At a time when many University of Mississippi engineering graduates are securing their first position with an engineering company or pursuing graduate work in their fields, Lindsey Sneed of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is taking a different route. Sneed, who graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, is staying in Oxford to begin studiesRead the story …
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ChE Graduate Staying at UM for Law School
Sneed seeking juris doctor and career with successful firm
June 1, 2014 by
Peralta Named Mississippi’s First Knowles Teaching Fellow
STEM teaching fellowship to provide up to $175,000 for Ole Miss alumna
May 16, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi graduate student Jessica Fancher Peralta doesn’t begin her first year of teaching until this fall, but she has already landed a sizable bonus. The Mooreville native is the first Mississippian to receive a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship worth $175,000. A five-year fellowship for early-career STEM teachers across theRead the story …
NIUST Makes Deep-Sea Challenges Fun in the Classroom
UM-based research center shares robot technology with fourth-grade classes
March 11, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Nothing excites kids like robots, except maybe getting to build and operate one. That’s exactly what lucky fourth-graders at Regents School of Oxford enjoyed recently when specialists from the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology visited their classroom. NIUST is a collaboration between the University of Mississippi and the University ofRead the story …
Robots and Their Creators Head to Ole Miss for Weekend Battle
Record group of high school teams set for statewide robotics tournament
February 7, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. – After emerging victorious at qualifying matches throughout Mississippi, 21 teams of high school robot designers travel to the University of Mississippi this weekend for the FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament hosted by the UM Center for Mathematics and Science Education. The event begins with inspections and opening ceremonies at 8:30 a.m. Saturday (Feb. 8) atRead the story …
Where the Crime Lab Meets the Classroom
EPSCoR Mississippi program invigorates middle school science teachers
July 2, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – More than a dozen north Mississippi middle school science teachers recently spent two weeks studying blood spatter and footprint evidence, but they weren’t helping search for a killer. Rather, they were looking for new ways to engage their students in the classroom. The teachers attended a workshop at the University of MississippiRead the story …
Students Enjoy ‘Cool’ Engineering Camps
Seventy-two middle and high school students have participated over two-week period
June 27, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – June temperatures have been scorching, but for 72 Mississippi junior high and high school students who have been enjoying engineering camps at the University of Mississippi, it’s been “way cool.” The one-week overnight camps provide students in grades 7 through 12 with opportunities to learn and experience the engineering and manufacturing fields.Read the story …
Microprocessor Inventor Ray Holt Finds New Passion in Teaching
Computer pioneer received master's degree in education from UM on Saturday
May 14, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi graduate student Raymond Holt dramatically influenced the worlds of computer science and flight in 1970 when he invented the world’s first microprocessor chip, a technological leap that enabled the U.S. military to run integrated flight control systems in the F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Forty-three years later, the retired SiliconRead the story …
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Robots Are Coming To Ole Miss
Center for Mathematics and Science Education Hosts Robotics Challenge
March 1, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – More than 20 robots and their student designers are on their way to the University of Mississippi this week as part of the inaugural FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament. Hosted by the UM Center for Mathematics and Science Education, the event will take place Saturday (March 2) at the university’s Jackson AvenueRead the story …
E-Week helps students ‘See the Engineer’ within themselves
February 27, 2013 by
Engineering students at the University of Mississippi are using the creative side of their brains to increase engineering awareness. National Engineers Week, known on campus as “E-Week,” was held in February. The annual series of daily campus activities is aimed at creating an awareness of engineering throughout the community and introducing the degree and professionRead the story …