Since doctors confirmed the first cases of the coronavirus in the United States, health care workers, hospital administrators and politicians have been scrambling to procure ventilators to help COVID-19 patients who experience severe respiratory illness. In response to concerns of a shortage, Dr. Charles Robertson, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Mississippi […]
Joshua Mannery knew he wanted to be the Associated Student Body president since the moment he stepped foot on the University of Mississippi campus, and on Tuesday evening, he succeeded. With a voter turnout of 3,130 students, Mannery won 54% of the student vote in the first campus election to be held entirely online. Any […]
As University of Mississippi students close out their fourth week off-campus and second week of online classes during the coronavirus pandemic, many are still adjusting to life away from Oxford — and it’s not always easy. Some students left their cars and important belongings on campus and are now without them indefinitely. Others face taking […]
When the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees announced on March 12 the university’s extended spring break and switch to online classes, an approximate 4,100 students living in university housing were displaced from their Oxford residences. Over 94% of these students returned to their family homes or found another place to stay for […]
The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board of Trustees announced that all eight public universities in the state, including the University of Mississippi, will extend spring break by one week to “allow faculty members time to prepare to offer classes remotely” and prohibit the spread of the coronavirus. When classes resume on Monday, March […]
Since 1984, a randomly selected panel of three established judges from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has presided over oral arguments in the University of Mississippi Law School courtroom every three years. Judges Rhesa Barksdale, Stephen Higginson and Stuart Duncan have heard 11 cases this week and will hear two more at 9 a.m […]
After three years of declining enrollment at the University of Mississippi, multiple floors of freshman residence halls remain unoccupied, and others do not reach capacity. Brown Hall, another freshman dorm, will no longer be available to students as an on-campus living option for the 2020-2021 school year, and two floors of Crosby Hall, a female […]
Escorted by police officers and university officials, dozens of university students marched from Lamar Hall to the Confederate monument in the Circle on Monday evening to commemorate Black History Month. “I feel like this walk is important because it represents not only what we have achieved but what we will achieve in the future as […]
University community members are adjusting to the effects of historic floods that have displaced Mississippians and flooded thousands of homes in the Jackson area. While the University of Mississippi Medical Center, which is in Jackson, has not been affected by the flooding, several nursing students there have been displaced. Sissy Byrd and Caroline Bates are […]
Last week, Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) trustee Thomas Duff and his brother Jim donated $26 million to the university toward the construction of a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) building. The 202,000-square-foot building, which is set to cost $160 million total, was originally scheduled to break ground in 2018 and open in […]
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