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1964 Geran Dodson, Ph.D., has published two books. Dodson’s books “The Impact of Reason on Faith, Ethics and Belief” and “Freewill, Neuroethics, Psychology and Theology” were both published by Vernon Press in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Dodson is retired but still serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Georgia — Mike Cottrell College of Business.
1983 Robert G. “Bob” Anderson was appointed executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services on March 4, 2020. In this role, Anderson has created a new Office of Compliance and implemented a number of other internal controls. He was also instrumental during the 2021 legislative session in convincing the Mississippi Legislature to increase monthly Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits to Mississippi families for the first time since 1999.
1987 Tom Rishel, Ph.D., received his doctorate in computational science with an emphasis in computer science from the University of Southern Mississippi in May 2021. He is an
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assistant teaching professor at the university’s Gulf Park campus in Long Beach, Mississippi. His research interests include natural language processing and machine learning.
1989 Dosha Cummins, Pharm. D., has been named as one of 2021’s Power Women by Arkansas Money and Politics. She is currently chair of basic sciences at the New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
1991 The Mississippi Arts Commission recently awarded Holly Lange the Governor’s Choice Award for the 2022 Governor’s Arts Awards. See story on Page 23.
1993 Mark Mulvihill, Ph.D., was promoted to chief science officer of discovery at HiberCell, which is dedicated to metastatic cancer treatment research. He has been with HiberCell since 2018 and previously served as the senior vice president of the company’s chemistry and drug discovery division.
1995 Albert Mosley, M.Div., S.T.M., D.D., Ed.D., was recently named the 13th president of Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa. He will begin his tenure as university president in June 2022. Thomas Temple Jr. was recently named to the 2022 class of Louisiana Super Lawyers. Temple practices civil litigation with a focus on defense at Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson LLP, Baton
1992 Amie Peele, Esq., has been appointed to the MothersEsquire board of directors. She is the founding partner of Peele Law Group in Zionsville, Indiana, which focuses on providing intellectual property legal solutions to a variety of businesses.
Rouge, Louisiana.
