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Philanthropy Group Attracts More Than $1 Million For Scholarships, Amy Lorton Nov 2000

Philanthropy Group Attracts More Than $1 Million For Scholarships, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- At its inaugural meeting on Valentine's Day 2000, the Ole Miss Women's Council for Philanthropy set a modest goal: Attract private support from University of Mississippi friends and family to sponsor scholarships promoting outstanding leadership qualities in students. The scholarships would be named in honor of women who personify the spirit of both leadership and giving.


Music Chair Hits Positive, High Notes On Field, Deidra Jackson Nov 2000

Music Chair Hits Positive, High Notes On Field, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- If America's future premier singer or musician can simultaneously carry a tune and a pigskin on a northwest Mississippi football field, then the chances are good that Dr. Steve Brown, chair of the Department of Music, will discover him.


Good Books Keep Children Busy, Ease Boredom During Long Christmas Holiday, Deidra Jackson Nov 2000

Good Books Keep Children Busy, Ease Boredom During Long Christmas Holiday, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- In the anxiety-laden days leading up to Christmas, younger children tend to be a bit antsy. They're out of school for the holidays, the days aren't going by fast enough and cries of "When is Santa Claus supposed to come?" become a daily theme.


Educator Offers Hints To Make Smart Software Shopping Simpler, J. Adrian Aumen Nov 2000

Educator Offers Hints To Make Smart Software Shopping Simpler, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. --Have you ever entered a video store and felt overwhelmed with all the intriguing titles and glamorous displays for movies that you've never seen or of which you've never even heard? For many people, the experience of shopping for children's educational software can be equally bewildering.


Pick Up The Pace Early, Take Time To Enjoy The Real Meaning Of Christmas, Elaine Pugh Nov 2000

Pick Up The Pace Early, Take Time To Enjoy The Real Meaning Of Christmas, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- If now, several weeks before Christmas, you're leaving the local super store feeling the need to shake off tinsel and brush angel hair from your brow, you're not alone. Summer barely subsides before the commercialization of Christmas begins, prompting kids' heads to buzz with thoughts of more than mere sugar plums.


Time Is Here To Prepare For Spring's Floral Promises, J. Adrian Aumen Nov 2000

Time Is Here To Prepare For Spring's Floral Promises, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The frost is on the pumpkin, and as many a seasoned gardener knows, the time is ripe for planning and planting a spectacular spring garden.


University Officials React To Death Of Player's Brother, University Communications Nov 2000

University Officials React To Death Of Player's Brother, University Communications

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.-- University of Mississippi officials expressed their condolences Tuesday to the family of Ole Miss football stand-out Deuce McAllister upon learning of the sudden death of his 23-year-old brother, Demetrius.


University's Pr/Marketing Efforts Take A New Direction, New Name, University Communications Nov 2000

University's Pr/Marketing Efforts Take A New Direction, New Name, University Communications

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — In a reflection of the extraordinary changes in how people get information, The University of Mississippi is changing the way it communicates with the world.


Ole Miss Researchers Launch $1.5 Million Effort To Develop Treatments For Emerging Diseases, Mitchell Diggs Nov 2000

Ole Miss Researchers Launch $1.5 Million Effort To Develop Treatments For Emerging Diseases, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Illnesses such as Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and schistosomiasis are virtually unknown in this country, but these exotic-sounding ailments are increasingly hot topics along the hallways of The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy.


Ole Miss Army Rotc To Award Fall Scholarships, J. Adrian Aumen Nov 2000

Ole Miss Army Rotc To Award Fall Scholarships, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Students attending or planning to attend The University of Mississippi next year are eligible for as much as $100,000 in total scholarship funds available through the U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program.


Luckyday Foundation Gives $8.2 Million For Scholarships, Programs, Tina Hahn Nov 2000

Luckyday Foundation Gives $8.2 Million For Scholarships, Programs, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- To help ensure that promising Mississippi students are not denied a college education because of financial need, the Luckyday Foundation today announced it will underwrite $7.5 million in scholarships to The University of Mississippi.


Professor Receives Honorary Doctorate From University In Thailand, Tobie Baker Nov 2000

Professor Receives Honorary Doctorate From University In Thailand, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A University of Mississippi (UM) political science professor has received an honorary doctoral degree from one of Thailand's most prestigious universities.


Nfsmi Promotes Food Safety Through Posters, Amy Lorton Nov 2000

Nfsmi Promotes Food Safety Through Posters, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI) at The University of Mississippi is helping convey the importance of safe food practice to thousands of the nation's school food-service employees.


Library Dean Got To Know The Real Al Gore, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2000

Library Dean Got To Know The Real Al Gore, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- David Letterman regularly paints Al Gore as a bore, the vice president's rivals accuse him of being scheming and untrustworthy, and a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit portrayed him as an arrogant know-it-all.


November Brown Bag Lectures Planned At Southern Culture Center, Allyn Doggett Oct 2000

November Brown Bag Lectures Planned At Southern Culture Center, Allyn Doggett

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Throughout November at The University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the Brown Bag Lecture Series takes a look into the life of a Tupelo undertaker, explores Mississippi history through the use of dialect, examines government's role in the state's arts agencies and spotlights the town of Oxford.


Mississippi Space Commerce Initiative Announces First Spin-Off, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2000

Mississippi Space Commerce Initiative Announces First Spin-Off, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A multimillion-dollar joint initiative designed to foster new high-tech businesses and put Mississippi at the forefront of the remote sensing industry recently celebrated an important milestone with the launch of its first spin-off company.


Um's Lott Institute Fights Eroding Leadership Trend, Amy Lorton Oct 2000

Um's Lott Institute Fights Eroding Leadership Trend, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- How can a trend of declining leadership skills in the United States be halted? According to a recently released report by the W.W. Kellogg Foundation, higher education must take the reins by teaching students, faculty and administration to effectively guide others -- exactly what The University of Mississippi is accomplishing through its new Lott Leadership Institute.


Liberal Arts Classrooms Improved With $2.5 Million Bondurant Renovation, Tina Hahn Oct 2000

Liberal Arts Classrooms Improved With $2.5 Million Bondurant Renovation, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Bondurant Hall now offers vastly improved classroom space for numerous liberal arts classes after a recent state-funded $2.5 million renovation.


Internet Town Meeting Generates Lively Discussion, Jeff Alford Oct 2000

Internet Town Meeting Generates Lively Discussion, Jeff Alford

University of Mississippi News

More than 300 citizens, including college students, business people, university faculty and staff, and elected officials, attended a town meeting in the Education Auditorium Tuesday night to tell the next president of the United States their concerns and hopes for the internet.


Phi Beta Kappa Votes ‘Yes' For Um Chapter, Tina Hahn Oct 2000

Phi Beta Kappa Votes ‘Yes' For Um Chapter, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. --The nation's oldest and most prestigious honor society presented its "gold key" to The University of Mississippi today, opening the door of opportunity for liberal arts students and providing national recognition for the state's oldest public university.


Martindales Honor Mentor With Scholarship, Amy Lorton Oct 2000

Martindales Honor Mentor With Scholarship, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A true love of life. All of us want it, but few ever really achieve it. In fact, you probably think it's not possible to enjoy absolutely everything --until you meet Shirley Wagner Crawford of Oxford.


Ole Miss Alumni Association To Induct Five Into Hall Of Fame, Bill Dabney Oct 2000

Ole Miss Alumni Association To Induct Five Into Hall Of Fame, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Five individuals are honored Oct. 27 with The University of Mississippi Alumni Association's highest recognition: induction into the Alumni Hall of Fame.


Croft Institute Offers New Schedule Of Brown Bag Lectures, Tobie Baker Oct 2000

Croft Institute Offers New Schedule Of Brown Bag Lectures, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. --The Croft Institute for International Studies at The University of Mississippi has altered its fall Brown Bag Lecture Series.


Ole Miss Senior Wins Miss America Preliminary, Tobie Baker Oct 2000

Ole Miss Senior Wins Miss America Preliminary, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — University of Mississippi's own Christy May won the Miss America preliminary swimsuit competition Wednesday in Atlantic City.


Alarm Against Digital Age's Onslaught Sounded In Book By New English Chair, Elaine Pugh Oct 2000

Alarm Against Digital Age's Onslaught Sounded In Book By New English Chair, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- While you read this, an e-mail is clamoring in your box; someone has left a message on your pager and voice mail; a fax is rolling out; and your Palm Pilot is reminding you whose birthday you've almost missed. Author Joseph R. Urgo feels there's something terribly wrong with all this noise.


Vegging Out May Mean Down And Out For The Young And The Meatless, Elaine Pugh Oct 2000

Vegging Out May Mean Down And Out For The Young And The Meatless, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

You won't find warning labels in the produce section of your supermarket. However, vegetables alone may not be the best for your health. Teen-agers, for example, searching for ways to assert themselves, sometimes become vegetarians for health, philosophical or trendy reasons. But their reasons may not be enough to nourish their bodies, said Dr. Kathy Knight, registered dietitian and associate professor of family and consumer sciences at The University of Mississippi.


New Exhibit Highlights 30 Years Of Living Blues, Barbara Lago Oct 2000

New Exhibit Highlights 30 Years Of Living Blues, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A magazine begun 30 years ago with $400 and which sold for $1 both times it changed ownership is not only regarded as one of the finest music magazines in the industry but also as an "institution" that helped shape a segment of the industry itself.


Library Soon Offers 23 Million Volumes, Elaine Pugh Oct 2000

Library Soon Offers 23 Million Volumes, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

J.D. Williams Library makes a Quantum Leap next month from offering one million volumes to 23 million volumes to students, faculty and staff, thanks to a consortium with 11 other universities.


Industry Watcher Urges Pharmaceutical Firms To Rediscover Innovation, Mitchell Diggs Oct 2000

Industry Watcher Urges Pharmaceutical Firms To Rediscover Innovation, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The pharmaceutical industry faces enormous challenges in the forms of competition, new drug development and societal demands, but multibillion-dollar mergers among major firms will not solve these problems, one of the industry's most respected watchers said Wednesday at The University of Mississippi.


Grisham Endowment Brings Poet To Teach, J. Adrian Aumen Oct 2000

Grisham Endowment Brings Poet To Teach, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Whether plumbing "the depths of human illogic"or assaying the ways of a garden slug, the poetry of Claude Wilkinson has stirred interest among literary circles and, now, among University of Mississippi students, as well.