A student’s financial need and an untimely family death led Janet Harris to think about how she could leave a legacy and impact the future of her profession.   Harris, chief nursing executive at University Hospital, said she mentored a graduate student in the nursing executive track who was a single mother and needed…

OXFORD, Miss. — To honor her father’s lifelong dedication to the University of Mississippi, a commitment that has spanned four generations, Ann H. Gresham of Indianola has given $100,000 to establish the George P. Hopkins Engineering Scholarship Endowment. Scholarship recipients will be full-time freshmen who are pursuing a degree in engineering. Students from Sunflower County,…

OXFORD, Miss. – The department of Printing and Graphic Services at the University of Mississippi has created the first-ever scholarship of its kind with a gift of $25,000. Though many university employees give back to Ole Miss, this is the first gift ever made by a university department as a whole. “It’s wonderful that our…

OXFORD, Miss. – Drug retailer Walgreens has given $50,000 to support the UM School of Pharmacy. The gift will help with costs for the new pharmacy practice building, to be constructed on the Univeristy of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson. “Walgreens has a long-standing partnership with the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy,” said…

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumnus Stephen Rowell has honored the memory of his father by creating the William Paul Rowell Scholarship Endowment with a gift of $100,000. Rowell said he learned the value of hard work from his father, an entrepreneur. The elder Rowell attended Mississippi State University for one year before leaving…

OXFORD, Miss. – Diana Day-Cartee said that creating the JoAnne and Eagle Day Ole Miss First Scholarship at the University of Mississippi is allowing her late father’s "mission on earth to live on" while also fulfilling one of her mother’s longtime desires. Named for Day-Cartee’s parents and seeded with a $25,000 gift to UM, the…

OXFORD, Miss. – Renasant Bank has committed $100,000 to create a new type of scholarship for the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi. “Renasant Bank is proud to support the University of Mississippi through the Ole Miss First scholarship fund and the Renasant Bank Fund for Business Excellence,” said E. Robinson McGraw,…

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumnus Creighton Wilson of Gainesville, Fla., has created the Dr. Creighton L. Wilson Scholarship Endowment at UM with a gift of $100,000. "I wanted to repay Ole Miss for all it has done for me," Wilson said. "Although I don’t get back to Oxford much, I still have Ole…

OXFORD, Miss. – The chair of the Risk Management and Insurance Program in the School of Business Administration at the University of Mississippi has honored his parents with a bequest that will create an endowment to support faculty in his department. Larry Cox, who also holds the Robertson Chair of Insurance, has established the C.…