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Southern Research was founded in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 11, 1941, by Thomas Martin as the Alabama Research Institute. [2]Although Martin was named chairman of the newly chartered organization in December, 1941, activities were put on hold in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of US involvement in World War II.
Howard Skipper, from Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Howard Earle Skipper (born in Avon Park, Florida on November 21, 1915; died in Mountain Brook, Alabama on January 2, 2006) was a noted American oncologist. He grew up in Sebring, Florida and received his science degrees (BS, MS, PhD) from the University of Florida.
Research institutions are a subset of doctoral degree-granting institutions and conduct research. These institutions "conferred at least 20 research/scholarship doctorates in 2019-20 and reported at least $5 million in total research expenditures in FY20 were assigned to one of two categories based on a measure of research activity." [1]
Ben E. May (1889–1972) was a Mobile, Alabama, businessman and philanthropist who helped found the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago and established the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. The Ben May Library—Mobile's central public library—is named in his honor.
In 1995, the Southern and Southeastern Forest Experiment Stations merged to form the Southern Research Station with headquarters in Asheville, NC. [7] Research was expanded into new fields to address "...how climate change, human population growth, invasive plants, pathogens, and fire affect the provision of timber, wildlife, clean air and water, and recreation, as well as other ecosystem ...
In 1954, the Southern Forest Experiment Station announced that the Harrison Experimental Forest would become home to the Southern Institute of Forest Genetics. [10]: 128–129 Formal dedication of the Institute was held at the experimental forest on March 3, 1955. By 1960, a new laboratory facility opened in Gulfport, MS to house project ...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent and nonprofit applied research and development (R&D) organization. Founded in 1947 by oil businessman Tom Slick , [ 1 ] it provides contract research and development services to government and industrial clients.
California Chaparral Institute; California Firearm Violence Research Center; California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; California Institute for Water Resources; Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny; Center for Education Policy Analysis; Center for Evolutionary Psychology; Center for Life Detection