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Gospel Choir Performs Sept. 23 At Mid-South Fair, Deidra Jackson Aug 2001

Gospel Choir Performs Sept. 23 At Mid-South Fair, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The Grammy-nominated University of Mississippi Gospel Choir gets back to school and on stage for special performance Sept. 23 during the 10-day Mid-South Fair in the heart of Memphis.


Longtime Professor, Space Law Expert Stephen Gorove Dies, Staff Report Aug 2001

Longtime Professor, Space Law Expert Stephen Gorove Dies, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Stephen Gorove, 83, professor emeritus of law at The University of Mississippi (UM) and an international authority on space law, died Monday in Oxford.


Teacher Fellowship Program Tops National Retention Rate, Deidra Jackson Aug 2001

Teacher Fellowship Program Tops National Retention Rate, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- When it comes to recruiting teachers and placing them in state school districts where they're sorely needed, the Mississippi Teacher Fellowship Program, based in The University of Mississippi School of Education, excels.


Students Sing Anthem At Braves Game Aug. 30, Deidra Jackson Aug 2001

Students Sing Anthem At Braves Game Aug. 30, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Blue Ten Harmony, a talented student-formed, all-male a cappella group at The University of Mississippi (UM) won't be the Oxford campus'’ best-kept secret anymore.


Use Common Sense, Awareness To Reduce Risk Of Shark Attack, Mitchell Diggs Aug 2001

Use Common Sense, Awareness To Reduce Risk Of Shark Attack, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Visitors to Gulf Coast beaches no doubt are thinking a little more about the possibility of encountering a shark following two widely publicized attacks last month, but the chance of becoming a victim remains pretty slim, a University of Mississippi biologist said.


Diligent Supervision Can Prevent Drowning, Tobie Baker Aug 2001

Diligent Supervision Can Prevent Drowning, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Children may be heading off to school, but the Mississippi heat will keep the backyard swimming pool a dangerous place for months.


Experts Report Progress On Research 'Crescent' Initiative, Staff Report Aug 2001

Experts Report Progress On Research 'Crescent' Initiative, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- California has its Silicon Valley, North Carolina has the Research Triangle, and next will be the Mississippi Crescent, a region of high tech companies curving from Oxford to Tupelo to Starkville.


Novel Research Into Chronic Pain Offers Hope To Millions Of Sufferers, Tobie Baker Aug 2001

Novel Research Into Chronic Pain Offers Hope To Millions Of Sufferers, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Whether it comes in the form of an aching back, deep soreness in the joints or the throbbing of an old surgical scar, chronic pain is a nightmare that never ends for millions of Americans.


Biochemist Searches For Anti-Cancer 'Key', Mitchell Diggs Aug 2001

Biochemist Searches For Anti-Cancer 'Key', Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Armed with knowledge of how locks work and the alignment of a particular set of tumblers, a good locksmith can fashion a key to open virtually any bolt. Although Dr. David Graves is no locksmith, his work may spur development of one of the world's most important keys.


Student Broadcasters Win Professional Awards, Tobie Baker Aug 2001

Student Broadcasters Win Professional Awards, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Breaking into a career without experience is tough, but some students at The University of Mississippi (UM) may be ahead in the game thanks to their recent showing in professional competition.


American Institute Of Cpas' Library Finds Permanent Home At Um, Staff Report Aug 2001

American Institute Of Cpas' Library Finds Permanent Home At Um, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The largest and most prestigious accounting library collection in the world -- that of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) -- has arrived at The University of Mississippi (UM) to be housed permanently in the John Davis Williams Library


Research Group Helps Bring New Composite Materials To Market, Mitchell Diggs Aug 2001

Research Group Helps Bring New Composite Materials To Market, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- When a Chicago manufacturer developed a new additive for polymeric composites earlier this year, the firm sent its engineers to The University of Mississippi (UM) to analyze how well the compound performs. It's a scenario that is repeated dozens of times a year for the UM's Composite Materials Research Group.


Veteran Professor Named Law School’S Butler, Snow Lecturer, Elaine Pugh Aug 2001

Veteran Professor Named Law School’S Butler, Snow Lecturer, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Longtime professor Robert A. Weems has been named the Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada Lecturer in Law at The University of Mississippi (UM).


Diligent Supervision Can Prevent Drowning, Tobie Baker Aug 2001

Diligent Supervision Can Prevent Drowning, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Children may be heading off to school, but the Mississippi heat will keep the backyard swimming pool a dangerous place for months.


Jackson Student Claims Top Award In Eudora Welty Writing Contest, Will Odom Jul 2001

Jackson Student Claims Top Award In Eudora Welty Writing Contest, Will Odom

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. – Although the pen of beloved Mississippi writer Eudora Welty is forever stilled, her memory lives on in numerous ways. At The University of Mississippi (UM), one tribute is the annual Eudora Welty Awards for Creative Writing program. Presented since 1987 during UM's annual Faulkner Conference, the awards' announcement this year, ironically, coincided with the author's death.


University Donates Timberland Parcel To Mississippi Wildlife And Fisheries, Deidra Jackson Jul 2001

University Donates Timberland Parcel To Mississippi Wildlife And Fisheries, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. – In an effort to further ensure the preservation of abundant natural resources in the state, The University of Mississippi has donated a 12½-acre tract of woodlands to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, completing a total transfer of some 21,000 acres of University-owned timberland.


Nation's School Food Professionals Find Help At Usda-Funded Center, Meridith Wulff Jul 2001

Nation's School Food Professionals Find Help At Usda-Funded Center, Meridith Wulff

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Imagine an army of 28,000 hungry children invading your kitchen. Now think about having to feed all of them a well-rounded, nutritious meal in less than an hour. This is the task faced daily by Katrine Rose, administrative coordinator of food service for Prince William County Public Schools in Manassas, Va., and her colleagues. It's enough to make Rose and others like her look for help.


Mississippi Journalist Joins Communications Staff, Staff Report Jul 2001

Mississippi Journalist Joins Communications Staff, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Patsy R. Brumfield, an award-winning newspaper editor and currently communications director for Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck, is joining The University of Mississippi (UM) Office of Communications to manage its news operation.


Community Invited To Free Symphony Concert In The Grove Sunday, July 29, J. Adrian Aumen Jul 2001

Community Invited To Free Symphony Concert In The Grove Sunday, July 29, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Call it a pops concert, but don’t expect the type of orchestra music that made your father snooze.


Ummc Dedicates One Hospital, Breaks Ground For Another, Ummc Report Jul 2001

Ummc Dedicates One Hospital, Breaks Ground For Another, Ummc Report

University of Mississippi News

JACKSON, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi's new Critical Care Hospital, one of the few of its kind in the nation, will be dedicated Aug. 3.


Southern Studies Student Addresses Problems Plaguing Children's Learning, Deidra Jackson Jul 2001

Southern Studies Student Addresses Problems Plaguing Children's Learning, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Buddy Harris has the right idea: Start where you are and do what you can to make the world a better place.


Biologist's Work With Bacteria Earns State's First Invitation To International Conference, Mitchell Diggs Jul 2001

Biologist's Work With Bacteria Earns State's First Invitation To International Conference, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The growing resistance of bacteria to drugs used to combat them has received widespread attention in recent years, but less notice has been paid to environmental factors that affect such microbial resistance.


If I Had A Hammer..., Robert Jordan Jul 2001

If I Had A Hammer..., Robert Jordan

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi Kids College student Quinton Holman, 10, of Oxford gets help from Ole Miss education professor Dr. David Rock, as he drives a screw into a pre-fabricated house Thursday at UM's Yerby Center auditorium.


Athletes Compete On And Off The Field:, Tobie Baker Jul 2001

Athletes Compete On And Off The Field:, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi (UM) student athletes not only scrap for victories on the gridiron but there's also brisk competition off the field.


Dr. Keith Womer Named Director Of Hearin Center For Enterprise Science, George Kehoe Jul 2001

Dr. Keith Womer Named Director Of Hearin Center For Enterprise Science, George Kehoe

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Keith Womer, interim dean of The University of Mississippi (UM) School of Business Administration for the past two years, has been named director of UM's Hearin Center for Enterprise Science. He began his new assignment July 1.


Physicists Contribute To Landmark Study On Nature Of Matter, Mitchell Diggs Jul 2001

Physicists Contribute To Landmark Study On Nature Of Matter, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The question of why we are here has been debated for centuries with all sorts of theological, philosophical and biological implications.


First Entergy Mississippi Excellence In Education Scholarship Awarded, Deidra Jackson Jul 2001

First Entergy Mississippi Excellence In Education Scholarship Awarded, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi secondary education senior Melanie Bean of Southaven is the school's first recipient of a $3,000 Entergy Mississippi Excellence in Education Scholarship.


Dietician: Childhood Obesity Is Serious, Preventable Problem, Amy Lorton Jul 2001

Dietician: Childhood Obesity Is Serious, Preventable Problem, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- If you watch TV commercials, read magazines or cruise the grocery store, you may think that most Americans are into health and fitness. Workout tapes and exercise equipment are constantly touted, and low-fat and no-fat products number in the hundreds.


Classroom Amplification System May Help Young Children Learn, Mitchell Diggs Jul 2001

Classroom Amplification System May Help Young Children Learn, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- First-grade classrooms tend to be noisy places anyway, but researchers working at Oxford's Bramlett Elementary School are hoping to help children perform better academically by selectively turning the volume up a notch.


School Bullies:, Tobie Baker Jul 2001

School Bullies:, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Increased incidents of school bullying on campuses across the United States has become a growing concern that many believe should be addressed.