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Against the wishes of many professors, artificial intelligence has made its way into the classroom and hands of students. The current University of Mississippi policy for generative AI allows individual professors to decide how, or if, it will be used...

Doomsday predictions of the artificial intelligence apocalypse have circulated in the public discourse for years, but after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, popularity and expectations of AI have reached a fever pitch.   The technology creeped closer into...

The age of artificial intelligence is here, and people are getting nervous. While ChatGPT and other word-processing AI systems are a source of moderate entertainment for consumers today, their inevitable integration into the workplace is estimated to shift 85 million...

New Episodes of The Weekly Scoop are released every Wednesday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and The DM Online. Will is joined by Nathan Oakes, a Project Administrator and Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Mississippi’s Center for Practical Ethics to...

Shad White is the 42nd State Auditor for the State of Mississippi. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. When Paul Martin, a UM anthropology graduate, began working on a cold case in his undergraduate years, passion was what he found. Through the...

Six months after an EF4 tornado ripped through Rolling Fork, Mississippi, killing 14 and injuring several others, families and businesses are looking for things to return to normal.   "We're here to support businesses, and I'm also here to support...

Nearly six months have passed since an EF-4 tornado descended on the small town of Rolling Fork, Miss. It ravaged the downtown on the night of March 24 and took the lives of 14 residents. The storm system left 22...

Voters at the Lafayette Civic Center cast their ballots for the midterm elections on Tuesday. Photo by Christian Johnson Aside from juggling multiple classes, University of Mississippi students face a new responsibility on Nov. 7: Election Day.  In the upcoming...

As the race for governor in Mississippi looms closer, political organizers are scrambling to get out the vote. The two main political organizations on campus – Ole Miss College Republicans and University of Mississippi College Democrats – are looking to...

A photo of a group of people at a protest holding up bright and colorful signs urging, "Voter Protection, Not Voter Suppression," and "Forward Together, Not One Step Back!" in 2014. Photo by Stephen Melkisethian. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons. Mississippi...