University of Mississippi alumni Brandon Dixon and his wife, Emma Gaines, hope their gift to Ole Miss Athletics will help give student-athletes the extended knowledge they need to proactively navigate life after graduation. “Think about this: our university will give…
With a $10 million gift to the Memory Impairment and Neurodegenerative Dementia (MIND) Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Fred Rodgers Adams, Jr.’s legacy of philanthropy, entrepreneurship and humility lives on. Jean Reed Adams made the donation in…
A small collection of paintings by world-renowned artist Theora Hamblett adorns the walls of historic Brandt Memory House, home to the University of Mississippi Foundation on UM’s Oxford campus. Recently, 1954 alumna Mary Louise Rosenbush donated two additional pieces to…
Michael Metcalf – who devoted much of his more than 30-year career to promoting foreign language and culture studies – is ensuring University of Mississippi students have opportunities to achieve high levels of language proficiency by studying abroad. The former…
The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and Ole Miss Athletics stand to benefit from a gift in excess of $4 million received from the estate of alumnus Francis Cerniglia of Cordova, Tennessee. Cerniglia, who supported both entities throughout his…
Ann and Jerry Barton of Southaven, Mississippi, know some University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy students take a non-traditional path to obtain their accountancy degrees — much like they did. The Bartons also know they want to support the…
The Regions Foundation and the Mississippi Small Business Development Center have established the Mississippi Delta SBDC to encourage entrepreneurship and small business success specifically in the Delta region. Housed within CompuRecycling Center Inc., in Greenville, the Mississippi Delta SBDC began…
FedEx Corp., a longtime industry partner of the University of Mississippi, is advancing that relationship with a major new commitment that promises to have an impact across the university. The expanded partnership established endowed funds to expand the data science…
Ernestine Smith worked as a nurse’s aide in Brookhaven but wished she had become a nurse. That dream inspired an endowed scholarship from the estate of her son, Hugh Carroll Smith, to the School of Nursing at the University of…
Ross Jessup, a 1985 graduate of the University of Mississippi, and his wife Lisa have made a major gift to CHAMPIONS. NOW., the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation’s (OMAF) campaign to improve facilities for student-athletes. The Jessups live in Austin, Texas,…