2009) AASU President Linda Bleicken welcomed new and returning faculty and staff during the Opening Convocation for the 2009-2010 academic year.