The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy has once again been recognized as one of the nation’s top pharmacy schools, accepting the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and FEMA have awarded the University of Mississippi an $84,344 grant to continue researching ways to upgrade the university’s Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan.
In 2006, Ole Miss became the first college in the state to form and have a mitigation plan approved. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning now requires each public university to have such a plan in place.
In President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address, he carried a theme through the speech, which earned him several standing ovations and should have earned whoever wrote that speech a significant raise.
By the late 1990s, the University of Mississippi had already enrolled its first black student, cheered on its first black student-athlete, elected its first black Miss Ole Miss and crowned its first black Miss University. However, at the turn of the millennium the students had yet to be led by a black Associated Student Body president.
It has been exactly one month since the judicial council at the University of Mississippi first met regarding an incident involving the Kappa Sigma fraternity. After a month-long break and a week to review the fraternity’s appeal, the final ruling has been made.
The Associated Student Body spring election season kicks off Feb. 3, and petitions for the 2012-13 ASB officers are available for president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, attorney general and judicial chair.
Citizens impact their communities across the country in positive ways every day. Often those stories don’t get told.
Not In Our Town is a group that empowers people to fight hate and intolerance in their communities.
The group provides assistance to communities holding dialogues between groups that are having conflicts.
The Oxford and Lafayette County school systems have found a way to save money in an economy that has everyone looking for ways to save a buck or two.
Over the past two years, eight schools in Oxford and Lafayette County have participated in the TVA Green School Initiative Program, which involves making behavioral changes to save electricity. There are 12 steps the schools complete throughout the program.
The Associated Student Body Senate will once again view legislation in support of the green fund tonight.
The initial legislation brought up in late November saw a setback after making it to the desk of ASB president Taylor McGraw, who vetoed the legislation.
McGraw said “mandatory student fees for narrow purposes” was his greatest concern.
University of Mississippi students will have the opportunity to be placed in an environment where they can explore their perspectives and opinions about people seemingly different from themselves.
Students can do this by participating in the three-day OMazing Race.
The Associated Student Body at the University of Mississippi is encouraging students to be “good.” For 21 days, at least.
The first major of initiative from the ASB in 2012 will start tomorrow.
The challenge, “21 Days of Good,” is a challenge for students to complete something ASB deputy chief of staff Katie Smith describes as easily doable. The task hopes to foster increased personal interaction among the student body, Smith said.
ASB president Taylor McGraw said he is excited to see the initiative in action.
University of Mississippi art students got the chance to bring their experiences to the Oxford community during Wintersession.
During the class, Art 398, known as service learning in arts, students paired with Oxford Elementary School students to create “Walls that Teach” in the school cafeteria.
Students, professors, administrators and Oxonians alike filled the seats of the Gertrude C. Ford Center this past Friday to support the 2012 University of Mississippi Hall of Fame class, as well the annual Who’s Who of American Universities and Colleges.
The new year is off to a good start for the University of Mississippi’s J.D. Williams Library.
The estates of a recently deceased couple from Northport, Ala., has provided a $1 million donation to the library, according to a press release.
Ole Miss alumnus Oscar Ainsworth, who received his bachelor’s degree in 1945 and master’s degree in 1946, spent approximately 36 years as a member of the math department faculty at the University of Alabama.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has been approved to receive a $112 million bond, which was recently granted by the state college board to go largely go toward construction projects.
At the end of his tenure as governor, Hayley Barbour pardoned 200 felons as one of his last official acts. This act, uncommon on such a large scale, will likely have far-reaching implications on Mississippi’s constitutional rules regarding pardons. On top of that, Atty. Gen. Jim Hood believes that at least 156 of the pardons do not meet constitutional requirements and has launched an investigation.
The University of Mississippi campus is going green and new research has been made in the form of hydrogen-powered vehicles in another effort to improve the initiative.
Every day there are students at the University of Mississippi in need of a bicycle. They can be seen at any bus stop, left behind by a full bus; sitting in their car stuck in traffic, waiting for a parking spot to empty; covered from head to toe in sweat from having to walk all over campus. In a coordinated effort between the Associated Student Body, the Office of Campus Sustainability and the University Police Department, some of those students’ wishes will be fulfilled.
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