University of South alabama
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Gulf of Mexico Disaster Preparedness Response Center, Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and University of South Alabama Center of Disaster Healthcare Preparedness are hosting Building Risk Communication Skills on September 10 at 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The location is the NOAA center at 7344 Zeigler Blvd. in Mobile.…
Dr. Amy R. Nelson, an assistant professor of physiology and cell biology at the University of South Alabama (USA) Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, recently received a $300,000 grant from the Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust. The award will support Nelson’s lab to begin a new pilot study on a highly understudied protein known…
Through a partnership with USA Health University Hospital and the Mobile County Health Department (MCHD), the City of Mobile will establish its first Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP). Modeled after successful HVIPs in other parts of the country, this initiative will help combat cycles of violent crime and retaliation by engaging crime victims as they…
USA Health has expanded its sports medicine services with the opening of a new location on the campus of USA Health Providence Hospital in West Mobile. Orthopedic and sports medicine specialists are now seeing patients on the second floor of Building A101 at 6701 Airport Boulevard. This will be the primary location for USA Health…
Dr. Aishwarya Prakash has been named recipient of the 2024 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Samuel H. Wilson Award for Studies on DNA Repair. An associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and pharmacology at the Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA), Prakash was chosen from among applications submitted…
The University of South Alabama (USA) has been selected as a clinical site for a national research study on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, called diverse vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has commissioned a scientific team…
The University of South Alabama (USA) has opened its $8-million, 13,000-ft2 expansion on the first floor in the Educational Outreach Building of its Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences. The expansion was to accommodate student growth. It added additional areas for teaching, research and student study and included an advanced environmental analytical laboratory for…
Dr. Bassam Bassam, a professor of neurology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama (USA) and a neuromuscular neurologist at USA Health, has received another top award that recognizes his commitment and service as an educator. He was presented the 2024 A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award by the…
University of South Alabama (USA) instructor Matthew Joseph Pettway, an associate professor of Spanish, has been selected as a 2024-2025 Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. Pettway will be one of more than 800 scholars to strive to…
Dr. Michael Chambers, associate vice president for research and economic development at the University of South Alabama (USA), has been named the university’s chief economic development officer. Chambers previously served as chair of the Mobile Chamber board. He serves or has served as a board member on the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Foundation, the…
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