With the hope of a continued nationally competitive future for Ole Miss Athletics, University of Mississippi alumnus Greg Whitehead has increased the estimated amount of a planned gift he made in 2016 from $100,000 to $1 million. “It seems like…
Smart and ambitious, the late financial professional Holly Blades of Dallas, Texas, is being remembered with a scholarship in her name at the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration. The Holly Lea Blades Memorial Scholarship Endowment was established by…
An increased financial commitment to Ole Miss Athletics is being honored with the naming of the University of Mississippi women’s basketball locker room for the donors, Emma Gaines and Brandon Dixon. The Oxford, Mississippi, couple, who made a gift of…
The School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi honored business giants and innovators Thursday (Sept. 24) by inducting them into the second class of its Hall of Fame. Eight remarkable individuals who have demonstrated the fundamentals of the…
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) can take advantage of READY, a four-week summer residential inclusive higher education program (IHEP) being launched at the University of Mississippi, giving participants a college experience. Participants will benefit from enrolling in classes,…
New Orleans native Stan Williams will be the first to tell you that he loves Louisiana State University, but that has never diminished his admiration for the University of Mississippi. Ever since his graduation from UM’s School of Pharmacy in…
A student support fund has been established in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics in honor of Rose Jackson Flenorl (’79), manager of global citizenship at the FedEx Corporation and an alumna of the University of Mississippi. “There…
The largest fundraising campaign in state history raised $1.75 billion for university facilities, programs and students. Nearly 95,000 donors to the Now & Ever campaign funded scholarships that expand access for students, health care initiatives that serve families across Mississippi, endowed positions…
The Phil Hardin Foundation, a statewide education philanthropy organization based in Meridian, has pledged $2.5 million for a new building for the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute over the next 10 years, continuing a tradition of giving to the…
An estate gift from a former University of Mississippi faculty member has added almost a quarter-million dollars to an endowment established in 2019 to help offset tuition expenses for students who transfer to Ole Miss from a community college. The…