OXFORD, Miss. – For its life-changing work in 12 Delta communities, the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s 2011-12 Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award. AACP presents the award annually to one pharmacy school that not only demonstrates a major commitment to addressing unmet communityRead the story …
Black Faculty and Staff Organization Plays Santa’s Helpers through Bears & Books Program
December 19, 2011 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Christmas holiday season got a whole lot brighter for the children and families of University of Mississippi Physical Plant employees as they received gifts at the Ole Miss Union Ballroom Friday morning (Dec. 16). Smiles abounded as members of the Black Faculty and Staff Organization distributed more than 300 gifts throughRead the story …
UM Administrator Shares Expertise, Advice with 2012 Presidential Debate Sites Representatives
December 19, 2011 by
A University of Mississippi senior administrator has become a respected and trusted consultant to the four institutions selected as host sites for the 2012 presidential debates. Andrew Mullins, chief of staff to the chancellor and assistant professor of education, was recently invited by the Commission on Presidential Debates to meet in Washington with representatives fromRead the story …
Work by UM Pharmacy Researchers Helps Shed New Light on Medicinal Benefits of Plants
December 15, 2011 by
Scientists at the University of Mississippi, together with colleagues at a number of other institutions around the country, have developed new resources poised to unlock yet another door in the hidden garden of medicinally important compounds found in plants. The resources were developed by the Medicinal Plant Consortium, led by Joe Chappell, professor of plantRead the story …
Students Learn Value of Spoken Communication Through Innovative Program
December 14, 2011 by
… Speaker’s Edge event set for Jan. 11-13 OXFORD, Miss. – In the business world, the spoken word can make or break a deal. At the University of Mississippi, students are preparing for those challenges by honing their communication skills in the Speaker’s Edge competition. Speaker’s Edge is a transformative public speaking competition, co-hosted byRead the story …
Libraries Wish List
December 12, 2011 by
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006 As the “world’s newspaper of record,” The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th- and early 21st-century historyRead the story …
Special additions donated to Eastland Collection
December 12, 2011 by
More than 35 documents, including letters from political figures such as Winston Churchill and invitations to White House dinners, were added to the James O. Eastland Collection in October. The new documents were donated by Eastland’s four children, Anne Howdeshell, Woods Eastland, Sue McRoberts and Nell Adams, and were received by Modern Political Archives, aRead the story …
Library momentum propelled by donors
December 12, 2011 by
Welcome to a new look for Keywords. Many of you will be reading this issue electronically rather than in hand as you have in the past. Our transition to the e-newsletter mirrors many of the changes and advances that the University Libraries have undergone to better serve our students, faculty, staff and other users. OurRead the story …
Donations to AICPA library expand research opportunities
December 12, 2011 by
Several recent donations of historical materials to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants collections in the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi have expanded opportunities for accounting research. These include a large collection of printed materials comprising basically everything published by the Financial Accounting Standards Board from its founding in 1973 throughRead the story …
Digital technology allows clearer observation of unpublished Faulkner poetry
December 12, 2011 by
Revolutionary War letters handwritten by President George Washington and unpublished poetry by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner are among the rare and fragile documents being scrutinized at the University of Mississippi with the use of a pioneering digital imaging technology. Both the Kate Skipwith Papers and the Wynn-Faulkner Collection contain damaged, faded manuscripts that areRead the story …