OXFORD, Miss. – According to the 2000 U.S. Census, fewer than one in five adults in Mississippi hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and the national statistic, one in every four, isn’t much better. Based on such dismal figures, the University of Mississippi School of Education has organized the national education policy forum “Education PolicyRead the story …

Ron Tenpas OXFORD, Miss. – As climate change issues begin to pop up in courts around the country, judges, attorneys and others in the legal field, as well as the general population, seek answers to questions about this little-understood emerging topic. In a related program Sept. 19 at the University of Mississippi, guest speaker RonaldRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – Walter G. Chambliss, director of technology management at the University of Mississippi, has been elected president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science. He will be installed during the organization’s annual meeting in April.

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi students who love politics and want to attend perhaps the biggest event in the university’s history – the first 2008 presidential debate – are lined up in teams getting ready to compete in the political quiz bowl Quiz Me.

OXFORD, Miss. – Forty-eight hours before presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama are scheduled to debate national security and foreign policy issues later this month at the University of Mississippi, a cadre of renowned authors, civil rights activists and educators meet on campus to discuss the transformation of politics in the South.

Robert Wuhl OXFORD Miss. – America’s founding fathers were humans, and humans make mistakes. For example, examine the first sentence of the Constitution, says comedian Robert Wuhl. “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union …” “There’s no such thing as more perfect,” said Robert Wuhl in theRead the story …

  Evelyn Crayton (right) of the American Dietetics Association Board of Directors explains that nutrition and prevention are the key to lower health care costs. Crayton joined (far left) John Clymer, president of the Partnership for Prevention; Steven Blair, professor of exercise science at the University of South Carolina; and Therese Hanna, executive director ofRead the story …

OXFORD, Miss. – With the federal government’s takeover this week of mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the real estate market and how banks lend money is a hotter topic than ever.

OXFORD, Miss. – Whether it’s the evening news on ABC, CBS or NBC, or the steady stream of talking heads on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC, voters seem to have grown used to – and in some cases, tired of – incessant media coverage of every minute detail of the presidential campaign.

OXFORD – As a physicist, James Reidy has been working toward this day for nearly 20 years – the day when scientists send the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile-diameter  Large Hadron Collider, buried 300 feet beneath the Swiss countryside near Geneva.