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Theatre Arts Presents Romantic Comedy Drama ‘Bus Stop’ April 9-12, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Theatre Arts Presents Romantic Comedy Drama ‘Bus Stop’ April 9-12, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Broadway's 1955 hit "Bus Stop" plays April 9-12 at the University of Mississippi's Bryant Hall Studio Theatre.


Ford Center For Performing Arts Officially Opens With Glittering Gala, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Ford Center For Performing Arts Officially Opens With Glittering Gala, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Mammoth klieg lights crisscrossed bright beams into the night sky Friday as a star-studded gala officially opened the University of Mississippi Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Annual Walk/Run Benefits Scholarship, Patient Fund, Deborah Purnell Mar 2003

Annual Walk/Run Benefits Scholarship, Patient Fund, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Walkers and runners remember Jean Jones' battle with cancer Saturday as they trek across the University of Mississippi campus.


Chancellor Tapped For New Bcs Oversight Committee, Tobie Baker Mar 2003

Chancellor Tapped For New Bcs Oversight Committee, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat, a former student-athlete and immediate past president of the Southeastern Conference, takes a seat on a powerful new panel for major college football.


Ole Miss Women’S Council Dedicates Rose Garden March 28, Beth Malone Mar 2003

Ole Miss Women’S Council Dedicates Rose Garden March 28, Beth Malone

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - A rose garden and sculpture dedication Friday at the University of Mississippi unites scholarship and remembrance.


Faculty Artist Series Hosts Free Performance April 6, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Faculty Artist Series Hosts Free Performance April 6, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Dance-inspired music fills Oxford's First Presbyterian Church when the University of Mississippi Faculty Woodwind Quintet presents its April 6 recital.


High School Students Meet Computer Challenge At Um, Angela Moore Mar 2003

High School Students Meet Computer Challenge At Um, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Even though some adults still can't program a videocassette recorder, 30 high school students solved computer tests in timed competition Saturday at the University of Mississippi.


Oxford Piano Trio To Perform March 27 Program At Meek Hall, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Oxford Piano Trio To Perform March 27 Program At Meek Hall, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - The Oxford Piano Trio performs a program of familiar and new music Thursday, March 27, at the University of Mississippi.


Annual Honors Day, Honor Societies Initiations April 3, Deborah Purnell Mar 2003

Annual Honors Day, Honor Societies Initiations April 3, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Outstanding students from graduate school to liberal arts and business receive recognition next week as the University of Mississippi hosts its 60th Honors Day Convocation.


'Mentor' Put In Place, Staff Report Mar 2003

'Mentor' Put In Place, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UM landscape crew helps set into place "The Mentor," an anonymously-donated sculptural centerpiece for the new campus rose garden, established by the Ole Miss Women's Council's scholarship program. The mentoring of scholarship recipients is a key ingredient within the program, which seeks to develop leaders as people who will care about the future. Since its establishment in 2000, the council has raised more than $2 million for scholarships endowed in the names of women important to the donors. Each woman also will be honored by a rose bush planted in the UM garden adjacent to the new Gertrude Ford Center …


Visiting Prof's Thailand Experience Offers Insight To ‘True’ Muslims, Tobie Baker Mar 2003

Visiting Prof's Thailand Experience Offers Insight To ‘True’ Muslims, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Susan Major knows firsthand that terrorists don't reflect true Islamic views.


Red & Blue Week, Grove Bowl Contest Bring Fans To Campus, Deborah Purnell Mar 2003

Red & Blue Week, Grove Bowl Contest Bring Fans To Campus, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Grove Bowl 2003 gives University of Mississippi fans an excuse for tailgating March 29, when the Rebels' football team holds its annual spring intra-squad scrimmage in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.


Regional Science Fair Gives Junior Scientists Chances To Shine, Angela Moore Mar 2003

Regional Science Fair Gives Junior Scientists Chances To Shine, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Nearly 900 north Mississippi students compete this week during the Region VII Science and Engineering Fair at the University of Mississippi.


First Black Female Graduates Honored, Deborah Purnell Mar 2003

First Black Female Graduates Honored, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Nola McKee Leggett of Greenville lived the story of helping integrate the University of Mississippi four decades ago.


Um Computer Challenge Ahead For High School Students, Lashaun Wallace Mar 2003

Um Computer Challenge Ahead For High School Students, Lashaun Wallace

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- High school computer techies logon to new challenges Saturday at the University of Mississippi.


Historian To Lecture On South’S Indian Slave Trade March 25, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Historian To Lecture On South’S Indian Slave Trade March 25, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Alan Gallay brings American history from an American Indian viewpoint to the University of Mississippi Tuesday (March 25).


Science/Humanities Symposium Eight Students Awarded $13,600, Angela Moore Mar 2003

Science/Humanities Symposium Eight Students Awarded $13,600, Angela Moore

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Vijay Brihmadesam of Jackson won $10,000 in scholarships, and seven other state high school students divided $3,600 at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Monday at the University of Mississippi.


Music Prof To Perform Lead Role In Opera Memphis Production, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Music Prof To Perform Lead Role In Opera Memphis Production, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Bradley Robinson, a University of Mississippi assistant professor of music, sings the lead baritone role of Alfio in "Cavalleria Rusticana," a March 29 and April 1 Opera Memphis production.


State Conference April 11 For High School Journalists, Patsy R. Brumfield Mar 2003

State Conference April 11 For High School Journalists, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Mississippi high school journalism advisers and students are invited to the annual Mississippi Scholastic Press Institute April 11 at the University of Mississippi.


Poet Andrew Hudgins Reads From His Work March 25, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Poet Andrew Hudgins Reads From His Work March 25, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Poet Andrew Hudgins hears that the University of Mississippi's hometown, Oxford, is "a place with a real hold on people."


Dangerous Asian Situation Topic Of Thursday Lecture, Tobie Baker Mar 2003

Dangerous Asian Situation Topic Of Thursday Lecture, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Sumner native Desaix Anderson once led efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear power program. He talks about that brewing threat and other international issues during his free, public lecture, "The Korean Crisis: America's Strategic Future in Asia," Thursday (March 20) at 7 p.m. in the Joseph C. Bancroft Conference Room of Croft Institute at the University of Mississippi.


Nih Director Visits Medical, Research Facilities, Staff Report Mar 2003

Nih Director Visits Medical, Research Facilities, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Dr. Elias Zerhouni, left, director of the National Institutes of Health, tours the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi with U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker and center director Larry Walker. Earlier in the day, Zerhouni announced a major shift in NIH priorities to focus on finding new treatments for chronic illnesses. The announcement, at the UM Medical Center in Jackson, was part of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering's annual meeting. The NIH funds more than $3.5 million in research at the university's Oxford campus.


Glitzy Grand Opening Of Ford Performing Arts Center Slated March 28, Deidra Jackson Mar 2003

Glitzy Grand Opening Of Ford Performing Arts Center Slated March 28, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - A star-studded Inaugural Gala March 28 officially opens the University of Mississippi's Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Nominations Open For Frist Student Service Awards, Elaine Pugh Mar 2003

Nominations Open For Frist Student Service Awards, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Extraordinary service to students is required of nominees for the 2003 Frist Student Service Awards at the University of Mississippi.


Artist Theora Hamblett Is Subject O'Df Museums Lunch Lecture Thursday, Elaine Pugh Mar 2003

Artist Theora Hamblett Is Subject O'Df Museums Lunch Lecture Thursday, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Ed Meek of Oxford discusses the "dreams and visions" paintings of local artist Theora Hamblett at noon Thursday (March 20) at the University of Mississippi Museums.


Experts On War Issues, Patsy R. Brumfield Mar 2003

Experts On War Issues, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

As you develop reactions to President Bush's speech or other war-related stories, the University of Mississippi has faculty with applicable expertises.


Ceramic Art By Top Teacher, 13 Top Alumni On Display Through April 4, Kate Barron, Adrian Aumen Mar 2003

Ceramic Art By Top Teacher, 13 Top Alumni On Display Through April 4, Kate Barron, Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Whimsical figures to elegant and functional vessels await viewers of the "Malleable Mud" exhibit through April 4 at the University of Mississippi.


Business School Awards Medal To Tva Finance Chief, C. L. Arnold Mar 2003

Business School Awards Medal To Tva Finance Chief, C. L. Arnold

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - David N. Smith's job is to make sure one of America's largest energy companies stays competitive.


Women’S Council Dedicates Rose Garden March 28, Beth Malone Mar 2003

Women’S Council Dedicates Rose Garden March 28, Beth Malone

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- When Sarah Meisenheimer died suddenly four years ago at age 32, her family sought an enduring way to remember her.


Public's Stories About 1962 Integration Sought, Patsy R. Brumfield Mar 2003

Public's Stories About 1962 Integration Sought, Patsy R. Brumfield

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - The University of Mississippi plans to videotape another round of personal stories associated with its 1962 integration April 4-5.