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Rick Looser, Coo Of The Cirlot Agency, To Discuss 'Mississippi, Believe It!' At Um, Staff Report Mar 2007

Rick Looser, Coo Of The Cirlot Agency, To Discuss 'Mississippi, Believe It!' At Um, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Rick Looser, president and chief operating officer of The Cirlot Agency, a full-service marketing, public relations and corporate communications firm in Jackson, is slated to speak Tuesday (March 20) at the University of Mississippi.


State's First Public Policy Studies Program To Be Offered Beginning This Fall, Tobie Baker Mar 2007

State's First Public Policy Studies Program To Be Offered Beginning This Fall, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's legacy of producing state and national leaders – including governors, lieutenant governors, supreme court justices, senators and representatives – has been further ensured with a new undergraduate degree program.


Spring Lecture Series Continues With Discussion Of Ancient Mayans Of Belize, Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

Spring Lecture Series Continues With Discussion Of Ancient Mayans Of Belize, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Recent archaeological findings about the ancient Mayan inhabitants of Belize are the focus of an upcoming lecture at the University of Mississippi. Gabriel Wrobel, assistant professor of anthropology, is to discuss "Discovering the Ancient Maya of Belize" at 2 p.m. March 23 in Leavell Hall, room 212. The talk is part of a new spring lecture series sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.


Dutch Author Visits Um To Gather Info For Travel Guide, Lydia Hailman Mar 2007

Dutch Author Visits Um To Gather Info For Travel Guide, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi may be getting a bit more international exposure soon through a listing in a travel guide being penned by a Dutch writer.


Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis To Read, Speak March 23 As Grisham Visiting Writer, Sarah Crabtree Mar 2007

Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis To Read, Speak March 23 As Grisham Visiting Writer, Sarah Crabtree

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis visits the University of Mississippi and Oxford March 23 during the 14th annual Oxford Conference for the Book.


Sixth Annual C.A.R.E. Fair, Workshop Set For March 22, Lydia Hailman Mar 2007

Sixth Annual C.A.R.E. Fair, Workshop Set For March 22, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Valuable information about aging and caring for older family members is to be available at the sixth annual C.A.R.E. Fair and Workshop March 22 at the University of Mississippi.


Public Lecture 'Ghana And Pan-Africanism' By African Historian Scheduled March 20, Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

Public Lecture 'Ghana And Pan-Africanism' By African Historian Scheduled March 20, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - An authority on African history visits the University of Mississippi Tuesday (March 20) to deliver the address "Ghana and Pan-Africanism."


English Professor Galef Publishes First Poetry Collection, Edwin Smith Mar 2007

English Professor Galef Publishes First Poetry Collection, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A University of Mississippi professor who previously received critical acclaim for his novels is being heralded for his first collection of poetry.


Donor Of Larry Brown Letters To Talk About His Friend March 23, Elaine Pugh Mar 2007

Donor Of Larry Brown Letters To Talk About His Friend March 23, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Thirty-one letters written over some 13 years may not seem important except that the letter writer was the late Larry Brown, whose novels, books and short stories about rural life in his native Mississippi are considered classics of Southern literature.


Faculty Biologist Helps Restore Coast Herbarium Ravaged By Hurricane Katrina, Tobie Baker Mar 2007

Faculty Biologist Helps Restore Coast Herbarium Ravaged By Hurricane Katrina, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – With a wall of water nearly 30 feet high, Hurricane Katrina generated the highest storm surge in U.S. history, penetrating six miles inland along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.


Women's Health Awareness Week March 21-29 Offers Health Fairs, More, Elaine Pugh Mar 2007

Women's Health Awareness Week March 21-29 Offers Health Fairs, More, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Women's health is the focus of several opportunities during Women's Awareness Week, March 21-29, provided by the University of Mississippi's Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi and other co-sponsors.


Anheuser-Busch Gives $300,000 To Establish Social Norms Project, Jennifer Farish Mar 2007

Anheuser-Busch Gives $300,000 To Establish Social Norms Project, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

Anheuser-Busch Cos. announced today (March 9) funding for a $300,000 project at the University of Mississippi aimed at reducing underage and abusive drinking on campus.


Business Plan Competition Offers Prizes For Enterprising Scholars, Rebecca Lauck Cleary Mar 2007

Business Plan Competition Offers Prizes For Enterprising Scholars, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The idea for Federal Express sprang out of Yale University student Fred Smith's term paper, and Google began in a Stanford University dorm room, which proves that big ideas lurk in the minds of enterprising college scholars.


Media Advisory: Miss. Attorney General, Anheuser-Busch To Make Announcement At Um, Staff Report Mar 2007

Media Advisory: Miss. Attorney General, Anheuser-Busch To Make Announcement At Um, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and representatives of Anheuser-Busch Cos. are to be in Oxford tomorrow (March 9) to announce a major initiative aimed at helping prevent abusive and underage drinking at the University of Mississippi. They are to be joined by Chancellor Robert Khayat and other university administrators and student leaders.


Alumnus Donates $100,000 To School Of Engineering, Edwin Smith Mar 2007

Alumnus Donates $100,000 To School Of Engineering, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

A University of Mississippi alumnus has donated $100,000 to the School of Engineering at his alma mater. Julius M. Ridgway of Jackson has pledged $25,000 annually for four years to the UM Foundation to establish the Geological Data Fund bearing his name.


New Money To Fund Research That Began At Um In 2003, Jennifer Farish Mar 2007

New Money To Fund Research That Began At Um In 2003, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

The generous $300,000 grant from Anheuser-Busch Cos. presented to the University of Mississippi today (March 9) is new funding for a project that began more than three years ago. Jeff Hallam, associate professor of health promotion and director of the UM Center for Health Promotion, said the center has been involved in researching the social norms concept since 2003.


Media Advisory: Students To Assist With Katrina Cleanup, Staff Report Mar 2007

Media Advisory: Students To Assist With Katrina Cleanup, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

University of Mississippi students travel to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans this weekend (March 10-11) to work on areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina. One group will go to the Gulf Coast to work on Habitat for Humanity homes and the other group will go to New Orleans to work on a restaurant destroyed by the storm. The work is to take place Saturday. The groups together will visit the Ninth Ward in New Orleans mid-morning on Sunday to view the aftermath and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.


University Chefs To Make Television Appearances Statewide, Genie Alice Via Mar 2007

University Chefs To Make Television Appearances Statewide, Genie Alice Via

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi's executive chef and pastry chef are appearing on local television stations around the state.


Oxford Conference For The Book March 22-24 Celebrates Larry Brown, Rebecca Lauck Cleary Mar 2007

Oxford Conference For The Book March 22-24 Celebrates Larry Brown, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Oxford honors one of its own during the 14th annual Oxford Conference for the Book, hosted by the University of Mississippi March 22-24. The late Larry Brown, Oxford native and one of the South's most acclaimed writers, is the focus of this year's event.


Peer-Honored Physicist To Discuss Acoustics Research In Distinguished Faculty Fellow Lecture, Tobie Baker Mar 2007

Peer-Honored Physicist To Discuss Acoustics Research In Distinguished Faculty Fellow Lecture, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Richard Raspet, who was recently named a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the University of Mississippi's College of Liberal Arts, discusses his research at 4 p.m. March 20 in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory.


Journalism Chair Discusses Future Of Print Journalism This Weekend On Cbs News 'Sunday Morning', Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

Journalism Chair Discusses Future Of Print Journalism This Weekend On Cbs News 'Sunday Morning', Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Samir Husni, international magazine guru and chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Mississippi, is slated to appear on the CBS News show "Sunday Morning" March 11 to discuss the future of print journalism.


Program Series To Examine Religions Of The World, Staff Report Mar 2007

Program Series To Examine Religions Of The World, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The sixth annual World Religions Series is planned during March and April by the Office of International Programs at the University of Mississippi.


Ihl Approves New Master's Programs In Social Work And Criminal Justice, Jennifer Farish Mar 2007

Ihl Approves New Master's Programs In Social Work And Criminal Justice, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two new master's programs at the University of Mississippi are generating excitement both on campus and in the north Mississippi community.


Conference To Bring Internationally Known Dance Company To Um, Genie Alice Via Mar 2007

Conference To Bring Internationally Known Dance Company To Um, Genie Alice Via

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The internationally known Dayton Contemporary Dance Company performs March 15 at the University of Mississippi as part of a regional dance conference hosted by the Department of Theatre Arts.


Ole Miss Concert Singers Selected To Perform At Acda National Convention March 7-10, Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

Ole Miss Concert Singers Selected To Perform At Acda National Convention March 7-10, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi Concert Singers student choir is slated to perform at the American Choral Directors Association National Convention March 7-10 in Miami.


Journalism Chair 'Mr. Magazine' Is Invited Speaker At World Magazine Meet In Luxembourg, Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

Journalism Chair 'Mr. Magazine' Is Invited Speaker At World Magazine Meet In Luxembourg, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When some of the most intriguing personalities of the worldwide magazine culture convene Friday (March 9) in Luxembourg, Samir Husni - known internationally as "Mr. Magazine" - is slated to be in attendance as an invited speaker.


5k For Kids On Saturday To Benefit L-O-U Boys & Girls Club, Lydia Hailman Mar 2007

5k For Kids On Saturday To Benefit L-O-U Boys & Girls Club, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Student Senate is sponsoring the third annual 5K for Kids on Saturday (March 3). Proceeds will benefit the Lafayette-Oxford-University Boys & Girls Club.


L-O-U Symphony To Present Ford Center Concert March 5, Deborah Purnell Mar 2007

L-O-U Symphony To Present Ford Center Concert March 5, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Lafayette-Oxford-University Symphony Orchestra presents a concert Monday (March 5) at the University of Mississippi's Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Nigerian Space Law Scholar To Visit Um, Speak At Law School March 6, Lydia Hailman Mar 2007

Nigerian Space Law Scholar To Visit Um, Speak At Law School March 6, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - One of Nigeria's most notable space law scholars is slated to speak Tuesday (March 6) at the University of Mississippi.


Distinguished Neuroscientist To Discuss Research Findings At Third Annual Borne Lecture, Mitchell Diggs Mar 2007

Distinguished Neuroscientist To Discuss Research Findings At Third Annual Borne Lecture, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A former Virginia Scientist of the Year visits Oxford Tuesday to report on his studies of how certain compounds convert into neurotoxins in the body for the third annual Ronald F. Borne Distinguished Lecture in Medicinal Chemistry.