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Newsletter, October 2024, Cedar Oaks Guild

Cedar Oaks Guild Newsletter

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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 …

Professor Named Editor Of National Pharmacy Journal, Natalie Ehrhardt

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy has announced University of Mississippi pharmacy professor Stuart Haines as its newest editor-in-chief.

Endowment To Help Train Next Generation Of Storytellers, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Alumnus Berkley Hudson provides resources for visiting documentarians. Using documentary studies to train the next generation of storytellers holds such importance to Berkley Hudson that he has gifted the University of Mississippi an endowment to bring visiting documentarians to campus.

Old-School College Sports Are On The Way Out. What Comes Next?, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – College sports are in the midst of dramatic change, and after a litany of lawsuits and appeals, fans are likely uncertain of the future of America's favorite pastimes. A University of Mississippi professor's latest book seeks to demystify the madness.

October 10, 2024, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Farm Waste Can Filter Microplastics In Runoff, Prevent Pollution, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Using treated plant waste as a filter reduced the presence of harmful microplastics in agricultural runoff by more than 92%, according to a new study authored by a University of Mississippi research team.

Endowment To Help Train Next Generation Of Storytellers, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Using documentary studies to train the next generation of storytellers holds such importance to Berkley Hudson that he has gifted the University of Mississippi an endowment to bring visiting documentarians to campus.

Ole Miss Professor Gives American Grading System An F, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – America's obsession with grades is failing students and jeopardizing the future of education, a University of Mississippi professor argues in his new book.

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

New Alliance To Unite Mississippi Colleges, Universities In Research, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The National Science Foundation has awarded $8 million to a partnership of Mississippi universities to boost research in the Magnolia State.

Ole Miss Family Leadership Council Makes Impact, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Ole Miss Family Leadership Council has invested $235,000 in the University of Mississippi to expand counseling and student health services and to rebrand the Center for Student Organizations and Leadership.

Professor Studying Innovative Intersection Designs, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi civil engineering professor is hoping to improve traffic safety through recent studies into an innovative intersection design known as restricted crossing U-turn, or RCUTs.

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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Professor Partners With Airline To Evaluate Pricing Strategies, Marvis Herring

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi economics professor is working with a North American airline to study the effectiveness of pricing strategies and discrimination, a practice where airlines vary prices for the same product or service based on consumer attributes.

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 …

Building A Better Security Force Assistance Brigade, William Bittner

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

This paper examines the effectiveness of United States Army Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs) in training and advising partner militaries while preserving conventional force readiness. A shortage of volunteers, the manpower demands of embedded security, and lack of a Congressional funding authority have made SFABs and the conventional force less ready for operations. These challenges will be analyzed through the lens of institutional theory to identify systemic threats to the viability of SFABs. This paper posits that an advisor career field should be created in response to an institutional aversion to non-combat roles. Further, the Army should eliminate or shrink …

Oxford Alumni Happy Hour Set For Oct. 15, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Are you a Southern Studies alum living in the Oxford area? Join us for happy hour Tuesday, October 15. RSVP at https://bit.ly/3Yaf8iN to learn the time and location!

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

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Front Matter, Journal Editors

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

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Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes About Gender, Education, And Mathematical Aptitude: A Quantitative Study, Paige Barnett

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Females and mathematics are often not grouped together due to the gender bias surrounding the two. Perhaps attending an all-girls high school has instilled a higher level of confidence in my own mathematical abilities than many women exhibit. The focus of my research is to examine preservice elementary teachers for their confidence levels in mathematics, as well as whether they hold a form of unconscious gender bias. I completed this research by developing a six-question survey instrument. The survey was administered in the spring and fall of 2023 to Math 245 and Math 246 classes, both of which are required …

Targeted Advertising: How Companies And Governments Are Weaponizing User Data Against The Consumer, Joseph Garneau

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

With the recent rise of a new digital age, many people are ditching more traditional methods of performing everyday tasks and replacing them with free and convenient online services. But as the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and that sentiment holds true in terms of online services as well. Consumers pay for these online services with something much more valuable than money—their personal data. This paper explores how companies and governments present consumers with targeted advertisements, shows how targeted advertisements are inherently manipulative, and gives an example of one government and one company using …

In-Situ, High-Throughput Dna Sequencing And Methodology Refinement To Survey Biodiversity And Identify Candidate New Species To Science In A Largely Unprotected Biological Corridor In Ecuador, Christian Boudreaux

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

The world is undergoing a biodiversity crisis in which hundreds of species have gone extinct within the last few centuries, rivaling previous mass extinction events that have only occurred five times in the history of the planet. Anthropogenic stressors such as the climate crisis, over exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, and pollution have created and fostered a mass extinction event that is taking place in every corner of the planet. Endemic species, those that are hyper-specialized to specific environmental conditions are most at risk of going extinct. Endemism, therefore, is used as a tool for conservation and as an indicator …

Urine-Derived Stem Cells Detect Renal Mitochondrial Toxicity In Hiv Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy, Daniella Beiner, Yu Pengfei, Hainan Zhu, Carol C. Bosholm, Yuanyuan Zhang

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly improved the clinical outcomes of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, long-term use of certain antiretroviral drugs has been associated with renal mitochondrial toxicity (MtT), leading to potentially severe renal dysfunction. To date, there is no available test for renal MtT. Urine-derived stem cells (USCs) have emerged as a valuable non-invasive tool for studying renal pathology. In this study, we examine the effects of antiretroviral drugs on mitochondrial function in USCs from HIV patients as a first step towards establishing USCs as a tool for renal mitochondrial toxicity testing. USCs were isolated from …

The Case Of Santiago De Chile: Pedestrian Deaths, Neo-Liberal Urbanism, And Insufficient Traffic Policy Reform, Olivia Maurer

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Chile’s rate of road fatalities and pedestrian deaths has remained a global outlier, even as comparable states have reduced occurrences. Santiago, Chile’s capital and one of the most urbanized cities in Latin America, serves as a unique product of competing urban design ideologies put forth by democratic and authoritarian governments throughout the 20th century; and the social and economic stratification created has continued to present challenges for solving urban planning issues in modern Santiago. Recent adjustments in traffic laws have begun a reduction in road fatalities, but they still do not account for the discrepancy between Chile and other states. …

Link’S Sword Is Mightier Than The Pen: Composing And Performing In The Super Mario And Legend Of Zelda Series, William Nelson

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Player interaction has largely defined video games and their concomitant music. Since Pong (1972), players have exercised agency over both in-game events and, by extension, the sounds that accompany them. In this paper, I explore ways in which the “authorial agency” of the player is reflected musically in Nintendo’s Super Mario (1985–) and The Legend of Zelda (1986–) series. Through earcons and other interactive audio, players are able to influence the musical architecture of video games. I begin by considering the indeterminacy of video games as a medium and their consequently indeterminate musical elements. I then examine earcons and the …