Arts and Sciences News Archive
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USA Supports the 2025 Mobile Jewish Film Festival
South will host the 2025 Mobile Jewish Film Festival from Jan. 12 through Jan. 30 at campuses in Mobile and Fairhope. ...
December 17, 2024 -
Jaguar Jingle All the Way
Musicians in the University of South Alabama Department of Music entertain at USA's annual Holiday Concert. ...
December 6, 2024 -
Drawing Attention
South animation artists are successfully competing in film competitions against other academic and professional submissions. ...
November 25, 2024 -
Five South Professors Recognized for Research
Drs. Todd McDonald, Alison Robertson, Troy Stevens, Bret Webb and Shenghua Wu are honored at 3rd annual Research & Technology Showcase. ...
October 30, 2024 -
Glass Pumpkin Patch Festival Set For Oct. 25
USA's glass art program will hold its 5th annual Glass Pumpkin Patch Festival on Oct. 25 at Marx Library. ...
October 8, 2024 -
USA Stallworth Lecture on Bankhead Family Dynasty
The speaker for the Jack Stallworth Lecture will be Dr. Kari Frederickson, professor of history at the University of Alabama. ...
October 8, 2024 -
USA Students Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship
Maura Hawkins and Milena Mata were recently awarded the nationally competitive Phi Kappa Phi scholarships to study abroad. ...
October 3, 2024 -
Medicine and Music
Noah Sugg, this year's Board of Trustees Scholar, arrived at South with a perfect 36 on the ACT, a 4.56 GPA and National Merit finalist status – along with a double bass, mellophone and French horn. ...
September 20, 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Kills and Thrills
Hannah Maddux, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees at South, made her debut as a professional indoor volleyball player with the Vegas Thrill. #MyFirstJob ...
June 28, 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 -
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 -
Gregoricka Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
USA anthropology professor Dr. Lesley Gregoricka will travel to the United Arab Emirates to examine prehistoric human skeletons. ...
May 14, 2024 -
USA Researchers Spot Great White Shark Off Alabama Coast
White sharks are rarely seen in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers named her Miss Pawla, in honor of South's mascot. ...
May 7, 2024 -
A Passion for Tarantulas
Biology major Jorjia Elmore's research on venomous animals is leading her to medical school. ...
April 30, 2024 -
Jaguar Senior Medallion Members Inducted
Twenty-four seniors were recognized for outstanding academic and leadership achievements, service and engagement, and Jaguar pride. ...
April 26, 2024 -
Dr. Matthew Pettway Named Fulbright Scholar
Pettway will teach and conduct research as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Brazil from August through December of this year. ...
April 24, 2024 -
Rachmaninoff and Research
A South engineering and music student wins a Goldwater Scholarship for his science research, while also performing at Carnegie Hall. ...
April 8, 2024