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CARMEN<br />
HERNANDEZ,<br />
as a student, has already had the<br />
experience of issuing weather<br />
warnings to private businesses<br />
who are clients of USA’s Coastal<br />
Weather Research Center. “Not a lot<br />
of undergraduate programs let you<br />
have the ability to issue a warning<br />
like that,” Hernandez said.<br />
Growing up in Shreveport,<br />
Louisiana, she got hooked on<br />
weather because of 2005’s<br />
Hurricane Rita, one of the strongest<br />
hurricanes ever. “Seeing how<br />
much it could affect us, even as a<br />
tropical storm by the time it got up<br />
to us, just got me really interested,”<br />
Hernandez said. “I kept going<br />
from there, learning more about<br />
meteorology.” She chose South’s<br />
meteorology program partly<br />
because she received in-state<br />
tuition rates through the Academic<br />
Common Market, an agreement<br />
among 15 Southern and mid-<br />
Atlantic states, but also because<br />
it’s a small program. You’re able<br />
to have one-on-one contact with<br />
the professors, and if you want to<br />
do any research, it’s easy to get<br />
involved.<br />
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