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Issue 455: November 2024, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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University's Eac Report Card Posted, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi is once again making its Education Achievement Council report card available to the public.

Entrepreneurship Summit To Discuss Pathways To Success, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will host its sixth annual REDe Entrepreneurship Summit on Nov. 7 in the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union.

Adopt-A-Basket Program Helping Feed Um Families, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – With Thanksgiving approaching, the University of Mississippi community is pulling together to provide meals for university families in need.

Building A Resume/Cv With Overleaf/Latex, Sian Lee

Open Access Week

Learn How to Build Your Resume/CV Using Overleaf/LaTeX
In this workshop, you will learn how to use a provided LaTeX template to build your resume or CV. If time permits, I will also cover how to use LaTeX templates to prepare manuscripts for conferences or journals.
To fully participate in this hands-on workshop, please bring your own laptop with internet access. Note that this workshop will NOT teach you how to write a resume or CV, but rather how to format your existing one using a provided LaTeX template. Therefore, I highly recommend bringing a draft of your resume or …

Youth Participatory Action Research In Reference To Mental Health: A Scoping Review Protocol, Tess Johnson, Marie Barnard, Allison Ford-Wade, Hannah Allen, Ruaa Al Juborri

Faculty and Student Publications

This review seeks to see how Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has been utilized to explore Mental Health Literacy (MHL) among adolescents, what outcomes have come from utilizing YPAR in interventions with adolescents and what the current gaps in the literature are regarding the utilization of YPAR to examine MHL with adolescents. A PCC framework (participants/population, construct, context) will be applied to the review (Peters et al., 2015).

Ole Miss Honors Nine Distinguished Alumni, Business Leaders, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi honored business giants and servant leaders Thursday (Oct. 24) by inducting them into the school's inaugural Hall of Fame.

Brown Bag Lunch & Learn: Textbook Affordability, Brian Young, Mahek Sota

Open Access Week

Bring your lunch and join Brian, Elizabeth, and Mahek as they talk about how the UM Libraries can support faculty and instructors in providing affordable textbooks for their courses.

News You Can Use: How To Handle An Opioid Overdose, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – No one wants to witness an opioid overdose, but everyone should know what to do if they encounter a person suffering from an overdose, a University of Mississippi police officer advises.

October 24, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Transcribing Audio & Video With Whisper, Abbie Norris-Davidson, Shelby Watson

Open Access Week

Interested in content creation, research with audio or video, or data processing? Want to learn more about a free tool for transcribing audiovisual content? This Open Access Week session will focus on Whisper, a widely used open source tool for transcribing audiovisual content. We'll explore its features, practical applications, and demonstrate how to use the tool for automating transcription tasks.
Participants are welcome to listen and watch or follow along with the demonstration on their own devices. If you'd like to follow along with the session demonstration, please make sure you have installed Whisper and its dependencies (particularly ffmpeg) before …

Automating The Collection Of Open Access Publications To Egrove, Abbie Norris-Davidson, Mahek Sota

Open Access Week

Join us for a 1-hour presentation featuring the University of Mississippi's Digital Initiatives Librarian and Applications Analyst as they delve into the process of automating the collection of open access (OA) faculty publications. This session will focus on the integration of platforms like Scopus and PubMed to identify and import OA publications into the institutional repository, eGrove.
The Digital Initiatives Librarian will demonstrate how to leverage eGrove's built-in Scopus API to efficiently add these publications. Meanwhile, the Applications Analyst will present the Python-based scraping code she developed to automate the collection process from external databases.
Additionally, the presenters will discuss …

Cleaning Up China: The Role Of Pollution Of Liability Insurance, Alecia Cassidy

Speaker Series

Dr. Alecia Cassidy joins us to discuss "Cleaning up China: The Role of Pollution Liability Insurance" on October 21st, 2024 in Croft's Joseph C. Bancroft Conference room at 6:00 pm. Dr. Cassidy is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies at the University of Alabama, with a Ph.D. in economics rom the University of Michigan. Her research spans environmental and energy economics, urban economics, and real estate economics.

10.21.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

Jerry Martin

NIH Grants Process Primer Training

Nature Masterclasses Writing a Review Paper Course

October 21, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Empowering Community, Engagement & Service, Albert Nylander, Laura Martin, Dayton Ashby

Publications of the Grisham-McLean Institute

"This is a publication of the Grisham-McLean Institute for Public Service and Community Engagement."

North Mississippi Vista Project: National Service In Action, 2024, University Of Mississippi. Grisham-Mclean Institute For Public Service And Community Engagement, Dayton Ashby

Publications of the Grisham-McLean Institute

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October 17, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Ole Miss Partners With Texas A&M, Virginia Tech For Novel Ai Study, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Colleges and universities across the globe are grappling with artificial intelligence without a consensus on how best to approach one of the fastest-growing technologies of the era.

Um Team To Combat Opioid Overdose In North Mississippi, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The number of deaths from the opioid crisis decreased nationwide in 2023, but Mississippi's opioid-related fatalities are still on the rise, a recent report concludes.

Ole Miss Becomes Member Of Age-Friendly University Network, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has joined a worldwide collaboration of colleges and universities that support healthy and active aging across the lifespan.

Gift Provides A Boon For Business Students, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Charles Doty's recent gift to the University of Mississippi will help School of Business Administration students participating in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

From Shelves To Statutes: An Overview Of Library Laws And Policies, Harley Rogers

Library Presentations

This session will offer an overview of laws pertinent to libraries, along with corresponding policies that all types of libraries can implement to ensure compliance and protection for all parties involved. The legal areas will include the First Amendment, internet and social media, and privacy and confidentiality. The presenter will explain the relevance of specific laws and court cases to libraries using straightforward language and provide examples of policies to protect the rights of patrons and employees, as well as to limit libraries’ risk of facing potential legal action. The session aims to stimulate discussions and policy reviews within libraries …

October 10, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Wind Ensemble Kicks Off Concert Season This Week, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Wind Ensemble will begin its 2024-25 concert season on Thursday (Oct. 10) with a 7:30 p.m. performance at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

10.07.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

Lunch and Learn

Update Employee Directory

NIH Updates RPPR Instruction Guide

Gilder-Jordan Lecture Focuses On Enslaved People's Legal Consciousness, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

One of the nation's top scholars of slavery and gender will explore how much enslaved people in the South knew about the law and how that influenced their decisions to flee to the North in this year's Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History at the University of Mississippi. Thavolia Glymph, a professor at the Duke University School of Law, plans to explore the enslaved people's legal consciousness at 6 p.m. Oct. 8 in Nutt Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Issue 453: October 3-17, 2024, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

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October 3, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Ancient Rome And Modern Russia: A Comparative Analysis Of Propaganda And Statecraft During Times Of Conflict, Sydney Lynch

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

The careful study of trends in propaganda can provide dramatic insights into the political climate of a particular nation. Specifically, shifts in either the narrative or dissemination of propaganda during times of great conflict or domestic turmoil illuminate to outside audiences where the government feels there are possible weaknesses that could fracture and eventually destroy the security and legitimacy of their regime. Therefore, this paper investigates the Kremlin’s recent methods of propaganda and disinformation compared to those of Imperial Rome, allowing for a closer examination of these techniques. Overall, the comparative analysis of Imperial Roman and current Russian propaganda and …