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The crowd celebrates with Samantha Sepe as she wins Miss Ole Miss on Oct. 12. Photo by Maria Ramirez. The winners of Miss Ole Miss, homecoming queen and homecoming king were announced Thursday evening after Tuesday’s fall personality election went...

Students interested in pursuing nursing no longer need to leave Oxford to complete their degree. The University of Mississippi will offer a traditional four-year nursing program beginning in 2024.  This new program differs from the current 2+2 Bachelor of Science...

Operation Immunization gives flu shots to UM students in front of the union on Oct. 6. As Mississippi transitions to fall and temperatures drop, the University of Mississippi is preparing for autumn’s most infamous side effect: flu season. On a...

Daneel Konnar, 2023-2024 Mr. Ole Miss, on election night, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo by Maria Ramirez After no candidate for homecoming queen, homecoming king or Ms. Ole Miss received more than 50% of the vote, homecoming elections will be heading...

Stickers, social media posts and campaign slogans have made it virtually impossible to miss the fact that fall election season is in full swing at Ole Miss. With the campaign period coming to a close, UM students now have a...

Nineteen-year-old University of Mississippi student Cameron Rutland died on Oct. 6 in his room at Stockard Hall. Originally from Perkinston, Miss., Rutland was pursuing a Bachelor of Accountancy degree.   A visitation will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11,...

A UM student is coding a project for their class on Oct. 3, 2023 in Weir Hall. Photo by Preston Cobbins. Ever wonder whether the person you were watching in a video was real? Deepfake technology is one of many...

Bob Cummings. Photo courtesy: UM Department of English Artificial intelligence, specifically subsets of generative AI like ChatGPT, continues to be one of the most rapidly growing forms of technology which, if left to develop without guidance and understanding, can lead...

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...