OXFORD, Miss. – Organizers of an online crowdfunding campaign want to supplement medicine with music for young patients being treated at Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Members of the Columns Society, a group of UM students who serve as the university’s official hosts and hostesses, haveRead the story …
Crowdfunding Effort Aims to Offer Music as Medicine
Columns Society campaign focuses on pediatric health care
April 7, 2018 by
MPB’s ‘Conversations’ Features Chancellor Robert Khayat
Program premieres Sunday evening
April 6, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi Chancellor Emeritus Robert Khayat reflects on his life’s work and achievements for the next installment of “Conversations,” premiering at 5:30 p.m. Sunday (April 8) on Mississippi Public Broadcasting Television. Host Marshall Ramsey, who interviewed Khayat for the segment, said he’s wanted to have the former chancellor on the programRead the story …
Dual-Campus Research Day Fosters Collaborative Science
Researchers from Oxford and Jackson share ideas, results
April 5, 2018 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Members of the Jackson and Oxford research communities gathered April 4 for the fourth annual UM/UMMC Research Day in the Norman C. Nelson Student Union at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Research Day, held in alternating years at University of Mississippi’s Oxford and Medical Center campuses, is an opportunity for membersRead the story …
Pharmacy Graduate Student Wins Scholarship for Alzheimer’s Research
Award allows Purnendu Sharma to present results to experts in the field
April 5, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Purnendu Sharma, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, received an Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Young Investigator Scholarship for his research on the natural product resiniferatoxin, or RTX. Sharma’s project, titled “Effect of Resiniferatoxin, a TrpV1 Receptor Agonist on Neuronal CellsRead the story …
Alumni Association Names New Board Additions
Members serve three-year terms that expire at Homecoming
April 4, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Alumni Association has named new members of its board of directors. One-third of the board is appointed each year by the association president and serves a three-year term. New members are: LaToya Green (BBA 02) of Seattle; Ravonda L. Griffin (BAccy 01, MEd 05, JD 12) of OliveRead the story …
Isom Center Hosts 18th Annual Gender Conference
Interdisciplinary sessions explore how gender, race and socioeconomic status intersect
April 3, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies hosts the 18th annual Isom Student Gender Conference, with a theme of “Liberty and Justice for All,” this week at the University of Mississippi. The interdisciplinary conference, which explores the way gender, race and socioeconomic status intersect, was the first on campus toRead the story …
UM Departments Collaborate to Host ‘Radical South’ Series
Events include lectures, discussions, film screening and more
April 3, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi is hosting “The Radical South,” a conversation series this month that explores the complexity of Southern history and identity. The Isom Center, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Office of Diversity and Community EngagementRead the story …
UMMC Distinguished Professor Earns SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Jane Reckelhoff honored for teaching and research
April 2, 2018 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Jane Reckelhoff, Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor and chair of cell and molecular biology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, is the 2018 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award winner for the university. “I am truly honored to receive this recognition and am humbled to be a part of this distinguished groupRead the story …
Alumnus Surprises Student Pharmacist by Covering Tuition
Hartman lecturer Blake Thompson gives back to school, profession
April 2, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Blake Thompson, the 2018 Hartman lecturer for the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, surprised a crowd of student pharmacists, faculty, friends and family at the March 9 lecture by offering to cover a semester’s worth of tuition for one student. Thompson, a UM alumnus who is vice president for government affairsRead the story …
UM Issues a Firm Challenge
Law school challenges firms to support university
March 31, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Law is challenging 20 Mississippi firms to show their support for education by achieving 100 percent giving participation from their attorneys who are Ole Miss alumni. Recently, Adams and Reese LLP of Jackson became the first firm to reach 100 percent giving to the 2018 UMRead the story …