OXFORD, Miss. – When he was 14, Brian Michael Watson dropped out of high school. At 16, he earned his GED and went to work for five years as a union boilermaker.
Graduate Course Lets Engineering Students Apply Knowledge to Real-World Problems
January 4, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – When Shannon Wilson, a University of Mississippi graduate student from Fairfax Station, Va., signed up for a course in Service Learning in Water and Sanitation Engineering last fall, she didn’t know what to expect. But the environmental engineering major had heard that the class, taught by Cristiane Queiroz Surbeck, would give herRead the story …
Public Policy Leadership, Civil Engineering Student Studying in Northern Ireland
November 23, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Hannie “Parker” Capps of Sunflower, a senior at the University of Mississippi, is killing two birds with one stone while studying this semester at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Parker Capps
Study Abroad Students Continue to Give in Belize
November 13, 2009 by
OXFORD, Miss. – When Valerie Blair, a University of Mississippi junior from Corinth, and 11 fellow Ole Miss students landed in Ambergris Caye, Belize, they didn’t know what to expect. But every one of them knew why they were there: to serve school children in an impoverished area of San Mateo. UM students Rebecca WernerRead the story …