OXFORD, Miss. – A panel discussion on climate change, the annual WorldFest celebration and a keynote address by Toyota’s chief environmental officer are among the highlights of Green Week, hosted next week by the University of Mississippi and city of Oxford. Green Week 2009, which begins Monday (April 20), includes a series of free lectures,Read the story …
Green Week Activities Include Variety of Events to Educate and Motivate Participants
April 17, 2009 by
Area Students to Compete in Trebuchet Hurling April 21
April 17, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Students in high school and middle school will compete in the third annual Gravity-Driven Catapult (Trebuchet) Hurling Competition Tuesday (April 21) at the University of Mississippi. The competition begins at 9 a.m. in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and features more than 15 trebuchet teams from nine schools around the state. The event is sponsored byRead the story …
Ole Miss ‘Certified’ by NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification
April 16, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The National Collegiate Athletics Association’s Committee on Athletics Certification has certified the University of Mississippi as part of the NCAA Division I athletics certification program. “We are very pleased,” Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat said. “This not only validates the integrity of our athletics programs but also this university’s commitment to academicRead the story …
Grand Opening of Civil Engineering Technology Labs Scheduled April 17
April 15, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Mississippi celebrates the grand opening of its new technology laboratories Friday (April 17). The event begins at 11:45 a.m. inside the old Wal-Mart building at the Oxford Mall on West Jackson Avenue. The 11,000-square-foot facility houses labs for transportation modeling and visualization, nano-infrastructureRead the story …
Senior Honors Student with Triple Major to Conduct Summer Research in China
April 6, 2009 by
Watch video of Anna Hailey. Video by Mary Stanton. OXFORD, Miss. – For the third year in a row, University of Mississippi student Anna Hailey will be studying in China this summer. Over the past two summers, the Ole Miss senior from Muscle Shoals, Ala., immersed herself in the language and culture as a ChineseRead the story …
Chancellor Search Advisory Committee Named
March 13, 2009 by
Alice Clark. The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning has appointed a 23-member Search Advisory Committee to help select the University of Mississippi’s next chancellor. The advisory committee will help the Board Search Committee chaired by Amy Whitten of Oxford find a successor to Chancellor Robert Khayat, who retires June 30. TheRead the story …
Rebel Basketball Game to Promote Business School
February 17, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration and the Intercollegiate Athletics Department are teaming up this weekend to help promote both the business school and women’s basketball. The athletics department has donated 200 free tickets to the business school to distribute among faculty and students for the Sunday (Feb. 22) contestRead the story …
Golf Inc. Magazine Names UM Golf Course Among Top Five Renovated Courses in Nation
February 11, 2009 by
A new water feature on the newly renovated golf course. UM photo by Robert Jordan. OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Golf Course, which reopened in October after a yearlong, $3.5 million renovation, has been named among the top five renovated courses in America by the international magazine Golf Inc. The public course wasRead the story …
UM Space Law Students Partner with MIT Engineering Students on Project
February 10, 2009 by
Joanne Gabrynowicz (left), director of the University of Mississippi National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, and Annalisa Weigel, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talk with UM law students about the legal challenges facing engineers who work on space-related projects. UM photo by Nathan Latil. OXFORD, Miss.Read the story …
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ranked Among Nation’s Top 40 Undergraduate Programs
January 13, 2009 by
Students combine their knowledge for a chemistry experiment during a lab in Coulter Hall.UM photo by Nathan Latil. OXFORD, Miss. – If there is a science to producing chemistry graduates, the University of Mississippi is certainly developing a reliable formula for it. For the second consecutive year, the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Professional TrainingRead the story …