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…

OXFORD, Miss. – To honor the memory of his father, a longtime public school administrator, University of Mississippi alumnus Joseph C. Todd of Cincinnati has created the Lindsey O. Todd Scholarship Endowment at his alma mater with a gift of $100,000. The elder Todd, who died in 1973, dedicated his life and career to improving…

OXFORD, Miss. – Medical Marketing Economics, LLC, a consultancy group based in Oxford, has committed $350,000 to support the University of Mississippi’s School of Pharmacy. “Faculty, staff and students of the School of Pharmacy are grateful for the generous support of Dr. Kolassa and the MME partners,” said Barbara Wells, the school’s dean. “This gift…