2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
The debate heated up as candidates running for the 2008-2009 Student Government Association were questioned what their motives will be while serving in office. SGA held the forum for the candidates running for president, vice president and treasurer in the Student Center.
Eight-year-old Jacey Duke smiled in amazement as she scoped out the newly painted walls at the University of South Alabama's Outpatient Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Treatment Center. Officials at USA held an open house to dedicate Cabana Row, designed by local artist Lynette Meyers, on March 5.
Medical student Cheryl Law didn't have time to get nervous as she and other anxious graduating medical students at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine gathered March 20 at the Magnolia Ballroom USA Brookley Campus for Match Day, which is where they learn where they will begin their residency training.
As the political battle and the fierce rhetoric heat up, Mobile County Commissioner President Stephen Nodine recognizes that the recently awarded tanker contract - a contract valued at up to $40 billion that would bring tanker aircraft assembly to Mobile - is "ours to lose.
USA's Children's and Women's Hospital has become the first hospital in Mobile to use the system Medication Administration Check. It is a bar coding system that allows registered nurses and licensed caregivers to make sure they have the right patient matched with the right type of medication.
This past week, SGA presidential hopeful Mikey Hendrich found himself in the midst of a controversy surrounding a campaign group he formed on the popular social networking site Facebook. Hendrich's campaign group "Mikey Hendrich for SGA Pres!!! 2008" is alleged to have in excess of 100 fake profiles within its membership.
Meteorologists across the nation will visit the University of South Alabama on March 28 and 29 to participate in the Southeastern Coastal & Atmospheric Processes Symposium presented by USA's chapter of the American Meteorological Society. Symposium speakers include Dr.