John Anderson, left, and Guillermo Sanchez, right, both graduate students at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Lab in Ocean Springs, Miss., demonstrate their new invention called the Tree-Hugger to Les Goff, president of Noetic Technologies, Friday on the Hattiesburg, Miss., campus. Anderson, also a fisheries technician at the Lab, and Sanchez were participants in the university’s annual “Invent Your Future” contest, where Southern Miss staffers and students compete for $5,000 in prize money, as well as a chance to take their inventions to the marketplace. Invented after Hurricane Katrina, the Tree-Hugger is a support system designed to protect trees from hurricane-force winds. Noetic is the commercialization and marketing arm of the university’s Research Foundation. (Southern Miss Public Relations photo by Steve Rouse)
John Anderson, left, and Guillermo Sanchez, right, both graduate students at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Lab in Ocean Springs, Miss., demonstrate their new invention called the Tree-Hugger to Les Goff, president of Noetic Technologies, Friday on the Hattiesburg, Miss., campus. Anderson, also a fisheries technician at the Lab, and Sanchez were participants in the university’s annual “Invent Your Future” contest, where Southern Miss staffers and students compete for $5,000 in prize money, as well as a chance to take their inventions to the marketplace. Invented after Hurricane Katrina, the Tree-Hugger is a support system designed to protect trees from hurricane-force winds. Noetic is the commercialization and marketing arm of the university’s Research Foundation. (Southern Miss Public Relations photo by Steve Rouse)