A University of Mississippi-led team is at the forefront of improving child welfare training in the state. The new UM Child Welfare Training Academy, established through a four-year grant administered by the Mississippi Department of Human Services, has overhauled the pre-service training curriculum required for all Mississippi child welfare workers and supervisors. Read the story.
The Dispatch: ‘Faulkner’s World’ offers glimpse into famed author’s life in Mississippi
May 21, 2012 by
Photographer Martin J. Dain was one of the few who photographed author William Faulkner at Rowan Oak, the writer’s home in Oxford. A selection of those images are compiled in a traveling exhibit, “Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain,” on display at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library through June 22. Read the story
The Dispatch: Ole Miss holds final practice before Grove Bowl
April 20, 2012 by
The University of Mississippi football team held its final practice of the spring season Thursday before the BancorpSouth Grove Bowl on Saturday. Read the story
Mississippi Business Journal: Late Alumna Sciacca Endows Scholarship at UM School of Pharmacy
April 13, 2012 by
OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is offering a new scholarship thanks to the generosity of the late Madeline O. Sciacca of Slidell, La., who remembered her alma mater in her will. Read the story:
Daily Journal: Ole Miss Senior Solves the Puzzle on ‘Wheel of Fortune’
April 13, 2012 by
The Tupelo native and University of Mississippi senior can be seen on an episode of “Wheel of Fortune” on Monday, April 23. Read the story:
WTVA: Businesses benefit from new research park
April 9, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — Meet Dr. James Sabatier, a former Ole Miss professor-turned small business owner. Read the story
TimesDaily.com: 50 years after Faulkner, a community celebrates
April 2, 2012 by
The life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer have been studied and scrutinized, probed and appraised, inspected and dissected, analyzed and examined by academics and scholars from around the world nearly constantly since he died July 6, 1962. This summer in Oxford, the community is using the 50-year anniversary of Faulkner’s death as anRead the story …