OXFORD, Miss. – For the past year, University of Mississippi student Gwenafaye McCormick started her school day about 6,600 miles and 14 time zones from Oxford – in Japan. McCormick, a rising senior international studies major from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, spent the 2017-18 school year studying at Waseda University, a private, independent research university in central Tokyo. The distance andRead the story …
Professor Studies Public Education’s YouTube Portrayal
Study of video-sharing site finds negative depiction of public education
July 17, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – YouTube is the second most popular website in the world, nestled right behind Google and ahead of sites such as Facebook, Baidu (a Chinese language internet search engine) and Wikipedia. The video-sharing site states it has more than a billion users worldwide – almost one-third of all people on the internet – and every day thoseRead the story …
$60 Million Gift Launched Croft Institute onto Global Stage
Donation from Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund endowed institute 20 years ago
July 10, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Croft Institute for International Studies celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, but before that first cohort entered in August 1998, the institute’s story began with a man walking into an office. The man was Gerald M. Abdalla, CEO and president of Croft LLC and chairman of the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund. The office,Read the story …
New UM Program Funds Summer Undergraduate Research
23 students to conduct mentored summer research projects
June 21, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Twenty-three University of Mississippi undergraduate students are participating in the Ole Miss Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, an inaugural program to expand and enhance undergraduate research and creative achievement. In May, the UM Office of Research and Sponsored Programs announced that 15 Undergraduate Research Grants, including two Faculty Group Grants and 13 Individual StudentRead the story …
Physical Acoustics Summer School Hosted by UM
School explores acoustics, from bubbles to bottle rockets
June 18, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Sometimes the quickest introduction to cutting-edge physical acoustics is questioning why a whistling bottle rocket whistles. That’s why Greg Swift, a member of the Condensed Matter and Magnet Science Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, held a bottle rocket – unlit – in a ballroom at The Inn at Ole Miss earlierRead the story …
UM ‘Corpse Flower’ Will Soon Bloom with Smell of Death
School of Pharmacy offering live stream of rare blooming event
June 14, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Just keep watching – that’s the best advice for witnessing the soon-to-blossom, towering titan arum housed in the atrium of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s Faser Hall. The odd-looking plant, which has the largest unbranched flower cluster in the world, is expected to bloom any hour now. When it does, the 5-foot-tall flowering plantRead the story …
National Science Foundation Funds Further Lightning Research
UM professors studying the mysteries of how lightning starts
June 13, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Science has revealed several fascinating things about lightning. For instance, a lightning flash can heat the surrounding air to temperatures around 50,000 degrees – five times hotter than the sun’s surface. Lightning bolts roar toward the ground at speeds of 200,000 mph. And an American has about a one-in-14,600 chance of being struck byRead the story …
UM Signs Agreement with Science and Innovation Consortium
Alabama-based association expands regional academic engagement
June 6, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has joined the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation-University Consortium to help create a collaborative environment that channels the power of university innovation to tackle challenges in the areas of space and national defense. Representatives from UM and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, orRead the story …
Marc Slattery Receives Top UM Research Award
Researcher known for work with marine ecosystems, from coral reefs to Antarctica
May 12, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Marc Slattery was a little conflicted about being honored for his research achievement at the University of Mississippi. Slattery, a professor of biomolecular sciences in the School of Pharmacy and research professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was named the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award duringRead the story …
University Creates Distinguished Professor Honor
Three faculty named inaugural honorees based on research, teaching excellence and reputation
May 11, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Three University of Mississippi faculty members were appointed as Distinguished Professors during the spring faculty meeting Friday (May 11) in Fulton Chapel. The honorees are John Daigle, director of the Center for Wireless Communications and professor of electrical engineering; Donald Dyer, associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts andRead the story …