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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
With a $250,000 gift to the University of Mississippi, FedEx Corporation honored Ole Miss alumnus Mike Ducker upon his retirement as a longtime leader of the global transportation company. “Whether in Europe, Asia or the Americas, Mike Ducker always answered…