OXFORD, Miss. – It was a major issue in Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2004. Two years later it was the subject of an Oscar- and Nobel Prize-winning documentary. It continues to generate stories in the mainstream news media, getting blamed for many weather-related natural disasters and a growing number of endangered species.
Greenwood Couple Gives $321,000 to School of Engineering
March 18, 2008 by
Harper and Elsie Johnson. OXFORD, Miss. – For 93 years, University of Mississippi alumnus Harper Johnson has watched the world change. He remembers the tracks and locomotives that carried him to Oxford in 1935 to enroll at the university, and he recalls the building of highways back then that Ole Miss students still travel.Read the story …
UM, Oxford Habitat for Humanity Chapters Team Up to Build Home
March 18, 2008 by
UM custodian Barbara Walker says she is grateful to be part of Habitat’s efforts to build her new house. OXFORD – It’s been more than 30 years since Barbara Walker owned a home, and when she moved out, it wasn’t under the best of circumstances. She was in the process of splitting up withRead the story …
Engineering Faculty, Spouses Attend Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis
February 20, 2008 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Sometimes it’s really good to have friends in high places.
Faithful Alum Continues Giving: $150,000 Supports Math, Science Education
February 20, 2008 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi engineering alum and former Hungarian refugee John G. Adler keeps giving back to his alma mater.
UM Enters Partnership with Jordan University of Science and Technology
February 14, 2008 by
Wajih M. Owais (left), president of the Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Morris Stocks, interim provost at the University of Mississippi, sign an agreement that creates exchange opportunities for faculty, students and researchers at both institutions. UM photo by Kevin Bain OXFORD, Miss. – On its name alone, it’s not hard toRead the story …
Public Program Thursday to Mark Climate Change Awareness Day
February 6, 2008 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Roots and Shoots, an environmental awareness student organization at the University of Mississippi, is marking Climate Change Awareness Day Thursday in cooperation with Focus the Nation, a national education initiative.
Faculty, Staff Give $1.4 Million to MomentUM Campaign
February 6, 2008 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Faculty and staff at the University of Mississippi not only serve in classrooms, offices and buildings throughout the campus, but they also have contributed more than $1.4 million of their own resources toward the university’s MomentUM campaign.
Two Engineering Professors Awarded Nearly $4 Million in Homeland Security Grants
February 6, 2008 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Two University of Mississippi engineering professors have been awarded homeland security grants totaling nearly $4 million for studies on how to predict flood damages and improve infrastructures demolished in natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
Chemical Engineer, Daughter Write Biomedical Textbook
January 24, 2008 by
The text is the fifth in a series for Ajit Sadana (left), but it is the first book for daughter Dr. Neeti Sadana. OXFORD, Miss. – After years of writing critically acclaimed scholarly publications, University of Mississippi faculty member Ajit Sadana says his latest effort has to be his proudest literary accomplishment to date.