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Maj. Gen. James E. Donald
Recipient of the Bronze Star for his bold leadership as a task force commander with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles during Gulf War I and the UM Alumni Association Hall of Fame award, the highest annual alumni honor for outstanding contributions through good deeds, services, or contributions...
>> Read moreW. Ralph Eubanks
Professor and author are just two of the many hats worn by the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and former Library of Congress director of publishing...
>> Read moreBill Beckwith’s Elvis
The terracotta statue is but a ghost now as Elvis has left the building. “It’s getting harder and harder to work here,” sculptor Bill Beckwith said. It was mid-week when Beckwith was in his studio next door to Taylor Grocery helping visitors from Como tour his studio. The self-effacing artist who...
>> Read moreUM Alumna Receives Prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford
Rachel Smith plans to use fellowship to finish novel and work on stories Rachel Smith, an MFA graduate of University of Mississippi, has been selected as a 2013 recipient for the Wallace Stegner Fellowship for the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Stanford offers 10 two-year...
>> Read moreHannah Gay, Katherine Luzuriaga and Deborah Persaud
AIDS Researchers Illustrations by David Despau for TIME These three women are responsible for orchestrating an incredible breakthrough: functionally curing a newborn of AIDS. By giving the infant, who contracted HIV from its mother, anti-HIV drugs within hours of birth, Gay, a pediatrician at...
>> Read moreService Earns National Recognition
Growing up, Mary Margaret Saulters lived in rural Tchula, Miss., 20 miles from the nearest grocery. In this food desert her interest in food security and social inequality first took root. “My family was lucky because we could afford to grow organic vegetables and drive 30 minutes to the grocery,”...
>> Read moreAlumni Profile: Atkins Trout Finds Adventure in Teaching English in Japan (JET)
Living halfway around the world from your hometown might sound intimidating to some, but for alumnus Atkins Trout (BA 02, MA 09) it’s an exciting adventure. Trout began working with the Japanese Exchange Teaching (JET) Programme in 2008 teaching English to Japanese students and was quickly relocated...
>> Read moreYoungest Pastor of Jackson’s Oldest Black Church to Deliver Keynote for Black History Month
UM alum co-founded the Department of Minority Affairs, was appointed to Chancellor’s Committee for Sensitivity The co-founder of the Department of Minority Affairs at the University of Mississippi is the keynote speaker for the first in a series of Black History Month events scheduled for February...
>> Read moreThe Dallas Cowboy and the Art Professor
Courtesy of the Dallas Cowboys Star Magazine Matt Long teaches ceramics at Ole Miss and has a tradition each semester. Toward the end of the term, Long invites his ceramics majors and graduate students to his home in Oxford. There the class makes pottery and fires it in a wood-burning kiln. The...
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