Congrats to Mai Coats, NASW-MS MSW Student of the Year for the School of Social Work! 🎉👏🦅

Congrats to Dr. Zachary Taylor, assistant professor for USM School of Education and recipient of the CEHS Distinguished Researcher Award! 🎉👏🦅

Congrats to Dionne Payton, administrative specialist for the School of Psychology and recipient of the CEHS Distinguished Staff Award! 🎉👏🦅

Congrats to Dr. Tanner Thorsen, assistant professor for SouthernMissSKN and recipient of the CEHS Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring Award! 🎉👏🦅

Congrats to Dr. Jo Hawkins-Jones, associate teaching professor for USM School of Education and recipient of the CEHS Outstanding Faculty Service Award! 🎉👏🦅

Congrats to Dr. Andrew Herridge, assistant professor for USM School of Education and recipient of the CEHS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award! 🎉👏🦅

What a great night for the lab! Sarah Parnell, Kaitlyn McRee, and Rhett Schimpf were all recognized as scholar athletes, and Rhett was awarded the men’s aScholar Athlete of the Year award! I was also humbled to receive the Faculty Member of the Year Award by USM Athletics!

Rooting for these CEHS students this weekend!⚾️👏🦅 Southern Miss Baseball 2-Jake Cook, 3-Seth Smith, 5-Ty Long, 6-Colby Allen, 12-Kros Sivley, 15-Drey Barrett, 16-Grayden Harris, 23-Coy Clements, 24-Jackson Parker, 25-Braden Luke, 28-Caleb Hughes, 43-Landen Payne, 47-McCarty English

We’re so proud of our students who participated in the USM Undergraduate Symposium on Research and Creative Activity this spring! 👏 Thank you to all of the planning committee members, advisors and faculty judges who made this event possible!

Congrats to our master's and doctoral students who participated in the Graduate Student Research Symposium this year! 🎉👏

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