USA News Archives
The USA Office of Marketing and Communications has provided the following press releases
for use by media outlets. For assistance, contact Lance Crawford, Director of Media Relations.
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The gift is the largest from an individual for the facility that will allow the University to graduate more physicians and enhance ... -
USA Receives $2.5 Million EPA Grant
September 9, 2024The Gulf Coast Environmental Equity Center will fund projects focused on improving water quality and reducing pollution. ... -
Enrollment Grows for Second Consecutive Year
September 9, 2024More students than ever are living on campus as enrollment at the University of South Alabama tops 14,000. ... -
Paper Trail
September 6, 2024A mechanical engineering graduate starts his career at an International Paper mill in Bogalusa, Louisiana. #MyFirstJob ... -
South Creates Office of Military Services
September 3, 2024The expansion of support for active-duty members of the U.S. military, their dependents and veterans will be led by David Blair, a ... -
School of Computing Alumni Connect at Summer DOE Internship
August 30, 2024USA doctoral student Tristan Clark and Dr. Tristen Mullins worked together over the summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ... -
A View to the Future
August 29, 2024Finance major Gabriel Kucala turns a summer internship into an extended stay, then a full-time job with Airbus on the 26th floor o ... -
South's Collegiate 100 chapter recently placed second for their research presentation at the 100 Black Men of America's ... -
James Named College of Engineering Dean
August 26, 2024Dr. Darryl James will lead South's College of Engineering after serving more than 30 years at Texas Tech University. His focu ... -
Engineering Honor Society Recognizes USA's Dr. John Steadman
August 23, 2024The Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society names Dr. John Steadman its 2024 Distinguished Alumnus Award winner. ... -
Pence Wins National Poetry Fellowship
August 21, 2024Charlotte Pence, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American ... -
Exhibit Brings Substance Use Disorder into the Light
August 21, 2024USA is collaborating with the INTO LIGHT Project to host the exhibition, "Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories," Th ... -
Code Mode
August 20, 2024After learning software development at South, this information systems graduate landed a job with an international consulting firm ... -
Leading Role
August 16, 2024Students in South's Honors College kick off the semester early with a retreat. It's a tight-knit group whose members enr ... -
South Alumna Receives Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
August 16, 2024South mechanical engineering graduate, Julia Nelson has been selected as a 2024 Phi Kappa Phi recipient. ... -
USA Receives $1 Million Grant to Create Semiconductor Package
August 16, 2024National Science Foundation grant will be used to create and develop a semiconductor course package within the College of Engineer ... -
Student Success Summit Features Engaging and Empowering Sessions
August 14, 2024The Student Success Summit at South connects students with university resources while fostering relationships among students, facu ... -
Launching a Career
August 13, 2024After restarting the student rocket program at South, an engineering graduate lands a job with a missile defense firm in Huntsvill ... -
Archaeology Open House Showcases the Dig
August 6, 2024South's Center for Archaeological Studies holds summer open house for students, faculty and staff to see what happens after t ... -
First Impression
August 5, 2024Mackenzie Endres had no idea that a casual phone conversation would lead to part-time work and, eventually, her first full-time jo ... -
Students and faculty from South's history department will help create a community public history project for Africatown. ... -
South Launches New Faculty Ambassador Program
July 30, 2024Dr. Bhushan Lohar, an assistant professor of systems engineering, is one of several faculty members promoting global engagement an ... -
Casting A Wider Net
July 29, 2024A $3 million award will expand the South Alabama Mesonet system across more than a third of the state and help provide timely warn ... -
Weather Expert to Speak at USA by the Bay in August
July 24, 2024Dr. Sytske Kimball will speak at the USA by the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series Aug. 8, at the Baldwin County campus in Fairhope. ... -
Davis Named Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
July 23, 2024USA Associate Professor Dr. Wesley Davis to be inducted into the 2024 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. ... -
'Fishmas' in July
July 23, 2024For 35 years, South's marine science students have looked forward to the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. ... -
Future of the Field
July 22, 2024South's Nicholas Sheppard has been selected to the Society of Research Administrators International's Future of the Fiel ... -
Dr. Amy R. Nelson, assistant professor of physiology and cell biology, accepted the award in Columbia, South Carolina ... -
Tuned In
July 17, 2024Speech pathology graduate Caroline Locke turns her South degrees and pediatric training into a position in rehabilitation services ... -
USA Hosts Traumatic Brain Injury Camp
July 10, 2024USA recently partnered with the Alabama Head Injury Foundation for a three-day camp for survivors and families dealing with life-a ... -
Dr. Edmund Spencer and Mohamed Shaban hope to be able to predict solar substorms with the help of artificial intelligence. ... -
Picking Up the Pace
July 8, 2024A full-time day shift in the emergency department at USA Health University Hospital keeps nursing graduate Luke Thomas's adre ... -
Dr. Brian Axsmith, who passed away in 2020, is honored with the naming of a previously undescribed species of passionflower he dis ... -
The first year head coach highlights the USA by the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series Thursday, July 11, 2024. ... -
Kills and Thrills
June 28, 2024Hannah Maddux, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees at South, made her debut as a professional indoor volleyball p ... -
U.S. Senate and House Commend South on 60th Anniversary
June 18, 2024Alabama's Congressional delegation recently supported resolutions highlighting the University's 60th anniversary. ... -
Sending Sentinels Into the Storm
June 14, 2024As the hurricane season begins, South's Dr. Bret Webb is part of a research effort that, for the first time, is gathering det ... -
Keeping Up with Demand
June 7, 2024The Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences gets an $8 million expansion to meet surging undergraduate enrollment. ... -
South Announces First Endowed Deanship
June 7, 2024Dr. Michael Capella is the Abraham A. Mitchell Endowed Dean, the first of its kind at the University, in the Mitchell College of B ... -
Three South professors' paper on major issues facing the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta is published by prestigious journal Scienc ... -
Only Scratching the Surface
May 31, 2024An anthropology class gets a peek into the past during an archaeological dig in a student's backyard. ... -
South Creates 'Growing Up Down the Bay' Exhibit
May 21, 2024The exhibit depicts what life was like for children growing up in the "Down the Bay" neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s ... -
Seven students received awards to study abroad beginning this summer. ... -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology grants will allow for the development of learning modules, curriculum and textb ... -
Gregoricka Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
May 14, 2024USA anthropology professor Dr. Lesley Gregoricka will travel to the United Arab Emirates to examine prehistoric human skeletons. ... -
White sharks are rarely seen in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers named her Miss Pawla, in honor of South's mascot. ... -
A Feat of Engineering ... and Design
May 6, 2024Lawrence Stoudemire went vertical with his elaborately decorated mortar board ... -
'Nobody Knows How to Rally Like a Jaguar'
May 4, 2024Commencement was a first for students whose high school graduations were upended amid the COVID pandemic. ... -
College of Engineering students seize on the opportunity to work with the City of Mobile for their senior design project. ... -
A Passion for Tarantulas
April 30, 2024Biology major Jorjia Elmore's research on venomous animals is leading her to medical school. ...