View Finder By Villia Struyk
Each year, Southern faculty members are invited to share their research through a campus photo competition, organized in 2024 by university photographer Isabel Chenoweth. It’s a challenging but powerful task for the researchers: to spotlight months, often years, of scholarship in a single image. The six winning photographs included in these pages have a wide focus. The professors’ research interests include the life of the 14th century Vietnamese Buddhist monk physician Tuệ Tĩnh, the impact of sand mining, the small clam Lyonsia floridana, archeology, and the blue economy. The images were shot in South Africa, Vietnam, and Tanzania and in the U.S. at Sanibel Island, Fl., and a ranch in the Southwest. Each destination is likely to host future visits by Southern’s intrepid faculty researchers. Today, armchair travelers are invited to tag along. Turn the pages to learn a bit about each professor’s research and catch a glimpse of amazing sites they’ve seen along the way.
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