UM students host Double Decker Square Fair

May 12, 2013 By

University of Mississippi nutrition and hospitality management students ended the spring semester by gaining hands-on experience hosting the 2013 Double Decker Square Fair for the first time April 27.

Students in adjunct instructor Jeremy Roberts’ event-planning class spearheaded the space-themed children’s fair, which included visitors from NASA’s Stennis Space Center, the Oxford-Lafayette Humane Society’s annual Best Dressed Pet Contest and activities such as games and face painting.

“We did everything from picking out the food, working with the vendors and setting up the layout to designing the posters and marketing the event,” said Roberts. “It provided students with one of three hands-on, real-world event-management experiences this semester.”

Hundreds of children and their parents came out to the Oxford Square to take part in games and activities ranging from fingernail painting by the Lafayette High School Varsity Cheerleaders to art projects with Oxford’s Studio Whimzy.

After breaking down this year’s Square Fair, students held a debriefing session and began planning the 2014 event, which NHM students will also oversee.

“It was a fun event,” Roberts said. “We did it as a way to give back to the community.”

Students in the NHM 312 course also hosted Miss-I-Sippin’, a fundraiser benefiting the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council and the NHM department in April, and put on a reception for the Mississippi Dietetic Association’s annual conference in Oxford.

 

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Honors College Student Honored as Top CISS Graduate

Lexi Thoman caps impressive UM career with Napier Prize, job at the U.S. State Department

May 10, 2013 By

OXFORD, Miss. – Alexandria Marie “Lexi” Thoman, a University of Mississippi student from St. Louis, has been awarded the second John H. Napier III Intelligence Prize awarded by the UM Center for Intelligence and Security Studies.

The Napier Prize is awarded annually to a graduating senior who has successfully completed the intelligence and security studies minor and who best exemplifies the qualities of outstanding scholarship, excellent character and a strong commitment to service.
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Intelligence Center Students Focus on Global Pandemic

Fifth annual event united top students from across the nation with national agency representatives

May 6, 2013 By

OXFORD, Miss. – A fictional emergence of a new strain of avian bird flu leading to a global pandemic was resolved in part by a group of University of Mississippi students working through a recent intelligence case study.

The scenario was probed by more than 50 students in UM’s Center for Intelligence and Security Studies program. The case was a means for them to become familiar with the analytic process of gathering intelligence information.

“This year’s Days of Intrigue exercise was the largest yet hosted by CISS,” said Melissa Graves, the center’s project coordinator. “Because the center was recently named a Center of Academic Excellence by the director of national intelligence, the exercise had a truly national flavor.”

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Nutrition and Hospitality Management Faculty Joins ACCI Board

Connection to organization could help attract more scholars to Ole Miss

April 16, 2013 By

OXFORD, Miss. – Yunhee Chang, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management at the University of Mississippi, has been appointed to the board of directors for the American Council on Consumer Interests, or ACCI.

Chang said her two-year stint could “possibly attract more graduate students and scholars” to the university.

“ACCI could give UM more visibility within the field,” Chang said. “Plus, as a board member, I will be more involved in important decisions and (will) become more in tune with the most recent trends of the field, which will be reflected in my teaching and other scholarly activities.”

The organization is an important professional connection for the university, said Kathy Knight, chair of the department.

“Our department’s goal is to have good academic programs and research, but to always remain relevant in the world,” Knight said. “One way to ensure a strong outreach is by making good working connections, such as the ACCI.”

Chang, who joined the UM faculty in 2004, earned a bachelor’s and master’s in human ecology in 1989 and 1991, respectively, from Seoul National University. In 2003, she earned a doctorate in agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana. Chang’s primary research is in household behavior and family economics, welfare and poverty, and demographic economics.

ACCI, founded in 1953, is the leading consumer policy research and education organization consisting of a worldwide community of researchers, educators and related professionals dedicated to enhancing consumer well-being. ACCI promotes the consumer interest by encouraging, producing and communicating policy-relevant research.

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‘Global Leadership through Service’ Symposium Brings Wendy’s Executives to UM

April 3, 2013 By

Photo by Elizabeth Burgreen

Leaders from the international Wendy’s Company gave University of Mississippi students a behind-the-scenes look into the quick-service restaurant during the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management’s Global Leadership through Service Symposium on March 20.

John Peters, chief operating officer and Daniel Collins, senior vice president and treasurer, spoke on “Strategic Leadership: A Recipe for Success,” highlighting the company’s values, brand vision and strategy.

“There are some tremendous leaders in the United States and in the world who are in the hospitality or dietetics profession,” said Mary Roseman, associate professor of nutrition and hospitality management and chair of the symposium. “These industries are significant in terms of number of employees, sales volume and the whole sense of customer client and service focus.”

Peters and Collins discussed Wendy’s past and present, from the first store that opened in 1969 in Columbus, Ohio, to the more than 6,500 company or franchisee-owned stores worldwide that constitute over $9 billion in global system sales. The executives also spoke about the “6 Ps” — people, price, product, promotion, place and performance — that make up the restaurant’s overarching guiding principle: quality.

“Quality is what Wendy’s is,” Collins said in the presentation. “We want quality in our service, products and customers. We are trying to improve that every day in our business.”

Roseman said the leadership symposium was held to help expose alumni, faculty, staff, students, industry professionals and friends to leadership and employment contributions and opportunities in the hospitality and dietetics professions.

“We’re trying to reach a pretty wide target audience because we think it’s important to help them understand how large these industries are and the opportunities that are there,” Roseman said. “Often, people only see it from the front. They walk into a restaurant and buy food. They don’t often get the opportunity to see the behind-the-scenes thinking that comes from people [who] are over large corporations.”

Following the presentation, audience members participated in a question-and-answer session and networking reception. Around 100 students attended the event.

It was really exciting to see the students ask questions to these top executives at Wendy’s and just how natural the dialogue was,” Roseman said. “The students were very engaged and had very thoughtful questions about restaurants, leadership, strategy and employment opportunities.”

For more information on the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management at UM, click here.

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Lt. Col. Robert J. Darling Presents First-Hand Account of U.S. Leaders’ Response to 9/11

University of Mississippi presents free lecture on crisis leadership

March 4, 2013 By

OXFORD, Miss. – On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Robert J. Darling was the only military officer serving as a liaison between the Situation Room, the vice president and the National Military Command Center.

Darling wrote “24 Hours inside the President’s Bunker: 9-11-01 The White House” (iUniverse, 2010), which details his experiences with the nation’s top leaders immediate response to the terrorist attacks. On Tuesday (March 5), Darling shares his firsthand accounts of the crisis leadership decisions made on that infamous day in a free public lecture at the University of Mississippi.Read the story …

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Video: UM Nutrition Clinic Offers Healthy Eating Advice

February 14, 2013 By

The UM Nutrition Clinic, housed in Lenoir Hall, offers a number of services besides group weight-loss classes, including medical nutrition counseling for individuals with illnesses, diet-related conditions, injury or an interest in improving health in general.

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Chair Notes

December 18, 2012 By

The Department of Legal Studies has again begun our newsletter in hopes of keeping you and our alumni more informed of current growth, needs, successes as well as seeking your support in moving the department to become nationally the best of the best. We are expecting additional growth and are in the planning stages of a terminal degree (PhD in Homeland Security) in the near future. Currently the department is largest in the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Mississippi with a total enrollment of over 800 students. The Master of Criminal justice program has 65 students enrolled with another 35 students in the program, not currently enrolled. We have 13 faculty members including 2 lecturers, 3 instructors, 5 assistant professors, 1 associate professor, 2 professors and a number of adjunct instructors teaching in our programs including criminal justice, paralegal, and the graduate program. We also have a minor in legal studies with over 50 students enrolled. As is apparent from the above statistics, we have experienced tremendous growth with little additional funding or additional faculty and staff due in part to the economy and decreased state funding for state universities. We now offer the undergraduate degrees at the campuses of Oxford, Tupelo, Grenada, and Desoto. Grenada began its operation in fall of 2012 under the direction of our latest faculty member, Amy Vanderford. Terry Lyons is doing a great job with the Tupelo campus, and Jeff Johnson continues to oversee a successful program on the Southaven campus. Our undergraduate program offers the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with in the emphases areas of corrections, homeland security, and law enforcement and the Bachelor of Paralegal Studies. The Master of Criminal Justice has two emphases: Homeland Security and Criminal Justice. The Master of Criminal Justice is offered on the Oxford campus for traditional students and at the Desoto campus for nontraditional or executive cohort students.Read the story …

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Executive Cohort Program

December 18, 2012 By

The Department of Legal Studies now offers the Executive Cohort Program (ECP) which is a graduate program specifically designed for professional/practitioners in the field of criminal justice, military, and homeland security who desire to earn an advanced degree. The ECP meets for three sessions during a calendar year. A session consists of a two-week intensive classroom training where a graduate student can earn six hours of graduate credit. An ECP student must earn thirty hours of classroom credit in addition to six hours of thesis or practicum for a total of thirty-six hours.

The ECP is offered at the University of Mississippi Southaven campus in January, May and August. Our ECP students come from many government agencies such as: state police entities, federal law enforcement, U.S. military, local police departments and Sheriffs’ offices.

If you are interested in this program please contact:

Dr. Mike Wigginton
Coordinator
Executive Cohort Program
Department of Legal Services
The University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
Phone: (662) 915-1737
Email: mpwiggin@olemiss.edu

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Biographical Information Dr. Mike Wigginton Jr.

December 18, 2012 By

Dr. Mike Wigginton, Jr. was born in New Orleans, LA. He joined the United States Air Force in 1968 where he served as a Security Police Military Dog Handler for four years. While he was enlisted in the USAF, he served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia at Phang Rang AFB and Camn Rahn Bay AFB in the Republic of South Vietnam. Following his honorable discharge from military service, he joined the New Orleans Police Department where he served as a patrol officer in the uptown area of the city. Following the NOPD strike, Dr. Wigginton joined the Louisiana State Police (LSP) where he served in patrol, narcotics and the criminal intelligence divisions. After serving for five years with the LSP, he joined the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Special Agent assigned to the Miami Field Division. While assigned to the Miami field office, he conducted numerous international drug smuggling investigations. After serving for five years with the DEA, Dr. Wigginton transferred to the U.S. Customs Service Office of Investigations and was assigned to the Office of the Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans.Read the story …

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