OXFORD, Miss. – A student who has been designing stylish clothes since age 7 took first place at the Gillespie Business Plan Competition at the University of Mississippi. The annual competition, organized by the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration and open to any undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at the university, is designedRead the story …
Entrepreneurial Skills Earn Winners Cash
Gillespie Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
May 15, 2013 by
UM Pharmacy School Wins Script Your Future Team Challenge Award
Students and faculty recognized for focusing on patients with cardiovascular disease
May 15, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has been recognized as a winner in the second annual Script Your Future Medication Adherence Team Challenge for health professions students. Sponsored by the National Consumers League and its partners, this monthlong competition engages health professions students and faculty in developing creative ideas for raisingRead the story …
History of Ole Miss Commencement on Display at Library
Exhibition features James Meredith’s 1963 commencement program
May 6, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – There were no graduates when the University of Mississippi held its first Commencement in July 1849, less than one year after opening for its first classes. The four-day event included “sumptuous banquets, a commencement ball…” and an address by Alexander M. Clayton, an original trustee of the university, said David Sansing, professorRead the story …
Social Service: UM Honors Student Tackles Mississippi Food Inequalities
Saulters earns national, regional recognition for volunteer excellence
April 22, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Growing up, Mary Margaret Saulters’ home in the rural Delta town of Tchula was 20 miles from the nearest grocery store. It was in this literal “food desert” – as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – that her interest in food security and social inequality first took root. “My familyRead the story …
Pearson, Roberson Honored at Annual T.P. Vinson Banquet
Memorial banquet honors UM student and alumnus for service, leadership
April 18, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Oxford Middle School assistant principal Bradley Roberson and University of Mississippi senior Courtney Pearson were honored for their commitment to education and service Saturday (April 13) during the annual T.P. Vinson Memorial Scholarship Banquet. Roberson, who received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from UM in 2000, received the T.P. Vinson MemorialRead the story …
Blues Archive Displays Never-Before-Seen Items through Summer
Ole Miss adds death certificate of blues legend Robert Johnson to library archive
April 17, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The thrill is not gone. At least, it’s not at the Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi, which houses one of the largest collections of blues recordings, publications and memorabilia in the world, including B.B. King’s personal record collection.
Fox 10 TV: Room to be used for creative writing workshops
April 15, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi has dedicated a room at the Department of English for writers Barry Hannah and Richard Ford. Read the story
Forbes.com: Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look Into Journalism’s Past, Present and Future
April 15, 2013 by
Will Norton and I go back 40 years. A former Chicago Tribune reporter (a job I coveted at that time), he was a graduate student at the University of Iowa moonlighting as publisher of the campus newspaper. Read the story
Environmental Author to Speak on Seeds and the Food Supply
Janisse Ray scheduled for Earth Day program at UM
April 15, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Environmental speaker and author Janisse Ray will discuss seed-saving and how it relates to the food supply in an Earth Day lecture April 22 at the University of Mississippi. “Growing a Wilder Planet” is set for 7 p.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium. The lecture, part of the university’s fifth annual GreenRead the story …
Ole Miss Hall Named in Honor of Memphis Native Lucian Minor
Successful accountant, entrepreneur to be recognized for gifts, years of support at April 25 ceremony
April 15, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – To date, Lucian Minor’s generous and continued financial support to the University of Mississippi has not been widely known outside the Patterson School of Accountancy. But that anonymity won’t remain after April 25, when the 1937 alumnus receives the distinguished honor of having one of the university’s three newest residence halls namedRead the story …