Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Susan Gordon-Hickey
Dr. Susan Gordon-Hickey, dean of the Pat Capps Covey College of Allied Health Professions, has been elected to the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions’ Board of Directors.
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Dr. Joe F. Hair
Dr. Joe F. Hair, distinguished professor of marketing and director of the Mitchell College of Business Ph.D. program, was ranked in the top 100 of influential researchers across the globe.
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Dr. Jesse Ables
Dr. Jesse Ables, an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama’s School of Computing, has been awarded a $155,000 grant from the NSF to show exactly how and why AI determines its decisions.
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Coach Paul Brueske
Track and Field Coach Paul Brueske is the recipient of the Emerging Civil War Book Award for his book “Digging all Night and Fighting all Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign.”
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Dr. I-Heng (Ray) Wu
Dr. I-Heng Wu, an assistant professor of management in MCOB, has been named one of the 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants, a publication that covers business schools globally.
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Dr. Nicholas Stanley
University of South Alabama Assistant Professor of Audiology Dr. Nicholas Stanley has received a National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program award
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Dr. Kathy Thompson
Dr. Kathy Thompson, director of the Center for Innovation in Postsecondary Education, has secured a $2.7 million grant from the NSF over three years to promote access and success for diverse learners in STEM education.
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Dr. John Steadman
Dr. John W. Steadman, dean emeritus and professor of engineering at the University of South Alabama received Tau Beta Pi’s 2024 Asad M. Madni Distinguished Alumnus Award for his leadership in engineering and education.
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Charlotte Pence
Charlotte Pence, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama and the first Mobile Poet Laureate, recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
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Dr. Sytske Kimball
Dr. Sytske Kimball, Professor of Meteorology at USA, stands at one of the 26 South Alabama Mesonet stations she created. A new $3 million federal grant will add 20 more stations to expand coverage.
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Dr. Michael Capella
Dr. Michael Capella, who was appointed dean of the Mitchell College of Business Jan. 1, 2024, will serve as the Abraham A. Mitchell Endowed Dean.
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Dr. Lesley Gregoricka
Bioarchaeologist Dr. Lesley Gregoricka, professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2024-25.
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Dr. Matthew Pettway
Dr. Matthew Pettway, associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature at the University of South Alabama, has been selected as a 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Scholar.
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Dr. Mike Wilkinson
Dr. Mike Wilkinson, assistant vice president in the Division of Student Affairs at the University of South Alabama, has been chosen as a faculty member for 2024 New Professionals Institute.
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Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao
Dr. Kuang-Ting Hsiao of USA’s Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department was named a 2024 NAI Senior Member and elected a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials.
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