An unlikely friendship, formed over 30 years ago, has resulted in a recent major gift being doubled to help students struggling with eating disorders at the University of Mississippi. When Paul Riser of Little Rock, Arkansas, was in law school…
Daniell Mattern, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Mississippi, has been named to a new endowed chair established to bolster teaching and research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. With a gift of $1.5 million, Dr…
A $3 million gift from the parents of a University of Mississippi student will bolster the Ole Miss baseball program. Amanda and Todd Tracy of Dallas, Texas, whose son, Grayson, is a freshman business major, made the gift — the…
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…