Arts and Sciences News

Newly tagged during a public banding event at Fort Morgan in Baldwin County, Alabama, a white-eyed vireo impatiently awaits release to continue its fall migration.

Fierce Featherweights
December 26, 2024

Imagine being able to increase your muscle mass by 40% within a few weeks. Welcome to a migrating bird's life, a focus of South biologist Dr. Jonathan Pérez's research. ...

USA Supports the 2025 Mobile Jewish Film Festival
December 17, 2024

South will host the 2025 Mobile Jewish Film Festival from Jan. 12 through Jan. 30 at campuses in Mobile and Fairhope. ...

Musicians perform at the University of South Alabama Holiday Concert.

Jaguar Jingle All the Way
December 6, 2024

Musicians in the University of South Alabama Department of Music entertain at USA's annual Holiday Concert. ...

Drawing Attention
November 25, 2024

South animation artists are successfully competing in film competitions against other academic and professional submissions. ...

Research & Technology Showcase honorees and special guests

Five South Professors Recognized for Research
October 30, 2024

Drs. Todd McDonald, Alison Robertson, Troy Stevens, Bret Webb and Shenghua Wu are honored at 3rd annual Research & Technology Showcase. ...

Glass Pumpkin Patch Festival Set For Oct. 25
October 8, 2024

USA's glass art program will hold its 5th annual Glass Pumpkin Patch Festival on Oct. 25 at Marx Library. ...

Dr. Kari Frederickson will be featured in the 2024 N. Jack Stallworth Lecture

USA Stallworth Lecture on Bankhead Family Dynasty
October 8, 2024

The speaker for the Jack Stallworth Lecture will be Dr. Kari Frederickson, professor of history at the University of Alabama. ...

USA students Maura Hawkins and Milena Mata

USA Students Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship
October 3, 2024

Maura Hawkins and Milena Mata were recently awarded the nationally competitive Phi Kappa Phi scholarships to study abroad. ...

Noah Sugg, the 2024-25 University of South Alabama Board of Trustees Scholar, on the Laidlaw stage with the double bass, French horn, and mellophone.

Medicine and Music
September 20, 2024

Noah Sugg, this year's Board of Trustees Scholar, arrived at South with a perfect 36 on the ACT, a 4.56 GPA and National Merit finalist status – along with a double bass, mellophone and French horn. ...

Pence Wins National Poetry Fellowship
August 21, 2024

Charlotte Pence, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. ...

Trinity Jenkins works in archaeology lab

Archaeology Open House Showcases the Dig
August 6, 2024

South's Center for Archaeological Studies holds summer open house for students, faculty and staff to see what happens after the dig. ...

Dr. David Messenger, archaeologist Alexandra Jones, Mobile County Training Alumni Member Bill Green and President Anderson Flen.

USA Faculty-Student Team to Support Community Public History Project
August 5, 2024

Students and faculty from South's history department will help create a community public history project for Africatown. ...

University of South Alabama Mesonet, Dr. Sytske Kimball

Casting A Wider Net
July 29, 2024

A $3 million award will expand the South Alabama Mesonet system across more than a third of the state and help provide timely warnings in advance of storms. ...

Dr. Sytske Kimball holds weather balloon

Weather Expert to Speak at USA by the Bay in August
July 24, 2024

Dr. Sytske Kimball will speak at the USA by the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series Aug. 8, at the Baldwin County campus in Fairhope. ...

University of South Alabama marine science students take fish samples at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo to study reproductive dynamics and basic life history.

'Fishmas' in July
July 23, 2024

For 35 years, South's marine science students have looked forward to the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. ...

Passionflower Species Named in Honor of Late Biology Professor
July 2, 2024

Dr. Brian Axsmith, who passed away in 2020, is honored with the naming of a previously undescribed species of passionflower he discovered. ...

Hannah Maddux, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of South Alabama, was drafted to the Vegas Thrill in the inaugural season of the new Pro Volleyball Federation. She plans eventually to go into sports broadcasting.

Kills and Thrills
June 28, 2024

Hannah Maddux, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees at South, made her debut as a professional indoor volleyball player with the Vegas Thrill. #MyFirstJob ...