The MorganWhite Group, a Mississippi company headquartered in Jackson, has pledged $200,000 to create the MorganWhite Group Scholarship Endowment in Insurance and Human Resources Management at the University of Mississippi. The company’s founders, Johnny Morgan and David White, are both graduates of UM’s School of Business Administration. "We are overwhelmed by the generosity of Johnny…

To help mark 30 years of examining, reflecting upon and celebrating Southern culture, Michelle Hyver Oakes has pledged $30,000 to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Oakes, who recently became chair of the center’s advisory committee, said she feels strong ties to both the center and Ole Miss.…

University of Mississippi alumnus Lucian S. Minor of Memphis has established a trust of $1 million to benefit the university’s Patterson School of Accountancy. A longtime donor, he established the Lucian S. Minor Endowment in 1996 to benefit the accountancy school, and this latest gift will add to the school’s growing endowment. "Many of the…

Officials from the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the UM Oxford campus hosted a celebration Oct. 30 on the front lawn of University Hospital to launch the Medical Center’s portion of the MomentUM campaign. "For Mississippi’s Better Health: MomentUM," is to help fund the UMMC Cancer Institute, a new heart and vascular center, relocation…

One of Allen Linton’s favorite childhood memories is of visiting her grandfather’s drugstore in Isola, Mississippi, and watching as he stood behind the counter, carefully compounding prescriptions with his mortar and pestle. It’s an image that’s defined the Linton family. Pharmacy school brought together Allen’s mother and father; they met there in 1946 and were…

Ask most anyone who knew Mike Aune what he was like and they’ll probably tell you two things: that he loved life, and he loved all the people in his.         "Mike was the most incredibly dynamic and enthusiastic guy," said John Gutierrez, professor of foreign language education at the University of Mississippi Croft Institute…

OXFORD, Miss – A $200 million capital campaign, designed to continue the momentum generated by the University of Mississippi in the last decade, was formally launched in a public announcement Saturday morning. MomentUM: A Campaign for The University of Mississippi has already attracted $160.7 million in private gifts from individuals, corporations and foundations. During the…

  OXFORD, Miss. – Thanks to the generosity of alumni Ed and Becky Meek, the University of Mississippi plans to ask the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning to approve the creation of a new School of Journalism, Marketing-Communications and Technology. The new school will focus on the future of journalism and…

OXFORD, Miss. – Entrepreneur Russell French has pledged $25,000 to seed The 512 Ole Miss First Scholarship at the University of Mississippi. French, a New Albany native, is an alumnus of UM’s hotel restaurant management program. He owns 208 restaurant in Oxford, which he opened in 2002. He also recently purchased the Oliver-Britt House, one…