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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,...

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....

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...

David Sansing, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi and author of several books, has died at age 86. Sansing fell Friday at his home in Oxford and died Saturday at a hospital in Memphis, the university...

A National Transportation Safety Board investigation into a small plane that crashed on the Ole Miss Golf Course began this week. The pilot of the single-engine plane died from injuries after the plane crashed Saturday, authorities said.  Lake Little, a...

Brent Marsh has been appointed as UM’s new assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students effective August 1. The position of assistant vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students has been vacant since Melinda Sutton...

When the goal post came down after Ole Miss’s unexpected win against Alabama in 2014, the university had to pay large fines and replace the goalposts. Fans wanted to donate to the cause, and the mass of support had donors...

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....

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...

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...