Southern Miss Forum

04/08/2026

Save the Date - Tuesday, April 14th!

We are excited to welcome Steven Strogatz! Dr. Strogatz is a professor at Cornell University and the author of several widely acclaimed books, including The Joy of x, The Calculus of Friendship, Infinite Powers, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, and Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. He also co-hosts The Joy of Why podcast with Quanta Magazine.

📍 Location: Bennett Auditorium
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM

03/12/2026

Save the date! Join us on March 24th to hear from Jill Sonke!

Jill Sonke, PhD, is a US Cultural Policy Fellow with Stanford University, Co-director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London, and Director of Research Initiatives and a Research Professor in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF). She is an artist, cultural strategist and mixed-methods researcher, and is the recipient of over 350 grants and awards for her programs and research at the intersection of the arts and health.

This event will be held in Bennett Auditorium at 6:30 PM.

02/05/2026

CARL ZIMMER is an award-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling author, and respected science journalist. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his reporting was part of the team coverage that won The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize. Zimmer has written 15 books, including Life’s Edge and She Has Her Mother’s Laugh. In his latest book, Air-Borne, Zimmer uncovers the hidden world of the air we breathe, teeming with invisible life and unseen dangers. Zimmer is an adjunct professor in Yale University’s Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry

01/29/2026

The countdown is on! We look forward to seeing you all for the first forum of the semester. Carl Zimmer will speak on February 10th at 6:30pm in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center!

For more information, please visit usm.edu/forum

01/21/2026

We are pleased to announce the spring schedule for the University Forum at the University of Southern Mississippi. The series will open on February 10 with Carl Zimmer, an award-winning author and science journalist.

In March, the Forum will feature Jill Sonke, a U.S. Cultural Policy Fellow with Stanford University, Co-Director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London, and Director of Research Initiatives and Research Professor in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida.

In April, we will welcome Steven Strogatz, Professor at Cornell University and acclaimed author of The Joy of x, The Calculus of Friendship, Infinite Powers, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, and Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order.

To learn more about forum events, please visit: usm.edu/forum

10/27/2025

Next Tuesday!! 📣📣
Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still, and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter, and currently editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.

10/24/2025

University Forum is proud to present Dava Sobel as our final speaker of Fall 2025!
Join us November 4th at 6:30 p.m. in the Thad Cochran Ballrooms.
This event is free and open to the public. More information can be found at usm.edu/forum

10/21/2025

We look forward to seeing everyone tonight to hear from Nina Tandon! You will not want to miss out!
Forum is free and open to the public!

10/20/2025

TOMORROW!! We are thrilled to host our next speaker, Nina Tandon, in the Thad Cochran Ballrooms. University Forum is free and open to the public to attend. We would love to have you join us!

10/13/2025

📣 Mark your calendars
Next Tuesday, October 21st, we will hear from our guest speaker Nina Tandon!

Nina Tandon is changing medical science as we know it. As the CEO and co-founder of Epibone, she is successfully leading her business through exciting new entrepreneurial territory by growing artificial tissues, like hearts and bones, that can be safely put into the body. Named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Tandon speaks to the innovative, symbiotic future of health care, business and technology—while creating it herself.

09/23/2025

An article in the 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑒 highlights our next University Forum speaker, Nina Tandon.

The tissue engineering developer will address how her company's breakthrough technology is transforming healthcare on October 21 in Hattiesburg.