A debut fiction writer penning a tale of redemption, loss and social change amid intersecting relationships in the Reconstruction South and a poet rediscovering Southern roots are the winners of this year’s Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing, housed at…
A Christmas present opened by Nannette Holcomb Comer of Fulton, Mississippi, has the power to make dreams a reality for countless University of Mississippi students. The gift from Comer’s daughter, Karen Comer Matthews of Memphis, Tennessee, will help students seeking…
A strategic partnership with Kroger helped Grove Grocery provide 9,291 free meals to those in the University of Mississippi community with food insecurity issues during the 2020-21 academic year. To ensure this crucial resource continues, Kroger has committed to maintain…
An estate gift to the University of Mississippi will ultimately provide scholarships for students in the schools of law, education and medicine. The gift’s benefactors are the late Taylor Webb, a 1950 graduate of the Ole Miss Law School, and…
A scholarship endowment paying tribute to the lives of three University of Mississippi students has grown to more than $540,000, and three new recipients say they feel honored to represent the men for whom the scholarship is named. Continuing gifts…
Edith Kelly-Green – the 2011 University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy Hall of Fame inductee and first African American woman to become a FedEx vice president – credits her accountancy education for much of her stellar success. “I stumbled…
A thank you note from a scholarship recipient inspired University of Mississippi alumni Phil and Emily Bailey to create a scholarship to support future teachers. The Phillip J. and Emily G. Bailey Education Scholarship will support entering freshmen in the…
With a $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, Stephen and Patty Foose want to provide scholarships to civil engineering students whose background, achievements and experience demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the advancement of women in…
After a career spanning more than 30 years across the telecommunication and information technology industries, including leading four companies as CEO, Dean Douglas is giving back to the university he credits for his success. With gifts totaling $250,000, the 1978…
The host organization of the Sanderson Farms Championship made a record-breaking $1.5 million donation to benefit Mississippi’s only hospital for children. Century Club Charities made the donation from proceeds of the state’s only PGA TOUR event during a news conference…