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Student identity drives perceptions of active learning pedagogies
December 1, 2019

New paper out of the Henning lab shows that facets of student identity are important drivers in how students perceive active learn ...

South Biology alum award NSF Career Grant
November 22, 2019

South Alum Svjetlana (Lana) Vojvodic (M.Sc. 2006, McCreadie Lab) was recently awarded a prestigious NSF Career Grant. Dr Vojvodic ...

Biology faculty well represented at Mortar Board Society 'Top Prof' Dinner
November 18, 2019

Biology faculty well represented at the Sally Steadman Azalea Chapter of the Mortar Board Society 'Top Prof' Dinner. Top Profs fro ...

Robin Lloyd awarded Graduate Research Award by Gopher Tortoise Council
November 18, 2019

Robin Lloyd (Chupp lab) awarded $1000 research award by the Gopher Tortoise Council at their annual meeting last weekend in Gulf S ...

Robin Lloyd presented at CERF conference
November 8, 2019

Robin Lloyd (Chupp Lab) is hitting the conference circuit hard and presented some of his ongoing gopher tortoise research at the B ...

Dr. Adam Chupp presented at CERF
November 5, 2019

Dr. Adam Chupp presented some ongoing research exploring the cascading effects of invasive plant pathogens can have on swallowtail ...

Robin Lloyd presented ongoing gopher tortoise work at ALAPARC
November 3, 2019

Robin Lloyd (Chupp Lab) presented some ongoing thesis work on gopher tortoises at the ALAPARC (Alabama Chapter of Partners in Amph ...

Kroetz lab well represented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
November 1, 2019

Rohit Kukumala, Timmy Nguyen, Abigail Stallings and Joshua Penninger presented their research conducted in the Kroetz lab at the U ...

Rare microbiome bacteria drive plant morphology and function
October 29, 2019

New work out of the Henning lab in the American Journal of Botany demonstrates that microbes that live within plant tissues, i.e. ...

Cody Horton awarded prize at the 5th Annual Florida Worm meeting
May 19, 2019

Cody Horton was awarded runner-up and a monetary prize in the undergrad category for the posters at the 5th Annual Florida Worm me ...

Shirley Zhang Attends NCUR Conference
April 19, 2017

One of our honors students, Shirley Zhang, traveled to Memphis to make a presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate ...

Brian Axsmith give presentation at The Birmingham Botanical Gardens on June 18
June 9, 2016

On Saturday, June 18 from 12:30-4:30 p.m., University of South Alabama professor Brian Axsmith will take students inside the fores ...

Trenton "Kaine" O'Neal named 1st Runner Up in 3-Minute Thesis
May 26, 2016

Trenton "Kaine" O'Neal, a graduate student in Biology, took the USA Graduate Research Forum's 3-Minute Thesis "1st Runner Up" and ...

2016 Rawls Award
May 19, 2016

This year's Rawls Award for Outstanding Senior went to Ravi Rajendra. He has had quite a busy and productive time during his time ...