Academics News Archive
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Pence Wins National Poetry Fellowship
Charlotte Pence, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. ...
August 21, 2024 -
Code Mode
After learning software development at South, this information systems graduate landed a job with an international consulting firm. #MyFirstJob ...
August 20, 2024 -
Leading Role
Students in South's Honors College kick off the semester early with a retreat. It's a tight-knit group whose members enrich campus life. ...
August 16, 2024 -
South Alumna Receives Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
South mechanical engineering graduate, Julia Nelson has been selected as a 2024 Phi Kappa Phi recipient. ...
August 16, 2024 -
Student Success Summit Features Engaging and Empowering Sessions
The Student Success Summit at South connects students with university resources while fostering relationships among students, faculty and staff. ...
August 14, 2024 -
Launching a Career
After restarting the student rocket program at South, an engineering graduate lands a job with a missile defense firm in Huntsville. #MyFirstJob ...
August 13, 2024 -
Archaeology Open House Showcases the Dig
South's Center for Archaeological Studies holds summer open house for students, faculty and staff to see what happens after the dig. ...
August 6, 2024 -
First Impression
Mackenzie Endres had no idea that a casual phone conversation would lead to part-time work and, eventually, her first full-time job in banking. #MyFirstJob ...
August 5, 2024 -
USA Faculty-Student Team to Support Community Public History Project
Students and faculty from South's history department will help create a community public history project for Africatown. ...
August 5, 2024 -
South Launches New Faculty Ambassador Program
Dr. Bhushan Lohar, an assistant professor of systems engineering, is one of several faculty members promoting global engagement and international recruitment. ...
July 30, 2024 -
Casting A Wider Net
A $3 million award will expand the South Alabama Mesonet system across more than a third of the state and help provide timely warnings in advance of storms. ...
July 29, 2024 -
Weather Expert to Speak at USA by the Bay in August
Dr. Sytske Kimball will speak at the USA by the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series Aug. 8, at the Baldwin County campus in Fairhope. ...
July 24, 2024 -
'Fishmas' in July
For 35 years, South's marine science students have looked forward to the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. ...
July 23, 2024 -
Tuned In
Speech pathology graduate Caroline Locke turns her South degrees and pediatric training into a position in rehabilitation services working with children. #MyFirstJob ...
July 17, 2024 -
USA Hosts Traumatic Brain Injury Camp
USA recently partnered with the Alabama Head Injury Foundation for a three-day camp for survivors and families dealing with life-altering injuries. ...
July 10, 2024 -
South Engineers Win 'Living With a Star' Grant from NASA
Dr. Edmund Spencer and Mohamed Shaban hope to be able to predict solar substorms with the help of artificial intelligence. ...
July 9, 2024 -
Picking Up the Pace
A full-time day shift in the emergency department at USA Health University Hospital keeps nursing graduate Luke Thomas's adrenalin going. #MyFirstJob ...
July 8, 2024 -
Passionflower Species Named in Honor of Late Biology Professor
Dr. Brian Axsmith, who passed away in 2020, is honored with the naming of a previously undescribed species of passionflower he discovered. ...
July 2, 2024 -
U.S. Senate and House Commend South on 60th Anniversary
Alabama's Congressional delegation recently supported resolutions highlighting the University's 60th anniversary. ...
June 18, 2024 -
South's Common Read Offers Food for Thought
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities is the 2024-25 Common Read book selection for 2024-25. ...
June 12, 2024 -
Keeping Up with Demand
The Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences gets an $8 million expansion to meet surging undergraduate enrollment. ...
June 7, 2024 -
South Announces First Endowed Deanship
Dr. Michael Capella is the Abraham A. Mitchell Endowed Dean, the first of its kind at the University, in the Mitchell College of Business. ...
June 7, 2024 -
Prestigious Science Journal Publishes USA Professors' Paper
Three South professors' paper on major issues facing the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta is published by prestigious journal Science. ...
June 4, 2024 -
Only Scratching the Surface
An anthropology class gets a peek into the past during an archaeological dig in a student's backyard. ...
May 31, 2024 -
South Creates 'Growing Up Down the Bay' Exhibit
The exhibit depicts what life was like for children growing up in the "Down the Bay" neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
May 21, 2024