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Jan. 29 Michael Dyson Lecture Canceled, Staff Report Jan 2004

Jan. 29 Michael Dyson Lecture Canceled, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

The Thursday lecture by Michael Dyson at the University of Mississippi's Ford Center has been cancelled. The African American scholar and best selling author, who was to deliver the keynote address for the university's Black History Month observance, is canceling all appearances through March for medical reasons. If you have published the advance on Dyson's appearance, we ask that you let readers know of the cancellation.


Southern Foodways Alliance Director To Appear On Food Network Jan. 30, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

Southern Foodways Alliance Director To Appear On Food Network Jan. 30, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - John T. Edge, food writer and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, appears on the Food Network program "Tyler's Ultimate" at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30.


New Book Showcases Contributions Of 17 Women To State's History, Staff Report Jan 2004

New Book Showcases Contributions Of 17 Women To State's History, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - History, because it was written mostly by men, has concentrated on wars, diplomacy, governments and legal systems. Until recently, it paid little attention to women's influence in society.


School Of Pharmacy Faculty Receive Certification In Pharmacotherapy, Dabney Weems Jan 2004

School Of Pharmacy Faculty Receive Certification In Pharmacotherapy, Dabney Weems

University of Mississippi News

JACKSON, Miss. - The Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties announced that Lisa Murphey, Charmaine Rochester and Holly Rogers of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy have received specialty certification in pharmacotherapy.


Experts: Trust In Mutual Funds Industry Must Be Restored, Natashia Gregoire Jan 2004

Experts: Trust In Mutual Funds Industry Must Be Restored, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A successful future for the embattled mutual funds industry depends on whether regulators, owners and other industry officials can regain and maintain investor trust, a panel of the influential industry experts said Saturday at the University of Mississippi.


Faculty Experts Available To Comment On State Of The State Address, Staff Report Jan 2004

Faculty Experts Available To Comment On State Of The State Address, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Gov. Haley Barbour plans to use his State of the State address to outline plans for limiting spending and running state government as openly as possible. The address is set for 6 p.m. today. University of Mississippi faculty experts are available to comment and offer insight into these issues for followup coverage.


Um, National Judicial College Announce Joint Effort In Training Nation's Judges, Staff Report Jan 2004

Um, National Judicial College Announce Joint Effort In Training Nation's Judges, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Strength for the country's judicial system is the thrust behind a joint agreement announced today between the University of Mississippi and the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada-Reno.


B.B. King To Be Honored With Professorship, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

B.B. King To Be Honored With Professorship, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When B.B. King departs from the University of Mississippi after his Feb. 27 performance as part of the second annual Blues Today Symposium, he'll do so as an honorary professor of Southern studies. It's only fitting since King's relationship with Ole Miss has been a close one.


Husband And Wife Duo Present Piano Recital Sunday, Deborah Purnell Jan 2004

Husband And Wife Duo Present Piano Recital Sunday, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two University of Mississippi faculty members present a piano recital Sunday (Jan. 25) at 3 p.m. in the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Risk Management Program Among Nation's 10 Largest, Deidra Jackson Jan 2004

Risk Management Program Among Nation's 10 Largest, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A leading insurance industry magazine ranks the University of Mississippi's School of Business Administration's Insurance and Risk Management program among the nation's largest in terms of enrollment.


Law School Announces Partnership With National Judicial College, Staff Report Jan 2004

Law School Announces Partnership With National Judicial College, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Representatives of the Mississippi Judicial College and the National Judicial College will announce a new partnership for judicial training at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in the University of Mississippi's Lyceum. The announcement is set for the Chancellor's Office and is open to the media.


Fda Commissioner Urges Students To Meet Health Care Challenges, Angela Moore Jan 2004

Fda Commissioner Urges Students To Meet Health Care Challenges, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Rising drug costs and the exponential growth of unregulated dietary supplements pose the biggest challenges of the "biomedical century," the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday at the University of Mississippi.


Faculty Experts Available To Comment On State Of Union Address, Staff Report Jan 2004

Faculty Experts Available To Comment On State Of Union Address, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

President Bush plans to use his State of the Union address to promote his election-year domestic agenda and answer critics of the war in Iraq. The economy and domestic security are central themes of the address. University of Mississippi faculty experts are available to comment and offer insight into these issues for followup coverage.


Prominent Mutual Fund Group Founder Speaks Jan. 23, Deidra Jackson Jan 2004

Prominent Mutual Fund Group Founder Speaks Jan. 23, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - John C. Bogle, legendary founder of the second-largest mutual fund organization in the world, discusses the future of the investment business Friday (Jan. 23) when he delivers the Otho Smith Lecture at the University of Mississippi.


Ole Miss English Professor Emeritus Louis Dollarhide Dies In Oxford, Staff Report Jan 2004

Ole Miss English Professor Emeritus Louis Dollarhide Dies In Oxford, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi Professor Emeritus of English Louis Edgar Dollarhide died Friday in Oxford after several months of declining health. He was 85.


Art Prof Explores Depression-Era Mississippi Post Office Murals, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

Art Prof Explores Depression-Era Mississippi Post Office Murals, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - You've probably seen one or two - maybe several - in your lifetime, but in the rush to buy stamps or send a package you might not have given them a second thought. They're U.S. post office murals, and they're the topic of "Art for the People: Post Office Murals of the WPA," an upcoming brown bag lecture at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.


Fda Commissioner Mark Mcclellan To Deliver Hartman Lecture Jan. 20, Natashia Gregoire Jan 2004

Fda Commissioner Mark Mcclellan To Deliver Hartman Lecture Jan. 20, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi's Charles W. Hartman Memorial Lecture in Pharmacy attracts some of the biggest names in health, politics and academia, and this year is no exception.


'Living Blues' Remains True To Founders' Vision, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

'Living Blues' Remains True To Founders' Vision, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - With six four-color, 100-plus-page issues a year and B.B. King headlining its second annual Blues Today Symposium in February at the University of Mississippi, Living Blues magazine has come a long way from the one-room apartment where it began.


National Institute Hosts Interactive Child Nutrition Teleconference On Oxford Campus, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

National Institute Hosts Interactive Child Nutrition Teleconference On Oxford Campus, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The National Food Service Management Institute at the University of Mississippi hosts "Procurement Education and Training," a 90-minute live and interactive teleconference Wednesday, Jan. 21.


Pharmacy Student Holds Top Spot In National Honor Society, Dabney Weems Jan 2004

Pharmacy Student Holds Top Spot In National Honor Society, Dabney Weems

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi pharmacy student Jillian James is National Speaker of the House of Delegates of Phi Lambda Sigma honor society. This is the highest office a student can hold in the professional pharmacists' organization.


Ole Miss Dance Company Presents 'Dances Of Hope And Promise' Jan. 17, Deborah Purnell Jan 2004

Ole Miss Dance Company Presents 'Dances Of Hope And Promise' Jan. 17, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - An afternoon and evening of entertainment by Mississippi: the Dance Company await audiences Saturday (Jan. 17) at the University of Mississippi's Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Musgrove Accepts Position As Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Tobie Baker Jan 2004

Musgrove Accepts Position As Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove was tapped Tuesday as the newest distinguished visiting lecturer at the University of Mississippi.


Professor Wins For Book On Violence, The Blues, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

Professor Wins For Book On Violence, The Blues, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi assistant professor of English and Southern studies, is the latest recipient of the Society for Southern Literature's C. Hugh Holman Award.


Three Southern Universities Collaborate To Enhance Race Relations, Deidra Jackson Jan 2004

Three Southern Universities Collaborate To Enhance Race Relations, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Three months after the University of Mississippi concluded Open Doors -- a yearlong observance of its 40th anniversary of integration - administrators, faculty and students today joined two other Southern universities with similar histories in a collaboration to further enhance race relations.


Venue Changed For Desegregation Anniversary Videoconference, Staff Report Jan 2004

Venue Changed For Desegregation Anniversary Videoconference, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

The previously announced videoconference involving the University of Mississippi and the universities of Alabama and Georgia has moved to the auditorium of the National Food Service Management Institute on the UM campus. Students, faculty, staff and interested members of the community are invited to the program, set for 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 13).


Private Firm Sought To Manage Custodial Services In Student Housing, Jennifer Southall Jan 2004

Private Firm Sought To Manage Custodial Services In Student Housing, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - In an effort to better serve students, the University of Mississippi is soliciting outside bids for the management of custodial services in its residence halls. The university opens bidding Jan. 30 and intends to have a contractor in place no later than March 1.


Legal Scholar, Prober Of Nazi Regime To Deliver Public Lecture Wednesday, Elaine Pugh Jan 2004

Legal Scholar, Prober Of Nazi Regime To Deliver Public Lecture Wednesday, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A foremost European legal scholar delivers the lecture "International Law Under the Swastika" Wednesday (Jan. 14) at the University of Mississippi.


International Graduate Becomes Prime Minister Of Dominica, Natashia Gregoire Jan 2004

International Graduate Becomes Prime Minister Of Dominica, Natashia Gregoire

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi alumnus Roosevelt Skerrit was sworn in Thursday (Jan. 8) as the seventh prime minister of the Caribbean nation of Dominica.


New Book Provides Insight Into Soldiers, Families During The Civil War, Deidra Jackson Jan 2004

New Book Provides Insight Into Soldiers, Families During The Civil War, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Author Norris Caldwell of Tupelo, a University of Mississippi alumnus who credits William Faulkner's brother with sparking his passion for history, reads from his new book "Mr. Lincoln's Gold" Tuesday (Jan. 13) at Square Books in downtown Oxford.


Mimi Blais, 'New Queen Of Ragtime,' Performs Jan. 15 At Um Ford Center, Deborah Purnell Jan 2004

Mimi Blais, 'New Queen Of Ragtime,' Performs Jan. 15 At Um Ford Center, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Ragtime pianist and comedian Mimi Blais - who has been tagged with such nicknames as "The Female Victor Borge," "The French Canadian Liberacette" and, most recently, the "New Queen of Ragtime" - performs Jan. 15 at the University of Mississippi.