Interdisciplinary work between three Ole Miss professors led to the development of a potentially revolutionary device in the communications science and disorders field. Video by Mary Stanton.
Cultural Historian from Emory University To Discuss Legacies of Racism in Deep South
Lecture will examine the links between mental illness, racism and anti-Semitism.
October 18, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss.- Sander L. Gilman, a distinguished professor of the liberal arts and sciences and professor of psychiatry at Emory University, will discuss “How Did Anti-Semitism and Racism Become Mental Illness? From Anti-Semitic Vienna to Segregated Topeka, Kansas” on Thursday (Oct. 25) at 5:30 p.m. in Bryant Hall, Room 209, with a reception to follow. On theRead the story …
UM Researchers Create Device to Help Stutterers
Interdisciplinary team developing prosthetic as part of a complete treatment program
October 17, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Drawing on one another’s expertise, a trio of University of Mississippi faculty members from different areas of campus has created a patent-pending device that could change the lives of people who stutter. Paul Goggans, an electrical engineering professor, developed the prosthetic device, about the size of a cell phone, with Greg Snyder,Read the story …
Former Dean Gets National Honor for ‘Shaping’ the Pharmacy Profession
Barbara G. Wells receives ACCP's 2012 Parker Medal
October 15, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The American College of Clinical Pharmacy has selected Barbara G. Wells, professor and dean emeritus of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, as its 2012 Paul F. Parker Medalist and will honor her Oct. 21, during the opening session of its annual meeting in Hollywood, Fla. Wells was nominated for theRead the story …
Pharmacy School Recognizes Faculty for Research, Innovation and Service
Autism and psychoactive drugs among research topics recognized
October 15, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has recognized four faculty members for excellence in research, instructional innovation and service. The awards, announced during the school’s recent annual fall faculty retreat, went to Jordan Zjawiony, professor of pharmacognosy and research professor in the university’s Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Rahul Khanna, assistant professor ofRead the story …
Environmental Professor Speaks Oct. 16
October 13, 2012 by
Author Katharine Wilkerson will speak Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom at the University of Mississippi as part of the National Science Foundation funded Climate Literacy Partnership in the Southeast (CLiPSE) project. Wilkerson will discuss and sign her book entitled “Between God and Green,” a study of evangelical Christian viewpointsRead the story …
Improving Community Pharmacy Care
Oct. workshop to show patient care system created by UM professors.
October 12, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Current technology has given community pharmacies a unique opportunity to reinvent the way they do business, and an Oct. 19 workshop is set to show Mississippi pharmacists a system that can change their traditional model. “Community pharmacy is at a crossroads,” said Benjamin F. Banahan, director of the Center for Pharmaceutical MarketingRead the story …
Love of Snakes Sends UM Student to Ethiopia
Tim Colston named Fulbright Scholar
October 10, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Animals have always fascinated Tim Colston, a doctoral student in biology at the University of Mississippi. As a child, he set up a large screened tent and filled it with butterflies and potted flowers to see which plants they would visit most often. Later, while watching and waiting for toad eggs toRead the story …
Southern Scholar to Discuss Civil Rights-Era Photography
Grace Hale gives Gilder-Jordan lecture Oct. 10
October 9, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Virginia professor and Southern scholar will give the annual Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History next week at the University of Mississippi. Grace Elizabeth Hale will present “‘So the Whole World Can See’: Documentary Photography and Film in the Civil Rights Era” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 10) in NuttRead the story …
U.S. Attorney Panel Discusses Bullying and ‘School to Prison Pipeline’ at UM
October is national Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
October 8, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – “At 12 p.m. today, I received a phone call that a 10-year-old had committed suicide,” Family Court Judge Chandlee Kuhn told an audience of mostly law students recently at the University of Mississippi School of Law. “Bullying was a factor; child mental health and the Division of Family Services were involved; andRead the story …