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University of Southern Mississippi: NSF Oceanographic Research Ship to Be Named for Gulf Coast Civil Rights Icon
November 25, 2019
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi, Nov. 25 -- The University of Southern Mississippi issued the following news release:

A Gulf Coast civil rights icon is being honored as the namesake of a new, $100 million National Science Foundation (NSF) oceanographic research ship, to be operated by the Gulf - Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium (GCOC), led by The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON).

NSF officials have informed th . . .

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