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Turner Center Offers Group Indoor Cycling, Tobie Baker Jun 2005

Turner Center Offers Group Indoor Cycling, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Exercise cycling is available for University of Mississippi students, faculty and staff at the Turner Center, thanks in part to the Ole Miss Parents Association.


Pontotoc High School Grad Wins $40,000 Newman Scholarship, Jennifer Southall Jun 2005

Pontotoc High School Grad Wins $40,000 Newman Scholarship, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Casey Nicole Wilson of Pontotoc has been chosen to receive the University of Mississippi's $40,000 W.R. Newman Scholarship, which is among the state's largest awards for undergraduates.


University Choral Ensemble To Perform June 21 At Ama Presidential Inauguration, Deborah Purnell Jun 2005

University Choral Ensemble To Perform June 21 At Ama Presidential Inauguration, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When Dr. J. Edward Hill of Tupelo takes oath as the 160th president of the American Medical Association Tuesday (June 21) in Chicago, he plans to introduce a little bit of the Magnolia State to the Windy City.


Journalists, Experts Gather At Um For Annual Workshop On Nonprofits, Staff Report Jun 2005

Journalists, Experts Gather At Um For Annual Workshop On Nonprofits, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Nonprofit organizations, the people who run them and those who regulate them are the focus of a journalism workshop at the University of Mississippi through June 20.


Germantown Symphony Orchestra Returns To Grove For Final Sunset Series Concert, Deborah Purnell Jun 2005

Germantown Symphony Orchestra Returns To Grove For Final Sunset Series Concert, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Germantown Symphony Orchestra performs in the final Summer Sunset Series concert of the season Sunday, June 26, at the University of Mississippi.


Journalists, Experts Gather At Um For Annual Workshop On Nonprofits, Staff Report Jun 2005

Journalists, Experts Gather At Um For Annual Workshop On Nonprofits, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Nonprofit organizations, the people who run them and those who regulate them are the focus of a journalism workshop at the University of Mississippi through June 20.


Faulkner Conference July 24-28 To Focus On Novelist's Literary Influences, Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Faulkner Conference July 24-28 To Focus On Novelist's Literary Influences, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Oprah Winfrey recently challenged her extensive fan base to read a collection of works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner by declaring them as the summer selection for her popular book club.


Media Advisory: Law Professor Available To Discuss Philadelphia Murder Trial, Staff Report Jun 2005

Media Advisory: Law Professor Available To Discuss Philadelphia Murder Trial, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

As jury selection gets under way in the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the state of Mississippi is taking steps to heal old wounds, said University of Mississippi law professor Michael Waterstone. Waterstone, who teaches and researches civil rights law with special emphasis on the reopening of civil rights murder cases, is available to discuss the trial.


Media Advisory: Law Professor Available To Discuss Philadelphia Murder Trial, Staff Report Jun 2005

Media Advisory: Law Professor Available To Discuss Philadelphia Murder Trial, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

As jury selection gets under way in the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the state of Mississippi is taking steps to heal old wounds, said University of Mississippi law professor Michael Waterstone.


Alabama Native Michael Knight To Join Faculty For 2005-06 As 13th Grisham Writer, Jennifer Southall Jun 2005

Alabama Native Michael Knight To Join Faculty For 2005-06 As 13th Grisham Writer, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi writer-in-residence Barry Hannah has said that Michael Knight is "more than a master of the short story," that Knight "knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the while offering whopping entertainment."


Withers' Images Of The South In Transition On Display At University Museums Through June 19, Angela Moore Jun 2005

Withers' Images Of The South In Transition On Display At University Museums Through June 19, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - For famed Memphis photographer Ernest C. Withers, 82, his pictures always "tell the story," as his storefront slogan has proclaimed for six decades.


Law Alumnus Continues Tradition Of Giving, Natashia Gregoire Jun 2005

Law Alumnus Continues Tradition Of Giving, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- With a $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi School of Law, Laurel attorney Leonard B. Melvin Jr. continues to give back to UM and the community where he found success.


Weekend Baseball Super Regional Prompts Saturday Grove Party, Tobie Baker Jun 2005

Weekend Baseball Super Regional Prompts Saturday Grove Party, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. ­ The University of Mississippi hosts the school's first-ever NCAA Baseball Super Regional this weekend, June 11-13, as the Rebels vie for the College World Series.


Local Singing Sisters Headline Free Gospel Music Concert June 19, Deborah Purnell Jun 2005

Local Singing Sisters Headline Free Gospel Music Concert June 19, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The sensational singing Jones Sisters of Oxford headline a free gospel music showcase Sunday, June 19, on the Grove stage at the University of Mississippi.


Lawyer Honors Mentor, Furthers Women's Studies Program, Tina Hahn Jun 2005

Lawyer Honors Mentor, Furthers Women's Studies Program, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A look back at campus life for women at the University of Mississippi in the 1970s reveals very different times from what exists today, said Nancy Harrelson Stumberg of San Antonio, Texas, a 1975 graduate.


Honors Student Loses Battle With Cancer, Scholarship Established In Her Memory, Staff Report Jun 2005

Honors Student Loses Battle With Cancer, Scholarship Established In Her Memory, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Hundreds of students, faculty and staff at the University of Mississippi grieved Tuesday as word spread that an honors student, too ill to attend her graduation last month, had lost her battle with cancer. To honor Rose Bui's service to UM, her classmates and the larger community, the university has established the Rose Bui Memorial Scholarship.


Two Students Awarded Real Estate Scholarships, Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Two Students Awarded Real Estate Scholarships, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two University of Mississippi business administration students are recipients of a scholastic award that recognizes academic excellence in commercial real estate education.


Anniversary Of Civil Rights Murders To Be Commemorated In Neshoba Co., Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Anniversary Of Civil Rights Murders To Be Commemorated In Neshoba Co., Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Miss., invites media representatives to the 41st anniversary memorial service June 19 commemorating the deaths of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. The community-wide program begins at 2 p.m.


Second Oxford Shakespeare Festival Begins June 17 At Ford Center, Meredith Crowson Jun 2005

Second Oxford Shakespeare Festival Begins June 17 At Ford Center, Meredith Crowson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The annual Oxford Shakespeare Festival offers laughs galore in its second season at the University of Mississippi beginning June 17, with an 8 p.m. performance of the comedy "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)."


Graduate Instructors, Teaching Assistant Honored With English Teaching Awards, Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Graduate Instructors, Teaching Assistant Honored With English Teaching Awards, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two graduate instructors and a teaching assistant in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi are recipients of awards recognizing their effective teaching styles.


Community Invited To Free Sunset Jazz-Big Band Concert Sunday, Deborah Purnell Jun 2005

Community Invited To Free Sunset Jazz-Big Band Concert Sunday, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Ole Miss Jazz Alumni Big Band entertains the Lafayette-Oxford-University community with lively jazz and big band sounds at the University of Mississippi at 7 p.m. Sunday (June 12).


Regional Presentations Provide Overview Of Mississippi Hills Heritage Project, Staff Report Jun 2005

Regional Presentations Provide Overview Of Mississippi Hills Heritage Project, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Phil Walker of The Walker Collaborative in Nashville is to give six presentations of "Building the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area: Strategies for Success" during Mississippi Hills Heritage Week 2005, June 13-17.


Researcher To Chronicle Work Against Lou Gehrig's Disease, Similar Ailments, Dabney Weems Jun 2005

Researcher To Chronicle Work Against Lou Gehrig's Disease, Similar Ailments, Dabney Weems

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Paul Cox, executive director of the Institute of Ethnomedicine in Hawaii and a world leader in research into the causes of Lou Gehrig's disease, speaks Thursday (June 9) at the University of Mississippi.


Mccomb Alumni Club To Hear Slocum, Alford At Annual Meeting, Staff Report Jun 2005

Mccomb Alumni Club To Hear Slocum, Alford At Annual Meeting, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Shawn Slocum, assistant head football coach and linebackers coach at the University of Mississippi, headlines the South Mississippi Ole Miss Alumni Club meeting in McComb.


Spring 2005 Degree Candidates Listed, Staff Report Jun 2005

Spring 2005 Degree Candidates Listed, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A list of candidates for degrees from The University of Mississippi at its 152nd commencement ceremonies, held May 14, 2005, in the Grove and at various campus locations, is available for viewing online.


Marshall County Native Named Outstanding Legal Studies Student, Deborah Purnell Jun 2005

Marshall County Native Named Outstanding Legal Studies Student, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Robert T. Warren, a criminal justice major at the University of Mississippi, has received the first C.B. Hopper Award for Outstanding Legal Studies Student of the Year.


Father Honors Son With Scholarship Endowment In Law, Natashia Gregoire Jun 2005

Father Honors Son With Scholarship Endowment In Law, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A new scholarship promises to make attending the University of Mississippi School of Law more affordable for some out-of-state students.


Annual Faulkner Conference Offers Workshops For High School Teachers, Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Annual Faulkner Conference Offers Workshops For High School Teachers, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Popular "Teaching Faulkner" workshops bring high school teachers to the University of Mississippi's 32nd annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference July 24-28.


Businessman, Former Football Player 'Gives Back' By Establishing Scholarship Endowment, Tina Hahn Jun 2005

Businessman, Former Football Player 'Gives Back' By Establishing Scholarship Endowment, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Larry L. Johnson of Jackson wants to help young men benefit from the same opportunity in life he received: a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi that enabled him to participate in the sport he loved while pursuing degrees for a successful career.


Finance Students Beat Sec Peers For Second In Regional Stock Competition, Deidra Jackson Jun 2005

Finance Students Beat Sec Peers For Second In Regional Stock Competition, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A group of University of Mississippi finance students have proven they already know how to manage stocks and make money in the real world.