Deepak Mantena shows off his iPhone application “Wordy.” UM photo by Robert Jordan   OXFORD, Miss. – Since the new iPhone 3G launched last week, Deepak Mantena has been seeing dollar signs. That’s because many people have been buying both the phone and downloading four software applications designed by the University of Mississippi computer scienceRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – An exhibition by internationally renowned artist William Christenberry opens this weekend at the University of Mississippi Museum. The exhibit, “William Christenberry: Site/Possession,” which runs through Sept. 21, opens with a 1 p.m. reception Sunday (July 20) for the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Both Christenberry and Andrea Douglas, curator at the University ofRead the story …

John Latartara OXFORD, Miss. – John Latartara has studied Thai music for several years, and thanks to the Fulbright Scholar Program, he is preparing to spend five months researching Thai melodies at their source. Latartara, assistant professor of music at the University of Mississippi, leaves July 22 for Bangkok, where he is to lecture atRead the story …

Opening reception set for July 20 Long Beach, Nov. 2005 OXFORD, Miss. – Faces of despair. Telephones wrapped around fences. A concrete bridge broken into pieces. These are some of the images portrayed by noted Vicksburg photographer Melody Golding in her national traveling exhibit “Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember.” The photos are on display through theRead the story …

Creighton Wilson Jr., from the 1951 Ole Miss yearbook OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumnus Creighton Wilson of Gainesville, Fla., has created the Dr. Creighton L. Wilson Scholarship Endowment at UM with a gift of $100,000. “I wanted to repay Ole Miss for all it has done for me,” Wilson said. “Although I don’tRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi freshman Brent Brislin of Apollo Beach, Fla., is convinced that the JumpStart program he’s enrolled in on the Oxford campus this summer lives up to its name. “It does exactly what it says,” Brislin said. “It gives you a head start on everybody else.” Brislin is among 107 incomingRead the story …

James Robert Woolsey OXFORD, Miss. – James Robert Woolsey, 72, director of the Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute at the University of Mississippi, died Wednesday (July 9) in an auto accident near Batesville. A renowned geologist and expert in undersea mineral resources, Woolsey led efforts to establish a gas hydrate monitoring station on the floor ofRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – Eighteen students from Mississippi and four others from Alabama, Illinois, Tennessee and Texas enter the University of Mississippi this fall on prestigious scholarships to the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College. The McDonnell Barksdale Honors Scholarships, Donald S. Pichitino Scholarships and Harold Parker Memorial Scholarships, at $32,000 each, are attracting top-notch students toRead the story …

Tung-Hui Hu OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence Tung-Hui Hu is slated to read selections from his work Tuesday evening (July 8) at Off Square Books in Oxford. The reading starts at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Refreshments are to be provided. Hu, 29, who plansRead the story …