Office of the Provost
Southern Miss Centers and Institutes
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◼︎ Institute for Advanced Analytics & Security
Dedicated to the design and application of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced statistical analysis to public interest issues.
◼︎ Center for American Indian Research and Studies
Facilitates partnerships between Southern Miss faculty and regional tribal governments in order to better serve the needs of the American Indian people in our area.
◼︎ Arts Institute of Mississippi
AIM facilitates and coordinates special projects, outreach activities, and strategic initiatives under one arts umbrella, essentially serving as a liaison to other arts organizations throughout the state.
◼︎ Center for Behavioral Health
Individual, child, family, couples and group therapy, comprehensive diagnostic evaluations/assessments, consultation in various areas, including school and Head Start consultation, parent training, and select pre-employment screenings/evaluations.
The Center for Black Studies promotes research, provides educational opportunities, and creates programming that brings greater awareness to the history and culture of African Americans and of the Black Diaspora.
◼︎ Business and Innovation Assistance Center
Supports launching early stage technology R&D and innovation commercialization efforts by businesses, state/federal governments, universities and individuals.
◼︎ Center for Child Development
For 94 years, the Center for Child Development has provided quality services to children while serving as an academic teaching and research facility for University students and faculty.
◼︎ Institute of Child Nutrition - Applied Research Division
The Applied Research Division supports the ICN mission by systematically conducting research and development projects that influence child nutrition operational practices.
◼︎ Children's Center for Communication and Development
The Children’s Center is committed to providing communicative and developmental transdisciplinary services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers while educating, training and supporting families, university students, and professionals.
◼︎ Gulf South Center for Community Engaged Health Research and Innovation
Through multi-stakeholder partnerships and workforce capacity, the center conducts disease and health aging research to address health disparities.
◼︎ Center for Community Engagement
Coordinates meaningful and mutually beneficial community engagement experiences to address university and community needs, effect positive social change, and cultivate active citizen leaders.
◼︎ Center for Digital Humanities
Supports academics and institutions in Mississippi who use digital tools to explain, study, and preserve scholarship in the humanities.
◼︎ Institute for Disability Studies
Provides technical assistance, training, resources and supports for Mississippians with disabilities and their families, providing pathways to a better life for people of all ages.
◼︎ Center for Ethics and Health Humanities
Sponsors a wide range of educational opportunities on important issues in ethics and bioethics, sponsors lectures and workshops featuring nationally known sponsors, supports three academic minors, and offers continuing educational opportunities for health professionals.
◼︎ Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship
Serves as the catalyst for a university-wide focus on economic development training and research serving public entities, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals. Provides client-requested assistance and offers expertise in strategic planning and leadership development; education and training; community analysis and research; and other technical support.
◼︎ Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Education
Serves as an educational resource for K-12 educators and students in south Mississippi bridging today’s educational gaps in economic, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy through relevant, hands-on learning experiences and competitions.
◼︎ Southern Regional Education Service Agency
Improving the educational opportunities of the school children of Mississippi by making connections between and among educators, school districts, schools, The University of Southern Mississippi, junior and community colleges, the Mississippi Department of Education, professional organizations, and other regional educational service agencies.
◼︎ Center for Emergent Molecular Optoelectronics (CEMO)
Interdisciplinary multi-institution materials research program between the four research universities: Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi, and The University of Southern Mississippi , directed at critical and contemporary optoelectronic and energy challenges in key focus areas of fundamental science and engineering research and education.
◼︎ Center for Faculty Development
Provides holistic opportunities for educational and professional development by responding to current concerns and trends in higher education. The Center for Faculty Development builds cross-disciplinary and cross-campus community through activities and events that promote effective teaching, mentoring, exploration, and discovery.
Healing relationships and offering hope by providing therapy to individuals, couples and families.
◼︎ Center for Fisheries Research and Development
Our scientists develop and conduct research that informs resource management. We work with state, federal, and community partners to ensure that we understand scientific fishery needs, and focus our research efforts on how we can promote sustainable fisheries and habitats.
◼︎ Institute for Formulation Science
Supports and coordinates research in formulation science and functions in concert with the School of Polymer Science and Engineering.
◼︎ Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies
Brings the educational needs of gifted students in Mississippi to the forefront of educational policy development through advocacy, research, and provision of services for high-ability students.
◼︎ Gulf Coast Geospatial Center
Works with federal, state, academic, and commercial partners in research, development, and applications of precise geospatial data, remote sensing, and computational tools and models to enhance the understanding of relative sea level rise and its impacts, coastal change over time, and nature-human dynamics in the coastal system.
◼︎ Center for the Study of the Gulf South
Promotes the study of the history of the U.S .South and territories in Central America and the Caribbean through scholarship, funding research and hosting public events.
Coordinates all academic activity at the John C. Stennis Space Center. A consortium of three universities and one community college (The University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi State University, the University of New Orleans, and Pearl River Community College), the Center provides a coordinated, multi-university approach for interdisciplinary education.
◼︎ Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties
For students, faculty and others who believe in human rights for everyone, everywhere, without discrimination, the Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties provides a focal point through the exploration of major human rights issues in Mississippi, the U.S. and internationally.
◼︎ Center for Human Trafficking Research and Training
An interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers, trafficking survivors and students who participate in the collection, analysis and evaluation of human trafficking data from Mississippi’s state and local agencies. Their findings seek to inform evidence-based education and trainings for agency personnel with a goal of accelerating the development of Mississippi’s anti-human trafficking efforts.
◼︎ Hydrographic Science Research Center
Provides research support to address the needs of governmental and commercial clients for information related to coastal and ocean navigation, the ocean floor and ocean processes.
◼︎ Center for International Education
Encompasses International Student and Scholar Services, International Admissions, and Study Abroad.
◼︎ DuBard School for Language Disorders
Public school designed to serve students with severe language-speech disorders, including developmental aphasia and childhood apraxia of speech, deafness and hearing impairments, as well as those with the written language disorder of dyslexia.
◼︎ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
OLLI offers classes that meet the needs and schedules of active adults with classes, seminars, and field trips. Members come from a wide range of backgrounds, vocations, and connections to local community.
◼︎ Center for Logistics, Trade and Transportation
Provides a competitive advantage to logistics and supply chain industry and government agencies through its multidisciplinary activities in Logistics, Trade, and Transportation.
◼︎ Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center
Research focuses on alleviating the bottlenecks that constrain the production of marine species. We work with industry, government and non-profit organizations to advance sustainable aquaculture on land and in coastal and marine environments.
Engages members of diverse communities in ocean sciences, promoting careers and fostering community involvement through formal and informal education programs that provide participants with a better understanding of the Gulf of Mexico.
◼︎ Center for Military Veterans, Service Members and Families
A nationally recognized comprehensive "military-friendly" education support program (application, admission, matriculation, graduation and professional placement) that successfully attracts military veterans, service members, dependents (family members) and survivors to pursue their academic and professional development interests.
◼︎ Center for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Explores fundamental questions within cell and molecular biology. Our research encompasses a wide range of topics, including stem cell differentiation, HIV replication, mast cell degranulation, RNA biology, pathogen-host interactions, as well as neurodegenerative and vector-borne diseases.
◼︎ Center of the Study of the National Guard
This collaboration between USM and NGB will establish a central repository for archival materials and oral histories to function as an international-level resource for the center for the study of the Guard’s past, present and future.
◼︎ Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise
Research and development partnership program focused on uncrewed maritime systems and blue technology innovation.
◼︎ Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
The School of Polymer Science and Engineering operates laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation for optical, electronic, and magnetic characterization of new materials and device fabrication and engineering capabilities.
◼︎ Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
Collects and preserves the stories of Mississippians from all walks of life.
◼︎ Mississippi Person Centered Practices Institute
Partnership between the Mississippi Division of Medicaid and the USM School of Social Work whose primary objective is to train professionals from Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver programs on person centered thinking and person centered plan facilitation to assist them in supporting persons with disabilities and older adults in Mississippi.
◼︎ Mississippi Polymer Institute
Non-profit industrial outreach arm of the Southern Miss School of Polymer Science and Engineering that serves companies, individuals, entrepreneurs, start-ups, economic development agencies, schools and communities to foster technically-oriented business growth.
◼︎ Polymer Science Learning Center
Develops multimedia and distance learning material in polymer science.
◼︎ Center for Research Support
Free service through the Southern Miss School of Education offered to graduate students seeking support with research projects, dissertations and capstones, as well as help with research or statistics courses.
◼︎ The Center for Research to Practice in Education
Facilitates the implementation of evidence-based practices in PK-21 educational systems, working with education professionals, students and families to promote high-quality experiences and positive post-school outcomes for all learners in Mississippi, including those with disabilities.
◼︎ Mississippi Based RESTORE Research Center of Excellence
The mission of MBRACE is to seek sound comprehensive science-and technology-based understanding of the chronic and acute stressors, both anthropogenic and natural, on the dynamic and productive waters and ecosystems of the northern Gulf of Mexico, and to facilitate sustainable use of the Gulf’s important resources.
◼︎ National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security
Supports the sports and entertainment industries through innovative research, training, and outreach programs, working closely with a diverse group of organizations and subject matter experts to better understand the threat environment, identify vulnerabilities, communicate risk-mitigation techniques, and close capability gaps.
◼︎ Mississippi Statistical Analysis Center
Provides sound statistical information in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Mississippi’s criminal justice system.
Stimulates, develops, and supports interdisciplinary STEM education research initiatives both on and off campus, and designs and provides STEM Education outreach activities for the region.
◼︎ Center for Trace Analysis (CETA)
Coordinates analytical services provided by the USM Division of Marine Science, providing state-of-the-art expertise, training, analytical services, and research in trace chemical analysis.
◼︎ Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research
Supports all aspects of undergraduate research and creative activity, including community-engaged projects.
◼︎ Dale Center for the Study of War and Society
The Dale Center expands on the field of military history, with its traditional focus on leaders, strategies, and operations, and seeks to identify and understand the social and cultural consequences of war.
◼︎ Evelyn Gandy Center for Women and Leadership
Promotes scholarship, teaching, and civic engagement around women and leadership. It will be dedicated to equity, inclusion, and recognizing the diversity of women represented not only in our university and community but across our state and nation.
◼︎ Workplace Learning and Performance Institute
Research and outreach center for best practices in workplace and performance with the goal of helping to build a sustainable human capital development infrastructure for Mississippi.
◼︎ Mississippi Wraparound Institute
Partnership between the Southern Miss School of Social Work, Division of Medicaid, and Mississippi Department of Mental Health, whose mission is to provide support and resources to child serving agencies that use high-fidelity Wraparound principles and philosophies.
Creative writing program in the Southern Miss School of Humanities.
