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Grant works to improve free online learning resources
OXFORD, Miss. — A new grant, awarded to Robert Cummings, director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, will help improve the visibility of Open Educational...
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Benson Taylor to Give Inaugural Baine Lecture
Melanie Benson Taylor is Herring Pond Wampanoag. She earned her BA degree from Smith College in 1998. She received her MA and PhD degrees from Boston University in 1999 and 2005, respectively. She...
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Nylander Named Director of McLean Institute for Public Service and Community...
OXFORD, Miss. – Fighting poverty through education has been a life-long mission of Albert Nylander. The Greenwood native has used his leadership positions in academia to fight “enduring concentrated...
View ArticleDesigning Thoughtful Writing Assignments
In the University of Mississippi’s Foundations for Academic Success Track (FASTrack) program, students take a research-writing course focused on the theme of community. Read the story
View ArticleConference commemorates influential philosopher
A three-day conference at the University of Mississippi will commemorate the 100th anniversary of philosopher Bertrand Russell’s influential book The Problems of Philosophy. Bertrand Russell’s The...
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Renowned poet joins UM English Department
OXFORD, Miss. – Critically acclaimed poet, essayist and editor Dave Smith will join the University of Mississippi’s English department as a visiting professor in fall 2013. The author of more than 20...
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Grants Help University Boost Number of Minority Math and Science Graduates in...
OXFORD, Miss. – Business, academic and government leaders warn that the United States must boost its production of professionals trained in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM,...
View ArticleFarming Mars and the Moon Focus of Study Led By UM Dean
OXFORD, Miss. – The question of how to grow edible and useable crops on the moon and Mars is being explored by a University of Mississippi administrator directing a cutting-edge research project aboard...
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English Professor Receives Faculty Achievement Award
OXFORD, Miss. – Jay Watson, the Howry Chair of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, is the 2012 recipient of the university’s Faculty Achievement Award. Since receiving his doctorate...
View ArticleStudent Leaders Sought to Continue University’s Legacy of Service
OXFORD, Miss. – Dynamic individuals committed to fighting poverty through education are encouraged to apply for a number of full-time, yearlong positions with the North Mississippi Volunteers in...
View ArticleClarion Ledger: Some teachers exemplify qualities that make them great
University of Mississippi graduate and first-year teacher Phelton Cortez Moss built a rapport with his students after only a few months of teaching at Greenwood High School. Read the story
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Crime Fiction Author Selected as Grisham Writer-in-Residence
OXFORD, Miss. – A highly acclaimed mystery-crime fiction author has been selected as the 2013 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi Megan Abbott is the...
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NY Times: Thomas K. McCraw, Historian Who Enlivened Economics, Dies at 72
Thomas K. McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who used biography to explore thorny issues in economics, died on Saturday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 72. Mr. McCraw earned a master’s degree and...
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Grant Enables Completion of Professor’s Book on Holocaust Art
OXFORD, Miss. – Willa Johnson, a biblical scholar and professor of sociology who teaches Jewish studies at the University of Mississippi, is blazing a trail when it comes to receiving outside grants...
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