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Nsf Head Says Scientists Finding Connections Never Before Imagined, Jeff Alford May 2000

Nsf Head Says Scientists Finding Connections Never Before Imagined, Jeff Alford

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss.-- For the first time in the history of science, researchers are finding connections that explain everything from atoms to the way planets are constructed, said the director of the National Science Foundation at meeting of scientists at the University of Mississippi Tuesday.


University Museums Offers Summer Camps For Kids, Amy Lorton May 2000

University Museums Offers Summer Camps For Kids, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Worried about your kids uselessly whiling away the hours this summer? The University of Mississippi Museums has a solution. In July, the Museums offers two summer day camps that are both informative and fun.


Fletcher Named Director Of Sea Grant Program, Elaine Pugh May 2000

Fletcher Named Director Of Sea Grant Program, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Kristen M. Fletcher has been named director of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program at The University of Mississippi.


Ole Miss, Rhodes College Sponsor Philanthropy Conference, Amy Lorton May 2000

Ole Miss, Rhodes College Sponsor Philanthropy Conference, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Fifty percent of this country's wealth is transferring into the hands of women this year, according to a Boston College study, and women are taking greater control of their finances. Recognizing these trends, The University of Mississippi and Rhodes College offer a two-day seminar to help teach other institutions how to tap into this newly discovered resource for higher education. The Southern Women's Leadership in Philanthropy Symposium is set for June 15-16 on The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus.


Love, Marriage And Money: Can They Be Separated?, Elaine Pugh May 2000

Love, Marriage And Money: Can They Be Separated?, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- After the wedding vows are spoken, the big knot in a couple's relationship is often tied to money. Indeed, some surveys show that money problems were cited as a significant factor in more than half of divorces.


Treat Garden-Wedding Guests To Feast, Adrian Aumen May 2000

Treat Garden-Wedding Guests To Feast, Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- After the vows are exchanged and the right words are spoken, the main thing on many a wedding guest's mind may be: "What's to eat?"


Geography Course Helps Teachers, Will Odom May 2000

Geography Course Helps Teachers, Will Odom

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Geography teachers can become better equipped to promote a world view among their students by attending the "Building a Global Perspective" workshop June 25-30, offered by The University of Mississippi.


Wedding Customs Redefine Identity, Create Bond With Friends And Family, Heather Sullivan May 2000

Wedding Customs Redefine Identity, Create Bond With Friends And Family, Heather Sullivan

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. — One country's wedding tradition is another country's matrimonial oddity.


Create Successful Marriage With Communication, Commitment, Brandi Tolbert May 2000

Create Successful Marriage With Communication, Commitment, Brandi Tolbert

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- So you're about to tie the knot? In front of friends and family, you plan to take an oath for "better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health." But have you considered the statistical odds that modern newlyweds face?


Frist Award Winners Selected For Extraordinary Service, Heather Sullivan May 2000

Frist Award Winners Selected For Extraordinary Service, Heather Sullivan

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Teachers, mentors and friends are important to us all. Small and extraordinary acts of kindness become pivotal moments, especially for students, in determining place and purpose in life. Too often, generous feats of uncommon decency go unrecorded -- but not at The University of Mississippi.


Tennis Players ‘Graduate' In Chancellor's Office, Amy Lorton May 2000

Tennis Players ‘Graduate' In Chancellor's Office, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Almost every college student looks forward to graduation day -- a time to come together with family and friends to celebrate four years of hard work and accomplishments. For three University of Mississippi seniors, however, there wasn't a walk in The Grove on Saturday with classmates. Instead of accepting diplomas, they competed in the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships First and Second Rounds at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.


Musgrove Challenges Graduates To Examine Image Of State, Tina Hahn May 2000

Musgrove Challenges Graduates To Examine Image Of State, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove Saturday challenged University of Mississippi graduates to defy the state's image as last in everything.


Remote Sensing, Space Law Center To Lead Nation, Elaine Pugh May 2000

Remote Sensing, Space Law Center To Lead Nation, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- An already burgeoning initiative designed to create high-tech businesses and jobs in Mississippi based on satellite technology has now been undergirded by the newly established National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center of Excellence.


University Museums Hires New Collection Manager, Amy Lorton May 2000

University Museums Hires New Collection Manager, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Organizing, packing, storing and digging though mountains of objects may seem like a nightmare job. But for new University of Mississippi employee Michele Desrosiers, it's a challenge she daily anticipates. In fact, Desrosiers spent four years in college and some graduate study learning the tricks of the organizing trade.


Twins Become First To Receive Doctoral Degrees After Serving In Teacher Corps, Michael Harrelson May 2000

Twins Become First To Receive Doctoral Degrees After Serving In Teacher Corps, Michael Harrelson

University of Mississippi News

A set of identical twins fresh from earning double undergraduate degrees in French and anthropology at the University of Maine come to Mississippi in 1995 to experience the adventure of a lifetime as recruits in the Mississippi Teacher Corps program at The University of Mississippi.


Oxford, University Cooperate In Transportation Enhancement Project, Elaine Pugh May 2000

Oxford, University Cooperate In Transportation Enhancement Project, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

Thanks to a $1.5 million grant to the City of Oxford from the U.S. Department of Transportation through its Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) research and development program, new ITS technology will be used to study transportation concerns. Oxford is providing matching funds for a total project of $2.4 million.


Tornado Alert System Developed By Researchers Available, Barbara Lago May 2000

Tornado Alert System Developed By Researchers Available, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The terrifying roar of a tornado, described by victims as sounding like 100 freight trains, is the key to a warning device developed by University of Mississippi acoustics researchers.


University Anticipates $1.6 M Cut In State Funds, Tina Hahn May 2000

University Anticipates $1.6 M Cut In State Funds, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- While exact budgetary figures are not yet available, University of Mississippi officials are expecting a $1.6 million cut in state funding due to an overall $13 million decrease to the state's Institutions of Higher Learning.


Musgrove To Address Graduates, Tina Hahn May 2000

Musgrove To Address Graduates, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Gov. Ronnie Musgrove offers words of advice to the 1,435 University of Mississippi candidates for graduation at his alma mater May 13 when he gives the commencement keynote in The Grove on the Oxford campus.


What To Do When In The Path Of A Deadly Twister, Barbara Lago May 2000

What To Do When In The Path Of A Deadly Twister, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

They roar up from the southwest, destroying everything in their paths. They cause scores of deaths and property damage running to the tens of millions of dollars, and Mississippi is one of their favorite targets.


Concert To Feature Concert Singers, Spirit Of Ole Miss, Heather Sullivan May 2000

Concert To Feature Concert Singers, Spirit Of Ole Miss, Heather Sullivan

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- When Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote The Girl from Ipanema in 1966, little did he know his original Portuguese tune would be hummed wistfully throughout the world. The classic harbinger of sultry weather and breezy, lazy days begins, "Tall and tan and young and lovely/The girl from Ipanema goes walking/And when she passes, each one she passes goes ‘a-a-ah!'"


Oxford Native Wins Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship, Adrian Aumen May 2000

Oxford Native Wins Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship, Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Hidden in the rocks and crevices deep below the ocean's surface are tiny animals that may hold the keys to treating such dreaded human diseases as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and even some types of cancer. If so, University of Mississippi graduate Deron Edward Burkepile of Oxford could be the first to know, thanks to a prestigious graduate studies fellowship he won from Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.


Exhibit Features Professor's Wall Pieces, Sculptures, Amy Lorton May 2000

Exhibit Features Professor's Wall Pieces, Sculptures, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Bob Cromer, assistant professor of art at The University of Mississippi, loves being a teacher. But he is equally passionate about creating his own artwork, which is one of the reasons he has titled his new University Museums' exhibit Linkage.


John Joseph Visits Monticello, Tina Hahn May 2000

John Joseph Visits Monticello, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- After completing his year as president of The University of Mississippi's Associated Student Body (ASB), John Joseph recently enjoyed a retreat at another president's home.


Pharmacy Awards To Be Presented May 13, Barbara Lago May 2000

Pharmacy Awards To Be Presented May 13, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students who have excelled in scholarship, professional activities and service are recognized during School of Pharmacy commencement exercises May 13 at 3 p.m. in the C.M. "Tad" Smith Coliseum.


Jazzfest 2000 Marks 24th Year, Bon Voyage For Retiring Professor, Heather Sullivan May 2000

Jazzfest 2000 Marks 24th Year, Bon Voyage For Retiring Professor, Heather Sullivan

University of Mississippi News

"I was weaned on red and blue," said Dr. John McCauley, jazz expert and associate professor of music, of his early introduction to The University of Mississippi. "I went to my first Rebels game against Mississippi State at age 5."


Graduate Students' Work With Nasa May Yield Discovery At Confederate Cemetery, Deidra Jackson May 2000

Graduate Students' Work With Nasa May Yield Discovery At Confederate Cemetery, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. --Matt Reynolds, an anthropology graduate student at The University of Mississippi (UM), clutched his right hand gingerly around the magnetic device and wielded it like a metal detector. He levitated it over a 20-meter section of the still grounds at the university's 139-year-old Confederate Cemetery.


Foundation Awards Um $1.5 Million Grant, Amy Lorton May 2000

Foundation Awards Um $1.5 Million Grant, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A charitable organization known for promoting marine sciences and oceanographic research is, for the first time, concentrating on freshwater problems through a $1.5 million grant to The University of Mississippi.


Um Forms Women's Council For Philanthropy, Amy Lorton Apr 2000

Um Forms Women's Council For Philanthropy, Amy Lorton

University of Mississippi News

Recognizing that women have more access to assets and wanting to lead the way for the next generation of Americans, The University of Mississippi has created the Ole Miss Women's Council for Philanthropy -- a group of 25 women with Ole Miss connections who promote philanthropy and sponsor programs to develop outstanding leadership qualities in students.


Fall Rush Set Oct. 19-23, Tina Hahn Apr 2000

Fall Rush Set Oct. 19-23, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi sororities and fraternities will hold Fall Rush in October -- giving all students involved more time to focus on mid-term exams and new students more time to become acclimated to college life.