Kristina Phillips, associate director of college programs in the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education, has been named Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for November. To help us get to know her better, she answered some questions for Inside Ole Miss. IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss? Phillips: I’ve beenRead the story …
Museum’s 2021 Holiday Keepsake Honors ‘The Vaught’
Annual ornament sale supports the University Museum and Historic Houses
November 22, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Museum has unveiled its 2021 holiday keepsake ornament, a likeness of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, iconic home of the Ole Miss Rebels football team. The ornament celebrates Mississippi’s largest stadium, which holds the record for the state’s largest-ever football crowd, 66,176 fans. The ornament celebrates the stadium as the OleRead the story …
University’s First Bonner Program Cohort Gets to Work
Fourteen students to work as interns with community partners for the next four years
November 18, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has its first-ever cohort of Bonner Program students who have started their four-year campaigns to transform their campus and community through service projects. The university’s Bonner Program, housed at the new UM Center for Community Engagement, is part of a diverse, multistate network of colleges and universities withRead the story …
Rebel Run Rambunctiously Returns
Some 1,400 Ole Miss freshmen and sophomores run across Vaught-Hemingway Stadium turf
November 10, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi‘s classes of 2024 and 2025 resumed the tradition of Rebel Run on Saturday (Nov. 6) at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, as more than 1,400 students in red shirts had permission to frolic across the field before the Ole Miss-Liberty University football game. In most years, the entire freshman class isRead the story …
Army Officer, Former Football Player Returns to UM to Talk Vaccines
Lt Col. Sheldon Morris holds campus discussions on immunization with students, faculty and staff
November 5, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – U.S. Army Lt. Col. Sheldon Morris returned to the University of Mississippi this week to meet with students, faculty and staff to answer their questions about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Morris is a former Ole Miss football player who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was brought to campus byRead the story …
Political Veterans Talk Problem Solving in a Divided Country
Former Gov. Haley Barbour and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker share lessons for leading in a polarized nation
November 3, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two of Mississippi’s major political figures of the modern era used their decades of combined experience recently to share lessons with more than 100 University of Mississippi students about solving problems in a divided nation. Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who served from 2004 to 2012 and was also chairman of theRead the story …
UM Museum Named Among State’s Best Museums for Art
Mississippi Magazine readers voted in first-ever 'Best of Travel Awards'
October 26, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Museum has been named one of the state’s best for art by Mississippi Magazine, an honor that comes one year after the magazine named William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, which the museum maintains, as the state’s best historic site. The recognition came out in Mississippi Magazine’s new, reader-driven “BestRead the story …
Meet Lynne Trusty, October’s Staff Member of the Month
October 25, 2021 by
Lynne Trusty, operations coordinator in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named Staff Council’s Staff Member of the Month for October. To help us get to know her better, she answered some questions for Inside Ole Miss. IOM: How long have you worked at Ole Miss? Trusty: 11 years. IOM: What is your hometown? Read the story …
UM Community Remembers Jere Hoar as Tough, But Caring, Professor
Journalist, author who taught from 1956 to '92 remembered for always pushing students to do their best
October 24, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Jere Hoar, who taught journalism at the University of Mississippi for more than 30 years, was legendary for being a tough but caring mentor who enthusiastically pushed his students toward greatness because he believed in them. Hoar died Oct. 2 in Pontotoc, at 91. A private family graveside service was held withRead the story …
New Center for Community Engagement Aims to Build Partnerships
Offerings include leadership program, community engagement minor, clearinghouse for service projects
October 5, 2021 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi‘s new Center for Community Engagement brings with it new resources and programs for learning, research and service to Oxford, Lafayette County and beyond. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning recently approved the creation of the new center. The new status will help the university take advantage of partnershipsRead the story …