South Magazine

Message from the Mac

As spring turns to summer and another academic year comes to a close, we find ourselves reflecting with gratitude on all that our vibrant University of South Alabama community has accomplished.

Portraits of Distinction

Presented here: the administrators, healthcare heroes, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and public servants who deserve the highest of accolades.

Coffee Gold

Joy in Sound and Motion

Dr. Heidi Lyn, a psychology professor at South, travels in the wake of dolphins — to Bermuda, the Florida Keys and the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi — where she studies their emotions as they interact with people and with each other.

Let's Have Class Outside

If all goes according to plan, by fall 2025, students at the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences will study at an outdoor classroom built over a Aloe Bay, just west of the Dauphin Island Causeway.

Timber Makes a Nice Foundation

South students get opportunities to learn from first-rate teachers and researchers, and USA Health patients benefit from highly skilled care providers and state-of-the-art equipment — with a big assist from the University of South Alabama Foundation.

Mobile in Bloom

My grandpa, Dr. Eugene “Gene” John Aromi Jr., was many things: A World War II veteran. An education professor at the University of South Alabama. An artist. But he is best known by one title: azalea hybridizer.

Drawing Patients to Healing

Data Driven

Cutting-edge technology is transforming athletic training at South. Coaches and players are using tools like radar systems, motion sensors and data analytics to enhance performance, track progress and prevent injury.

Commencing a New Era

A new facility rises downtown after the demolition of the old Mobile Civic Center, site of South's early graduation ceremonies and basketball games.

Mobile Unearthed

Spanning the history of Mobile Bay, the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project is the largest undertaking the USA Center for Archaeological Studies has ever conducted.

The Wandering Globe