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Language Immersion

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…

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For the Love of Pharmacy and Sports

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…

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Supporting a Tradition of Academic Excellence

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…

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Regions Foundation, UM Join Forces to Support Delta Economy

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…

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FedEx Corp. Expands Strategic Partnership with UM

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…

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A Wish-Inspired Gift

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…

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Supporting Sports at UM

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,…

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Caring for Children

The state’s only children’s hospital child life program will bring more smiles to Children’s of Mississippi patients thanks to the Sidney P. Allen and Friends of Children’s Hospital Child Life Fund, which has reached a total of more than $1.1…

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For the Love of the South

As native Mississippians, Ron Feder and his late wife, Becky, grew up steeped in the folkways of the American South. But it took an extended stay in the faraway Philippines to help them truly appreciate the extraordinary — and decidedly…

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