OXFORD, Miss – A grant from the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation for the University of Mississippi’s McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement will fund research and service aimed at increasing community and economic development in Mississippi communities. The McLean Institute welcomes a new group of outstanding students from around the globe thisRead the story …
McLean Institute Grant Award to Fund Community Engagement
Hearin Foundation provides support for research and service efforts
October 5, 2018 by
Stuttering Expert to Present Fall Institute Keynote, Campus Lecture
Patricia Zebrowski to present research at annual CSD conference and universitywide lecture
October 4, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Helping people who stutter is the focus of this year’s installment of the Ole Miss Fall Institute and a related campuswide lecture by a respected researcher and clinician in the field. Patricia Zebrowski, former director of the Stuttering Research Lab at the University of Iowa and professor emeritus in the university’s DepartmentRead the story …
Croft Institute Marks Its 20th Anniversary Friday
Events include alumni panels, commemoration ceremony
October 4, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi celebrates its 20th anniversary Friday (Oct. 5) with several events for UM alumni, students, faculty and staff. The institute welcomed its first cohort in 1998 after being created following a generous $60 million donation from the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund in September 1997. InRead the story …
UM Law Graduates Pass Mississippi Bar Exam Well Above State Average
More than 73 percent of first-time takers passed the state test
October 3, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Graduates of the University of Mississippi School of Law who were first-time takers of the Mississippi Bar Examination passed at a rate of 73.7 percent for the July 2018 cycle, substantially higher than the state’s average of 58.8 percent for graduates taking the bar exam for the first time. The overall stateRead the story …
LOU Symphony Treats Second-Graders to ‘Peter and the Wolf’
Show helps introduce children to orchestra while complementing other subjects
October 3, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Second-grade students from Lafayette County and Oxford schools experienced their own private symphony concert Monday (Oct. 1) when the LOU Symphony Orchestra presented Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” at the University of Mississippi’s Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. “We had a ball with the students,” said orchestra director SelimRead the story …
Josh Gladden Appointed to Top Research Position at UM
Vice chancellor role oversees Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
October 2, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Josh Gladden has been named vice chancellor for the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Mississippi following a nationwide search. The vice chancellor serves as the university’s chief research officer. Gladden, who joined the university in July 2005 as an assistant professor of physics and moved up through the ranks, had heldRead the story …
UM Museum Art Bidding in Progress
Online action will give way to silent auction at eighth annual Harvest Supper
October 2, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The artwork of several well-known artists, along with that of a few rising talents, is being bid on in an online auction to raise funds for the University of Mississippi Museum. Each year, Friends of the Museum hosts the event to raise funds and awareness for the University Museum and Historic Houses.Read the story …
UM Awards First Bonita Lyons and ZonaDale L. Taylor Legacy Scholarship
Community college transfer poised to complete bachelor's degree, pursue career in mental health
October 2, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – While unloading a truck at his part-time job at Wal-Mart, Steven Swinford received news that he had been awarded the first Dr. Bonita Lyons and ZonaDale L. Taylor Legacy scholarship at the University of Mississippi. His immediate response was disbelief. “I said, ‘Me? No, not me. I’ve never gotten anything like this,’” Swinford explained.Read the story …
School of Applied Sciences Honors Students of the Month
Madaline Ball and Meliah Grant recognized for academic excellence
October 1, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Applied Sciences has named Meliah Grant, of Jackson, as its Graduate Student of the Month and Madaline Ball, of Oxford, as Undergraduate Student of the Month for September. Having completed her undergraduate degree at UM, Grant is in her first semester of graduate school in communicationRead the story …
Accountancy Programs Maintain Top 10 Standing
School's degree programs continue string of elite rankings
October 1, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – All three degree programs at the University of Mississippi’s Patterson School of Accountancy are among the top 10 in the 2018 annual national rankings of accounting programs published by the Public Accounting Report. The undergraduate and doctoral programs are No. 7, while the master’s program is No. 9. The undergraduate program andRead the story …