Research News Archive
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New Host For Hospitality
Dr. Khaldoon Nusair, an internationally recognized marketing scholar, looks to niche opportunities in the market as the new chair of Hospitality and Tourism Management. ...
January 19, 2023 -
Health Myths, Health Risks
South researchers will study links between social media and vaccine misinformation in African American communities. ...
December 14, 2022 -
South Vice President Named National Council on Research Chair
The Council on Research for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities named Lynne Chronister as its chair. ...
December 14, 2022 -
Wanted: Gulf Scholars
A new research program at South will select students from diverse academic disciplines for community and environmental projects. ...
December 13, 2022 -
Poster Students
At the 24th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, South students shared their projects on everything from hermit crabs to Big Data and pulmonary hypertension. ...
November 10, 2022 -
On Track For Success
Former South student and track star awarded Zymo Research Impact Initiative grant for her work in environmental toxicology. ...
September 12, 2022 -
South Leads Initiative to Curb Youth Violence
University researchers will collaborate with the Mobile Police Department and Mobile County Public Schools on a five-year, $3.5 million project focused on reducing death, injury and incarceration. ...
July 27, 2022 -
Future of the Field in Research
Dr. Matthew Reichert and Heather Wainwright earn global honors by the Society of Research Administrators International. ...
July 19, 2022 -
JagSat-isfaction
South engineering students and faculty cheer the Florida launch of a SpaceX rocket carrying their JagSat-1 satellite that will transmit data back to Shelby Hall. “We’re in orbit!” ...
July 15, 2022 -
Marine Sciences Professor Wins $3.1 Million Water Quality Grant
Dr. John Lehrter and the University of South Alabama School of Marine and Environmental Sciences will lead the three-year study of water and sediment quality along Alabama' s Gulf Coast. ...
July 11, 2022 -
Greater Amberjack Count
USA professor is leading a federally funded project that could have significant implications for commercial and recreational fishing. ...
June 28, 2022 -
Math Researcher Awarded NSF Grant
Dr. Michael DiPasquale, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, received a $197,000 grant to support research in computational commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. ...
April 27, 2022 -
'How Do We Make Vaccines Manly?'
South psychologist Dr. Ryon McDermott leads a national study of the relationship between traditional men's roles and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines. ...
April 27, 2022 -
Cutting Carbon Emissions
Dr. Jim Davis and Dr. Kevin West are leading a research team that is developing carbon capture technology using ionic liquids. ...
April 26, 2022 -
Big Dig
The USA Center for Archaeological Studies unearths the past to make way for a bridge linking Alabama's two coastal counties. Its archaeologists and anthropologists are joined by South researchers, academics and students from a cross section of d ...
April 21, 2022 -
Majors Added in Marine Sciences, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
The two new undergraduate degrees in the School of Marine and Environmental Sciences complement the school's existing programs in research and graduate education. ...
March 25, 2022 -
$60 Million Earmarked for College of Medicine Building
The appropriation from U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby will help fund construction, which will include a new addition and an extensive renovation of the 1974 existing structure. ...
March 14, 2022 -
Design, Build, Fly
South mechanical engineering students look forward to flying, landing and unloading a remote-controlled plane they designed and built for an international competition in Kansas. ...
March 10, 2022 -
'Good Jobs and Bad Jobs'
Dr. Kenneth Hudson, an associate professor of sociology and social work at South, studies the dual labor market, income inequality and their implications for society. ...
February 9, 2022 -
Studies in Social Justice
Kim Pusey chose South for graduate school because of an opportunity to work with at-risk youths. She now plans for it to be her career. ...
January 24, 2022 -
Meet Jo Bonner
The former congressman brings political experience and a personal touch to his role as the fourth president of the University of South Alabama. ...
January 10, 2022 -
USA's Chambers Named to Alabama Innovation Corporation Board
The Commission's goal is to develop forward-thinking policy recommendations and ideas to create a more robust, inclusive economy. ...
December 15, 2021 -
Tied Up In Knots
Dr. Christine Ruey Shan Lee is using a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue her research in knot theory. She also works with middle school students in the Girls Who Code organization. ...
December 7, 2021 -
Long Known to Snails, New Snake Species ID'd
A South researcher and his undergraduate research assistant, along with a team of researchers in Mexico, identify two unique snail-sucking species. ...
December 7, 2021 -
A World of Good
Fellowships from Harvard University Press and the Institute for Advanced Study help Dr. Samuel Baker spend a sabbatical writing a book about truth in the ethics of Aristotle. ...
December 7, 2021