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,…
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…
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…
The University of Mississippi Museum's newest installation, “Recent Acquisitions,” highlights the varied and expansive collection of artworks that have been donated or funded by the community in the last 10 years. Among the selected works are wood carvings, watercolor and…
Two new endowments at the University of Mississippi stand as perpetual tributes to a beloved grandmother and as testaments to her grandchildren’s Ole Miss experiences. With a $100,000 gift, Gabriella and Marshall St. Amant of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, established the…
Knowing she wanted to attend an SEC school, Cameron Blanchard, a senior from Tupelo, Mississippi, chose the University of Mississippi after being offered the James O. and Leigh Anne Carpenter Ole Miss First Scholarship. “The Ole Miss First Scholarship program…
Even after spending decades away from Oxford, Mississippi, and the University of Mississippi, Don and Cathy Martin always felt like the town and school were home. The couple recently honored the long-term love they’ve had for the campus with donations…