OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi will salute veterans with a full week of activities beginning Friday (Nov. 8) and continuing through Nov. 16. More than 400 student veterans are enrolled at the university. The celebration begins with the Ole Miss-Troy University men’s basketball game, set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Tad Smith Coliseum.Read the story …
UM Salutes Veterans with Week of Activities
Events include football and basketball games, Ford Center production and review ceremony
November 7, 2013 by
Center for Writing and Rhetoric Opens Faculty Grant Program
All full-time faculty members invited to apply for two types of seed grants to boost writing instruction
November 6, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s Center for Writing and Rhetoric is launching a new effort to improve writing instruction across campus, a series of faculty grants to be awarded in the spring. The Faculty Seed Grants are the final phase of the Quality Enhancement Plan, which began in 2009. Applications for Faculty SeedRead the story …
Longtime UM Educator Chester Quarles Dead at 69
Professor remembered as a colleague, mentor, encourager and loyal friend
November 4, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Chester L. Quarles, of Tula, a longtime University of Mississippi educator and respected international criminal justice expert, died Thursday (Oct. 31) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was 69. A UM criminal justice professor emeritus, Quarles wrote extensively on school safety and worked with administrators and law enforcementRead the story …
Nashville Singer-Songwriter Featured in New UM Documentary
Filmmaker Rex Jones' 'Beautiful Jim' premieres Nov. 7 in Oxford
November 1, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Inspiration can strike at any time, even while searching through an old junk pile. For documentary filmmaker Rex Jones, the inspiration for his upcoming film came while studying old Coca-Cola bottles. “I’m always looking for movie ideas and I’m lucky here in that I have the freedom to make movies that reflectRead the story …
Overby Panel to Focus on JFK’s Influence on Politics, Media Coverage
Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant and CBS News' Susan Spencer set for 'Hail and Farewell'
October 31, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The late President John F. Kennedy’s role in revolutionizing American politics and press coverage will be the focus of a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 7) at the University of Mississippi’s Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. This semester, Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby and Overby fellow Curtis Wilkie haveRead the story …
Former Secretary of Education Visits Honors College
Bill Bennett talks to students about raising teaching standards in nation's schools
October 30, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Former U. S. Secretary of Education William “Bill” Bennett, host of the nationally syndicated radio program “Morning in America,” talked with Honors College students during a round table forum earlier this week at the University of Mississippi. Bennett’s offering of seasoned insight about education in the United States was driven by aRead the story …
Private Gifts Endow Foodways Professorship
UM now searches for top scholar to fill position for 2014-15
October 29, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has long led the nation in documentary work about foodways, the cultural and culinary practices of a region or group. With a new endowed professorship, the SFA aims to drive foodways scholarship,Read the story …
Ole Miss United Way Campaign Under Way
University's Leadership level giving is among highest in SEC
October 28, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Following a record-breaking local campaign in 2012, the University of Mississippi is keeping the goal for its annual United Way campaign in line with last year’s. The university has again set a campaign goal of raising at least $155,000 of the United Way’s $525,000 communitywide goal. The university fell just shy ofRead the story …
UM English Professor Receives Rare Honor
Jay Watson's latest book wins honorable mention from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
October 24, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi English professor Jay Watson has won a rare honorable mention for the Holman Award for his latest book, “Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985.” The award, which is named for esteemed Southern literature scholar C. Hugh Holman, who taught at the University of NorthRead the story …
UM Professor’s Book Gaining Positive Reviews
'A Short Bright Flash' tells the story of a groundbreaking lighthouse technology that saved untold lives
October 22, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A new book by Theresa Levitt, an associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi, is attracting attention from scholars, book reviewers and readers across the country. “A Short Bright Flash: Augustin Fresnel and the Birth of the Modern Lighthouse” (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013) tells the story of how Fresnel,Read the story …