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Track Star Rodney Lockhart Found Dead, Barbara Lago Sep 2007

Track Star Rodney Lockhart Found Dead, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi track star Rodney Lydale Lockhart was found dead around 10 a.m. Saturday (Sept. 29) at his apartment at Taylor Pointe Apartments in Oxford, near the UM campus. Lockhart, 20, a junior psychology major from Vaiden, was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. 4x400 relay team in the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing.


Innovative Performer Claudia Stevens To Present Solo Drama Promoting Social Justice Oct. 5, Elaine Pugh Sep 2007

Innovative Performer Claudia Stevens To Present Solo Drama Promoting Social Justice Oct. 5, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Musical and dramatic performer Claudia Stevens presents the one-person drama "Dreadfully Sorry, Guys" Friday (Oct. 5) at the University of Mississippi.


Business Leader Establishes Ole Miss First Scholarship, Sonia Thompson Sep 2007

Business Leader Establishes Ole Miss First Scholarship, Sonia Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Entrepreneur Russell French has pledged $25,000 to seed The 512 Ole Miss First Scholarship at the University of Mississippi.


Alumni Association To Honor Seven Homecoming Weekend For Achievement, Service, B. Lago, J. Urbanek Sep 2007

Alumni Association To Honor Seven Homecoming Weekend For Achievement, Service, B. Lago, J. Urbanek

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Seven people are to receive the University of Mississippi Alumni Association's highest annual honors Friday, Oct. 5.


Mfa Student Wins Award For ‘Impressive Body Of Work', Sarah Crabtree Walker Sep 2007

Mfa Student Wins Award For ‘Impressive Body Of Work', Sarah Crabtree Walker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A University of Mississippi Master of Fine Arts student is the winner of one of Arkansas' most lucrative and prestigious literary awards.


Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author To Keynote Honors College 10th Anniversary Convocation, Lee Eric Smith Sep 2007

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author To Keynote Honors College 10th Anniversary Convocation, Lee Eric Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – As a reporter for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has circled the globe to cover oil-related news, conflict in the Middle East, the end of the Cold War and the worldwide impact of terrorism. His Pulitzer Prize-winning commentaries have provided the American public with straight talk and reliable information on politics and foreign policy.


Students Gear Up For Fourth Annual Ole Miss Idol, Erica Brown Sep 2007

Students Gear Up For Fourth Annual Ole Miss Idol, Erica Brown

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi hosts the fourth annual "Ole Miss Idol" talent competition beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 3) in the Student Union's Southern Breeze room on the fourth floor.


Mississippi Innocence Project To Help Prove Innocence Of Prisoners, Jennifer Farish Sep 2007

Mississippi Innocence Project To Help Prove Innocence Of Prisoners, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Cedric Willis of Jackson was convicted in 1997 of murder and robbery and sentenced to life in prison despite the fact that DNA evidence excluded him as the perpetrator.


Professor Uses Ipods To Provide Help For People Who Stutter, Jennifer Farish Sep 2007

Professor Uses Ipods To Provide Help For People Who Stutter, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Compared to advancements in modern medicine over the past 70 years, there have been few new treatment options for people who stutter. That's one reason a $50 digital device being developed by a University of Mississippi researcher is drawing attention.


Art Graduate Student Among 15 In Nation To Receive $15,000 Grant, Lindsey Phillips Sep 2007

Art Graduate Student Among 15 In Nation To Receive $15,000 Grant, Lindsey Phillips

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When University of Mississippi art graduate student Vitus Shell was 3 years old, watermelons and pickles grew on trees. At least, that's what he thought. The unusual "fruit trees" were among his favorite subjects to illustrate.


German Publisher To Discuss U.S. Public Policy Sept. 27, Tobie Baker Sep 2007

German Publisher To Discuss U.S. Public Policy Sept. 27, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit, is to discuss U.S. public policy Thursday at the University of Mississippi.


Croft Institute For International Studies Names 2007 Scholars, J. Farish, L. Freeman Sep 2007

Croft Institute For International Studies Names 2007 Scholars, J. Farish, L. Freeman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Thirteen top students from across the country have been chosen as 2007 Croft Scholars by the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi.


Media Advisory: Director Of New Innocence Project And An Exonerated Man Available To Media Wednesday In Jackson, Staff Report Sep 2007

Media Advisory: Director Of New Innocence Project And An Exonerated Man Available To Media Wednesday In Jackson, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

A media availability is scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday (Sept. 26) in Jackson featuring Tucker Carrington, director of the new Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law, and Cedric Willis of Jackson, who was exonerated on charges of murder and robbery in 2005 after DNA evidence cleared him of the crimes.


No Injuries In Crane Accident At Thad Cochran Research Center, Staff Report Sep 2007

No Injuries In Crane Accident At Thad Cochran Research Center, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -­ No one was injured when a 35-foot construction crane toppled over Monday at a construction site behind the Thad Cochran Research Center at the University of Mississippi.


Alumni Visit Campus To Help Prepare Mba Students For Real World, Meghan Storey Sep 2007

Alumni Visit Campus To Help Prepare Mba Students For Real World, Meghan Storey

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Fifteen University of Mississippi alumni returned to campus Friday (Sept. 21) to give Master of Business Administration students an opportunity to see what their degrees can do for them in the real world.


Nasa Interactive Exhibit Thrills, Informs Visitors, Admin Sep 2007

Nasa Interactive Exhibit Thrills, Informs Visitors, Admin

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Mfa In Creative Writing Grad Included In Scribner's Best American Poetry 2007, Edwin Smith Sep 2007

Mfa In Creative Writing Grad Included In Scribner's Best American Poetry 2007, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The first graduate of the University of Mississippi's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program has been published in the nation's most critically acclaimed poetry anthology.


University Launches Investigation Into Student's Death, Tobie Baker Sep 2007

University Launches Investigation Into Student's Death, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi Dean of Students Office has initiated an investigation into the events surrounding the death of Bradley Jameson. After receiving a toxicology report from the Lafayette County Coroner's office, Thomas J. "Sparky" Reardon announced that his office is leading an investigation into the death. Jameson, 18, a freshman from Fort Worth, Texas, died Saturday after falling from a tree at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house on campus.


Lott Says Senate Missed Bipartisan Opportunity Regarding Troop Withdrawal, Tobie Baker Sep 2007

Lott Says Senate Missed Bipartisan Opportunity Regarding Troop Withdrawal, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. -- Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said Friday that the U.S. Senate missed a key opportunity two weeks ago to begin working on a compromise regarding the war in Iraq. On the University of Mississippi campus with former Sen. Tom Daschle, (D-S.D.), Lott said the Senate should have begun working in a bipartisan fashion following the status report from U. S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq. "We missed an opportunity to come together in the last couple of weeks," Lott said. "We can't micromanage the war in Iraq, but we could have come …


Summer Programs Bring More Than 19,000 Visitors To Ole Miss, Oxford, Staff Report Sep 2007

Summer Programs Bring More Than 19,000 Visitors To Ole Miss, Oxford, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Attracting more than 19,000 participants and generating nearly $2.5 million in revenue the past season, summer programs at the University of Mississippi are big business.


Decorated Army Chaplain To Visit Um, Oxford Sept. 23, Lori Simpson Sep 2007

Decorated Army Chaplain To Visit Um, Oxford Sept. 23, Lori Simpson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Decorated Army Chaplain Jeff Struecker, who participated in the Army mission to Somalia that was the inspiration for the book and film "Black Hawk Down," is scheduled to visit the University of Mississippi and Oxford Sunday (Sept. 23) to discuss ways to handle fear.


Prospective Students, Parents Invited To Fall Visit Day Oct. 6, Staff Report Sep 2007

Prospective Students, Parents Invited To Fall Visit Day Oct. 6, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Residence hall open houses and information sessions on academics, student life, financial aid and scholarships are among the offerings for prospective students attending Fall Visit Day Oct. 6 at the University of Mississippi.


Cellular South Continues Scholarship Program, Sonia Thompson Sep 2007

Cellular South Continues Scholarship Program, Sonia Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Cellular South, one of Mississippi's largest companies, continues its legacy of giving with a $30,000 contribution to the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration.


Nasa Interactive Exhibit Thrills, Informs Visitors, Edwin Smith Sep 2007

Nasa Interactive Exhibit Thrills, Informs Visitors, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Several hundred visitors to the University of Mississippi Thursday (Sept. 20) journeyed into space through the medium of an interactive mobile exhibit.


Nasa Interactive Traveling Exhibit To Visit Oxford Campus Sept. 20-21, Admin Sep 2007

Nasa Interactive Traveling Exhibit To Visit Oxford Campus Sept. 20-21, Admin

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Wilkie And Hailman Named Inaugural Overby Fellows, Staff Report Sep 2007

Wilkie And Hailman Named Inaugural Overby Fellows, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two distinguished Mississippians with national reputations - one a journalist, the other a lawyer - have been named inaugural fellows at the new Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi.


Isom Center Schedules Lunch Lectures On Status Of Women In Mississippi, Elaine Pugh Sep 2007

Isom Center Schedules Lunch Lectures On Status Of Women In Mississippi, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The status of women in the state is the focus of lunch lecture programs Sept. 24, Oct. 22 and Nov. 5 at the University of Mississippi.


Handicap Parking Expanded, Shuttle Added For Football Games, Mitchell Diggs Sep 2007

Handicap Parking Expanded, Shuttle Added For Football Games, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi has added new designated handicap parking areas for football games and is offering shuttles from one lot to key areas near Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.


Two Mississippi Companies Support School Of Engineering, Admin Sep 2007

Two Mississippi Companies Support School Of Engineering, Admin

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


Kennon Observatory Open House Offers Look At Moon, Planets And Stars, Edwin Smith Sep 2007

Kennon Observatory Open House Offers Look At Moon, Planets And Stars, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A close-up look at the planets and beyond is available to amateur stargazers and other interested public Friday night (Sept. 21) during an open house at the University of Mississippi's Kennon Observatory.