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John Mark Lawler discovered the joy of “making something out of nothing” as a young boy helping his father with projects in his woodshop.

Lawler, a professor in The University of Southern Mississippi’s Department of Art and Design, is teaching an art photography class in London this summer in the university’s British Studies Program, where he’s also taking stock of how far he’s come from the creative exploits of his youth  in that workshop to sharing that passion with students, while also seeing his digital collage piece “Compassion” on display as part of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

A grant made possible through the Asbury Foundation Distinguished Professor in Nursing fund is helping University of Southern Mississippi nursing faculty and students provide healthcare to an under-served area of Hattiesburg.

Hollywood screenwriter and Mississippi native David Sheffield, who happens to be working on a sequel to the 1988 hit film “Coming to America,” is the featured guest on Conversations airing at 5:30 p.m. June 24 and 10 p.m. June 28 on MPB Television.

The University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Child Development (CCD) helps low-income parents meet their goal of securing a postsecondary education with the provision of campus-based child care services via a CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents In School) project grant through the U.S. Department of Education.

Grant funding provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) has enabled The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to develop and complete two distinctive competitions designed to help companies with promising dual-technologies.

“I love that our clinicians are always looking for ways to better themselves, expand their knowledge in their field, and find new ways to treat the little ones in their care,” said Sarah Case-Price, director of The Children’s Center for Communication and Development at The University of Southern Mississippi. And in this particular instance, Case-Price is referring to Dr. Courtney Turner, a Center audiologist.

Andrea Cunningham, the former Corporate & West Coast Security Operations Director for The Walt Disney Company and current Vice President of Security for NBC Universal, will be presented with the safety and security Champion of Change Award during the 2018 National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition on July 12-14 in Louisville, KY.

Youth and young adults completing high school, including young people with disabilities, have many decisions to make:  continuing their education, finding employment, deciding to live more independently.

The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) new project, Transition of Teens to Adult Life (ToTAL) Tech Training, should help to ease the employment decision for some young people with disabilities.

Dr. Leslie LaVergne has been named project director of the statewide Mississippi Family to Family Health Information and Education Center (MS F2F) at The University of Southern Mississippi Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) effective June 1.

The idea of living and studying overseas might seem a bit too foreign for many college students. But at The University of Southern Mississippi, study abroad programs remain a vibrant, popular option for students hoping to expand their academic and cultural horizons.

It takes more than one person to make a big impact in politics.

That’s the key lesson Leila de Gruy of Jackson has learned from being a delegate to the 2018 American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) of Mississippi’s Girls State, the 70th edition of the weeklong event where rising high school seniors come together to learning about the mechanics of federal, state and local government through simulated political campaigns, legislative and judicial processes, city and county governments in the fictitious state of “Magnolia.”