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…
Families came from Bogue Chitto, Fulton, Meridian, Laurel and other cities around the state to the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower last week with one goal in mind: to support of Children’s of Mississippi during the Mississippi Miracles Radiothon. The…
Every time an Ole Miss baseball player hits a home run or a football player makes a touchdown, Rebel fans are dazzled by strobing stadium lights that seem to dance in celebration. This particular part of the University of Mississippi…
Located on a campus that offers more than academics; an ever-changing, evolving curriculum; easy access to faculty and staff; and national prominence — those are the qualities University of Mississippi alumnus Kit Williams loves about his alma mater’s Patterson School…