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A police car drives past the Archive clubhouse building. Photo by Katherine Butler. The Oxford Police Department responded to a shooting at the Archive Oxford apartments on Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m., where one resident was injured.  According to an...

Illustration by Katherine Butler. One year ago, a University of Mississippi student self-reported the first case of COVID-19 among UM students, faculty and staff. Since March 16, 2020, the Oxford campus community has amassed 1,288 aggregate confirmed cases, and Oxford’s...

Oxford and portions of North Mississippi remained under a tornado watch until 12 a.m. Thursday morning.  The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado watches for Lafayette County and other parts of the state on Wednesday, the most recent being at...

At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 12, University of Mississippi pharmacy students and doctors officially began administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the Tad Smith Coliseum. UM received a shipment of 1,170 Pfizer vaccines that day, and as of Wednesday,...

Students at the university have mixed reactions after Gov. Tate Reeves announced that the state would begin to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to all residents ages 16 and older. “To be honest, I don’t know if it will affect things...

Illustration by Katherine Butler. Mississippi schools were some of the first in the country to reopen for in-person learning during the pandemic. Now, teachers and administrators across Northern Mississippi are reflecting on everything they’ve had to adapt to in the...

Mississippi State Department of Health officials announced on Tuesday that all drive-thru vaccination sites in the state will be closed on Wednesday due to forecasted storms, resulting in thousands of appointments being rescheduled.  Strong storms are expected to move into...

The university will continue to only allow on-campus vaccination for employees, following Gov. Tate Reeves’s announcement that vaccines will be available for all Mississippi residents starting March 16.   Eligible individuals for appointments with UM’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic include faculty, staff,...

After spending months adapting to remote teaching, many UM faculty members said they’re looking forward to seeing classrooms filled with students in the fall. Still, many plan to continue implementing select pandemic practices in the classroom.  “Over the past year,...

The university began distributing doses of the Pfizer vaccine today at the Tad C. Smith Coliseum, and senior biology major Brianna Chambers was the first person to receive a dose on campus. Photo by Hannah Grace Biggs. Tad C. Smith...