OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s Department of Modern Languages is offering a program to build students’ fluency in one of three languages, along with an opportunity to apply their knowledge in an international location. Through on-campus study and intensive language study abroad, students can achieve a higher level of proficiency in Japanese, GermanRead the story …
UM Program Helps Improve Foreign Language Proficiency
Students benefit from intensive on-campus and international study
March 4, 2013 by
Professor’s Book Tackles Modern Relevance of CCC, VISTA and AmeriCorps
First book to focus on history and impact of the three national service programs
March 1, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt created America’s first and largest domestic national service program, the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was popular but short-lived, while other, more controversial, national service programs, such as Volunteers in Service to America and AmeriCorps, survived. Why?
Building Communities Around Sustainability
Food Summit examines healthy food for Mississippians
February 26, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Answers to the question “how do we get healthy food to Mississippians from the field to the table” will be examined Friday (March 1) during a Food Summit in Oxford. The University of Mississippi Department of Public Policy Leadership and the Appalachian Regional Commission, collaborating with the university’s Trent Lott Leadership Institute,Read the story …
UM Scientist’s Space Seeds Onboard for NASA’s SpaceX-2 Launch
Experiment could lead the way to growing edible crops on Mars, moon in future
February 26, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – When NASA launches SpaceX-2 Friday (March 1) at Cape Canaveral, University of Mississippi Graduate School Dean John Z. Kiss will be there observing with great pleasure and high expectations. That’s because Kiss’ seedling growth experiment will be onboard the vessel, which has the International Space Station as its destination. The launch isRead 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 …
Author to Discuss Her Investigation into the Nation’s Food Industry
Tracie McMillian slated for public lecture Monday at Ford Center
February 21, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s Center for Writing and Rhetoric and the Southern Foodways Alliance have teamed up to co-host a lecture next week by award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan on the realities of our country’s food industry. The lecture, at 7 p.m. Monday (Feb. 25) in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for theRead the story …
Environmental Studies Film Series Begins Feb. 20
February 19, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Environmental Studies program will kick off its second film series on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium with a screening of “Surviving Progress.” A second film, “Dirt,” will be shown on Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m., also in the Overby Center Auditorium.Read the story …
Video: From the Gridiron to the Classroom
February 19, 2013 by
Former University of Mississippi middle linebacker Jonathan Cornell has gone from breaking through offensive linemen to teaching Meridian High School students about African American literature and public speaking during his first year in the Mississippi Teacher Corps. Video by Brandon Rook.
Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist, Flecktones Percussionist Set UM Clinic
Renowned musicians to perform and discuss their music Wednesday in free, public event
February 15, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two renowned jazz and rock musicians, who have a combined eight Grammy Awards, are coming to the University of Mississippi for a free music clinic next week. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin and percussionist Roy Wooten will perform and discuss their music from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 20) in Nutt Auditorium. TheRead the story …