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Fierce Featherweights
Imagine being able to increase your muscle mass by 40% within a few weeks. Welcome to a migrating bird's life -- a research f ...
December 26, 2024 -
Passionflower Species Named in Honor of Late Biology Professor
University of South Alabama biology professor Dr. Brian Axsmith discovered a previously undescribed species of passionflower. Now ...
July 2, 2024 -
Public Outreach on the Upper Tensaw River
Joel Borden led a natural history tour of the Upper Tensaw River Nov 6th on the Blakeley Historic Park's Delta Explorer. The ...
November 23, 2021 -
Upcoming bird outreach events featuring Joel Borden
Upcoming bird outreach events featuring Biology faculty member Joel Borden. Joel will be participating in several events as part o ...
October 1, 2021 -
Skyler Magnus Kerr, Masters Student, Successfully Defends Thesis
Skyler Magnus Kerr, a Masters student in Biology at the University of South Alabama, successfully defended his thesis entitled &qu ...
July 16, 2021 -
Biology majors India Hughes and Chase Jordan awarded SURF funding
Two Biology Majors, India Hughes and Chase Jordan, were awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) to pursue researc ...
June 29, 2021 -
Venom complexity correlated with diet complexity in rattlesnakes - Strickland published in PNAS
Dr. Jason Strickland was part of a team of researchers that found that pitvipers that eat more diverse prey tend to have more dive ...
June 21, 2021 -
Biology outreach to 3rd, 4th and 5th graders at Mobile Botanical Gardens
Biology Department students and faculty participated in NatureBLAST at the Mobile Botanical Gardens. They talked to 3rd, 4th and 5 ...
June 15, 2021 -
Maggie Braun, a biology major, elected as SGA Treasurer
Biology major Maggie Braun was elected as the 2021-2022 Student Government Association (SGA) Treasurer. ...
June 7, 2021 -
Graduating Senior, Hannah Boling, awarded Biology Department Rawls Award
Hannah Boling was awarded the John M. Rawls Award as the most outstanding senior biology major in the Biology Department at South ...
May 27, 2021 -
Biology Scholarships Awarded to Five Students
Five students earned biology scholarships. Rachel Monk and Kelsey Carpenter earned the Dr. David Nelson Scholarship, Hazel Higginb ...
May 19, 2021 -
The State of Alabama Funds More Tick Research at South
Drs. McCreadie (Biology) and Rayner (Microbiology and Immunology) have received state funding ($ 75,000) to continue South's ...
April 14, 2021 -
Cade Smelley, B.S. Student, Earns Top Award at Conference
Cade Smelly recently brought home the top prize (President's Award) from the University of West Alabama's Annual Researc ...
March 17, 2021 -
M.S. Student, Dawn Canterbury, awarded grant for Gopher Tortoises
Dawn Canterbury was recently awarded a Walter F. Coxe Research Grant from the Alabama Audubon Society to support her Master's ...
March 8, 2021 -
Assistant Professor of Biology, Dr. Jason Strickland, published in PNAS
The University of South Alabama recently highlighted Dr. Jason L. Strickland and his contribution to a recent paper published in t ...
February 25, 2021 -
Remembering Mike Lelong
The Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas recently published an amazing obituary celebrating the life and legacy Mi ...
January 1, 2021 -
Robin Lloyd successfully defended his thesis
On Monday, October 12th, Robin Lloyd successfully defended his thesis entitled "Ecology and Persistence of the Gopher Tortois ...
October 12, 2020 -
Dr. Major highlighted in the Arts & Sciences Summer newsletter!
Dr. Kelly Major was recently highlighted in the University of South Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Summer newsletter. The ar ...
August 28, 2020 -
Prince and Russell awarded graduate research fellowships
Masters students Gabrielle Prince (Littlefield Lab) and Michael Russell (Littlefield Lab) each received a Graduate Research Schola ...
August 26, 2020 -
Welcome Tracy Stallings
We are excited to welcome Tracy Stallings to South as the new Biology Specialist with Alabama Science in Motion (ASIM), a subsidia ...
August 21, 2020 -
welcoming Dr Perez & Dr Strickland
The Biology Department is excited to welcome Dr. Jason Strickland and Dr. Jonathan Perez to the faculty of the Biology Department! ...
August 15, 2020 -
Skyler Kerr publishes a paper JAMCA
Masters' student Skyler Kerr (McCreadie lab) and colleagues from the University of Georgia published a paper in the Journal o ...
August 1, 2020 -
USA spotlights recent research by Dr. Henning
USA spotlights recent work published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biology by Dr. Jeremiah Henning and colleagues fro ...
July 1, 2020 -
Two tenure-track openings in the Biology dept
The Department of Biology at the University of South Alabama seeks applications for two full-time (9-month), tenure-track Assistan ...
July 1, 2020 -
Remembering Professor Axsmith
The passage of time has not made the passing of Professor Brian Axsmith any easier. As a department, as a university, and as a com ...
June 1, 2020 -
Senior Biology students presented research at American Society for Microbiology meeting
Senior biology major Caroline Jordan and recent biology graduate Lisa Leatherwood ...
February 25, 2020 -
Biology alum Molly Miller awarded Outstanding Dissertation award
Biology alum Molly Miller (BS 2006, MS 2010) awarded Outstanding Dissertation award at the University of South Alabama for her PhD ...
January 9, 2020 -
Student identity drives perceptions of active learning pedagogies
New paper out of the Henning lab shows that facets of student identity are important drivers in how students perceive active learn ...
December 1, 2019 -
South Biology alum award NSF Career Grant
South Alum Svjetlana (Lana) Vojvodic (M.Sc. 2006, McCreadie Lab) was recently awarded a prestigious NSF Career Grant. Dr Vojvodic ...
November 22, 2019 -
Robin Lloyd awarded Graduate Research Award by Gopher Tortoise Council
Robin Lloyd (Chupp lab) awarded $1000 research award by the Gopher Tortoise Council at their annual meeting last weekend in Gulf S ...
November 18, 2019 -
Biology faculty well represented at Mortar Board Society 'Top Prof' Dinner
Biology faculty well represented at the Sally Steadman Azalea Chapter of the Mortar Board Society 'Top Prof' Dinner. Top ...
November 18, 2019 -
Robin Lloyd presented at CERF conference
Robin Lloyd (Chupp Lab) is hitting the conference circuit hard and presented some of his ongoing gopher tortoise research at the B ...
November 8, 2019 -
Dr. Adam Chupp presented at CERF
Dr. Adam Chupp presented some ongoing research exploring the cascading effects of invasive plant pathogens can have on swallowtail ...
November 5, 2019 -
Robin Lloyd presented ongoing gopher tortoise work at ALAPARC
Robin Lloyd (Chupp Lab) presented some ongoing thesis work on gopher tortoises at the ALAPARC (Alabama Chapter of Partners in Amph ...
November 3, 2019 -
Kroetz lab well represented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Rohit Kukumala, Timmy Nguyen, Abigail Stallings and Joshua Penninger presented their research conducted in the Kroetz lab at the U ...
November 1, 2019 -
Rare microbiome bacteria drive plant morphology and function
New work out of the Henning lab in the American Journal of Botany demonstrates that microbes that live within plant tissues, i.e. ...
October 29, 2019 -
Cody Horton awarded prize at the 5th Annual Florida Worm meeting
Cody Horton was awarded runner-up and a monetary prize in the undergrad category for the posters at the 5th Annual Florida Worm me ...
May 19, 2019 -
Shirley Zhang Attends NCUR Conference
One of our honors students, Shirley Zhang, traveled to Memphis to make a presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate ...
April 19, 2017 -
Brian Axsmith give presentation at The Birmingham Botanical Gardens on June 18
On Saturday, June 18 from 12:30-4:30 p.m., University of South Alabama professor Brian Axsmith will take students inside the fores ...
June 9, 2016 -
Trenton "Kaine" O'Neal named 1st Runner Up in 3-Minute Thesis
Trenton "Kaine" O'Neal, a graduate student in Biology, took the USA Graduate Research Forum's 3-Minute Thesis ...
May 26, 2016 -
2016 Rawls Award
This year's Rawls Award for Outstanding Senior went to Ravi Rajendra. He has had quite a busy and productive time during his ...
May 19, 2016