OXFORD, Miss. – Retired Florida attorney Jerry Center believes the University of Mississippi spirit is personified by its chancellor, Robert Khayat. That’s why Center and his wife, Susan, have made a gift to the Chancellor’s Trust in Khayat’s honor. "Robert Khayat has been a professor, classmate and friend," Center said. "He was one of the…

OXFORD, Miss. – Big Four accounting firm KPMG LLP has established the KPMG Professorship in Accountancy at the University of Mississippi. In 2002 several KPMG partners established a lectureship in accountancy, a position that requires a $250,000 commitment.  Now KPMG partners and other employees have committed to growing the fund to over $500,000 to fund…

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumna Daphine Denley Craig has honored the memory of her parents with a scholarship in their names. Craig, a 1960 Ole Miss graduate, seeded the Bernice Raggett and John Barksdale Denley Jr. Scholarship with a gift of $25,000. Besides her initial gift, Craig has bequeathed a portion of her…

OXFORD, Miss. – Eli Manning, right, New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl XLII MVP, autographs a football for Justin Scruggs of Ellisville, left, while Dr. Dan Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs, shows Manning a 2004 photograph of Scruggs from Manning’s first visit to Children’s Hospital. Scruggs was undergoing treatment for cancer at the…

OXFORD, Miss. – Each day at the University of Mississippi, students are impacted by words and actions of many faculty and staff who know their work extends beyond classrooms, labs and offices. For the 14th year, two UM members who personify such extraordinary service have been selected for special recognition. Aileen Ajootian, chair and associate…

The Barksdale family will continue to fund full-ticket scholarships to medical students at the University of Mississippi Medical Center indefinitely. The Bryan Barksdale, MD, Scholarship, the Fred McDonnell, MD, Scholarship and the Don Mitchell, MD, Scholarship will be extended to attract more students to the Medical Center, according to David Barksdale, director of the Barksdale…

OXFORD, Miss. – The employees of Bryson & Company Insurance, headquartered in Ridgeland, have honored the company’s past president, Bill Bryson, by creating the William M. “Bill” Bryson Fund for Insurance Excellence at the University of Mississippi. Seeded with a gift of $25,000 from Bryson & Company, the fund will support faculty in UM’s Risk…

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has named this year’s class of Trent Lott Leadership Institute Summer Scholars, which includes more than 40 exceptional rising high school seniors from across the United States and two foreign countries. The Lott summer scholars program began in 2000, providing a unique experience in which students come to…

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Greek Council has given $11,000 to the Friends of the Children’s Hospital, the nonprofit organization created to benefit the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. by Sonia Thompson The Greek Council includes presidents of the 32 Greek organizations on…