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Science And Superheroes: Um Researcher Speaks At Comic-Con, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Science And Superheroes: Um Researcher Speaks At Comic-Con, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Marine biologist Tamar Goulet has shared her love of science and curiosity in classrooms and professional conferences around the world. This summer, she joined George Lucas, Queen Latifah and Ryan Gosling to bring that love to the stages of San Diego Comic-Con International.


Gift Supports Great Teachers Who Inspire, Tina H. Hahn Aug 2025

Gift Supports Great Teachers Who Inspire, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – With a second gift of $1.5 million, Elaine and Dr. Rhett Atkinson, of Sedona, Arizona, expanded their support of University of Mississippi faculty in the fields of biology, chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics and astronomy.


Navy Partnership Offers Students Scientific, Career Opportunities, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Navy Partnership Offers Students Scientific, Career Opportunities, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A new partnership between the University of Mississippi and the U.S. Navy aims to prepare students for highly sought roles in oceanography, maritime science and meteorology.


Ole Miss Recognizes Record Group Of Stamps Impact Prize Winners, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Ole Miss Recognizes Record Group Of Stamps Impact Prize Winners, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Stamps Impact Prize welcomed its largest cohort yet of University of Mississippi student researchers and artists on Thursday (Aug. 28).


Ole Miss Student Combines Passions In Italian Medical Fellowship, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Ole Miss Student Combines Passions In Italian Medical Fellowship, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Sparked by a love of travel and aspirations of becoming a doctor, University of Mississippi junior Samantha Ragan experienced the best of both worlds when she spent time in Italy this summer as part of a global health fellowship program.


Southtalks Focus On 'Reading The South', Rebecca Lauck Cleary Aug 2025

Southtalks Focus On 'Reading The South', Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Center for the Study of Southern Culture focuses its programming for the University of Mississippi's 2025-26 academic year on the idea of "Reading the South." The center's SouthTalks events begin next week and support the theme.


Class Of 2029 Officially Joins The Ole Miss Family, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Class Of 2029 Officially Joins The Ole Miss Family, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Class of 2029 officially celebrated the start of their journey at the University of Mississippi during Tuesday's (Aug. 26) Fall Convocation at the Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss.


Ole Miss Endowment Tops $1 Billion, Fueled By Record Giving, Tina H. Hahn, Jacob Batte Aug 2025

Ole Miss Endowment Tops $1 Billion, Fueled By Record Giving, Tina H. Hahn, Jacob Batte

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's endowment has topped the $1 billion milestone, aided by another year of unprecedented generosity.


New Window To The Universe: Researcher To Study Gravitational Waves, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

New Window To The Universe: Researcher To Study Gravitational Waves, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Sifting through the noise of space is no easy task, even for astrophysicists. But a new grant from the National Science Foundation promises to help a University of Mississippi researcher decode the sounds of the universe.


Tiny Waves, Big Impact: Study Finds New Way To Control Fluid In Space, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Tiny Waves, Big Impact: Study Finds New Way To Control Fluid In Space, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Liquids can provide some especially tricky challenges for space travelers, but new research from the University of Mississippi could help engineer smarter, more efficient fluid control in zero- and low-gravity environments.


Donor Hopes Gift Helps Open Eyes And Minds, Tina H. Hahn Aug 2025

Donor Hopes Gift Helps Open Eyes And Minds, Tina H. Hahn

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Virginia Fossier Brooks has been traveling abroad almost every year for as long as she can remember, and now she is helping University of Mississippi students benefit from the life-changing experiences of travel.


Cannabis Chemist, Mushroom Explorer And Mentor Leaves Ole Miss Smiling, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Cannabis Chemist, Mushroom Explorer And Mentor Leaves Ole Miss Smiling, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – After more than 30 years of teaching and research at the University of Mississippi, and more than five decades overall, pharmacy professor Samir Ross is hanging up his lab coat and retiring.


Ole Miss Mortar Board Chapter Honored For Leadership, Service, Jordan Karnbach Aug 2025

Ole Miss Mortar Board Chapter Honored For Leadership, Service, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Mortar Board national honor society has honored its University of Mississippi's chapter for demonstrating commitment to scholarship, leadership and service.


University Welcomes New Chief Information Officer, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

University Welcomes New Chief Information Officer, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has named Victoria Farnsworth as its new chief information officer. She joined the Ole Miss leadership team Monday (Aug. 18).


Sound Investment: Grant Fuels Music Education Initiative, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Sound Investment: Grant Fuels Music Education Initiative, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A new Mississippi Arts Commission project grant is music to the ears for University of Mississippi music professor Adam Estes. With it, he and his Assembly Quartet can continue developing their musical project for saxophone students throughout the country.


Us Education Secretary Visits University, Staff Report Aug 2025

Us Education Secretary Visits University, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon toured the University of Mississippi and met with campus leaders to discuss literacy, early learning, workforce development, and health and wellness during a visit to Mississippi.


'The Dean' To Share His Ole Miss Stories, Michael Newsom Aug 2025

'The Dean' To Share His Ole Miss Stories, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – For 36 years, he was a steady hand guiding University of Mississippi students through triumphs and crises, celebrations and challenges. Now Sparky Reardon, the university's beloved former dean of students, will pull back the curtain on decades of campus history that shaped generations.


Ghosts Of Predators Past: Um Student Studies Raccoon Scent Memory, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Ghosts Of Predators Past: Um Student Studies Raccoon Scent Memory, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – They are known for their clever paws and masked faces, but raccoons might also have an unexpected survival skill: remembering scents of predators they have never met.


Gift Honors An 'Accounting Family', Andy Belt Aug 2025

Gift Honors An 'Accounting Family', Andy Belt

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A major gift to the University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy tributes the late Bill Rush Mosby Jr., a longtime influential accountant in Mississippi, while honoring his extended family's history with the accounting profession.


Dylan And The South Goes Global: Ole Miss Takes Class On The Road, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Dylan And The South Goes Global: Ole Miss Takes Class On The Road, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – What started as a passion project that "just kept on keepin' on" turned into a research project, then a new course offering and ended as a summer tour of teaching, learning and travel for University of Mississippi students and faculty through the music of Bob Dylan.


Why Space Needs Lawyers: Ole Miss Leads The Conversation, Marisa C. Atkinson Aug 2025

Why Space Needs Lawyers: Ole Miss Leads The Conversation, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The quickening pace of this generation's race to the moon provides a perfect opportunity to learn why space needs lawyers, and the University of Mississippi is opening the door on this frontier.


Experience Does Not Guarantee Success For Hiring Ceos, Marvis Herring, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Experience Does Not Guarantee Success For Hiring Ceos, Marvis Herring, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – When companies replace their CEOs, the stakes are high. But a new study shows that hiring boards might not be getting better at the process, even with practice.


Ole Miss Staff Residencies Empower Passion Projects, Jordan Karnbach Aug 2025

Ole Miss Staff Residencies Empower Passion Projects, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – This summer, 21 staff members took time off from their usual jobs at the University of Mississippi to dive into some personal passion projects.


Chemists Help Solve Mystery Of Missing Space Sulfur, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Chemists Help Solve Mystery Of Missing Space Sulfur, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is a key ingredient to life. A new study could point to where it has been hiding.


Sociologist Returns To University To Share Mississippi Stories, Jordan Karnbach Aug 2025

Sociologist Returns To University To Share Mississippi Stories, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Brian Foster, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, will discuss his work on narrative threading and capturing mundane life in Mississippi on Aug. 21 at Circle and Square Brewery.


Gift Provides Experiential Opportunities For Aspiring Journalists, Mary Stanton Knight Aug 2025

Gift Provides Experiential Opportunities For Aspiring Journalists, Mary Stanton Knight

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – When Heidi and Kevin Gillen decided to support the University of Mississippi's journalism program, they wanted their gift to move the needle.


Music Student Hopes Competition In Spain Pays Dividends, Andrea Drummond Aug 2025

Music Student Hopes Competition In Spain Pays Dividends, Andrea Drummond

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A summer trip to the Mediterranean coast of Spain may sound like an idyllic vacation, but for University of Mississippi student Coda Ethridge, it inspired him to become a better musician and teacher.


Musicologist Joins Department Of Music, Andrea Drummond Aug 2025

Musicologist Joins Department Of Music, Andrea Drummond

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Department of Music has hired musicologist and researcher Sarah Koval as an assistant professor of music.


New Museum Director Comes Home To Ole Miss, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

New Museum Director Comes Home To Ole Miss, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – In 1997, Karleen Gardner led a tour at the campus museum, sparking a lifelong love of museum collections, communities and learning opportunities. Now, she is back to lead the University of Mississippi Museum.


Chemists Explore 'Super Alcohol' That May Point To Cosmic Life, Clara Turnage Aug 2025

Chemists Explore 'Super Alcohol' That May Point To Cosmic Life, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Researchers have for the first time isolated a compound that could open new doors to discovering the chemistry that supports life in space.