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Katy Perry and Bradford Cobb Meet Bradford Cobb (BA English ’96), partner with Direct Management Group and manager for one of the biggest names in music, Katy Perry. Colby Kullman Cobb is quick to credit one professor in particular who served a key role in both his education and career ...

Mississippi Blues Trail Guide The state’s history as seen through the words and images of bluesmen and women is part of the curriculum launched by the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC). The 18-lesson Mississippi Blues Trail Curriculum features an interactive, multimedia resource page and is ...

Ruff Fant, right, and his wife, Susan, have made a major gift to the University of Mississippi to establish the Hubert McAlexander Chair of English. McAlexander, left, and Fant have been friends since their childhood days in Holly Springs, Miss. Much like chess pieces moving around a game board, ...

Artist William Beckwith (right) with his bust of B.B. King and Greg Johnson, Curator for UM's Blues Archive. Photo by Robert Jordan The 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes sculptor and adjunct assistant professor of art William N. Beckwith, ...

Dr. Harriell speaks at the Oxford Conference for the Book. April 16, 2014 Derrick Harriell, assistant professor of English and African-American studies at the University of Mississippi, has the won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2014 Poetry Award for his new collection of poems, ...

by Ole Miss Sports Information Department/The Daily Mississippian April 7, 2014 Shackelford with Coach Freeze after being honored with the 2014 Chucky Mullins Award during a reception on April 5, 2014. | Photo by Thomas Graning Ole Miss handed out its spring football awards Saturday, ...

Matthew Hosey, from left, and Ron M. Feder; Elizabeth Feder-Hosey, from left, Evelyn Rose Hosey, and Becky Feder support the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, with their latest $100,000 gift designated for the Music of the South Endowment. Ask passionate academics about Southern literature, ...

Champions establish fund to help mathematics majors  By Tina Hahn, February 21, 2014 Glenn Hopkins, dean of the UM College of Liberal Arts, from left, visits with Sara and Elvis Champion, donors from Water Valley, Miss., and Denson Hollis, senior development officer for liberal arts. The ...

Dr. James Sabatier Read about the latest career of Jim Sabatier, emeritus physics professor, putting his research skills to commercial use as the first tenant of the Innovation Hub at UM's Insight Park, a 62,000-square-foot high-tech center that provides support and infrastructure to startup ...