KPMG Master’s Program Expands into Tax By Jeffrey C. LeSage and Frank Casal/The CPA Journal Disruptive new technologies and the growing pressure at many companies to reimagine the tax function are requiring tax and audit professionals to expand their skills and knowledge. The auditing and accounting professions have a critical need for people who understandRead the story …
The CPA Journal: Patterson School of Accountancy Featured in Industry Publication
TIME: UM Law Professor, Space Expert Featured in Moon’s Historic Site Fight Article
‘We Need That Boot Print.’ Inside the Fight to Save the Moon’s Historic Sites Before It’s Too Late By Currie Engel/TIME Half a century after humankind first walked on the moon, our sole natural satellite is becoming a much busier place. NASA wants to make a return trip, as do private American space companies likeRead the story …
BBC Radio: UM Professor Featured on Health Check Radio Show, Podcast for Bone Research
Health Check: Defining the limits of human endurance By Helena Shelby/BBC Radio As children get older, their bones become denser and stronger and peak maximum bone density occurs when adults are in their 30s. By the time people reach old age, women in particular are at risk of osteoporosis, where bones become so weak that theyRead the story …
U.S. News and World Report: UM Health and Exercise Science Faculty Bone Study Highlighted in Article
Many Middle-Aged Men May Have Signs of Thinning Bones By Amy Norton/HealthDay Reporter Brittle bones are often seen as a woman’s health issue, but low bone mass may be more common among middle-aged men than generally thought, a small study suggests. The research, of 173 adults aged 35 to 50, found that men and womenRead the story …
Mississippi Business Journal: School of Business Administration Dean Featured in AI Banking Article
Types of jobs in banking expected to change with increasing adoption of artificial intelligence By Becky Gillette/Mississippi Business Journal A hot topic in banking circles is how much artificial intelligence (AI) will impact employment in the banking industry. One study reported in American Banker magazine predicts that 70 percent of front-office jobs will be replacedRead the story …
U.S. News & World Report: UM’s Study the South journal featured in article
U.S. News & World Report: Black Americans Ditch Meat – and Stereotypes By Joseph P. Williams To get to Nisani Farm, and the edge of a burgeoning food and health movement, requires going to the end of the road. Literally. It means taking a 90-minute drive south from Richmond, Virginia, to the tiny town of Keysville, thenRead the story …
Military Times: UM’s Veteran & Military Services highlighted for scholarship benefits
Military Times: This school waives out-of-state tuition for vets, GI Bill or no GI Bill By Joshua Axelrod Out-of-state tuition rates? For qualifying vets, there’s no such thing at this school — regardless of whether they have GI Bill benefits. The University of Mississippi, known better to college sports fans as Ole Miss, encourages veterans toRead the story …
NPR: UM law professor, space expert featured in moon preservation story
NPR: How Do You Preserve History On The Moon? By Nell Greenfieldboyce Historic preservationists are hoping that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this summer will persuade the United Nations to do something to protect Neil Armstrong’s footprints in the lunar dust. Some of his boot marks are still up there, afterRead the story …
NPR: UM blues curator mentioned in Cedric Burnside article
Grammy-Nominated Blues Musician Cedric Burnside Remembers His Roots NPR Growing up poor in Mississippi, Cedric Burnside didn’t have running water. It’s a fact he highlights in the first song on his Grammy-nominated album, Benton County Relic. In the upbeat, soulful song, titled “We Made It,” Burnside croons verses like, “I came from nothing, I doneRead the story …
The New Yorker: UM’s Southern Foodways Alliance documentary mentioned in Nashville hot chicken article
By Paige Williams The New Yorker Three days after Christmas, in a part of northeast Nashville that many locals describe as “dicey,” a Ford Explorer crashed through the front of a discount-tobacco shop at one end of a strip mall. Police later called the incident an attempted burglary. The vehicle, which had been reported stolen,Read the story …