University of Southern Mississippi News

A good fit for the leader of Alcorn State University is different than a good fit for Mississippi University for Women, and neither of those would be the same good fit for Jackson State University.

It's akin to winning an Oscar in the culinary world, and University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history Andrew Haley lays claim to one for his latest book on how the middle class secured their place at the dinner table, so to speak.

We reported in October that the University of Southern Mississippi had requested $10 million in state bonds from the Legislature for its new $31 million nursing building project.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Joseph Knight of Hattiesburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Lori Allison, to James Andrew Crocker, son of Ms.

During a recent Ocean Springs Board of Aldermen meeting, some board members bemoaned the condition of the plants, describing U.S. 90 as the gateway to the city.

It's a bird, it's a plant, it's Super Flower! Picture a flock of exotic parrots twisting their... University of Southern Mississippi professor Marge Crowe knows how to get the attention of her students.

University of Southern Mississippi students study for exams at Java Werks on Hardy Street in this file photo.

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program has honored two University of Southern Mississippi students, providing one with funding for graduate study and another with recognition of her outstanding academic achievements.

It sounds like something out of a Grade Z sci-fi flick, but a new genre of plastics that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts might just allow for self-repairing surfaces on some of the world's most commonly damaged consumer goods.

Toronto, Canada, May 23, 2012 - Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the successful completion of field trials for the new airborne Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar system.

The annual American Legion Boys State will be held Sunday-June 2 on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi.

For more information about the University of Southern Mississippi's Southern Arena Theatre , contact the Southern Miss theater department at www.usm.edu/theatre or call 266-4994. Performances be in the Gilbert F. Hartwig and Martha R. Tatum theaters in the Theatre and Dance Building.

Authorities say a University of Southern Mississippi secretary has been arrested in connection with the 2007 fatal shooting of her husband in California.

Long hours in the laboratory have paid off significantly for University of Southern Mississippi student Souvik Banerjee, who has been selected to present a paper as part of the prestigious American Chemical Society, Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium on July 26-29 in Boulder, Colo.

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Lee was an educator from the late 1950s through the late 1970s, and also a football coach at several schools.

With the recent departure of Dr. Martha Saunders as the University of Southern Mississippi's president, there are many unanswered questions.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- It's admittedly tedious work, but two University of Southern Mississippi history professors are about to spend long hours in libraries across the state combing through every antebellum newspaper they can find.

I feel sorry for Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy Hyde-Smith. She will soon reap what she sows when all of the feral cats move in to replace the stable colony that she has destroyed at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson.

North Carolina's governor took a shot at Mississippi last week on the heels of what she saw as an... Janis Jordan is the founder and owner of BK2NatuR Handmade Soaps & Crafts.