Laura Vaughn, coordinator of admissions for the UM Intensive English Program, has been selected as Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for August. To help us get to know her better, she answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss. IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss? Vaughn: Five years. IOM: What is your hometown? Vaughn: Starkville, Mississippi. Read the story …
More than 1,400 Volunteers Help UM Students Get Settled
More than 5,000 students voyage back on campus ahead of first day of classes
August 17, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Wide-eyed first-year University of Mississippi students, their proud parents and more than 1,400 volunteers come together each August during Groovin’ at Move In to unload Keurig coffee makers, shelving, bedding, posters and other essentials for making a new home away from home. This year’s Groovin’ at Move In ran from Wednesday through Friday,Read the story …
UM Museum Named to List of 51 ‘Most Astounding University Museums’
Facility in national spotlight for fourth time in five years
August 8, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Museum and its extensive collection of art, scientific equipment and Greek and Roman antiquities are in the national spotlight once again, this time being named to EDsmart’s list of “51 Most Astounding University Museums.” The latest recognition is the fourth time in five years the museum has been namedRead the story …
UM Sophomore, Cancer Survivor Makes Most of Gift of Life
Allie Allen and her mother bonded through simultaneous battle with disease
July 31, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – In 2013, Allie Allen was the 14-year-old captain of her junior high dance team when she started to feel strange every day around lunch. After the brief, but indescribable sensation passed, she would become exhausted. She shrugged it off until a practice at Schilling Middle School in Collierville, Tennessee, when the spell hitRead the story …
Meet Micah Bowen, July’s Staff Member of the Month
July 23, 2018 by
Micah Bowen, ID Center coordinator, has been selected as Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for July. To help us get to know her better, she answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss. IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss? Bowen: I started at the ID Center as a student workerRead the story …
UM Ranks Best in Mississippi for Job Placement
July 17, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Data on job placement rates over a decade show University of Mississippi graduates are the best in the state at finding employment and keeping it, according to a new ranking from Zippia.com. The ranking takes into account 10 years’ worth of data on job placement rates as part of Zippia’s rating for the best collegesRead the story …
CME Senior Capstone Projects Aid Willie Price
Students design and build solutions to real-word problems at preschool
July 9, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The 3- and 4-year-old children at the University of Mississippi’s Willie Price Lab School find themselves living out the phrase, “little people, big world.” Recently, students in the university’s Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence completed two senior capstone projects to design and build products that helped students at the preschool. One calledRead the story …
Cochran’s Papers Shine Light on Nation’s Major Issues
Collection includes correspondence, documents, photographs, recordings, scrapbooks and memorabilia
June 27, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Former U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s papers will be donated to the University of Mississippi, providing 3,500 linear feet of documents and nearly 6 terabytes of digital files that offer insight into some of the nation’s most significant political events over the past 45 years. Cochran, a UM alumnus, was first elected to theRead the story …
Meet Camille Toles, June’s Staff Member of the Month
June 25, 2018 by
Camille Toles, administrative coordinator for the Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness and Planning, has been selected as Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for June. To help us get to know her better, Toles answered a few questions for Inside Ole Miss. IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss? Toles: Almost threeRead the story …
UM Students Post Strong Showing in National Russian Essay Contest
Director of UM Russian language program provides encouragement, guidance
June 22, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi students won medals in the 2018 American Council of Teachers of Russian essay contest for college students, placing among the top in the field of nearly 1,300 essays from 60 schools across the country. The National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, which was established in 1999, has become a signature Russian languageRead the story …