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Academics News Archive

  • Upgrade Your Skills, Advance Your Career
    South launches a four-course plus internship program to help certificate candidates learn how to teach English abroad. ...
  • Ardent supporters of education and engineering, Drs. John and Sally Steadman hop their $3.8 million gift to South's College of Education helps generations of future engineering students pursue their dreams.
    Longtime educators Drs. John and Sally Steadman pledge a $3.8 million gift to South's College of Engineering to benefit students and faculty. ...
  • An underwater camera on a remote operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico captured this school of greater amberjack near a pyramid deployed by the State of Alabama to provide fish habitat.
    South leads a 'Dream Team' of Gulf Coast researchers in an $11.7 million greater amberjack study that could have significant implications for commercial and recreational fishing. ...
  • South's Macario Kelley has been named a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board scholar. He is one of 253 students from U.S. colleges and universities to receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
    Macario Kelley lands a $10,000 scholarship from Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for the 2021-2022 academic year. ...
  • Mollie Wade, outside Children's of Alabama where she got a job as a nurse, is starting her career on the night shift. “I think I’ve always been a night owl,” she says. “It’s kind of my place.”
    Mollie Wade, a graduate of South's Honors College, is bringing her education and a new set of sneakers to her nursing job at Children's of Alabama. #MyFirstJob ...
  • Dr. Danny McCarty, an assistant professor in the department of counseling and instructional sciences, article, titled “Experiential Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reflective Process,” is now the third most-read article ever published in the Journal of Constructivist Psychology.
    South assistant professor Danny McCarty's recent article is the third most-read article ever published in the Journal of Constructivist Psychology. ...
  • 91ÌÒÉ« students, from left, Liz Seiler, Ian Singley and De’Asia Aaron each earned a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships offer South students an introduction to academic analysis and communication. There's also a $2,000 stipend. ...
  • Dr. Jeremiah Henning, assistant professor of biology, will study how nutrient addition and disturbance events such as hurricanes alter plant communities and how ecosystems function. The research could have important implications for coastal areas, such as Dauphin Island, where Henning will conduct some of his research.
    Fertilizer may increase plant size or make your grass greener this summer, but possibly at the cost of biological diversity, according to a study co-authored by a South professor. ...
  • The College of Nursing EMPOWER Project Director, Dr. Shanda Scott, assistant professor and director of diversity, equity and inclusion was part of a a team that secured a $1.9 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support the advancement of diversity in the nursing field.
    The grant will fund a new initiative known as the EMPOWER project advancing 91ÌÒÉ«'s goal of educating a more diverse nursing workforce. ...
  • Representatives from the 91ÌÒÉ« and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College announced Friday an initiative that will expand access for MGCCC students to enter South's Early Acceptance Program for nursing.
    Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College nursing students can get a jump start on earning their bachelor's degree, saving both time and money. ...
  • Darcey D’Amato recently took a job as a systems engineer in the aerospace division at Boeing. Her advice to students preparing for a job search: “I tell everybody: Go to conferences. Go to career fairs. Talk to recruiters.”
    Satellite projects at South helped an engineering graduate land an internship with the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and a position with Boeing in Seattle. #MyFirstJob ...
  • The 91ÌÒÉ« Archaeology Museum on the main campus in the Alfred and Lucile Delchamps Archaeology Building will reopen its doors to the general public starting Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
    Alfred and Lucile Delchamps Archaeology Building will reopen its doors to the general public starting Tuesday, July 13, 2021. ...
  • Dr. Tony Waldrop with his wife Dr. Julee Waldrop at the president's house near the 91ÌÒÉ«. Waldrop stepped down as president after a seven-year tenure that marked a pivotal time in South's history.
    Increasing retention and graduation rates. An expanding healthcare footprint. The opening of Hancock Whitney Stadium. The tenure of retired President Tony Waldrop marks a pivotal time in South's history. ...
  • Merritt McCall's duties with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources include building, seeding and monitoring oyster beds in state waters. she recently earned her master's degree in marine science from the 91ÌÒÉ«.
    Marine scientist Merritt McCall turns her experience at South and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab into a fisheries job with the state of Mississippi. #MyFirstJob ...
  • Dr. John McCreadie, 91ÌÒÉ« professor of biology leads a project to produce a detailed understanding of both tick and tick-borne disease distribution in Alabama.
    South's program is awarded a $75,000 grant from the State of Alabama to study the prevalence of ticks and tick-borne diseases. ...
  • Taylor Dicker, a graduate of the 91ÌÒÉ« School of Computing, moved from an internship to fulltime employment and now works from home, which he says fits his style. At his job at TruBridge, Dicker is getting a diversity of experience.
    Taylor Dicker, who was named outstanding undergraduate in the School of Computing, begins his career as a system administrator. One of his secrets? 'I was always the one with my hand up.' #MyFirstJob ...
  • South Alabama is one of 40 institutions named to the inaugural cohort for the IIE American Passport Project grant, with a goal of promoting diversity, inclusion, access and equity in study abroad opportunities.
    The grant will enable 25 91ÌÒÉ« students to obtain a U.S. passport and support their study abroad journeys. ...
  • Rebecca Culberson, a senior international studies major at South Alabama, is the recipient of the 2021 Gilman Scholarship.
    The 91ÌÒÉ« announces senior Rebecca Culberson as a 2021 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipient. ...
  • Journalist and best-selling author Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed will be the 91ÌÒÉ«’s Common Read/Common World book selection for 2021-22.
    The Common Read program is for all South students, especially freshman, as well as faculty, staff and the Mobile community. ...
  • The AT&T Foundation donates $25,000 for the AT&T Aspiring Leaders in Information Technology scholarships. From left; Margaret M. Sullivan, V.P. Development & Alumni Relations; Lori Harris, development officer, School of Computing; Glyn Agnew, regional director, AT&T Alabama; Angela Clark, chair, department of Information Systems & Technology; Dr. Alec Yasinsac, dean, School of Computing; Melissa Smith, senior instructor & recruiting coordinator, department of Information Systems & Technology.
    AT&T Foundation makes a generous contribution supporting the 91ÌÒÉ«'s aspiring leaders in information technology. ...
  • Broderick Morrissette was a graduate assistant in the 91ÌÒÉ« Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, where he has started as its first Campus to Career coordinator.
    Broderick Morrissette was inspired by his grandmother. Two degrees later, he's helping others achieve their goals as South's Campus to Career coordinator. #MyFirstJob ...
  • South looks to remain on the cutting edge as it becomes one of only a handful of academic institutions to offer a true business analytics concentration in its Ph.D. program.
    South's Mitchell College of Business adds a business analytics concentration to its Business Administration Ph.D. program. ...
  • Katelyn Cowie said an entry level accounting course, along with an internship at Horton, Lee, Burnett, Peacock, Cleveland and Grainger, helped launch the course of her professional career.
    After four years at South, where she ran cross country, worked as a tutor and ambitiously pursued what became an eventful internship, Katelyn Cowie begins a career in accounting. #MyFirstJob ...
  • Angelo Bautista, a 2009 graduate of the 91ÌÒÉ« College of Nursing, gives a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year in the Skid Row community of Los Angles. Skid Row is home to thousands of people who either live on the streets or in shelters for the homeless. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images.
    Angelo Bautista, a 2009 South graduate, worked as a nurse while training to become an airline pilot. During the coronavirus pandemic, he helped vaccinate homeless people on Los Angeles' Skid Row. ...
  • From L-R; Haley Borin, Tuyishimire Neza David, 91ÌÒÉ« students Mason Redmond and Catie Martin on a church mission in Gahara, Rwanda in June 2019.
    A dozen recent South graduates devoted more than 100 hours of community service each through 91ÌÒÉ«'s South Serves program. ...