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One year after the University of Mississippi purchased the former Baptist Memorial Hospital,  the university has turned the hospital into a new academic building. The building will house UM departments that serve many purposes across campus. The 485,000-square-foot building, located...

The University of Mississippi’s jazz ensemble, The Mississippians, traveled to Europe on its first international tour over the summer. The nine-day tour in France and Italy kicked off on July 14. “It was great for me because it was my...

The Ole Miss Student Union’s almost four-year-long construction and renovation is set to be complete early in the 2019 spring semester. The project costs over $50 million and will include an additional expansion of 80,000 square feet to the already...

The University of Mississippi’s Student Activities Association hosted a watch party for the Miss America finale last night, as one Ole Miss alumna and one student were in the competition.   Both Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch, a senior integrated...

Established just last year, the University of Mississippi’s eSports club will begin competing against teams from other colleges and universities this year. The club, founded in January 2017, was intended to create a community for gamers on campus in which...

Freshmen at Ole Miss participate in the annual Rebel Run during the university's home opener versus Southern Illinois University on Saturday. Rebel Run is consistently listed on many "freshman bucket lists," and the Student Activities Association limited the Rebel Run...

Miss Mississippi 2018 Asya Branch is representing the University of Mississippi in this year’s Miss America competition, but she will not be the first Rebel to grace the Miss America stage. Miss America 1960 Lynda Lee Mead — who has...

Tropical Storm Gordon swept over the Mississippi-Alabama border Tuesday night, knocking out power for thousands of Mississippians in the storm’s path. It was expected to make landfall as a hurricane but never reached sufficient strength. On Wednesday, Gordon was reclassified...

Regular season NFL football returned this week and so did the widespread controversy surrounding players’ right to protest. A Nike promo released Monday for the 30th anniversary of the “Just Do It” campaign featured former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J — Asya Branch, Miss Mississippi 2018, is in Atlantic City competing to become Miss America. The goal of her platform is helping children with incarcerated parents — something that is close to home for her. “My platform...