OXFORD, Miss. – Wherever U.S. troops are deployed, they must guard not only against their country’s human foes but also whatever Mother Nature throws at them from her well-stocked arsenal. Her weapons include a barrage of blood-feeding arthropods – mosquitoes, lice, sand flies, ticks, mites, stable flies and bed bugs – and the diseases theyRead the story …
UM, USDA and DOD Join Forces to Protect Troops Deployed Abroad
Their mission: Neutralize threats posed by blood-feeding, disease-carrying insects
November 12, 2013 by
Professor and Author to Give UM’s Baine Lecture
Kathryn Miles to discuss 'All Standing: Escape from Famine' in Nov. 20 presentation
November 12, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Kathryn Miles, author of an acclaimed book that about a ship that carried passengers escaping Ireland’s potato famine, will give the University of Mississippi’s Edith T. Baine Lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Oxford-University Depot. Miles, a creative nonfiction writer, was a professor of environmental writing at Unity College in MaineRead the story …
UM Educational Research Center Named in Honor of Maxine Harper
Lori Wolff leads Dr. Maxine Harper Center for Educational Research and Evaluation
November 11, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s Center for Educational Research and Evaluation has been named in honor of its former director, the late Maxine Harper. The designation was announced Friday (Nov. 8) after a memorial service at Paris-Yates Chapel. Harper, a special education professor, was a quadriplegic whose cerebral palsy confined her to aRead the story …
UM to Incorporate Fitness into Elementary Education Program
New emphasis combines physical activity with learning in the classroom
November 8, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi is designing a new curriculum to train future elementary teachers who will specialize in integrating health and physical activity into their classrooms to improve student achievement. The project is being completed with $1.2 million in external support from The Bower Foundation of Ridgeland. With 740 undergraduates, elementary educationRead the story …
Journalism Students Have Hand in New Season of ‘Oxford Sounds’
Series premieres Nov. 7 on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, some students credited as associate producers
November 7, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi and its Meek School of Journalism and New Media will play a key role in the production this season of “Oxford Sounds” on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, airing at 9 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 7). An hourlong series documenting and discovering the music and musicians that are a part ofRead the story …
Don’t Miss Pride and Joy, the Newest SFA Feature Documentary
November 6, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Pride & Joy, the SFA’s feature documentary by Joe York, is coming to a small screen near you. So near you, in fact, that it’s probably in your living room. (For those of you who haven’t finished your coffee yet, we’re talking about your television.) Here are your chances to catch PrideRead the story …
Media Executives Set to Speak at ACT 4 Experience
UM Magazine Innovation Center to host fourth annual conference
November 5, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi is preparing for its fourth annual Amplify, Clarify & Testify, or ACT, Experience conferment this week at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. This year’s event will focus on digital and print as an integrated force – not either/or, butRead the story …
Longtime UM Educator Chester Quarles Dead at 69
Professor remembered as a colleague, mentor, encourager and loyal friend
November 4, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Chester L. Quarles, of Tula, a longtime University of Mississippi educator and respected international criminal justice expert, died Thursday (Oct. 31) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was 69. A UM criminal justice professor emeritus, Quarles wrote extensively on school safety and worked with administrators and law enforcementRead the story …
Nashville Singer-Songwriter Featured in New UM Documentary
Filmmaker Rex Jones' 'Beautiful Jim' premieres Nov. 7 in Oxford
November 1, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Inspiration can strike at any time, even while searching through an old junk pile. For documentary filmmaker Rex Jones, the inspiration for his upcoming film came while studying old Coca-Cola bottles. “I’m always looking for movie ideas and I’m lucky here in that I have the freedom to make movies that reflectRead the story …
Overby Panel to Focus on JFK’s Influence on Politics, Media Coverage
Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant and CBS News' Susan Spencer set for 'Hail and Farewell'
October 31, 2013 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The late President John F. Kennedy’s role in revolutionizing American politics and press coverage will be the focus of a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 7) at the University of Mississippi’s Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. This semester, Overby Center Chairman Charles Overby and Overby fellow Curtis Wilkie haveRead the story …