This table and map image list all of the stations visited to date, including the 4 widely separated cores obtained today. Click image to enlarge Today we continued our coring and covered a much wider area than yesterday but at lower sampling resolution. We started a transect at a point due east of the MississippiRead the story …
SITREP for May 6, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
We are still in the vicinity of Ground Zero and are continuing to collect sediment samples on several transects from the spill site to points north and west. We are looking for the effects of the oil with seems to be leaving the surface and settling towards the seafloor at an unknown rate. I haveRead the story …
Sociology Major Studies in Northern Ireland for Academic Credit, Lesson in History
May 11, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – American students usually learn another country’s history from afar. But University of Mississippi junior Kelly Pizzo has come to understand Northern Ireland’s recent storied past while studying there during the spring semester. Kelly Pizzo of Mandeville, La., tests the water in the Glendalough Valley of Ireland’s Wicklow National Park. Glendalough – meaningRead the story …
L-O-U Summer Sunset Series Kicks Off 10th Season June 6
May 11, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The 10th season of the Lafayette-Oxford-University Summer Sunset Series kicks off June 6 with the Mississippians Jazz Combo in the Grove at the University of Mississippi.
Cook Chair of History, Southern Studies Professor Charles Reagan Wilson Wins of Distinguished Research Award
May 10, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Charles Reagan Wilson’s list of achievements spans decades, continents and organizations. Most recently, the Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and professor of Southern Studies became the third recipient of the University of Mississippi’s Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award. UM Chancellor Dan Jones (right) congratulates Charles Reagan Wilson as thisRead the story …
U.S. News & World Report Ranks School of Business Administration in Nation’s Top 5 Percentile
May 10, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration rose significantly in U.S News & World Report’s latest annual ranking of the nation’s nearly 1,800 undergraduate business programs.
Journalism Students, Instructor Win PRAM Awards
May 10, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A record-breaking nine University of Mississippi journalism students and their instructor recently received honors from the state’s public relations association. Three of those students won top awards. Among the recent winners of Prism Awards are (front row, from left) Ainsley Rogers of Pontotoc, Erin Pollock of Washington, Ga., and Alex Cox ofRead the story …
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Challenges Graduates to Find Success by Serving Others
May 8, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Charging graduates with finding a way to serve others and leaving a lasting mark on society, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus asked them a familiar question Saturday morning in the Grove. “In your time at Ole Miss, you’ve heard this question probably a thousand times, and it’s almost a reflex,”Read the story …
Art, Modern Languages Professors Receive Awards for Outstanding Teaching at UM
May 7, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two professors in the University of Mississippi’s College of Liberal Arts have been recognized for excellence in classroom teaching and concern for students’ welfare. Glenn Hopkins, dean of the UM College of Liberal Arts, congratulates Jason Klodt, associate professor of modern languages, on being named the university’s Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher ofRead the story …
Dunns Express Commitment to Ole Miss With Planned Gift to University Libraries
May 7, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – As University of Mississippi students firmly committed to paying their own way through graduate school in the late 1970s, Jacque and Michael Dunn managed to make ends meet each month, thanks in part to his job at the J.D. Williams Library.