Two University of Mississippi faculty members were given university awards for teaching, as announced on April 5. Allen Clark, director of the Arabic Language Flagship program at UM, is the 2025 winner of the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award. Established in 1965, the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award seeks to recognize teachers for […]
University researchers who rely on grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are facing uncertainty while NIH funding cuts are being reviewed by federal courts. The NIH is the primary public health research institution in the United States and is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. On Feb. 7, the […]
The Center for Practical Ethics hosted the Great Debate March 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Bryant Hall, where ethics bowl teams from the University of Mississippi and Youngstown State University discussed the question: “Morally speaking, should parents face criminal charges if their children commit mass shootings?” The question was based on real-world events, including the […]
The Center for the Study of Southern Culture will host a documentary film screening of “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power” March 19 at 6 p.m. in the Meek Hall Auditorium, followed by a Q&A session with the film’s director Sam Pollard. Using archival footage, the film details the citizens and Student Nonviolent […]
Chief Meteorologist Matt Laubhan and the WTVA Severe Weather Authority team will remain in Tupelo, Miss., after the owner of the station, Allen Media Group, mostly reversed a decision that would have replaced local weather teams with meteorologists from The Weather Channel supply coverage from Atlanta, according to a statement released by WTVA on […]
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Many significant events have shaped the 2024 presidential race, including President Joe Biden dropping out after the primaries were over, two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris becoming a presidential candidate just a few months before the election. The Daily Mississippian composed a timeline of the most discussed moments […]
Ty Pinkins, Mississippi’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, spoke to the University of Mississippi’s NAACP chapter in Barnard Observatory on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Dianne Dodson Black, the Democratic 1st Congressional District candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, also attended. Throughout the event, Pinkins talked about women’s rights and racial justice. If elected senator, […]
Adam Soltani, president of the Muslim Student Association at the University of Mississippi, published a petition on Change.org on Monday, Sept. 23 in hopes of establishing an improved prayer room at UM. Soltani initially reached out to university administration on Oct. 24, 2023. Bradley Baker, director of the Ole Miss Student Union, responded to Soltani […]
Student organization leaders gathered in the Student Union Ballroom on Sunday, Oct. 6 for the second annual Registered Student Organization Leadership Summit hosted by Ole Miss Leadership and Engagement Ambassadors. “We wanted to create a space for leaders within the registered student organizations on campus to meet other RSO leaders (and) to increase cross-collaboration between […]
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