Supporting Health Care
Patients in the Jackson metro area need more than medical services to keep their HIV-positive status in check and their health the best it can be. They need access to a clinic for things like the flu or an earache…
The Barksdale Legacy
Jim Barksdale grew up in Mississippi, the third of six sons, competing for the “Boy of the Week” award with brothers Jack, Thomas, Claiborne, Bryan and Rhesa. For each week’s outstanding good deed, the title-holder earned a silver dollar dangled…
Ole Miss Food Bank Receives Generous Donation
A generous donation to the Ole Miss Food Bank from a local merchant is helping ensure more University of Mississippi students and employees have opportunities to receive a varied selection of healthy food at no cost to them this academic…
A Place to Thrive
Every time Renvy Pittman travels to the University of Mississippi she makes a point to visit her favorite students – the entering freshmen selected to participate in the Grove Scholars program. In 2014, support from Pittman – a Los Angeles,…
Outstanding Outreach
More than 500 aspiring teenage writers, publishers and journalists from all corners of the state shared their work and learned from high-profile communicators last spring at the 72nd Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (MSPA) Statewide Spring Convention, hosted by the University…
Honoring William by Helping Others
The accidental overdose of a young University of Mississippi alumnus brought the UM family together in recent years to support an initiative aimed at preventing such tragedies in the future. On Sept. 6, 2019, the results of this initiative were…
Supporting Early Learning
The Phil Hardin Foundation’s recent $400,000 gift to the University of Mississippi’s School of Education enables the UM Graduate Center for the Study of Early Learning (GCSEL) to continue its highly successful Hardin Scholars Program. The Foundation’s gift establishes a…
Poet Named Grisham Writer in Residence
January O’Neil, an acclaimed poet who weaves environmental elements into her work, is the University of Mississippi‘s John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for the 2019-20 academic year. O’Neil, who comes to UM from Beverly, Massachusetts, is the author…
A Welcome Table
The work of the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) at the University of Mississippi sets a welcome table where all may gather to consider the history and future of the South with respect and reconciliation. The work pursued by the SFA,…
Late Sen. Cochran’s Legacy Expanded
The University of Mississippi – as well as the state and nation – lost one of its strongest voices of support with the passing of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran on May 30, 2019. Thanks to alumni and friends dedicated to…