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ARETE the University of Southern Mississippi Graduate School Magazine ARETE the university of southern mississippi graduate school magazine Special Issue: A Focus on Women Winter 2020-21 Contents Sampling the Archival Sea 3 Hearing the Past 18 Graduate Assistant of the Year Rachel Mugge Read about how two female faculty are provides a closer look at her research on leading the way in major history and digital deep-sea microbiology. humanities projects at USM. The Magic of Mentorship 6 Designing to Forget 21 Jameela Lares, PhD, explains how her path Explore the transformative art of USM’s to becoming the Graduate Mentor of the Master of Fine Arts in theatre with an Year was filled with surprises. emphasis in design and technology. Thriving Places, Thriving 2020 Hall of Fame 25 People 9 Join us in celebrating graduate student Meet two alumnae whose training in the excellence in this year’s Graduate Student Master of Library and Information Science Hall of Fame. program has allowed them to meet the challenges of today’s information users. Graduate Alumni Hattiesburg History 12 Spotlight 26 Two USM history students explore the Two USM alumni provide glimpses of their legacy of Black women’s activism in 1960s careers and insights into having the best Hattiesburg. graduate experience possible. Understanding Perception 15 USM Graduate Learn more about brain and behavior PhD Enrollment 28 candidate Catherine Dowell’s work with See how our enrollment numbers have sight, touch, and the “feelies.” grown for 2020-21. ARETE Winter 2020-21 Editorial Staff The Graduate School Executive Editor J.B. George Building 143 Karen S. Coats, PhD 118 College Drive #5204 Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Managing Editor Karlie Herndon 601.266.4369 Writing, Layout and Design usm.edu/graduate-school Karlie Herndon A note about the images in this issue: photos on pages 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 25, and the back cover were provided by the USM Image Center. Unless otherwise stated, all other images were provided by interviewees. We appreciate our interviewees’ willingness to share images when safe in-person photography was not possible this year. ARETE Winter 2020-21 Welcome from the Dean Since the first issue of Arete was published in the winter of 2017, the purpose of the Graduate School magazine has been to disseminate the accomplishments of our graduate students and faculty to a broad audience and to showcase the innovative and diverse research, creative activity, and undergraduate instruction they engage in each day. Previous stories have included scholarship and graduate programming in all academic colleges, featuring student and faculty collaborators in disciplines ranging from the arts to the physical sciences. This issue has the same goal, but with a special twist—in solidarity with the centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, which guaranteed women the right to vote, the winter 2020-21 edition of Arete focuses on the accomplishments of women. The advancement of women over the last 100 years has been steady, most recently culminating in the election of the first woman as Vice President of the United States, an accomplishment to be acclaimed regardless of political persuasion. Likewise, women’s contributions to the mission of Southern Miss—teaching, research, and service— are noteworthy. Today at Southern Miss, female students comprise more than 66% of the graduate student population, an increase of more than 26% from the previous year. Enrollment of women of color increased by 47% to represent over 31% of all female graduate students. Collectively, over 62% of female graduate students are Mississippi residents, indicating that our state economy will reap the benefits of adding Southern Miss alumnae with advanced degrees to the workforce. Graduate students at Southern Miss are creating knowledge through original research and creative projects, and the articles of this magazine capture just a small sample of their work. With a nod to the women’s suffrage movement, a featured article shares the story of women who were giants of the civil rights movement right here in Hattiesburg. Their unwavering commitment to equality, revealed by USM historians, resulted in passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned voter discrimination based on race. Other timely articles capture the work women are performing all across campus. I believe you will enjoy what you will learn from them. Did I mention that this magazine is entirely the work of a female graduate student? Karlie Herndon is pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science. Happy reading! Karen S. Coats, PhD Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School ARETE Winter 2020-21 1 2 ARETE Winter 2020-21 For a lucky few people, their true passion introduced Rachel to Dr. Leila Hamdan, in life is clear early on. They build “who studied microbial ecology in the deep skyscrapers of Legos, write novels on sea and had just accepted a position at school notebooks, or win logical debates USM and was looking to hire lab members over bedtime like a top defense lawyer. Sampling and graduate students. “As it happens, For others, their true calling comes a little her area of research is exactly what I was later, but it is just as pronounced when interested in,” Rachel says. She spent some it finally makes itself clear. For Rachel the time working as a lab member with Dr. Mugge, her life’s passion whispered hints Hamdan, who was so impressed with her to her through grade school and her Archival work that she offered Rachel “a graduate undergraduate years, but it was not until assistantship to study the effects of oil her entrance to the USM community spill contaminants on the microbiome of that the siren song of deep-sea ecology Sea: historic shipwrecks while earning [her] fully captured her. “Growing up, I never Master of Science degree.” had a clear idea of what I wanted to be,” A Dive Dr. Hamdan’s praise of Rachel is Rachel explains. “All I knew was that I nothing short of stellar. “Rachel’s scientific was absolutely fascinated by two extreme contributions have been tremendous assets environments: space and the deep ocean.” into to my research enterprise. She helps me Growing up in Ohio, Rachel didn’t have carry out the mission and vision of USM many chances to explore her fascination by unselfishly sharing her knowledge, with the ocean, but she does remember Deep-Sea creating an inclusive environment, and what sparked her interest. “I did a project working with me and my colleagues to on Antarctic ice fish, and this is the first Microbial provide transformative experiences focused time I realized that living things can exist around our research.” in the deep sea and that there is so much to As another part of her work with learn about this desolate place.” This was Ecology Dr. Hamdan, Rachel set up a difficult in the first grade, and later, in eighth grade, and intensive experiment “to monitor Rachel had the opportunity to research in Rachel Mugge, development of biofilms on hull materials a university laboratory. “My eighth grade PhD Candidate, exposed to contaminants.” The experiment project investigated the effects of anti- Coastal Sciences took roughly four months to complete and microbial athletic socks. I was fortunate required constant maintenance to ensure enough, through a family friend, to have the simulation of deep-sea conditions. access to a lab at the Ohio State University Graduate Assistant of Her weekly monitoring of the experiment to plate and incubate bacteria that I had the Year was also time-consuming and required swabbed from my classmates’ shoes. This a great deal of knowledge on molecular was definitely my first interest in microbial microbial ecology. Dr. Hamdan notes ecology.” and the [Deepwater Horizon oil] spill.” that Rachel “has also been collaborating She completed her high school Specifically, Rachel learned about “the closely with [Dr. Hamdan’s] colleagues at education and then a degree in biology effects of hypoxia on polychaetes.” Every the Naval Research Laboratory to expand at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, summer, the northern part of the Gulf her knowledge about metal corrosion and Oklahoma. Her fascination with extreme of Mexico becomes a hypoxic, or low- electrochemistry, to shape and inform her environments continued to flicker at the oxygen, zone. USM’s Gulf Coast Research PhD studies.” back of her mind, but aside from interning Laboratory (GCRL) was in the perfect As part of her work at GCRL, at a local aquarium, finding opportunities location for studying how low oxygen or Rachel has also taken part in nearly to do deep-sea research were limited. other environmental stressors “can affect a dozen research cruises, serving as a In 2016, as she approached graduation the physiology of coastal organisms.” Dr. co-chief scientist on one in June 2018. from Oral Roberts, she was still unsure of Rakocinski and Rachel studied a specific When asked about these cruises, Rachel’s what direction her research should take. type of organism called polychaetes, excitement is contagious: “Research cruises She hoped to gain exposure to coastal or which Rachel describes as “a type of very are, hands down, the best part of what I marine science, and her mentors kept her small worm living in benthic, aquatic get to do!” Once the cruise is in the right broad goals in mind. “During my junior environments, and they are usually very location, the crew sends down a remotely year at college, my undergraduate mentor abundant and can be used as an indicator operated vehicle (ROV) to be able to “see” forwarded an email to me about research species of changing environmental a shipwreck. These shipwrecks are almost internships at USM’s Gulf Coast Research conditions.” like a natural archive of what the sea has Laboratory.” Dr.
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