Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 9361 - 9390 of 13497

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Alumnus Donates House In Oxford, Establishes Scholarship Endowment, Lydia Hailman Feb 2007

Alumnus Donates House In Oxford, Establishes Scholarship Endowment, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A University of Mississippi alumnus has established a scholarship endowment through a unique bequest to his alma mater.


Journalism Department Seeks Nominations For Silver Em Award, Staff Report Feb 2007

Journalism Department Seeks Nominations For Silver Em Award, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – An outstanding journalist with a Mississippi connection is being sought to receive the 2007 Silver Em award at the University of Mississippi.


American Magic Lantern Theater Comes To University Museum Feb. 25, Edwin Smith Feb 2007

American Magic Lantern Theater Comes To University Museum Feb. 25, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The American Magic Lantern Theater comes to the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Feb. 25.


History Competition Saturday Fields Students From 17 Area High Schools, Blaine Stegar Feb 2007

History Competition Saturday Fields Students From 17 Area High Schools, Blaine Stegar

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Students from 17 high schools converge at the University of Mississippi Saturday (Feb. 17) for the third annual History Day Competition.


Center For Documentary Projects Gets Grant For ‘Highway 61 Radio Show’, Mary Margaret Miller Feb 2007

Center For Documentary Projects Gets Grant For ‘Highway 61 Radio Show’, Mary Margaret Miller

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Blues music floating from the radio of a lone car cruising through a midnight Mississippi creates a nostalgic ambience like no other sound.


Fall 2006 Honors List, Kelly Kress Feb 2007

Fall 2006 Honors List, Kelly Kress

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A list of students named to the University of Mississippi Dean's and Chancellor's Honor Rolls for fall 2006 semester is available for viewing online.


Blues Poet, Musician Wanda Coleman To Speak Friday About ‘Soulful Women', Lauren Freeman Feb 2007

Blues Poet, Musician Wanda Coleman To Speak Friday About ‘Soulful Women', Lauren Freeman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Award-winning blues poet and musician Wanda Coleman speaks Friday (Feb. 16) at the University of Mississippi.


Mathematics Chair Chosen To Participate In National Project In Course Redesign, Elaine Pugh Feb 2007

Mathematics Chair Chosen To Participate In National Project In Course Redesign, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi professor, interested in helping ensure that mathematics education evolves to benefit from new technology, has been chosen to participate in a national effort in course redesign.


Southern American Studies Association To Convene Feb. 15-17 At Um, Edwin Smith Feb 2007

Southern American Studies Association To Convene Feb. 15-17 At Um, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Southern American Studies Association holds its annual conference Feb. 15-17 at the University of Mississippi.


Blues Today Symposium Feb. 15-17 To Focus On Blues Women, Rebecca Lauck Cleary Feb 2007

Blues Today Symposium Feb. 15-17 To Focus On Blues Women, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Women were the first recorded blues singers, and the first decade of recorded music featured females almost exclusively. It is therefore fitting that Living Blues magazine's Blues Today Symposium, Feb. 15-17 at the University of Mississippi, focuses on blues women.


Paul Kenyon To Perform In Piano Series Concert Feb. 20, Deborah Purnell Feb 2007

Paul Kenyon To Perform In Piano Series Concert Feb. 20, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - American pianist Paul Kenyon performs Tuesday (Feb 20) at the University of Mississippi in Nutt Auditorium at Scruggs Hall.


Nfsmi Building To Be Named To Honor Former Chancellor Turner, Deborah Purnell Feb 2007

Nfsmi Building To Be Named To Honor Former Chancellor Turner, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - R. Gerald Turner, former chancellor at the University of Mississippi, is to be honored Feb. 16, when a building on the Oxford campus is named for him.


Nominations Open Until March 1 For Campuswide Top Teacher Award, Lateshia D. Harris Feb 2007

Nominations Open Until March 1 For Campuswide Top Teacher Award, Lateshia D. Harris

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Nominations are open until March 1 for the campuswide top teacher award at the University of Mississippi.


Angela Davis Urges Students To Seek, Make Changes, Tobie Baker Feb 2007

Angela Davis Urges Students To Seek, Make Changes, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A racially mixed audience at the University of Mississippi stood in unison Friday evening and said, "Angela, sister, you are welcome in this house."


Senior From Olive Branch Crowned Miss University, Megan Daniel Feb 2007

Senior From Olive Branch Crowned Miss University, Megan Daniel

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Preparation for almost a year and a fantastic stage performance earned University of Mississippi senior Amanda Harmon the title of Miss University 2007 Wednesday night at the Ford Center for Performing Arts.


Ford Center Family Show Feb. 24 Features Disney Characters On Stage, Deborah Purnell Feb 2007

Ford Center Family Show Feb. 24 Features Disney Characters On Stage, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Disney characters from "Cinderella Kids" and "The Jungle Book Kids" come to life on stage Feb. 24 at the University of Mississippi's Ford Center for the Performing Arts.


Pharmacy Professors Collaborate To Complete Late Colleague's Book, Lydia Hailman Feb 2007

Pharmacy Professors Collaborate To Complete Late Colleague's Book, Lydia Hailman

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When W. Marvin Davis, professor emeritus of pharmacology at the University of Mississippi, died in October 2005, he left a book unfinished that he had worked on for several years.


First Legal Studies Scholarship Endowment Honors Late University Police Chief Popernik, Jennifer Farish Feb 2007

First Legal Studies Scholarship Endowment Honors Late University Police Chief Popernik, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Legal studies majors at the University of Mississippi for generations to come will benefit from a scholarship endowment established by the family of the late Richard Popernik of Oxford.


State Worker's Center Director Hopes To Interest Students In Civil Rights Law, Jennifer Farish Feb 2007

State Worker's Center Director Hopes To Interest Students In Civil Rights Law, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A leading state attorney in civil and human rights law will encourage law students to consider careers that include helping the less fortunate when she speaks Friday (Feb. 9) at the University of Mississippi School of Law.


Center Urges Mississippians To Prepare For Earthquakes, Staff Report Feb 2007

Center Urges Mississippians To Prepare For Earthquakes, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Center for Community Earthquake Preparedness at the University of Mississippi urges the state's residents to know and observe safety and survival tips in the event of a major tremor.


‘Vagina Monologues' Performances To Benefit Family Crisis Services Of Northwest Mississippi, Staff Report Feb 2007

‘Vagina Monologues' Performances To Benefit Family Crisis Services Of Northwest Mississippi, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Eve Ensler's award-winning play "The Vagina Monologues" is to be staged Feb. 16-17 at the University of Mississippi.


Annual Music Department Benefit Concert Is Feb. 11 At Nutt Auditorium, Deborah Purnell Feb 2007

Annual Music Department Benefit Concert Is Feb. 11 At Nutt Auditorium, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi's annual Patrons of Music Benefit Concert is slated for Sunday (Feb. 11) in the newly renovated Nutt Auditorium in Scruggs Hall.


Library Exhibit During Oxford Film Festival Showcases State's Film History, Staff Report Feb 2007

Library Exhibit During Oxford Film Festival Showcases State's Film History, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – In 1916, "The Crisis," with a budget of $75,000, became the first movie ever filmed in Mississippi. Extras in the film were paid a mere $1 per day.


Um Makes Initial Appearance As A 'Jeopardy!' Clue, Mitchell Diggs Feb 2007

Um Makes Initial Appearance As A 'Jeopardy!' Clue, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - In quiz show terms, the University of Mississippi has scored a Daily Double. The popular game show "Jeopardy!" visited recently, and the first of a series of video clues featuring the university airs Friday (Feb. 9).


Chancellor Khayat To Participate In Forum On College Athletics Being Webcast Live On Friday, Mitchell Diggs Feb 2007

Chancellor Khayat To Participate In Forum On College Athletics Being Webcast Live On Friday, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat joins the Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, Friday (Feb. 9) to explore the role and future of college athletics during a public forum hosted by the Miller Center of Public Affairs.


Doctoral Candidate In Accountancy Wins National Dissertation Fellowship, Elaine Pugh Feb 2007

Doctoral Candidate In Accountancy Wins National Dissertation Fellowship, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi doctoral candidate in accountancy has received a national dissertation fellowship from the Academy for Government Accountability.


Author, Publicspeaker On Issues Of Race, Sexual Orientation To Lecture Feb. 13, Deborah Purnell Feb 2007

Author, Publicspeaker On Issues Of Race, Sexual Orientation To Lecture Feb. 13, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Keith Boykin, one of America's leading commentators on issues of race and sexual orientation, speaks Feb. 13 at the University of Mississippi.


Speaker Series Covers Emmett Till, The Philadelphia Coalition And Music Of The Civil Rights Movement, Jennifer Farish Feb 2007

Speaker Series Covers Emmett Till, The Philadelphia Coalition And Music Of The Civil Rights Movement, Jennifer Farish

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A speaker series celebrating Black History Month kicks off Tuesday (Feb. 6) with a discussion by members of the Philadelphia Coalition about the history of race relations.


Iraqi Documentary Films To Be Shown Mondays In February, Rebecca Lauck Cleary Feb 2007

Iraqi Documentary Films To Be Shown Mondays In February, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The inaugural "World in Crisis" documentary film festival at the University of Mississippi has scheduled four films during February focusing on the war in Iraq.


Second Community Outreach Program, Feb. 6, To Focus On Dietary Supplements And Their Effects, Angie Barmer Feb 2007

Second Community Outreach Program, Feb. 6, To Focus On Dietary Supplements And Their Effects, Angie Barmer

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The second in a series of community outreach programs presented by the University of Mississippi's Center of Research Excellence in Natural Products Neuroscience addresses dietary supplements and their effects on the body.