Brandon Theesfeld, a former student in the School of Business Administration, has been charged with the murder of Alexandria “Ally” Kostial. On Tuesday morning, he had his first appearance before Judge Andrew Howorth in circuit court. Theesfeld was suspended by the university, according to a university spokesperson. Theesfeld, who is from Fort Worth, Texas, was […]
A routine patrol of Harmontown, a small town north of Oxford, led a Lafayette County deputy to find the body of a female Ole Miss student Saturday morning. The body was identified as 21-year-old Alexandria “Ally” Kostial, a marketing major from St. Louis, Missouri. It is apparent that foul play was involved. Interim Chancellor Larry […]
Family, friends, faculty and former students were moved to tears on Wednesday as loved ones gave their accounts of historian and professor emeritus David Sansing at his memorial service in Paris-Yates Chapel. Sansing impacted the state of Mississippi and helped shape its historical understanding through chronicling the history of the University of Mississippi and the […]
This spring, Mariel Spencer, a 2019 UM graduate, became the first student to graduate through the Accelerated Law Program. The Accelerated Law Program allows students to take some law school classes while pursuing their undergraduate degree. Spencer, originally from Seattle, says she was initially drawn to the program because it allowed her to achieve her […]
Mississippi legislators are making “impossible burgers” a little more impossible to obtain for vegans and vegetarians in the state after passing Senate Bill 2922 earlier this month. The bill prevents companies from labeling plant-based or insect-based foods as meat products. Makers of these “meatless meat” products could now face a hefty penalty for marketing vegan […]
Not all theater professors are the same. Some only teach while others live in the world that they convey to others: playwriting, directing, and inspiring people through their work. Anne-Marie Cammarato is the latter. In addition to teaching at both Temple University and the University of Delaware, the Italian-American playwright is an award-winning director and […]
After receiving a patent for a preventative vaccine to treat poison ivy was given to them last month, university researchers are one step closer to their final product, something that’s almost 30 years in the making. The New York Times reported in 1992 that Mahmoud ElSohly, a UM professor of pharmaceutics, and E. Sue Watson […]
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incompletely described the revenues and expenditures for the education and general enterprise fund on the Oxford campus. The original version did not distinguish that fund from the university’s total revenues and expenditures. In a decades-long shift in who funds the university, state and federal governments now pay […]
A month after The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning took the unusual step of discussing whether to grant Professor James Thomas tenure, the board released minutes detailing the two-hour closed session in which trustees focused on a tweet from January in which Thomas said, in part, that he ate a […]
Just over nine out of ten University of Mississippi graduates are employed, according to the last ten years of data from the U.S. Department of Education compiled in a new ranking from Zippia.com. The university has the highest rate of graduate employment in the state. The data shows that after 10 years, 91.42% of UM […]
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