OXFORD, Miss. – More than 20 robots and their student designers are on their way to the University of Mississippi this week as part of the inaugural FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament. Hosted by the UM Center for Mathematics and Science Education, the event will take place Saturday (March 2) at the university’s Jackson AvenueRead the story …
Robots Are Coming To Ole Miss
Center for Mathematics and Science Education Hosts Robotics Challenge
March 1, 2013 by
AmeriCorps Members Training at Ole Miss
March 1, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss – About 140 AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) are giving Camp Lake Stephens a facelift for summer youth, and are training at the Rebel Challenge Course at the University of Mississippi on Friday, March 1, 2013, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. “Camp Lake Stephens is fortunate to have these young people comeRead the story …
Ole Miss Grad Fair Scheduled For March 5-7
All students walking in May encouraged to attend
February 26, 2013 by
Commencement is just around the corner and the University of Mississippi Office of the Dean of Students encourages all students who will be walking in May to participate in the 2013 Ole Miss Grad Fair, scheduled from Tuesday, March 5 to Thursday, March 7 in the Union. The following departments and entities will be availableRead the story …
TEDxTalk Featuring UM Alumna Sandra Bloodworth
February 26, 2013 by
UM alumna Sandra Bloodworth, co-author of Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit and the MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design Director, tells the story of the rebirth of the New York subway system thanks in part to the introduction of public art at TEDxCapeMay 2012.
Former UM Basketball, Football Player Hoping to Repay Dallas Cowboys
February 22, 2013 by
DALLAS, Texas – University of Mississippi art professor Matt Long has a longstanding tradition of inviting his ceramics students to his home, where they make pottery in a wood-burning kiln. When the professor altered his tradition by inviting a 6-foot-6-inch, nearly 300-pound Ole Miss Rebel basketball and football player to join the group in 2008,Read the story …
BancorpSouth Grove Bowl Set For April 13
Grace Potter, Jerrod Niemann to play free concert in the Grove on April 12
February 21, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – As a thank you to Rebel Nation for their unprecedented support this athletics year, Ole Miss Athletics and the M-Club are providing free admission to the BancorpSouth Grove Bowl, the Rebel football team’s annual spring intrasquad scrimmage, on April 13. Read the story.
Ole Miss Food Bank Seeking Donations
Organization accepting cash, check and canned goods
February 18, 2013 by
It was the elephant in your college dorm room. You were hungry and payday was days away. You were forced to ask the question no one wants to ask, “Will you loan me some money?” While it’s a struggle we all have faced at one time, universities around the country have students with varying degreesRead the story …
Local Guys Read Chapter To Meet On Campus Today
February 18, 2013 by
Guys Read, a monthly book club for Oxford boys in grades 4-7, will meet this afternoon at 3:45 p.m. at the Civil Rights Monument on campus to discuss We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March. The group will hear from University of Mississippi assistant professors Otis Pickett (Education) and Patrick Alexander (English, AfricanRead the story …
Former ASB President, UM Hall of Fame Inductee Joins D.C. Firm as Partner
Barnett to lead Venable LLP Cybersecurity Initiatives
February 8, 2013 by
WASHINGTON, DC – Enhancing its leadership in communications and cybersecurity law, Venable LLP announced that James Arden Barnett, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN (Retired), has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC. Jamie Barnett is the former Chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission. He becomes co-chairRead the story …
New Hope for Addicts
January 25, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to quickly grasp what a University of Mississippi professor’s research could mean to the millions of people addicted to hardcore narcotics such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and morphine. School of Pharmacy faculty member Christopher R. McCurdy has made it his mission to find and develop compoundsRead the story …