USA Research Grant To Fund STEMM For High Schoolers

The University of South Alabama’s (USA) Center for Healthy Communities has received an award of nearly $1 million from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide high school students with opportunities to learn and apply science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) in the examination of environmental hazards and their effects on the health and resilience of communities along the Gulf Coast. The STEMM Scholars for Environmental Justice program will include both classroom-based learning activities and mentored projects for students who are part of the Mobile County Public School System, Alabama School of Math & Science and Accel Academy. It will offer an in-person and online curriculum, exposure to experts and mentored student-led hands-on projects. Its leaders will be Dr. Ashley Williams Hogue, a trauma surgeon and assistant professor of surgery, and Dr. Steven Scyphers, an associate professor of marine and environmental sciences and director of the Center for Socio-Environmental Resiliency, both at USA.