OXFORD, Miss. – Twenty-six business students return to the University of Mississippi this fall smarter and with stories to tell about studying abroad in England, Ireland and the Czech Republic. The travel during the university’s two-week May Intersession was arranged with help from alumni and the guidance of faculty members. The students enjoyed learning experiencesRead the story …

Noon Brown Bag program at CSSC features fun film OXFORD, Miss. – Food, drink and films highlight the Potlikker Film Festival scheduled Aug. 22 at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center in Oxford. The Southern Foodways Alliance, housed at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, teamed up with theRead the story …

Chancellor Robert Khayat with Anamaria Caradine. Courtesy photo. OXFORD, Miss. – Two Mississippi students have been chosen to receive the University of Mississippi’s $40,000 W.R. Newman Scholarship, which is among the state’s largest awards for undergraduates. Anamaria Elizabeth Caradine of Vardaman and Amanda McIntire Daggett of Jackson, who will enter UM as freshmen this fall,Read the story …

Tucker Carrington  OXFORD,Miss. – The director of the Mississippi Innocence Project housed at the University of Mississippi School of Law has been selected to head a state task force studying issues surrounding DNA testing. Tucker Carrington, MIP director, came to UM from Georgetown Law School in fall 2007 to lead the newly established state Innocence Project. HeRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – Boxers or briefs?” It’s not a question University of Mississippi senior Willow Nero imagined she’d ever ask a group of strangers, but that’s just what the Bay St. Louis native did during her summer internship at knoxnews.com. Of her investigative reporting on the city of Knoxville, Tenn., and its former standing asRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Mississippi’s connections to presidential politics are well documented in a yearlong exhibit of memorabilia to be unveiled Aug. 18, in anticipation of the Sept. 26 Presidential Debate hosted on the Oxford campus. University Libraries presents “Hail to the Chief!”, a display highlighting U.S. presidents and Mississippi’s role in pastRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. — Two University of Mississippi research centers with very different missions are collaborating on a slate of projects with the goal of discovering and developing natural products for new applications in health, agriculture and ecological preservation. The National Center for Natural Products Research and the Center for Water and Wetland Resources are teamingRead the story …

Education attorney Jim Keith of Adams and Reese in Jackson, addresses an estimated 2,300 north Mississippi school teachers Monday on cyberbullying and other inappropriate uses of the Internet between educators and students as part of a half-day, back-to-school convocation at the University of Mississippi. UM photo by Kevin Bain. OXFORD, Miss. — The Internet isRead the story …

Leigh Ann Ross OXFORD, Miss. – Leigh Ann Ross has been named chair of pharmacy practice and associate dean for clinical affairs at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. She replaces H. Joseph Byrd, who retired July 1. The UM pharmacy alumna has spent the previous two years as a legislative assistant with U.S.Read the story …