Articles in "Academics"

The University of Southern Mississippi’s online child development undergraduate degree program has received a No. 4 national ranking from noted education resource guide BestValueSchools.com.

The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business has made “dressing for success” a little easier for recent graduates with the presentation of new business suits.

For Ethan Taylor, life is about to come full circle. Taylor recently received a $26,000 Annual Academic Excellence Scholarship from The University of Southern Mississippi, where he will be studying sports broadcasting in the fall.

But this won’t be his first time to attend USM. In fact, Taylor is already an alumnus.

Fifteen students from the DuBard School for Language Disorders at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) are returning to their local school districts next year. The advancing students were recognized at a special awards celebration held May 18 at the Hattiesburg campus.

Saxophonists and music enthusiasts from across the country will gather in Hattiesburg again this summer to study with two acclaimed saxophonists, Patrick Meghian, professor emeritus of music at Florida State University, and University of Southern Mississippi Professor Dr. Lawrence Gwozdz.

Had she been a little older in the late 1960s, Dr. Susan Hrostowski’s father once mused, she may have marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifty years later, the associate professor in The University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work is finally getting a chance with the reincarnation of one of King’s signature movements, the Poor People’s Campaign.

Hattiesburg Mayor Toby Barker read from a special proclamation at The University of Southern Mississippi earlier today, declaring May as Speech and Hearing Month in the city. May is also designated as National Speech and Hearing Month.

As a 54-year-old “nontraditional” student, Brian Henrie has become a father figure to the 14 students in his social work cohort at The University of Southern Mississippi.

Within his own family, though, he’s just trying to keep up with his daughter, Sam – and ahead of his granddaughter, Hayley.

Approximately 400 audiologists and speech-language pathologists from across the state gathered for the Mississippi Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Continuing Education Conference last month in Natchez, Miss.

Social work students at The University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park campus raised $500 for the Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence during a special promotion that included a mini-makeover for several male faculty, students and administrators.

Amy Ellefson, a University of Southern Mississippi doctoral candidate in communication studies, has been selected as one of just two participants in the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 2018-19 inaugural Visiting Fellows Program for Communication and Media Research (VFP) at the Communication University of China (CUC) in Beijing.

The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences' Doctor of Audiology program at The University of Southern Mississippi presented white coats to seven students during its annual ceremony held April 14^th in the Thad Cochran Center on the Hattiesburg campus.