‘Growing Our Own’ from Spot On Productions LLC on Vimeo. OXFORD, Miss. – When a Spot On Productions camera crew arrived at the University of Mississippi last summer, they weren’t sure exactly what to expect. There was no script, professional actors or special effects. A year later, their efforts have yielded a buzz-generating documentary aboutRead the story …
Winter Institute 2011 Summer Youth Program Chronicled in Documentary
Film follows students as they learn to lead racial reconciliation efforts
October 31, 2012 by
Phi Kappa Phi Initiates Fall 2012
October 29, 2012 by
The University of Mississippi’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi welcomed 206 new members in an initiation ceremony Sunday, Oct. 28, at the David Nutt Auditorium. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines. Membership is based on a student’s sound character and academic standing. Juniors mustRead the story …
Engineering students’ paper takes second place in national competition
Ole Miss duo bests entries from 11 other engineering colleges
October 29, 2012 by
What began as a class assignment has become an award-winning entry in a national paper competition for two mechanical engineering graduate students at the University of Mississippi. Matt Nelms of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Graham Jacobs of Sacramento, Calif., won second place in the American National Standards Institute’s inaugural student paper competition. The duo’s entryRead the story …
Computer and Information Sciences welcomes three faculty members
October 29, 2012 by
Before last August, Jianxia “Jane” Xue, Feng Wang and Byunghyun Jang knew of each other only by name. Since then, the three newest additions to the University of Mississippi Department of Computer and Information Science faculty have found common ground both professionally and personally. All three assistant professors joined the department because of its reputationRead the story …
Donate to the Samuel L. DeLeeuw Civil Engineering Endowment
October 29, 2012 by
We would like to thank so many of you who have read the dean’s newsletter and sent your thoughts and comments. Your gracious comments about the Sam DeLeeuw story give us the opportunity to address a major concern. Dr. DeLeeuw has a civil engineering fund in his name, but it has not attained endowment status.Read the story …
Former NASA administrator enjoys new role in aerospace industry
October 29, 2012 by
William “Bill” Parsons no longer works for NASA, but as president and CEO of RD AMROSS LLC, the University of Mississippi engineering alumnus remains a fixture in the aerospace industry. A joint venture between Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., and NPO Energomash, a Russian rocket engine producer, the Cocoa Beach, Fla.-based companyRead the story …
‘Mr. Tailgating’ a fixture during football season
October 29, 2012 by
When football season arrives, Greg Easson always assumes his position. Not on the gridiron but on the lawn in front of Brevard Hall on the Circle. With his cap atop his head, an apron around his body and a spatula in hand, the director of UM’s Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute and professor of geology andRead the story …
Two Students Killed in Car Accident
October 27, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two University of Mississippi students were killed Saturday (Oct. 27) in an accident near the intersection of U.S. Highway 278 and State Highway 7. The car carrying Sarah Katherine Wheat, a communication science and disorders major, and her brother John William Wheat, an accountancy major, was struck by another vehicle. Sarah WheatRead the story …
UM Education Graduate Student Helps Rebuild Smithville School Library One Book at a Time
Application completed for class project lands $15,000 grant
October 27, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – After an EF-5 tornado demolished the town of Smithville in April 2011, many citizens did not know where to begin to rebuild what was left of the lives they once knew. For Kerry Baker, librarian at Smithville High School and an online graduate student at the University of Mississippi, one step towardRead the story …
New Food Professorship Gets Support From Atlanta Couple
Donation will help endow professorship in expanding academic area
October 25, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Kristie and Charles Abney of Atlanta have made a major gift to the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, to help meet the goal of endowing a professorship in the growing academic study of foodways. “We made the gift because weRead the story …