Have you even been driving around and seen a car with a giant camera on top? Well, that is Google Street View. They drive all around the country capturing each and every road, so that we can have an interactive view of the country. I thought the car was pretty cool, until I saw theRead the story …
Khayat Memoir Receives Publishing Award
Book recounts time Chancellor Emeritus spent at Ole Miss
May 20, 2014 by
OXFORD, Miss. — Robert Khayat, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Mississippi, has added another feather to his cap with the announcement that his memoir The Education of a Lifetime (Nautilus Publishing) won a 2014 Independent Publishers Association of America award for best memoir in the nation by a small press. The New York Times rankedRead the story …
Commencement Through the Lenses of UM Photographers
May 19, 2014 by
Check out this cool video on the official Ole Miss News YouTube channel that shows how the University of Mississippi’s 2014 Commencement looked through the lenses of UM Photographers Robert Jordan, Kevin Bain and Nathan Latil.
The Search Is Over
Recent initiation brings surprising, enjoyable new experience
May 16, 2014 by
Up until a few months ago, I had never had the experience of serving on a University of Mississippi search committee of any kind. I’d served on other campus committees (i.e., United Way, Black History Month and Disaster Resistant University), but no one had ever asked me to serve on a search committee. Never mindRead the story …
It Takes Four Years to Bloom
Rare Titam Arum plant's bloom is a spectacle that happens only once every four years ...
May 15, 2014 by
Researchers in the UM Natural Product Center are witnessing an event worthy of photographing. The rare Titam Arum plant, also known as the corpse flower, is currently blooming at the Medicinal gardens greenhouse. Ole Miss researchers say the one in the Natural Product Center only blooms once every four years. According to this U.S. Botanic Garden article,Read the story …
Did You Know? UM’s Sarah Isom Center Has An Interesting Namesake
Isom, hired at UM in 1885, was the South's first female faculty member at a co-ed institution of higher learning
May 14, 2014 by
It’s always interesting to research the people the University of Mississippi names its buildings and various campus centers after. Mary Stanton Knight, my University Communications coworker, has written pieces for this blog in the past about some of the namesakes for our campus buildings. Recently, I was looking through some UM historical information and found outRead the story …
In Search of Buffaloes
May 13, 2014 by
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve become increasingly interested in my family genealogy. Whether that’s because Ancestry.com has done some great advertising or I’ve just wanted to understand where I come from, I can’t be completely sure. Regardless, I’ve been fascinated with family history thanks to the internet and digitization of U.S. census data. Last weekend,Read the story …
Watermelons and Stupid Pet Tricks
May 12, 2014 by
Many years ago, long before anyone on the current Daily Mississippi staff was born, I was a staff writer for the DM. At that same time, a brash young talk show host had just been given a late night slot following the legendary Johnny Carson. The younger guy was the antithesis of Carson and TomRead the story …
Staff Appreciation Kicks Off Next Week
May 9, 2014 by
While the semester has been winding down, the pace of work on campus has accelerated rapidly as commencement grows closer. Next week, Staff Council hosts its annual Staff Appreciation Week with lots of events to help unwind. A few of the perks? Free Turner Center Access – Full-time staff members (and their guests, as longRead the story …
Undeniable Proof You Need to Play More Video Games
May 8, 2014 by
I’m not a big “gamer,” but I do enjoy grabbing my Playstation 3 controller and playing video games from time to time. Now that I’ve become an adult, gotten married and have a full-time job, I can no longer stay up all night playing first-person shooter games like Halo or sports games like NCAA FootballRead the story …