The late Lonnie Smith of Picayune, Mississippi, earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Mississippi and has since provided life-changing financial assistance to some 110 Mississippi students so far. With gifts in 2025 already totaling over $267,000, Smith’s…
The late University of Mississippi professor Donald Summers wrote his first research paper in junior high school during spring break, conducting the research at the University of California Astronomy Observatory Library where he worked in the library during the day…
When the last online donation was received on April 9 for Giving Day 2025, 2,685 donors had joined together to give $1.34 million to bolster the University of Mississippi. This year, Ole Miss students, parents, alumni, friends, faculty and staff…
A family foundation with ties to the University of Mississippi and a belief in education as a solution to breaking cycles of poverty will provide textbook and learning-material stipends to students attending the university. With its $500,000 gift establishing the…
A new initiative at the University of Mississippi is offering textbook and learning material stipends to qualified Mississippi students. Chancellor Glenn Boyce announced the Let’s Book It: Ole Miss Opportunity Book Fund today as part of the institution’s annual Giving…
The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration is on its way to raising $50 million as part of Now & Ever: The Campaign for Ole Miss, and alumnus Bill Fry and his wife, Lee Anne, have influenced this exceptional…
Among festivities planned for the sixth annual Giving Day 2025 at the University of Mississippi, donors can name a squirrel, students can join a scavenger hunt or scrawl their name on an iconic building, and schools can battle each other to…
For their decades of service to others, Lydia and Dan Jones of Hazlehurst, Mississippi, will be honored at the University of Mississippi on April 4 with the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy 2025 Legacy Award. The Legacy Award ceremony…
A former student-athlete at the University of Mississippi hopes his gift will show current and future Rebels that alumni are fully committed to their success in sports and in life after college. A four-year UM cheerleader from 1988 to 1992,…
At a March 21 dedication ceremony, the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation (OMAF) recognized Debbie and Andy Prefontaine for their recent $750,000 gift by naming the track and field stadium in their family’s honor. “My wife, Debbie, and I had two…