USM to host ocean-awareness camp

The University of Southern Mississippi is one of 20 American institutions to be hosting an ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp. The ‘Coastal and Ocean Awareness Science and Technology’-themed camp will be June 14-27 on the Hattiesburg campus. “We are the first university ever in the state of Mississippi to do so,” said Marks McWhorter, outreach coordinator for the Department of Biological Sciences. The camp will host for free 48 middle school students for a 2-week residential academic summer science camp. (Source: Southern Miss Now 03/10/15)