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Natural Products Researcher Named To Nih Advisory Panel, Mitchell Diggs Jul 2003

Natural Products Researcher Named To Nih Advisory Panel, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - A University of Mississippi researcher has a new role in shaping the country's research and education efforts in the fields of complementary and alternative medicine.


Ncche Director Recognized With Top Honor For Groundbreaking Work, Angela Moore Jul 2003

Ncche Director Recognized With Top Honor For Groundbreaking Work, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that Sam Wang, founder and director of the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering (NCCHE), is a leader in the study of soil erosion and sediment transport research.


Community Hosts Daylong 4th Of July Celebration, J. Adrian Aumen Jun 2003

Community Hosts Daylong 4th Of July Celebration, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - A parade, fireworks, music and talent show are parts of the Lafayette County-Oxford-University of Mississippi community's annual July 4th Celebration.


Um Journalism Seeks Names For 2002-03 ‘Silver Em’ Award, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

Um Journalism Seeks Names For 2002-03 ‘Silver Em’ Award, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Nominations are being accepted for the University of Mississippi Department of Journalism’s annual Silver Em award honoring an outstanding journalist with a Mississippi connection.


Animated Animators, Staff Report Jun 2003

Animated Animators, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Some 40 youths recently learned the basics of film animation through the University of Mississippi's summer National Youth Sports Program for ages 10-16. Instruction came from adults involved with the inaugural Oxford Film Fest, hosted on campus. The camera-less animation project at the University Museums introduced them to various concepts involved with animation and resulted in a film using designs by the young artists. NYSP is a free sports and education summer program in its 13th year at UM and administered by the Division of Park and Recreation Management. Each weekday, the program hosts some 350 youths …


Um Journalism Seeks Names For 2002-03 ‘Silver Em’ Award, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

Um Journalism Seeks Names For 2002-03 ‘Silver Em’ Award, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Nominations are being accepted for the University of Mississippi Department of Journalism’s annual Silver Em award honoring an outstanding journalist with a Mississippi connection.


News Sources - Talk To The Experts, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

News Sources - Talk To The Experts, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

Want some "fresh" sources for breaking news or feature topics?


Liberal Arts Promotes More Research With New Gifts, Nicklaus Simpson Jun 2003

Liberal Arts Promotes More Research With New Gifts, Nicklaus Simpson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Glenn Hopkins saw a need for more liberal arts research funding at the University of Mississippi, and he decided to do something about it.


Biochem Chair Wins International Honors For Scientific, Educational Accomplishments, Mitchell Diggs Jun 2003

Biochem Chair Wins International Honors For Scientific, Educational Accomplishments, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Charles L. Hussey of Oxford joins the likes of icon inventor Thomas Edison and becomes the state's first fellow of the prestigious Electrochemical Society.


Witty, Lighthearted ‘The Gondoliers’ To Be Performed June 26-27, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Witty, Lighthearted ‘The Gondoliers’ To Be Performed June 26-27, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.- "The Gondoliers," a comic operetta from W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, comes to the University of Mississippi Thursday and Friday (June 26-27).


Miss University Achieves Dream, Competes For State Title, Angela Moore Jun 2003

Miss University Achieves Dream, Competes For State Title, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - When Jennifer Bailey Jernigan was six years old, she dreamed of competing in the Miss Mississippi pageant - a dream that seemed impossible for the shy little girl who was born without most of her right hand.


Watercolors Come To Life In Society’S Traveling Exhibit, Tobie Baker Jun 2003

Watercolors Come To Life In Society’S Traveling Exhibit, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - It looks like a photograph from the Vatican, but Marian Axley's "The Tourists" is an intricately painted watercolor.


Small Construction Company Tax Rules Slated For Free Workshop Sessions, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

Small Construction Company Tax Rules Slated For Free Workshop Sessions, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - If you own a small construction company or handle its bookkeeping, free tax advice is coming your way.


Faulkner Conference To Focus On South's Ecology, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Faulkner Conference To Focus On South's Ecology, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - William Faulkner's fiction is at the center of a rare ecological study during this year's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 20-25, at the University of Mississippi.


Caterpillar Helps Engineering Students With Gift, Staff Report Jun 2003

Caterpillar Helps Engineering Students With Gift, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Ed O'Neil, front right, facility manager of Caterpillar Inc. in Oxford presents University of Mississippi School of Engineering Dean Kai-Fong Lee with a $2,500 check to upgrade computer software used to teach mechanical engineering students. Also pictured are, from left, Tyrus McCarty, mechanical engineering associate professor; Mark McAnally of Caterpillar; Jeff Roux, mechanical engineering chair; and Ellen Lackey, associate professor.


Community Invited To Free Gospel Concert In The Grove Sunday, June 15, J. Adrian Aumen Jun 2003

Community Invited To Free Gospel Concert In The Grove Sunday, June 15, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.- Glorious gospel sounds fill the Grove at the University of Mississippi Sunday (June 15) as the third annual L-O-U Summer Sunset Series continues.


Another Moveable Feast: Field Trip Explores Appalachian Food Traditions, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Another Moveable Feast: Field Trip Explores Appalachian Food Traditions, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Smoked trout and sweet potatoes are just a sampling of the savory fare offered in "Taste of Appalachia: Asheville and Environs," an Aug. 1-3 field trip sponsored by the Southern Foodways Alliance.


Symposium Marks Progress In Developing Innovative Curriculum, Mitchell Diggs Jun 2003

Symposium Marks Progress In Developing Innovative Curriculum, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Experts in remote sensing technologies and education are gathered this week at the University of Mississippi to launch the second phase of development for a groundbreaking college curriculum.


Veteran Broadcaster Takes Key Communications Position, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

Veteran Broadcaster Takes Key Communications Position, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Britt Albertson Roper, who began her career in High Point, N.C., is new broadcast communications manager for the University of Mississippi's Department of Media and Public Relations.


- Experts On Earthquakes -, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

- Experts On Earthquakes -, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

Want a scientific reaction on today's 4.5-magnitude earthquake in western Kentucky and southern Illinois? The University of Mississippi has them: Dr. Terry L. Panhorst, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering, and Charles T. Swann, staff geologist at the Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute.


‘National Week Of Remembrance’ Honors Life Of Medgar Evers, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

‘National Week Of Remembrance’ Honors Life Of Medgar Evers, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

EDITOR/NEWS DIRECTOR: Medgar Wiley Evers' contributions to Mississippi and the nation continue, even as the 40th anniversary of his assassination June 12, 1963, approaches. The Medgar Evers Institute and the University of Mississippi's Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation invite you to consider your own coverage and/or reporting of events planned to honor Evers' legacy and talk about The State of Race in America during a "National Week of Remembrance" June 10-16 from his birthplace in Newton County, Mississippi, to his gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.


Columbia Shuttle Infrasound Investigation Report, Staff Report Jun 2003

Columbia Shuttle Infrasound Investigation Report, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

To view a copy of the full report of the infrasound research team studying the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, copy & paste the following Web address into your browser: http://www.olemiss.edu/message/acrobats/ColumbiaReport.pdf


U.S. Government Goes After Terror-Sponsoring Charities, Patsy R. Brumfield Jun 2003

U.S. Government Goes After Terror-Sponsoring Charities, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Jimmy Gurule said that when he was sworn in as Treasury under secretary, he had no idea he would find himself in the midst of the United States' war on terrorism.


Grisham Writer-In-Residence Ends Year With New Works, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Grisham Writer-In-Residence Ends Year With New Works, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - During her just-completed year as Grisham writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, playwright Shay Youngblood offered experience to fledgling writers and came to know her colleagues in the Department of English.


New Algaecide Could Save Mississippi Catfish Farmers Up To $50 Million A Year, Mitchell Diggs Jun 2003

New Algaecide Could Save Mississippi Catfish Farmers Up To $50 Million A Year, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Problems related to a species of blue-green algae cost Mississippi catfish farmers more than $50 million a year, but scientists at the University of Mississippi may have an environmentally friendly solution.


Country Stars Announce Tour, Perform At Faulkner’S Home, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Country Stars Announce Tour, Perform At Faulkner’S Home, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - As country music star Marty Stuart walked up the cobbled pathway leading to William Faulkner's historic home Monday, he greeted fans and radio and television crews with melodic strumming from his chocolate-colored mandolin.


Whirlpool Grants To Museums Start New Venture, Enhance Successful ‘Traveling Trunks’, Elaine Pugh Jun 2003

Whirlpool Grants To Museums Start New Venture, Enhance Successful ‘Traveling Trunks’, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Two new grants from Whirlpool Foundation to the University of Mississippi Museums will enhance an already successful education outreach program and help implement a new one.


Department Of Music, Honors College Acquire Unique Drums From Ghana, Deidra Jackson Jun 2003

Department Of Music, Honors College Acquire Unique Drums From Ghana, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Music lessons at the University of Mississippi are about to become even more dynamic, thanks to a recently acquired, hand-carved drum set from west Africa.


Faulkner's Home Sets Stage For Country Stars' Performance, Tour Announcement, Deidra Jackson May 2003

Faulkner's Home Sets Stage For Country Stars' Performance, Tour Announcement, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Country music stars Marty Stuart and Merle Haggard use William Faulkner's fabled home as a backdrop Monday (June 2) to announce plans for a summer tour across America's heartland.


Journalists To Study How Charities Fund Terror, Patsy R. Brumfield May 2003

Journalists To Study How Charities Fund Terror, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - As a U.S. Treasury official, Jimmy Gurule played a central role in developing and implementing the Bush administration's anti-terrorist financing strategy.